Archive for January 22nd, 2009
Jan
22
Try This Search On script provides links to search engines based on the page that you're viewing. For example, doing a regular search on Yahoo will give you links to do the same search on Google, Live, Wikipedia etc, while viewing an IMDb page for a view will give you links to search Amazon, Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes etc.
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Jan
22
Zoho, a cloud application provider that began deployment of some of its services on Google's App Engine just last month, is more than happy to pick up the slack from the closure of Google Notebook. A Zoho told that the latest beta of its Zoho Notebook, which includes a plug-in for Firefox, will feature
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Jan
22
A new advert of Lenovo's W700d dual screen laptop is all about geeks and sex mixes with each other just like oil and water. The ad in the video below features “a male office worker and female colleague on a late-night work session. The male describes the features, the female colleague starts removing various items of clothing
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Jan
22
I have just managed to boot from a Windows 7 installed on a new .VHD, and I installed it right from the Windows 7 DVD. We can do a similar process with "Windows Server 2008 R2 (beta)" installed on a .VHD file, as well. If you'd use Virtual PC 2007 to install the Virtual image, the produced .VHD wouldn't work when trying to boot from the .VHD.
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Jan
22
If you’re using Google Sites to create and hosting of your websites, and want to track your website using Google Analytics. Just create a new account and profile for your website within Analytics, a JavaScript code snippet will be generated with a new tracking ID for your site. You can paste the new tracking ID into
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Jan
22
Microsoft announced its first broad layoffs in the history of the company. A total of 5,000 jobs will be eliminated from the company during the next 18 months. According to International Herald Tribune, Microsoft is not the only technology company facing hard times. Sony is facing job cuts in light of a record annual operating
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Jan
22
Documents unsealed in an ongoing class-action lawsuit show that the Windows Product Management Group recommended in August 2005 that Home Basic should "carry the Windows brand name without the Vista generation name." They also suggested that Windows Starter not carry the Vista brand. Read the documents (PDF).
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Jan
22
There’s great marketing campaigns, like 5.5 million views of a blender blending things on YouTube, and then there was “the wow starts now“. A job posting published today looking for a marketing manager to be responsible for the Windows 7 marketing campaign gives us some insights into how Microsoft plans to pitch the new kid of the block.
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Jan
22
Apple updated its white plastic polycarbonate MacBook to more closely align with its new unibody MacBooks. So for the same $999 you now get that newer generation 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor with faster 1,066MHz frontside bus, 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory standard (up from 1GB), and integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics. Whitey is still stuck with DDR2 SDRAM
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Jan
22
This post talks about the new Magnifier in Windows 7, those of you that need magnification in combination with custom colors, high-contrast or some screen readers probably haven’t been able to benefit from the new Magnifier, for you we’ve made sure that the Vista magnifier continues to work. Let me explain a little more about what we’ve done in Windows 7.
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Jan
22
This article examine the read-only replicated folders feature introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2. Consider the following scenario. Contoso Corporation has a replication infrastructure similar to that depicted in the diagram below. Reports are published to the datacenter server and these need to be distributed to Contoso’s branch offices. DFS Replication is configured to
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Jan
22
Canada’s high-tech guru has been wowing TV and conference audiences for over 15 years. His TV show, Dotto Tech, is in its eighth season and airs across Canada. Steve recently paired up with Microsoft Home Magazine in Canada to complete some video segments on Windows Home Server, demonstrated on the HP MediaSmart Server.
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Jan
22
This post completes the basics for getting started with the Virtual Earth Web Service. The Routing Service in VEWS allows for route calculation and itinerary creation. The following will get you started using the routing service. The sample below instantiate the service request, pass the points into an array, set options for the route object,
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Jan
22
Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of subject matter experts for a live discussion of what's in store for IT pros with Windows 7. Learn about the evolution of features like Group Policy, BitLocker To Go, DirectAccess, BranchCache, and Software Restriction then get tips on troubleshooting, deployment, and application compatibility. Bring your questions—Mark and
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Jan
22
Over the past months, our compatibility team has been hard at work, finding and fixing bugs that cause site rendering issues. Due to the different release schedules for Windows 7 Beta and IE8 RC1, some of these bug fixes didn't make it into Windows 7 Beta (aka Build 7000). So, if you want to use the
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