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Archive for February 3rd, 2009

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Feb 3

Yahoo! has announced in an email about discontinuing its Ads in RSS service, which enabled network publishers to insert contextual advertising into syndicated content (RSS feed). Yahoo refers to Ads in RSS as a beta program, but it was launched quite a while ago; it was formally introduced in November 2005.

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Samsung has finally released the Pink NC10 Netbook. The colour isn’t the wishy-washy pink of some other laptops, the slick top looks very expensive and the spec is identical to the other colours. The system specs includes: 10.2-inch screen, Intel Atom N270, 1.6GHz,

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Paul Cociuba, from the IIS and ASP.net Support Team, revealed the symptoms that would clue in administrators that IIS 6 has been compromised with Conflicker (Downadup) malware. “You start your browser to connect to the ASP.net application but all you receive once you navigate to its address is a 'Service Unavailable' message in your browser.

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Starting Tuesday morning at 0200 Pacific when you sign into Xbox Live you’ll be prompted for a mandatory dashboard update. The update addresses the issue that a few folks were having with audio and their HDMI connection. This update will be rolled out to all Xbox LIVE members around the world over the space of a

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Issue: When an application is unable to load because the cache is full, you may receive the following error: Could not connect to stream URL Error code: 4504B4-16D10E0A-0000E029Cause: Although the error code that appears in the customer-facing dialog box is incorrect, the correct error code appears in the log as 0000E029.Resolution:

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The Windows Embedded Standard 2009 will deliver the power, familiarity, and reliability of the Windows operating system in componentized form, helping device makers to easily create smart connected devices requiring rich applications, services, and end-user experiences. With Windows Embedded Standard, developers get access to a mature technology portfolio of embedded specific tools that work in the

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Seven months after delivering the world's fastest supercomputer “Roadrunner”, IBM has announced an even speedier one called “Sequoia computer” with the computing power of 2 million laptops, with delivery scheduled in 2011. Sequoia, and a smaller computer called Dawn, are being built in Rochester, Minnesota, for use in simulating nuclear tests. IBM says they can also be

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This post discuss the steps to activate Windows Server 2008 Core edition (download link) using a MAK key via the phone. It is much easier to activate via the Internet but for those computers that do not have access to the Internet (for example a Hyper-V virtual machine) you can

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Until now, Google Earth showed a single image of any location. Displaying one image is fantastic for exposing the intricacy and majesty of planet, but it reduces each location to a single snapshot and ignores the rich historical context of place. Now, Google Earth 5.0 lets you "go back in time" and observe changes to the landscape of the planet,

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Pingdom in an email writes: “We have monitored the load time performance (download speed) of the Google Analytics scripts (both ga.js and urchin.js) from Google’s servers, and have found a very interesting performance pattern, especially in Europe. The Google Analytics scripts load 27% slower at peak hours in North America, and 97% slower at peak hours in

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If you’re using Ajax or jQuery on your blog / website, you might have seen those spinner that shows up, once you click on a function. Timur Gafforov has given us Preloaders which allows you to select size, speed, and from a set of 3D spinners. Make your users wait in style!.

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After fixing MP3 corruption issue in the Windows 7 beta (download link) and pushing it via Automatic Updates, Microsoft has released another fix specifically for the Windows Media Center in the beta. The fix is currently only available via the Microsoft Download Center in 32-bit (425 KB )

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Google introduced in Dec. Gmail Tasks, now the team has released an optimized version for your iPhone or Android device to let you manage your task list any xhtml enabled phone. Just go to gmail.com/tasks from your phone's browser and log in. If you have a Google Apps account, you can go to mail.google.com/tasks/a/your-domain, replacing

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In the video embedded below, Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Windows Web Services API PM Nikola Dudar explain the Windows native Web Services APIs, and why Microsoft created a new set of Web Services APIs when we have WCF. You can always watch the Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code PDC session

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Here’s an interesting article on how to have your Windows Home Server shut down remote computers. So lets say that you have your WHS plugged into a UPS, preferably an APC UPS with AVR, and one of you computers resides on the same UPS. Or if you have two computers that are powered by one UPS

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