Archive for February 18th, 2009
Feb
18
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 add the ability for an OS to be installed onto a virtual hard disk (VHD) file to boot physical hardware. To do this, perform the following steps:
Boot from the Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 media.
Select language options and click Next.
At the Install Now screen,
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Feb
18
Interested in devloping applications using Windows Azure Services Platform and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Chris has developed few applications using the combination of the two. You can check the following apps: Geocode an Address; Get a Map; Get a Route Itinerary,
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Feb
18
Google added a new search layer for local search results that activates when there are more relevant results than can show on one page. Instead of just plotting the first page of business results on map, Google plot more of them as small circles. You can click on the circles to
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Feb
18
The IIS team has released the Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS 7.0 - Beta. The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through Brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a
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Feb
18
Stefan Weitz has started a new series, where he’ll be posting in-depth explaination of Live Search features over at Channel9 and Live Search blog. This week’s demo (WMV) features Image Search!, where he show a couple of things, you may not know.
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Feb
18
At the Black Hat security conference in Washington, an independent hacker demonstrated a tool that can steal sensitive information by tricking users into believing they're visiting protected sites when in fact they're not. SSLstrip works on public Wi-Fi networks, onion-routing systems, and anywhere else a man-in-the-middle attack is practical. It converts pages that normally would be protected
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Feb
18
TheGeekStuff is offering a free download of Linux 101 Hacks eBook. Just visit this link and enter password
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Feb
18
With the signing of the "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act", President Barack Obama has launched a new website “Recovery.gov”. The website promises to help the American taxpayer track where his or her money is being spent, how it is being spent, and when it will be spent. No other president has used the internet in a similar manner to promote ideas and responsibility.
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Feb
18
Bill Gates has acquired a 5.2 percent stake in Eastman Kodak, according to a regulatory filing today. The Microsoft chairman owns the shares through his Cascade Investment LLC investment arm and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
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Feb
18
Yahoo! announced the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo! Mobile service - a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet. Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile Web for Apple iPhone, smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorolam and Windows Mobile.
Smartphone apps will include: Yahoo! oneSearch with Voice; Maps; Opera Mini 4.2; Widgets
…while Yahoo! Mobile
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Feb
18
With IE7 on Windows Vista, any navigation between web sites operating under different integrity levels would cause the following dialog to display: “Internet Explorer needs to open a new window to display this page”. “Further navigation would be forced to occur in a new window,” revealed a Escalation Engineer. “By default, Protected mode is enabled
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Feb
18
The next time you’re stranded without an open WiFi network (but your 3G signal is going strong), you’ll be glad you installed Addition’s iPhoneModem 2 (free to try, full license is $9.99). Unfortunately, Apple has apparently deemed the app to be in conflict with its App Store Terms and Conditions, so it is only available for jailbroken phones via Cydia.
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Feb
18
With Vista, Microsoft introduced the Games Explorer to launch and manage your games, and also PC games such as Games for Windows (and Games for Windows – LIVE) titles. Now with Windows 7 Beta, a new functionality to Games Explorer is added, that divides it between Games and Game Providers.
Games Explorer will deliver
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Feb
18
Avinash over at Google blog discusses the Bounce rate — “while metrics like visitors show the number of people who came to your site, bounce rate will tell you how many of those people were unimpressed and left your site without taking any action (not even dignifying the site with a single click!).”
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Feb
18
Google added a new feature “data validation” in spreadsheets that lets you control what people enter in your spreadsheet? Once a range of cells are selected, the feature can be accessed in Tools > Data Validation and lets you create rules for numbers, text, and dates.
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Random From The Google Docs “Data Validation” gives more control over spreadsheets
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Analyzing Google's code revealed a lot of interesting features."For example, Google Profiles will add an option that will allow Google to recognize your face in - Nov11Google Profiles allows to send messages using Contact Form
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If you haven't already tried "PowerPivot," or if you need a little help educating your IT department on SQL Server 2008 R2, Office 2010 - Feb17NVIDIA unleashes Google Android with Tegra processors
NVIDIA has worked closely with Google and the Open Handset Alliance to unleash Android, a complete, open mobile phone software stack, with the Tegra series of