Archive for February 19th, 2009
Feb
19
After moving KBArticles to TechNet and MSDN, Microsoft has now moved QnA from Live Search to MSN. According to Kristy there’s never been a better time for QnA to be part of MSN. For starters the site will be rebranded to a new MSN brand (hmm, what will it be this time?), and with the next release there will be changes to how QnA handles “Conversational” versus “Informational” questions.
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Feb
19
The video and slides embedded below are from Matt Cutts presentation “State of the Index” from PubCon Vegas. Watch after the jump.
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Feb
19
Google expanded the AdSense for Domains product to all US publishers in December 2008. It’s now been opened to all international publishers as well. Google has not confirmed this with a blog post yet, but this has happened.
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Feb
19
Now that, Chromium integrates the popular open source library Hunspell with WebKit's built-in spellchecking infrastructure to check words and to provide suggestions in 27 different languages. It can be a big help in keeping your blog, email, documents, and forum postings spelled correctly and easy to read, revealed Chromium blog. The recent release 2.0.160.0 of Google
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Feb
19
Google Book Search now let you download books from public domain like Hamlet. You can download the image corresponding to each page of a book or you could automatize the process using a tool Google Book Downloader, which allows you to save book as PDF from google to your local filesystem. Google Book Downloader will only retrieve the pages that
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Feb
19
Yahoo! Search completed its five year’s of launch. Since then, they’ve introduced a host of new features to their search engine, vastly improved the relevance of both algorithmic and sponsored results.
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Feb
19
Yahoo! SiteBuilder puts powerful web site design and customization capabilities at your fingertips. With a new Site Creation Wizard and more than 330 web site templates, it's never been easier to build the site you want. Plus, once you have created your site, you can easily publish it online with a Yahoo! Web Hosting or Yahoo!
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Feb
19
This how to guide explain why the HTPC now makes so much sense, and we’ll walk you through using it with Microsoft’s Windows 7 beta. We employ an AMD Phenom X4 9350e CPU running at 2 GHz. “Energy Efficient” models with a 65 W TDP. Even still, the chip boasts 2
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Feb
19
Yesterday, we posted about Windows 7 RC1, now more news poured in, that an RC1 build 7048 will be released privately sometime around February 27, 2009. MSDN and TechNet subscribers, participants of the Technology Adopters Program (TAP), and beta testers signed up on Microsoft Connect will all be getting this RC1 build, though it's not clear whether
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Feb
19
Microsoft has put up a new website called Baking Security In, which details Microsoft's progress on the Security Development Lifecycle, a process involving 14 stages and checkpoints over the six stages of the software-dev cycle (requirements, design, implementation, verification, release, support/service).
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Feb
19
Microsoft has told Equipt customers that the subscription software package will be killed off on 30 April 2009. The date comes three months after the company confirmed plans to ditch the Office and security subscription service in November.
Microsoft said that applications included in Equipt would “no longer be fully functional” after that date. It confirmed
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Feb
19
A flaw in how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (download) calculates the time remaining until it must be activated could enable users to potentially run the server for years before activation. The defect is a consequence of Microsoft failing to assess its virtualization strategy, says an analyst. At startup, Windows looks at the install
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Feb
19
A new technology preview version 0.9.000.6 of Deep Zoom Composer is now available. The tool allow the preparation of images for use with the Deep Zoom feature currently being previewed in Silverlight 2. The new Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight allows users to see images on the Web like they never have before.
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Feb
19
In a ruling issued this afternoon, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman reversed her earlier decision granting class-action status to the lawsuit over Microsoft's Windows Vista Capable marketing program. However, Pechman denied Microsoft's motion for summary judgment, saying PC buyers could pursue their claims individually.
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Feb
19
Until now, the search feature on the WordPress.org’s plugins directory was quite horrible. But no more, you can now use the power of Sphinx (a “free open-source SQL full-text search engine”) to search on the plugins directory both from the website and from within your blog’s admin (Plugins ? Add New),
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Random From The WordPress Plugins directory now powered by Sphinx
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