Archive for February 23rd, 2009
Feb
23
Jacob has compiled a HTML 5 cheat sheet. It's basically just a listing of the attributes and methods of the canvas element and the 2d drawing context. You’ve choice to download the Canvas API fitting on 2 page PDF or as a PNG image.
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Feb
23
Here’s an interesting TechNet Podcast with some interesting insight into Trends Impacting IT of which Virtualisation is one of them. Speaker: Baldwin Ng, Senior Product Manager for the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Core Engineering Team.
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Feb
23
On Feb 10, 2009, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Amazon's Kindle 2 e-book reading device at the Morgan Library in New York. One update, however, is wholly new: Amazon has added a "Text to Speech"
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Feb
23
Philips debuts its new Prestigo STR9320 Colour Touchscreen Remote Control. It features a 2.8-inch touch sensitive full colour screen, allow users to to control up to 20 devices from one handset. There’re 300,000 devices in the Prestigo memory that you are able to sync up, and it's all done on the remote without the
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Feb
23
Zemana AntiLogger is specifically designed to detect harmful applications, spybots, and malware that existing anti-virus software might not recognize due to out-of-date, signature-based algorithms. Rather than relying on signature updates to recognize known malware, the program uses proactive analysis to detect potential threats based on their behavior. Unlike other anti-logger technologies that only address keystroke logging,
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Feb
23
SBS 2008 Backup is not designed to work with either LCR (Local Continuous Replication) or SCR (Standby Continuous Replication). The backup job will not fail, however you will receive an error under the details of the completed job telling you that Exchange is not available for recovery. Likewise, when you choose to restore an application from
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Feb
23
Hyatt launched their new hotel finder application with Microsoft Virtual Earth, which is accessible from their home page by searching for Hyatt hotel locations around the world. The user interface has some great aesthetics with their interface around and atop the map. The results from
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Feb
23
Microsoft Applicatio Virtualization 4.5 includes a great feature file streaming, which is a super-easy, lightweight way to get an application published and loaded for use on an App-V client. There are no server or network pre-requisites required so it’s a very low overhead way to quickly get an application up and running.
When would you use file streaming?
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Feb
23
Ryan Doherty has a really nice walkthrough on “Cross-Browser Inline-Block” that helps us in creating a ready to use CSS inline block that expand to fit, if content is bigger. The block can be handy in displaying picture gallery, 125x125 ads or many other usage on your website / blogs.
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Feb
23
Windows Live Sign-in Assistant is an Internet Explorer add-on that comes included with Windows Live Smart Clients, such as Windows Live Messenger. The goal of this add-on is to help make your sign-in experience faster and more convenient for users that have more than one Windows Live ID account.
Microsoft now released Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 beta that installs
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Feb
23
Microsoft confirmed a Virtual Earth session for MIX 2009 titled, “The Next Generation of Microsoft Virtual Earth – More Experiences, More Places, and Exciting New Capabilities” and it’s abstract is as follows, “Come see and experience new and exciting offerings from Virtual Earth. We cannot release specific details about
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Feb
23
The migration from MSN Calendar to the new Windows Live Calendar service will begin as early as March 2009, and will ensure that all the supported user data on the MSN Calendar is moved to the Windows Live Calendar without any action required for the user. Please note that Windows Live Calendar does not support attachments to
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Feb
23
The Windows Live Hotmail Mobile beta released, as part of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 upgrade, runs side-to-side with the existing Hotmail Mobile. There hasn’t been any official announcement as yet, however to try it out visit http://m.mail.live.com on your mobile devices.
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Feb
23
By now you have probably heard of the new architectural innovation being brought to Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2 (download) known as Cluster Shared Volumes, or CSV. CSV functions as a distributed-access file system optimized for Hyper-V. A comparison would be to a clustered file system, however, unlike other clustered file systems,
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Feb
23
The European Commission will require Microsoft to give users of its ubiquitous Windows operating system the opportunity to choose between different Internet browsers to avoid breaching EU competition rules, the bloc's antitrust spokesman told EurActiv. Although the Commission is still officially waiting for a response from Microsoft to the complaints raised last January, the outcome of
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Random From The EU to oblige Microsoft for competitive browsers
- Mar28Apple Store Layout Plans Comprises of 100 Pages Leaks
The full Apple Store layout documentation embedded below leaked last month. It's interesting to see the attention to detail Apple puts into its Store layout - May05Silverlight 5 at MIX11: Webcast Video
Laurent Bugion of IdentityMine, Luigi Rosso of Archetype, and Ward Bell of IdeaBlade join John Papa at MIX11 to answer questions about Silverlight 5 from - Oct04WinHEC 2008 ‘Windows 7 sessions updates’
Considering both PDC and WinHEC are only a few days apart and are in the same venue - Los Angeles Convention Center, it must suck - Dec07Picasa Web Albums Comments Translation
Many people post comments in their native languages on Picasa Web Albums available in 38 languages.`Google's photo-sharing service has now started to use Google Translate API to automatically translate comments in your interface's language. The translation is displayed below the original comment. - Mar27WebBrowser addin for Windows Home Server
WebBrowser is a addin for Windows Home Server, which integrates a web browser into the WHS Console. The add-in’s designed purpose is to support home automation controls that run in a web browser – rather than opening up multiple windows, these browser-based controls can be integrated neatly into the Windows Home Server Console.