Archive for March 28th, 2009
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Google responded to recently reported security concerns with Google Docs, “We quickly investigated, and we believe that these concerns do not pose a significant security risk to our users.” Here’s Google response:
1. Images are maintained because removing them would break image references in users' other Google documents and external blogs.2. The ability for
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Mar
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In this scenario we will see a file modified and how that change is replicated between servers. This is useful to understand in order to troubleshoot issues where problems within the USN journal, the DFSR JET database, the staging folder structure, and the network (including RPC) are preventing replication from working correctly. (modifiedlargefileupstream - Dfsr00003 -
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Mar
28
In addition to U.S., Google launched “local news” feature of Google News to users in UK, India, and Canada. To get started, look for the local section on your front page and enter your city, state, or postal code in local search bar. If you don't see this section, you can set up your local news by clicking "Personalize this
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Mar
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Code Canvas is a Microsoft Research project prototype focused on spatial orientation of code as the foundation of an integrated development environment. It is a spatial (2.5D) representation of source code, visual designers, and project-related artifacts that utilizes infinite panning and smooth semantic zoom for navigation. It is also extensible to allow analysis overlays and graph-based
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Mar
28
Browsing the Internet and eBay is quick, safe, and easy with Internet Explorer 8. eBay has their Accelerator, Visual Search and Web Slice available at eBay. Users will notice that the Visual Search of eBay's optimized IE8 is set to the website's own content. In this regard, IE8's search box will provide a fast way to
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Mar
28
One of more common Desktop Shell issues that we see is the dreaded “Blank Desktop” — you may have run into this at one time or another – you’ve entered
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Mar
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XWindows Dock - or XWD for short - is the newest free Windows Vista and XP program of the class Application Launcher and Desktop Organizer. PNG icons are supported, and the dock's effects are configured in myriad ways. Icon size, transition effects, transparency, zoom level, reflections, shadows, and much more can be precisely tweaked. You can
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Mar
28
Shinobu Takahashi, developer evangelist, Microsoft Japan, has shared the screenshots of Windows 7 Build 7068, gadgets and desktop are part of newly compiled build on March 21st.
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Mar
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The European Parliament has approved a report which goes against the French plan to implement a ‘3 strikes’ regime for alleged P2P copyright infringers. The proposals to increase security and ensure freedom on the Internet were accepted, but disconnecting users from the Internet was ruled out. The report from Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis concerning security and
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Mar
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Microsoft released a huge addition to the digitization of planet – 21TB - all ortho imagery launched into Microsoft Virtual Earth, powering Live Search Maps and other Live Search properties. Now, this one isn’t huge in terms of terabytes, but is huge in terms of square kilometers of the world. There’re a few new countries on the list – Seychelles, Comoros and more.
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Mar
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Speaking at the Government Leaders Forum, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated a consistent level of optimism that technology would solve many of the world’s most critical issues in 10 or 20 years out. “Computing is like the new literacy. So, any effort you made for books and literacy, there's a parallel here. Sometimes the Internet connectivity is hard, but it's well worth the effort.”
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Mar
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Microsoft rolled out worldwide Pop3 support for Hotmail, if you want, you can import messages from Hotmail into Gmail using the mail fetcher. Simply, go to the Accounts tab from Gmail's settings page and click on "Add a mail account you own". Type the Hotmail address and use the following settings:
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Mar
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Windows 7 uses an updated driver model, WDDM v1.1, and ATI's confident that its drivers are up to scratch right now. We took a look at Vista and 7 performance on an ultra-high-end Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB card, finding that, in our gaming suite at least, ATI's claims were borne true.
Choosing the twin-GPU 'X2
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Mar
28
If you’re experiencing problems with Internet Explorer 8 (download) being slow to load pages, especially when multiple tabs are involved, the follwoing registry tweak might be worth a try. Because this tweak is simply registering a DLL that should have been registered as part of the IE8 installation.
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Mar
28
With a lawsuit filed in San Francisco, California, two residents of Fostoria, Ohio seek damages and relief from the world's third-largest computer maker after purchasing a sub-$600 Aspire notebook that included Windows Vista Premium and only 512MB of shared system and graphics memory. Microsoft recommends an additional 128MB is required to run the Premium. “A notebook pre-installed with
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Random From The Acer sued for Vista-NoteBook with GB of Memory
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Acer announced two new offerings: Acer Aspire AS8943G entertainment PC – it has a whopping 18.4" 1080p screen that makes it awesome for watching movies, - Mar28Google and NMCM Launches Nelson Mandela Online Digital Archive
Google with Johannesburg, South Africa, based Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) documented online the life and times of - Feb22Free 750 Free Hours of Windows Azure Extra-Small Instance and More
Microsoft announced a new Windows Azure Introductory Special which provides customers with 750 free hours of the Windows Azure extra-small instance and 25 hours of - Jul01Debra Chrapaty on Data Centers, and Cloud computing
So what is “the cloud”, and why is it so important? Specifically, the cloud is a network of data centers, a system that will soon dwarf what exists today, a system that Microsoft is furiously building out. In addition to data centers online now or soon to be in Quincy, WA, Chicago, San Antonio, Ireland, Irkutsk, and a just announced (in this video?) a new center in Iowa, if you listen to Debra Chrapaty talk to Om Malik at Structure 08, Microsoft is just getting started: - Apr30Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (May 2007)
The Microsoft ASP.NET Futures May 2007 (“Futures