Archive for April 9th, 2009
Apr
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Google uses Prince 7.0 alpha 16 to convert files to PDF produced by Google Docs. According to the software's website, "Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets
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Apr
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Hitwise released the “Top Searches on Twitter Search” for the week ending March 21, 2009. According to new data that covers searches done at search.twitter.com, Paris Hilton and Oprah Winfrey are the most-searched celebrity on Twitter in entertainment category.
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Apr
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Windows Live Search for BlackBerry has been updated to support all the new devices, with support for 4.6, 4.6.1 and even 4.7 so Bold, Curve 8900 and yes, even Storm users can now get in on the action. If you’ve a Blackberry or other mobile device with Live Search for Mobile support, you can go to
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Apr
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Here is a completely new way for interaction with your desktop space. BumpTop is a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. Like a real desk, but better.
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Apr
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Microsoft was hit with a $388 million verdict in a long-running patent infringement case. In the suit, Uniloc alleged that Microsoft used its patented technology as part of the software giant's product activation methods. A federal jury in Rhode Island found that Windows XP, Office XP and Windows Server 2003 infringed on Uniloc a patent.
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Apr
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Click-to-Buy is Google’s eCommerce platform, helps you find products (like songs and DVDs) related to the videos that you're watching. Google rolled out Click-to-Buy links on music videos in 8 additional countries: Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and Sweden. Now Click-to-Buy partners can offer music downloads to hundreds of millions of
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Apr
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Here’s a perfectly reasonable Linux NAS Box "N5200" from Thecus, that was hacke to install Windows Home Server. How the hell did I do it? Well, I did a bit of research into the hardware first. The mainboard and network cards are fairly stock standard Intel stuff, so that’s not a worry - the biggest
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Apr
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Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker has filed suit against Keyen Farrell, apparently a Google employee alleged to have used Schoemaker’s US-registered trademark in search ads on Google. Schoemaker’s complaint that ads were showing for his nickname, “ShoeMoney,” which is also the name of his web site and a registered trademark. While issues over trademarks in
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Apr
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Office Live Workspace team have created a page on Facebook for college students approaching graduation. On this Facebook page you will find tips, advice, resume templates, videos and more from great resources like Monster.com and Microsoft Office Online Career Center.
You can also watch this hilarious video of Kevin Connolly (Eric on Entourage) tells
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Apr
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Administrators, users and troubleshooters value the possibility in Outlook 2007 to get status about the connections: by holding the ctrl key while right clicking the Outlook icon in the notification area and choosing “Connection Status” (see also http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010363941033.aspx). With the new R2 version of the client, Microsoft introduces a similar dialog for Office
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Apr
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If you receive messages from across the globe, Gmail’s new “Sender Time Zone” feature can help you locate appropriate time to call-in a person. Just turn on under Settings, and you'll see green phone icons next to people who’re readily reachable (between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in sender's local time zone) and red ones next to those who couldn’t be contacted. Click "show
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Apr
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eBay Selling Manager Applications (SM Apps) allows developers to create and deliver tailored applications directly in the selling experience on eBay.com. In the video below, Farhang Kassaei explains the details of the app, which uses OpenSocial's gadget technology. Farhang describes both why they chose to use OpenSocial and Apache Shindig, and how they integrated its
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Apr
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OCS 2007 R2 introduced support for configuring a firewall to perform Network Address Translation (NAT) for the A/V Edge external interface. This option is available only with the Single Consolidated Topology as shown in figure 1.0. When configuring the A/V Edge for NAT it’s possible that remote users
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Apr
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First, now, you can enjoy favorite Google Earth tours in your web browser, by visiting commemorative tour gallery. Some of the tours in the gallery include a Flight 1549 re-enactment, a flyover of San Francisco, and an Introduction to Mars. In addition, you can embed a recorded tour in Google on your web site:
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Apr
9
Script errors are one of the most common web site compatibility issues—often the source of many visual discrepancies in the layout of a page. These errors raise a lot of questions. What can you do to remedy pages that have script errors? How can you provide helpful feedback to sites that experience script errors? And as
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