Archive for April 14th, 2009
Apr
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In order to bring more kind of fun and meaningful conversations into orkut communities, quality posts, and to stop spammy & abusive comments, Google decided to remove the "post anonymously" option for all communities. While no new anonymous posts will be accepted on any community forum, any previously posted anonymous comments will be allowed to remain live for the time
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Apr
14
Ashampoo Office 2008 comes now with an amazing 92% discount and the suite includes the three most used office applications: word processor, spreadsheet and presentation creator. The entire suite runs perfectly from removable drives offering you portability. A Complete Office Package at a Fair Price” reads the discount page for Ashampoo's Office 2008, and, as insane
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Apr
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Microsoft and technology analyst Roger Kay have made a couple of changes to their charts outlining the "Apple Tax," but the update does little to address broader critiques of their math. Microsoft noted that it has updated both Kay's white paper and the blog post and chart to reflect the fact that both
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Apr
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There has been some rumors, that user of “urchin.js” would soon lose their Google Analytics reporting, “we have no immediate plans to decommission urchin.js. However, all new accounts have been set up using ga.js instead of urchin.js. Here’re some of the ga.js benefits: Faster, smaller source file; Automatic detection of HTTPS; Increased namespace safety; More convenient set up
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Apr
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Update History for Windows Home Server presents the complete update history of the server. The updates can be grouped and details of each update are displayed. If an update fails, the log file from Windows Update directly from the Add-In to be opened, so you can find out the cause.
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Apr
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Google Groups added an option to translate the messages from a thread. The new feature uses Google Translate API, so it doesn't involve reloading the page.
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Apr
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LCS stored its configuration in the Domain Naming Context or System Container. OCS 2007 added a choice to use the Configuration Naming Context or Configuration Partition. OCS 2007 R2 defaults to the Configuration Partition. We made this change in R2 to insure your OCS servers always have access to their configuration information and we
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Apr
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Learn how to use JQuery animations to slide captions and images in and out of view. Don’t distract your visitors, show them only what they need to see.
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Apr
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Free E-Learning course published on April 7th, 2009. This one-hour clinic introduces the features of Windows EBS 2008. It also describes the installation and configuration of Windows EBS 2008. This clinic covers the following topics: Introduction to Windows EBS 2008, Features of Windows EBS 2008, Deploying Windows EBS 2008
More info: Microsoft E-Learning
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Apr
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The Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is a simplified download/install experience for all of Microsoft’s free web products. It includes everything that you need to get up and running to build your web solutions – from servers, tools, and technologies, including the most recently updated products.
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Apr
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Windows 7 natively support the ability to burn ISO images, without needing of a third party tool. What’s great about Windows Disc Image Burner is that it will detect that a DVD-RW has content on it already and prompt you asking if you would like to erase the disc and burn new content to it. This ensures you don’t accidently
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Apr
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At Linux Collaboration Summit, Microsoft platform strategy director Sam Ramji faced some tough questions during a panel about operating systems. He said that Microsoft's commitment to delivering compatibility with open source software is largely driven by user demand. Indeed, a growing number of companies are deploying Apache, PHP, and other open source software components on Windows-based
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Apr
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent letters to a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers to alert them that they were in violation of acceptable marketing practices in relation to their paid search marketing campaigns. The basic gist of the letter is that when these pharmaceutical companies advertise on Google they are a.) not providing the
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Apr
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I have seen people saying that 7105 and 7106 of Windows 7 are RC builds and the RC will be > 7100. Well all I can say to those people is that you’re wrong. Basically, after build 7076 the tree was split. 7077 was compiled as an RC ESCROW build (winmain_win7rc) and the winmain lab bumped
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Apr
14
Safe Calculator is a free portable utility that appears to be the plain old Windows calculator, but actually is a very discreet safe allowing you to move your IDs, passwords etc. without fear of consequences in case of loss or theft. After entering your PIN, it
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Random From The Safe Calculator: Portable password /ID safe vault
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