Archive for May 22nd, 2009
May
22
YouTube, a Google-owned video-sharing site gets 20 hours of video uploaded every minute. In mid-2007, six hours of video were being uploaded to the site every minute. It grew to 15 hours in January of this year and now stands at 20 hours a minute. "Let's see if we can get to 24 hours -- a full day's worth of video
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May
22
Google Reader now let you share your favorite feeds, with just a few clicks using “custom bundles”. Just click "Browse for stuff" and create your own bundle. Drag some of your subscriptions or even folders to your bundle, add a title, description, and click "Save". You can automatically share bundles with Reader friends, email, post them to blog.
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May
22
Ask.com seems to be taking, similiar approach of Microsoft Live Search’s "hotspots" feature, with an advertising twist. If you visit Ask.com, you’ll find a large promotional image of “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” movie. When you mouseover a character or actor, a name pop’s up and if you click on it, you be taken to a search
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May
22
To enable the new functionality of Import/Export in Hyper-V R2 (download), we now have new ‘Ex’ versions of the Import/Export APIs along with settings data objects that allow the user to tweak the necessary parameters upon export or import. Export: Before you run an export, you can get the export parameters associated with a
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May
22
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have a bunch of virtual machines (VMs) where the OWNER value is set to UNKNOWN and you wanted to set a value owner without having to modify them one VM at a time? If so there’s a PowerShell command that we can use to accomplish this:
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May
22
Google has posted a FAQ for Euro publisher of AdSense program, located in “France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain,” addressing a number of questions about “payments & earning, dollar to Euro conversion, and taxes etc.”. Google has launched AdSense reports in international currencies including “Euro”, earlier this year.
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May
22
Already the recipient of Presidential iPods and box-set DVDs (non-PAL region), Her Majesty the Queen of England can now claim her stake on yet another popular digital past-time- videogames. Specifically, a “gold-plated Nintendo Wii,” accompanied by a copy of the company's latest family-friend release, BIG Family Games, courtesy of publisher THQ. The
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May
22
Moving e-mail and collaboration applications to the cloud will drive the first wave of adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, which is still in its nascent phase. The enterprises still don't trust that they will be provided with the high service levels they would need to move applications onto large networks run by a small number
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May
22
Acer announced the new Acer Aspire easyStore Home Server H.340 for customers in the United States. Designed for households and home-based businesses with multiple PCs, Aspire easyStore offers a simple way to network home computers, centralize, share and protect digital data as well as access
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May
22
After a mail migration to a new domain/Exchange organization using Exmerge, you will lose the ability to reply to old email and modify old calendar items. The reason this occurs is because the message is stored with x500 address from the old domain. In order to correct this you need to add this old X500 address
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May
22
The first week of June was slated to be an interesting one, in terms of the current browser-bundling antitrust case in the European Union involving Microsoft, Opera and a growing cast of interested third parties. But Microsoft officials said they’ve canceled their request for the oral hearing slated for June 3-5. The reason for the cancellation
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May
22
SQL Server, both 2005, and 2008, have both been supported in virtual environments. This means that, providing you followed the specific guidelines for SQL and virtualisation, you could happily virtualise SQL, as a standalone instance, on a virtual platform. This was acceptable for a number of smaller organisations - the fact that you could virtualise a
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May
22
Microsoft released walkthroughs for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (download) and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 (download), and are available through MSDN. The featured walkthroughs cover a range of aspects including Core Coding Experience in Managed Languages, Office Development in Visual Studio 2010, Multi-targeting, Parallel Computing and Workflow Foundation. In total, Microsoft is
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May
22
Repair steps for Exchange 2007 on SBS 2008 have been posted to the SBS TechCenter. These steps cover reinstalling the Client Access, Hub Transport, and Mailbox Server roles for Exchange 2007. Please note that removing and reinstalling Exchange roles on SBS 2008 should not be a common troubleshooting step. These documents should only be used when other
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May
22
Google Chrome 2 is now out of beta and is less about new features, but more on better performance. JavaScript-heavy web pages will now run about 30% faster. Also, added some useful features like form autofill, full screen mode, and the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page. If you're Chrome, you'll be automatically updated, else download at google.com/chrome.
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