Archive for June 30th, 2009
Jun
30
Here's the presentation from Nick Weininger on Advanced Custom Search Configuration from Google I/O about how to create a contextual search experience in minutes. You can navigate it with the help of a convenient timeline at YouTube, or download the presentation in PDF format.
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Jun
30
The Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer (MSIA) is a free tool that can help with your software inventory. Using this tool, you can generate an inventory of core Microsoft products that are installed on your local computer or throughout a network. The MSIA is built specifically to be a starting point to working with Software Asset Management
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Jun
30
YouTube is launching a new ad type called “Call-To-Action Overlay” ads that basically allow you to add a link to a third-party site. The ad is a transparent background with an ad description and link to any site you want. This new ad type is reportedly launching at https://ads.youtube.com/. It is
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Jun
30
According to Nielsen, Apple's Web site saw 55.7 million unique visitors in May, probably because of the release of the iPhone 3GS. The next closest, Hewlett Packard, had 21.3 million uniques. In fact, Apple had nearly as many unique hits in May 2009 than all hardware manufactures, including Apple, had in May 2008 (57.3
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Jun
30
The realm of dress tie knots is dominated by a handful of traditional tie knots. Check out this rather unique tie knot and be the first on your block to sport it. The knot itself didn't originate with the movie, and isn't rightfully named "The Merovingian Knot," but the Ediety Knot.
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Jun
30
AdWords API v2009 allows closer feature parity with the AdWords Front-End. Starting from a clean slate also gave us the opportunity to reorganize the API to better expose the features added since v1. Here’re some changes:
-We've created new web services for managing campaign targeting options and campaign-level criteria-All web services share a consistent, data-centric interface with two
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Jun
30
DHCP Server in Windows Server 2008 R2 has been enhanced and tested to deliver far higher levels of performance and scalability than in previous releases of Windows. The cornerstone of the performance improvement in the DHCP server in the latest release has been aggressive caching of the lease records in database. A bit of context to
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Jun
30
At the annual Society for Human Resource Management Conference, Careerbuilder.com announced the availability of Applicant Explorer, a new application built on the Bing API that helps recruiters find qualified candidates in the fraction of the time it once took. Rather than manually sorting through applicant resumes and then searching the web for additional
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Jun
30
ECMAScript 5 Conformance Suite is designed to assess the level at which a specific JavaScript implementation conforms to the ECMAScript, 5th Edition Language Specification. At the ECMA TC39 meeting this May, Microsoft announced that it was working on such test suite and made a preliminary version available to the ECMA members. We have now
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Jun
30
For those of you who manage your organization’s desktops using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Internet Explorer 8 will be made available via this technology starting August 25, 2009. To control over how and when IE8 is deployed in your environment, perform the following steps:
Before August 25, 2009: Turn off auto-approve for “Update rollup” packages
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Jun
30
Google released a new client library which exposes almost all of the OpenSocial v0.8 JavaScript APIs in native ActionScript 3 for Flash and Flex gadget developers. The library provides an event-driven development model that is prevalent in the ActionScript community, a FlexUnit-based testing framework, and samples for both Flash and Flex environments. We hope the library will
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Jun
30
Windows 2008 R2, comes with a new MMC snap-in called Remote Desktop Connection Manager (SBMGR.msc on the Connection Broker machine). This Remote Desktop Connection Manager UI tool is available on a Remote Desktop Connection Broker server. It allows the administrator to easily configure and organize RemoteApp and Desktop Connections (RADC) resources.
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Jun
30
Africa has world’s highest mobile growth rate; with Mobile phone penetration is six times Internet penetration -- one third of the population owns a mobile phone and many more have access to one. Most of these devices only have voice and SMS capabilities, which is why Google released Google SMS in Uganda. Google SMS is
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Jun
30
Google released an update with two new additions: software rendering and feature requirements to O3D API for creating rich 3D applications in a web browser. Software rendering allows O3D to use the main processor to render 3D images if the machine running the app doesn't have supported graphics hardware. While the hardware O3D
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Jun
30
Microsoft said it will soon open new facilities in Dublin, Ireland, and Chicago. The data centers will support Microsoft services such as its new search offering, Bing, and Azure, its cloud computing platform. The Dublin facility, to open on Wednesday, will be the largest for
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