Archive for July 3rd, 2009
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Google Website Optimizer can help you identify the copy, images, and page layout combination that is most effective at getting visitors to convert. The key is to use Google Analytics to find out which landing pages are least effective, so you can start working on those first. The Google Analytics + Website Optimizer in 60 Seconds
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Jul
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Google added a new search feature in Google Books: search results in your scrollbar. Now when you search in a book, little hints will appear in the margin to indicate where you results are located. When you hover over one of these
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Apache Shindig aims to make it simple to create your own OpenSocial container by providing an open source implementation (in both Java and PHP) of the OpenSocial APIs. The Apache Shindig 1.0-incubating release is available; now, instead of checking out a specific revision or trying to keep up with the ever-changing trunk, OpenSocial container
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Jul
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Microsoft Research has published a new article that explains in more layperson-like terms exactly what its “Gazelle” Web browser is and why the company’s researchers believe it’s needed. Microsoft is slated to present a paper on Gazelle at the Usenix Security Symposium in August. At that event, the Gazelle team will describe
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Google India, apparently ordered some quarter-page advertisements to appear in a variety of city supplements of The Times Of India, leading English-news daily in the country. “I saw a quarter-page advertisement from Google in ‘Nagpur Times’
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Jul
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Proof that the Windows 7 SDK RTM is evolving comes from Microsoft’s Visual C++ Team: “If Win7 SDK (RC) is installed SidebySide with Visual Studio 2008 RTM before Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is installed, x64 and Itanium platform will not be available from the New Platform drop-down list. Build targeting x64 and Itanium will also
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Jul
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Jack Herrick of wikiHow, a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual shares three of his favorite tips to attract visitors in the video below. wikiHow is a wiki, which means that any visitor to the site can create or edit wikiHow articles.
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Jul
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The leak details of Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium, upsetted some customers, who pre-ordered half-price Windows 7 copies, available only through July 11 here in the U.S. Here’s some reactions from the community: A user “Will” posted a comment “They mention this AFTER I’ve pre-ordered three copies of the software???” Another user “TheBigOldDog” weighed in: “So then people
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Jul
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Now, when you enter a search query on FriendFeed, you would see real-time updates stream at the top of your screen. You don’t need to constantly click refresh to immediately see what people are saying about a particular topic, as FriendFeed’s real-time search keep searching across FriendFeed, including imported services like blogs and Twitter accounts. Searches using
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Jul
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The Geneva Server Federated Collaboration Step by Step Guide is intended for information technology (IT) professionals and system architects who want to implement secure collaboration between organizations using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and "Geneva" Server. This guide provides a quick demonstration of the features, functionality, and interoperability capabilities of “Geneva” Server Beta 2, “Geneva” Framework
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Jul
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TweetCraft is an open source app that provides Twitter integration with World of Warcraft. The project allows you to keep track of what your friends are tweeting about along with pushing out to Twitter so all your buddies can keep track of what you’re up to in WoW.
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Jul
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Customers running System Center Configuration Manager 2007 on top of hardware infrastructures from specific original equipment manufacturers will be able to leverage the results of Microsoft's efforts to integrate OEM specific deployment customizations into the powerful OS Deployment features in ConfigMgr. The OEM Deployment Packs provide the ability to extend the capabilities within the
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Jul
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On July 1, 1979, Sony introduced the first Walkman to consumers in Japan. The model TPS-L2 was the first in a long history of portable stereo devices of thirty years. The shape, size, and data format of portable music players continues to evolve, but for
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Jul
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MSN has posted a cool Silverlight application that lets you deep zoom into an image of Michael Jackson only to find that the original image actually consists of thousands of photos of the King of Pop taken throughout his life. Using your mouse’s scroll
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Jul
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If you haven visited Talking About Windows.com in a while, you are missing a lot! Microsoft Engineers like Ian Burgess talking about the engineering design of DirectAccess and BitLocker and Mario Garzia discussing application compatibility and how Windows 7 works with legacy applications. You can interact with IT pros like Darren Baker, the
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