Archive for July 8th, 2009
Jul
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Windows Server 2008 R2 comes with an easy to use CLI, SCONFIG. SCONFIG dramatically eases server configuration for Windows Server 2008 R2 core deployments. With SCONFIG, you can easily set your system up, get it on the network so you can easily manage the server remotely. “Rename your computer? Press 2 and you will be
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Jul
8
Do you run a small business? Check out Matt Cutt’s tips on how to attract visitors on a small budget:
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Jul
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Google Sites can now automatically maintain your site navigation. Site owners can manage this feature by going to: "More actions" -> "Manage site" -> "Site layout" -> Edit navigation -> "Automatically organize my navigation". Also added a subpage listing gadget for automatically generating index pages based on site structure. Site collaborators can add the gadget
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Jul
8
Microsoft RDS team published step-by-step guides to help you explore the new features of Remote Desktop Services included with Windows Server 2008 R2. Below is a list of the currently available guides:
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Jul
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Google Sphere is an experimental third-party version of Google Images which spins around everything... navigation, image results, and so on. Mouse over the page and type the term you're looking for on the search box. Hit return (or click on the search button if you find it). The more
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Jul
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Technorati has launched Twittorati, a web service site that shows what Technorati’s top 100 bloggers are tweeting about. For this, Twittorati pulls in the Tweets published by bloggers from Technorati’s list of Top 100 Blogs, which’s determined by Technorati’s Authority Ranking. Authority Ranking is calculated via algorithm of inbound links from other blog posts, and
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Jul
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WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta is released. The app is an open source project, built by WordPress dev team and the MoPress Open Source project folks. Note: This is a beta and there’re a ton of hardware/OS combinations out there, so please test with a private blog or a backup blog before using on your high-traffic
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Jul
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According to the report, Microsoft is aiming to settle the matters before EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes steps down at the end of the year. One issue is the EU's well-publicized concern over the bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows, while the other pertains to Office software, Bloomberg said. An EU spokesman did not
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Jul
8
The iPhone dev team released an updated versions of redsn0w jailbreak and ultrasn0w carrier unlock tool for iPhone 3GS running at 3.0. Also released 3GS-compatible versions of MobileSubstrate and WinterBoard, components that enable many different add-ons and themes. For those, who own 3GS phones, as long as you have your personalized (signed) dfu/img3 files, you’ll always be able to
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Jul
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Google has announced a new project, a natural extension of Google Chrome called “Google Chrome Operating System”. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM
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Jul
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THIS article will self-erase in 10 seconds!!* A team at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, coated gold nanoparticles with a layer of hair-like molecules called 4-(11-mercaptoundecanoxy)azobenzene or MUA. When zapped with ultraviolet light, these filaments change their shape and charge distribution, causing the nanoparticles to congregate together and change
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Jul
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Windows 7 has added new device driver interfaces (DDIs) to provide support for Mobile Broadband (MB) devices, beginning with Windows 7 Beta. MB miniport drivers are based on the NDIS 6.20 model. You can learn more about NDIS 6.20 here. The MB DDIs consist of 21 new OIDs, 20 new NDIS status notifications
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Jul
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Although Exchange Server is harden out of the box, however there’re still a few things that you should consider doing to further limit the possibility of something like trying to attach a really large file, say perhaps someone trying to share a DVD home video .ISO with their friends and coworkers. It all begins with "reasonable" size limits.
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Jul
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The number of projects hosted on CodePlex, Microsoft's Open Source project hosting site, breached the 10,000 mark on Saturday, July 4, 2009, which represents 160-million lines of code hosted across 10 Team Foundation Servers. SharpFitter, a Visual Studio 2008 C# add-in that dynamically loads plug-ins, for being the 10,000th project, and to the entire
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Jul
8
Microsoft UK have been busy for a little while producing some great content: How Red Dog (Azure) Werks, and IE8 Accelerators and Tesco below. If you wanna learn about accelerators in IE8, how they work and how to build them on Windows Azure, check out the video.
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