Archive for July 9th, 2009
Jul
9
Dear readers, I apolozies for the unavailability of diTii.com for about 5 hrs. I just logged on and found the site was available but there was no post. Its more strange that entire post table was blank. I’ve restored the post table from our backup. And the site is back again. I’m
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Jul
9
The DPM 2007 Configuration Analyzer (DPMCA) is a diagnostic tool you can use to evaluate important configuration settings on on your Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. The tool scans hardware and software configurations of the DPM servers you specify, evaluates them against a set of predefined rules, and provides you with best practice suggestions that
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Jul
9
WordPress dev team released the version 2.8.1 Release Candidate 1, which’s is the last stop before the final release. Please download RC1, or click the upgrade button under ‘tools’ menu in WordPress admin panel for automaic upgrade. Review the changes made since beta 2, and have a look at all of the tickets fixed in 2.8.1.
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Jul
9
Microsoft promoted Steven Sinofsky to president of the Windows Division. Sinofsky, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, most recently led the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, contributing to the Oct. 22 availability of Windows 7. As president, Sinofsky assumes responsibility for the Windows business including both the engineering and marketing functions for Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer.
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Jul
9
The new release of Deep Zoom Composer contains a lot of new features. Due to time constraints, Microsoft didn’t have time to adequately update documentation to explain how all of these new features work. To help with this, Blender and Janete Perez has written a few blog posts with some really nice Deep Zoom examples highlighting following new features:
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Jul
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Microsoft is apparently planning to release a Family Pack that will include three Windows 7 Home Premium licenses for a discounted price. A set of product listings from Expercom includes a WINDOWS 7 FAMILY PACK/ HOME PREMIUM UPGRADE (GFC-00236) with a listed price of $136.95.
Another reseller, University IT Computer Sales,
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Jul
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Microsoft Online Customer Portal will be offline on Friday, July 10 from 14:00 to 17:30 Pacific Daylight Time (21:00 to 00:30 GMT) for upgrades and planned maintenance. During this downtime, organizations will not be able to set up trial accounts, buy subscriptions, or modify current subscriptions. This downtime will not affect the availability of
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Jul
9
Microsoft has upgraded its Windows Live wave 3 “Quick Add” feature in Hotmail with a number of features from Bing search engine. When you compose a new email in Hotmail the “Quick Add” bar will appear on the right-hand-side that let users easily search, find, and insert restaurant reviews, movie
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Jul
9
Google Desktop now supports 64 bit Windows, and the latest browsers: Google Chrome, Firefox 3, & Internet Explorer 8. Most browsers now integrate safe browsing solutions to protect users from malware and phishing. This is similar to what the Google Desktop Safebrowsing feature accomplishes. To ensure that Google Desktop offers an efficient, optimal experience, the Safebrowsing feature will
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Jul
9
Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to no cost. Google is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build devices that deliver an extraordinary end user experience, include: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. Later this year, the Google Chrome OS code will
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Jul
9
When it announced that Steven Sinofsky was promoted to President of the Windows Division, Microsoft also revealed that Bill Veghte will be moving to a new “leadership role in the company to be announced later this year. The transition between Reller and Veghte is timed to take place in late July when
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Jul
9
Microsoft updated the branding for SQL Services and SQL Data Services. Effective immediately, SQL Services will now be called as Microsoft SQL Azure, and SQL Data Services will be Microsoft SQL Azure Database. This name change doesn’t reflect a change in the products themselves; we will still be providing a powerful relational database foundation to the Azure
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Jul
9
The File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) is a capacity planning software for CIFS/SMB/SMB2 file servers. It’s also useful for identifying performance bottlenecks. FSCT results include the maximum number of users for a file server configuration, throughput for that configuration and performance counters for the server and clients used. This is
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Jul
9
If you’re attending Microsoft WPC, you can learn about all the Windows Server options for Small & Medium Businesses by attending our session CI003 Windows Server Portfolio for SMB: Which Server Is Best for Your Customer (and You!) on Monday afternoon at 3:30-4:30 in Room 255-257. Also at booth # 621, you can win one of
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Jul
9
StumbleUpon the web site discovery service has opened its URL shortening service “Su.pr,” similar to TinyURL, Snipr, Bit.ly etc., it lets you shorten a long URL into just a few characters to share in an email, Twitter message, Facebook status update etc. Su.pr also offers a analytics to let you know how many times users have clicked on your
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Random From The StumbleUpon Su.pr URL shortening service open to public
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