Archive for July 28th, 2009
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Windows Marketplace for Mobile are now accepting application submissions from all 29 supported countries. Registered developers and ISVs can now upload their application, game or widget to the Windows Marketplace platform and the certifying process according to process, policies and guidelines will begin. Microsoft certify apps on a First In,
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Weston Ruter has created a cool library of CSS gradients on non-WebKit browsers “CSS Gradients via Canvas provides a subset of WebKit's CSS Gradients proposal for browsers that implement the HTML5 canvas element. To use, just include css-gradients-via-canvas.js (12KB) anywhere on the page.Unlike WebKit, this implementation doesn’t currently allow gradients to
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Microsoft Wave is a cool new site from UK that brings you the freshest developments and products to come out of Microsoft. As of today it has the Microsoft 2019 video, Live Mesh, Photosynth, pptPlex, Songsmith, WorldWide Telescope, AutoCollage, DeepZoom, Tag, Surface, Xbox Project Natal and some Xbox games.More info:
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Google now let you add an RSS feed in Google Reader for the Apps Status Dashboard, letting you receive performance status updates for Apps products in any of the 25 languages the Dashboard supports. Visit Apps Status Dashboard and click on the RSS icon at the bottom right to get the feed in the same
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Western Digital announced its new 2.5" WD Scorpio Blue SATA drive — a 5200RPM 3Gb/s, 8MB Cache WD Scorpio Blue comes in both 750GB and 1TB capacities for $189.99 and $249.99 respectively. They feature three of Western Digital's trademarked technologies, WhisperDrive sound dampening, ShockGuard shock tolerance technology, and SecurePark technology, which reduces the time the record head is in contact
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Microsoft announced the issuing of the Technical Preview keys for the 2010 release of Project and Project Server. Doug McCutcheon, revealed that due to limited number of invitations available, if you’ve not yet received an invitation you’ll be automatically wait listed. There’s only one invitation per organization. We’ll review uptake in Mid-August and reallocate the remaining keys.
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This video walk through a bare-metal installation of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (RC) on 2 physical nodes, hook them up to an iSCSI SAN, configure the SAN storage, and then, from a Windows 7 (RC) laptop, validate, and build a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (RC) Cluster. The end result? A Highly Available, Live Migratable, Virtual Machine!
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Stephen Griffin announced the release of Outlook 2010 Messaging API (MAPI) Code Samples. Among the additions to MAPI for the next version of Microsoft's email client is “support for 64-bit Microsoft Outlook—Reference topics for applicable API elements have been updated to correspond to new header files that support 64-bit Outlook. These header files are now available as a download
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The vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page with Internet Explorer, instantiating the ActiveX control. Researchers at Hustlelabs demonstrates a proof-of-concept attack that takes full control of a Windows machine. It works by causing IE to load MPEG2TuneRequest, an Video ActiveX Control
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Microsoft is offering for download the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool as well as the .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool, both of which’ve been tailored to Windows 7.
-.NET Framework Cleanup Tool allows you to remove .NET Framework 2.0 SP2, 3.0 SP2 and 3.5 SP1. The .NET Framework Cleanup Tool serves to clean up all
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In Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 TS CALs and Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS CALs will be treated as equal in all respects. So, if a customer has a Windows Server 2008 TS CAL, it’ll allow the same functionality (connection, experience etc.) as a Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS CAL. Please note
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Microsoft Research has launched a new online game “Page Hunt,” you're shown a web page, which you’ve to ‘hunt down' using queries sent to Bing. When you see the web page, think of a set of terms that can get back this page. You type these words into a search box. Page
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Through Powerset, Bing has access to semantically indexed Wikipedia content to help with “reference” searches when people’re looking for information about a given entity (person, place or thing) such as Albert Einstein. Bing helps with “Reference vertical” that can be found within Wikipedia result in Bing’s algorithmic listings. Each one of those results has
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In the “10 Days in Google Books game,” Google’ll ask you five trivia questions on a different theme. You can search Google Books to find the answers with hints to help you along the way. After you answer each day's questions, you can enter a contest to win a Sony Reader. For official rules,
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Jul
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The Linux Foundation is partnering with CardPartner, Inc. to offer the affinity Linux Foundation Visa Platinum credit card through UMB Bank for US locals. For every card activation, the Linux Foundation’ll receive $50 as well as a percentage of every purchase made with the credit card. All funds from the Visa card
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Random From The Linux Foundation Visa Platinum credit card Launched
- Dec26‘slingbox solo’ tops Google Hot Trends, Christmas Edition 2008
Google Hot Trends, Christmas Edition 2008 shows the searches that become popular on Christmas Day in the US. As of writing this post, slingbox solo dominate the list of popular queries. Check the "hot trends" for complete list and see if there's any change. - Jan27Google Offering Another Chance to Get Chrome OS Notebook Cr-48
In a blog post, Google product marketing manager, Heaven Kim writes: "If you already live on the web and are itching to get your hands - Aug15Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 Technical Preview Available
If you were a member of the Microsoft Office Product Evaluation TAP, you should now have access to the Microsoft Office 2007 System Service Pack 1 Technical Preview. Just log into Connect, and check under Microsoft Office. This is going to be a short one preview. Microsoft is only accepting feedback for about 30 days, so start downloading now! - Jun21Build an Outlook 2007 UI Clone
I got wind today of a great hands-on lab that demonstrates the steps needed to create a high-quality - May02Google SketchUp 5.0.245
Google SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools,