Archive for July 30th, 2009
Jul
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Google released following enhancements to Google Apps Directory Sync: A tool that helps businesses synchronize the user (employee and non-employees) and directory information in their LDAP systems with Google Apps. This way, employees can easily look up and contact important customers, partners and vendors, too. Also, expands the list of contact fields that can be
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Jul
30
Mozilla has published an official feature list for Firefox 3.6 in the form of a guide for programmers who need to know about the changes. The Firefox 3.6 developer guide mentions an ability to automatically hide the menu bar, a change that dovetails with sparer Firefox user interface designs that Mozilla has
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Jul
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Microsoft announced “WikiPlex,” a new re-written CodePlex's wiki engine and released as open source under the MS-PL license. WikiPlex is great if you already have a .NET application you'd like to embed a wiki interface into. Developers that want to leverage CodePlex's wiki engine with their own applications can do so with no problems, since
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Jul
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You might’ve seen some people using calendar pic to show post dates & time on their blog, now you can avoid using those resource hugry background pic with simple CSS trick. Jonathan Snook posted a nice nugget on text rotation with CSS that takes a nice bit of markup like this:
HTML:
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Jul
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Microsoft is promoting its Bing Travel service -- including the Farecast airfare prediction engine -- in a new advertising campaign.
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Jul
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Microsoft conducted a webcast addressing 60 questions in conjunction with the Microsoft July 2009 Out-of-Band Bulletin release. The questions centered primarily on MS09-034: the Internet Explorer Cumulative Update Bulletin and MS09-035: the Visual Studio Bulletin. We also addressed questions regarding the Microsoft Security Advisory 973882 and the ATL issues as a whole.
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Jul
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Google transliteration now support “Urdu and Punjabi,” and allows allows users to type words phonetically using their english keyboard. If a word did not get transliterated correctly, hit the backspace key or select the word to see list of alternatives to select from. Typing Control + G allows you to switch between
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Jul
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Brad Anderson and Jeff Wettlaufer chat on desktop virtualization scenarios and technologies. Using Brad's whiteboard for illustration, they cover application virtualization, desktop (or hardware) virtualization, presentation virtualization, and finally, virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI.
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Jul
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Part of the Weave project, which aims to integrate services more closely with the browser, Mozilla has released Weave Sync – a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop and mobile phone can all work together — including our mobile browser, codenamed Fennec.
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Jul
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Microsoft Worldwide Partner team’ve released and integrated platform for creating and publishing demo simulations or better know as click through demos. There’re a number of tools that you can use to create click through demos in a simple form you can use PowerPoint. This tool suite has some nice features like being able to
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Jul
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Google Ad Manager offers multiple targeting options for you to more precisely control your ads inventory. Additionally, you can use day and time targeting to serve particular line items during specific hours or days. You can fine-tune the audience that you reach using custom targeting. If you’ve demographic data, you can define it by passing this
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Jul
30
Are you curious to see what Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 is all about? Well, to grow your interest, Microsoft has published a series of introductory videos about RDS to help you to get started using RDS. The first video is in three parts and shows how to create a new service in C# using the Visual Studio Wizard.
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Jul
30
Get to know your way around Windows 7 and see it in action. The new Windows 7 tours page now features a fancier Silverlight player that does a little more than just play videos. Once loaded, each of the four “features” come to life when you hover over them.
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Jul
30
Microsoft responded to the news of Windows 7 activation crack mere days after it was released to manufacturing “The use of this key requires having a PC from the manufacturer it was issued to. We've worked with manufacturer so that customers who purchase genuine copies of Windows 7 from this manufacturer’ll experience no issues validating their
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Jul
30
DBSophic's Trace Analyzer helps you analyze multiple trace files and trace tables quickly and accurately. Within a few minutes all the trace events are analyzed, deparameterized, grouped, and clearly arranged in a tree format, graphically displaying their total and relative resource consumption. You can even drill down to specific parameter value sets and clearly pinpoint the
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