Archive for July 31st, 2009
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“WHS Port Forward” is a add-in for Windows Home Server that allows the user to utilize the UPnP feature of Windows Home Server to open forwarded ports from your router to your Home Server. This is useful if you have installed a 3rd party application that requires incoming access from the internet. This Add-In removes the need
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If you were using Google Reader and NewsGator for your RSS subscrptions; now NewsGator have integrated their client reader with Google Reader to use it as synchronization backend. Now that Google Reader can be used as the online companion to NewsGator's client applications, they've decided to discontinue web-based RSS reader, at the end of August. If you've been using
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Until now, when you sent emails from Gmail using non-Gmail addresses, Google included your original Gmail username in the "Sender" field, since these messages’re sent by Gmail's servers. Most email programs just display "From" address and not the "Sender" field, but some (including Outlook) show these messages as coming "From username@gmail.com On Behalf Of customaddress@mydomain.com" which annoyed people. To avoid this,
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The Seadragon team released a service that lets you easily turn your giant pictures into nice zoomable UIs: Seadragon is built on Azure and gives you the following benefits: Images always load up really fast, no matter how big the image is – You can zoom and pan smoothly to every detail of the image.
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PandaLabs found 1,000 samples of fake antivirus software in the first quarter of 2008. In a year, that number had grown to 111,000. And in the second quarter of 2009, it reached 374,000, Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs said in a recent interview. "We've created a specific team to deal with this," he
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Sonico, Latin America's leading social networks, and second largest social network in Brazil, rolled out its OpenSocial container to over +39 million users!, including Buddypoke and GameDesire. It’s available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Sonico's OpenSocial (v 0.8) platform includes the following. You can request sandbox access and read about OpenSocial implementation, learn Sonico's
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Baker Tilly, an accountancy firm in the UK, has already completed deploying Windows 7 across their infrastructure. Rich Reynolds chatted with Simon Harding-Rolls, Director of IT at Baker Tilly, to get more information on their Windows 7 deployment. “Why did Baker Tilly choose to deploy Windows 7? – Simon Harding-Rolls: We needed to change, feeling that there was
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Google rolled out the new AdWords interface out of beta “We've heard from many of you that the new interface has made a material difference for your business. Advertisers have saved time with quicker editing, reporting, and account navigation, and they've improved campaign performance by using better integrated tools to refine their targeting. We're upgrading a
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Digg interviewd Google’s Marissa Mayer, and asked community voted on questions:
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Foursquare mobile social network is now available as an Windows Phone application. The idea behind this mobile social network’s a bit different than other location-based networks like Brightkite. For e.g. on Brightkite, you post short status updates as you would on Twitter, whereas Foursquare turns mobile social
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Microsoft released the first public preview of ASP.NET MVC Version 2. It works with .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008, and can be installed side-by-side on the same machine as ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (meaning they don’t conflict and your existing ASP.NET MVC 1.0 projects will not be impacted if you install it). If you‘ve both ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and
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“Google Checkout store gadget” allows anyone to create an online store using a Google spreadsheet. Using new Spreadsheet Data APIs, Google've integrated Google Docs and Google Checkout to make online selling a breeze. In following three simple steps, you'll be able to create an online store that's powered by Google Checkout and has inventory managed
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Historicaltweets.com quoted this from Wikiquote “Misattributed to Bill Gates” “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC’s 640kB program memory a significant breakthrough over 8-bit systems that were typically limited to 64kB, but he has denied making this remark, and
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Hopper is a software test tool for Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1, and 6.5 that simulates random user input on mobile devices providing a sometimes meaningful mean time to failure (MTTF) number. It is designed to find bugs and is not intended to run scenario tests or do "specific user things" - it is completely random. Hopper
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An unpresented slide from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer financial analysts presentation revealed “We’ll lose money in first 2 years ($300m total), then start making decent return ($400m steady). The slide also reveals some information "context -- not for disclosure" that can be seen below. Microsoft expects $600 million to
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