Archive for August 5th, 2009
Aug
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DreamScene allowed you to set a video as your desktop wallpaper in Windows Vista. The following hack allows you to re-enable it in Windows 7:
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Aug
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Yahoo! released several enhancements to Delicious that make it easier to find your bookmarks with improved search tools. New search tools with advanced timeline and tag filtering controls allow you to search within a given date range or filter results by tag. Search results will also display rich content including YouTube, Flickr, and Yelp. Also created a “Fresh Bookmarks” tab to show the
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Aug
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Backed in part by Bezos Expeditions - the personal investment arm of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, Skytap is calling all Windows 7 app testers onto its virtual IT test lab to test applications on Microsoft's latest operating system. Built atop VMWare, the Skytap Virtual Lab runs any version of Windows - unlike, say, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, which’s limited to
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Aug
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In Windows 7, Microsoft has changed User Account Control (UAC) feature. Now users’ve a lot more control over it, to see how much improvement this means in numbers, a comparison between the default Windows Vista and Windows 7 UAC levels “In Windows Vista, an UAC prompt’s triggered in all 17 scenarios. In
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Aug
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Office 2010’s Mini Translator! feature provides you on-the-fly translation as you select a word or phrase and provides dictionary definitions of individual words, in Word, Outlook, OneNote and PowerPoint. The Mini Translator also includes a Play button so you can hear an audio pronunciation of the word or phrase using a text-to-speech engine.
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Aug
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Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution for publishers with smaller direct sales teams; it can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly sold and network-based inventory. Google is hosting a Getting Started with Google Ad Manager online seminar on August 12th at 2:00 pm EST, where they'll
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Aug
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You can now set your Windows 7 desktop wallpaper to a live-updating theme featuring background images from the new search engine Bing.com.
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Aug
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Google is offering “ROI JumpStart,” backed by Google Search Appliance 6.0, to help new GSA users accelerate their onboarding experience, from purchasing to deploying to getting relevant results to end users. Google partners’ll work with customers team on site for two days, at no cost, sharing proven expertise and the GSA's out-of-the-box results and getting new GSA indexing repositories across your
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Aug
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Conversion Optimizer allows advertisers to bid on a CPA (cost-per-acquisition) basis. By using Conversion Optimizer, advertisers are not only seeing an increase in profits but have more time to devote to the rest of their business. Google is reporting that Conversion Optimizer’s a hit among advertisers. Using second quarter data, the AdWords tool is
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Aug
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Microsoft has created a new FTP service that has been completely rewritten for Windows Server 2008. This new FTP service incorporates many new features that enable web authors to publish content better than before, and offers web administrators more security and deployment options. The Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 helps you enable powerful publishing
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Aug
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If you’re using a Netbook, and find it hard to read the subjects of emails in inbox, a new Gmail Labs feature called "Remove Labels from Subjects" automatically hides the labels from messages in your inbox, leaving plenty of space for the messages' subjects. To turn it on, just go to the Labs tab under Settings
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Aug
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Microsoft released the Windows XP Mode Release Candidate, specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses to help ease the migration process to Windows 7 by providing additional compatibility for their older productivity applications. The newly updated Windows XP Mode now works with the RC and RTM versions of the Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise SKUs.
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Aug
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Yahoo! introduced a redesigned search results page to make it easier to browse through the photos and videos on Flickr. Now on the search page, you’ll notice a “View” controls menu above the images, these allow you to display the results in different sizes and formats. Both small and medium views have an ‘i’ icon on every thumbnail — click it
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Aug
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Microsoft threw together a delightful little photoshoot for its new Zune HD PMP, with the black and silver versions of the device on display along with a large quantity of attractiveness in both flavors. The front includes a 3.3-inch capacitive OLED touch screen display covered with glass, and a single home button beneath it. The top edge
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Aug
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41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data for Bing Maps covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography has just been added to Bing Maps. Go to Bing Maps World Tour, to see lots of new stuff.
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