Archive for September 10th, 2009
Sep
10
Google decided to supersize the search box on homepage and on search results pages "The new, larger Google search box features larger text when you type so you can see your query more clearly. It also uses a larger text size for the suggestions below the search box, making it easier to select one of the possible
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Sep
10
Mercedes' all-new supercar, the SLS AMG is a modern successor to legendary 300SL Gullwing, with a remarkably upright windshield. The heart of SLS is the front-mid-mounted normally aspirated 6.2-liter dry-sump V-8, which cranks out 563 bhp at 6800 rpm and 480 lb.-ft. of torque at 4750. Power is delivered to the rear wheels via a 7-speed twin-clutch transaxle (called
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Sep
10
If your company is using the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool and you’ve a very large Active Directory directory service or very large distribution groups, directory synchronization may fail with the “Maximum Request Length Exceeded” error message in the Event Viewer. The number of objects in a batch can be set by a registry key.
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Sep
10
Hubble is back online and is sending both clear & detailed images. The repair mission added a new camera to the aging orbiting telescope and essentially turned the 19–year old giant into a new beast that’s much more capable. The new wide field camera 3 replaces
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Sep
10
During a Q&A session with Microsoft’s Chris Liddell at Citi Annual Global Technology Conference, netbook question arose again. Liddell didn’t share how much Microsoft’s planning to charge PC for Windows 7 Starter or Windows 7 Home Premium, on low-end netbooks. (Microsoft charges about $15 per copy for XP on netbooks.) “Liddell reiterated Microsoft’s claim that 92% to 93% of netbooks’re now going out
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Sep
10
Google Docs has an undocumented feature that lets you embed online PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page from anywhere on the web. Zoho Viewer, and PdfMeNot offers similar features.
Here's the code:
Note: Replace bold in the code with your PDF and PPT files
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Sep
10
Bing, Microsoft’s new search enigne is spotted advertising for “pornography” ads on Google. The ad reads “Free video – Access Thousands of videos with Bing—Videos & More, www.Bing.com”
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Sep
10
Google Voice lets you receive voicemail & notifies via email with an automated transcript of the voicemail, and a link to play the message. Until now, clicking "Play message" opened a new page in your browser, but now, you can play voicemails right in Gmail. Just turn on the Google Voice player from the Gmail Labs tab under
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Sep
10
Los Angeles' CTO gives details on a proposal to migrate the city to Google Apps. With Gov 2.0 Summit happening in Washington, D.C., In an ironic twist, more than half of the money needed to fund the initial Google Apps transition in Los Angeles -- $1.5 million -- would come from Microsoft antitrust settlement in which the
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Sep
10
Office 2010 combines the rich functionality of the Paste Special dialog and the Paste Recovery feature into a new Paste Options gallery. The Paste Options gallery includes Live Preview – hovering over each Paste item allows users to preview the Paste formatting with their actual content. The new Paste Options gallery helps users get the right results the
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Sep
10
i4i Inc., laid out its case against Microsoft’s appeal in a lengthy brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals. The brief details the history of the XML patent at issue in the case and explains i4i's contention that Microsoft knowingly infringed on the patent by incorporating the same technology into Word.
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Sep
10
Google Product Search now shows high quality YouTube video reviews on a number of product pages. Videos include reviews from USA Today, Wired, and Digital Trends, and they appear above the "Similar Items" section of the page. You can submitt your videos for review:
-Add the "youtube" attribute to your data
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Sep
10
Microsoft with Media Center Integrator Alliance (MCIA), announced the winner of Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest at CEDIA EXPO 2009 in Atlanta, GA. “The contest winning solution was submitted by by Dustin Anderson of Vision Audio for their customer’s 17,000
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Sep
10
The makers of classic game “Monopoly” have launched a version that can be palyed on Google Maps against thousands of other players online. The game plays slightly differently as you start with three million dollars and can purchase streets or homes and earn rent for each establishment that you own. From there the details are slim as the
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Sep
10
Google Sites added support for Hebrew and Arabic; with this addition, it now supports a total of 40 languages. Site owners can change the site language using More actions -> Manage site -> General. Site collaborators can change the interface language via the user settings page available from the My sites list. If no language is set, we
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Random From The Google Sites adds Hebrew and Arabic
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A newer version of the Google’s quality rater guidelines (PDF) has been leaked, which is used internally to evaluate the quality of search results, reveals - Jul07iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme
The iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone. It detects the iPhone’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with your current theme. - Nov22Google Calendar ‘Sneak Preview’ feature
Google Calendar is testing a new feature called “Sneak Preview”, to make scheduling events a easier by allowing you to see if the