Archive for September 29th, 2009
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NVIDIA showed its Ion chipset accelerating HD video on a netbook. While the hardware can already process HD already on the system, the new demo shows YouTube's HD video smoothly with Ion's full decoding enabled where the same footage stutters when it has to rely mostly on the Atom processor. The technique works by adapting
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Sep
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Service Pack 6 for Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0 with Visual Source Safe 6.0d provides the latest updates to these products. It is recommended for all users of Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Source Safe 6.0. This is a multi-part download of Service Pack 6 for Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0
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Google added a new “page breaks” features in Forms to create multiple pages by going to "Add item" and selecting "Page break." Also added “logic branching” to the control the flow of your multi-page forms based on the user's answers. Once you've created a form with multiple pages, you can select "Go to page based on answer". For example,
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Trusted Documents provides a simple one click step to always enable active content (e.g. Macros, ActiveX controls etc.) in a document. Trusted Documents remembers the first time you enabled the content and unless the trust record for that document changes, it doesn’t bother you with a security notification for the content anymore. With
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Sep
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This video demonstrates how to change the BIOS settings on your computer to make the hypervisor run. NOTE: remember to completely power off your computer after making the changes to the BIOS. Some computers’ll not take the changes unless they’re powered off and back on.
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Sep
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With the release of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 there were changes in the archiving database schema allowing the text/html content type for storage of user instant messages. This schema change caused the previous script to only report the first message in a conversation when reporting against an OCS R2 archiving database. An updated script that’ll
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Sep
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Google Merchant Center is launched to replace Google Base for submitting Product-type items to Google. The Merchant Center interface is very similar to the Google Base interface, Sign in to the Merchant Center using the same Google Account information you did for Google Base, and your existing data feeds, items, FTP settings, etc. will be there for you.
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Sep
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Microsoft built Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS), an all in one server suite that consolidates the core infrastructure into a more streamlined environment for greater manageability, improved security, and more predictability so IT can be more productive and less reactive, to help midsize businesses get a great experience and high ROI. If you’re considering a server upgrade, consider this;
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Sep
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Google integrated Content ID with YouTube Insight to provide all the statistics and data shared with uploaders in YouTube Insight to Content ID partners, making content management tools more useful than ever — especially for partners whose videos generate lots of views. For e.g., Sony Music can view analytics on the JK Wedding Entrance video, which, though uploaded by a
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Google is launching “Think2010: Getting Ahead of the Recovery series” on AdWords blog for deeper learning. Also, On Oct 6th, Google'll be hosting a Think2010 webinar on “Using Data to Better Connect with Your Customers." Avinash Kaushik will discuss core data sources to have in your 2010 targeting toolkit and show you how to capitalize on these tools
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Sep
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Apple first pushed an unwanted update to Windows PC's through the Apple Software Update tool called “iPhone Configuration Utility” (see pic). The enterprise software update is pushed to all iTunes users on Windows based PC's, even if the user does not have an iPhone, making the update unnecessary and unwanted to many iTunes
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Sep
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The powerful combination of geocasting leveraging the Windows Phone platform with IncaX LiveMedia GPS application along with Photosynth and SharePoint delivery can be real business enabling features where rich data capture for analysis, entertainment, and so on is important. Check out the simple dashboard, that Michael Gannotti created, toggle through the
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Sep
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Expression Encoder is an advanced audio/video-encoding and live-broadcasting application especially suited for generating content that takes full advantage of the rich graphic and interactive capability of Microsoft Silverlight playback scenarios. You can also generate Windows Media video and audio files that are optimized for other web playback scenarios, or appropriate for playback on portable devices. Note:
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Sep
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In the video, Chris Anderson co-author of forthcoming O'Reilly book CouchDB: The Definitive Guide tells about “CouchDB” – a NoSQL alternative that makes it easy for web apps to run offline. This is important because even as bandwidth grows, latency is still an issue for a significant number of users, and outages or zero-bars can and do
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Sep
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AT CEDIA 2009, Microsoft demo’ed the Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 beta. Windows 7 users should be aware of following important scenarios for the most optimal experience on a WHS network:
Restoring a full image of a Win7 client PC (or ‘bare metal restore’): there’re a few rare cases where a Win7 client PC may not be able to restore full image
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