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Archive for October 1st, 2009

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Oct 1

Android phone users can now use their phones to read the news for them; the “Talking RSS Reader” application integrates with Google Reader, fetches articles from subscriptions, and read them out using text-to-speech. The text of the sentence currently being spoken is colored on the screen. Speech and text scrolling’re synchronized. The touchscreen buttons to skip articles’re right at the bottom

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With less than a week until the launch of Windows phones and Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft said “the response to Windows Marketplace has been impressive in terms of the number of creative developers we’re working with and the depth of engineering- and process-oriented feedback we’ve received and incorporated.” Read

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WordPress, a popular blogging/content management system application which powers thousands of blogs around the world, including diTii.com is just a click thing to install. But installation on Windows Home Server is complicated however, requiring the installation of PHP, MySQL, configuration of the remote website and then the installation and configuration of WordPress itself. To ease out WHS user, Cougar

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Google released a new “automatic translation” widget that enables your website /blog content available in 51 languages. When enabled, visitors browser language settings is different than the language of your web page content, they'll be prompted to automatically translate the page into their own language. If the visitor's language is the same as the language of your page, no translation

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This guide provides detailed step-by-step walkthroughs for testing Hyper-V on a pre-production environment. You can use this guide to become familiar with Hyper-V and the process of creating and managing virtual machines. Also included in this guide are useful scenarios that you can test to better understand how Hyper-V can address the business goals of your

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 delivers innovative new technologies to the proven and highly reliable componentized, hard real-time operating system for small footprint devices. With Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3, device manufacturers can create consumer and enterprise devices that are differentiated by an immersive user interface, a rich browsing experience, and a unique connection to Windows PCs,

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Microsoft announced new capabilities and enhancements to Dynamics RoleTailored user experience that further promise to enable Dynamic Business, which includes offering flexible business applications that remain relevant as business needs evolve. The new visualization capabilities allow partners to create innovative visual custom controls using Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight, while additional personalization capabilities such as improved data entering and quick

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BumpTop, a intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive, added multi-touch support for Windows 7 and hardware that supports it. Watch the video below or blog post that details the specific finger actions you can undertake with BumpTop running on Windows 7:

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Microsoft recognized six vendors as recipients of the 2009 Microsoft Vendor Program (MSVP) Excellence Awards. The MSVP Excellence Awards acknowledge exceptional performance, exemplary service and innovation by vendors that are members of the MSVP, Microsoft’s preferred vendor program. The MSVP was created to make it easy for Microsoft employees to work with a prequalified, select group of

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Google introduced a redesigned local search experience on your phone that integrates with Google Maps on your computer and includes browseable categories that let you search without typing. The product is available in US and China, can be accessed by visiting www.google.com/m/local, or Local tab on www.google.com. Once on loca, click you destination, and you’ll get new browsable categories.

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YouTube has quietly launched a new feature for the people who want to share their video privately; the new feature lets generate a special URL for your private video and send it to up to 25 people, who, assuming they're logged in to YouTube, just have to click to view. Just go here, click on Edit on

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At the Churchill Club with former Motorola CEO Ed Zander for a fireside chat about the future of the company he co-founded, the pending acquisition of Sun and the implications thereof, and the state of the economy in general. Larry Ellison, chief executive of Oracle, said cloud computing “it’s nonsense and water vapor” .

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Delicious introduced a slew of new features aimed at making its social bookmarking service more useful. Here’re the new features: Search refinement and graphing – You can now narrow down Delicious search down to the last five minutes from the previous 1 day limit. Aside from this, you can also create  an interactive graph for periods

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Twitter rolling out a new test features “List” to small subset of users, that’ll them to curate lists of Twitter accounts. This’ll allow a better way to organize information on Twitter. For e.g. you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense. “Lists’re public by

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Forbes annual list of the 400 richest Americans is released. And as in years past, several Seattleites made the cut. (The nation's richest people, has declined, falling $300 billion in the past 12 months from $1.57 trillion to $1.27 trillion). Bill Gates despite losing $7 billion over the past year  led the list again

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