Archive for October 11th, 2009
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Windows 7 provides a new tool, Location-Aware Printing (“Smart Default Printer”) that allows mobile users to configure per-network default printers so that as they connect to different networks, their default printer’s updated. In addition, there’re some enhancements to consistency with which the default printer’s determined that’ve been incorporated into spooler on Windows
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Zoltan Hawryluk walks us on how to embed @font-face via CSS, which’s supported in “Firefox 3.5+ , Safari 3.1+, Opera 10+, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 4.0+. Although technically embedding any font inside a web page is possible, but its important to have a license for commercial font. Here’s an example using via CSS:
@font-face {
font-family:
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A week ago, Microsoft's Danger unit experienced a huge outage that left many T-Mobile Sidekick users without access to their calendar, address book, and other key data. That's because the Sidekick keeps nearly all its data in the cloud as opposed to keeping the primary copy on the devices themselves. Things got
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WidgetPad a collaborative development environment for developers to develop fully-interactive, stand-alone, downloadable SmartPhone applications in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript, have created a new “CSS 3 Generator” that helps you understand CSS 3 features in Webkit with an interactive tool that build up and show how each new property affects an element. Here’re the results:
-webkit-border-radius:
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This post describe a method for having a locally-installed process automatically launch inside a virtual environment, and does not require publishing new shortcuts for the local application. If you've ever been curious enough to look at shortcuts that App-V publishes for virtual applications, you may’ve noticed something interesting. The shortcuts points to App-V launcher process (sfttray.exe) and pass a parameter
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Stephen has unearthed a slide in a recent Office 2010 presentation detailing Windows Mobile 7 Spring 2010 RTM time frame, and “Office Mobile 2010 (Office Mobile 7)”. According to a mock-up of Office Mobile 2010, Microsoft’s planning to include mobile versions of its OneNote note-taking
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AP’s Tom Curley and Rupert Murdoch from News Corp, spoke at a conference of 300 media representatives in Beijing, China stating that “•search engines directs audience and revenue away from those who invest in original news reports •News portals’ve earned fortunes from their articles and media without offering fair compensation to those creating content •Free-riders and pirates’re claiming
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This video demonstrate a new ability of Windows Server 2008 and is improved in Windows Server 2008 R2; the ability to set password policy settings at a more granular level than just one set of policies at the domain level. - Aug03Download Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office Filter Pack 2010 (KB2460041) 64-bit Edition
Microsoft just released an updated filter pack, Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office Filter Pack 2010 (KB2460041). The 64-bit Edition is now available for free
