Archive for October 17th, 2009

Oct 17

Security hole found in Microsoft’s WPF addon for Firefox

After criticizing, Google over Internet Explorer plugin, its now Microsoft’s own turn, a security hole has been found in a plugin that Microsoft’ve been silently installing into Firefox. Along with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Microsoft’ve been silently installing a Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin that allows embedding of XAML applications (an XML-based UI technology) in web pages, called
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Oct 17

Real-time comment search on YouTube

Google seems to be quietly testing a new comment search feature on YouTube, that actually could be a valuable monitoring tool for companies, individuals, artists, and other celebrities that are the subject of a lot of YouTube videos and comments. There’s even a real-time element at work: Updates are pushed out as new comments are indexed, and
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Oct 17

Installing Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 R2 VM on Windows 7

If you’re running Windows 7, you can simply install Windows Server 2008 R2 into a .VHD file and make it bootable. After that’s accomplished you can choose the OS you want when you power up your machine. Follow the steps below:
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Oct 17

Windows 7 won back the loyalty of a Windows 95 fan

Jonathan Prentice, as a college student in the mid-1990s became a worldwide symbol of the excitement over Windows 95 as the first person in the world to buy the highly anticipated operating system. In other words, in terms of gauging consumer reaction to a product, Prentice is to Windows what Mikey
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Oct 17

Stay protected from “Malvertising = malware + advertising”

“Whether you're a web publisher who accepts ads on your website, or a home user who enjoys browsing the wide variety of advertising-supported content available on the web, the resources below will help you protect from "Malvertising" = malware + advertising. The terminology may be new, it's important to stay protected. Google have created Anti-Malvertising.com – resource that tips designed for
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Oct 17

Remote Desktop Services Virtualization (RDS-V) on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

This look at Remote Desktop Services Virtualization (RDS-V). RDS-V also referred to as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides remote desktop access to managed desktop environments hosted in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2. RDS-V uses Remote Desktop Connection Broker to determine where user’s redirected. If a user’s assigned and
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Oct 17

Development using Windows SDK & DirectX SDK with Visual Studio 2008

Windows SDK Configuration tool can be used to set the Windows 7 SDK as the “current” SDK for MSBuild and VCBuild. This’ll update Windows 7 SDK build environment and Visual Studio 2008 build environment to use Windows 7 SDK headers, libraries and tools. You can also use this tool to switch it back again. However, configuration
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Oct 17

Hotfix for Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 R2 ‘stop error message’ on Intel Xeon 5500 series processor

Microsoft released a hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 that address the issue that users were getting a bluescreen of death on Intel Xeon 5500 series processor-based computers with the following text. This issue is caused by a bug or in Intel terms “erratum” that causes these processors to generate spurious interrupts. You can read about this in
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Oct 17

How to manage poor-quality links? Google

If your site is receiving lots of low-quality incoming links, and believe that having poor-quality incoming links over time might harm their site's Google ranking. “Remember that this isn't something that Google can do for you; we index content that we find online, but we don't control that content or who's linking to you. Or you as a webmaster don't have
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Oct 17

Office 2010: Enable Online Services for Translation

For some languages, such as German, Italian and Danish, customers’re unable to use online dictionary and machine translation because the services’re disabled by default. This can be done by launching relevant Office application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, or Publisher) with following steps: 1. Click Review tab 2. In Proofing ribbon, clicking Research; will open pane at the side
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Oct 17

Accessibility at Google site Launched

Google launched a new website for Accessibility at Google to pull all existing resources together in one place. Here you can follow the latest accessibility updates from Google blogs, find resources from help center, participate in a discussion group or send your feedback and feature requests. "At Google, we often like to say, "launch early and iterate" — meaning, get something
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