Archive for December 14th, 2009
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URL shorteners, like bit.ly, have become a popular way for people to share links on Twitter; Google have launched their own Google URL shortener (goo.gl), and now Facebook is rolling out of its own URL shortening service, called “fb.me”. A URL shortener makes increasing sense as a
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Dec
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When you co-edit a Google Docs spreadsheet, you can see the cells other people are editing. That presence information helps you simultaneously edit without stepping on each others' toes. Now, Google’ve launched a real time presence to Google Docs presentations as well. Now, when editing a presentation with a co-editor, you can see which
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Dec
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SBS Add a Trusted Certificate wizard may fail to display a certificate that’s correctly installed in certificate store if the subject field of certificate is missing. This happens because some third-party certificate authorities (CAs) issue certificates with a blank subject. Subject Alternative Name field is used to designate fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of certificate instead.
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Dec
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Microsoft China reported to have lifted not only the design but also took a bunch of source code from a popular social networking site in Asia called “Plurk”; “We were first tipped off by high profile bloggers and Taiwanese users of our
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Dec
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Microsoft has delivered a hotfix designed to resolve an issue in which virtual machines running in Hyper-V on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 are impacted by severe network instability. “You install the Hyper-V role on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2. You run a virtual machine on the computer. You use a
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Dec
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MapQuest have entered into the street-level imagery with the launch of new "360 View," that provides panoramic views (360° horizontally and 160° vertically) of any given image within the 360 View coverage area (initially 30 cities and 15 13 suburbs across the US). Best of all, MapQuest 360 View "just works" without requiring any non-standard 3rd
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Dec
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LinkedIn’s “people search” platform, launched last year, has resulted in nearly doubling overall search activity on the site. LinkedIn’s have announced improvement to their People Search experience calling “Faceted Search,” which offers dynamic filters that’re automatically generated based on your actual query results. These filters let you quickly and easily hone your query over
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Dec
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Los Angeles will be equipping 34,000 city employees with Google Apps for email and collaboration in the cloud. “Los Angeles is the second-largest city in the U.S., and latest in a string of cities, like Washington D.C. and Orlando, FL, to go Google. With this switch to the cloud, LA joins the group of leaders on
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Dec
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Marcus Murray, security consultant at TrueSec, shows us a hacking demo he created of Windows 7 using Excel over the internet. After this he explains what security features in Windows 7 you could’ve used to prevent this hack from occurring. He also talks about an interesting little-known security feature called “Authentication Mechanism Assurance” in
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Dec
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Some old legacy devices may not have driver support for newer operating systems (Windows Vista and beyond). Windows Virtual PC (WVPC) makes it possible to use these devices in Windows 7, using Windows XP Mode. Users can, at the same time, utilize benefits of newer and secure features of Windows 7. In this article, we’ll describe
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Dec
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RingCube Technologies and Microsoft announced of integrating vDesk with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to extend its provisioning, policy enforcement, and disaster recovery capabilities to unmanaged worker PCs using vDesk virtual workspaces. ”Workspace virtualization is driving down the cost of delivering and managing a corporate desktop for unmanaged workers without performance and cost compromises found
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Dec
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Office Communications Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a great tool for performing testing, troubleshooting, and diagnostics on OCS 2007 & OCS 2007 R2 deployments. “You should use the RCA as your initial stop when attempting to troubleshoot an OCS edge server connectivity issue. Office Communications Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web site for IT Administrators
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Dec
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Google is testing Bing's infinite scroll feature for their Image Search, which continues to show you an infinite number of image results in the search results, simply by scrolling. A Google spokesperson confirmed this test, “We’re continually testing new interfaces and features to enhance the user experience.
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Dec
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UK's The Sun newspaper has a YouTube commercial, explaining why the paper-based newspaper is still vastly superior to reading content on an iPhone or other small device. “The Sun has been the UK's best handheld for 40 years. Top news, sports, photos, gossip and games in an easy-to-share format. No waiting for pages to load, no
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Dec
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Weston Ruter has developed a mashup that marries Google’s new Translate API that does text-to-speech (TTS) and HTML5 Audio support in modern browsers. “Looking at Firebug Net panel for where this TTS data was coming from, I saw that speech audio is in MP3 format and is queried via simple HTTP GET (REST) request:
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