Archive for December 17th, 2009
Dec
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Google Transliteration lets convert Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in your language. Note: it's the sound of the words that’re converted from one alphabet to the other. For e.g., typing "hamesha" transliterates into Hindi as: , typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as: and typing "spasibo"
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Dec
17
Microsoft and Flight1 Aviation Technologies have entered into an intellectual property (IP) license agreement that gives Flight1 Tech access to Microsoft ESP’s powerful visual simulation technology. Flight1 Tech took a license for the Microsoft ESP v1.0 object code, which enables the company to create detailed, customized flight safety, flight training and strategic solutions for its customers.
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Dec
17
Like Windows Home Server’s Drive Extender file technology, but want it on your Linux box? Greyhole is now available to all avid enthusiasts who would like to try it. It’s Windows Home Server Drive Extender concept, but open source, running on Linux. “Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all
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Dec
17
Google with Audi inroduced Google Earth into the new Audi A8. “We've worked closely with them to create a compelling in-car experience integrated with Audi navigation system. You'll be able to enjoy 3D satellite imagery, terrain information and a wealth of additional geo information: layers like Wikipedia to learn more about your surroundings or Panoramio images
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Dec
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Urchin 6.602 is a multilingual upgrade release that adds support for all 11 of our supported languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Japanese, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), and Korean. Urchin 6.602 also includes a bunch of significant new features, including: Enhanced LDAP integration (more protocols supported), 1-Click Installer --
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Dec
17
Mono Project, released the Moonlight 2, an open source Linux implementation of Silverlight from Novell. It also announced broader licensing terms for Moonlight, designed to protect from potential lawsuits customers who want to run Moonlight on multiple versions of Linux, not just on Novell’s. Microsoft and Novell also expanded their collaboration on
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Dec
17
QNAP released an update to NAS management software that powers its business-class Intel-based Turbo NAS servers. Version 3.2, embedded as firmware, provides a segment-leading iSCSI target solution supporting SPC-3 persistent reservation, MPIO and MC/S allowing forward-thinking SMB and corporate customers ability to deploy NAS as a storage server in virtualized and clustered infrastructure. Additionally,
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Dec
17
Plurk published an official response to Microsoft’s public apology “We’re still thinking of pursuing the full extent of our legal options available due the seriousness of the situation. Basically, Microsoft accepts responsibility, but they do not offer accountability.”[…] “This event wasn’t just a simple matter of merely lifting code; Due
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Dec
17
“Browser Size,” is a new 20% time tool from Google, that visualizes roughly how much of a web page typical users will actually see without scrolling. Special code collects data on the height and width of browser for a sample of visitors to google.com. If you're a web designer, you can use Browser Size
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Dec
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Some questions about Gmail for mobile “We wanted to know: Could the mobile web support Gmail's basic and advanced features? Could we stuff the app with functionality while still keeping it fast and responsive?” Google Mobile team responded: “Since Apr 09, we've pushed the limits of HTML5 to launch a steady string of Gmail
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Dec
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Martin "Marty" O'Donnell, an award-winning American composer known for his work on video game developer Bungie's series, such as Myth, Oni, and most predominately Halo. O'Donnell collaborates with his musical colleague Michael Salvatori for many of the scores; he has also directed voice talent and sound design for the Halo trilogy, and is currently Bungie's Audio
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Dec
17
AdSense account is actually part of a Google Account, that may’ve several Google products, such as AdSense, Gmail, AdWords, Blogger, etc, all tied together. Here’re few simple tips to help you protect your Google Account: “Create a strong password and security question. If having trouble signing into Google Account, resetting password will do
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Dec
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Amazon Associates announced “Amazon Associates for Blogger,” that enables Bloggers to monetize their content by adding relevant Amazon products to their blog posts without interrupting the blog editing process. If you’re a Blogger.com user, and not yet an Amazon Associate member, you can register and start implementing Amazon Associate program on your Blogger
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Dec
17
According to comScore's numbers, around 36 million Americans own a smartphone, while around 196 million own a "non-smartphone" or a device that doesn’t feature an open operating system. “Number of active iPhone users in US has passed that of Windows Mobile for the first time. After just pulling even with Microsoft in July, Apple's
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Dec
17
Here’s a bit deeper on the Maps part of the Bing Mobile App for iPhone and iPod touch: Location Enabled: Bing Maps for iPhone locates your position based on GPS onboardMultiple Map Styles: Road, Shaded (sort of a terrain
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Random From The Maps on Bing Mobile App for iPhone and iPod touch
- Jul16Search with My Location for Apple iPhone 3.0 Safari
Google introduced “Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0,” now when you visit www.google.com - Feb04Windows 7 Beta WDK Documentation – Download
You can now download the Windows 7 Beta WDK documentation in either hxs or chm format. Both downloads contain the same documentation bits that shipped in the Windows 7 Beta WDK. Alternatively, you can access the Windows 7 Beta WDK documentation online. - Dec23Track Santa and his sleigh with NORAD using Google Earth, Google Maps for mobile
Tis year, Google is using Google Earth API plug-in, to embed NORAD Tracks Santa Google Earth experience - Feb03Will Hiybbprqag.com Domain Really Help Google Recruit New Employees?
The screenshot below is of Google's "Jobs" page, but it can also be reached by going to hiybbprqag.com, which does a 302 redirect to - Apr02Compatibility View resources for IE8 RTW
Compatibility View “give[s] users a way to mitigate website compatibility problems they may encounter while browsing the web – compatibility issues often caused by Internet
