Archive for February 10th, 2010
Feb
10
orkut now at 6 launched a new Google Labs app called ‘People Hopper” that lets you take your profile image and "morph" it into your friend's photo. No computer graphics tricks’re used, every image along the transition comes from real orkut users. People Hopper uses "image matching technology."
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Feb
10
Google launched “Safety Mode,” an opt-in setting that helps screen out potentially objectionable content that you may prefer not to see or don't want others in your family to stumble across while enjoying YouTube. An example of this type of content might be a newsworthy video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest or
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Feb
10
Microsoft announced the Release Candidate of the Data Protection Manager 2010, and released to the web, on the Microsoft Connect website. If you’re interested in downloading and evaluating this release, use the following link:Download: DPM 2010 Release Candidate No Comments » - Posted by DG
Feb
10
Now on Google Maps, if you click through to Place Pages, you might notice a new feature. "Nearby places you may like" is a recommendation feature designed to help users explore cities and neighborhoods. You'll notice that we don’t limit these suggestions to places sharing any specific characteristic; instead, we use a broad set of signals
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Feb
10
Google Buzz for mobile allows you to post buzz and keep up with your friends when you're away from your computer. It also uses your location to identify places around you. You can select one of these places and attach it as location tag to your posts, or read what others have posted about the place.
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Feb
10
Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) role service lets multiple concurrent users run Windows-based applications on a remote computer running Windows Server 2008 R2. This white paper is intended as a guide for capacity planning of RD Session Host in Windows Server 2008 R2. It describes the most relevant factors that influence the capacity of
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Feb
10
Dan’l Lewin posted about an app that’ll appear at TED 2010 in southern California. “Building on the local stories in the Microsoft Local Impact Map, an online application, we added stories from the work of the Kauffman Foundation. And to put all the stories on a human scale, we moved
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Feb
10
Google updated their AdWords online pharmacy policy for pharmacies wishing to market their products via AdWords. The change will go into effect towards the end of this month. Here's what you need to know: Google will only accept ads from pharmacies accredited by the National Association Boards of Pharmacy VIPPS program, and from online
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Feb
10
Bing allows for much more than simply searching for information on the web. Microsoft has put together a variety of SourceType code samples on Microsoft Developer Network. Developers will find that a variety of code samples are offered on MSDN. In this regard, the code samples offered by Microsoft cover protocols such as JSON,
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Feb
10
Google claims that you can store "up to 8,192,000 photos from a 5MP camera" if you buy 16 TB of storage. There's also a promotion that offers a free Eye-Fi card if you buy $50 or more of storage. Apparently, you can't store 8,192,000 photos, at least not in Picasa Web Albums.
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Feb
10
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Samples for .NET Framework 4 RC. The samples are designed to “provide instruction on various aspects of WCF: Basic - Shows samples that illustrate basic WCF functionality. Extensibility - Shows samples that are related to the discovery feature. Scenario - Demonstrates a WCF scenario,” Microsoft revealed. And
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Feb
10
ASUS G71Gx is truly a gaming powerhouse, with 17” WUXGA display and a feature called “CPU Level Up” in which the user is allowed to overclock the CPU by up to 20%! When this PC boots up, it literally sounds like thunder. Specs incredible: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 @ 2Ghz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX260M –
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Feb
10
One of the big differences between Windows Embedded Standard 2011 and previous versions is, the OS must be deployed on NTFS. “This poses a challenge in estimating footprint. In Embedded Windows 7, all packages, including eCore, have footprint estimates. But these’re estimates. Actual deployed size will vary based on actual hardware used and necessary drivers, and
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Feb
10
Google is getting into the ISP business, the company announced to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the US. “We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer
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Feb
10
Microsoft and Interpublic Group, singed an agreement in which IPG will designate Microsoft’s Atlas as a preferred ad-server solution for IPG’s North American agencies. Atlas ad-serving technology enables agencies to manage, track, optimize and unify their online media marketing campaigns across display banners, rich media, search, video and Web sites. According to industry estimates, IPG companies
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