Archive for February 19th, 2010
Feb
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Consider the following scenario: open up the "Control Panel;" browse to "Hardware and Sound" -> "Pen and Touch" -> "Touch" tab; under "Touch Actions", select "Double-tap" and click "Settings..." Change the Speed setting slider from “Fast” to “Slow” or from “Slow” to “Fast”. After you change the speed setting, double tap at different rates and you
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Feb
19
Amazon launched a beta version of “BlackBerry Kindle” application, that includes all the functions you would expect. In short, you don't need an Amazon Kindle to find, purchase, download, or read eBooks from Amazon Kindle store. You can use a PC or two popular smartphone platforms. In addition to using a BlackBerry to read books, you
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Feb
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Download this fully configured virtual machine of the latest release of Exchange Server 2010. Evaluate the new capabilities of Exchange Server 2010, which helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.
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Feb
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Microsoft made available the first Service Update (SU1) of SQL Azure and the Windows Azure platform. “In addition to few bug fixes, Microsoft added new features: troubleshooting and Supportability DMVs, ability to move between editions, idle session timeouts, and long running transactions. “One of the most requested features was the ability to move up and down
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Feb
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Symbian S^3 will be the first version of the platform to be fully open source. It’s not just the licensing agreement, but Symbian S^3 also features a completely revamped user interface. It's very multimedia-centric, and like most mobile operating systems on the market today, the OS supports multitouch gestures and finger-friendly actions such as
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Feb
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At TED, Jeremy Clark from Adobe gave the glimpse of the “Wired Reader”. Although Wired Reader starts as an AIR app, Adobe has created tools that allow us to easily convert it for major tablet and mobile platforms. In Barcelona, Adobe announced that AIR would run on Android, and Adobe has already announced its
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Feb
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Microsoft made several changes to the Release Candidate of Office 2010. One change in particular “prompts users whether they want to use Office Open XML (OOXML) or OpenDocument (ODF) document formats (Office 2010 beta didn’t include the ballot screen).” Microsoft announced the ballot screen prompt plans for Office 2010 in August 2009, and issued a "Public
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Feb
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This post introduces you to new AdWords interface layout and features, for making advertising online a lot easier for you. New interface offers a tremendous amount of opportunity with its advanced reporting options, filter apps, graphical representations and in-line editing that renders changes instantaneous. Account navigation is now easier, quicker and more intuitive. To begin with,
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Feb
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Google launched a new Android application called “Google Shopper,” that lets you find product information quickly by using your phone's camera. It can recognize cover art of books, CDs, DVDs, and video games, along with most barcodes. You can also speak “name of the product” you're looking for, and to
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Feb
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Google Dashboard provides a private, consolidated summary of the data associated with your Google account, as well as direct links to control your personal settings. As of today, Buzz has its own section on the Dashboard, so you can see how many people you're following, how many people are following you, and information about your recent
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Feb
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Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK provides documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images, and tools to Visual Studio that let you build applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 and 6.5.3. This document contains important information about this package. For general information about writing software for Windows Mobile. The Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK must be installed to
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Feb
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Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Microsoft – with assistance of new partner ninemsn are expanding the successful ThinkUKnow program to help educate children throughout Australia about cyber-safety and security and encourage them to think before they act online to protect children from online. "We also look forward to using ninemsn's vast network to help spread the
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Feb
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WordPress.com was down for approximately 110 minutes, the worst downtime in four years, that affected 10.2 million blogs, including VIPs, and appears to have deprived those blogs of about 5.5 million pageviews. Matt Mullenweg explained the outages “it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our datacenter providers messed up
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Feb
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Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack alerts you to problems with components such as agents, management servers, the Operations Manager database, agents, modules used by workflows and services so that you can continue to monitor the servers and clients that your business depends on. The management pack includes tasks that you can automate to get easy
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Feb
19
Microsoft recently rebranded codename Quebec to Windows Embedded Standard 7 from Windows Embedded Standard 2011. But there’re more Microsoft platforms which’ll also flaunt their proximity to Windows 7 by featuring new monikers; “One of the other products of the Embedded group, so far known as Windows Embedded CE
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Random From The Windows Embedded CE relabeled to Windows Embedded Compact 7, Microsoft Auto branded as Windows Embedded Automotive 7
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Google Search now include links to "Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster and Answers.com" on its search results pages. Using the following query triggers the special definition results: