Archive for February 20th, 2010
Feb
20
RTEMS Project had 6 students accepted for Google Summer of Code 2009, with one additional student that was funded through the donation that Google gives to mentoring organizations in conjunction with a donation from OAR Corporation. “The first three projects presented were interesting as individual efforts but there was an overlap at the end
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Feb
20
Google started registrations for the Google I/O annual developer conference, and giving us a quick update on what's in store for this year's Google I/O: • 63 sessions to be led by the engineering teams behind all the products to be featured at I/O, including Android, Google Chrome, Google Web Toolkit and Google
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Feb
20
What do your friends really know about you? How much do they influence your decisions? How often do we stray from the cultural herd? How do groups organize to solve complex problems? Earlier this year, Yahoo! launched the “2010 Key Scientific Challenges Program,” a competition that encourages top graduate students globally to collaborate with
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Feb
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YoxView is a free image viewer for websites. It's written in javascript using jQuery and is available as a jQuery plugin. YoxView has the usual lightbox effect but adds a few bells and whistles such as easy support for multiple instances (great for blogs), image pre-caching, timed slideshows, keyboard support, and language packs. The lightbox itself
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Feb
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With the launch of “Nonprofit program” in Australia and Canada; Members receive free branded channels, custom thumbnails, longer video uploads, and call-to-action overlays. More information on Nonprofit Program.With “Easier private video sharing” you can either generate a special URL that up to 25 people can click on, or select "Private share with YouTube
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Feb
20
Web Application Toolkits help ASP.NET web developers quickly complete common tasks. Each Web Application Toolkit download contains reusable assets - e.g. controls, class libraries, endpoints etc. and a sample application that shows how to use them. Earlier this year we launched 7 Web App Toolkits; IE8 Extensibility, Bing Search, REST Services, Mobile Web Applications, Template-driven Email,
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Feb
20
In this screencast, Ryan and Steve cover the Windows Azure platform, digging into features, discussing the latest news and announcements, and sharing tips and tricks: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Feb
20
“Google Commerce Search” is a Google’s tool to help online retailers improve site usability and raise conversions. “We're excited to see results and metrics coming in that show the impact this new product is having. One company, DiscountOfficeItems.com, decided to switch to Google Commerce Search from a sluggish homegrown solution and almost immediately saw sizable lifts
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Feb
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Harvard University researchers Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman estimate that Google could be making $497 million per year in revenue from the “typosquatting,” because its network of display ads from which it receives a cut of the profits run on the typo’d sites. If it’s a frequently misspelled site address instead of yours, the tactic could
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Feb
20
Fix for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 ‘create new 6to4 adapter unexpectedly after you restart’
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Feb
20
Fresh screenshot of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 Milestone 3 have surfaced on the web. The new Messenger build retains the collapsible “social” pane on the left, in addition to several new features:New Facebook and other social networks integration allows you to connect to multiple social networks besides Windows Live.Ability to
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Feb
20
A set of articles that provide information on parallel programming with the .NET Framework 4. The .NET Framework 4 includes extended support for writing parallel applications, through enhancements to the CLR itself as well as through new libraries commonly referred to as "Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework." The set of articles available in this download
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Feb
20
Group Seven Technology have released an update for DA Document Manager 2010. This provides a number of fixes to the product – here’s the changelog: Client Connector: Fixed, Subcategories in the Workspace Form are still shown for all Categories when they are assigned to only one Category; Fixed, Archive Recovery fails if the archive title contains
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Feb
20
“Local Lens” is a cool new feature of Bing that displays hyperlocal content from various blogs on Bing Maps. Once enabled, snippets from blog posts appear in the sidebar when viewing a specific locale in the maps service. The feature, introduced late last year, is one of Bing’s many “mapplications” – applications that add a new
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Feb
20
Adobe celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Photoshop. Photoshop has had an interesting journey from its early days as a simple display program to a sophisticated digital image editing application with over 10 million users worldwide. Using its suite of tools, you can retouch images, add textures, crop images, build layers, add text and basically do everything
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