Archive for March 7th, 2010


Mar 7

Outlook 2010: Customizing conversations experience – Video

Conversations in Microsoft Outlook 2010 are an effective way to manage your e-mail messages. If you’re a power user of Outlook, you might want to tweak some settings to make Conversations work even better for you. There’re four options available to customize conversations: · Show Messages from Other Folders · Show Senders above the Subject ·
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Mar 7

Samsung ‘R80 series Notebooks, N210 Netbook’ multimedia with Blu-ray drives unveiled

Samsung gave a sneak peek at “R80 Series Notebooks” with Blu-ray Drives, along with “N210 Netbook”. “R80 notebooks are perfect for watching movies both with a built in Blu-ray optical drive. Additionally, nVIDIA GeForce graphics card included in R580 and R780 will appeal to gamer in any household. HD LED displays (17.3” – R780, 15.6” –
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Mar 7

Microsoft Maren Transliteration Tool – Creates Arabic script from Roman alphabet keyboards

Using Maren, users can write Arabic in any application using a Roman keyboard and have it converted on the fly to native Arabic script.Microsoft Maren, is a new transliteration tool that allows users to communicate
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Mar 7

DocVerse acquired by Google to improve Google Docs and Google Sites

Google announced that it has acuired DocVerse – a small plugin works in the right-hand sidebar of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, letting people synchronize documents to an online service and collaborate with other people. “The future of productivity applications is in the cloud," said Jonathan Rochelle. "We've always believed the web is the
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Mar 7

Icy Dock MB561US-4S-1 4-Bay eSATA/USB HDD DAS Enclosure for Windows Home Server

The Icy Dock MB561US-4S-1 eSATA/USB HDD Enclosure is a Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) device that will allow you to add 4 more HDD bays to your Windows Home Server and double your effective drive pool capacity. Assuming, of course, the WHS machine you have is a 4-bay appliance. MB561US-4S-1 still includes all the standard features. A single
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Mar 7

Automating Deployment and Hyper-V – Video Demonstration

This screencast demos how close we’re to implementing a dynamic datacenter with current, released products. It shows how SML models generated by Visual Studio can be parsed by Powershell, which then uses the information to deploy virtual machines for required infrastructure out of a template library. The library and placement are managed by System Center. Powershell
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Mar 7

Import Facebook addresses into Yahoo! Contacts

In addition to importing your contacts from Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, you can now add your Facebook addresses to your Yahoo! Contacts list. Now you can type the first few letters of his name in Yahoo! Mail and – presto! – his email address from his Facebook profile will appear in your email. To get
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Mar 7

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg accused of hacking into ‘rivals and journalists’ email

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook has been accused of hacking into the email accounts of rivals and journalists in a series of articles run by BusinessInsider.com. As part of a two-year investigation detailing the founding of Facebook, the magazine uncovered what it claimed was evidence of the hackings in 2004. In the first instance, it said
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Mar 7

ThinPrint .print V-LayerTM Basic – Centralized Print Driver

ThinPrint .print V-LayerTM Basic means printer drivers only need to be installed on the print server, eliminating drivers on desktop PCs. Significant time and cost savings can be immediately seen for system administrators. With the newest ThinPrint product, printer driver management in companies with print servers will be significantly simplified. Printer drivers need only be installed
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Mar 7

Microsoft envisions building “ultra-modular” data centers

At the DatacenterDynamics conference in New York, Microsoft’s Kevin Timmons outlined some prototype work his unit is doing to design its next gen of data centers, in collaboration with Microsoft Research. His vision is radically different from most of what the company already has in place. The company is field-testing
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Mar 7

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips to implement Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is a transformative technology. Many website owners who’re initially thrilled at the cutting edge presentation shown on their websites are later confounded when their beautiful sites suddenly fail to show up in the search engine results pages (SERPs). In those cases, webmaster failed to account for search engine optimization (SEO) when they implemented Silverlight.
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Mar 7

6.5 million sq k. imagery update to Bing Maps

Bing Maps rolled out what Microsoft is calling its “largest amount of new imagery ever in terms of square kilometers – 6.7 million square kilometers!.” There’s new aerial The Russian Federation, Australia, Mexico and most places in the US which had black and white imagery. Bird’s Eye: Sweden. Deets:
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Mar 7

Windows 8 will support USB 3.0, says Intel

Microsoft released Windows 7 to the public on October 22nd, 2009, at which time it had already kicked off the planning process for its successor. By all estimates, Windows 8 is expected to be released by the end of 2011, but more probably in 2012. Microsoft has yet to announce any specific details related to the
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Mar 7

HD Photo Device Porting Kit (Windows Media Photo) 1.0

HD Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats. HD Photo supports a wide range of features including: • Multiple color formats for display or print • Fixed or floating point high dynamic range image encoding • Lossless or high quality lossy compression • Extremely efficient
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Mar 7

Google Maps “Edit this place” feature

Google launched a new, easier way to edit places on Google Maps. “If you find something incorrect or missing on the Place Page for a business -- maybe they have a new website or moved to a bigger location down the block -- just click "Edit this place". You'll then access a single, dedicated page where
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