Archive for March 8th, 2010
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Similar to RemoteApp, the RemoteApp for Hyper-V feature allows users to access a specific hosted application remotely, as opposed to the entire desktop. When using RemoteApp, the app runs in context of a server session; however, RemoteApp for Hyper-V enables remote access to an app running on a Hyper-V VM. That’s, this feature allows you to
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Mar
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If you’ve a blog that you help write, you’ve undoubtedly run into it: the Wall. Also known as “writer’s block,” it’s the inability to come up with something to write about, or a lack of enthusiasm for doing so. IBM researchers publised a paper called 'A Topic Suggestion System for
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Mar
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Microsoft is implementing a new sales strategy with its Office 2010, in this regard, Vic Barakat unveiled a new licensing scheme at the D&H 2010 West Coast Technology Show, held in the City of Industry, Calif. “With the launch of Microsoft Office 2010, expected on June 15, vendor wants to pre-load a new Office image that
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Mar
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Microsoft Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, enabling people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. The redmond company has launched a portal on TechNet to help IT professionals get started with the Office Web Apps. The web site has following categories
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Mar
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If you’re using VMM and have experienced error 0x800704DD during either a new virtual machine creation (new-vm, v2v, or p2v) or during a virtual machine migration over the network (also known as a LAN migration using BITS), then this blog post is for you. The actual exception code caused in this case is listed below for
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Mar
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How often do you communicate with the people you should? Etacts was born from the frustration of keeping in touch with ever-growing list of friends, family, coworkers, and clients. It automatically discover who you haven't talked to in a while. See who hasn't responded to your emails. Find messages from important contacts that you haven't responded
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Mar
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Here’s another video (previous video, showcasing HP Slate tablet PC: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Mar
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Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Mar
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Microsoft launched the “Elevate America’s Veterans Initiative” to provide technology skills and other resources to veterans and their spouses. The initiative builds on Elevate America’s mission to provide technology training that prepares people for 21st-century jobs, says Akhtar Badshah. “The men and women who were fighting for our country are now fighting for jobs,” he says.
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Mar
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Apple unveiled a new TV commercial for the iPad during the Oscars awards. The ad finishes at signing the advert off with "April 3", the date of the U.S. launch for the iPad. Pricing of the devices will be: 16GB WiFi only $499, WiFi + 3G $629; 32GB WiFi only $599, WiFi + 3G $729; 64GB
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Mar
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The video below shows how james managed to use HP’s scanner driver that support Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) – rather than using HP’s rather crummy software for XP “I have at home is an HP scanner – eventually HP released Vista drivers (including 64 bit) and these support Windows 7. The trouble is although they support
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Mar
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The Configuration Manager product team recently announced some changes in what's officially supported in ConfigMgr 2007, including SP1, SP2 and R2. Here’s one big App-V 4.6 related change here: Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 is now supported on ConfigMgr 2007 R2 with ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 – System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 with System Center Configuration
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Mar
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Icy Dock MB663USR-1S Aluminum 2.5” USB 2.0 SATA / SSD Dual Internal and External Enclosure is built for both internal and external usage. 3.5” internal aluminum receiving dock has a SATA connection to allow maximum SATA transfer rate of up to 300 MB/ sec and it fits into most 3.5” bay on the computer. The SATA
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Mar
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Google unveiled ‘automatic spell correction for images’ on image search results. Now, if you type [roman architecture], Google will correctly show results for roman architecture, instead for roman architechure. “In cases where we're highly confident you had intended to type something else, we'll replace results from the typo query with those from the spell-corrected version —
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Mar
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A Microsoft Research project called "Skinput," developed in conjunction with a Carnegie Mellon grad student, got some high-profile attention this weekend as the answer to a question on NPR's popular "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" quiz show. I caught a glimpse of this project last week at Microsoft's TechFest, but the demo
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Random From The Microsoft Research project “Skinput” – Video Demonstration
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