Archive for March 22nd, 2010
Mar
22
In Windows Live Wave 4, every theme in the desktop web version will have a corresponding mobile web version too – this includes the original Wave 3 ones as well as the new Wave 4 themes. Picturepan2 compiled the following screenshots. However, do note that you cannot set or change the themes within the
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Mar
22
HP MediaSmart Server owners across US and Canada have been struggling to get the upgrade discs; here’s a good new North American distributors are now shipping discs: “Hi from Vancouver Canada. According to UPS the disks will arrive Monday 22 March in Vancouver as they’re in transit now. It started from California and is oozing
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Mar
22
Michael Kleef talks about how Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services technologies play key roles in Desktop Virtualization space. Did you know that you can use VDI and RDS sessions at the same time? This clip talk a bit about history of these techs, what types of worker benefits from each,
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Mar
22
Bill Buxton at the closing keynote of Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, explored the concept of it means to be “natural” in the context of natural user interfaces (NUI). If you’re looking for a quick shot, skip ahead to 2:08 in the video there’s a very interesting concept and prototype demonstration on how we can make panning and
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Mar
22
Microsoft has updated a collection of virtual hard disks designed to help early adopters test Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010. This VM includes everything you need to learn and/or deliver demonstrations of many of my favorite application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities in Visual Studio 2010. This VM is available in the virtualization platform
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Mar
22
A Microsoft Research Cambridge project explores how we might view our past through photos and videos that we've collected. But this is more than just photo collecting and digital frames; it's is a look at the value people place on sets of digital data and why they are attached to the digital bits along with a
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Mar
22
Google stopped censoring search services ‘Google Search, Google News, and Google Images’ on Google.cn, and begun redirecting search traffic from Google.cn to its Hong Kong site Google.com.hk, offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China. Hong Kong users will receive existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. “We want as
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Mar
22
This technical note describes one way to sequence Reflection 2008 so that it can run as a virtual application streamed from a Virtual Application Server or deployed with installer technology using Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5. Note: Other methods not described in this technical note can be used to successfully sequence and deploy Reflection 2008 as a
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Mar
22
The logos are taken from the Windows Phone UI and Design Language session at MIX10. Click the images below for 1920x1200 PNG versions: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Mar
22
AP worked with Microsoft on a rich news reading experience to serve as a launching point for AP Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series this year. A panoramic user experience incorporates news, social networks and photos as a way for people to select the newsmakers that interest them.
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Mar
22
Hitwise reports that Twitter accounted for 0.14% of upstream visits to News and Media sites last week. (measured website visits from Twitter.com only.) Here’re all of them compared: Facebook: 3.64%, 3rd biggest source of visits to News & Media sites; Google News: 1.27%, 11th biggest source of visits; Twitter: 0.14%, 39th source of
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Mar
22
Dave Probert of Microsoft at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Universal Parallel Computing Research Center said “With chip makers continuing to increase ‘number of cores’ they include on each new gen processors, perhaps it's time to rethink ‘basic architecture’ of today's operating systems. Current approach to harnessing power of multicore processors is complicated and
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Mar
22
Apples’ Steve Jobs broke his silence on his recent liver transplant as part of a tag-team effort with California governer Arnold Schwarzenegger to push for reform in the state's organ donor process. "The legislation would also create nation's first "living donor registry," allowing altruistic people to sign up to offer one of their kidneys to a
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Mar
22
In following Web Analytics TV video with Avinash Kaushik and Nick Mihailovski, you gets the answer to a list of last week’s questions:[Source] No Comments » - Posted by DG
Mar
22
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) in .NET 4 is designed to make it easier for new developers to learn, addresses wider range of customer scenarios, and is more efficient.Design your Workflow: Visual Studio 2010 represents significant update to WF design experience. New designer's productivity enhancements for authors composing large workflows, including ability to expand & collapse child
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Random From The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) and WCF in .NET 4
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