Archive for March 31st, 2010
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Microsoft and PrimeSense announced that PrimeSense will be providing its leading-edge 3-D-sensing technology for use in “Project Natal” for Xbox 360. “PrimeSense’s technology enables a paradigm shift in the way people interact with consumer electronic devices. Engagement with Xbox 360 establishes PrimeSense’s position as a leading supplier of 3-D-sensing technology,” said Inon Beracha. “Xbox 360 Hardware
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Here’re the videos of Windows Phone 7 Series demo apps shown during the MIX10 keynote:Microsoft originally created “Goo Splat” for Zune HD with XNA Game Studio and ported it to Windows Phone 7 Series. “Goo Splat” is a casual game that challenges player to keep the goo from falling to bottom and prevent screen
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Google recently updated “photo uploading” interface in Blogger in Draft’s post editor with few new features:Multiple photo upload. If Flash installed, you can select multiple photos at a time in file picker.You can now select from any of the images in your Picasa Web photo albums and insert them into your posts.Tips from Blogger Team:You can
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Microsoft announced the end-of-support deadline for MSXML4.0 SP2 is April 13th, 2010, and Microsoft’s recommend that developers with MSXML4.0 apps should act to migrate them to MSXML 6.0 or at least upgrade them to MSXML 4.0 SP3. April 2010 will bring with it the ten-year anniversary of MSXML 4.0. “MSXML 4.0 was released to the web
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Mar
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Jaxbot launched a theme for Windows Phone 7 Series’ themes for 6.5 devices into beta. Currently, theme offers a “people hub” with contact info and Facebook status updates, a Bing search feature that includes Bing’s photo of the day, live tiles made using Javascript technology, a program launcher, a lock screen, and more. Next version of
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Google added an ability to authenticate to Google Mail IMAP and SMTP with OAuth using a SASL mechanism called “XOAUTH”. "In addition to making it easier for users to export their data, we also enable them to authorize 3rd-party apps and websites to access their data at Google. While it’s possible for a user to authorize
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What does a 16,000-pound semi-trailer truck have in common with a 315-horsepower Ford Mustang GT? Microsoft been working with Ford on developing in-vehicle technology since before Ford SYNC hit the roads back in fall 2007. “PACCAR – through its two truck divisions, Kenworth and Peterbilt – recently introduced a new system tailored specifically to
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Mar
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Picasa for Mac matched the features of Picasa for PC, and Google announced the next milestone: “Picasa for Mac is now available in 35 languages. For the first time, Mac users who speak languages other than English can take advantage of Picasa's free photo-editing and organization tools, plus lots of new stuff that's been
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Mar
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Twitter is testing a new home page design that introduces new users to a wider view of the site’s functionality by focusing on specific content and users rather than the more nebulous idea of trending keywords and hashtags. The new home page introduces 20 Twitter members under a “See who’s here” banner, and provides three “Top
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Mar
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Google shutted down its Chinese search operations and redirected users to Hong Kong. China immediately started blocking politically sensitive search queries, just as it does for all Web content outside the firewall. Reports are coming out of China that censors are turning up the heat on Google, and “searches on any topic delivered an
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Mar
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Google Online Security blog described Googles’ system for identifying phishing pages. “Of the millions of webpages that our scanners analyze for phishing, we successfully identify 9 out of 10. Our classification system only incorrectly flags a non-phishing as a phishing site about 1 in 10,000 times, which’s significantly better than similar systems. In our experience, these
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Trinket Software, makers of the popular Windows Mobile Twitter application “Twikini,” have announced of porting their app over to Windows Phone 7 Series devices. The app is being developed via a partnership between Trinket and Mist Labs, the new company founded by ex-Microsoftie Mel Sampat, formerly a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team. Like its
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Microsoft made some updates to Bing Maps:Walking Directions Now you can generate directions based on how you might drive from point A to point B or walk from point C to point D. There’s a limit of allowed walk of about 20 miles) and walk on freeways is not allowed.Drag-able Routing Flags – if you
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In this episode Dave Edson dives into the new features targeted at Business Process Modeling. Listen in as Dave discusses how enhancements have resulted in creating live, interactive, data-connected diagrams which are faster and easier to use than ever before:
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Mar
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A very common AD disaster is an unexpected deletion or modification of objects. Unlike a bad football match or family meeting, you can prepare for that and make the crisis more bearable. This post discuss best practices of Windows Server 2003 and 2008 forest level backup and restore. AD Object deletions and unwanted modifications are often
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Random From The Active Directory Authoritative Restores in Windows Server 2003 and 2008 – Best practices
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