Archive for May 4th, 2010
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According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, less than 10% of all enterprise PCs in use has power management capabilities turned on. Why? Because users often disable power-saving settings out of fears of data corruption or simply from force of habit, or IT disables the features to support nightly IT operations such as upgrades & patching. True
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May
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Digg made a post about its ‘Digg short URL’ policy update, “As of May 17th, 2010, the Digg short URL feature will be available only for URLs that refer to stories submitted to Digg. Users will continue to be able to share their favorite Digg stories by generating a short URL via the "Share" button. However,
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Adam meets up with Scott Andersen at the internal conference, TechReady, where Microsofties swarm Seattle to brush up on the latest technologies. Scott focuses on both cloud & community for Microsoft. He tells Adam how cost savings come from the technology, and how green IT and the freedom to be visionary on behalf of your organization
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Microsoft made available “Deployment Options for Microsoft Office 2010,” and now the Redmond company is offering the “Deployment guide for Office 2010.” Both resources can be grabbed free of charge. “This book provides how-to information: the recommended steps to execute specific deployment tasks, such as customizing the installation, installing Microsoft Office 2010 system on users' computers, implementing the
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May
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Component Services snap-in under Administrative Tools allows you manage COM+ apps on different computers on your network. This’s done by adding computer to a list which’s then saved for next time you open app. While this means you don't need to keep adding computer, it can also cause app to appear hung if computer in the
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May
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A French Windows Live Messenger enthusiast site, pointed to a definitive time frame for Windows Live Wave 4 release on June 21. Wikikou.fr points to a site Microsoft france for students, announcing June 21 as the date that Windows Live Messenger would get released in beta: “[translated text]Windows Live Messenger will be available in
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May
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Microsoft is preparing to provide “Hadoop,” a Java software framework for data-intensive distributed applications, for Windows Azure customers. Hadoop offers a massive data store upon which developers can run map/reduce jobs. It also manages clusters and distributed file systems. Microsoft will provide Hadoop within a "few months," said a Microsoft executive who wished to remain anonymous.
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May
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In the video embedded Deborah Chang explain ‘how website owners can use Google’s Webmaster Tools to ensure that their site is properly indexed in Google’s search engine.’ “Webmaster Tools is a powerful tool where publishers can gather information on what sites on the web link to them, under what keywords they’re site is likely to be
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May
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Flickr is one of the fantastic websites that let you share photos & videos and many more things. Do you know, when you take a photo using your digital camera, the camera photo management software stores ‘its make & model, as well as whole bunch of other data, into the image file as metadata (EXIF, in
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May
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At Web 2.0 in San Francisco, Microsoft Tag is sponsoring a Scavenger Hunt. “People are able to hunt around for nine different Tags. Each Tag has three random prizes attached to them. People who scan these Tags have a great chance of winning an HD Zune or an Xbox game. The first two contestants who scan
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May
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BitLocker in Windows Embedded Standard 2011” feature requires two partitions. “First partition is a system partition contains BCD (Boot Configuration Data) store & remains unencrypted. Second partition contains Windows, programs, etc and can be encrypted. IBW does a good job in ensuring that the user is required to partition with separate system partition if the user
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May
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Google joined Internews, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and others in recognizing the critical, and often dangerous work that print journalists and bloggers do to bring us information from the most inaccessible corners of the world. CPJ released 2010 Impunity Index, which shows where legal systems have failed to protect journalists against violence and
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May
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Microsoft announced a new style of courseware available for Configuration Manager, “This course will take you down the path of understanding how Configuration Manager 2007 can be used to perform common tasks such as Operating System deployment, software distribution and update, asset tracking and intelligence, client health reporting and management, security, and network access protection. On
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May
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It’s been 8 months since Microsoft launched the Office Web Apps Technical Preview on SkyDrive, and due to so much demand had expanded its availability. “90% of Office 2010 beta users who've tried Web Apps say it’s easier to access & edit documents from anywhere than before. One of our goals in
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May
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In this interview Spotty Bowles, shows us a couple of new language features in Visual Basic 2010 Array and Collection Initializers. He gives us insight into how they’re implemented in the compiler and best practices on how to use them in our code. Additionally, he discusses how to extend Collection Initializers with your own extension
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