Archive for May 28th, 2010


May 28

Performance Marketing with Google Analytics Book – Strategies and Techniques for Maximizing Online ROI

A new book by a stellar team is now available on Amazon for $26.39, to take your usage of Google Analytics to next level, called "Performance Marketing with Google Analytics," by Sebastian Tonkin (former Googler), Caleb Whitmore of Analytics Pros and Justin Cutroni from WebShare (both Google Analytics Certified Partners). Here's what Sebastian told "Google
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May 28

Microsoft Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0 Release to Web (RTW)

Microsoft Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0 enables interoperable federated access to SharePoint 3.0 sites using the WS-Federation standard. It is built using the Windows Identity Foundation and supports use of ADFS 2.0 as an identity provider.
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May 28

F# PowerPack May 2010 for Silverlight via CodePlex

Microsoft released a new version of F# PowerPack - an open-source collection of libraries and tools for use with F# programming language provided by F# team at Microsoft. Starting from this release, F# PowerPack installation includes PowerPack libraries built for Silverlight 3 and 4. Other changes in the release are bugfixes. As usual, the release
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May 28

ZURB CSS Grid Builder help creating ‘on the fly grids’

CSS Grids are often used by Web designers to control page layout and position elements in a somewhat sensible fashion. CSS Grid Builder from ZURB is a neat tool that help web designers create grids on the fly. All you need to do is – just define values from "presets, # of columns, column width, gutter
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May 28

orkut home page refreshed added ‘orkut settings, profile color, get this theme’ features

Have you been to orkut recently, and noticed "redesigned top of orkut page," the small bar with links to other Google products 'Gmail, Maps and Books' just got new features! Main change is a link to new orkut settings window that you can open any time. Now all your orkut settings will be there in one
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May 28

Microsoft may cut Zune Pass price, Executive says

Microsoft may cut monthly fee for streaming music on Zune portable player, Terry Farrell of Microsoft said in an interview. Zune Pass, which features unlimited music streaming and 10 song downloads a month, now costs $14.99. Farrell didn't say by how much Microsoft may cut the service's price. "It's definitely a challenging business," Farrell said,
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May 28

Virtual Hard Disk (VHDs) Getting Started Guide for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft published a guide that provides an introduction to virtual hard disks (VHDs) in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It includes an overview of technologies that you use to configure VHDs, as well as procedures to help guide you through deploying VHDs. "Win7 Enterprise and Ultimate are the only editions of the client that
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May 28

Digg Version 4 Demonstration Video

The video below, gives a look at new "version 4 of Digg," designed to get publishers start focusing on Digg again. As Rose says in an interview, only the top headlines on Digg – 100 or so stories a day – actually get much traffic. Users will only see links to popular stories that their friends
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May 28

MSF-Agile plus Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Process Template for Visual Studio TFS 2010

"MSF-A+SDL is a TFS process template that incorporates SDL for Agile process guidance into MSF Agile development framework. With MSF-A+SDL template, any code checked into Visual Studio Team System source repository by developer is analyzed to ensure that it complies with SDL secure development practices. Template also automatically creates security workflow tracking items for manual SDL
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May 28

Microsoft and FBI knocks off $100 million scareware cybercriminals

On May 27th, FBI announced federal indictments against three culprits charged with disseminating a major malware scheme that have duped victims paying $100 million worldwide. The scheme revolved around a form of malware called "scareware," went by various names, including WinFixer – which falsely persuades consumers to purchase useless and expensive software to protect their computers.
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May 28

Firefox Home mobile app for iPhone by Mozilla

Mozilla is cooking up a "new free mobile application for iPhone based on Firefox Sync (Weave Sync) technology, called "Firefox Home," that gives iPhone users instant access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. What's more, it provides Firefox "Awesome Bar" capability that enables people to
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May 28

Microsoft KIN’s Facebook Travel Contest

Have you seen Microsoft KIN commercials where a girl named Rosa travels around the country to visit her social network in person? Now you can have same opportunity too, when you go on Facebook page for KIN, anyone who "likes" (aka "fans") page will be automatically entered in a new sweepstakes where the winner
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May 28

OneNote 2010 – An all too brief introduction by Office Casual

OneNote has plenty of new features for Office 2010, but in this short video, Doug Thomas from Office Casual gives a simple overview of this program for gathering and sharing ideas; a scrapbook for your computer:
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May 28

Application Virtualization (App-V) for Remote Desktop Services (RDS ) White paper by Microsoft

Microsoft published a whitepaper that discusses the benefits, configurations and considerations when planning a Microsoft Windows Server Remote Desktop Services solution with Microsoft App-V, and probably the best way to let you know what's in it's to show the table of contents (see pic). If you run App-V 4.6 on Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session
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May 28

Remote Desktop Services and Terminal Services Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 /R2

Remote Desktop Services Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 is intended for use by system administrators & system engineers responsible for deploying role services & features for RDS for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. It provides detailed guidance for deploying RDS design preselected by you, an infrastructure specialist, or a system architect in your organization.Terminal
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