Archive for June 1st, 2010
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Adam Kinney demonstrates how to take advantage of behaviors in Expression Blend 4. He creates several demonstrations using new DataStore and conditional behavior features in concert with several new behaviors including ChangePropertyAction, ControlStoryBoardAction, SetDataStoreValueAction, and the custom Mouse3DBehavior. Adam also shows how to create a custom behavior using code:
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Jun
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Microsoft announced the general availability of "Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0" package, that enables federation for existing SharePoint 3.0 deployments, both Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) 2007. Using this package, enterprise SharePoint administrators can configure their deployments to trust any WS-Federation STS, such as AD FS 2.0, so that
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Jun
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Microsoft Tag Implementation Guidelines have been released, and it "offers step-by-step instructions and best practices for streamlining the production of Microsoft Tag bar codes, verifying bar code behavior in the field, ensuring a superior user experience, and making the most of Tag reporting tools," Microsoft reveals in the document. "Everyone creating and working with Tag should
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Jun
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Microsoft announced that "Ribbon Hero" update now works with OneNote. "you can now earn a lot more points by using Ribbon Hero in either OneNote 2007 or OneNote 2010. Here're just a few of the OneNote features around which we've created challenges in Ribbon Hero: Converting handwriting to text; Copying text from pictures; Playing audio; Using
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Jun
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Joulemeter is a software based mechanism to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual softwares running on a computer. Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring the hardware resources (CPU, disk, memory, screen etc) being used and converting the resource usage to actual
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Jun
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Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees, who recently, started pulling out a MacBook Pro. The directive to move to Mac OS X OS began in January, after Google's Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows
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Jun
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Microsoft has sent all adCenter customers an email informing of the changes coming to Terms & Conditions on June 21st, 2010. The refresh is designed to enable customers to leverage the unified search marketplace in U.S. and Canada. Carolyn Miller enumerated some of key modifications: "•contracting entity is changed from Microsoft Online, L.P., to Microsoft Online,
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Jun
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Last week Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed a bill into law that includes a provision, authored by Representative Eric Eisnaugle (R-Orlando) and Senator Victor Crist (R-Tampa), that make possible for candidates to make full use of online advertising, social networking, and text messages in campaigns. Use of those tools to reach potential voters has
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Jun
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AccessHosting have launched a new plan for developers beyond the 30 day trial: "Access Services Hosting Features for developers include: Carrier grade SAS 70 compliant data center facilities managed by Equinix, one of worlds largest data center operators; Premium bandwidth from InterNAP provides low latency and excellent worldwide response time; Daily backups with offsite rotation for
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Jun
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RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections. It is useful for managing server labs where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and data centers. It is similar to the built-in MMC Remote Desktops snap-in, but more flexible. According to the company, RDCMan is designed to play nice with operating systems such
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Jun
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Companies creating an implementation of Remote Desktop Protocol set can license Intellectual Property rights they need from Microsoft by signing RDP Client License. Products that might need these rights to interact with Windows Remote Desktop Servers (Sessions or VM based) include: Non-Windows Thin Client devices; Non-Windows based client software. To understand if you might need patent
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Jun
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How would online collaboration really affect your workplace? And how could increased email storage or integrated IM and video chat actually impact your company's productivity? To answer some of these questions, Google've created "Go Google cloud calculator," that let you take a test drive into the cloud. Whether your company is big or small, brand new
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Jun
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Yahoo! Updates is a stream of people's activity, based largely on public content they've created on Yahoo!. For some time now, Yahoo! is been adding Updates into more of its products like Yahoo! Mail, Messenger and Profiles. With each new roll-out, Updates has been improving. For e.g., in Yahoo! Messenger, people can see Updates from all
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Jun
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Apple iPad sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries later this year. "Customers around the
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Jun
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Google kicked off June with fresh round of webmaster Q&A on Webmaster Central YouTube channel, where your submitted & voted questions, will be answered Matt Cutts. In the video embedded below Matt highlights "Why doesn't Webmaster Tools have multiple-country targeting?" question:webmaster Q&A[Source] No Comments » - Posted by DG
Random From The Matt Cutts: Why doesn’t Webmaster Tools have multiple-country targeting like AdWords?
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