Archive for June 11th, 2010
Jun
11
When you pick a background image for Google seach homepage, you'll notice that Google uses a special white logo. Unfortunately, customized homepage can't show regular Google logo and Google doodles for special events. That's why Google shows a small notification icon next to the logo when there's a doodles you can't see. Clicking on the
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Jun
11
PowerPivot for Excel is an Excel 2010 add-in that allows users to pull data from multiple sources, mash them up, and then build reports using regular pivot tables. You can even share these reports with others in Microsoft SharePoint (via PowerPivot for SharePoint). In this demo, Julie Strauss, shows just how easy it's to get
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Jun
11
To remove the clutter out of Hotmal inboxes; "We added tools to help people manage email: For e.g., "Sweep menu" lets you quickly delete or move all email from a particular sender. Also improved filters and created a way to bring all related email messages together in a conversation view. We made two significant changes with
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Jun
11
Google is testing a completely new Google News home page design. The new layout changes the current two-column, grid-style layout with a wider main column and smaller sidebar-style column on the right. Each story has same "star" option that you find on regular Google News. But there's a new dropdown
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Jun
11
These white papers describe the performance and capacity impact of specific feature sets included in SharePoint Server 2010. These white papers include information about the performance and capacity characteristics of the feature and how it was tested by Microsoft, including: Test farm characteristics; Test results; Recommendations; Troubleshooting performance and scalability.Download: SharePoint Server 2010 performance and
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Jun
11
BBC World Service now "offers a way to break down language barriers through "World Cup Team Talk," which uses Google's machine translation technology. Starting June 11, football fans across the world will be able to contribute to a global conversation in 11 languages—Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, English, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Vietnamese and Welsh—and receive
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Jun
11
New AdWords reports in Google Analytics are now available to all advertisers, and give you deeper insight into the performance of your AdWords campaigns. "If you're a fan of Placement Performance report, you should take a look at Placements report in GA, that lets you analyze visits your site received from ads on Google
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Jun
11
As part of the SharePoint SDK, Visio team has published more documentation about creating Custom Data Providers. As you may recall, Visio drawings can connect to a variety of data sources, including Microsoft Excel files, SharePoint lists, SQL databases, and any other ODBC-compatible data source. In you want to connect to a different data source, you
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Jun
11
John Kelbley at TechEd 2010, showed some of the stuff his team recently announced - Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V. The integration components greatly improve the experience and performance of Linux virtual machines, and John showed some examples of what some VMs look like running with and without the ICs installed:
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Jun
11
"My Friends," is a Bing Map App that uses Facebook APIs to pull in your friends from Facebook. "Fire up app, log in via Facebook Connect, select "Allow" to allow Bing Maps to connect to your profile (to get your friend list) and any of your friends who've listed a "Current City" in their profile will
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Jun
11
Google launched a "new 'auto-share' option that lets you effortlessly share what you're watching on YouTube with your friends on orkut. To start auto-sharing with orkut, visit YouTube Activity Sharing tab, under YouTube account settings page, and click to connect with orkut.From now on, all scraps you send to your
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Jun
11
In order to make it easier for you to share your drawings, Google added "drawings to the Google Docs template gallery. Sharing via the gallery gives you categories, ratings, and even usage counts for drawings you've submitted. Here's a example of drawing templates currently in the gallery:Some other examples already available include
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Jun
11
Sega plans to offer popular games from the Dreamcast console on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. There wasn't an exact release date announced but it's supposed to be released this fall. The first two games to be released by Sega on the two systems will be Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure. Sega VP of
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Jun
11
Google rolls out "Blogger Template Designer" to everyone. Anyone can try out the template designer here. If you like your design, you can apply it to new blog or to an existing blog. You can also try Template Designer on your blog (Design > Template Designer). Note: Selecting a new template will erase all
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Jun
11
For those who've already joined Microsoft Deployment connection and tested Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1 beta release; "Please take a moment to share your thoughts and suggestions on your experiences with features in the software and how to improve them. Download MDT 2010 Update 1 Beta, and then complete this brief survey before June
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Random From The Survey: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1 beta
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The Windows Live Team has sent a newsletter, mentioning the following new upcoming features: Chat from within Hotmail, One calendar for everything, - Apr06Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) Program for Microsoft Server Products ‘Website & White Paper’
Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) program establishes a set of engineering requirements across all Microsoft server products with our goal to reduce the overall total