Archive for June 23rd, 2010


Jun 23

Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta Released

Microsoft released the Beta of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4, focused on two things: connecting Windows 7 to the cloud services you already use, and making everyday tasks simpler, so that you can do more on your PC."We've designed Essentials to connect your Windows experience to web services – not just the ones from Microsoft. New
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Jun 23

Windows 7 SP1 Beta Build 7601.16562.100603-1800 released to tester

Microsoft released a beta version of Windows 7 SP1; "In an email to technical beta testers, the Windows Customer Connection Team confirmed the release of the Service Pack in English, German, Japanese, French and Spanish editions. Weighing in at 1.22GB the build was compiled on June 3 with the number 7601.16562.100603-1800.""RemoteFX is a new enhancement to
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Jun 23

Google Maps “Minor style updates, Major feature improvements”

Google highights their ongoing incremental improvements to the style of Google Maps:"Starting with area close to our office in Sydney, you can see that we've made roads thinner and more discernible, and improved treatment of tunnels so they don't look so much like they're above ground:In Taichung, Taiwan, our roads used
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Jun 23

Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT) Webcast and Planning migration to Office 2010

These days, you are likely to find that many of Microsoft's significant new release – like Windows, Office and Windows Server – will come with enhanced deployment and planning tools. For Office 2010, there's free "Office Environment Assessment Tool," which helps you to find out what applications you've installed, what add-ins are used in Office (including
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Jun 23

YouTube Content Rating System launched for all U.S.-partner, Google

Google rolled out "YouTube content rating" system to all U.S.-partner uploaded content, that'll potentially be of great value to you as you earn money from your videos on YouTube."Now, when you upload a video that doesn't have a specified content rating (i.e. MPAA or TV rating), we ask partner to rate content in these five categories:
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Jun 23

Google Blogger: Accurate Post Preview and new YouTube-based “Video Player”

Google added some new features in to Blogger: "First, "accurate post preview" feature is now available to everyone. Before you publish a post, you may want to preview your post to see how it'll actually look to your readers, in the same format and style of your current Blogger theme. To try it, click Preview button
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Jun 23

Measurement Lab tool to test Australian broadband with AARNet

Australia's Academic and Research Network AARNet has announced a tool called "Measurement Lab (M-Lab)," to help researchers and Australians better understand the performance of broadband Internet connections. "Do you know how fast your Internet connection is? You can try these tools out at measurementlab.net, test your Internet connection speed and diagnose problems affecting network
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Jun 23

Capitol Hill Family Game Night by Microsoft and Get Game Smart

Microsoft and Get Game Smart, hosting the "first Capitol Hill Family Game Night. Members of Congress, congressional staff members and their families will gather to learn helpful tips on managing their family's digital media use. Attendees will have opportunity to demo Xbox 360 parental controls and play latest family-friendly Xbox 360 titles such as "The
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Jun 23

Contrail: Microsoft’s private social network for Cell Phones running on Windows Azure

Researchers at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley are developing a mobile network called "Contrail," that enables users to share media without sharing information with central server. Contrail runs on Microsoft's cloud computing service, Windows Azure, and the team has developed three compatible applications running on HTC Windows Mobile cell phones. "With Contrail, central location doesn't ever know
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Jun 23

Acer Aspire AS8943G entertainment PC, super-slim TimelineX Series, and Gateway ID Series

Acer announced two new offerings: Acer Aspire AS8943G entertainment PC – it has a whopping 18.4" 1080p screen that makes it awesome for watching movies, and is powered by a 500GB HDD, Core i7 processor and screaming-fast DirectX 11 capable ATI Mobility Radeon HD5850 GPU. You can get it with 4 or 8 GB of RAM,
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Jun 23

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) FREE Resources from Microsoft – Guides, Videos, DemoMate

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is a great way to optimize Windows 7 deployment. Here're some great resources that you can use to discover on your own what makes MDOP so great.First resource, Enterprise products: MDOP page provides a good overview of the products in MDOP.For technical content, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) on TechNet
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Jun 23

How to read Adobe PDF files in Apple iBooks with help from Dropbox

Here's a nice little nifty tip to read PDF files on your iPhone or iPad using Apple's new iBooks app using Dropbox. Dropbox is an amazing cloud storage app that works on several platforms, and one of them happens to be iOS, making it possible to transfer PDF files to your mobile device.
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Jun 23

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 Feature Videos: ‘Canvas and Amazon.com, HTML5 Video Support, ECMAScript 5, Canvas’

Internet Explorer Platform Preview 3 is designed for developers who want to experiment with the new platform features in Internet Explorer 9 and can be installed alongside Internet Explorer 8. As a result, is not a full browser and lacks common browser features like a back button or address bar. Here're some feature preveiw videos:A
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Jun 23

IE9 Platform Preview 3 with ‘Canvas, Audio/Video Tags,’ and more launched

At the "12 Gallagher Lane" gallery in San Francisco, Microsoft' IE team launched Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3, that includes a number of major new features. The biggest additions to Platform Preview are support for HTML Canvas, audio/video tags, and performance boosts that largely focus on IE9′s hardware acceleration. In a series of demos showing
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Jun 23

DROID X by Motorola unveiled, Google open source Android 2,2 “Froyo”

Verizon and Motorola unveiled "DROID X" that comes with ultra high-speed Web browsing; fast 1GHz processor; 4.3-inch high-resolution screen; 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities; loads of memory; intuitive social messaging; Adobe Flash Player 10.1 ready; and access to Android Market, along with a host of unique Verizon Wireless apps such as NFL Mobile, Skype mobile, V CAST
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