Archive for August 5th, 2010
Aug
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Google 3D Warehouse, now started sending "model updates via email," allowing you to stay informed about the status of your models as they're being evaluated. "Now, when your model is published to Google Earth you'll receive a congratulatory message. Likewise, we'll also let you know if your model wasn't accepted, or if it was replaced by
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Aug
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WordPress.com added a feature that displays a "Like" button, at the bottom of blog posts, which, when clicked, shows a Gravatar image for all the bloggers who liked it."When you "like" a post two core things happen. First, author sees your "like" and can click-through to your Gravatar profile. Second, clicking "like" saves post in "Posts
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Aug
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Google shuts the doors on its Nexus One online retail venture, Now, the company is offering "unlocked Nexus One phones for direct sale to registered Android Developers at a price of $529," revealed Android dev team. It'll come pre-loaded with Android 2.1, but will get OTA update to 2.2 once you turn on phone. It's a
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Aug
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Intel and the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement on charges that "the chipmaker used its dominant market position to stifle competition. The case had originally been brought against Intel in December of last year. As a result of the settlement, Intel will be barred from offering payments to customers that choose to buy its chips
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Aug
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Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, made some interesting comment about Chrome OS and the potential users of a Chrome OS tablet at Techonomy conference:"Chrome OS, Schmidt said is focused on selling Netbook-class computers to early believers in cloud-based storage. The first devices, which he reiterated will come this year, will use either Intel
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Aug
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PayPal launched version two of its PayPal mobile app for Android. Just like PayPal Mobile app on iPhone, the new "Android app features bump technology – allowing you to simply tap two phones together to send money. Split the check is another great feature, which lets you automatically calculate the total cost of a bill and
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Aug
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While the web is so useful and easy to use these days only a few understand how it functions. If you ever wondered about it, it's time to find out. Here's a nice infographic showing exactly how the Internet works.
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Aug
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For past few days, Microsoft Hardware's Twitter account has been teasing us with cropped thumbnails of an upcoming product leaving many to wonder what it might be, well it's the "Arc Touch Mouse". If you think you might be keen on a touch-enabled mouse from Microsoft, then prepare to shell out $69.95 green ones
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Aug
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Have you ever wonder "Just how many books are out there in the world?"Google have the answer; "As of today, we estimate there're 129,864,880 different books in the world. That's a lot of knowledge captured in the written word! This calculation used an algorithm that combines books information from multiple sources including libraries, WorldCat, national union
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Aug
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ShowMe for SharePoint 2010 helps end users get the most out of SharePoint 2010 by delivering on-demand video training and context-sensitive help.ShowMe for SharePoint 2010 offers: » Integrated User Experience. End users can launch training and help from anywhere within SharePoint 2010! Whether it's Site Actions menu, new SharePoint Ribbon or from SharePoint Search, content
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Aug
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Microsoft Live Labs launched "zoom.it" for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. You can upload any website link, image, webpage, pdf, etc and get back a fully embeddable, short url'd viewer with deep zoom functionality.For e.g, here's our site diTii, also, embedded below:Zoom.it converts your image to the Deep Zoom format, which lets you smoothly
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Aug
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Following New York Times revelation about the possible deal between Verizon and Google that would go against the tenets of net neutrality. FCC Chief of Staff Edward Lazarus said "We've called off this round of stakeholder discussions." "It has been productive on several fronts, but hasn't generated robust framework to preserve openness and freedom of
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Aug
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Ben Rudolph took part in 21 (yes, 21) live TV and radio interviews with stations from all around the country showing off some of the latest and greatest Windows PCs for the back-to-school season. Not all of the stations made their clips available online, but luckily the Microsoft News Center did. Check the clip to see the quickie version after the jump:
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Aug
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There was little bit of a debate a while back about jogging being actually bad for you, what would you say for bouncy jogging, Watch the video below and pick yours "favorite" or "bad":
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Aug
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VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions is a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some nice additional functionality. "One of the useful, features if you're using lot extensions is "Ctrl + Click" go to definition feature." "it enables you to quickly navigate to definition of a member or type within your
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Random From The Ctrl+Click “Go to Definition” Code Editor features of Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions
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