Archive for the September, 2010
Sep
7
Samsung X430, a carbon fiber clad PC is a Microsoft Store exclusive – sold only in new "brick-and-mortar" stores and at Microsoft Store Online. And with a 14" HD LED 1366 x 768 screen and at only 1" thick, its very portable. The X430 is powered by a Core i3 that's coupled with impressive NVIDIA GeForce
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Sep
16
Microsoft announced that Halo: Reach made $200 million in its first 24 hours on the United states and the European market. "Microsoft claim that the game benefited from the biggest launch in 2010 in the United States, and compare the game's initial takings with those of blockbusters like Iron Man 2, Alice in Wonderland and Toy
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Sep
17
As if surpassing $200 million in sales in 24 hrs on first day weren't enough, "Halo: Reach" received some serious celebrity attention this week. Here's a soon-to-be-classic video from "Funny or Die" featuring Snoop Dogg and LL Cool J doing their best to distract each other in an epic Xbox Live multiplayer battle:
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Sep
17
Google Calendar has a Labs feature called "Gentle reminders" that replaces pop-up reminders with better notifications. "When you get a reminder, the title of the Google Calendar window or tab will blink in the background." If you use Google Chrome, you can also enable desktop notifications in the settings.Google has
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Sep
9
In short, "WATCH THIS SPACE" is a new Google campaign or a summed up message about display advertising; Google said "Starting today, we're going to be talking about our vision for display advertising with a campaign called "WATCH THIS SPACE." As part of this, you might see ads across the web, in print and maybe even
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Sep
17
Gmail Labs rolled out a new feature, Google've now made this feature available in orkut "video chat" that let you video chat in high-resolution!To enable it, click "Options" at the bottom of your orkut chat list, then "Chat Settings". In the settings window, check "Enable high-resolution video" option, and you’re
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Sep
2
Drupal is a popular free and open source publishing platform powering sites such as The White House. This post highlights some of the improvements developed for upcoming Drupal 7 release:Drupal 7 has made its caching system more easily pluggable to allow for easier memcache integration. Also enabled caching HTTP headers to be set so that logged
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Sep
13
Microsoft unveiled a new LifeCam Studio, featuring sharp high-definition (HD) video with a true 1080p sensor. Microsoft's newest LifeCam is the perfect complement to Windows Live Messenger 2011, which'll offer HD video calling in a 16:9 widescreen format so everyone can easily be seen in the video call with amazing detail.LifeCam
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Sep
24
In this session, Don McCrady discusses how C++ programmers can fully utilize multicore in their applications using the Concurrency Runtime (ConcRT), the Parallel Pattern Library (PPL), and the Asynchronous Agents Library that ship with Visual Studio 2010. No Comments » - Posted by DG
Sep
15
User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and apps occasionally maintain connections to registry keys in user profile after a user logs off. In those cases the user session is prevented from completely ending. This can result in problems when using Roaming User
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Sep
2
Twitter's Evan Williams posted about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, "there was plethora of 3rd-party Twitter apps, people were having trouble finding and selecting one because none were called "Twitter." For this reason, we acquired Tweetie and turned it into Twitter for iPhone, we took similar approach with Twitter for BlackBerry and Twitter
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Sep
29
Xmarks bookmark-syncing tool—closing its doors in January 2011. Here's how to continue using Xmarks by hosting your bookmarks on your own server. You'll need: A web host or server that allows you to set up a WebDAV directory; Firefox with the most recent version of Xmarks installed; Roughly five to ten minutes. Watch the
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Sep
7
Microsoft announced two-day intensive instructor-led workshop, which provides delegates with an early opportunity to gain insight into the nature and benefits of Windows Azure Platform. The workshop will focus on three key services – Windows Azure, SQL Azure and AppFabric.Agenda: •Module 1: Windows Azure Platform overview •Module 2: Introduction to Windows Azure •Module 3: Introduction to
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Sep
10
Microsoft posted a video demonstrating RBA (Role Based Administration) in ConfigMgr v.Next. "RBA a simplified administration of security permissions within ConfigMgr environment. This allows organizations to use Security Roles to group sets of permissions together that collectively define an administrative span of control. There're 13 out of the box (in the current beta) and these
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Sep
15
The IE9 beta has just been released, and it work with the latest versions of the Bing Maps SDK's. However, there's an issue with AJAX SDK v6.2 that result in rendering problems of VEShape-objects (points, lines and polygons). This issue also affects some samples of Interactive SDK. The workaround is to either switch IE9 to
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