Archive for September 3rd, 2010
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A hidden features found in Windows Live Essentials beta, "In Live Writer, you've autolinks, these're links and a bit of text that you set up, so when you type that text, it automatically puts the link you set. You can configure this within Live Writer's options.Next, when you're composing a new email
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A reader has uncovered a secret about the origin of the Android logo. "It appear that the logo was based upon a character in the 1990 game "Gauntlet: The Third Encounter". The game was never really a huge hit, replaced a year after release (according to Wikipedia, anyway) by "Gauntlet III:
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THQ opened the beta of Company of Heroes Online, a free-to-play World War II strategy game based upon THQ's critically acclaimed real-time strategy franchise Company of Heroes, originally released for Windows in 2006. The open beta of Company of Heroes Online includes 17 multiplayer maps which can be used in two, four, six, and eight-player modes,
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To prevent your Windows Azure applications from potentially experiencing a loss of availability during platform upgrades, we recommend deploying more than one instance of your web-facing roles. Doing so also enforces the Windows Azure Compute Service Level Agreement (SLA), which guarantees 99.95% external connectivity for Internet-facing roles when two or more role instances are deployed for
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Count down to find out who'll take home a Moon Man at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, 2010 is already begun. Yahoo! and MTV launched "Behind the Lens," a video hub where you can see this year's nominated videos with pop-up Flash overlays that help you discover information about the music artist
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It has been reported that there are issues with upgrading to August 2010 Security Updates on databases that have IE7 and WMP11 installed, and also have all other security updates installed:[Source] No Comments » - Posted by DG
Sep
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Google released a new Sidewiki "sidebar" web element. Google Sidewiki allows visitors to your website to contribute helpful information and read other visitors' insights alongside the pages of a website. "Sidebar is a Sidewiki button, which, when clicked, displays a fully functional Sidewiki sidebar to left of the page content. This means that your visitors can
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Sep
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In this episode of Microsoft cloud, Join Ryan and Steve covers: benefits and patterns of routing in Windows Azure; how to route to stateful instances within your Windows Azure services; demo a simple router for 'sticky' HTTP sessions: No Comments » - Posted by DG
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A free Microsoft Research developed Word 2007/2010 add-in enables authors and editors to save Word files in the National Library of Medicine's Document Type Definitions format, which is used for publishing and archiving articles and books. In addition, the add-in enables more metadata to be captured and stored at the authoring stage and enables semantic information
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Sep
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Google announced new themes for a new orkut; "We asked artists, hailing from all over the world, to design 6 themes inspired by today's digital lifestyle. Some designed beautiful patterns out of the gadgets that keep us connected. Others celebrated the communities we form and the emotions we feel when staying in touch with our friends
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Plex, now few days after releasing Plex/Nine and Plex for iOS, the media center announced a partnership with LG to include a version of the software on its Internet-enabled TVs and Blu-ray players. Additionally, Plex revealed that LG Electronics will be integrating the Plex platform technology into its 2011 Netcast enabled HDTVs and Blu-ray devices, making
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Google Finance Stock Screener is a powerful tool for financial research on the site. It allows you to sort using a wide range of criteria.Stock Screener can be accessed in two ways: From left hand navigation bar on homepage, or From company page. Scroll down to "Key stats and ratios" along right hand side, click "Screen
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Sep
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When you set up a File Server, there're advantages to configuring multiple NICs. However, there're many options to consider depending on how your network and services are laid out. Since networking (along with storage) is one of the most common bottlenecks in file server deployment, this's a topic worth investigating. Throughout this blog post, we'll look
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Sep
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BI is a concept encompassing many areas of IT and like many other IT terms, it means different things to different people. One simple definition of BI is "Using of analytic and visualization tools to better understand and interpret data." To better understand BI, get the "Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010," from
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Sep
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Google updated it's privacy policies. "To be clear, we aren't changing any of our privacy practices; we want to make our policies more transparent and understandable. As a first step, we're making two types of improvements:Most of our products and services are covered by main Google Privacy Policy. Some, also have their own individual policies.
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Random From The Google Privacy Policies ‘Trimmed & Simplified’
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