Archive for September 9th, 2010
Sep
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Microsoft released JetPack–a new Silverlight 4 application theme. "During this September refresh of the themes we've also updated the previous 3 themes: Cosmopolitan, Windows and Accent Color with some minor fixes and tweaks based on some feedback we got," said Microsoft.You can see a preview of various styles in JetPack.Download:
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Sep
9
Apple updated their iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Unlike previous version, these new terms ensure that Apple's developers have choice of variety of advertising solutions (including Google and AdMob) to earn money and fund their apps. Apple's new terms will keep in-app advertising on iPhone open to many different mobile ad competitors and enable advertising solutions
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Sep
9
Christian Heilmann posted a five-steps tutorial on creating a fancy sticky note effect using CSS3 and HTML5: "smoothly animating and tilted sticky notes without any use of images or JavaScript – supported by Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome and falling back to a set of yellow boxes in older browsers. By clever use of the nth-child
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Sep
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Worm:Win32/Visal.B is a new worm, written in Visual Basic, that is currently propagating in part using social-engineering. The mass-mailed messages contain a link that looks as though it points to a .pdf document or .wmv video, but in fact it points to a malicious .scr file. If you run the scr your machine will start sending
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Sep
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As you know, all Yahoo! Search Marketing advertisers will soon be transitioning to Microsoft Advertising adCenter platform, and they can initiate their transitions right now in Yahoo! account interface. To help advertisers who may have uncertainty about taking these steps,"Yahoo! is holding a webinar on Sep 16, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time/2:00 p.m. Eastern
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Sep
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Office 2010 Language Packs are now available and enable desktops to support multiple languages, including Menus/Display, Help, Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Spell Checker. LPs enhance user experience with localized Menus/Display, Help, and document proofing tools for most Office 2010 applications, and Office 2010 suites. LPs aren't supported on Word Starter and Excel Starter 2010. Access 2010 and
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Sep
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Here're five ways you can make Gmail's "Priority Inbox" work even better for you:Customize sections: Priority Inbox has three sections: "Important and Unread," "Starred" and "Everything Else. "You can make a section show messages from a particular label (like "Action" or "To-do" label), add a fourth section, or change max size of any section. Visit
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Sep
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Parallels made available "Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac," with more than 80 new and enhanced features. V6 delivers unprecedented advances in productivity, performance and graphics — the areas people care about most for running Windows and Mac apps side-by-side on a Mac without rebooting.In product benchmark testing, results show Parallels Desktop 6 remains atop the performance
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Sep
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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
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Microsoft published a Knowledge Base article documenting the recommended hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 208 R2. "This article describes recommended updates to install to address issues when you're managing hosts or are performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion by using Microsoft SCVMM 2008 R2," explains Microsoft in KB2397711Solutions embedded below:
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Sep
9
Google launches new Google Earth website, loaded with lots of great content including:Showcase: Browse collection of featured content about Ocean, Moon, 3D buildings and more to see all the ways you can explore the world around you.Video tutorials help you learn how to create placemarks, record a tour, add a 3D building, import GPS
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Sep
9
Google launched a new website "AdWords Small Business Center," a central learning hub allows you to share AdWords best practices and provides key information you need to know to run a successful AdWords account.Learn essentials: ASBC allows you to explore insightful topics as a beginner, intermediate, or advanced user. It covers everything from strategies for writing
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Sep
9
Official data on the number of people still lacking access to adequate water and sanitation services prove that the current situation is simply unacceptable: "884 million people lack adequate access to clean water and 2.6 billion lack access to proper sanitation," according to WHO and UNICEF's Joint Water Monitoring Program. Disease spreads rapidly with over one
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Sep
9
Google Instant 'search-before-you-type' search features is an interesting experiment, but the new interface has some unpleasant side effects:Google Suggest can no longer be disabled. Even if you disable Google Instant, suggestions will still be displayed.You can no longer change the number of results. The interface would be less fluid if Google had to fetch
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Sep
9
Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console came out on top of the U.S. market for the third consecutive month in August, according to NPD Group data: "Xbox 360's result of 357,000 units sold for the month was more than 100,000 better than the nearest competitor, Nintendo Wii, at 244,000 units. Sony's PlayStation 3 came in at 226,000
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