Archive for September 30th, 2010
Sep
30
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) together as a collective group to answer your questions live. MVPs will be on hand to take questions about Office 2010 or Office 2007 products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project, OneNote and more. As well as Windows 7 and earlier versions such as Windows Vista. In addition to
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Sep
30
NetApp has posted about NetApp for Microsoft Environments site. In his post, Alex explains how NetApp are building out integration using Opalis, and creating automated scenario's: "Opalis is a great way for us to help customers build highly automated solutions for everything from provisioning storage to performing regular compliance checks. Our engineering team has been
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Sep
30
Google announced a new metric in Bid Simulator, "Estimated Top Impressions," which shows how many times your ad appeared above the search results in the past seven days and how this metric could have changed had you used different keyword level maximum CPC bids. Whether you carefully manage a handful of valuable keywords or simply
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Sep
30
Imagine Cup is the world's premier student technology competition, sponsored by Microsoft. To give you some perspective, here're some inspirational words to the finalists of Imagine Cup 2010 from First Lady Michelle Obama.It's a 2-step process:US Students- Using just your school name and email address, sign up to receive Imagine Cup
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Sep
30
Didqus announced a set of "Disqus Mobile" apps on Android, iPhone, and webOS to help you moderate and keep up with your communities whilst on the go. These apps are simple to use, lightweight, and battery efficient.Features:Approving, marking spam, and deleting contentFiltering by statusBackground notificationsSearchReplyView
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Sep
30
"You're using Hyper-V and a Failover Cluster and your Virtual Machines share the same Clustered LUN to hold VHD for the VMs. You're also using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to manage your environment. If you delete a VM that resides on a LUN which's shared with another VM, the other VM may fail,"
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Sep
30
When coding, it's easy to make small mistakes. Usually these types of mistakes have no direct effect; the code runs and everything appears to be OK. That makes this situation so dangerous. If you want to gain a quick overview of potential errors, you can use the free TM VBA Inspector. This add-in lets you browse
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Sep
30
Microsoft released the final version of Windows Live Essentials, in 48 languages. The complete package comes includes the popular programs 'Movie Maker, Mail, Messenger, Writer, Sync, and Family Safety.' Also, Dell becomes the first global PC manufacturer to ship PCs with WLE2011 and Windows 7 pre-installed, just in time for your holiday purchases.Windows Live team has
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Sep
30
Nigel have built a basic Windows Phone 7 application that works against the open REST based API for Trade Me. "Since then Trade Me has released a full featured API and we have created a Windows Phone 7 developer competition and a starter kit."Download: Source
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Sep
30
The Foursquare v2.0 for Android has now become a more powerful tool for sharing and discovery. "The first thing you'll notice is that the whole experience has been cleaned up, with new foursquare app clearly geared towards collecting and communicating your real-world experiences. Tips and To-Dos are now out in the open, making it easy to
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Sep
30
Windows Live Essentials 2011 (formerly Wave 4) has RTW-ed (Released To the Web).2011 suite includes a tonne of new features:Facebook Chat integration within MessengerBing Maps integration and improved geo-tagging support in Photo GalleryUpload video direct to FlickrMessenger video chat uses 30% fewer CPU resources by offloading work to GPUHigher bit-rate movies in Movie MakerBetter spell-checking
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Sep
30
WildTangent Games is an aggregator of great games across the internet. They used to have a bad reputation, but now they're a model application. By earning the Compatible with Windows 7 Logo they've strengthened their commitment to privacy and security. With over 1300 games and 10 million new users per month, WildTangent is quickly growing in
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Sep
30
WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad v2.6 is now available with numerous bugfixes, performance enhancements, and bunch of goodies:Video. Record, upload, attach, and play videos within the app. Yay for being able to catch your friends' and co-workers' most embarrassing shenanigans creative moments with iPhone video and publish them immediately
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Sep
30
The new Xbox 360 Dashboard update is available to a select few who decided to enroll in the program. Much of this update also works in Kinect, including adding entity "Kinect Settings" under system settings. The Dashboard update also features Metro updates to applications, and a new one, ESPN which'll allow users to view over 3500
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Sep
30
Apple updated the App Store for iPhone to include a re-designed gaming section, which has its own dedicated new games pane, a what's hot (popular) section, a way to get into all the gaming categories (role playing, sports, etc.) and a Genius section just for games!Some people are reporting its reverted
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Random From The Apple Refreshed iPhone App Store’s Games Section
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