Archive for September 13th, 2011


Sep 13

Windows Phone Mango: Adding FAS to XNA

In the first sample of how to add Windows Phone Mango functionality to an existing Windows Phone application, we modified an existing XNA game to leverage the new Silverlight / XNA integration available in "Mango." This allows us to utilize the Silverlight paging model to very easily create a 'pause' screen, that users will get
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Sep 13

Google.com Tweaks SERPs Users Interface

Google.com is currently testing various tweaks to its search results pages, In this experiment, Google has redesigned the search results users interface and added some of the experimental features.The search options sidebar no longer uses icons as previously added, there's now a new section that displays the service's name ("Search") and the number of search results
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Sep 13

How to Hide, or Collapse, the Ribbon in Office 2010?

Curtis Sawin over at Office Resource blog today published a new 'how to' to help user migrating from Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003 environments to Office 2010 -- and to get them rid off the 'ribbon' UI to imitate previous user interface. "One strategy to help users ease into this transition is to hide,
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Sep 13

9/11 Anniversary: ‘Empire State of Mind’ YouTube Video Viewed Over Half a Million Times in 24 Hours

The 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks was the biggest topic on YouTube this weekend and videos tied to the anniversary remain very popular today.In particular, the top trending video of the anniversary was an spot created by StateFarm, directed by Spike Lee, featuring 150 school children singing "Empire State of Mind." It's been
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Sep 13

Google Affiliate Network: Advertisers & Publishers Will Now Be Paid Within 30 Days

Google has announced that starting next month, October 2011, Google Affiliate Network will be making publisher payments faster by eliminating 30 days from the current payment schedule. "This enables publishers to be paid within 30 days or 60 days of driving a valid conversion, depending on the advertiser's schedule," Google's Erica Sievert, Product Marketing Manager stated.Starting
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Sep 13

BUILD: Steven Sinofsky Demos Windows 8 Developer Preview

Los Angeles, Sept. 13, at the BUILD conference, Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, in his keynote address to the thousands of developers in attendance said that "We reimagined Windows, and that "From the chipset to the user experience, Windows 8 brings a new range of capabilities without compromise.""He
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Sep 13

Bing for Mobile Browse Adds ‘Liked Results, Videos, and Movies’

Bing for Mobile Browse just wraps off a new set of features that now lets you explore and watch the hottest videos, make faster decisions with the help of Facebook friends and help you decide on the right movie for a night out: Liked Results are now available on mobile browser. With it, "you can instantly
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Sep 13

BUILD: Download Windows 8 Developers Preview

BUILD, Steven Sinofsky said that "Windows 8 represents a reimagining of Windows from the chipset to the experience. Since this is a week focused on developers, we also detailed the bold underpinnings of the re-imagination of the Windows platform, tools, and APIs."He said "We will show off the opportunity to build applications for all of the
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Sep 13

Windows 7 Approaching 450,000,000 Sold Copies

BUILD just started, Microsoft's president of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, Steven Sinfosky in his opening keynote just revealed, that Windows 7 is approaching 450,000,000 copied sold since its release.And, that 542,000,000 people are signing into Windows Live services simultaneously.
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Sep 13

Video: Autoscaling Windows Azure Applications

The ability to rapidly scale your application in response to changes in demand is one of the key benefits that Windows Azure delivers when you host your applications in the cloud. "If you rely on manual interventions to scale your application, you may not always achieve the optimal balance between costs and performance. An autoscaling solution
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Sep 13

Android Market Hits 6B Downloads Mark, Android Captures 22% European Market, Top 20 Android Apps in US – Angry Birds Hits 350M Downloads

According to a lates Nielsen study, "aside from the Android Market app itself, Facebook, Google Maps and Gmail are the most used among U.S. Android users 18 years and older." Nielsen analyzed the data from on-device meters on thousands of Android smartphones."While many of the top 20 apps, including: Pandora and two versions of the popular
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Sep 13

DoubleClick for Advertisers (DFA) API V1.15 Arrrived, v1.13 Deprecated, V1.14 Sunsetting

Version 1.15 of DoubleClick For Advertisers (DFA) API has arrived and includes following bugs fixation:Placement End Dates "will now be converted before they are validated" - "Previously, both campaign and placement end dates always use midnight in the Eastern Time Zone as their ending time. When saving a placement, the placement's end date was checked against
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Sep 13

Hurricane Tracker Bing Maps App Launched By Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal launhced a new Bing Maps app that tracks hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. The app is an interactive graphic that charts both current hurricanes as they are happening, and chronicles previous hurricanes dating back to 2005," announced Bing Maps blog."To watch a current storm's path, you can follow
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Sep 13

Google Photos Returns ‘Nude Photos’ For “Gmail” Seach Query

For those looking for 'nude' photos, here is another way -- when you search for [gmail] using the Google "Photos" option -- the Google.com returns a gallery of partial nude pictures of women.What is happening is when the search query is triggered, Google returns the search results for [gmail] -- in this case since the query
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Sep 13

Google Documents Adding ‘Comment-only’ Access

Google Docs over the next several days, releasing a new sharing option that will let people view and add comments to anyones documents without giving them edit access," announced Google.Sarah Wu, a Google Software Engineer explains, "To give comment-only access to your document, click on the Share button. From there, add in the contact you'd like
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