Archive for September 22nd, 2011


Sep 22

Code First Migrations Alpha 3 Now Available With ‘No-Magic & With-Magic’ Walkthrough

The ADO.NET at Microsoft announced the release of Alpha 3 of Code First Migrations. "Alpha 3 is still is primarily focused on the developer experience inside of Visual Studio. "This release adds most of development time features we plan to include in the first RTM," said the the team. "Alpha 3 is focused on adding the remaining
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Sep 22

Build And Manual Testing Windows 8 Metro Style Applications?

Windows 8 introduces metro style apps that can be built using Visual Studio 11 tools. "After building a Metro Style Application using Visual Studio, you can now install this application on a Windows 8 Device and start manual testing it. For this, you can use Microsoft Test Manager to connect to the Windows 8 Device
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Sep 22

Google Books Helped Reunite a Holocaust Survivor and a World War II Veteran After 67-years

James H. Keeffe, III, author of "Two Gold Coins and a Prayer: The Epic Journey of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW," a memoir of the WWII experiences of her father, James H. Keeffe, Jr., today shared how the book was uploaded to Google Books and helped reunite a Holocaust survivor and a World
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Sep 22

Tweet A Photo Via Text Message On Twitter

Starting today, now you can share photos on Twitter by including a "photo in your text message." Just enter the text of your Tweet as you normally would, attach a photo to the message and send to Twitter, annouounced Twitter.Here are few other text messaging updates and tips to check out:Fast
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Sep 22

Get Mobilized Portal Now In France, Germany, United Kingdom; Mobile Site Optimization Now Factors Into Mobile Search Ads Quality

Get Mobilized website now available in 3 new languages: France, Germany, and United Kingdom, to help your business to join the mobile revolution. Following, soon Japanese readers.On the site you will find "tips on optimizing your mobile campaign performance to how to drive more calls to your business, there's lots of getting started resources with short
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Sep 22

‘Multiple Sign-in, Vacation Auto-Responder and Mobile-specific Signature’ Added to Gmail for Mobile

Gmail for mobile today received some new features. "Multiple sign-in supportYou can now to sign into multiple accounts simultaneously. "To sign into an additional account, click on the account switcher at the bottom of the threadlist, then click "Sign into an another account"," explains Dominic Leung, Mobile Software Engineer. You can quickly switch between accounts
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Sep 22

WebMatrix 2 Beta Released With ‘Remote Site Access and Editing’ and More!

Microsoft released the WebMartix 2 Beta to early adopters to test drive the second version of the tool designed to streamline website development on top of Windows.Pleas note; "WebMatrix 2 Beta cannot be installed side-by-side with WebMatrix 1 - it will overwrite your existing installation. Do not install WebMatrix 2 Beta (which is a pre-release product
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Sep 22

Big Easy Offer 7! Back in the U.S. for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customers

Microsoft's Dynamics CRM marketing team in United States announced that the Big Easy offer is back, and this year both Microsoft Dynamics CRM (on premises) and Dynamics CRM Online are included -- thus providing you a great opportunity to expand existing customer footprints and accelerate new customer purchases over the next quarter.The offer will run from
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Sep 22

How to Use PowerShell Commands to Turn Windows Server 8 into an iSCSI Target? [Video Webcast]

Learn how to use a few PowerShell commands to turn a Windows Server 8 into an iSCSI Target.This video snack complements the BUILD hands-on lab SAC-966H: Turning Windows Server into a Block Storage Device, and technical session SAC-449T: Building Continuously Available File Server NAS Appliances (second embed below).This
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Sep 22

Bing Adds ‘Action Buttons’ On Search Results

Micorosoft's decision engine Bing today released "Action Buttons". "Now when you search across 7 popular categories - including airlines, couriers (e.g. FedEx), restaurants, banks, rental cars, software downloads and hotels - you will be presented with buttons for top actions on the site, that directly take you to the page where you can complete your task,"
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Sep 22

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” Rolling Out In Next Week Or Two

Microsoft will begin pushing the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" mobile operating system update to existing customers "in the next week or two," according to a September 21 post on the Windows Phone blog.Windows Phone General Manager, Customer Experience Engineering Eric Hautala said:"During the official Windows Phone 7.5 update process, every Windows Phone will also receive
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Sep 22

Vertical Cell Merge In Google Spreadsheets

Google starting today extended the merge functionality in Spreadsheets to let you create vertical merges across several rows of data."In the spirit of the NFL season, let's say you want to host a football tournament for your friends. To make it easier for them to cast their votes on the
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Sep 22

Learn to Use Windows 8 Multicast LAN Discovery [Video Webcast]

This vidoe helps you learn how to use the Windows 8 multicast LAN discovery effectively to connect people together for multiplayer games and collaboration apps."Internet Protocol (IP) multicast is a one-to-many and many-to-one delivery mechanism that is useful for efficiently distributing data to interested listening hosts at arbitrary locations on a home or work network, or
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Sep 22

Eric Schmidt’s Testimony Reveals, Google Tests ’13,311 Precision Evaluations’ Algorithm Change

Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt appear before the U.S. Senate to testify and talk about Google's approach to competition -- "We welcome competition. It makes us better. It makes our competitors better. Most importantly, it means better products for our users," said Schmidt.Schmidt is speaking today at a Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, about Google's
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Sep 22

WhitePaper: Dynamics CRM Connector ‘Features and Functions’

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online team published a whitepaper "The Connector for Microsoft Dynamics ERP - Features & Functions.""Combining relational and transactional data in a meaningful way has long been one of the most daunting challenges companies face in providing relevant data to their users and customers alike. Now the Dynamics CRM Connector for AX, NAV and
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