"We'll pull the name out of the hat on December 1, 2009, just in time to have this little gem sitting under some lucky winner's (non-denominational) Christmas / Hannukah / Kwanza / Festivus tree. Lovingly hand-crafted by their very own sysadmin / web genius / first-person shootist Jeremy Newman, they promise it will have all the woof you ...
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Win a CodeWeavers Linux Gaming Rig
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As part of the CrossOver Games 8.1 release, and its support for Left4Dead 2, CodeWeavers felt it was important to put superior firepower into the hands of their users! Any customer purchasing CrossOver Games or CrossOver Professional until November 25th will be automatically registered to win this loaded CodeWeavers Gaming PC. We'll pull the name ...
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CrossOver Games releases version 8.1.0
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Filed under: Gaming , Software , Odds and ends , Developer , Snow Leopard The folks behind CrossOver Games sent us a note that version 8.1.0 of their software has come out , and it's got some nice upgrades for Mac and Linux folks who prefer to run their games in Windows almost-emulators (it's based on Wine , and as we all know, Wine Is Not an ...
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TechNet Blogs
Chrome OS Engineering vs. Windows 7 Engineering
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Okay everyone, the moment has finally arrived! Google just announced… A Big Pile of Nothing It has been interesting reading the press and their view of the “game-changer” that is Chrome OS. Depending of what mindset you come from, your opinion of the project would be that of respect or if you’re like me, would be more attune to the ...
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A friend of mine and CRM MVP Shan McArthur from ADXSTUDIO, Inc. wrote this very smart piece that I’d recommend to any developer considering creating a Microsoft Dynamics custom solution. “Most developers are familiar with various Microsoft technologies including the .NET Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, WPF, and ASP.NET. They are accustomed ...
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Let's write a simple .NET 4 Location-aware application!
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So you want to write an application in .NET that’s location-aware? Let’s start with a code sample (console application) that will show you how to use a GeoLocationProvider to respond to location updates, and print those updates out to the console. In order to compile and run this code, you’ll need Visual Studio 2010 installed, and you’ll ...
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Paul Krill
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Infoworld News
Microsoft previews Rx for asynchronous programming
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The company's Rx (Reactive Extensions for .Net), downloadable from Microsoft's DevLabs site, enable programmers to write "succinct declarative code to orchestrate and coordinate asynchronous and event-based programs based on familiar .Net idioms and patterns," S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft developer division, said in a blog ...
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Ars Technica
Microsoft settles with employee accused of stealing docs
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The litigation between Ancora Technologies, Miki Mullor, and Microsoft reached a settlement both in respect of the patent infringement claim and Microsoft's claims against Mullor, Ancora's founder and former Microsoft employee. All claims between the three parties have been resolved; they have agreed to deny any and all liability, and have ...
DigiMortal
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ASP.NET
ASP.NET 4.0: Writing custom output cache providers
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Until now we can use ASP.NET default output cache. We don’t have any option to write our own output cache mechanisms. ASP.NET 4.0 introduces extensible output cache – programmers can write their own output cache providers. In this posting I will show you how to write your own output cache provider and give you my sample solution to download. ...
Fabricem
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MSDN
Quels outils pour le déploiement automatisé d’Internet Explorer 8 - Introduction
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“Mon tout premier billet sur ce blog” :-) , aussi j e ne reviendrai pas sur les nombreux bénéfices à déployer aujourd’hui Internet Explorer 8 comme navigateur dans l’entreprise (gestion centralisée des paramètres, sécurité etc…) pour cela il vous suffit de naviguer sur les divers « billets » de ce blog, mais je me propose d’ ...
Liam Westley
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Hosted exception collection for .NET applications made easy – Exceptioneer.com
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I own a company, Tiger Computer Services Ltd, which is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) providing .NET software solutions to clients in the London area. One of the most significant considerations when running a small ISV is the cost of supporting software in the field. For some clients, support is not a billable item, especially if the fault ...
Groklaw
Microsoft Files Cross Motion to Dismiss Novell's WordPerfect Antitrust Case; Novell Opposes
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There are more filings in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust case over WordPerfect. Many, many more, mainly exhibits, a total of about 2,540 pages. Some exhibits themselves run to nearly 200 pages, and Novell has 158 exhibits. So, what is happening? Last time we looked in on this case , the parties had filed summary judgment motions. Now Microsoft ...
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More "Getting started with managed code development for Windows Mobile" articles
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Last year Chris Craft wrote this excellent " 30 days of .NET " articles where he wrote 30 .NET applications in C# each day. I have gone through the initial few and plan to complete the list as and when I find time. He hasn't actually explained the code and the application logic in detail and that would surely be some task if you are doing 30 ...
Charles Young
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Geekswithblogs.net
BizTalk Server 2009 - Rule deployment issue
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There is a small configuration issue with the Microsoft Business Rules Composer in BizTalk Server 2009. This will only affect you if you deploy the rules engine by itself without the rest of BizTalk Server. In a full installation of BizTalk Server, BTS provides a set of BTS-specific Rule Framework components in as assembly called ...
Andrewbrust
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Geekswithblogs.net
#PDC09 ’s Final Verdict: Eyes on The Prize, Not in the Sky
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What a difference a day makes…at least to some. While the Day 1 keynote at PDC seemed mostly like a news update on last year’s announcements, and a somewhat dry one at that, Day 2 gave developers some real “red meat.” It began with a presentation by Steven Sinofsky on Windows 7’s progress since its launch last month, including ...
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Michael Gartenberg
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Engadget
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight ...
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A Googler
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Releasing the Chromium OS open source project
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In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source ...
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Matt Cutts
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Matt Cutts
Live-blogging the Google Chrome OS event
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I’m sitting in a room at Google waiting to hear more about Google Chrome OS. You can watch the webcast along with me if you like. For starters, here’s what Google announced about Chrome OS back in July. At that time, Google called out “speed, simplicity and security” as the key ideas behind Chrome OS. Google [...]
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Paul Miller
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Engadget
How-to: run Chrome OS as a virtual machine
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Itching for some Chrome OS ? Well, we all are, but you might be a bit disappointed at the fact that while Google has open-sourced its progress on the OS so far, the version that is currently available for download seems eons behind what Google showed off at its event yesterday. Still, if you just have to see it for yourself, the good news is ...
Brad Sams
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Neowin.net
Google Chrome OS available for download
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When Google finally showed off their new OS yesterday there was a lot of skepticism about working in the cloud, offline applications and many other thoughts and concerns. The good news is that if you don't want to read others hands on impressions you can now download and install the OS yourself. A couple of things to note, firstly the ...
Mashable.com
Google Reveals Details of Chrome OS
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EDIT: Here's a quote from Gizmodo's liveblog: "We’re focused on people who have “another machine at home.” This is a companion device. It might be your primary device in terms of how much time you spend, but this is not a primary device."
Bill Evjen
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Geekswithblogs.net
Microsoft PDC 2009 – Day Two Keynote
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The second day keynote at PDC 2009 in Lost Angeles was shared by Steven Sinofsky and Scott Guthrie . Steven is the President of Windows and Windows Live Division and it really must have been a great day for him as he came out for the first time in a major conference with the new Windows 7 launched and the old Vista problems just fading away into ...
Dave
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Evil Genius Chronicles
Google Chrome for OS X
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Over a week ago I downloaded the pre-release alpha of the OS X version of Google Chrome. I accepted the possibility that it might crash, have problems or generally behave like software that isn’t finished and/or fully tested. Wow. I used it for about two hours before I switched it to my default browser. Every [...]
James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
ChromeOS: Stillborn?
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ComputerWorld's Randall Kennedy is pretty down on ChromeOS as a solution, and it sounds to me like he's right: Don't forget that Google's plans for acceptable hardware to run the Chrome OS is very limiting. No hard drives or even DVD drives; only solid state drives. That may reduce power usage and speed up boot time (as if that was really an ...
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Filed under: Software , Cool tools MacUpdate announced today the release of version 5.0.2 of the MacUpdate Desktop utility, which allows users to manage application and widget software updates on their Mac OS X machines. The new version of the application adds some features and bug fixes as well as support for more languages. MacUpdate Desktop ...
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Mat Lu
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Ask TUAW: Silencing iPhone notifications, remote control a PC, printing over the internet, and more
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Filed under: Features , Troubleshooting , Ask TUAW Welcome back to Ask TUAW , our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about controlling a PC over the internet, silencing iPhone email notifications at night, replacing a MacBook Pro SuperDrive with a hard drive, printing over the internet, setting iCal as the ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp , Seesmic's Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn't giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that's a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you'd expect a canned response along ...
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Liz Gannes
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GigaOM
Twitter: “Really Cool” Ads and Commercial Accounts Coming Soon
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Twitter COO Dick Costolo, speaking today on a panel at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp event in San Francisco, shed some light into the micromessaging service’s revenue plans, promising that it will begin taking a cut of its partners’ advertising revenues “early next year.” Meanwhile, it will “foster mechanisms ...
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Joshua Seed
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Neowin.net
Twitter no longer asks "What are you doing?"
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In an unexpected move, Twitter has removed the "What are you doing?" question from the user interface, confirming a change in uses for the popular social networking site. The official Twitter Blog had the following to say about the new changes: "Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service—an easy way to keep in touch ...
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Gawker.com
Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
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Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners.
James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
Smalltalk Daily : Using the Twitter Library in ObjectStudio
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Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at using the Twitter Library built in VisualWorks in ObjectStudio 8.2. To watch, click on the viewer below: If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly You can also watch it on YouTube: Technorati Tags: objectstudio , smalltalk , twitter
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I’ve seen a few customers run in to this recently when the resource database is in a different location than the master database. A cumulate update or GDR for SQL Server 2005 may fail with the following for the SQL Server Database Services 2005 in the Summary_%.txt log file. Look for the latest summary_%.txt file in the C:\Program Files\ ...
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WTF
Error'd: Protocol Droid Processing
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"As much as I detest Novell GroupWise," wrote Ben P , "it is reasuring to that they use the much-loved protocol droid to process commands." "This is the default selection on this contact form , D Traver Adolphus writes, "at least it takes some of the thought out of it." "This is a required orientation quiz ...
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Eric Nelson
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Geekswithblogs.net
Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 - Templated Code Generation
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[This is the second in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework 4 based on the demos I did in my session at TechEd Europe in Berlin last week (Nov 2009).] Code generation from the Entity Data Model (EDM) has changed significantly in version 4 of the Entity Framework. The product does retain a backwardly ...
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Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the social enterprise with Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gillmor (he also introduced us to a new real-time Salesforce Chatter platform). Benioff has also signed a pair of copies of his book Behind The Cloud , which we're going to be giving away to attendees of ...
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Dave Campbell
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Geekswithblogs.net
Silverlight Cream for -- #735
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Silverlight 4 Overview Postings Every time there's a beta or a release I try a different way to get all the good stuff out. I waited until today, and am scooping up all the overview blog posts, and posting them first in this post. I've got a few submissions I'll get out later today and then I'll start catching up with everyone as the days go on...
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Cherie Riesberg
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Geekswithblogs.net
To redirect to a specific SharePoint site or page: 1. Create c-name entry in DNS and point to SharePoint server 2. Create directory in c:\inetpub\wwwroot and create one html file called "index.htm" in the folder with this content: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title> ...
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Brian Jackett
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Geekswithblogs.net
SharePoint Saturday Cleveland 2009 Recap
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As noted in my previous post I attended and spoke at the SharePoint Saturday Cleveland 2009 conference. For those unfamiliar, SharePoint Saturday is a community driven event where various speakers gather to present at a FREE conference on all topics related to SharePoint. This was my first SharePoint Saturday and it was a great ...
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Mike Huguet
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Geekswithblogs.net
PDC 2009 Hangover
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For the first time in my career I have attended a major conference and it was well worth the wait. I had a handful of major objectives in attending of which all were met. Gain an understanding of Azure and how we can leverage it for our small and mid market customers. Gain more detailed insight into changes in SharePoint 2010 that will impact ...
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Forefront Blogger
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TechNet Blogs
This week we released an update to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) - our hosted service providing anti-malware and anti-spam for both on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online. FOPE can be used as an alternative to the new Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server , or in tandem with it for messaging defense-in-depth. The new ...
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Yuridio
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MSDN
Forefront TMG 2010 Administrator’s Companion available for pre-order
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Greetings. I and the other authors of Forefront TMG 2010 Administrator’s Companion —Jim Harrison and Mohit Saxena—are about to finish work on the book, which will be available in January 2010. To begin giving you a sense of the book, today we’d like to share its Introduction. Pre-order is available at Amazon.com ; make sure to reserve ...
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Steven Bink
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Bink.nu
Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
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Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB971534) Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP2 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP2 customers. For a list of changes that are included ...
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Omar Aviles
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MSDN
Si estás trabajando o interesado en conseguir el Logo de Windows 7, recuerda realizar tu prueba y generar tus resultados con la última versión del Logo Toolkit ya que a partir del 12 de Nov del 2009 las solicitudes ya no se aceptar con la versión Beta del Toolkit. Los pasos son los siguientes: Valida los requerimientos para ejecutar la ...
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Alexander Grundner
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EHomeUpgrade
ASUS Launches the TS Mini Windows Home Server
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Windows Home Server and its related products have been a big hit for Windows PC users since its inception in 2007. Now, ASUS is getting in the game and is introducing the TS Mini to the world. This little energy-efficient, powerhouse packs a 1.66Ghz Intel Atom N280 processor, 1-2GB of DDR2 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, 6 [...]
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Tom Warren
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Neowin.net
Sky Player in Windows 7 Media Center now available
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Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, is now available to Windows Media Center UK users in Windows 7. Sky kicked off the service on the Xbox 360 late last month. The service will allow users access to Live TV, on demand content, movies and sport. Existing Sky TV customers will be able to purchase an online Sky Player multiroom subscription for &
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Zxue
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MSDN
Adding Unique Windows 7 Technical Features to XP and Vista Applications
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Jason Zander put together a reference application “Image Viewer” that shows how to enable some cool Windows 7 features in your XP or Vista applications with relatively little effort and without sacrificing backward compatibility. Read the blog post for more detail. Technorati Tags: Windows 7 , XP , Vista , Application Development , Photo ...
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Star Trek Online may launch on Stardate 63554.5 (February 2, 2010), but beginning January 12, fans can beam into the open beta. The intergalactic guinea pig session will take place from January 12 until January 26. Players interested in kicking the warp nacelles should head on over to startrekonline.com to enroll. [...] Related posts: Star Trek ...
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Www.joystiq.com
We sense Star Trek Online's Beta-zed delegation arrives Jan. 12
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Star Trek Online may launch on Stardate 63554.5 (February 2, 2010), but beginning January 12, fans can beam into the open beta. The intergalactic guinea pig session will take place from January 12 until January 26. Players interested in kicking the warp nacelles should head on over to startrekonline.com to enroll.
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TechNet Blogs
In my last post I showed you how to create a consistent backup of a Hyper-V host using the no additional cost Diskshadow command and an attached USB drive (in contrast to the costly VMware Consolidated Backup). Now I want to show you how to restore the VMs that you backed up to a separate host (what good is a backup of you can’t restore it!). ...
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MSDN
New Training: Virtualizing Windows Essential Business Server 2008 with Hyper-V
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Virtualization continues to be one of the hottest opportunities in the industry today for business of all sizes. Join us to learn how you can virtualized Windows Essential Business Server 2008 using Hyper-V. In this session, we will discuss several virtualization scenarios, demonstrate how to deploy and manage EBS 2008, and share some best ...
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First Canadian Airline to Offer Wi-Fi Connectivity in the Air MONTREAL, Nov. 19 /CNW Telbec/ - Air Canada said today it has begun trials to offer its customers Gogo(R) Inflight Internet service on board select flights on the carrier's Toronto-Los Angeles and Montreal-Los Angeles routes. "Air Canada is the first Canadian airline to begin offering ...
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Laura Robinson
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MSDN
Import Customizations to Leads, Accounts, Contacts
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When importing customizations you may encounter an error: The attribute map is invalid. To fix this error and move on with your import: Look at the following attributes in Lead, Account and Contact: address1_line1 address1_line2 address1_line3 address2_line1 address2_line2 address2_line3 In your source attributes for Leads, the field size may not ...
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Laura June
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Engadget
You know what we love? Dancing robots and Christmas tunes. So combining the two and throwing the video up on YouTube would be akin to heaven, right? Well, as you'll see in the amazing video after the break: it doesn't get much better than this. In fact, it might even be enough to clear the "bah humbug" out of us for good. Continue reading Robots ...
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Chris Carera
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Neowin.net
YouTube Captions to Use Technology from Google Voice
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In a move meant to boost accessibility and search engine relevance, Google has announced an automatic captions service for YouTube videos, using the "automatic speech recognition" (ASR) technology currently used in the transcription feature of Google Voice. Although YouTube has long offered options for content providers to upload their own ...
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A Googler
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The Official Google Blog
Automatic captions in YouTube
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Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washington, D.C. to announce ...
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James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
Right after Smalltalks 2009 wraps up, we'll have Travis Griggs on the podcast to talk about the conference. You can listen live at justin.tv , or wait until Sunday for it to appear in the regular podcast feed. Technorati Tags: smalltalks 2009 , podcast
Erick Schonfeld
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TechCrunch
Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from "What Are You Doing?" to "What's Happening?" But the new call to action might be better suited to Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp. Hot Potato is releasing an iPhone app which lets you create a stream of conversations around events based both on your ...
VSTS
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MSDN
In part 1 and part 2 of the series, I have mentioned reasons why we use similar views for planning and executing test cases (and I have discussed what makes these views different). Today, I will focus on yet another specific reason: Configurations. We can use the ‘Planning view’ under ‘Contents’ ( Plan center group) to assign ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.
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