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If you deleted one of the default gadgets in the windows sidebar you may be wondering how to get it back. Follow these steps: Control Panel => Appearance and Personalization => Windows Sidebar Properties => Restore gadgets installe…
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It seems only yesterday we were installing SP1, and now more talk about SP2 is in the wild. Expect it within a year, before Windows 7 hits the shelves.
See the original post at: Microsoft aiming to deliver Vista SP2 before Windows 7 | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
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Written by Joe on October 15th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Microsoft’s official Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines, or more affectionately known as the “UX Guide”, has had a recent October 10 makeover. Topics added in this update include “Ribbons“, touch computing, pen computing and printing.
Of most interest is the article dedicated to Ribbons, explaining to developers how to design a great Ribbon experience in their [...]
Written by Long Zheng on October 15th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Published by Justyn One of the most essential tools I think you need is the Image Resize Powertoy, now this currently only works with Windows XP, but after much searching around, I found one that does the job just as good as the one made by Mi…
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As a customer, we will always be looking for freebies to go with the product we buy. They may come in the form of bags or any small but useful item. However, the last thing we would want to get is a virus to boot, coming together with a brand new PC. Security risks are [...]
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As a follow-up to my tip on speeding up connecting via RAS and a SmartCard ,
I’ve been told that another trick you can do is to disable your
wireless networking card before initiating the VPN connection.
Wireless networking cards are a huge attack surface, Read More……(read more)
Written by The Old New Thing : Tips/Support on October 15th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, has announced the final release of Silverlight 2.0 . Scott runs the teams responsible for Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET, and IIS 7.0. Silverlight Read More……(read more)
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Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, has announced the final release of Silverlight 2.0 . Scott runs the teams responsible for Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET, and IIS 7.0. Silverlight Read More……(read more)
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Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, has announced the final release of Silverlight 2.0. Scott runs the teams responsible for Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET, and IIS 7.0. Silverlight 2.0 is a major release for Microsoft’s Developer Division and allows developers to utilize the benefits of .NET within any browser. Scott also lets us know of several high-profile websites that are jumping onboard in utilizing Silverlight 2.0 such as CBS College Sports Network to broadcast 20,000 hours of live games, AOL with their new AOL Mail, and Blockbuster with their new MovieLink subscription service.
My favorite example of the capability of Silverlight 2.0 is the Hard Rock Memorabilia website using Deep Zoom. This impressive site, designed built by the awesome folks at Vertigo, showcases tons of music memorabilia of historic value such as The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour Bus which is my personal favorite since I got to see it in person several years ago at the Hard Rock in Universal Studios Orlando.
CORRECTION: The Hard Rock Memorabilia website (including the embeddable "widget" that you can share on your website as mentioned below) was actually conceived and designed by the creative geniuses at the San Francisco-based advertising and design firm Duncan/Channon. You can read about the new widget capabilities in the Hard Rock Memorabilia website in this Duncan/Channon blog post. They also have a post up about the Hard Rock Memorabilia website for you to read as well.
They have enabled a super cool widget feature on the Hard Rock Memorabilia website where you can zoom in to a specific object in the collection and choose to share it by embedding it on your blog! As you can see above, I embedded the Magical Mystery Tour Bus Widget for you to see here. Special thanks to OffBeatMammal for the heads up on the sharing functionality in the Hard Rock Memorabilia.
Speaking of Deep Zoom, to go along with the final release of Silverlight 2.0 a new version of Deep Zoom Composer has been released.
Download: Deep Zoom Composer Preview 2 (October 2008)
The Deep Zoom Composer Team tells us that this release is mostly an “under-the-hood” release focusing on reliability. In the near future, expect the Deep Zoom Composer Team to talk more about the changes as they polish the V1 release of Deep Zoom Composer. For those not sure what Deep Zoom Composer is: Deep Zoom Composer is an application that lets users very easily compose their very own Deep Zoom collections, similar (but not as complex) to the Hard Rock Memorabilia website I mentioned above. After composing a Deep Zoom collection in Deep Zoom Composer – you are then given the ability to upload your collection to the Microsoft Live Labs PhotoZoom website. Developers can use this tool to develop their own Deep Zoom collections as well for their own websites. You can check out my Deep Zoom collections on PhotoZoom here. I plan on adding many more collections
Congrats to the Silverlight Team on their Silverlight 2.0 release!
Written by Brandon LeBlanc on October 15th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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October’s Patch Tuesday addresses 20 vulnerabilities, while Microsoft for the first time reveals its take on how exploitable each may be.
Written by WinPlanet Windows Software News on October 15th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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