Archive for December 3rd, 2007

Dec3

Get a Mac Ads: ‘Fastest Windows Vista notebook’

Apple has posted a new ‘Get a Mac’ ad on their website: Misprint. The new television ad is the latest in the ongoing campaign feature Justin Long and John Hodgman as ‘Mac’ and ‘PC’.

Misprint focuses on a recent honor by …

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Filed in: Apple/Mac

Dec3

Microsoft to modify Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy scheme

Microsoft is making changes to its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy strategy via a coupleof modifications it will implement in Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 and Windows Server 2008 next year.

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Dec3

Reviews: Persepolis, a Master of Monsters Biography, The Simpsons Game

Wired reviews some seasonal sneak peaks like Persepolis, a Master of Monsters Biography, The Simpsons Game.

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Filed in: Personal Tech

Dec3

WhatSize utility app revamped

Yes, there’s Unix under the hood of Mac OS X. But plenty of Mac users prefer useful, friendly GUI utilities. This is certainly true of WhatSize, a program that lets users find what’s what and how much on their drives.

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Filed in: Apple/Mac


Dec3

Google rethinks how labels in Gmail should work

For me, those tiny labels beside the subject of Gmail messages quickly faded into background noise after I started using the service. Thankfully, Google has set out to change that with colored and more prominent labels.

The new color system for labels seems pretty close to a feature once available to users of this greasemonkey […]

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Filed in: Google

Dec3

PayPerPost Fights Back Against Google’s PageRank Changes

In one fell swoop, Google last month reduced the PageRank of many PayPerPost bloggers, throwing the young advertising network’s business model into chaos. NowPayPer Post is fighting back with its own website-ranking system.

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Filed in: Personal Tech


Dec3

Motorola technology chief leaves (Reuters)

A V3xx Motorola phone is shown with Yahoo! Go software at the Yahoo tent during the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 9, 2007. Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc, which announced last week that Chief Executive Ed Zander will step down, said on Monday its chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, had left the company to pursue other opportunities. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)Reuters - Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc
, which announced last week that Chief Executive Ed
Zander will step down, said on Monday its chief technology
officer, Padmasree Warrior, had left the company to pursue
other opportunities.


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Filed in: Cell Phones

Dec3

Follow a university course in cryptography for free

Have you ever wanted to learn about cryptography at college, but just never really had the opportunity? The University of Washington has made it possible without having to set foot outside your home or pay a penny in tuition fees. CSE P 590TU: Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography…

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Filed in: Security


Dec3

Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate goes to MSDN, TechNet testers

Microsoft made available on December 3 for download the near-final Release Candidate (RC) of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3.

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Filed in: Microsoft

Dec3

Create database maintenance plans in SQL Server 2005 using SSIS

In SQL Server 2005, database maintenance plans are almost entirely created using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS). Microsoft provides a useful wizard to guide you through the creation process, but you are not required to use the wizard. This article shows you how to create a…

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Filed in: Software




 

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