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MobileMe - Rival For Windows Live Mail Client

2008-06-10T05:34:00Z

Apple is coming up with its new Mail Client called Mobile Me. Check about its features here http://www.apple.com/mobileme/

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Cellphones More Dangerous Than Smoking

2008-05-29T05:15:00Z

Cell phone use is or is not dangerous to humans? Dr. Vini Khurana, a neurosurgeon, has released an extensive study claiming that cell phone radiation is more dangerous to our health than smoking or asbestos. His study claims that exposure for 10 years or more can double a person's risk of getting brain cancer.

Dr. Khurana's study claims that prolonged exposure to the radio waves put out by cell phones can cause severe damage and create brain tumors. The doctor suggests that people not use cell phones, or take steps to reduce the amount of time a cell phone is near the body.

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Project: Community Clips

2008-05-23T09:46:00Z

Community Clips is a portal for viewing, sharing, and discussing informal "how-to" videos (screencasts) on Microsoft Office products. It also includes a client application for easy recording of screen views and voice.... Continues here.. http://www.officelabs.com/projects/communityclips/Pages/Default.aspx. Its a 12 MB MSI package.

I think we can use this as a replacement for windows media encoder package which servers the same purpose. correct me if im wrong, as i didnt try using this.

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Avoid Sending E-Mails With Subject Column Empty

2008-03-24T09:24:00Z

At times, we miss to mention the subject and send email. Still we may feel it as trivial mistake. But the person to whom you are sending, if not your friend or personal, is a bureaucrat/ your superior the kind of impression he get on seeing the empty subject mail can cause a sudden rise in his/her blood pressure :-). Its just un deplorable. Sometimes, if the mail is addressed to a client and their Firewall if configured to consider the incoming mail with Nil subject as Junk, then it would be a complete Mess. It has happened a time for me when sending internally. Subject always conveys the One Liner of the Whole Subject. So to make sure you don’t fuss it up or if you dyslectic (jus kiddin ;-)) follow the few lines below.

1) Open Outlook 2003/2007

2) Go to Tools -> Macro -> Security -> Security Level Tab. Set Low and give Ok

3) Press ALT + F11 which opens you Microsoft VBA Editor

4) On the left side pane, you can find Microsoft Office Outlook Folder. Beneath the folder, Right Click the ‘ThisOutlookSession’ object and choose view code.

5) On the right side pane, copy and past the code in the attachment.

6) CNTRL + S (Save)

7) Close the Editor

8) Close the OutLook

9) Reopen and try

To Check for EMail Attachment Before sending mail just Un-Comment those few lines, Save, Close and reopen.

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Test Site Rendering With New IE8 Add-on

2008-03-07T08:16:00Z

If you're running the IE8 Beta, Microsoft has put out a new tool that can help them identify web pages with rendering problems in the new Standards mode. The add-on's MSDownloads page was the first one I submitted. Live.com's personalized page was the second.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a950a427-d16c-4379-b641-2f319a69f70d&displaylang=en&tm

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Income Tax Department - REFUNDS

2008-02-27T11:09:00Z

Salary taxpayers who have not received refunds for assessment years 2003\04 to 2006\07 can click on the link below and query using the PAN number and assessment year whether any refund due to them has been returned undelivered from the menu 'undelivered salary refund management system'. If any refund has been returned undelivered due to change in address, then the taxpayer can enter the present address and the refund will be sent to the taxpayer at the new address.

The link to the website is as under:
http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/CCIT/refundsearch.asp

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Microsoft DreamSpark - Free software development tools for students

2008-02-27T11:06:00Z

https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com

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Speed up copying/moving files in Vista

2008-02-14T08:13:00Z

There is a new process which slows down the moving or copying of files in vista. Remote Differential Compression, but can easily be turned off and disabled. In Control Panel, Programs and Features -> Turn on or turn off Windows features -> Search through and uncheck the box with Remote Differential Compression.

Hope this will speed up the Copy/Move file process without SP1.

I read this in a technet. i dont understand much about the below info tho. It is said to be Vista TCP/IP "Receive Window Auto-Tuning " slows network access.

To disable it, open a command prompt and type:

netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

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Vista SP1 and Server 2008 both RTM

2008-02-05T05:15:00Z

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/02/04/windows-server-2008-rtm.aspx

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Zune Price Drop

2008-02-04T08:00:00Z

From February 1, the 8GB Zune Digital Media Player gets a $20 Price Drop with all the great features for $179.99! I have fiddled with Apple IPOD. But yet to see a Zune Player. Waiting for any of my friends to buy one :-P

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New Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot

2008-01-31T05:42:00Z

Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot is a new software add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook that allows photographers to add details of the client and equipment for a photo shoot appointment in Outlook. This allows photographers to greater leverage the power of Outlook when managing their photography.

http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/prophotoshoot.aspx

Source: Microsoft.com

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Secure Passwords With Microsoft’s InkBlots

2007-12-10T05:23:00Z

Microsoft Research has launched a new Web site called InkBlot, which shows, a series of Rorschach Inkblots and helps users create a secure, personal password that is easy to remember. The user is presented with a sequence of random inkblots. Each should remind the user of a word. For each image, the user then types the first and last letters of the word that come to mind, like ‘by’ for butterfly. www.InkblotPassword.com currently has 1,000 inkblots in its database. It was quite hard for me to understand the concept. I think they may migrate from .net passport authentication to Inkblot in future. i have read about such a technology is being researched in MS

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Live Image Search Improvements

2007-11-12T08:33:00Z

The Live Search Images team recently released a fun new feature to make it easier to find specific kinds of images. To use the feature you simply have to add a filter your query, like so:

Portrait results return head and shoulders images. For example: ‘Rajinikanth filter:portrait’
Face results are closer shots with the face the most predominant element of the image. For example: ‘Aishwarya Rai filter:face’
Black and white results are pretty self explanatory. Example: ‘night skyline filter:bw’
You can even combine some of the filters: ‘George Washington filter:face filter:bw’

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New Currency For Space

2007-10-18T15:05:00Z

Scientists have devised a new currency to be used in space. The Quid 'coins' are made from a polymer which unlike credit cards or regular coins, have no sharp edges which could damage space suits. The current exchange rate is about 1 Quid to £6.25... :-)

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Web Data Add-In For Excel 2007

2007-10-18T14:53:00Z

"The Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In provides an intuitive user interface for importing textual data from any given webpage via auser’sselections of interest, such as stock quotes, weather temperature, ect, into a spreadsheet and keeping that data“up-to-date”.That is, if the webpage data changes, the spreadsheet can be updated by a click of the data “Refresh” button. Also note that theadd-incan automatically learn from a user’s selection and optionally select similar items to help save time."

http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/details/db5286b6-0bb0-4668-9ebc-c3e9b43a0683/details.aspx

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