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Both in my home and work I have powerful 8GB Quad-Core Desktops running Windows Vista x64 and I love the machines. I use extensively Windows Live Writer for writing my blog posts and Live Messenger for IM. Now they come as a single install package (Windows...
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The most common question I get about Tamil Unicode / Tamil IT is how do I input Tamil text in Windows?. Over the years my answer has varied and if you ask others it certainly varies between individuals and their choices. There are plethora of choices...
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Though Microsoft Silverlight is a cool technology, it pales in front of Adobe Flash (98% of browsers have it) in terms of availability. It is not an unique MS problem, it is a problem for any new offering when there is an incumbent who has a majority...
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Sometimes you are stuck by not able to delete the file because some application unknown to you is holding the file lock. This freeware ( Unlocker ) helps you in those scenarios. I haven't tried it yet, use it at your own risk ! What looked impressive...
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Windows Live Search seems to have introduced a video search recently. When I searched " Vishwak " the results page impressed me - you can mouse over on a result image and see the video playing in place with audio. Surprisingly it included results...
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Microsoft have released for some time now preinstalled and preconfigured Virtual Images (in Virtual PC VHD format) of Exchange Server and SQL Server for evaluation. The list is expanded to cover many more of MS softwares including ISA Server, BizTalk...
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As I posted in the past if you need to do screen shots then you can use the free Zabgrab or if you are using Windows Vista the Snipping tool . But what if you want to capture a web page that scrolls for multiple pages. The hands-on winner to do is the...
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Nowadays I access my mailbox in Hotmail mostly through Windows Live Mail client. So I didn't notice the increase in storage until I saw this post . All Hotmail users are supposed to have got their mailboxes upgraded to 5GB of space and Hotmail Plus...
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When you thought most of the basic innovations are done in the web search (at least to what is searchable on the WWW) there comes a new feature from Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft. That is the power of competition. Last month it was Microsoft's turn...
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To say it politely I am not for forwarding an email beyond the first level - there are few exceptions that warrant few levels of forward. Recently I got an email forwarded from a company, in that in between in one of the forwards it had unpleasant words...
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Sometimes you want to identify a SPAM message source or just to find out who left that blog comment you might want to know to whom the IP block has been assigned. Though it is difficult to pinpoint it to an individual organization (especially SMEs who...
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My official (Vishwak) email is configured with Office Outlook for last 6 years+. My personal, blog and newsletters are with Hotmail. And I have been a paid Hotmail user for years, so I read my Hotmail through Outlook Express ON & OFF. When about a...
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If you are using any of the Microsoft Search tools like MOSS 2007, Desktop Search, Vista Search, SQL Server FreeText Search or Indexing Server you will need a piece of software called IFilter. IFilter is a set of DLLs designed for each file format that...
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The built-in file download applet in any of the browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari or Opera) leaves much to be desired. They don't support accelerated downloads (parallel downloads), most of their resume function don't work as advertised. So you will...
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Many times when you technical documents or just presentation you will find useful wanting to capture some portions from the screen. Earlier in November 2004 I had written about using OneNote 2003 to do it and in October 2004 I had posted about using a...
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