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"As last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten (in white dress uniform, centre right) handed over to Jawaharlal Nehru (far right). It was Nehru’s work that made secular democracy thrive in India"
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"I cracked up when I saw this Skype thread. I’ve been trying to sell something on Craigslist for a week or so and this sums up every response I’ve had to date."
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TrayIt! allows you to save precious Taskbar space for minimized windows. For each application which applies TrayIt! it creates a small icon in the System Tray. (System Tray area is located near the Clock). When the application's window is minimized this icon represents the application on the Taskbar instead of the regular "minimized rectangle". It is particularly useful for background tasks you typically keep running on your PC all day long like your favorite E-mail client, Real Player, etc.
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With ODIR it's a snap to clean your Outlook folders by removing all duplicates. ODIR removes duplicates from Contacts; Calendar; Tasks; Notes and Email folders.
April 30, 2009
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April 29, 2009
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"Microsoft may not be recession-proof but it turned in a strong performance in a year most companies would like to forget.
Profits jumped 25.7% to $17.7 billion on revenues of $60.4 billion as the software giant offset declining sales of its Windows operating system with increased revenues from its server and tools software products."
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"Based on the short-lived NBC game show of the same name, 1 vs. 100 will have a 13-week season. The hour-long show will take place on Friday and Saturday nights, and is hosted by comedian and voice actor Chris Cashman. Each installment features a player, the One, who is trying to outsmart 100 players in the Mob by rapidly answering trivia questions with multiple choice answers."
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"Microsoft Corp. and Verizon Wireless are in talks to launch a touch-screen multimedia cellphone on the carrier's network early next year, in an ambitious effort to challenge Apple Inc.'s iPhone, according to people familiar with the matter."
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"Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a version of its unified intelligence system, Amalga, for the life sciences market."
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"It's become quite clear over the last several months that Apple is ready to bridge the mobile computing gap, with plans to develop a device that fits somewhere in between the iPhone and the MacBook. A recent Wall Street Journal article proclaimed that during his medical leave, CEO Steve Jobs has been working on that midsized mobile device, bigger than an iPhone but smaller than a MacBook."
April 28, 2009
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"Enterprise software is coming down to four big choices: Cisco Systems or IBM or Oracle or Microsoft"
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"Bluetooth last week stopped being chained to the low-power, low-throughput radio that has been both its strength and its weakness. New code lets Bluetooth applications now run over 802.11g wireless connections in the 2.4GHz, with a throughput jump to 20M to 24Mbps, from 1M to 3Mbps"
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Nice screen cast software!
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I just love this feature.. have been dogfooding from quite some time but recently it's got more interesting! 🙂 Awesome!
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"URL shortner with password protection"
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"Create your free mobile site!"
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The Opera web browser may not have the name recognition of more popular software like Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari. But you know what it does have? History. The first line of code for the Opera web browser was written 15 years ago today
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Windows explorer doesn’t offer detailed analyses of the files and folders. With Free disk usage analyzer you can compare disk usage of different folders and files between different partitions.
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Awesome utility!
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"Mozilla on Monday released beta 3.5 of Firefox, a revamp of the open-source Web browser designed to include better performance, several new Web programming features, and a private browsing mode"
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"Seeking to strengthen its presence on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon has acquired Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular free e-book application for the iPhone"
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"U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington April 27, 2009."
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"Microsoft Corp., set to release a near-finished version of the Windows 7 operating system this week, said the program may go on sale by the year-end holiday season."
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"Microsoft Monday said the 2009 version of BizTalk server is now available to its MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will be publicly available on Friday"
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Amazing!
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"Microsoft is taking reservations starting April 28 for a limited beta of a new public-information service called Vine."
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"Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi had applied for but was denied diplomatic visa under 214 (b) of Immigration and Nationality Act because he was not coming for a purpose that qualify for a diplomatic visa"
April 27, 2009
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"Microsoft's Tech Ed conference will feature a production environment where users can test business software on the new OS"
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"MSDN, TechNet subscribers can get it April 30"
April 26, 2009
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"Sometimes you just need a very simple tool to search
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Nice tool! Was able to read songbird database.. 🙂
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Nice Basic XML Programming Article. #xml
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"Google announced that its Google Analytics Data Export API beta is now available for developers."
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"A detailed simulation of a small region of a brain built molecule by molecule has been constructed and has recreated experimental results from real brains"
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"Richard Bookstaber, the quant's quant, suggests that the CPU- and GPGPU-driven arms race among high-frequency, computer-automated trading shops should, and eventually might, come to a halt. If it does, this would not be good for teraflops vendors like Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, and IBM"
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"Chemists use computational modeling to figure out why a hydroelectric voltage is generated when water is pushed through a single-walled carbon nanotube"
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"Formerly known as Zermatt, the claims-based access platform is a framework for granting people access to information"
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"HTTP 1.1 specification supports a special type of HTTP Get, called HTTP Conditional Get. HTTP Conditional Get does not download the file if the file is not modified since the last download."
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Data conflicts are inevitable in any application or framework that synchronizes data from multiple data sources that are influenced by numerous people. The Microsoft Sync Framework (MSF) is no exception. MSF does, however, have built-in features to help developers deal with the most common conflict scenarios
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"Fears abound that Oracle may reshape Java for more cash, setting up conflicts with IBM and the open source community"
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"Heroku will debut on Friday its cloud service for Ruby applications, competing with Google and offering provisionless Web hosting.
The Heroku service offers an agile platform for development, testing and production deployment of Web applications. Deployed on the Amazon cloud platform, Heroku is a multi-tenant platform for applications written in Ruby and running on Rack-compatible frameworks including Rails, Merb, and Sinatra" -
"The search giant released Version 1.6 of GWT on April 7 and included a Google plug-in for the Eclipse open-source application platform and integration with Google App Engine's Java language support."
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"Axum, previously known as Maestro, is a Microsoft incubation language project meant to provide a parallel programming model for .NET through isolation, actors and message passing. The language borrows many concepts from Erlang but with a C#-like syntax."
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"Oracle has pulled off a series of aggressive acquisitions over the past five years, establishing a comprehensive portfolio of packaged business apps and middleware infrastructure. The pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems not only complements Oracle's software stack but also secures a segment of hardware customers that typically run Oracle software. The acquisition is welcome news for most Sun customers, as long as Oracle keeps Sun as a whole. The future will meanwhile be totally undetermined if Oracle sells Sun's hardware part of the business at some point. Other vendors will have to make significant changes to their strategies and ecosystem priorities to respond to Oracle's move."
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"Trend Micro, a provider of internet content security, has launched version 5.1 of its Worry-Free Business Security for small businesses that require integrated defense and automatic web threat protection against emerging web threats with minimal administrative requirements"
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"Microsoft's Tech Ed conference will feature a production environment where users can test business software on the new OS."
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Had lunch here today.. I've started to love Mexican food.
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Love Parallel.* 🙂
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Simple!
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