21. The impossible thing happened...  permalink

Peter Larsson / The SQLTeam.com Weblogs

Yesterday I got the brilliant idea to format my laptop and reinstall Windows 7 from scratch. I've had a few problem last month, mostly due to upgrading the preinstalled Vista to Windows 7. Said and done, I boldly finished the installation and thought everything was ok. I mean, my email is IMAP so all email are stored at my ISP, all my relevant ...

22. 48 Hours, 31 Hacks - Stockholm Music Hack Day  permalink

48 Hours, 31 Hacks - Stockholm Music Hack Day
Matthew Casperson / ProgrammableWeb

Two days, a room full of hackers and one theme: music. This is the premise behind the Stockholm Music Hack Day , which resulted in 31 projects including hardware hacks, mobile, web and desktop applications. A number of the web applications are live and available for anyone to use.

23. Har Ni en lösning som sticker ut? Får Ni den uppmärksamhet Ni förtjänar?  permalink

Har Ni en lösning som sticker ut? Får Ni den uppmärksamhet Ni förtjänar?
JoakimL / MSDN

Det är snart dags att nominera Er inför World Wide Partner Conference 2010 (WPC). Nytt för i år är att det kommer att delas ut ett pris som “Bästa Partner” för respektive land i tillägg till de globala priskategorierna. Läs mer här .

24. New Campus Locations You Should Visit  permalink

New Campus Locations You Should Visit
Paulette / MSDN

If you attended the last summit, you will probably notice that our main campus layout has changed a little bit and now there are a couple of additions that you may want to visit. One of the new spots and the most popular one at this moment is an open place called "The Commons.” The Commons is what Seattle Times newspaper calls "Microsoft own ...

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Editor / Neowin.net
New Campus Locations You Should Visit Microsoft confirms Office 2010 has reached the Release Candidate stage   —  Microsoft officials have confirmed to Neowin that the company recently released a Release Candidate (RC) build of Office 2010 to private beta testers. Early Release Candidate builds began leaking to the web in January this year as Microsoft was preparing for the RC release to�Technology Adoption Program (TAP) testers. Russian site...

Cwpeng / MSDN
Message from Tom Casey, General Manager, Microsoft Business Intelligence   —  We are pleased to be acknowledged by Gartner as a Leader in both the Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant and the Data Warehouse Database Management Systems Magic Quadrant for the third year in a row. We are happy to see this type of validation in our approach and strength of our technologies from the analyst community. Moreover, we ...

25. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go  permalink

Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go
Www.mobilecrunch.com

As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

26. Five customized Automator services to help save you time  permalink

Five customized Automator services to help save you time
Sang Tang / The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)

Filed under: Software , How-tos , Productivity One gem in Mac OS X that sometimes gets glanced over is the Services menu. Lots of readers may not know yet that Snow Leopard brought with it the ability to create your own customized service in Automator -- in other words, you can get additional selections on a contextual menu when right-clicking ...

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Pejmanj / MSDN
Five customized Automator services to help save you time What’s in Insights   —  I got a lot of questions asking just what is SharePoint insights, what features / capabilities are available, and what happened to my favorite feature. Here’s a quick "market-techture” diagram of what services are in insights with a brief description of each. Keep your questions coming… PerformancePoint Services – Now completely ...

Mel Martin / The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Five customized Automator services to help save you time The good and bad of iPad pricing   —  Filed under: Hardware , Peripherals , Bluetooth I think all of us were surprised at the entry level cost of the new iPad at just US$499.00. In a recent article at ars technica it's stated that the pricing "confirms what a major shift in strategy the iPad is for Apple's business." My colleague Sang Tang also says the evidence is persuasive that ...

27. Something Is Seriously Mucked-Up in Zune Marketplace Land  permalink

Something Is Seriously Mucked-Up in Zune Marketplace Land
Daveburke / Dave Burke

I love my Zune 80GB player. I love my Zune Pass. But I have to tell you, there’s something seriously mucked-up in the new 4.2 version of the Zune Marketplace. And when I say “seriously mucked-up” I’m talking data corruption that we in the database application biz fear more than the dentist saying, “I see a gum graft in your near future.�

28. Operating System  permalink

Operating System
Www.netmarketshare.com

Read about using web analytics to identify possible click fraud

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Where Did Internet Explorer’s Browser Share Go? Internet Explorer 8 Officially Becomes World’s Most-Used Browser   —  This week, Net Applications released their January browser market share report. Their report shows that Internet Explorer 8 is not only the most popular browser on Windows with 27.9% usage share, but that it now has 25.6% of market share across all OS’s on a worldwide-weighted usage share basis (data provided by Net Applications). We launched ...

29. Software Testing in the Product Lifecycle  permalink

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30. Words, words, words  permalink

Words, words, words
Cellfish / MSDN

So I've mentioned this topic before; choosing the right words to send the message you want. But this time I just want to mention a good read on the topic of using words. The short version is: At least one experiment showed that the words a person is exposed to can change behavior. Agile development tend to use words with positive meaning when ...

31. Gateway's FX series desktops revamped, SX / DX series find solace in Core i3 and i5  permalink

Gateway's FX series desktops revamped, SX / DX series find solace in Core i3 and i5
Ross Miller / Engadget

In the market for new desktop machinery? Gateway 's gone ahead and given its gaming-centric FX series a facelift for the new year -- nothing Alienware-esque crazy, but we do like the accessible ports up top, right next to the control dial for LED-infused lighting effects. Enough about the superficial, let's go inside: a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ...

32. Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge  permalink

Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge
Www.newscientist.com

"IN MONTH XI, 15th day, Venus in the west disappeared, 3 days in the sky it stayed away. In month XI, 18th day, Venus in the east became visible." What's remarkable about these observations of Venus is that they were made about 3500 years ago, by Babylonian astrologers. We know about them because a clay tablet bearing a record of these ancient ...

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33. Ovi Maps Racing by Nokia now in Ovi Store  permalink

Ovi Maps Racing by Nokia now in Ovi Store
Pressbulletinboard.nokia.com

February 2, 2010 - NokiaPressServices, Tags: location-based, mobile game, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia N97 mini, Ovi Maps With Ovi Maps Racing, the first location-based mobile game by Nokia, players can navigate and access their location, create a track and race around the block. 

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Colin Gibbs / GigaOM
Nokia's Ovi Maps Racing now available, makes the world your course Are Emerging Markets Enough to Fuel Nokia’s Ovi Store?   —  Nokia's Ovi Store has overtaken Apple's App Store as the storefront of choice for mobile developers in emerging mobile markets. But can Nokia leverage its traction in developing economies as Apple and Android build on their momentum in Western markets?

34. Twitter Resets User Passwords in Wake of Phishing Attack  permalink

Twitter Resets User Passwords in Wake of Phishing Attack
Www.pcworld.com

Twitter says it was hit by a phishing attack that forced it to reset the passwords of a number of accounts. Early Tuesday, Twitter says it had to reset the passwords of a small number of accounts compromised in an external phishing attack.

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch
Twitter resets passwords due to phishing attack Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack   —  Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

Mike McBride / The Many Faces of Mike McBride
Future of Twitter – Segmentation   —  In several recent conversations on Twitter, and elsewhere, I’ve been noticing a bit of a trend. Seems like some of the “add-on” services that use Twitter to piggy back the social aspects of their own service, FourSquare being a prime example, seem to have an interesting effect on how followers interact with some of the [...] ...

35. Feature: Hands-on: Mozilla's pocket-sized Firefox mobile for Maemo  permalink

Feature: Hands-on: Mozilla's pocket-sized Firefox mobile for Maemo
Ars Technica

Mozilla announced last week the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia's Linux-based smartphone operating system. It offers adequate browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user interface that includes popular Firefox features like the AwesomeBar. This Firefox ...

36. Office Web Apps error in site collections  permalink

Gayan Peiris / MSDN

I have successfully enabled the Office Web Application feature in my main site collection, so I can view word, excel, power point and one note documents in browser. But I was getting an error when I try to use the same functionality on a new site collection, such as The solution is to make sure ...

37. Download Customer Insights Tool Xbox Winner  permalink

Topvar / MSDN

During our November TopVAR road shows we ran a competition to win an Xbox pack – you just had to download and use the Customer Insights Tool and summarise in an email how it could benefit your business. CONGRATULATIONS to Paul Adams of Vintek in South Australia, who succinctly stated how the CIT tool helps him: “The CIT enables us to ...

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Joe Mayo / Geekswithblogs.net
Translating Objects into XML Elements   —  A lot of examples on LINQ to XML show how to translate from XML into objects. Especially with REST data sources, it seems like a lot of LINQ to XML is used to read XML.  However, there is also a need to translate from objects to XML, which isn't always as intuitive.  The following example shows a couple different ways to translate from objects ...

38. Test Post  permalink

MarkPearl / Geekswithblogs.net

This is a test post to see.

39. WSPR spot of DP1POL  permalink

Brainwagon / Brainwagon

Tonight, I’m currently hearing station DP1POL, from grid IB59uh on 40m. Where is that, you might ask? Antarctica. He’s heard my beacon before, but I think this is the first time that I’ve received him. The distance is nearly 15,000 km. Verah nice.

40. Nikon kicks out new Coolpix S- and L-series cams  permalink

Nikon kicks out new Coolpix S- and L-series cams
Nilay Patel / Engadget

Keeping with the pre-PMA announcements , Nikon also launched the S and L series of cams just now -- the S stands for "Style," and L stands for "Life." The Ls are the low-end of the bunch -- Life is apparently cheaper than Style -- and you've got two choices: the $280 L110 superzoom, which has a 15x optical zoom lens in front of a 12.3 megapixel ...