Download Active Desktop Calendar 5.95 Build 051221
Active Desktop Calendar is a fully customizable PIM displayed as your Desktop wallpaper with a genuine direct click user interface. Create pleasant working atmosphere by changing calendar icons, fonts and colors. Runs in systray and features: notes, tasks, alarms, data export/import, and its own screen saver.
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23.12.2005 How to Pin Show Desktop Option to Windows 7 Taskbar
Windows 7 has got revamped taskbar also known as superbar. Windows 7 taskbar has number of excellent features like Jumplist, Thumbnail preview, Aero peak, etc.
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7.10.2009 Nokia 6500 slide Review
Fully aware that its own developed Symbian operating system is not a perfect one, Nokia offers users devices with its newly launched S40 5th Edition.
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18.1.2008 Wii Continues to Shine as PS3 Sales Slide Further
For the fourth month in a row, the Nintendo Wii outsold its competitors, even showing impressive strength at a time that is traditionally one of the slower periods for video game sales.
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21.5.2007 Update for Identity Integration Feature Pack 1a for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory (KB884192)
Microsoft has released an update to Identity Integration Feature Pack 1a for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory.
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21.3.2006 Microsoft Does a Windows Live Show-and-Tell
VSLive this week wasn't only about team-development tools. The Softies also provided demonstrations of how they expect developers to piece together Windows-Live-style services, going forward. Microsoft showed off new mashups made from Windows Live beta components. And execs committed to making Microsoft's Live.com aggregator "the front door to Search in the coming months."
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4.2.2006 Yahoo to Microsoft: Show us the money
The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.
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7.4.2008 The Windows 7 Road Show Continues
The Windows 7 road show debuted at the end of October, with the start of the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles.
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25.11.2008 Vista won't show fancy side to pirates
Windows Vista plans to offer you spiffy new graphics, as long as you're not a pirate.
With the new operating system, Microsoft is offering plenty of new graphics tricks, including translucent windows, animated flips between open programs and "live icons" that show a graphical representation of the file in question.
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17.4.2006 Ballmer To Show Off Microsoft CRM Live
Microsoft CRM Live is slated to make its public debut on Wednesday at the company's Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego.
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14.3.2007 Intel to show 8-core Xeon on February
Intel will give its first public look at an 8-core Xeon processor in less than two weeks at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the show's schedule (PDF) reveals.
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29.1.2009 Windows Vista: Betas show potential and problems
Windows Vista shows a lot of promise. With beta 2 of Microsoft's much anticipated operating system nearly ready to be released to the public, users will soon have the ability to judge for themselves how Microsoft's next generation operating system is coming along.
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19.5.2006 Vista Launch: Bill Gates on Daily Show
Thanks to Steve Sinchak of Tweak Vista who uploaded these 2 videos of Bill Gates appearing on the Daily Show to talk with Jon Stewart about the launch of Windows Vista.
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30.1.2007 Gorbachev to Gates: Show software 'pirate' mercy
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
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5.2.2007 Microsoft Windows Vista won't show fancy side to pirates
Windows Vista plans to offer you spiffy new graphics, as long as you're not a pirate.
With the new operating system, Microsoft is offering plenty of new graphics tricks, including translucent windows, animated flips between open programs and "live icons" that show a graphical representation of the file in question.
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13.4.2006 Microsoft Researchers Show How Advertisers Are Funding Search Spam
In a paper entitled Spam-Double Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers , researchers at Microsoft and the University of California Davis show the path whereby the ads of legitimate web site owners come be shown on spam pages.
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21.3.2007 Gates to show off multitouch wall device at CEO Summit
Gates will demo TouchWall, which could be used by business people to give presentations, and talk about his ideas for the future of user interface technology.
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14.5.2008 Microsoft's own speed tests show IE beating Chrome, Firefox
Microsoft has released its own tests that show IE8 can load many websites faster than two open source browsers: Firefox and Chrome.
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12.3.2009 Microsoft dismissed enthusiasts in Vista marketing, company e-mails show
Spelling out which features of Windows Vista would work on a given PC might be useful to early adopters, but it would only "confuse the masses," a high-level Microsoft Corp. manager argued more then a year before the operating system shipped, according to internal company e-mails.
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3.3.2008 AeroBar: Show Titlebar Text in Explorer Windows Under Windows Vista
Have you ever wondered why Explorer Windows don't show titles in Windows Vista?
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13.2.2009 The Windows 7 Desktop
Microsoft is laboring to deliver a new level of personalization, choice and control with the Windows 7 desktop, according to Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Steven Sinofsky.
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3.11.2008 Remote Desktop Connection 6.0
Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0, KB925876) provides a way to use any new Terminal Services features introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn”.
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29.11.2006 The Desktop -- Time To Say Goodbye?
July 19, 2007 (Computerworld) When Paul Scheib at Boston's Children's Hospital goes shopping for PCs, his choice is more often a desktop than a notebook. Thanks to bdh734 for this article.
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21.7.2007 Microsoft to bring Hotmail onto the desktop
Microsoft has started beta testing software that will take its Web e-mail onto the desktop.
This week, Microsoft served up the first test version of Windows Live Mail Desktop, a free Windows program that will let users manage multiple e-mail accounts. The software is designed to work with Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail that is also in beta testing.
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31.3.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
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23.8.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.01
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements.
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20.2.2007 Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop
This is the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 which includes an entire kit with a Bluetooth receiver, Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 7000, Wireless Laser Mouse 8000, and a mouse charger.
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11.3.2007 Windows Vista 3D Desktop
Microsoft indicated early that Vista will feature a three-dimensional interface with transparency, moving objects, anti-aliasing and other effects. Thanks to portos for this download.
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10.7.2007 Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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5.9.2007 Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
Via Microsoft Connect, the company is accepting participation requests in a new Beta program for Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios. The software giant aims to streamline the way in which users interact with the desktop in an enterprise environment.
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27.11.2008I am a PC and I am 8 years old
After Kylie and Alexa, we had 'Battle between the Rookies' in the Rookies ad campaign, which brought mixed response amongst viewers. Here
again we have Adam, who is 8 years old using Windows Live Photo Gallery to create a slide show. He puts together a slide show of his animal toy
collection.
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28.02.2009Active Virtual Desktop 2.01 released
Ever wished you had several
screens on your computer?
Active Virtual Desktop is a
virtual desktop manager which
will create up to 9 virtual
desktops allowing you to have
different programs running on
each of them. This virtual
desktop manager resides in
system tray area (near the
clock) adds virtual desktops
buttons here. That allows you
to switch from one virtual
desktop to another with a
single mouse click. You can
easily minimize, maximize,
close, move from one virtual
desktop to another and even
drop windows to the system
tray using the windows manager
window.
Customizable hotkeys helps
you conviently operate with
your virtual desktops and move
applications from one virtual
desktop to another. Active
Virtual Desktop allows you to
have own wallpaper for each
virtual desktop.
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11.11.2006Three Replacements for Windows Active Desktop
MakeUseOf.com:
Active Desktop, a feature introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0, and
included in every Windows version since then until Windows Server 2003, allowed users to place websites on their desktop. While it enjoyed little
widespread use, and often was subject to criticism, the idea of placing websites on the desktop is still an appealing idea to some (provided you enjoy
widgets on the desktop).
In this post I’ll be exploring replacements for the now defunct Active Desktop feature -
Snippage,
AveDesktopSites, and
minibrowser.
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03.02.2009Windows 7 to add slideshow wallpapers and more!
Don't worry Windows 95 Plus! enthusiasts, Microsoft hasn't forgotten about you and your themes. A recently updated MSDN Library document shows that
Microsoft hasn't just brushed themes under the carpet, but instead dusted it off, added some new polish and is even putting it under the spotlight.
The document "
Creating and Installing Theme
Files" (now edited) has been updated with several "additions to the .theme file format were made for Windows 7". They include: (Click Read
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10.08.2008New Windows Live Mail Desktop
Feature Revealed
Using their usual "More Than
Mail" blog, the Windows Live
Mail Desktop Beta team
revealed yet another feature
of it, along with a screenshot
of a recent build.
This build seems to
contain yet another UI change,
slight this time, along with
the so-called Active Search
feature.
"People spend the bulk
of their time online doing two
things: checking their email
and searching the web. We
thought we?d bring the two
together, so you can use
search to act on the ideas and
tasks piling up in your
inbox.
Today,
we?re excited to begin testing
a new feature we?re calling
Active Search for Windows Live
Mail Desktop Beta with a small
group of beta participants in
the US.
Active
Search bridges the gap between
your inbox and the broader web
using the power of search.
Using Active Search is
essentially the same as
conducting a ton of related
searches the old fashioned way
? by cutting and pasting terms
from your email into a
separate web browser ? only
without all the
effort."
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03.06.2006Samsung to show off lower-profile OLED at CES
Major consumer electronics producer Samsung is expected to show off a prototype 31-inch active matrix OLED, and to begin producing 14-inch displays in
2008...
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28.12.2007T-Mobile suspends Sidekick Slide sales
T-Mobile confirmed Monday that it had temporarily suspended sales of the Sidekick Slide until it can discover why the phone is turning off when the
device is opened and closed...
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20.11.2007Google Upgrades its Desktop to
2.0
Microsoft may be afraid to
show its sidebar, but Google
apparently has no such qualms.
The company on Thursday rolled
out the final version of
Google Desktop 2.0, its
venerable search utility that
has morphed into a
full-fledged desktop
application with scriptable
plug-ins...
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04.11.2005Linux is more of a threat than Apple, says Ballmer
The world of technology is like a war these days, with every company competing to step above the rest and keep afloat in the current economic crisis.
Microsoft is no exception, and CEO Steve Ballmer has named a different foe than the usual Apple: Linux. OS News reports that Ballmer delivered the
statement whilst holding a speech for investors. During the show, he provided the following slide: "Linux, you could see on the slide, and Apple
has certainly increased its share somewhat," Ballmer had said, and he also went on to inform investors about Microsoft's biggest competitor:
Windows.
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26.02.2009Novell Shows Off New Linux
Desktop
Novell unveiled at the CeBIT
Electronics Show in Germany
Thursday its next-generation
operating system, called SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop. The
release is the successor to
Novell Desktop Linux, and the
company has hopes it will lead
to more widespread adoption of
the platform...
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09.03.2006Intel Delays Introduction of Chips with Integrated Graphics
Intel Corp. has decided to postpone the release of its central processing units (CPUs) with built-in graphics core to 2010 because of the "customer
feedback", according to a slide from a roadmap of the chipmaker published by a web-site. “Intel remains committed to delivering stable, high
quality, industry leading platforms on a predictable cadence. Based on 2008 client platform learnings and customer feedback, we have realigned our
features and schedules for 2009 mainstream Nehalem chips,” a statement published on a slide that resembles a slide from Intel’s roadmap,
reads. The slide was revealed by HKEPC web-site.
Originally planned to be released in 2009, code-named Auburndale processor for mobile
computers and Havendale chip for desktop PCs (both based on Nehalem micro-architecture) are now scheduled to be launched in early 2010, based on the
information from the slide. The delay is hardly critical for Intel in terms of revenue, but since those chips greatly simplify the company’s
production process, it is strange that Intel decided to delay such products.
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05.09.2008Panda: UK PCs Have Least Malware
An online malware measuring tool, Panda Software's Nanoscan tool, put the U.K. in the bottom spot last week, with only 8.1% of those scanned showing
active malware. By a separate measure, that of 'latent' or inactive malware, however, the U.K. fared less well, reaching 20.7%. Top of the infection
list for active malware was France (28.2%), Mexico (23.1%), Brazil (18%), the U.S. (17.8%), and Argentina (17.4%).
The figures appear to
show very high levels of infection, but the results only rate those who visited the site and asked to be scanned, meaning these individuals would be
expected to show a bias towards having infected PCs. The company has created its own global malware map from the data, which is collected from
thousands of mostly consumer PCs every 15 minutes. Almost 8% of those scanned and who showed active threats also had anti-virus software installed.
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29.09.2007NVIDIA CEO: "We're Going to Open a Can of Whoop Ass"
NVIDIA's already candid CEO Jen-Hsun Huang had more than a few things to say during the company's financial analyst meeting today. An hour into the
call Huang began to ad lib; clearly something was on his mind.
"We're going to open a can of whoop ass," he told analysts,
whom quickly broke out into laughter.
For the past two weeks Intel and NVIDIA have been playing a game of cloak and dagger with
technology press, complete with secret slide shows and secret slide show rebuttals. At the heart of this covert battle is the integrated graphics
market, and some of the claims attached to it.
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11.04.2008Single Sign-On: A Developer’s Introduction To Active Directory Federation Services
Use Active Directory
Federation Services to allow
other organizations to use
your Web applications without
the need for you to grant
access to their users
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04.11.2006Microsoft, Novell to Bridge Active Directory, eDirectory
In the next phase of the two
companies' much-discussed
collaboration, Novell and
Microsoft announced they are
working together to develop a
method for using existing
protocols for bridging network
access between eDirectory and
Active Directory, with
complete details to come
sometime during the first half
of this year...
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12.02.2007New Microsoft E-Mail Client
Gets Ads
Microsoft is embedding
advertising in its new e-mail
client software known as
Windows Live Mail Desktop, the
company disclosed late Friday.
The feature, known as Active
Search, will display text
links based on a message's
content, much like Google does
with its Gmail service on the
Web...
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06.06.2006TiVo releases Desktop 2.7 for Windows
It's been just under a year since TiVo last updated its Desktop software which allows videos to be shared between a user's TiVO DVR and PC or other
networked devices. Now there's a new version for both Desktop and Desktop Plus users...
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06.02.2009Family Guy's Stewie to Host
Internet Talk Show
Stewie fans rejoice: the vocal
tyke will be getting his own
talk show. The show is based
on familyguy.com and other
News Corp properties. While it
would not be the first time an
animated character has hosted
some kind of talk show, it has
already gotten the attention
of several advertisers...
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26.01.2006After a 12-year downhill slide, SGI is no more
The company that quite literally created the notion of creating processors dedicated to the task of producing 3D graphics, will soon cease to
exist.
The former Silicon Graphics, Inc., which has officially gone by the name SGI for several years, will sell its entire
assets to Rackable Systems, the low-power data center server producer, for a mere $25 million, according to an SEC filing this morning.
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01.04.2009Intel gets a desktop SLI licence from Nvidia
And the biggest story of the
show so far is: Intel has
landed an SLI license for
desktop, not just mobile.
You don't believe us?
Look at the tag on the picture
on the following page. The
deal was confirmed multiple
times by the vendor and
others. Below the tagged shot
is a full board, one with most
identifying things blanked out
to save the vendor's blushes.
We wondered
previously what Intel got from
Nvidia in exchange for the
tie-up that put more Nvidia
chips on Intel boards. Now we
know. ..
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