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 Windows 7 to let users create a Desktop Slideshow from files, feeds
Curious as to what else was under Microsoft’s elaborate lock, key, and duct-tape protection scheme mentioned earlier, I had my friend Chris Holmes run a scan of his 7 system, as I’m still babying my laptop’s SSD drive.
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10.11.2008 Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 Wallpapers Desktop Slideshow
The Desktop Slideshow is one of the features that Microsoft has tucked away in Windows 7, hidden even from testers (at this point in time) including the participants at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of the past month.
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5.11.2008 Vista Sidebar showcases desktop-Web integration
Long Zheng has published some fantastic Windows Vista screencasts, which display the power of the Vista OS - released as a developer beta last week. The screencast that I was most interested in was the Sidebar. Similar in appearance and functionality to the Dashboard feature of Mac OS X Tiger, the Vista Sidebar allows users to manage their gadgets (Microsoft's term for widgets) and other content such as RSS feeds.
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14.6.2006 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 Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD
In past we have covered promo offers related to Ashampoo products one was for Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 and another one was for Ashampoo Firewall today we are here with one more promo offer for Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD.
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1.10.2009 Leaked Windows 7 Details: Theme Files, Gallery, Packs and Wallpaper Slideshow
While Windows 7 is still a taboo subject as far as Microsoft is concerned, with the company offering just crumbs from the feast that is Windows Vista's successor, details do manage to slip through, and the Redmond company has nobody to blame for it but itself.
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6.8.2008 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 How the Web Went Worldwide
For an educational bit of Sunday reading, the BBC have posted an article on the technology section of their website documenting the web's mysterious early days.
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6.8.2006 Wired but not Web 2.0?
Although most U.S. adults have a cell phone, a computer and Internet access, a study says only a small percentage are participating in Web 2.0 activities.
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8.5.2007 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 Web IM in Hotmail!
Yes, you’ve been asking us, and we promised you’d get it soon. Well, the moment you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived: instant messaging from the web is here!
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21.4.2009 Windows 7 Gets Its Own Web Site
Microsoft has launched a new Web site that aims to build interest in its forthcoming Windows 7 operating system among developers and other IT professionals. TalkingAboutWindows.com, as the site is called, features numerous videos, blog posts, and Q&A's by the Microsoft engineers who helped develop Windows 7.
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29.4.2009 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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27.11.2008 Opera Web Browser Goes Freeware
Following a successful 24-hour giveaway last month, Opera Software has decided to drop the banner ads from its Web browser and permanently nix the licensing fee. Opera 8.5 is now available for download free of charge, putting new pressure on Firefox as it nears version 1.5.
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Microsoft's Web Mail Gets Overhaul
The Hotmail millions (Microsoft reports 200 million users) know and perhaps love could be replaced. For the last seven months, Microsoft has been beta testing a radically different Web mail client, one that makes Hotmail's largely standard HTML interface look like yesterday's news. Kahuna supports drag and drop, right-clicking, multi-select and, in general, a much more Outlook-like look and feel.
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The Buzz: Microsoft Upgrades to Web 2.0
Microsoft on Tuesday announced its highly-anticipated lineup of online services, called Windows Live and Office Live. The news has received much attention from tech pundits and throughout the blogosphere. Read on for a selection of what people are saying about Redmond's latest move and tell us what you think.
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New Web Mail: More Polished, Powerful
Microsoft and Yahoo are poised to make Web-based e-mail more powerful than ever with updates that bring a desktop-style interface to their respective Web mail offerings. We tested betas (currently invitation-only) of Windows Live Mail and Yahoo Mail, and also looked at an open-source newcomer called Zimbra. All three apps use an increasingly popular programming technique called Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to improve on standard Web mail and even Google's Gmail.
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27.11.2005 Web sites for the brave new electronic b@by
Dispatch from the future:
FROM: Carter Kohl, 34 inches, 30 pounds, 17 months.
TO: Friends and family.
MESSAGE: Feel free to contact me. Even though I cannot read just yet, you can still send me e-mail. My parents will read it to me and will help me respond to all your messages. In advance, thanks for getting in touch. I'll be reading and replying back to you before you know it!
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16.1.2006 Microsoft Expression Web Beta 1
Microsoft® Expression® Web is a new designer-focused product that provides powerful tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them.
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7.9.2006 Go2web20 - The Complete Web 2.0 Directory
Go2Web 2.0 is an interesting site which lists all current web 2.0 companies on the web, its worth checking out.
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17.9.2006 Microsoft's Web Conference Sells Out
Microsoft's MIX 07 Web conference, which runs April 30 through May 2 in Las Vegas, has sold out, the company announced this week.
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8.4.2007 Microsoft Web Executive Leaves
Microsoft Corp. announced the departure of several executives Thursday, among them Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft's online business group, a Silicon Valley veteran recruited to help fix its unprofitable Web business.
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15.2.2008Windows 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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10.08.2008More Windows 7 6801 Goodies: Desktop Slideshow
Rafael and
Chris123NT are at
it again, this time with an unannounced feature discovered: a desktop slideshow.
This feature allows you to select multiple wallpapers
which will then loop as your desktop background at a set interval. You can even select to have it load images directly from an RSS feed.
No "unlock" has been released yet, but it will be soon. Keep your eyes peeled!
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04.11.2008Active 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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03.02.2009New 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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03.06.2006Windows 7 Build 6801 Desktop Slideshow
Chris Holmes: Well folks, were at it again. Last night I was having a discussion with
Rafael Rivera and we got to wondering if there was something more that Microsoft was hiding away from us, using the same method
as they did to tuck away the superbar. With that said, I started crawling my system with some tools to find references, as Rafaels laptop was acting
up and my machine could accomplish the task much quicker. Completely to my suprise, the system pulled some results across many other files in the
system. Upon examination, Rafael discovered that this all ties into a new feature that we assume will be called œDesktop Slideshow. Think of this
as a dreamscene-esque type feature but without the hassle and the chugging of your CPU if you try to play a video with any decent resolution.
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04.11.2008Single 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
individually...
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04.11.2006New 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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06.06.2006Gmail Rolls Out PowerPoint Preview
Google rolled out their
slideshow feature for Gmail
(some of you were already
getting this as experiment for
a while). What happens is that
whenever someone sends you a
PowerPoint attachment, you can
instantly open it in a new
browser window by clicking
œview as slideshow to then go
through the pages via the
arrow buttons on top.
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12.06.2007Remote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX Control Available
The downloadable Remote
Desktop Web Connection ActiveX
control provides most of the
same functionality as the full
Remote Desktop Connection
software; however, the Remote
Desktop Web Connection is
designed to deliver this
functionality over the Web.
The Web package
Setup program installs the
downloadable ActiveX control
and sample Web page on a
server running Internet
Information Services (IIS) 4.0
or later.
Supported Operating
Systems: Windows 2000; Windows
95; Windows 98; Windows NT;
Windows Server 2003; Windows
XP
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27.07.2007Google Desktop Search goes Linux
Google has
launched a
beta version of Google Desktop
Search for Linux in a sign
of encouragement by the search
giant for Linux on the
desktop.
Google
Desktop allows people to
search the Web while also
searching the full text of all
the information on their
computer, including Gmail and
their Web search history.
Because the index is stored
locally on the computer, users
can access Gmail and Web
history while offline.
Google Desktop for Linux
was written natively and uses
Google's own desktop search
algorithms, not existing Linux
search applications such as
Beagle, a company
representative said. Only
computers with x86 processors
can use the software. It
supports the Debian 4.0,
Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10,
Novell Suse 10.1 and Red Flag
5 versions of Linux, and uses
either the KDE and GNOME
graphical user interfaces. ..
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28.06.2007Mozilla Looks to Bring Web Apps to Desktop
Mozilla is working on a new application called "Prism," which will help to blur the line further between applications for the web and the
desktop...
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26.10.2007Adobe Aims to Bring Web to the Desktop
Adobe took the wraps off of
AIR on Monday, its
cross-operating system
platform formerly known as
"Apollo" that allows
developers to use Web-centric
programming languages and
environments to create desktop
applications...
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12.06.2007PDC 2008: Cleaning up the desktop in Windows 7
After another long, lofty, and philosophy-laden introduction from Microsoft's Ray Ozzie this morning, the #1 new feature being discussed in the
"cleaned up" Windows 7 is improved file and application access.
Photos:
View screenshots of Windows 7 in action..
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28.10.2008Slideshow in the Windows Live Photo Gallery
We didnt do much to the Slideshow feature in the Windows Live Photo Gallery, but there have been several questions coming in about this feature, so we
thought that it was worth a brief rundown of whats changed.
In a nutshell, heres how the slideshow feature works in this
release:
- XP users: Basic slideshow only (equivalent to the ˜Classic theme on Vista). No transitions, and no support for videos. The rich
themes are very dependent on the Vista graphics model, so it will take a fair amount of work to get the rich themes working on XP (more than we could
bite off for this release).
- Vista users (basic graphics hardware): The experience should be unchanged from Vista. You may see a limited
set of themes available, and may or may not see transport controls depending on the capabilities of your graphics card.
- Vista users
(premium graphics hardware): The experience should be unchanged from Vista.
We
blogged about the Vista Slideshow experience previously. Most
of this still applies (with the exception of the above notes). One exception is that although the rich themes were only available on certain Vista
SKUs, all themes are available in all Vista SKUs (again, depending on your graphics hardware).
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20.09.2007Google dips toes into 'deep Web' search
Google's ever-active search bots, which scour the Web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of their indexing jobs.
In a
blog post
Friday, Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy of Google's crawling and indexing team said the company has begun an experiment in which its indexing
software experimentally enters text in Web site forms to see what previously undiscovered pages may appear.
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15.04.2008AIM Now for Vista, AOL Web Mail
AOL on Wednesday released the
final version of AIM 6.1,
which primarily brings support
for Windows Vista, as well as
announcing a new beta of AOL
Web Mail that integrates AIM.
Users will be able to conduct
AIM conversations directly
from their Web-based AOL Mail
interface.
Photo:
View the
new AIM, AOL Mail
integration..
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29.03.2007Google Launches Picasa Web
Albums
Picasa, Google's free desktop
photo management software, now
has a new Web Albums photo
sharing service available in
beta. Similar to Flickr,
Photobucket, and the like, it
allows the user to upload
photos from their desktop and
conveniently share them via
email or URLs...
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14.06.2006Google Desktop Now for Macs
Google Desktop 1.0 is now
available for Macs, the search
giant announced Wednesday. The
software is more basic than
its Windows counterpart,
focusing strictly on searching
for files, e-mails and Web
pages. A "Quick Search
Box" resides on the
desktop and displays results
to queries in a dropdown menu...
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04.04.2007AOL Spins Off Desktop Search
Product
AOL's Desktop Search software
debuted last year as a
component of the company's
new AOL Explorer Web browser.
Now, version 2.0 of the
utility has been spun off as a
standalone download with a
revamped interface and support
for removable media. AOL
Desktop Search 2.0 indexes a
variety of document types,
emails, and even audio and
video...
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