How to Reduce Windows Animation Speed in Windows Vista
When you minimize, maximize or close any windows/applications, the animation speed to perform these tasks is a default setting and you can’t really control it.
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10.2.2009 Reduce the Load MSNBot Delivers to Servers
Microsoft is currently rolling out a range of improvements to its Windows Live platform of services and applications.
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21.4.2008 How Office SP2 manages to reduce interoperability
Microsoft recently released service pack two (SP2) for their flagship office product, Office 2007.
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21.5.2009 How To: Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore
So you just bought a new notebook with Windows Vista and a roomy 120GB hard drive. But after using it for just a couple of days, you notice that you’ve only got about 90GB free.
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24.4.2007 Minimem - Automatically Lower, Optimize or Reduce the Memory Usage for Any Running Program at Interval
Nowadays modern computers comes with high memory, from 1GB to 4GB and some even up to 8GB!
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6.8.2008 Windows update to reduce the number of filters for Domain Isolation or Server Isolation deployment.
Install this update to reduce the number of filters that need to be authored and maintained in an IPsec Domain Isolation or Server Isolation deployment.
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8.4.2006Microsoft Exec Vows To Reduce Complexity In Partner Relations
Microsoft is hoping that simpler is better.
The software giant's U.S. Partner Group is working to reduce the complexity of
dealing with the company, as well as looking to reduce the costs involved with maintaining the relationship, said Robert Deshaies, vice president of
the U.S. Partner Group at Microsoft, during an address at XChange '07 Monday night.
However, the company has some work to do,
judging by the number of hands raised when Deshaies asked if it was more complex to do business with Microsoft than a year ago.
"Clearly, we have not made the impact we have to," Deshaies said, inviting VARs to see him after the keynote to relay the top issues they're
facing. "That's what we need to do to be successful. The evolution is getting down to a point where you're dealing with one Microsoft."..
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22.08.2007MSN launches ˜Live Earth tree
Microsoft, the exclusive
online media sponsor for
Live
Earth, has launched the
MSN Live Earth Tree - an
interactive online animation
that lets people worldwide
pledge their commitment to the
environment and join the
battle to halt climate change.
The Live Earth Tree
can be found at
http://www.l
iveearthtree.com/ and
users are invited to visit the
site to design their own
unique leaf for the tree, and
pledge to make small lifestyle
changes to reduce their impact
on the environment.
The tree will grow in size
as people across the globe
sign up to make their pledge
and show their support for the
causes underlying Live Earth,
the concert series taking
place across the globe to
raise awareness of the current
climate crisis...
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07.07.2007New Vista Boot Animation &
Sound?
Could this be the
'spiritual' branding
experience Steve Ball, group
program manager for the
Windows Audio Video Excellence
team was
talking
about?
Even
though the sound is unique,
after playing it a few times,
I've already gotten used to
it. Somewhere through the deep
tones, it still reminds me of
Windows.
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25.09.2006Firefox 3 Takes Web Animation to the Bleeding Edge
The Firefox team is showing
great dedication in its quest
to fix the little things
broken on the web.
Animated GIFs are
something of an eyesore. Not
to mention so very 1998.
That's why it's refreshing
to learn that the next Mozilla
Firefox -- version 3 is due to
arrive in late September or
early October -- will include
support for two new animation
techniques that will encourage
a shift away from animated
GIFs and challenge the use of
Flash for smaller user
interface elements (where
it's unnecessary in the first
place).
These are experimental
methods using data formats not
yet widely supported. But they
are an improvement over the
status quo, and they point the
way toward a future more
reliant on forward-thinking
web standards.
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15.08.2007Sprint to reduce staff by 8,000, TI to cut 3,400
Sprint today announced that they will reduce their staffing by nearly 8,000 people. Along with other benefit reductions, that is expected to save the
company approximately $1.2 billion per year. Layoffs will take place over the next two months and will affect all levels of the company, all
across the country. A large chunk of the jobs, estimates are around 2,000, are expected to be lost near the company headquarters outside Kansas City.
The company will also suspend their 401(k) matches, pay increases and tuition reimbursement program through 2009. The suspended tuition program is
expected to heavily impact universities in the Kansas City area, who benefit from the large number of employees who take advantage of that program.
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27.01.2009Adobe issues final release of Acrobat 9 series
It's a more aggressive marketing stance for Adobe as Acrobat branches out into online applications, more and better document collaboration, and Flash
animation embedding...
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25.06.2008Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash
Adobe released on Tuesday the first Reader application to bake movies and animation into the Portable Document Format.
With
Adobe Reader 9, users can play Flash movies, Shockwave animation,
and other rich media content without needing to open a third-party player.
PDFs are reaching new levels of interactivity with
this release. Past versions of the nearly ubiquitous and free application, by contrast, have enabled dynamic forms but served largely to open
print-ready PDFs.
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02.07.2008Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation
Steven Sinofsky: As we connect through this blog and through all of those talking about Windows 7 it is clear that folks have a lot of passion around
many topics. We learned early on about the passion around the boot/startup sequence and how important it was for that to go by quickly! At the same
time, we know that it is really dull to watch a HDD light blink when resuming a machine from hibernate or powering up a machine. To improve this first
connection with people, we set out to improve the boot sequencejazz it up if you will. It sounds pretty easy, but as we looked into solving this we
found it is a pretty significant engineering challenge. Our goal was to have fun while having no impact on the boot performance of the system. To
explain this engineering and describe the boot sequence, Karen Wong, a program manager on our Core User Experience feature team, authored this
post.
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19.02.2009Microsoft acquires trueSpace creator Caligari
The Virtual Earth team has grown once again with the acquisition of Caligari Corporation, a small company that has been pioneering 3D modeling and
animation since it was founded in 1986. In 1994, Caligari released the famous trueSpace, a powerful 3D graphics and animation package (originally for
Amiga and now for Windows). Caligari CEO Roman Ormandy, the man who heads the team that is based in California and Slovakia, has brought trueSpace
through many releases over its 20-year history.
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08.02.2008Verizon to Ship Phones with
Flash
Verizon Wireless will become
the first mobile operator in
the United States to include
Adobe's Flash animation
software on its phones, thanks
to a deal signed between the
companies Wednesday. The idea
is to give customers more
options for viewing graphics
on a small screen...
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06.04.2006AtomFilms Expands Online Reach
AtomFilms announced on Friday
it had penned deals with AOL,
Singingfish, Blinkx and other
video search engines to put
the company's content in
front of millions of new
viewers. Online since 1999,
AtomFilms provides online
distribution to independent
movies and animation...
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24.09.2005Universal phone charger planned
If you have ever found yourself in the situation where your mobile phone is low on battery and about to die when you are nowhere near your charger and
your friend's charger does not fit, this will be great news for you. The universal mobile-phone charger will be available in every market
worldwide on most top brand mobile phones to help reduce energy consumption, up to 50%, and also to reduce waste, where many throw away their chargers
after their phone dies or is lost. The target is set for 2012 when the universal charger will come into effect, which gives cell phone makers plenty
of time to ready their devices.
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18.02.2009NVidia Releases 3-D Rendering Tool
After a beta test last year,
NVidia on Monday released the
final version of Gelato 2.1,
the company's GPU-accelerated
3-D rendering software. The
tool was originally developed
for film and animation, but
has been expanded for game
development, industrial
design, and general CAD use...
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13.03.2007DreamWorks switches to Intel for stereoscopic 3-D high
For computer animation studios, upgrading long-in-the-tooth server farms is a part of a natural cycle to keep things looking sharp. But they're a
bit like butterflies flitting amongst hardware specs when it comes down to finding what they want to power "the next big thing."
Witness:
DreamWorks Animation has signed on the dotted line with Intel to toss the AMD chips they've previously been using for rendering flicks. The deal
will see the studio replace approximately 1,500 Hewlett-Packard servers and 1,000 workstations using AMD processors with new HP systems based on
Chipzilla's silicon. In other words, DreamWorks clicked a different button on HP's order form.
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09.07.2008New Zealand Actor Wins Rejection of Amazon 'One-Click' Patent
In a symbolic victory for advocates of patent reform, a part-time motion-capture actor who has appeared - albeit masked by CGI animation - in the
Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, has succeeded in striking down Amazon's patent claim of having invented the single-click purchase
procedure...
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18.10.2007Disney to Expand iTunes TV
Offerings
Starting with condensed
versions of the Tostitos
Fiesta Bowl and Nokia Sugar
Bowl, Disney on Tuesday said
it would expand its iTunes
offerings to include content
from ESPN, ABC News,
Touchstone Television, the
Disney Channel, as well as the
company's animation
department...
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04.01.2006Report: Disney in Talks to Buy
Pixar
Walt Disney Co. and Pixar
Animation Studios are in
"serious" discussions
about a potential acquisition,
according to a report Thursday
in the Wall Street Journal.
Disney has offered a stock
deal of over Pixar's current
$6.7 billion market value,
which would make CEO Steve
Jobs the largest individual
Disney shareholder...
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19.01.2006Lord Mandelson announces three-strike plan to reduce piracy
Lord Mandelson has clarified plans regarding the "three-strike policy" today, created in an effort to reduce piracy, according to the BBC. Whilst
the plans were initially opposed by many, Lord Mandelson also mentioned some benefits the new plans will provide, such as relaxed copyright laws in
regards to sharing. Lord Mandelson was speaking at the government's digital creative industries conference where he talked about the plans. He
emphasised that cutting off users would be a last resort, and, addressing the fears of some, stated that users would be able to appeal any decisions
to cut off their Internet access, if for instance, the disconnected user believed someone else was using their Internet connection.
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29.10.2009Adobe Flash Player 10 public beta now open
Today Adobe Systems launched the public beta for Flash Player 10, the company's ubiquitous runtime graphics platform. Added features include 3D
animation and transformation support, new effects and filters, as well as new rich text layouts...
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15.05.2008ATI Reduces Support for Older Graphics Cards
As time goes on and a product catalog grows, it's not unusual for a company to reduce and eventually eliminate support for older products. In the
case of ATI, AMD's graphics division, a new decision to reduce support for older graphics chips is about to take effect.
To
date, ATI has provided a new WHQL certified driver every month to nearly every graphics card capable of DirectX 9 acceleration. That includes cards
all the way back to 2002's Radeon 9700 Pro. After this month's Catalyst 9.3 release, that will not be the case...
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