Gates opens entertainment window
Though Bill Gates is in town to tout his hot new Xbox 360 to the hordes in attendance at the huge Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), his horizon extends to the Hollywood hills ? and beyond.
Video games are key, but the Microsoft chairman also has his hand in much of the behind-the-scenes wrangling over entertainment and the Internet.
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12.5.2006 Window Seizer 1.00 Beta
Windows Seizer and a standalone freeware utility which lists all the windows you have open on your PC.
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31.3.2007 Napster hangs "for sale" sign in front window
Napster is evaluating the possibility of a sale by hiring of an investment bank. Citing "recent third party interest," the company has asked UBS Investment Bank to explore strategic partnerships or an outright sale of the company.
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20.9.2006 New Window Management System for Windows 7 Pre-Beta
The window management system is one piece of the Windows 7 graphical user interface which will evolve starting with the pre-Beta version of the operating system.
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3.10.2008 Windows Vista Build 5728 Availability Window Closing Soon
Nick White has posted this on the Vista team blog yesterday, thought I'd give everyone who is interested in testing the latest build of Vista a heads up on the limited availability.
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26.9.2006 Secunia round 3: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
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30.10.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 RTM'ed, Window Vista 99% RTM
On Monday Microsoft will announce that the 2007 Microsoft Office system products have been released to manufacturing (RTM).
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6.11.2006 Disable Aero Snap Auto Maximize and Arrange Window in Windows 7
Windows 7 includes a new feature called Aero Snap that intends to improve open windows management on the desktop. Aero Snap allows user to drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize the window automatically, or to the left or right side of the screen to resize the window to fill and take up half of the screen estate on the moved side automatically.
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19.5.2009 Hack to Activate and Switch Window in Windows 7 By Mouse Over Hover Without Click
When there are many windows open on desktop of Windows 7, normally users will click on another window in order activate the window into front or foreground and switch to the task or window.
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19.5.2009Toshiba starts integrating DVD into small-screen displays
Want to watch a movie in bed? Cooking programs in the kitchen? Pilates videos in the den? Toshiba America Consumer Products has announced a new line
of LCD TV/DVD combination products, intended to be used in any room in the house...
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09.01.2009EC Commissioner proposes doubling terms of performers' copyright
"Oldies" music remains popular among many generations, which could present a window of opportunity for record companies in Europe to take
advantage of royalties terms expiring after 50 years. Today, the EC may be looking to shut that window...
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15.02.2008Application Specific Glass Colorization in Windows 7?
Microsoft might be introducing application specific glass renderings. The color of the glass frame around a window can be changed in Vista, but the
change is global to the system. The color of any particular window glass frame can not be set by choice. But, how about being able to change the
color/opacity level of a the glass frame of any application through defined events or commands? According to a Patent number 7418668:
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method for changing a color value and/or level of opacity value of a glass appearance window frame for an application window is described. The method
includes steps of determining a defined color value and a defined level of opacity value to apply to a glass appearance window frame and displaying
the glass appearance window frame in accordance with the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value. A command may be received to
apply the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame, thereby applying the defined color value
and level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame. Color values and/or level of opacity values may be changed automatically, be
application specific, and/or be changed in response to receipt of an input from a user to change one or more portions of a default configuration.
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06.09.2008PINNED: WLM Build 566 Comming
Soon
Remember that little talk
about how the 562 build of
Windows Live Messenger was
just a preview; well here
comes the bride... I mean the
build. Build 566 of WLM is to
be released on February 28th
according to the WLM team
blog.
The
build will feature some
noticeable updates, mainly the
layout of the Contact List,
the tabs have now been
repositioned inside the main
window, the spacing between
each contact has been reduced
to allow more contacts to be
viewable in the window (= less
scrolling) and the avatar
preview and display
name/personal messages boxes
are finally back to the left
side again.
A
few of the minor updates
include the fact that the
menus are now only available
through the drop down menu,
meaning you can no longer
expand or minimize the window
frame like before. Also, the
ink/type tabs in the
conversation window have been
moved to the right side closer
to your display picture.
It has also been
announced that the WLM team is
working on new status icons
that both look good and show
the status at the same
time.
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28.02.2006War breaks out between AdBlock Plus and NoScript
A quiet war has broken out between the authors of AdBlock Plus and NoScript and money is on the table. Both are trying to outdo each other by
disabling each other's functionality. The issue at stake is NoScript's behavior of showing a changelog window whenever it gets a new update,
which of late has been updated rather frequently. And unsurprisingly, that changelog window is filled with ads that generate revenue for NoScript.
AdBlock Plus on the other hand is commited to blocking ads regardless of where they are from; and this has treaded on the tail of the author of
NoScript.
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03.05.2009Lo and behold, the Internet Explorer 8 toolbar
Long Zheng: First, a few words about the following screenshot. To be perfectly clear, this is not an original image. The window and its contents
(address bar, tab, window title, page content) have been heavily recomposited to better fit in a smaller image size as well as to obscure any traces
where this might have come from. I did not take the screenshot nor do I have access to the beta (so no emails please but do send bribes regardless).
Having said that, I can easily vouch for its authenticity...
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02.03.2008Bluetooth gives Spies a Window into your Life
Worried about your civil liberties and privacy? Then it may come as a shock to discover that you have unwittingly been allowing your phone to signal
your every move.
Bluetooth, a wireless link built into many cellphones, makes our movements trackable by anyone equipped with a PC and an
appropriate receiver. Vassilis Kostakos at the University of Bath in the UK placed four Bluetooth receivers in the city's centre. Over four
months, his team tracked 10,000 Bluetooth phones and was able to "capture and analyse people's encounters" in pubs, streets and shops.
Bluetooth is now more of a privacy threat than the more frequently publicised RFID chips, Kostakos says. "If people are worried, they should turn
off the Bluetooth function on their mobile phones."
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08.05.2008Microsoft Expression Blend 2 December Preview Free Trial
We are pleased to present our next preview of Microsoft
® Expression Blend
™ 2. The Expression Blend 2 December Preview
lets you
create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications as well as Microsoft Silverlight
™-based
applications. Additionally, you can export content from
Microsoft Expression® Design in a format that you can use in Silverlight-based applications
created in the Expression Blend 2 December Preview. You may also find
Microsoft Expression Encoder to be helpful when you are working with video, Silverlight,
and the Expression Blend 2 December Preview. Learn more about
Silverlight and its
community today.
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07.12.2007Winsize2 Remembers Your Preferred Window Sizes
Free, open-source utility
Winsize2 sets up a single keyboard combination to
remember, and change, the preferred size and positioning of your Windows applications. In other words, if you hate how your browser opens up to
seemingly random sizes, or full-screen instead of windowed, have Winsize2 running and hit Ctrl+Alt+Z (or, on some systems, with Y as the final key).
That locks down the apps' size and place, and hitting the combination again will over-write that preference if you like another position better...
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09.12.2008Microsoft to open-source fans: It's all about the love
Charles Cooper: The advance billing had the audience assuming Daniel was about to enter the lions' den. What they got was more along the lines of
Mister Rogers talks tech.
Brad Smith, who is Microsoft's top lawyer, went out of his way during an afternoon talk before a
gathering of open-source die-hards to portray the software company as ready to turn a page in its relationship with the developer community.
"Two engineers in a room can solve a problem a lot better than 1,000 lawyers," he told a packed ballroom of open-source enthusiasts and
executives here, adding that the company wanted "conversation and dialogue."
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26.03.2008Microsoft Process Explorer 11.04
Process Explorer shows you information about which
handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always
shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window
depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has
opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a
powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.
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06.11.2007Firefox 2.0.0.12 is still vulnerable to directory traversal
A few hours after the release, a hacker has discovered the flaw, where he recommends using the NoScript plugin. In the mean time you can either use
another browser, or install the NoScript plugin to mitigate these issues.
"Don't patch vulnerabilities for fifty percent, take the
time and fix the cause. Because directory traversal through plugins is all nice and such, we don't need it. We can trick Firefox itself in
traversing directories back. I found another information leak that is very serious because we are able to read out all preferences set in Firefox, or
just open or include about every file stored in the Mozilla program files directory, and this without any mandatory settings or plugins.," said
Ronald van den Heetkamp to Mozilla.
A proof of concept is available at this web site
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10.02.2008How to Build a Windows Home Server
Want your own home server? Build one yourself, using Windows Home Server as the OS. We pick the parts, show you how to build it, and set it up.
It's an age old question in computing: Where do you store your files? For most home users, the answer is simple: on a PC hard disk.
Yet, as we are collecting more and more digital media, and even streaming it from a PC in the den to your living room HDTV, the concept of local
storage is even less attractive.
Ask anyone who has lost just one important Word document after a crash where they store their
files and the answer will undoubtedly have something to do with a network drive. Even though a high-end storage product like the Netgear ReadyNAS has
many perks, it is a closed box affair. You can't really tweak the OS, and archiving the data on a laptop automatically takes some configuring.
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18.12.2007Tivo Gadget for Windows Vista
Mike Swanson recently blogged about a cool new gadget he wrote for the Windows Vista Sidebar, the
TiVo Gadget for Windows Vista. The gadget,
available for download
here, is the
perfect addition to TiVo users' desktops. Even if you have multiple TiVos in your house, you can utilize this gadget to see the "Now Playing" lists
from your DVR. You can configure the gadget to group shows from the same series together and when the gadget notices a new recording, it will ding.
For homes with multiple TiVos, you can give the units friendly names, like "Downstairs" or "Den" to help identify them...
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11.12.2007Signs of a total rethink of Skype in its 4.0 beta
Skype's 4.0 beta has moved away from Instant Messenger style layout consisting of multiple small windows, and has instead opted for a single,
full-screen video chat window...
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21.06.2008Patent reveals Aero Glass reflections was also to change according to time of day
Is there a possibility that
we may see this idea as a
future Ultimate Extra or as a
feature in Vista SP1? Only
time will tell...
Dont read this if you are
easily disappointed or are
already disappointed with
Windows Vista compared to
Longhorn, since it just adds
more fuel to the flame. A
patent application filed
yesterday (May 31) reveals a
little more about the other
ideas Microsoft had for Aero
Glass.
The key
characteristics of Aero Glass,
colorization and reflection,
are explained in two separate
patents,
"http://appft1.uspto.gov/neta
cgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect
2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetah
tml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f
=G&l=50&s1=%2220070124692%22.P
GNR.&OS=DN/20070124692&RS=DN/2
0070124692>Glass appearance
window fram colorization" and
"http://appft1.uspto.gov/neta
cgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect
2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetah
tml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f
=G&l=50&s1=%2220070124691%22.P
GNR.&OS=DN/20070124691&RS=DN/2
0070124691>Dynamic reflective
highlighting of a glass
appearance window frame." The
latter brings up an
interesting idea, it writes:
As described
above, a reflective highlight
of a glass appearance of an
application window frame may
be configured to change during
a move and/or resize operation
based on a set of rules that
describe a reflective
highlight images placement
relative to the current
position of the application
window within a desktop space.
Concurrently or alternatively,
a reflective highlight may be
configured to change in
response to a time of day
event.
If youre
not familiar with the
techno-babble-patent-language,
what it means is that the
reflection in Aero Glass (the
white stripes) was designed to
change based on the position
of the application window on
the desktop, on the time of
day, or both.
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01.06.2007Microsoft to Remove Eolas Barrier in IE
Microsoft has begun advising customers on planned changes to IE now that it has licensed technology from Eolas, however it may have accidentally let
slip a release window for VIsta SP1 and XP SP3 to boot...
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09.11.2007Google Chrome, a Shell for the Web
"In the long term, we think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things
into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on
their operating systems. The tab is our equivalent of a desktop application's title bar; the frame containing the tabs is a convenient mechanism for
managing groups of those applications. In future, there may be other tab types that do not host the normal browser toolbar," explains
a document about Chrome's user experience.
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15.09.2008Scramble Against MS Threats Continues
Independent security
developers, including the one
that had a brief window of
opportunity to patch
Microsoft's VML flaw before
Microsoft beat its own
deadline, are now scrambling
for their share of the
spotlight in the wake of the
re-emergence last week of an
ActiveX control flaw...
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03.10.2006FileBox eXtender - Now Freeware
After a great deal of
development work we have sadly
concluded that it is not
practical to adapt FileBox
eXtender to work under Window
Vista - the architecture is
simply too different.
With FileBox eXtender you
can create a menu of files,
folders or drives that you can
access from a tray icon or
from whatever window is open.
It will add more buttons to
the top of your windows that
you can use to roll-up the
window, make it stay on top of
other windows or quickly
choose save location. You can
create sub menus in the list
if you want to. This provides
one click access to any
application or folder you want
to open. FileBox eXtender has
more features which you can
read about at the site.
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