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15.7.2008 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006 Download Windows 7 MUI Language Packs - Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download Links
Microsoft has released MUI (Multilingual User Interface) language packs for Windows 7 RTM. The Windows 7 language packs is available via Windows Update as optional update for Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions only.
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28.8.2009 Download Firefox 1.0.7
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Download Fasterfox 0.7.9
Prefetch Links - Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Firefox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
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Skype 2.0 download
Everybodys favourite free PC-calling software has just reached version 2.0. Skype now comes with free video calling (assuming two existing webcams) but also updates its older features.
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7.1.2006 WindowBlinds 5 download
Customize the look and feel of Windows XP with WindowBlinds. It's a Windows utility that enables users to personalize nearly every aspect of the Windows graphical user interface. It can "skin" your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, radio buttons, and nearly every other part of Windows.
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8.1.2006 IE 7 Beta 3 Now Download
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 3 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability.
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29.6.2006 MEMM 2.1 available for download now!
It's a Microsoft Excel Add-In with a collection of functions which can be useful in an Enterprise environment based on Microsoft Windows operating systems. The main functions are based on retrieving information from Active Directory, modifying Active Directory and getting information from computers through WMI. Although there are more free tools available nowadays (like ADModify), it can be quite convenient to perform certain tasks directly in Excel.
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20.7.2006 Safari 3.2.1 Download
The problem was almost instantly isolated and confirmed as incompatibility with third party software. Apple has now issued a new Safari update, for both Mac and Windows users, which delivers “stability improvements,” according to the Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker.
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25.11.2008 3 x DOWNLOAD Windows XP
DOWNLOAD Windows XP 9 IN ONE with service pack 2,
DOWNLOAD Windows XP Professional 64 Bit,
DOWNLOAD Windows XP Professional 32 Bit
This is Windows XP Unofficial Download page.
Windows XP is designed for businesses of all sizes and for home users who demand the most from their computing experience, Windows XP Professional delivers the new standard in reliability and performance.
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DOWNLOAD QUAKE 4 + Screenshots
Almost a decade ago, in 1996, Quake was first released. It brought with it a revolution in PC gaming. Actually, it was the first game in FPS genre that was really worth belonging there. It began the Epic that is the Quake series. The original game had both Single Player and Multiplayer and both were good.
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DOWNLOAD WindowBlinds Enhanced 5.0
WindowBlinds is a program that allows you to
completely change the look and feel of Windows to however you want it to look like. WindowBlinds allows you to completely customize your desktop look by changing the style of title buttons, bars and toolbars.
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7.12.2005 FireTune v1.0.9 Download
FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts.
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14.12.2005 Download ICQ 5.04
ICQ Lite has all the essential features of the full version of ICQ. You can message people, exchange files, send SMS messages, do voice chat, and meet people. It also includes multilingual support, the ability to save your chat histories, and a typing indicator that shows when a contact is typing you a message.
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22.12.2005 Download OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
The first update to OpenOffice.org has been released exactly two months after the launch of version 2.0. Five release candidates of 2.0.1 have been made available since that time, with the final build showing up on OpenOffice.org mirror sites early Tuesday.
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22.12.2005 nLite 1.0 RC5 download
nLite lets you choose which components to remove from your Windows 2000, XP or 2003 before installation. Removing unneeded components you gain on your system speed and security.
t supports removal of almost any component and few services. You can make a bootable ISO with it and even easy slipstream Service pack with a click of a button. Now added easy cd-key implementation so you don't need to enter it during setup..
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9.1.2006 Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Download Available
The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox.
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23.10.2006 Windows PowerShell 1.0 download
Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity.
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15.11.2006 Would you (legally) download Vista?
If Microsoft made Vista available for legal retail download, would the masses come? Looks like we'll soon find out.
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18.1.2007 Virus Disguised as IE 7 Download
Watch out for e-mails with a new virus disguised as a test version of Microsoft's current Web browser.
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31.3.2007 TweakNT 1.21 download
TweakNT is a utility that allows you to remove or readd the timebomb and change the
edition of any NT OS. Thanks to Hack4Crack for this download.
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25.4.2007 Free AVG 8.0 Download
Yesterday, Grisoft announced that a new version of AVG Antivirus Free would be released today, April 24, that was supposed to come with several new functions beside the
ones already included in the application
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24.4.2008 Zune 3.0 Upgrade Available for Download
Although it was announced as early as September 8, the Zune 3.0 upgrade was made available for download only today, September 16.
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16.9.2008 Free Nero 9 Available for Download
One year after the release of Nero 8, Nero has made available for download the next iteration of
the integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite.
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29.9.2008 Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Available for Download
With Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 delivered in the first half of September 2008 and the feedback incorporated in the development process, Mozilla is gearing up for the next stage of Shiretoko.
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1.10.2008 Download Firefox 3.5 RC2
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2 is live and is available for download. This is the development milestone of the open source browser that will be made available to the general public.
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19.6.2009 UxStyle beta download
Rafael Rivera from Within Windows has announced that UxStyle Core beta now available for download.
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22.6.2009 xpy 1.0.0 Beta 3.1 download
xpy is a small tool which disables the default threats of a Windows XP installation.
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25.6.2009 Windows 7 themes download
Here is several Windows 7 Slide show themes for download. Download links are dirext from microsoft.com Enjoy!
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14.7.2009Report: Search Engines Spread
Malware
McAfee said Friday that the
epidemic of spyware and
viruses could be linked to
search engines. According to
research from the company,
even seemingly benign search
terms could bring up sites
loaded with nasty payloads...
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12.05.2006Adobe helps search engines to index Flash-based content
Adobe Systems Inc. announced today that it is working with both Google and Yahoo to improve the search engine indexing of Flash (.SWF) files -- a
capability search engines have had for years, but haven't used...
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02.07.2008Under the hood, a quick look at browser engines
For the better part of the last 10 years, browsing the Internet for most meant using Internet Explorer. However, the recent release of Google Chrome
as well as the continued popularity of Firefox, Safari and Opera have given users unprecedented choice in what software to use. But, most users
don't know much about the engines and technology that actually powers their particular web browser.
Without an engine, all you'd
see when you visited Neowin.net, or any other website, would be the raw HTML, CSS, and javascript that our developers use to create the
site. Sure, you'd also be able to find the content hidden deep within all those tags and instructions, but not in a pleasing format and without
any multimedia enhancements. The browser's engine is what takes all of that code and renders the information for you, on the fly.
Today, most of the Internet is rendered by four main browser engines. Trident, Gecko, WebKit and Presto. Neowin takes you under the hood and gives
you an unbiased (but brief) overview of these engines, where they came from and who's using them.
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07.09.2008EU data privacy adviser widens Google probe to all search engines
A European Union probe
triggered by concerns over how
long Google stores user
information has widened to
include all Internet search
engines.
The EU's
panel of national data
protection officers said it's
now concerned over the
retention of data that the
companies use to deliver more
relevant search results and
advertising. Some fear the
data could be targeted by
hackers and governments.
"The Working Party will
deal with search engines in
general and scrutinize their
activities from a
data-protection point of view,
because this issue affects an
ever-growing number of
users," it said in a
statement Thursday...
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22.06.2007Western Search Engines Redirected in China
Without reason, Western search engines in China are now being redirected to Chinese search site Baidu...
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18.10.2007Europeans warn search engines: Delete user data sooner
A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months -- a far cry from
what most companies currently do. The recommendation arrived in a 29-page "opinion" (PDF) published Friday by a European Commission body known as
the Article 29 Working Party. Backed by privacy groups, it has been pressuring Internet companies on the search data front for months. The report
focused on advertising-supported search engines, as opposed to search functions embedded in Web sites.
The Working Party's suggestions
don't officially have the force of law yet, but they are expected to be adopted by the EC. The EC already adopted a broader set of data protection
laws a decade ago, but this report was meant to address specifically how search engines, including those headquartered outside its borders, fit into
that setup.
Privacy in search engines is critical because "an individual's search history contains a footprint of that person's
interests, relations, and intentions," which can then be mined by businesses and national security operatives alike, the working party wrote.
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09.04.2008Bill Gates and friends apply for electromagnetic engine patents
Bill Gates has always been fond of his cars, but new patent applications suggest Microsoft's founding geek is becoming even more of a gearhead. Gates
is listed among 10 inventors on a series of filings seeking patents on various aspects of electromagnetic engines -- including a method of
retrofitting traditional engines by removing the crankshaft and installing an electromagnetic converter.
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09.04.2009Social Search Engines: An Inside Look with ChaCha
Social searching is a
relatively new idea that gives
search engines a special
twist. While many search
engines will constantly spew
out irrelevant information,
spam links, and other unwanted
results, social searching aims
to remove this problem. The
idea behind social searching
is that instead of a machine
automatically finding and
displaying results that it
thinks are relevant, a human
guide separates nonsense
results from real results and
you see only the results
deemed most relevant to your
query. A live chat with the
guide allows you to specify
your search without having to
know special syntaxes and
keywords that a computer
understands.
In
this article, I've taken an
inside look from
ChaCha , a promising new
social search engine. With a
growing amount of guides every
day, the ChaCha search engine
provides users with a new way
to get online information.
This article documents my
first visit to ChaCha:
researching social search
engines. My research has led
me to an unintentional
interview with a ChaCha
guide.
The overall
ChaCha experience is quite
amazing. The guide assigned to
my query provided me with four
related links (and asked if
I'd like more). One proved to
be irrelevant, but it didn't
make a difference in this
case. Why? Speaking to the
guide through an online
instant messaging interface, I
was provided with information
about social searching, more
specifically ChaCha, that no
search results could ever
provide. I can say that I am
throughly satisfied with
ChaCha.
Read more
on the comments page for the
full chat with YvonneD, my
guide, and the four links
provided.
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12.12.2006Search startup ready to challenge Google
The dozens of entrepreneurs gathered for an exclusive high-tech conference here Monday all hope to dazzle the crowd with their ingenuity.
But one startup, Powerset, is pursuing a particularly challenging goal: It's aiming to outshine the Internet's brightest star with a new
search engine built to outsmart Google.
After nearly two years of hushed development, Powerset is finally providing a peek at a
"natural-language" technology that is supposed to make it easier to communicate with search engines.
Powerset's algorithms are
programmed to understand search requests submitted in plain English, a change from the "keyword" system used by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft
Corp. and the owners of the other leading engines...
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17.09.2007Search becomes No. 2 Web
activity
Using a search engine
is now the No. 2 activity for
Web users, research has
found.
The
report also found that reading
the news is now the third most
popular Web
activity.
According
to the Pew Internet & American
Life Project, the number of
U.S. Web users taking
advantage of search engines
has risen sharply since
mid-2004--from 30 percent of
the U.S. Web population in
July 2004 to its current level
of 41 percent, which
translates to some 59 million
Americans.
The Pew
project also found that those
likely to spend more time on
search engines tend to be in
their 30s and well-off. ..
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22.11.2005Telescope 7.7.0
Telescope is a metasearch
engine for Windows, which
automates web searching by
combining results from several
search engines. In
addition to general web
searching, it can access
results from web directories,
image search engines, news web
sites, encyclopedias, and free
software archives.
Telescope searches 38 search
engines including 7 in the web
category.
What's
New:
* Export to
CSV (comma-separated
values)
* Choice of
browsers from Options menu
(compatibility unknown)
* Fixed links to Windows Live
Search, Google Images, and
LII.org
* Replaced
"Moreover" with Windows Live
News
* Moved Save As,
Open, etc. back to File
menu
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25.12.2006That password-protected site of yours - it ain't
It's one of the simplest hacks we've seen in a long time, and the more elite computer users have known about it for a while, but it's
still kinda cool and just a little bit unnerving: A hacker has revealed a way to use Google and other search engines to gain unauthorized access to
password-protected content on a dizzying number of websites.
While plenty of webmasters require their visitors to register or pay a fee
before viewing certain pages, they are typically more than eager for search engine bots to see the content for free. After all, the more search
engines that catalog the info, the better the chances of luring new users. But the technique, known as cloaking, has a gaping loophole: if Google and
other search engines can see the content without entering a password, so can you.
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23.08.2008Computational knowledge engines: the search engine, evolved
A new search engine, known as Wolfram|Alpha has launched. It may be improper to refer to it as a search engine, as it refers to itself as a
"computational knowledge engine". The engine differs from a traditional search engine in that the goal of the engine is not only to make
information accessible, but in the case of WolframAlpha, immediately computable. To perhaps give a better explanation of what WolframAlpha is, let us
walk through an average searching scenario. I stumble on the website, and in the search field I decide to type my city's name, Toronto. If the
website stumbled upon were Google, one would now have access to several pages referring to Toronto.
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19.05.2009Google moves to 'universal' search
Marissa Mayer, Google
Incorporated's vice president
of search products and user
experience, made the
announcement that the search
giant will make a significant
push toward integrating
results from a variety of its
search engines. Internet
search providers typically
offer, in addition to their
general Web search engines, a
set of specialty engines that
deliver only news articles,
photos, local business
listings, blog postings, maps
and video clips. The
inconvenience of having
multiple search sites from one
company has become apparent,
not to mention the fact that
many people are simply unaware
of the specialty search
engines beyond their main Web
search sites.
Google seems to be the first
to actually come to the point
of correcting the issue once
and for all and has begun to
move towards what it calls a
" universal search
model ," while
acknowledging it is still far
from where it wants to be in
this area, which is to deliver
a single set of results culled
from all its engines. Results
of this effort will be often
subtle and gradual, the
company warned. As part of the
effort, Google is implementing
a new technical infrastructure
able to handle the intensive
computational tasks involved
in providing integrated
results. An upgrade to the
results ranking mechanism is
also being rolled out.
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17.05.2007Google Users Richer, More Net
Savvy
Study sorts out the typical
users of leading search
engines...
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08.12.2005Search Sites Try to Give
Instant Answers
Three search engines promise
direct replies to queries (not
just links), but results are
spotty...
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04.10.2005Devs start your engines, Windows 7 RTM Code Pack released
Now that Microsoft has officially signed off on the Windows 7 RTM build and has released it to MSDN/TechNet subscribers, it's time for some API
code so developers can start developing applications for Windows 7. Microsoft has released the Windows 7 RTM Code Pack 1.0, available to the general
public. Microsoft's Charlie Calvert, Community Program Manager for the C# group said, "The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET
Framework provides support for various features of Windows 7 and previous releases of that operating system.
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11.08.2009Time to pay up - News Corp, AP tell search engines
The heads of two of the worlds largest news outlets, Tom Curley from The Associated Press and Rupert Murdoch from News Corp, each spoke at a
conference of 300 media representatives in Beijing this week stating that news portals like Google have earned fortunes from their articles and media
without offering fair compensation to those creating the content. In his speech, Curly told the conference that "crowd-sourcing web services such as
Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook have become preferred customer destinations for breaking news, displacing websites of traditional news publishers. We
content creators must quickly and decisively act to take back control of our content".
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11.10.2009Microsoft: Silverlight content is searchable, too
Mary Jo Foley: When Adobe, Google and Yahoo announced earlier this week that
content stored in its
Flash file format would be more easily indexable by Google’s and Yahoo’s search engines, Microsoft was nowhere to be found.
I seemed to recall that the Redmondians and their backers, when comparing Silverlight to Flash, had touted before that Silverlight content
was easily discoverable by search engines (and not just Live Search’s). Was I dreaming?
I asked Microsoft for verification
and received the following statement from a company spokeswoman on July 2...
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03.07.2008Intel Revolutionizes Gaming With Real-Time RayTracing
Take a look at the screen shots of the ray-tracing engine by Intel's Daniel Pohl and you won't have to squint to see improvements. This young gun
from Intel is looking to shake up the entire game engine industry with his innovative work.
Designing game engines is a
cut-throat business. Companies regularly fold after investing massive amounts of money and time to develop a proprietary engine.
Part of the problem is market saturation. You have three giants who release an engine ever couple of years--Epic, id Software, and Valve. Then
you have major developers who make engines to license, such as Emergent Game Technologies who make the Gamebryo engine, used in the popular Elder
Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
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