Windows Platform Blog
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If you have a website and have been finding msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) in the referrers list, fear not. This is not some horrible new evil 'bot intending to take over your website. According to the Webmaster Center Team at the...
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Wolfram|Alpha was online and computing at 12 am EST on May 18, 2009. What can it do? It can do practically any math computation you want, but shows a checkered set of data in other areas. It knew how many teaspoons fit in a quart, but not how many jelly...
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Wired New's Threat Level has a posting by Kevin Poulsen making light of the media's sometimes inaccurate and sometimes sensational treatment of the Conficker/Downadup virus. Was the threat overblown? "Conficker, like all the other botnets...
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In the Webroot Threat Blog, Andrew Brant reports that two new adware packages have appeared in the wild that target the Firefox browser. One installs itself as a browser plugin and watches for Google and other searches. When detected, it inserts its own...
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Some things sound better in concept than they are in actuality. The beta MSN Wallpaper application is sort of like that. Here's the description from their website: "From dramatic landscapes to sleeping puppies, action sports to clips from your...
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On Tuesday, February 24, an announcement was made on the Google Public Policy Blog by Product Management VP Sundar Pichai that Google would be applying to join the European Commission's proceeding against Microsoft and its bundling of Internet Explorer...
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Amazingly, there's no real provision for changing the highlight color of the Ctrl-F search results in Excel 2007. I have a spreadsheet from an associate that has a background color that is the same as the search results color. Some folks have found...
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Bright Hub author Arvind Arora starts his article " Three Performance Tools Your PC Would Love to Have " with this phrase: "Machines are, after all, meant to be our slaves, as good and obedient as possible." He goes on to talk about...
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Did you know that Google offers an SSL connection to Gmail and has since July 2008? Even better, it's very easy to use. Log into your Gmail account. Then, in the web browser address box, change "http:" to "https:" and reload the...
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Here's one from the interesting press releases department. Kroll Ontrack, the data recovery folks in Minneapolis, have released their fifth annual list of the top ten data diasters of 2008 . Here's number ten to get you started: Overboard – A...
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