Archive for September 30th, 2010

FAQs: Things to know before moving your Windows Live Spaces blog to WordPress

As a Windows Live Spaces blogger you must have read that Spaces is now shutting down and that you will now have to migrate your Spaces blog to WordPress, sometime soon.

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ShellWin, Hide The Windows 7 Taskbar

In previous versions of Windows, it was possible to minimize the Windows taskbar to free up some additional space on the desktop for Windows. If you try that in Windows 7, you will notice that it is not working. There does not seem to be a way to minimize the taskbar in the operating system, which some users may miss, especially if they have used the feature in previous operating systems.

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Windows Phone 7 Apps Developers Can Register with Microsoft

No doubt, that Apps developers are chomping at the bit to have Windows Phone 7 released soon.

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Ignite Your Small Business with Windows 7 Professional

Microsoft clearly trumps any other technology company for the amount to effort and resources it spends on building knowledge base and content repository to support its products and technologies.

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Fresh face: hands-on with the Xbox 360 fall dashboard update

Microsoft has begun the testing phase of the fall dashboard update for the Xbox 360, and it brings with it many updates and additions to the core functionality of Xbox Live.

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Windows Live Essentials 2011 final version available for download

Windows Live Essentials 2011 is finally out of beta and is now available for download. The Windows Live Essentials 2011, Wave 4, beta refresh was released over a month back, and it is good to see the… For more visit The Windows Club.

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Microsoft Security Essentials Celebrates Its 1st Birthday

To be honest it doesn’t seem like a year ago to me when Windows Security Essentials was introduced to the world. I was even one of those people who were running the beta version of it before it was even released to the general public. Ever since it’s been released i’ve used it as my only antivirus on my laptop and any other computers I look after

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Microsoft Moves Closer to that ‘Third Screen’ with Xbox Update

If you follow technology news at all and I’m assuming you do, then you’ve heard of the ‘three screens and a cloud’ roadmap that Microsoft strongly supports. Essentially, people will have a mobile device (smartphone), a PC (Windows 7), living room device (TV) and then the cloud (internet). This will all work together to bring the content we want across our multiple devices, instantly.

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Maximize AdSense revenue by implementing section targeting easily

Is your Google AdSense revenue not what you’d like it to be?  Maybe the ads being served are not matching completely to your content.

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Office 2010 Beta expires in a month

If you’re still using the beta version of Microsoft Office 2010, you might by now have received an email from the company reminding you that it will expire at the end of October 2010. The email, seen below, says that when the beta version expires the programs contained within it, Word 2010, Excel 2010, Outlook 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 will all become read-only viewers and you will no longer be able to work with and edit documents in them. Office 2010 has been extremely well received so far and, as the first version of the suite to fully utilise the new Ribbon interface right across every program, it’s definitely a worthwhile upgrade

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