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Mar 8, 2011 · Microsoft

Closing chat windows with MPOP

The other day I received a question from a Messenger user. They asked: > I am using Messenger 2011 with multiple endpoints signed in (MPOP). When I sign out on one endpoint or...

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Mar 6, 2011

It’s time for a change.

It is more than four years ago since I decided to use the nickname “mynetx”. Back then, I had my own network (my net). Later, I discovered: my nickname matches my web developer...

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Feb 22, 2011 · Microsoft

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 released

Windows 7 Service Pack 1, image by intowindows.com

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Feb 22, 2011 · Microsoft

Reminder: Windows Live Spaces is closing soon

Please keep in mind that the blogging service Windows Live Spaces is closing on March 16, 2011. This affects all existing spaces and their contents. After the closing date, you...

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Feb 21, 2011

A dozen new formats for the Google docs viewer

The file viewer Google docs viewer is able to display numerous new document types in your browser, among them Adobe Photoshop- and Illustrator files. You are confronted with the...

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Feb 20, 2011 · Apps

Google offers bookmarks import tool for Delicious

Google now offers a tool to import bookmarks from Yahoo!’s social bookmarking service Delicious. This way, you can import your contents to Google Bookmarks. The tool also copies...

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Feb 20, 2011

Is Zune’s future in danger?

When Microsoft announced the strategic partnership with Nokia last week, they also talked about the brands that both companies are going to share. It was remarkable that Zune is...

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Feb 19, 2011 · Browsers

IE9 planned for mid-March 2011

Internet Explorer 9 is nearing completion. The IE team announced a big event for 14 March, 2011, celebrating the “beauty of the web.” This is what an invitation in the official...

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Feb 19, 2011 · Messenger

Long expected: Messenger Plus! 5 released

The newest update for the most prominent Windows Live Messenger extension, Messenger Plus! 5, has been released. It adds support for Messenger 2011 as well as minor enhancements...

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Feb 19, 2011 · Browsers

How-to: Paste text without formatting in Chrome

While copying texts to website forms — like your own blog —, the text formatting gets pasted into the textbox as well. This can get annoying. You want to copy texts without...

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Feb 16, 2011 · Apps Microsoft

New Office 15 app planned?

On a recent analysts and press event, Microsoft talked about the “future of productivity.” Many ideas around Microsoft’s Office suite were discussed. Kurt DelBene, Microsoft...

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Feb 16, 2011 · Browsers Microsoft

Internet Explorer 9 RC now via Windows Update

Microsoft has started to deliver the Release Candidate of Internet Explorer 9 via the Automatic Updates feature in Windows 7 and Windows Vista in order to update the Beta. As...

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Feb 3, 2011 · Internet

How-to: Increase your Internet Speed

In this tutorial I'm going to show you a quick way to eliminate bandwidth restrictions. Windows OS comes to us with a lot of unknown restrictions and limitations. Usually it’s due...

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Feb 3, 2011

Egypt is back on the Web

After five days, Egypt is partially back online: According to multiple sources, Web access works in the capital Cairo as well as in Alexandria. Obviously, Twitter and social...

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Feb 3, 2011 · Microsoft

How-to: Reduce hard disk access in Windows 7

Once per minute, Windows 7 writes a timestamp to disk. This enables diagnostic tools to check whether and when Windows has been shut down unexpectedly. However, this is only...

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Feb 3, 2011

Google Analytics: In the focus of privacy advocates

Protecting my privacy on the web is important for me. Nevertheless, I feel that the discussion around privacy on the Internet has heated up more and more in the last years – too...

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Jan 23, 2011 · Microsoft

Rumor: Windows 8 to release in January 2013

Microsoft is perhaps going to release the Windows 7 successor later than expected. This is what rumors about Microsoft’s possible development roadmap might reveal that have now...

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Jan 19, 2011

Test your website in different browsers - with ease

You are running your own blog or web site? You will surely be aware of the problem that your site is not displaying the same way in all browsers, like Internet Explorer, Mozilla...

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Jan 19, 2011

New languages for Docs.com

Microsoft has published a back-end update for the Facebook service Docs.com. Besides a speed-up and increased stability, the update adds support for additional languages. Andrzej...

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Jan 18, 2011 · Microsoft

Update to Windows Live Wave 3 soon forced

Back in May 2010, the Windows Live team published an update for Windows Live Essentials 2009 (Wave 3). It introduced stability fixes as well as a simplification of the webcam...

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