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Support for Windows 2000 ends on July 13, 2010

Jan 20

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The Windows 2000 End-of-Support Solution Center is a starting point for planning your migration strategy from Windows 2000 to Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

For more information please see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy.

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Planning and Assessing a Migration or Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2

A direct upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2008 R2 is not supported. The resources below provide information about migration paths.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Product Home Page
Visit the Windows Server Home Page for product information, trial software, purchasing options, technical resources, case studies and more.

Windows Server 2008 R2 System Requirements
Before upgrading your system from Windows 2000 to Windows 2008 R2, be sure your hardware meets the Windows Server 2008 R2 system requirements. Assuming your hardware meets the requirements for Windows Server 2008 R2, upgrading is a two-step process. You must first upgrade your system to Windows Server 2003 SP2 (or later) and then upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Upgrade Paths
This document outlines supported and unsupported upgrade paths for editions of the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system.

Assessment and Planning Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations and virtualization without the use of any software agents. NOTE: The oldest operating system supported by this tool is Windows Server 2003 SP2.

Windows Server Migration Tools
Administrators can use Windows Server Migration Tools to migrate server roles, features, operating system settings, and other data and shares to computers that are running Windows Server 2008 R2. NOTE: The oldest operating system supported by this tool is Windows Server 2003 SP2.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Deprecated Features
This document provides is a list of deprecated features and functionalities in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and is intended for IT professionals who are updating operating systems in a commercial environment.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) provides a common console with the comprehensive tools and guidance needed to efficiently manage deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Planning and Assessing a Migration or Upgrade to Windows 7

 

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Nintendo Wii to Add Netflix Service for Streaming Video

Jan 15

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Finally, another reason to purchase a Wii!

 

Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video service to its Wii gaming console, the most popular in the industry, the companies plan to announce Wednesday. The service lets subscribers choose from a catalog of generally older movies and television shows and watch them instantly.

The deal is further evidence of a movement by makers of game consoles to broaden their appeal by positioning them as a bridge between the living room television and a wider world of online multimedia.

So far those efforts have not been enough to calm anxieties about the overall direction of the $16.8 billion video game business. The industry is threatened by a dearth of popular new franchises, which tend to attract gamers to an endless number of sequels, as well as the sudden rise of cheap games for smartphones and free casual games on social networks.

“You just have to wonder if people are going to buy prepackaged $60 video games in the future,” said Mark Mahaney, managing director for Internet research at Citigroup. “If you are a console maker, you better quickly hurry to add more functionality and features to your console.”

Nintendo’s rivals are generally further along in that effort. The Sony PlayStation 3 has a Blu-ray disc player and can use Sony’s own online movie store. Microsoft has outfitted the Xbox 360 with its Zune high-definition movie store and allows users to chat online while they watch films together. Both of those consoles already offer the Netflix service.

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Windows 7 God Mode

Jan 6

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Finally an Easter egg in Windows 7 !

A hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder.

By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard-drive partition.

The trick is also said to work in Windows Vista, although some are warning that although it works fine in 32-bit versions of Vista, it can cause 64-bit versions of that operating system to crash.

To enter "GodMode," one need only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Once that is done, the folder's icon will change to resemble a control panel and will contain dozens of control options.

 

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Travis Pastrana 2010 New Years Jump

Jan 1

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Congratulations!!!!

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Sum Up the End of the Year 2009!

Jan 1

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I couldn't think of a better way than jib jab :)

 

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Free download WinX Blue-ray Decryptor

Dec 27

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WinX Blu-ray Decrypter

Original Price: $39.95 Now: $0.00

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Vendors Site

 

WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is specially designed to backup Blu-ray movies to your hard drive. With user-friendly interface, this Blu-ray decrypter enables you to easily decrypt and copy Blu-ray movies with Blu-ray DVD drive to your computer by removing all protections from BD video, including encryption (AACS), BD+ copy protection, etc. It is fully compatible with all BD media.

To get the full version for free, please download the program and register with the following Information. Don't forget to share it with your friends!

Reg Name: Blu-Raygiveaway
Reg Code: WinXBDD-2009-1216-1231

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SkyDrive Explorer (Free 25GB of Storage)

Dec 27

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SkyDrive is an online storage tool that anyone can use. Microsoft essentially gives you 25GB of free cloud storage (50MB max per file). You can store files, share them, or just use it to back up important data. Until now, accessing SkyDrive required logging into your account via a web browser. Dragging files into SkyDrive from Windows Explorer can only be done using Internet Explorer, as it uses an Active-X plugin. This can cause non-IE users to easily get annoyed with the service.

Fortunately, there's a solution coming. Showcased on Lifehacker, SkyDrive Explorer is a free, simple, lightweight program that lets you add your SkyDrive to Windows Explorer. SkyDrive Explorer allows you to use SkyDrive just like any other networked drive. However, the current version is still limited, in that you can't move files and folders within it, can't copy from your computer to it, nor can you open files directly from the drive.

SkyDrive Explorer is still in its infancy, but will soon bolster many important features to bring it direct competition with services such as Dropbox. The only difference would be that the files are only accessible when connected to the Internet. Dropbox stores the files locally, still making it the ideal shared folder solution, albeit with much less free storage space (future SkyDrive Explorer updates may very well implement such a feature, but nothing has been said about it). The next release, coming in January 2010, will add support for the following:

    * Change share mode and content type of the folders
    * Copy folders and files into SkyDrive™
    * Files greater than 50MB support
    * Open files directly from SkyDrive™
    * Move files and folders within storage

These are the currently supported features:

    * View the structure and contents of folders in SkyDrive™
    * View files information (type, size, creation date in GMT format)
    * Create new root folders and subfolders
    * Copy files into the storage
    * Delete files and folders
    * Copy files from the storage to the computer
    * Copy folders and subfolders from the storage to the computer keeping their structure
    * Use Drag & Drop for files operations
    * Rename files and folders
    * Create links to SkyDrive™ folders on your computer
    * Copy URL of the selected object(s) to the Clipboard
    * Automatic check for the latest version
    * Bidirectional languages support
    * Selection of your preferred interface language

Download: SkyDrive Explorer v1.4

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Service Outage for BlackBerry

Dec 23

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Research In Motion (RIM) have confirmed an issue with their BlackBerry service affecting customers in North America.

According to a RIM spokesperson "Some BlackBerry customers in the Americas are currently experiencing delays in message delivery." The outage began at approximately 8PM EST on December 22. RIM failed over their systems but many users reported that mail flow to devices had ceased once again. At the time of writing there is no ETA from RIM when their systems will fully recover.

The outage is the second for RIM in that past five days. The last wide-scale outage was back in February 2008 when a software upgrade at RIM downed the service for hours. Phone calling and texting services remain unaffected.

Update: RIM have confirmed that BlackBerry services are now up and running.

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Google Adsense, Not worth the trouble!

Dec 22

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I was like everyone who thought they could make a quick buck adding adsense to their website a few years ago.  Well I never have made enough to even go though the trouble of putting the ads on the site and turns out to be a complete waste of time but I left them up there.  As of yesterday google decides to disable my adsense account after finally getting some clicks on my ads.  I noticed that my traffic has increased quite a bit this past month and when I mentioned this to them they said it some how violates its tos b/c the visitors clicked on several ads….. wth? isn't that what they are suppose to do?

Here are some other sites you can try before wasting time with adsense!

 

  1. AdBrite
  2. Clicksor
  3. Chitika
  4. Yahoo Publisher Network

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Firefox 3.5 whips IE7 market share

Dec 22

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I'm so happy to see that firefox is whipping IE7 because honestly I can't stand IE7 but am required to use it for some applications……. read more about this below>

 

Firefox 3.5 has managed to overtake IE7 as the most popular single version web browser. According to StatsCounter, Firefox 3.5 has surpassed all other browsers, as a single version, in user choice. Internet Explorer still has the overall edge on all other browsers combined, with 55% of the mark share.

Users are still slow on upgrading from Internet Explorer 6 & 7, showing a steady decline week over week. Users are however slowly upgrading to Internet Explorer 8, but during the upgrade period, Firefox 3.5 managed to surpass all other browsers, as a single version, in market share.

Firefox 3.5 ended the week with 21.93% of the market share, just surpassing Internet Explorer 7 with 21.20%. Internet Explorer 8 finished with 20.33%, followed by Internet Explorer 6 with 13.89%.

Internet Explorer finished with a combine total of 55.42% market share, Firefox owned a total of 31.95%, with Safari 4 finishing with a total of 3.03%. Opera managed to pick up 0.94% of the market share, and 9.19% labeled as other.

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