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October 30
Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta 2) includes the following new features:
- Universal Binary - Runs natively on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs.
- Remote Desktop Protocol 6.0 - Provides better compatibility with Windows Vista, improved security features, and many other improvements.
- Improved User Experience - Provides a true Mac experience and improved usability.
- Improved Customization Options - Lets you change application preferences, including keyboard shortcuts, while you are running a session. Changes take effect the next time that you connect.
- Dynamic Screen Resizing - Lets you resize your session window or switch to full-screen mode during a session.
- Improved Printing Support - Supports all configured printers on your Mac. No longer limited to PostScript printers.
- Multiple Sessions (Improved in Beta 2) - Improvements to File menu commands and connection files let you connect to multiple Windows-based computers at the same time.
- Network Level Authentication (NLA) Support (New in Beta 2) - Helps provide greater security when connecting to computers running Windows Vista.
- Auto Reconnect (New in Beta 2) - Supports automatic reconnection when a network connection to a remote session is lost.
- Wide Screen Support (New in Beta 2) - Supports optimal resolution settings for wide screen displays.
October 27
While most people have not yet heard of Microsoft's new Windows Home Server, there are already some free goodies from various Microsoft resources.
What the Kit Includes:
SOFTWARE & ADD-INs
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Manage all torrents currently in µTorrent (start, pause, stop, remove)
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Add a new torrent by selecting a *.torrent file
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Add a new torrent by providing an URL
Advanced Admin Console extends the Windows Home Server console to various parts of your Windows Home Server's administration controls, giving you access to many server functions that would only be available if you remote accessed into the server itself. ( WHS Website Recommended)
Diskeeper 2009 elevates system performance, debugging fragmentation-based problems as they occur, without ever compromising vital system resources, even when the whole family is connected to the computer. ( WHS Website Recommended)
Grid Junction UPS Add-in integrates seamlessly to issue power alerts and helps protect Windows Home Server from power problems, brownouts, or blackouts by safely powering down the Windows Home Server when battery levels reach a set threshold. ( WHS Website Recommended)
KeepVault provides real-time, automatic, and continuous synchronization, backup and sharing for your most important digital files via local or online storage. ( WHS Website Recommended)
mControl is software for your digital home. From your Media Center PC, via Internet Explorer or through your Windows Mobile device, you can control all aspects of your home with a touch of a button. ( WHS Website Recommended)
My Movies provides automated disc copying of cd's and movies from attached USB drives, adding meta-data to copied discs, or movies already stored on the server. All metadata is made available to Media Centers and other devices. ( WHS Website Recommended)
Photo Upload Add-in allows WHS to upload photos in a "to upload" directory onto Flickr. This process is kicked off via the add-in's custom WHS Console.
Remote Alert permits WHS Administrators to monitor remote access attempts to their Windows Home Server. Any attempt to log on to the WHS by a browser is reported in real-time using the WHS Network Health task tray icon. ( WHS Website Recommended)
Router Control Add-in enables the user to get more control over their UPnP internet gateway (e.g. see and modify the dynamic port forwards). This provides Windows Vista additional features like traffic graphs and monitoring.
TV Manager Add-in allows you to move your recordings to your Windows Home Server for management and storage. Watch your recordings in Media Center as if they were sitting in your Media Center record path. ( Channel 10 Recommended)
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Integrates with Windows Home Server remote website via homepage link and single-signon.
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Access your photos with thumbnails, "zoom" and exif-data.
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Browse your music library and listen to it via the web.
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Stream your videos/movies at multiple resolutions and bitrates.
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Mobile access to your music and videos from Windows Mobile devices.
WebRadio Add-in plays radio streams from the internet, and comes with a list of 65 radio stations.
WINDOWS SEARCH & SEARCH ADD-INS:
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2007 Office System Converter: IFilter Pack will install and register the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, & .vtx
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Lotus Notes Add-in indexes the content of Lotus Notes e-mail, contacts, calendar items, and journal items
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Outlook Saved Mail Add-in indexes Outlook's (.msg file) indexing (.MSG) files including Message Body; Subject; From; From Name; From Address; To Name; To Address; CC Name; CC Address; Doc Title Prefix; Sent Date; Received Date; Primary Date; Conversation ID; Attachment Names and will indicate if an attachment is present within the .MSG. Additionally, content within attachments are indexed and searched.
DOCUMENTATION:
Getting Started (PDF) contains information about installing and configuring Windows Home Server. Follow these easy instructions to get Windows Home Server quickly set up and configured.
Home Networking (PDF) technical brief provides an in-depth look at home networking and how it applies to Windows Home Server. Learn how to protect, connect, and organize your files, photo, music, and videos.
Media Sharing (PDF) technical brief provides an in-depth look at sharing photos, music and videos with your home computers and media playback devices attached to your home network.
Release Documentation (DOC) contains late-breaking information to help you set up and run Windows Home Server. It is divided into three sections:
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Pre-Installation
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Installing
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Post-Installation
Remote Access (PDF) provides an in-depth look at the features and functionality of Windows Home Server Remote Access. Learn about enabling, testing, troubleshooting, and customizing Remote Access.
Reviewer's Guide (PDF) provides a detailed overview of the way families keep and share their documents, photos, videos, and music. Windows Home Server brings it all together for families with multiple personal computers.
User Accounts and Shared Folders - centrally store, protect and access your data on your home server. Files can be accessed from both within your home network and remotely from the web.
WebGuide enables you to remotely access, listen, watch and stream your music, photos and videos stored on your home server while away from home. ( WFS Team Recommended)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
October 25
- Hold more effective meetings and conference calls - Connect with up to 15 people in different locations and get your point across by showing them what's on your screen.
- Work together in real time - Share, review, and update documents with multiple people in real time.
- Use when and where you want - SharedView is easy to use, from anywhere, at a moment's notice.
- New in Beta 2! Now even easier to use, with improvements to the sign-in and join experience, group chat to send messages to others in the session, and performance improvements!
NOTE: A Windows Live ID (Passport, Hotmail, or MSN) is required to start sessions, but not to join sessions. (Support: SharedView FAQ) October 24
The following features were added to this release of SyncToy:
- Dynamic Drive Letter Assignment: Drive letter reassignment will now be detected and updated in the folder pair definition.
- True Folder Sync: Folder creates, renames and deletes are now synchronized for all SyncToy actions.
- Exclusion Filtering Based on Name: File exclusion based on name with exact or fuzzy matching.
- Filtering Based on File Attributes: The ability to exclude files based on one or more file attributes (Read-Only, System, Hidden).
- Unattended Folder Pair Execution: Addressed issues related to running scheduled folder pairs while logged off.
- Folder Pairs With Shared Endpoints: Ability for folder pairs associated with the same or different instances of SyncToy to share end-points.
- Command line enhancements: Added the ability to manage folder pairs via the command line interface.
- The SyncToy engine has been rearchitected to provide scalability and the ability to add significant enhancements in future releases.
- Sync engine is also more robust insomuch that many single, file level errors are skipped without affecting the entire sync operation.
- Sync Encrypted Files: Sync of Encrypted files works when local folder and files are encrypted, which addresses the common scenario involving sync between local, encrypted laptop PC folder and remote, unencrypted desktop PC folder.
- 64-Bit compatibility
- Folder pair rename
- Sub-folder Exclusion Enhancements: Descendents creates under excluded sub-folders are automatically excluded.
- Folder Pair Metadata Moved: Folder pair metadata removed from MyDocuments to resolve any issues with server-based folder pair re-direction setup.
- Removed combine and subscribe actions.
In April, I saw SEAMonster demonstrated by one of the Microsoft Research guys. It's hard to quickly explain the amazing differences between simply "cropping or resizing an image" as opposed to "content-aware seam carving" -- so pah-lease:
- Watch this quick video!
- Download SEAMonster Beta
October 22
FREE HALLOWEEN MOBILE SOFTWARE: This Halloween, treat your phone to a little eye candy with these special Owners Circle seasonal wallpapers, and a dose of scary screams and spine-tingling tunes.
Free Halloween Wallpapers
Castle
Cat
Ghosts
Graveyard
Owl
Pumpkin and cat
Tombstone
Web
Witch
Free Halloween Ringtones
Bats Ringtone
Cackle Ringtone
Creepy Ringtone
Full Moon Ringtone
Ghost Ringtone
Howl Ringtone
Owl Ringtone
Pipe Organ Ringtone
Vampire Ringtone
October 19
Mozilla has released an update to their Firefox Browser with version 2.0.0.8
Sure, Apple has the traditional list of Security Fixes:
FREE PRIMA GUIDE: "Lost in a particularly difficult level? Can't figure out how to beat that one boss? Wish you knew how to unlock that last character? Prima has you covered with guides for all your favorite Xbox titles. The world's leading publisher of official game guides and the exclusive guide publisher for Microsoft, Prima continues to dominate the field it created in 1990 by providing the highest quality game guides available. Get the best tips, maps, hints, and strategies from Prima's experts, and take your gaming further than you ever thought possible."
- Dossiers Jericho Teams
- Basic Controls & Advanced Warfare Techniques
- Walk Through Tips for the Unholy War: The Crusades, 1213
- Xbox 360 Gamer Points Achievement Chart
October 17
Microsoft Blogger Maxime Bombardier has released a Visio 2007 stencil used for creating SharePoint Site Structures and architecture. Maxime also recommends a few other stencils from 3rd parties.
October 16
After a few delays, Apple has announced an October 26th release date of their Mac OS X Leopard operating system. And as expected it supports the 32 bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP & Windows Vista.
- Run Windows at native speed - Boot Camp supports the most popular 32-bit releases of Windows XP and Windows Vista. When you use either operating system on your Mac, your Windows applications will run at native speed. Windows applications have full access to multiple processors and multiple cores, accelerated 3D graphics, and high-speed connections like USB, FireWire, Wi-Fi, and Gigabit Ethernet.
- Drivers galore - When you install Windows using Boot Camp, you won’t need to search the Internet for drivers or burn a disc. After you run Boot Camp, simply insert the Leopard DVD to install the necessary drivers. Everything you need to make your Mac work with Windows is right there. When you use a Windows application, you’ll have full access to unique Mac features (iSight, Apple Remote, trackpad, specific keyboard keys, keyboard backlighting) and connectivity (wired and wireless).
Downloads Available Here:
The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.8 Update contains several improvements to improve security and stability. These include fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a computer's memory by using malicious code.
October 08
Microsoft's Bill Morein has released a Word 2007 Ribbon "Baseball Widget" "beta add-in that lets you track games right inside the home tab of the Word 2007 ribbon. The add-in shows the score, inning, and base situation for games in progress, tracking them by pulling data from a MSN sports web service."
PowerGUI is an extensible graphical administrative console for managing systems based on Windows PowerShell. These include Windows OS (XP, 2003, Vista), Exchange 2007, Operations Manager 2007 and other new systems from Microsoft. The tool allows to use the rich capabilities of Windows PowerShell in a familiar and intuitive GUI console. (Thanks Bruce)
Editor Features:
- Syntax highlight
- Intellisense for PowerShell cmdlets and cmdlet parameters
- Tooltips with syntax information
- Matching brackets, search/replace, regions
- Ability to export, run, print, etc.
This visual, interactive reference guide helps you find your favorite Microsoft Office Access 2003 commands in the new 2007 interface."
October 07
Windows Home Server Toolkit V1 is a collection of tools that help you troubleshoot issues with Windows Home Server. The toolkit has the following components:
- Error Reporting tool collects log files from your home computer and sends them to Microsoft. These log files are useful to Microsoft Support when troubleshooting problems you may encounter with Windows Home Server.
- Windows Home Server Connector Troubleshooter program runs on your home computer to help troubleshoot problems you may encounter while installing the Connector software. The Connector Troubleshooter runs a series of tests to check the most common Connector Setup problems, and then it recommends possible solutions.
- Windows Home Server Toolkit Add-in can run troubleshooting tasks from the Windows Home Server Console Settings page.
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