Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) Codec provides a method for Windows Vista users to view DNG raw files in the Windows Explorer and Photo Gallery. (Support: Adobe Labs)
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems.
Warning: These are test installers and are not complete or bug free. They are snapshots from our development tree and might not work. Firefox 3 support is known to be buggy, particularly as regards plugin detection from javascript.
Note: These are currently built without multimedia support. No video or mp3 playback is enabled on these binaries.
I'm actually perplexed why Microsoft took so long to create a document like this!
"No one would expect a new OS adoption to be easy, and certainly adopting Windows Vista across a desktop infrastructure can come with a few challenges—but like many urban myths, perception can quickly depart from reality. In this article, we will look at five features of Windows Vista that are often misunderstood, provide their background and rationale, and present the straight scoop on how to deal with them."
Based on feedback from IT professionals, these features are:
Wow, I'm so excited that the "rest of the world" can finally see Microsoft's World Wide Telescope -- please download this program ASAP and get lost in the cosmos!
Some fonts shipped with Windows XP use embedded bitmaps to provide legibility at small sizes on the screen. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) does not display these bitmaps but instead renders the outlines. These outlines are not instructed (hinted) for good legibility and the results are poor. These updated font collections have been properly instructed for legibility at 9 point size and above in ClearType environments such as WPF.
Messenger TV - Watch the best videos on the web with your friends. Relax, laugh, and chat with your friends as you watch your favourite videos together over the internet. It's like your own virtual living room!
Zune Applet Clock:The ZuneBoards have released their "pre-release" Community Technical Preview (CTP) of their Zune Clock - which requires XNA Game Studio 3.0
Parallels for Mac has been updated to support Windows Vista (Service Pack) SP1 and Windows XP SP3 in a virtual machine, and with Apple's Boot Camp in a virtual machine.
Cayra is a free application that lets you represent tasks, ideas, concepts and other items in a graphic, well-structured way. Cayra is based on such visualization techniques, as Mind Mapping and Concept Mapping and allows you to conveniently work with big maps. (Thanks Joe)
Outlook XP, 2003 & 2007 Add-in: Personal Folders Backupcreates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up. With Personal Folders Backup, you choose which .PST files to back up, and how often to back them up.
The free add-in for Microsoft Word enables for the translation of millions of Open XML documents into DAISY XML, the lingua franca of the globally-accepted Digital Access Information SYstem (DAISY) standard for digital talking books. The DAISY Consortium was formed in 1996 to harness the rich capabilities opened up by the transition from analog to digital technology. And to ensure that "all published information is available to people with print disabilities at the same time and at no greater cost in accessible, feature-rich, navigable format." DAISY-formatted files allow users to scroll through auditory content using simple keystrokes to hone in on specific sections, and configure its playback to skip over items like footnotes. (Thanks: MS PressPass)
Nine Inch Nails: "The Slip" - As a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
The music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.
For those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and Vinyl in July. details coming soon. . .
Community Clips - Make help videos quickly and easily with this help video recorder. When installed, a Community Clips icon will appear in your system tray and Office Ribbon. (Support: Video Overview)
The scope of the Rack Server Virtualization Add-in is:
Allow user to provide Colo, Rack and server information either from Excel Workbook / Sample excel Template / Using a wizard. The input data includes power rating, space used, etc.
User can configure the connector analyze the servers based on either current CPU utilization data (using WMI) or past CPU utilization data (using SCOM) over a time duration.
User can also configure to pass the credentials or use the Windows Authentication to perform analyze/ connect to SCOM Servers.
After Analyze is complete the CPU usage, memory usage etc. for each server will be fetched either from WMI or SCOM based on the option selected by the user.
For each rack, based on the CPU and memory usage for each server in that rack a virtualization picture will be prepared in addition to the existing picture of the rack to allow user to compare the before and after scenario.
Visio - Exchange Server Connectordiagrams an Exchange Server site topology, including sites, servers, and connections for an organization.
Although Exchange Management are invaluable tools for managing, monitoring and administer networks, computers, services, and other system components. It does not provide a graphical view of user mailbox details. The administrator has to sift through a tree view and use embedded data to figure out the details
Microsoft Management Console (MMC) hosts administrative tools that you can use to administer networks, computers, services, and other system components. Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell are used to administer and configure specific settings for Mailbox servers and create and manage Mailbox objects.
The Mailbox server role hosts mailbox databases, which contain users' mailboxes. If you plan to host user mailboxes or public folders, or both, the Mailbox server role is required.
Administrators have to sift through a tree view to view the members of the Distribution group in an organization unit.
The Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Connector makes it easy for Exchange administrators to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Instead of viewing single user data at a time, administrators can create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data at a glance and dramatically increase productivity.
Pro Photo Tools allow you to add, change, and delete common metadata properties for digital photographs. You can place photos on the Live Earth map and then drag them to the right location. The GPS information will be stored back into the photos. If you have a GPS device, can load track route files from the most popular formats (NMEA, GPX, and KML) and see them on the map. Then you can place your photos on the track route. Again, the GPS info will be stored into your file. When you have the right GPS location for your photos, you can automatically generate location info like country, state, city and even street names. Or if you know the location where a picture was taken, you can type it in and get the GPS location information automatically.
30 Brave Superheroes with more guts than Superman and Schwarzenegger combined. Download the emoticons right now, directly to Windows Live Messenger... If you’re brave enough!
StarWars: Legacy of the Force- Have you ever wondered what happened to Han, Luke and Leia after the events of Return of the Jedi?
Now, in BETRAYAL, the legacy that began with Anakin Skywalker has finally come full circle. Join Han, Luke, Leia, and the other heroes of the New Jedi Order in their epic struggle to maintain peace in the galaxy, as a new threat rises from the most unexpected of places.
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