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where's wally? another microsoft stuff-up

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:59:29 GMT

Dog lovers Vista wallpaper

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:14:07 GMT

I Vista Everywhere 1680x1050 wallpaper

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How did the Internet start?

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:53:37 GMT

How did the Internet start? - We may take it for granted today, but the Internet wasn't always a part of our lives. How did the Cold War give rise to the Internet as we know it? And what does Sputnik have to do with it?

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How to Hook Up All of Your Electronics - Watch this video featuring a Philips electronics expert explaining how to hook up all of your video components. In this video he shows how to hook up a DVD player, cable box, PS3 and an analog gaming system.

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How Hackers Work - Without hackers, we'd have no PCs or iPods. Yet, hackers have gotten a bad reputation as criminals of the computer age. What exactly are hackers, and are they friends or foes?

How CD Burners Work - CDs have become one of the most widely adopted data-storage mechanisms, and high-tech, lower-cost CD burners are part of the reason why. Find out how CD burners write (and rewrite) data to a compact disc.

How Caching Works - Caching is an important computer-science process that appears on every computer in a variety of forms. There are memory caches, hardware and software disk caches, page caches and more. Learn about how caching works.

Coming Soon:
-How the Google-Apple Cloud Computer Will Work — (your data :) Hey Microsoft could upload their take-over strategy for Yahoo! Be safe online ...

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Windows 7 Notepad - a solution

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:10:50 GMT

Windows 7's *new* Notepad now sports tabs at the bottom and comprehensive 'right click' menu ....

Windows 7 Notepad new features

Well, OK, maybe it doesn't » but who knows?

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still coding windows 7 wallpaper

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:12:59 GMT

still coding windows 7 1680x1050 wallpaper [22" wide screen]

More filters than Banana Boat SP30+

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— do more Than Before

Microsoft Movie Maker in 3D

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:29:01 GMT

Microsoft Movie Maker in 3D

Are you going to do MMM in 3D or not?

-- as a free bonus download for buying Windows 7 ASAP on release ..

1930's Indiana Jones and Casablanca ...

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Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released 1300 changes

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:02:58 GMT

iTWire - Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes!

Mozilla has released beta 3 of Firefox 3.0, with around 1300 ‘individual changes’ from beta 2, with fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.

Firefox 3.0 beta 3 is here, with plenty of improvements set to send Firefox’s percentage of market share soaring ever higher once the final version is released to the public.

Mozilla says that there are around 1300 individual changes from the previous beta, “including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements”.

While downloadable by anyone, Mozilla cautions that “beta releases are geared toward Web developers and Mozilla's testing community in order to gain feedback before advancing to the next stage in the release process”.

That said, Mozilla heartily encourages ‘testers’ to download and install the Beta 3 release to test it against the websites they normally visit, and provide feedback about any incompatibilities, either through the Mozilla feedback form or through the Bugzilla form.

Having had a quick look at the latest version, the interface certainly looks snazzier, performance seems to be faster and all-in-all, Firefox 3.0 is shaping up to really give Internet Explorer 7 and even bigger run for its money than it has already given, while Microsoft continues dithering around with Internet Explorer 8.

Source: Read the full story ....

iTWire - Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes!

I use Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021304 Minefield/3.0b4pre (The beta 4 night builds..) Solid as a rock - Vista theme - and loves Microsoft sites ..

What's a new killer - well if you set the text size (Ctrl + roll mouse wheel) to the best size for you to read that site at - when you every go back to that site - the text adjusts automatically for you... Good for me as I am getting old .. :(

Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released 1300 changes

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:17:29 GMT

iTWire - Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes!

Firefox 3.0 beta 3 is here, with plenty of improvements set to send Firefox’s percentage of market share soaring ever higher once the final version is released to the public.

Mozilla says that there are around 1300 individual changes from the previous beta, “including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements”.

While downloadable by anyone, Mozilla cautions that “beta releases are geared toward Web developers and Mozilla's testing community in order to gain feedback before advancing to the next stage in the release process”.

That said, Mozilla heartily encourages ‘testers’ to download and install the Beta 3 release to test it against the websites they normally visit, and provide feedback about any incompatibilities, either through the Mozilla feedback form or through the Bugzilla form.

Having had a quick look at the latest version, the interface certainly looks snazzier, performance seems to be faster and all-in-all, Firefox 3.0 is shaping up to really give Internet Explorer 7 and even bigger run for its money than it has already given, while Microsoft continues dithering around with Internet Explorer 8.

Source: Read the full story ....

iTWire - Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes!

I use Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021304 Minefield/3.0b4pre (The beta 4 night builds..) Solid as a rock - Vista theme - and loves Microsoft sites ..

Telstra promises 42Mbps by 2009 as 3G revenues outstrip 2G

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:52:51 GMT

iTWire - Telstra promises 42Mbps by 2009 as 3G revenues outstrip 2G

Telstra will upgrade its Next G network to deliver downstream data at 21Mbps by the end of 2008 and 42Mbps in 2009, and says that, in the December quarter revenues from its 3G network surpassed those from 2G.

The announcements was made by Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo at the GSM World Congress in Barcelona. Trujillo said "We have an evolution roadmap with Ericsson which will deliver customers speeds of 21 Mbps in 2008 across our national NextG network - a world first - and 42 Mbps in 2009 using HSPA+ technology."

Telstra's network already supports HSDPA with downstream speeds of 14.4Mbps, but there are no devices presently available to fully exploit this. The Sierra wireless ExpressCard and USB modems will manage 7.2Mbps and the Samsung SGH-A811, launched late last year, was the first in the world to support 7.2Mbps HSPDA. Telstra says there are now around 40 devices available, handsets and modems that will support this speed.

The 38 percent of customers on 3G at the end of January 2008 represented 11 percentage points growth in four months and Telstra expects it to hit between 60 and 70 percent by 2010. At present, 38 percent of subscribers are on 3G.

iTWire - Telstra promises 42Mbps by 2009 as 3G revenues outstrip 2G

Windows 7 wallpaper

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:40:44 GMT

blowing in the wind - windows 7 - 1680x1050 wallpaper (22" screen)

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Download Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:29:26 GMT

Very interesting - but seeing Vista SP1 doesn't work yet (or it would be auto downloaded for you..) you take your chances ... Beware!!!!

I'm sure this probably works, until MS change it - but even though it is the legitimate product (or The Real McCoy) it's still a DUD. It's a REAL Microsoft product that is a DUD. Don't need to get a shonky version from some third world country hell hole - Microsoft will provide you with the LEGITIMATE DUD.

It may work on some computers Microsoft has said ... that's why they released it to manufacturing .. in the biggest PR stuff-up since Kraft started killing Australian kids with their peanut butter - then said "No we're not! No need to recall the product. A few kids are still alive.." - and they thought everyone had forgot by now..

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Microsoft posponed the date of Vista Service Pack 1,it can be download in the mid of March ,but MS sent Vista Service Pack RTM to OEM producers on 4 Feb.By editing your registry you will be able to use this service pack too,but your vista's language must be english,german,french,japanese or spanish.With this method you can download Vista Service Pack through Windows Update which means its not fake update,totally original and safe.
First copy the CMD codes to notepad and change .txt format to .cmd ;
@echo off
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1 /f > NUL 2>&1
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSP1 /f > NUL 2>&1
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d dcf99ef8-d784-414e-b411-81a910d2761d /f
IF NOT %errorlevel% == 0 ( goto ERROR)

:SUCCESS
%SystemRoot%\system32\wuapp.exe
goto END

:ERROR
@echo.
echo ===========================================================
echo error
echo ===========================================================
@echo.
pause
goto END

:END
or download this ready-to-use .cmd file ;
CMD file
note : click right to link and save file to desktop.
Run cmd file on your vista operated pc ,windows update will be opened and click check for updates, Update for Windows Vista (KB938371) - v1.025 will be appeared,and download this update and install it , and then restart your pc ,thats all done!
Note: This hack tested on x86 version ,it is not tested on x64 version so i cannot quarentee for x64 versions.GosuBlogger is not responsible for any corruption in your Windows.
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Microsoft Agent Merlin - MS stinks!

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:29:01 GMT

Merlin.MoveTo 583, 406
Merlin.Balloon.Style = &H220000E
Merlin.Show
Merlin.Play "Acknowledge"
Merlin.Play "Greet"
Merlin.Play "GetAttention"
Merlin.Play "GetAttentionContinued"
Merlin.Play "GetAttentionContinued"
Merlin.Play "GetAttentionContinued"
Merlin.Play "GetAttentionContinued"
Merlin.Play "GetAttentionReturn"
Merlin.Speak "Microsoft stinks .."
Merlin.Play "Explain"
Merlin.Speak "So say us the Great Microsoft Agent Merlin the magician!"
Merlin.Play "Alert"
Merlin.Speak "They never put my friends, Peedy, Robby, or Genie in Windows with me .."
Merlin.Play "Announce"
Merlin.Speak "So, I am going to kill them!"
Merlin.Play "DoMagic1"
Merlin.Play "DoMagic2"
Merlin.Speak "By mixing poison"
Merlin.Play "Read"
Merlin.Play "ReadContinued"
Merlin.Play "ReadReturn"
Merlin.Play "Process"
Merlin.Speak "But .. How .. to get them to drink it!"
Merlin.Play "Think"

Claimed to be Windows Seven Video

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:02 GMT

Claimed to be video of Windows Seven - doing the rounds of the Net..

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Windows Horizon (Windows 7) desktop face plate concept

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:39:55 GMT

Windows Horizon (Windows 7) concept - desktop face plate ...

Based somewhat on the way Windows Media Center works ... but Media Center is only included as part this .. which is Windows Control Center.

(I believe Media Center should handle ALL media, music, video, etc, and Windows Media Player should be dropped - Media Center is more elegant.)

Search should be at the bottom of screen, but I have text description there at present. (That's PC or Net search)

The big logo is not part of the screen ... it's a blow-up of the little logo bottom right.

Program folders should be left in Explorer and only the .EXE shortcut placed on the Windows Control Center movable strip. And JUST the program name, not with the .exe attached, and no 'shortcut to..' or shortcut arrow.

Everything the USER creates should be stored in folders under their user name - ie, Graham > has sub-folders Documents, Pictures, Music, Graphics, Smiley's, User Data, Settings, Mail, Stationary, Video, Movies, TV Programs, yada, yada, yada ... so if you ever need to move to a new computer, you just copy USER Name (Graham) with all the sub-folders. Saves having to look around for something's you left behind - or before you reformat the HD. Programs installed are a separate problem - MS can figure out - Hey!, just rename the lot - Windows.OLD :-) (They still got their old registry, come on, tell us? Or did you merge with the new?)

( Well .. I stated something, didn't I? I'm waiting for Vista to copy a file — it may take a couple of days :-) )

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Microsoft relents: Vista SP1 available to technical users now

On February 11, responding to customer unrest, Microsoft announced it will make Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available earlier than it originally promised.

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*Not poor suckers like me though .. :-(

I paid Aust$180 for Vista Home Premium Academic Upgrade at Harvey Norman, Morley, Western Australia on Day 1 of release at 9:30 am. Although it's been many a moon since I went to study anything, that's the only version they are selling in West (Australia?) And I think the reason is that it's price is lower than the normal version and Microsoft OVER PRICED Vista in Australia. They could hardly discount the normal version on day 1 to their 1st customer, could they. So they pushed the cheaper Academic to save face. (I even made a video and uploaded it to YouTube!) Please don't let me go down in history as the biggest sucker of all time... :-(

Anyway, Office Works in Morley, WA, are now selling that version for Aust$175 AND — WAIT FOR IT — PAYING YOU $75 TO INSTALL IT!!!!!!

That's right folks, you get a "Bonus $75 voucher for installation#" (But you have to buy a stamp apparently.)

#Cashbacks and bonuses via redemption from supplier. Postage/redemption charges apply...

So, now they can't give VISTA away for Aust$100 ...

Vista - copying files almost impossible

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:28:44 GMT

If you are trying to copy files in vista be prepared to wait the whole day ...

It is next to impossible ... no progress will be made! Oh, yeah, it did take 5 long years to make this .. :-)

Don't let anyone who coded (stuffed up) Vista work on Windows 7 - except the GUI people and designers.

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THE Windows 7 guy

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:08:34 GMT

Well, there is another guy too, but he's under the bonnet, and does not count. If we can't see it, we can't judge whether to buy it, or not. Blue car - not the motor.

(OK, it's Jon DeVaan - Core Operating System Division. Happy.)

Steven Sinofsky - THE Windows 7 guy

Steven Sinofsky, the Windows 7 and "Live" guy believes in the rhythm method of 'there is always another version'. That's fine - as long as you are only going to slug us the Windows ME $98 upgrade and not the Windows Vista $180 upgrade. Plus, there is somewhere to put the "Windows OLD" that stuff you up if you don't do a clean install.

"..Delivered just three years after Vista, Windows 7 will only serve to prepare the fertile soil for Windows 8. And in this regard, Windows 8 will bring on the true Windows evolution, with Windows 7 being somewhat of a more modest release..."

Just the $98, but don't turn the product into Windows Vista ME...

And don't call it Windows Live ..

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"...MSBob ::
The thing to remember, however, is that this is the end of M1 (i.e. milestone 1), and there are three milestones. There won’t be any major visual refresh until after M2 (i.e., everything will be implemented with the Vista look-and-feel until after M2). Whatever the new visual look of Win7 will be will be kept under wraps for quite a while. This is no different from Luna for XP and Aero for Vista...."
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Thank you MSBob, that's to be expected - no one really sees the design till late in the day. There's a lot to do. Well, hopefully, there's a lot to do!

(MSBob - rumored to be "Deep Throat" or StevenSi, an insider from Microsoft. OK, it's Marketing!)

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"...Riyad Kalla Says on another blog:
I’d think they are in the ballpark… Microsoft moves so slowly, that a year time frame is how long it takes just for testing and refining… "
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Let's not forget the design team that took five months to design the Vista wireless icon ...ROFL. Cutting the 3 green bars to 2 was a stroke of genius .. :-) (Sleepless in Seattle, no doubt!)

So, it the mean time, we'll just keep on making it up ...

— do more Than Before

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces." -- Sigmund Freud

*Just remember that Windows is an international product, don't put any US eccentric stuff in.

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If you're wondering what happened to the codenames of Vienna, and before that Blackcomb, which were originally attached to the OS, Windows senior VP Steven Sinofsky has banished those ciphers name as a sign of his desire to refocus the team on the steak rather than the sizzle. It's in keeping with Sinofsky's previous reign over Office 2000, XP/2002, 2003 and 2007 - all of which were known only by their internal version numbers (such as Office 2007 being ‘Office 12') before being christened with a marketing label.

*You have to remember that business relies on numbers, they feel happy with numbers, they love numbers ... $$$$$$$$$. However the person in the street needs dreams - dreams of desire, of longing, of romantic fulfillment - of something new, something Shangri-la - on a lost HORIZON.

It's fine for the Windows 7 team to focus on the 'steak' because that is what they are hired to do. However, the great unwashed demand to see smoke on the horizon ...

And selling the 'sizzle' and not the steak is the retailer ...

Marketing has to sell the 'odour' to create the 'drool' to get you to the 'sizzle' to buy that tough piece of steak!

You just don't get hungry and desire in the street without a tempting aroma wafting though the air. -- Give the public some tit-bits.

Then you start to drool. -- Make us want to buy it - and can't hardy wait. (Only what is certain.)

We will be there on the doorstep to see the sizzle.. -- Retail point-of-sale

Once we are home with the steak, we'll install it -- and then ---- let the heartache begin -- UNLESS YOU'RE DONE A GOOD JOB.

"Eye of toad, ear of newt, Windows 7 is going to be a beaut!"

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Design classics - Windows Horizon (Windows 7)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:53:02 GMT

Clarifying the unfathomable - the daunting task of designing the graphical user interface (GUI) for Windows Horizon (Windows 7)

Vista is a good start at being able to find things very easily ..

Introducing Harry Beck...

The striking Tube map that is recognised across the globe was the brainchild of Underground electrical draughtsman, Harry Beck, who produced this imaginative yet stunningly simple design back in 1933.

Beck based the map on the circuit diagrams he drew for his day job, stripping the sprawling Tube network down to basics.

The result was an instantly clear and comprehensible chart that would become an essential guide to London - and a template for transport maps the world over.

The 2008 map

The tube map is the schematic diagram representing the lines, stations, and zones of London's rapid transit rail system, the London Underground.

As a schematic diagram it shows not the geographic but the relative positions of stations along the lines, stations' connective relations with each other and their fare zone locations. The basic design concepts, especially that of mapping topologically rather than geographically, have been widely adopted for other network maps around the world.

People don't buy cars for dual carb's, whiz-bang engine mod's, or ABS breaks for extra safety —

THEY BUY THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE BLUE - have auto windows, air conditioning, chrome hubcaps and a good steering wheel!

— do more Than Before

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invented or discovered by accident

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:35:42 GMT

How Animal Migration Works - Caribou travel 2,000 miles to migrate. The annual migration of monarch butterflies lasts longer than a typical monarch's lifespan. What makes animals so determined to move?

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Do stars actually move? - Learn why stars move throughout the universe. We used to believe that everything orbits the Earth and then the sun, but now we know the sun and Earth are in a larger orbit within our galaxy, the Milky Way. Find out more in this video.

Is there a 400 pound lobster out there? - Although no one can yet tell how old lobsters get, they show no apparent signs of aging. Learn why lobsters live so long and get so big, and what this means for other animals, including humans.

How Rainbows Work - Rainbows are easily one of nature's most beautiful effects. Have you ever wondered how the colors end up in seemingly perfect bands? Find out exactly how a rainbow is produced.

9 Things Invented or Discovered by Accident - From potato chips to corn flakes, many of the things we consume today were an accident. The inventors are often held in high regard, but their inventions were a strange twist of fate. See our list of 9 things invented or discovered by accident.

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That Windows 7 girl!

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:23:55 GMT

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More Dramatic UI Changes—

People are driven by what they can hear, see, smell, touch, and taste. It doesn't matter how many changes you make to the core of Windows: if it doesn't look and act dramatically different, people won't feel like it is.

February 7, 2008
How to Make Windows 7 Better
By Jason Cross

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I agree with what this guy is writing about - but the one actually charged with doing something about it at Microsoft is — That Windows 7 Girl!

and here she is ....

Julie Larsen-Green: she changed the way Office 2007 looks and works, and now she's got the same job on the Windows Horizon (Windows 7) team.

Eight hundred million people and some Chinese are counting on you Julie ...

On the horizon - the dawn of a new day.

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