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In an update to my post No Safari option for me on Apple Software Update , thanks (as always) to Microsoft MVP Blake Handler for this update. Dan Cunningham documented how to disable this update .... Offered as an FYI, YMMV, as modifying the registry
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My friend, J., sent me a funny mail today that I had to share... and with it, a return to Friday Links : "I don't know if you have looked lately, but "M3" has a whole bunch of different links around the Internet like: 2008 BMW M3 Coupe : obviously! M3
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It's a busy season, and it's taken a toll on my ability to post this week. But a canceled meeting and I pop up my head for lunch as well as a look at the RSS feed for news... So, it's interesting to note the news today: looks like the mood changed at
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Related to the regular updates made to our pages on time , Steven asked this week... "Is there something that customer can plug into, like subscribing to monthly security alerts, for DST [and, I'll add, time zone] updates?" No, not directly. You can enable
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Guarded nearly as well as the passcode to the Microsoft home of the future , and the details of the Inquisition were released this week (not to be confused with The Spanish Inquisition of Monty Python fame )... here are The Top 10 Web Sites You've Never
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"Thank you for reading our blog today. Your visit is VERY important to us. Please select from the following options. Please make sure you read through to the entire menu because our options have recently changed." OK, not really. All options are still
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An interesting article at on Web Pro News and how nobody wants AT&T' $10 DSL . (The low-priced DSL offer was required by the FCC Federal Communications Commission when Cingular.) Nearly the same price as a high-speed dial-up (an oxymoron these days),
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Kids are up for some reason and so I wait for the next request for a glass of water... In the mean time, something has been nagging at me. Customers are changing, and I've seen a real change in how the younger generation is forcing companies to change
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I was asked this morning by a friend from down south at a not-so-small Internet services company: "What is going on up there [in Redmond]? Six billion for aQuantive? That is a bunch of money. It sounds like a Silicon Valley deal." A new record-setting,
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Lisa Vaas of eWeek has an article today on how nearly 500 people took the bait to 'Click Here to Get Infected.' It was as simple as setting up an innocent looking domain name (drive-by-download.info), one with an '.info' suffix that is reportedly popular
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Stephen H. Wildstrom of BusinessWeek applauds the new SanDisk Sansa Connect in this article , calling it a "slick Wi-Fi music player." This new device integrates Yahoo's subscription music service... "The $250 Sansa Connect is the result of a collaboration
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No sooner do I talk about how Ray Ozzie is connecting with customers that I see this on CNET News today, discussing SilverLight at Mix and "about the company's ongoing transition from the age of desktop software to a new era." Ozzie's quiet revolution
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I had the pleasure of speaking today with ZDNet 's Mary Jo Foley about the upcoming Daylight Saving Time change and her Tips for Microsoft users . She blogs that the change is about a one month away until the new Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes take
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It's the end of another work week and guess what: it's time once again to update our Daylight Saving Time 2007 Web page on Microsoft.com. (Please see http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007 .) What do you think? As I noted previously , this public page on the
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I've written previously about ABC's success providing current, popular TV shows on the web had been a success, saying that 50 million TV episodes requested by web viewers since September, and that "free, ad-supported shows are attracting a younger audience
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