Windows 8, the next version of Microsoft Windows operating system, builds are leaked on the web and few early enthusiasts got hands on them. These builds are intended to be available only with Microsoft testers who work hard to find issues and report them back to Microsoft. Geeks at winfuture.de installed Windows 8 and released …
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Here is the first glimpse of Microsoft’s Windows 8 user interface – screen grab of Welcome Screen that lets users login into Windows. The user interfaced design(fonts & current date/time information) is derived from Windows Phone Metro UI and it’s for good (click on the below image for clear view). Information that is provided in …
Microsoft partnered with Rovio to integrate Bing right into the famous Angry Birds game. This integration has two elements: a series of videos showing off game characters using Bing to get clues and Bing search integration with the game. In Microsoft’s words Starting today, you can watch as the pigs scheme creative ways to get …
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Quite a long ago I wrote about a SQL Server programming tip on how to extract date part from a DATETIME column. The post discusses about using of T SQL function convert() to get date part. One of the readers of the post, tipped me about a better way of extracting date part and here …
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The famous Angry Birds game from Rovio is now available for your personal computers. You can download the game from Intel’s App Store for windows. It costs $5 and supported on Windows 7 and Windows XP computers. Here is a video of Angry Birds running on Windows 7 Laptop.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS is picking up in the recent days with the release of useful applications. Yahoo released an official Flickr application for Windows Phone 7 that is optimized to play nice with unique Windows Phone 7 user interface. Here is the demo of the application in action
Watermark is a faint image that appears behind your text in MS Word Documents. Draft/Confidential are the most common background watermarks that we see in the documents circulated at office. MS Word 2007/2010 makes it very easy add watermarks as well as customize them based on the requirements.
The Finnish mobile giant Nokia announced today partnership with Microsoft to release smartphones using Windows Phone 7 mobile platform. The alliance is expected to give much needed support and advantage for both the companies. The once leader of mobile phone industry, Nokia, has lost most of its market share to iPhone and Android smartphones in …
In the new versions of Microsoft Office everything has changed with the introduction of Ribbon menus. Even though Ribbon menus has many advantages that simplifies accessing features, at times it’s a daunting task to navigate the Ribbon menus and find a specific command. Ribbon search is one of the interesting freeware tools to overcome these …
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Problem You are designing a database table for a web application that requires to store IP address of users who visits the site. The IP address is required to be stored a character data in the table. To define size of the character column you need to know maximum length of IP address. So, what …
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