Published by nb April 29th, 2007
Hi All,
We got a bit of change. Before this our RSS Feed via Feedburner was cut on each entry by 200 characters which means all subscriber will able to read only first few words and need to visit the site for full story. We think we should play nice and we should let you read the full story direct from your feed reader without the need to visit the site. That means you may only come to the site just when you really want. Also you are able to subscribe to podcast version of each story, if reading is what bitter for you. Podcast is available on sidebar and on every entry. Any suggestion, recommendation or others, you may send it directy to our (up coming) conact form or contact @ domain.
One more thing, we did applied for advertisment. It not for generating big money but to composate on what we spend for hosting and other stuff. We almost don’t like to have ads, so we try to make it more clean as much we can. If you don’t like it, use your ads blocker or other relate stuff when browsing the site– but please do not blame us on this.
Published by nb April 28th, 2007
in Windows Live.
Virtual Earth team getting a lot of updates this weekend, including new 3D for cities, new images, and the releases of Virtual Earth API V5. For the V5 API, it is updated with full stuff, please check out what Andy McGovern has post.
Published by nb April 28th, 2007
in Windows Live.
Stephanie of Windows Live Spaces just announced some new features that added into Mobile Spaces. It’s called as major update but actually small. The update features including:
- Adding Recent Update and Recent Commend page which will show the latest change of blog, photo and friends.
- New navigation page with preview that allow to access each module quickly.
- Manage Friends via mobile which enable you to add, edit and browse friends.
- Nothing more.
Published by nb April 28th, 2007
in Windows and Server.
Sine Microsoft opens the door of secretp project, a operating system for center storage to home user. It’s exciting time to build a Home Server computer and have a taste. We do like most features except the OS’s user interface which more to Windows 2003 rather the eye-candy Windows Vista or Windows Server codename “Centro”. Btw, we didn’t have time at the moment for dept preview ans shots.
TechRepublic recently posted nice screenshot of Remote Ascess feature of Windows Home Server (WHS) which allowing user to access their (home) from anywhere with internet. It providing a given URL, yourservername.livenode.com. That’s great. It’s support upload and download file from WHS but not streaming– well the speed is depend on your internet connection at home.
Published by nb April 28th, 2007
in Software.
XML Notepad 2007 a nice and simple XML documents editor with branch of powerfull functions. It supporting Windows XP, 2003 and Vista. More detials and download at Microsoft’s download center.
Published by nb April 28th, 2007
in .Net.
The Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Beta 1, a separate installation is available at Microsoft’s Download Center. In last two week it was first released in the Visual Studio “Orcas” Beta 1 pack. .NET Framework 3.5 is planned to release at the end of 2007. Some new features including:
- Deep integration of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and data awareness
- ASP.NET AJAX for quickly creating more efficient, more interactive and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers
- New web protocol support for building WCF services including AJAX, JSON, REST, POX, RSS, ATOM and several new WS-* standards
- Full tooling support for WF, WCF and WPF including the new workflow-enabled services technology
- New classes in the base class library (BCL) for the .NET Framework 3.5 address the most common customer requests
Published by nb April 27th, 2007
in Security and web service.
Microsoft recently launched the new website called “Microsoft Malware Protection Center Preview“, a security portal, which is the research and respond to the security issue. The site contain database of most active families, variants, email threats, and top adware/spyware removed. For each malware, the database will provide the overview detail, technical analysis, the way to prevent infection and other usefully information. It is the next effort of Microsoft on it weak point.
Published by nb April 27th, 2007
in web service.
Back to few weeks ago, MSN Soapbox is closed invitation for new user, to preparing for the next generation upgrade. With is last few days you may noticed that Soapbox video and MSN Soapbox site is changed. The most noticeable are theme of player and site. The player is more re-polished and adapted to Windows Media Player 11 style. The site is changed from ugly blue layout and theme to the new well-designed black and white.
From Soapbox blog called it the next generation of soapbox come with full-hand upgrade and highlight features.
Some of the Upgraded Features:
- Scalable Page. Change the size of your browser and the thumbnails and page will scale dynamically.
- New Player with integrated Playlists and Progessive Download Indicators.
- Playlist Functionality. Each time you watch a video it is automatically added to the playlist. The Playlists can also be shared.
- Improved Fullscreen Experience.
- Video Gallery Sorts. Sort by Hour, Day etc.
- Updated Embedded Player with clean design and Playlist features
Some of the other highlights of Soapbox:
- Single Page browsing and viewing.
- Upload Unlimited Video Lengths.
- Simultaneously Upload and process Multiple Videos.
- Persistent Upload and Process indicator.
- Embed Player with Multiple Videos.
- Soapbox Gadgets and Vista Sidebar Gadgets
- High Quality Video Encoding.
- Watch videos simultaneously with Friends using Messenger Activity Window.
It is interesting to see this change. I am personally prefer Soapbox over Youtube by speed of streaming the content (but not comparable while Soapbox user is very small ratio) and the great quality of vedio (sharper and clearer).
Published by nb April 27th, 2007
in Windows and Server.
Microsoft released Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” Beta 3 as Evaluation to public yesterday. It also available to the official beta tester on Microsoft’s Connect and Technet/MSDN subscriber. For those who interesting may download from this link. Server Longhorn is not so far from finish but the official name is still not announced.
For more resources: What’s new in Beta 3, Longhorn Beta 3 webcast and chat.
Published by nb April 25th, 2007
in Server.
One of the benchmarks important to gauge performance of file servers and NAS devices is SPECsfs97_R1 set up by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). This is a non-profit benchmarking organization and this specific benchmark has been created to establish network file system (NFS) performance. Because of the nature of the organization and the fact that vendors have to submit the results for auditing, this benchmark has become de-facto standard for comparing performance between different devices. As a matter of fact, there are end-users that rely on this benchmark to gauge overall performance of a file serving device even if this benchmark clearly only addresses NFS performance and not CIFS. There is no equivalent organization as far as CIFS performance is concerned. A popular benchmark for CIFS is called NetBench but there are no independent organizations that post CIFS benchmarks for end users to compare. Hopefully, this will be rectify as CIFS performance is often more critical as many end users traffic is comprised primarily of CIFS based files.
Full story @ Windows Server Division WebLog
