which is what this game really is all about.

Posted on July 4, 2012 by newsblog

Another week has gone by and I am still having a blast with my 32GB Dell Venue Pro that I covered in more detail in my review this past week. The BIG news in the smartphone world this past week was obviously the Nokia Microsoft deal that some of us are more excited about than others. I am hopeful this will bring more people to the platform and thus continue to encourage application development. I have been considering getting into development myself and this partnership actually made my decision about which platform to consider a bit clearer.,Project 2010 key

Last week there were 7,852 apps in the Marketplace at the time I wrote my post, based up on the count on the Marketplace Browser website, and this week we are up to 8,258. This growth of 406 apps met the standard set in early January where we are still seeing over 400 apps per week appear for Windows Phone 7. Once again we have another a single Xbox LIVE game appearing. The new game is called Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night and it is a bit expensive at $6.99. I installed the trial version and after just about 15 minutes I uninstalled it since it is really not my style. I am also not a huge Tetris fan,Office 2007 keygen, which is what this game really is all about.

I took my Dell Venue Pro on the road this week and figured I would cover the apps that I found essential or served some vital need for me while I was out and about. You will see I covered most of these before,Windows 7 Product Key, but they have received updates that make them essential for my needs.

TeleNav GPS Navigator: I know I covered TeleNav GPS Navigator last week, but I just had to bring it up again for a couple reasons. I attended the TeleNav Waypoint event early last week and was able to check out future products and give feedback on products that I use. TeleNav on my Dell Venue Pro also saved the day when Google Maps Navigation on my Galaxy Tab took me to someone’s house instead of the school where my daughter’s basketball playoff game was being held. I pulled out my DVP, fired up TeleNav, and was there a few minutes later to watch her team win the game. Birdsong: I covered Birdsong in my Twitter apps post,SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Key, but it has now been updated and moved into my top Twitter spot. It is much faster than before and I find the conversation view to be more essential than notifications, although I understand those are coming in an update too. Birdsong costs $1.99,Office 2011 for MAC Key, but is definitely worth it. BringCast: I also previously talked about Bringcast in an earlier Windows Phone Wednesday article, but again it received an update since then and now supports playing and downloading under the lock screen,Windows Xp Pro Key, more feeds in the search database, and support for secure feeds wehre you have to enter a password. I use this app every few days to download podcasts view 3G or WiFi and wish the podcasts would appear in the Zune hub so I could play them and do other things on my WP7 device. GoVoice: It has now been a couple of years since I dialed into a traditional voicemail system thanks to Google Voice. I have my T-Mobile voicemail setup to all go through Google Voice and the first app I found for WP7 to support this was GoVoice. I see there are now other options, but I find GoVoice works very well at giving me my voicemail, allowing me to send and receive SMS through Google Voice, and providing an accurate live tile. GoVoice is available for $2.99. Metro Web Browser: I find the Internet Explorer browser on WP7 to be fine,Office Project Key, but I also want more power and customization in my browsing experience so I have the Metro Web Browser installed. Metro gives you 24% more screen real estate in portrait orientation,Office 2010 download, supports Tweeting of pages, lets you share a page via text message, allows you the ability to save photos from the browser, and supports an unlimited number of tabs. This alternative web browser is also priced at the magical $1.99 price.

Please let me know a theme or topic of apps that you would like me to cover in the future? I am trying to mix things up, but as the Marketplace grows it does get harder to find essential and useful apps without overloading yourself too much.

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Posted on July 4, 2012 by newsblog

Does Mozilla have any plans to bring Firefox to the iOS platform? According to Matt Brubeck,Windows 7 Ultimate Key, a mobile Firefox developer,Office 2011 for MAC Key, the answer is no,Windows Product Key Xp, and if you’re unhappy about this, blame Apple.

In response to a question on Quora,Storage Server 2008 Key, Brubeck had this to say:

I am a developer on the mobile Firefox team at Mozilla.

We currently have an iPhone App called Firefox Home, which lets you sync your Firefox tabs, history and bookmarks to your iOS device. You can get it from the app store, or read more here: http://www.mozilla.com/mobile/home/

We have no plans to release the full Firefox browser for Apple iOS devices. The current iOS SDK agreement forbids apps like Firefox that include their own compilers and interpreters:

“3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts,storage server 2008, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple’s built-in WebKit framework.”

Other browsers for iOS use the built-in WebKit libraries (like Skyfire) or do not execute any JavaScript on the device itself (like Opera Mini,SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Key, which uses a proxy server). But unless Apple removes these restrictions,Windows 7 Upgrade product Key, full browsers like Firefox are not allowed on iOS.

Personally,Activate Windows Server 2003, I believe that Apple should open out the iOS platform to more third-party stuff – browsers, keyboards and so on. I can think of no valid reason for Apple to restrict the installation of such apps on the platform.

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Posted on July 4, 2012 by newsblog

I’d much rather write about what was new and neat about networking in 2010, but the sad truth is I think the many of the most important networking stories in 2010 were about regulations rather than innovations.

That said,Window Xp Cd Key, there was some “good news” about networking in 2010 as well. Number one with a bullet in my book was:

1. The Browser Wars Revived

Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer,storage server 2008 key, Opera, and Safari, take your pick,Win 7 key, all the Web browsers got better in 2010. You can argue until you’re blue in the face about which one is better. It’s Chrome by the way.

Agree with me or not, though, the important point is that because of this competition all the Web browsers significantly improved during 2010. While Chrome and Firefox,storage server 2008 r2, the two big open-source browsers, made the most gains I have to say that Internet Explorer 9 looks pretty darn good. Now,Win 7 Activate, if only IE 9 were available for XP and IE 6 would finally die. Die,Exchange Server 2010 Key! Die,Windows Vista Key! Die!

Ahem. Excuse me.

2. 100GigE Internet Backbones

The good news is that since the IEEE ratified IEEE 802.3ba, we’ll soon see 40-Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) and 100GigE Ethernet becoming the new standard for Internet backbones. The bad news is we’re going to need that speed and we’ll be crying for Terabit Ethernet.

We’ll be weeping because, thanks to the growing popularity of Apple TV, Netflix, Roku, and all the other video Internet services we’re going to need all the bandwidth we can get. That wouldn’t be so bad except, in 2011, we’re going to face the painful question of who pays for all that new,Office 2010 activation key, high-speed bandwidth. The Internet providers? They’re not making money from broadband. Someone will have to pay, and that means we run right into the sticky problems of….

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The Firefox team is playing it safe.,Windows 2003 Key

There will be at least two more beta releases before a Firefox 4 release candidate is distributed,Server 2008 activation, says one Firefox developer.

“We will release beta 10 as soon as possible during the week of the 24th … we will release beta 11 as soon as possible during the week of the 31st,Visio 2003 Serial, “says Christian Legnitto,Exchange Server 2007 Key, in a message posted to the MozillaWiki. “To control risk for the RC the plan is to do two betas (10 and 11) rather than hold beta 10 for all betaN hardblockers.”

There are more than 55 blockers that still need fixing and more than 318 bug fixes which need to be tested before the finished code is released.

Firefox 4 beta 9 was released on January 14. The first beta debuted on July 6.

Better safe than sorry.

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Posted on July 4, 2012 by newsblog

Mozilla is planning to release two more betas of Firefox 4,SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Key, so says Firefox release manager Christian Legnitto.

Here’s the timeline:

We’ll take the most recent green changeset from mozilla-central this Friday,Windows 7 key, 2011-01-21 at 2:00 pm PST and call that beta 10
We will release beta 10 as soon as possible during the week of the 24th
We’ll take the most recent green changeset from mozilla-cental on Friday,Vista activation, 2011-01-28 at 2:00 pm PST (or sooner if the remaining betaN hardblockers are finished) and call that beta 11
We will release beta 11 as soon as possible during the week of the 31st

So what’s holding up the release? Some 55 hardblocker bugs that need to be squashed before Firefox release,Office 2010 Professional Plus key, and an amazing 319 bugs that have been marked as fixed since beta 9 was launched need testing. Having two more betas mean that the newer fixes get more time in the hands of beta testers:

To control risk for the RC the plan is to do two betas (10 and 11) rather than hold beta 10 for all betaN hardblockers. This will give us a week of beta coverage for the 318 bug fixes while still allowing beta coverage for the remaining betaN hardblockers.

It also seems that Mozilla is pulling out all the stops to get Firefox 4 bug fixes into the hands of beta testers:

Code freeze for beta 10 and 11 will also be a bit different. Previous betas closed the tree to stabilize and reduce beta risk. At this point in development,Product Key Windows Vista, every day counts–we cannot shut down mozilla-central over the weekend as we have done before. Instead we’ll freeze what’s in the tree and run with it,Windows 7 Upgrade Key, dealing with any beta issues on the relbranch. Instead of metering what goes in before a freeze we will be driving to get as many fixes as possible so they can get more beta coverage.

So beta testers,Exchange Server 2007 Key, get ready for more beta testing,Exchange Server Key!

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Now that NetMarketShare’s data for December 2010 is in the can

Posted on July 4, 2012 by newsblog

Now that NetMarketShare’s data for December 2010 is in the can,Win 7 key, we can take a look at the winners and losers of 2010 in the browsers and operating systems category.

First browsers. Here the winner is clear – Google Chrome, which saw its usage share more than double, rising from 4.63% in December 2009 to 9.98% in December 2010. A missive rise which has seen the browser leap ahead of Apple’s Safari (which gained a little ground,Window Xp Cd Key, up from 4.46% in December 2009 to 5.89% in December 2010) and Opera (which lost ground,Office 2007 professional key, going from 2.40% in December 2009 to 2.23% in December 2010).

The biggest loser on the browser front was Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. IE saw its usage share fall from 62.69% in December 2009 to 57.08% in December 2010.

Firefox,Office 2010 Pro Plus key, once the pin-up browser for geeks the world over, saw its usage share fall from 24.61% in December 2009 to 22.81% in December 2010.

Internet Explorer 8 commands a usage share of 33.02%,Server 2003 Serial, Firefox 3.6 18.50%, and Internet Explorer 6 (yes,Office for Mac Home and Student 2011, that old dog) still clings on to 13.06%.

Let’s take a look at operating systems. Apple had a mixed year. Usage share for Mac OS fell slightly,Office Visio Professional Key, down from 5.11% in December 2009 to 5.02% in December 2010. Apple’s mobile platform iOS, did better with it’s usage share climbing from 0.53% to 1.69% over the same period.

Linux dawdled around the 1% mark all year.

Microsoft saw usage share for the behemoth OS Windows fall slightly too, down from 92.21% in December 2009 to 90.29% in December 2010. Windows 7 now commands a usage share of 20.87%, Vista 12.11% and XP a whopping 56.72%.

NetMarketShare uses data captured from the 160 million unique visitors browsing some 40,Office 2010 download,000 Web sites it monitors for clients.

Anyone want to make some predictions for what we’ll see for 2011?

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web sites feel like applications. They can be pinned to the Taskbar

Posted on July 4, 2012 by newsblog

Internet Explorer (IE) is important to Microsoft for a variety of reasons,Project 2007 key, some obvious and some less so.

IE is the most used piece of Windows, in terms of both time and frequency. It’s the bridge between Windows client and Windows Live. It is the gateway to the “Windows Web experience.” And it’s seen inside Microsoft as a vehicle for improving the “attach rate” for Microsoft online services.

It turns out that IE — specifically the IE 9 release — is also key to Microsoft’s tablet/slate strategy.

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As I blogged last week,Buy Windows 7 Upgrade, Microsoft is scrambling to come up with its answer to the rapidly growing market for Apple and Android slates. Until Windows 8 is on the market,Office Visio Key, the Redmondians are seeking ways to make do with Windows 7 as the slate OS of choice. How to you gussy up Windows 7, which isn’t touch-centric, to make it more viable for tablets and slates? You stick IE 9 on it, according to the Microsoft game plan.

In addition to the slides from a “Microsoft Commercial Slate PCs” deck which I posted last week, I also had a chance to see a related script aimed at partners and Microsoft employees to help them demo Windows 7 slates for businesses and consumers. The script suggests how those demoing these devices should set them up to convince users that Microsoft and its partners have viable alternatives to other tablets/slates.

Microsoft suggests the demo-gods configure slates and tablets with Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate (or Windows 7 Home Premium or higher for consumer-focused demos); install Windows Live Essentials 2011 and IE9; enable Internet TV with Windows Media Center; pin Photo Gallery and “good” IE 9 demo sites to the taskbar (suggesting the demo folk use sites mentioned on Microsoft’s www.beautyoftheweb.com); and install a full copy of Office 2010 and Lync 2010/Office Communicator.

These guidelines are interesting for several reasons. Windows 7 ships with IE 8,Windows 7 activation Key, not IE 9,Windows Xp Key Generator, as “part” of the operating system. IE 9 is still not finalized; a nearly done Release Candidate test build is expected on February 10. And Microsoft still is declining to provide a final release-to-Web target date for IE 9, though many company watchers are expecting that to be this April.

So why the IE 9 push? From the aforementioned demo script:

“With IE9, web sites feel like applications. They can be pinned to the Taskbar,Win 7 key, just like any other Windows application. Even Jumplists are supported, so that I can directly jump to a certain section of the site.”

In other words,Office 2007 upgrade, even though Windows 7 isn’t touch-centric, IE 9 makes the OS more usable on touch devices.

Microsoft also is attempting to stem the defection tide from Internet Explorer with IE9. Net Applications has issued its latest worlwide browser usage share data, showing that IE now has 56 percent of the market. As WinRumors.com notes, that is the seventh straight month of decline for IE. The bright spot is IE 9, which already has 1.83 percent of the market, even though it is only in beta.

I’m curious to see how the RC of IE 9 works on my Windows 7 PC. As I’ve noted previously, I am currently using Google’s Chrome because I have not been happy with the speed and performance of the IE 9 beta. Standards compliance — and leadership — is great. I’m not keen on the IE 9 pinned sites concept; I prefer to have many tabs open in a single browser instance. That’s just the way I work. Ultimately, what matters to me as whether my frequented sites work as well in IE as in Chrome.

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Posted on July 4, 2012 by newsblog

Mozilla developers released another Firefox 4 test version — this time for mobile devices — as they chip away at beta 11.,Office for Mac Home and Student 2011

The updated Firefox 4 beta for for Google’s Android and Nokia’s Maemo devices,Office 2007 keygen, which was released today,Exchange Server Key, is said to be faster than the native Android browser.

It is based on the same code as the Firefox 4 desktop version — also in beta testing — and will give mobile users an “Awesome” user screen and Firefox Sync synchronization capabilities.

Meanwhile,Windows 7 download, the desktop team is working hard to release beta 11 and possibly beta 12 before a planned late February release. In meetings today,Windows Professional Xp Key, the team reported significant progress reducing the number of bugs and blockers but could not say when beta 11 will be ready.

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The more closely I look at the new Tracking Protection feature in Internet Explorer 9, the more astonished I am that it came from one of the world’s largest corporations.

If Internet Explorer 9 becomes widely adopted and if Tracking Protection is widely used—and those are two tricky assumptions—it has the potential to seriously disrupt the online advertising business. Microsoft made this feature widely available last week in the Release Candidate build of IE9 (if you missed it, here’s my review of the IE9 RC). Using the RC, it takes exactly two clicks to download a Tracking Protection List (TPL) and begin blocking third-party cookies, tracking pixels, web beacons,Windows Server 2011 Standard Key, hit counters, analytics scripts, and other tools of the modern web designed to assemble a profile of your movements and activities on the web.

Oh,Exchange Server 2007-2010 Standard and Enterprise Editions Key, and it blocks ads, too.

In this post, the first in a series, I’ll show how Tracking Protection works. I’ve also put together a screenshot gallery that shows the entire sequence of actions and includes some tips on how to manage Tracking Protection Lists.

Screenshot gallery: Using Tracking Protection Lists in IE9 Part 2: Privacy protection and IE9: who can you trust?

The underlying idea behind Tracking Protection isn’t new. Third-party tools and extensions have been adding similar privacy-protecting features to web browsers for a long time,Exchange Server 2010 Key, usually in the form of a browser extension, add-on,Office Visio Professional Key, or plug-in. Adding this feature into the browser itself, however,windows storage server 2008, as Microsoft has done, is a first.

Here’s how Microsoft’s solution works:

1. Someone—anyone—creates a list of domains and substrings that they want to block (or allow) as third-party content on a web page.

2. The author formats that list using Microsoft’s Tracking Protection List specification and posts it on the web.

3. Someone—anyone—creates a link to the URI for that list, using a short snippet of JavaScript. The link does not have to be on the same web server where the TPL itself is hosted.

4. An IE9 user clicks that link,Server 2008 Key, which brings up a dialog box like this one:

5. The IE9 user clicks Add List, which copies the formatted file to a system folder and configures IE to   immediately begin using the rules contained on that list.

From that point on, IE9 checks the TPL before sending an HTTP request to a third-party site. Here’s a simplified example,Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Key, with a page that includes an advertisement and a tracking pixel from two third-party sites.

Because xyz-ads.com is on the Block list, no request is sent to its server and the space where the ad should go remains blank. But abc-analytics is on an Allow list, so that request goes through. XYZ Ads is out of luck. It didn’t get to serve an ad, and it didn’t gather any information from the visitor. ABC Analytics, on the other hand,microsoft storage server, gets its tracking database updated.

Here are a few other facts worth knowing about Tracking Protection:

TPLs affect third-party content only and are ignored for direct requests. If example.com is on a Block list, IE9 will reject any third-party requests to that domain but will serve up the page normally if you go to a page that is hosted directly on the example.com domain.
You can install multiple Tracking Protection lists and enable or disable any list at any time. You can also remove a list.
From the Manage Add-ons dialog box in IE9, you can inspect the contents of any Tracking Protection List and copy it to a text file.
TPLs include an auto-update mechanism. The default update period is 7 days, but a list publisher can set this value to any interval between 1 and 30 days.
If you have multiple lists, IE9 uses a hierarchy to resolve conflicts. Allow rules trump Block rules. Thus, if the same domain or substring is on one list with a Block entry and another with an Allow entry, third-party content from that domain will be allowed.
If you use a Personalized Filtering List in Manual mode, its settings override any entry on a TPL.

Currently, five TPLs from four organizations are available for IE9 users (I expect this number to rise as more groups discover its possibilities). I’ve taken a close look at all five of these lists, For the surprising details, see Part 2: Privacy protection and IE9: who can you trust?.

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‘Microsoft talks big about HTML5 but shows very little‘

Posted on July 4, 2012 by newsblog

Mozilla’s technical evangelist Paul Rouget tears into Microsoft,Server 2008 serial, claiming that while Internet Explorer 9 is “definitely better than IE8 and a step in the right direction,windows storage server 2008,” it’s still not a modern browser.

Rouget backs up his claims by pointing out that Microsoft uses tests created during the development of IE9 as a benchmark don’t offer a balanced view of the results.

Does IE9 support 99% of the HTML5 specification as insinuated by Microsoft? No,Win 7 Activate, they’re actually pretty far from it. The tests Microsoft are referring to are the ones they created during the development of IE9. It’s not that surprising that they pass the very tests they used to design and develop the browser – we score pretty well against our own unit-tests as well. The primary use case for these tests, however, is to spot regressions and validate code changes. In other words: the tests ensure that future changes don’t break the things you just built. They don’t actually test all elements of a specific standard.

Rouget then goes on to pitch IE9 against Firefox on two different HTML5 tests,Office 2007 Key, and the results are interesting:

The reality is that IE9 is 2 years late. Microsoft is glad to come out with the <video> tag,Server 2003 Key, the <canvas> tag, SVG,Windows Vista Key, and some CSS3. Like other vendors did years ago. Firefox 3.5 had the <video> tag, the <canvas> tag, Geolocation,Windows Server 2011 Standard Key, SVG in 2009. Canvas and SVG existed 5 years ago.

Even the guys that wrote these tests came to the same conclusion: Niels Leenheer: ‘Microsoft talks big about HTML5 but shows very little‘,Windows 2008 Key, caniuse.com about IE9RC1: ‘[IE9] being about on par with Firefox 3.6‘.

Still, a better version of IE is not a bad thing.

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