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Windows 7 Still Charging Ahead In Market Share

September 3, 2010

Windows 7 is still continuing to increase the gap between its predecessor, Windows Vista. Windows 7 is nearing its first birthday now and after nearly 11 months its done quite well for itself. According to the new stats released by Net Applications, it’s still growing and now holds an impressive 15.87 percentage share of the [...]

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Select-String -Context

September 3, 2010

A lot of people use Select-String but I haven’t seen much discussion of the –Context parameter.   This is an awesome feature that we added in V2.  If you haven’t tried it, you should spend a few minutes experimenting.  I can guarantee you that will you be glad you did. Let’s see what the HELP has [...]

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Smiling, Crying, and Scripting

September 3, 2010

I once heard that everyone in the world smiles and cries the same way – that language and culture had no effect on these. I thought of that when I navigated to: http://www.computerworld.jp/topics/mws/180709.html I have ABSOLUTELY no clue what they are saying but in the middle of the article I saw this: 【リスト11：WakeOnLan.ps1】 1 param($ [...]

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WiiPhoto turns your TV into a digital photo frame

September 3, 2010

If you ever wished for a way to view your iPhone snapshots on a bigger screen (without first copying them to your PC), here’s your answer. WiiPhoto transmits photos to your HDTV by way of your Wii game console. It’s a terrific idea, but one marred by a couple of gotchas and the limitations of [...]

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Almost there… Microsoft Has Released Phone 7 to Manufacturing

September 2, 2010

Reports from several outlets yesterday indicated that Microsoft is in the final stages of the release of Windows Phone 7, their long anticipated answer to the Apple iPhone. Their holiday 2010 availability goal seems to be on target. Others are anticipating an earlier release, maybe as soon as October. If we take Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s [...]

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Windows Phone 7: Done

September 2, 2010

It’s been only a mere six months since its first unveiling, but Microsoft has already announced that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing. This means device makers can start tuning the software to their hardware, leaving plenty of time to release devices before the holiday season. Click here to read the rest at [...]

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Become the ultimate sports fan with Chrome Extensions

September 2, 2010

Football season is coming soon. There are also many other sports events like baseball, tennis, golf and soccer that are in full swing. For die-hard sports fans out there, I found some handy Chrome extensions to help you track all the games, matches and player stats. The Are You Watching This?! Sports extension alerts you [...]

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PowerShell Resource Page at Windows IT Pro

September 2, 2010

Windows IT Pro magazine has created a PowerShell Resource Page HERE.  It provides a nice easy way to get at all of Don Jones’ articles.  Don is a superstar explainer of all things PowerShell so if you aren’t already following him, do yourself a favor and go read his stuff over on Windows It Pro.  [...]

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Tab tweaks land in Chrome Canary

September 2, 2010

The new about:labs feature in Chrome Canary gives Google a user-friendly way to test out experimental features. (Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) Google’s “canary-in-the-mineshaft” version of its Chrome browser gained a new “labs” option for users to explore on Wednesday. Users of Chrome Canary, named to indicate that it’s an even rougher version of Chrome [...]

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PowerShell V2 IS Available

September 1, 2010

Superstar Tobias Weltner (of PowerShell.com and Powershell Plus fame) sent me some mail today pointing to this May 14th article Three Essential PowerShell 2.0 Remote Management Features.  It is a very good article except for this part: “PowerShell 2.0 is built into Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. For older operating systems, PowerShell 2.0 [...]

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