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  • Listen to Over 100,000 Radio Stations in Windows Media Center

    - by Mysticgeek
    A cool feature in Windows 7 Media Center is the ability to listen to local FM radio. But what if you don’t have a tuner card that supports a connected radio antenna? The RadioTime plugin solves the problem by allowing access to thousands of online radio stations. With the RadioTime plugin for Windows Media Center, you’ll have access to over 100,000 online radio stations from around the world. Their guide is broken down into different categories such as Talk Radio, Music Radio, Sports Radio and more. It’s completely free, but does require registration to save preset stations. RadioTime It works with Media Center in XP, Vista, and Windows 7 (which we’re demonstrating here). When installing it for Windows 7, make sure to click the Installer link below the “Get It Now – Free” button as the installer works best for the new OS. Installation is extremely quick and easy… Now when you open Windows 7 Media Center you’ll find it located in the Extras category from the main menu. After you launch it, you’re presented with the RadioTime guide where you can browse through the different categories of stations. Your shown various station suggestions each time you start it up. The main categories are broken down further so you can find the right genre of the music your looking for.   World Radio offers you stations from all over the world categorized into different regions. RadioTime does support local stations via an FM tuner, but if you don’t have one, you can still access local stations provided they broadcast online. One thing about listening to your local stations online is the audio quality may not be as good as if you had a tuner connected. It provides information on most of the online stations. For example here we look at Minnesota Public Radio info and you get a schedule of when certain programs are on. Then get even more information about the topics on the shows. To use the Presets option you’ll need to log into your RadioTime account, or if you don’t have one just click on the link to create a free one.   Creating a free account is simple and basic on their site. You aren’t required to have an account to use the RadioTime plugin, it’s only if you want the additional benefits. Conclusion For this article we only tried it with Windows 7 Media Center, and sometimes the interface felt clunky when moving quickly through menus. Also, there isn’t a search feature from within Media Center, however, you can search stations from their site and add them to your presets. Despite a few shortcomings, this is a very cool way to get access to thousands of online radio stations through Windows Media Center. If you’re looking for a way to access thousands of radio stations through WMC, you might want to give RadioTime a try. Download RadioTime for Windows Media Center Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Listen To XM Radio with Windows Media Center in Windows 7Listen and Record Over 12,000 Online Radio Stations with RadioSureUsing Netflix Watchnow in Windows Vista Media Center (Gmedia)Learning Windows 7: Manage Your Music with Windows Media PlayerSchedule Updates for Windows Media Center TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 PCmover Professional Windows Media Player 12: Tweak Video & Sound with Playback Enhancements Own a cell phone, or does a cell phone own you? Make your Joomla & Drupal Sites Mobile with OSMOBI Integrate Twitter and Delicious and Make Life Easier Design Your Web Pages Using the Golden Ratio Worldwide Growth of the Internet

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  • View Mobile Websites in Windows with Safari 4 Developer Tools

    - by Matthew Guay
    Want to try out mobile websites designed for the iPhone and other mobile devices on your PC?  Safari 4 for Windows lets you do this easily with their developer tools. By default, Safari will show standard desktop websites.  But by making a simple change, you can switch it to work like Safari Mobile on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Getting Started First make sure you have Safari 4 for Windows installed.  You can download Safari directly (link below) and install it as usual.   Or if you already have another Apple program installed, such as QuickTime or iTunes, then you can install it from Apple Software update.  Simply enter apple software update in the Start menu search box. And then select Safari 4 from the list of new software available.  Click Install to automatically download and install Safari. Accept the license Agreement, and then Safari will automatically install. Once this is finished, Safari will be ready to use. View Mobile Sites in Safari First, we need to enable the developer tools.  Click the gear icon on the toolbar, and select Preferences. Click the Advanced tab, and then check the box that says “Show Develop menu in menu bar”. Once you’ve closed your settings box, click the page icon, select Develop, then User Agent, and then choose one of the Mobile Safari settings.  In our test we chose Mobile Safari 3.1.2 – iPhone. To make your browser emulate a mobile device better, you can hide the bookmarks and tab bar to have a more streamlined interface. Click the Gear icon, and select “Hide Bookmarks Bar”, and then repeat and click “Hide Tab Bar”. You can also shrink your window to be closer to the size of a mobile device screen.  Once you’ve done these things, Safari should look similar to this screenshot.  Here we have loaded Google.com, and you can see it in its iPhone-style interface. Simply enter any website into the address bar, and it will load in its mobile interface if it has one.  Here is Google’s other mobile offerings, right inside Windows. Gmail loads messages with the default iPhone interface. One especially interesting mobile site is Apple’s online iPhone User Guide.  When loaded in Safari with the iPhone setting, it loads with a very nice mobile UI that works just like an iPhone app.  In fact, you can even click and drag to scroll, just like you would with your finger on an iPhone. Conclusion Even if you do not have a Smartphone, you can still preview what websites will look like on them with this trick. Not all sites will work of course, but it’s fun to play around with different sites that have mobile versions. Links: Safari 4 Download Apple iPhone online user guide Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Make Safari Stop Crashing Every 20 Seconds on Windows VistaCustomize Safari for Windows ToolbarSave Screen Space by Hiding the Bookmarks Toolbar in Safari for WindowsEdit Text in a Webpage with Internet Explorer 8Keep Websites From Using Tiny Fonts in Safari TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 PCmover Professional Windows Media Player 12: Tweak Video & Sound with Playback Enhancements Own a cell phone, or does a cell phone own you? Make your Joomla & Drupal Sites Mobile with OSMOBI Integrate Twitter and Delicious and Make Life Easier Design Your Web Pages Using the Golden Ratio Worldwide Growth of the Internet

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  • Enhance Your Gmail Account in Chrome

    - by Asian Angel
    Are you tired of items like the Chat and Invite Boxes cluttering up your Gmail account? Then join us as we look at the Better Gmail extension for Google Chrome. Before Here are some examples of items that you may be tired of looking at in your Gmail account such as the “Footer” below your “Inbox”, the “Chat Box”, and the “Invitation Box”. Perhaps you would also like to have the “New Window, Print all, & Create a document Commands” moved elsewhere. And of course there is everyone’s “favorite” sponsored links… Time to do some cleaning up and reorganizing. Better Gmail in Action As soon as you have installed Better Gmail a new tab will automatically open and present you with the available options. Place a “checkmark” in the box for each option that you would like activated and click on “Save” when finished. Note: The final option entry is a tie-in with two other “linked” extensions (Folders4Gmail & HTML Signature) while the middle listing is a link to an article for disabling Google Buzz. Once you have saved your changes in the “Options” you will be prompted to refresh your Gmail tab to see the changes. Going back to our “Inbox Area” everything looks so much more streamlined and clean now. Goodbye clutter! The “New Window, Print all, & Create a document Commands” definitely look a lot nicer as a small toolbar above our e-mail. And the right side…you can see for yourself just how much better that looks. No more distractions there to bother you as you read your e-mail. Conclusion If you have been wanting to get rid of the undesirable elements visible in your Gmail account then hurry over to the Better Gmail page, grab the extension and enjoy the better view. Links Download the Better Gmail extension (Google Chrome Extensions) Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Figure out which Online accounts are selling your email to spammersAdd a Remember The Milk Task Pane to Gmail in ChromeHow to Send and Receive Hotmail from Your Gmail AccountAdd Your Gmail To Windows Live MailOpen Your Gmail Account in a Popup Window TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 PCmover Professional Windows Media Player 12: Tweak Video & Sound with Playback Enhancements Own a cell phone, or does a cell phone own you? Make your Joomla & Drupal Sites Mobile with OSMOBI Integrate Twitter and Delicious and Make Life Easier Design Your Web Pages Using the Golden Ratio Worldwide Growth of the Internet

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  • ASP.NET 3.5 Debugging Using Visual Web Developer Express 2008

    One of the most important features in Visual Web Developer Express 2 8 in developing ASP.NET 3.5 websites is the debugging feature. Having a debugger is important in troubleshooting source code and application-related problems. It will save you a lot of time if you encounter and fix problems during the design and testing stage. This article is all about basic debugging in ASP.NET using Visual Web Developer Express its information will provide you with an important tool for designing and creating ASP.NET websites.... Cloud Servers in Demand - GoGrid Start Small and Grow with Your Business. $0.10/hour

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  • Affaire Word : la Cour d'Appel confirme la condamnation de Microsoft et souligne le « caractère volo

    Mise à jour du 11/03/10 [Les commentaires de cette mise à jour commencent ici] Affaire Word : la Cour d'Appel confirme la condamnation de Microsoft Et souligne le caractère volontaire de la violation de brevets Microsoft a demandé à la Cour Fédérale d'Appel de reconsidérer sa décision. Elle ne l'a pas fait. Dans son procès qui l'oppose à la société i4i, Microsoft vient donc de perdre un nouveau round. La Justice considère en effet que Word, le traitement de texte de Redmond, a bel ...

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  • Des smartphones sous Android... mais avec Bing, Motorola proposera l'OS de Google en Chine avec le m

    Mise à jour du 11/03/10 [NB : Les commentaires sur cette mise à jour commencent ici dans le topic] Chine vs Google : des smartphones sous Android, mais avec Bing L'OS de Google sera proposé avec le moteur de recherche de Microsoft sur les modèles de Motorola Motorola vient de signer un accord pour le moins curieux avec Microsoft. Sur le marché Chinois, le constructeur proposera Bing, le moteur de recherche de Redmond, sur ses smartphones sous Android. Ironique quand on sait...

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  • Chrome OS peut-il viser les entreprises ? Google pense que oui, et s'apprête à lancer une version mo

    Chrome OS peut-il viser les entreprises ? Google pense que oui, et s'apprêterait à lancer une version modifiée de son système d'exploitation Google travaille sur une version entreprise de son système d'exploitation Chrome OS. La nouvelle ne manque pas de poser question. Chrome OS est en effet un OS open-source, certes, mais très fermé. L'utilisateur ne peut pas installer les applications qu'il souhaite comme sur un système classique. Ce verrouillage permet une plus gr...

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  • Le service de "Cloud computing" de jeux vidéo OnLive annonce ses dates et son prix à la Game Develop

    Mise à jour du 11/03/10 Le service de "Cloud computing" de jeux vidéo OnLive annonce ses dates et son prix à la Game Developers Conference 2010 Se déroulant actuellement, la Game Developers Conference 2010 a offert l'occasion à Mike McGarvey, responsable du projet OnLive, d'officialiser certains points sur son projet de "could computing" pour les jeux vidéo. On apprend ainsi que le service sera disponible à partir du 17 juin prochain sur la sol américain. Rien n'est précisé quand à sa disponibilité du service en Europe. Le service demandera au client de s'abonner mensuellement pour un prix de 14,95$ (soit environ 11€ par mois). Le service sera dans un p...

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  • Microsoft repère un PDF malicieux qui exploite la faille d'Adobe Reader, Adobe pousse à appliquer so

    Mise à jour du 11/03/10 NB : Les commentaires sur cette mise à jour commencent ici dans le topic Un PDF malicieux exploite la faille d'Adobe Reader L'éditeur pousse à appliquer son patch sorti en urgence Un PDF malicieux circule actuellement. Il aurait réussi à télécharger un cheval de Troie sur les machines des utilisateurs qui n'ont pas encore appliqué le correctif publié il y a maintenant trois semaines par Adobe à ses produits Reader et Acrobat. Cette attaque exploite la faille...

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  • Sony officialise son contrôleur à détection de mouvements, le PlayStation Move, lors de la Game Deve

    Sony officialise son contrôleur à détection de mouvements, le PlayStation Move, lors de la GDC 2010 C'est au cours de la Game Developers Conference 2010 (GDC 2010) que Sony a révélé et officialisé son nouveau contrôleur à détection de mouvements pour sa console de jeux PlayStation3. Les rumeurs le nommaient Gem ou Arc mais ce nouveau produit portera la dénomination de PlayStation Move. Sony a également dévoilé que le PlayStation Move serait accompagné d'un périphérique sans fils annexe nommé simplement Sub Controller qui n'est pas sans rappeler le Nunchuk de la console Nintendo Wii. Accompagné du PlayStation Eye (la webcam de la PlayStation 3), ce nouveau contrôleur sera vendu en pack avec un je...

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  • SQL 2008 R2 UK Launch

    - by simonsabin
    Don't forget to register for the SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch event in London on the 15th April. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/techdays/itprodaythursday.aspx Why not make a long weekend of it and do the launch and SQLBits (www.sqlbits.com ) followed by a few days sightseeing in London. We will be opening registration for SQLBits next week but in the mean time get registering for the launch day, from what I understand there are only a few places left. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/techdays/itprodaythursday.aspx

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  • PASS Summit Location follow up - result analysis

    - by simonsabin
    I've had a chance to look at the results directly and it is clear that there is a tough choice. On the one hand people are saying that they prefer to have PASS put their money into chapters and things like 24hrs of PASS rather than an event on the east coast. Whilst at the same time almost 50% more people said they would be more likely to attend an East Coast event than a Seattle event, and 60% more said they would be more likley to attend a US Central region event. Whats more 60% said that the summit should be outside of Seattle every other year with only 19% saying it should always stay in Seattle. So clearly there is a huge desire for a non Seattle event. Looking at the other reasons for keeping in Seattle and the big one being that people want Microsoft speakers. More people think its somewhat important of very important that the conference is in walking distance of the hotels and restaurants. Essentially the Q6 questions show an even balance for normal conference, highlighting that they are prepared to travel, not with the family and they want a well laid out conference. Whats very annoying is that the questions, as people have commented, were biased towards certain answers. For instance there was no option about whether people feel its important to have industry leading speakers, MVPs etc at the conference. Only questions about Microsoft speakers. I know survey writing is very difficult to avoid biasing the answers one way or another. There was also no choice to show peoples preference, would people prefer Microsoft speakers or the summit to be held on the East Coast/Central US. I also find it amazing that people prefer hundres of developers rather than the SQLCAT and CSS teams, surely that indicates another issue about a lack of understanding of what the these teams do. All in all it is clear that people showed they want an event outside of Seattle and don't want PASS to be putting money into that instead of into other community activites. I find it suprising that there appears to have been a huge weighting against certain questions which have prioritised them over the huge desire for a PASS summit outside of Seattle. Lets see where we will be in 2013 or maybe they will rethink 2012 who knows.

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  • PASS Location fixed for the next 2 years - Are they listening?

    - by simonsabin
    I've just received the PASS connector newsletter with details of the decision of where to locate the next summits. To me it shows you how you can spin statistics they way you want to. I am very suprised by the numbers 81% said that they would like an east coast event. The spin is that "When we look at responses from only 2008 and 2009 Summit attendees (our most successful ones by far), the number who want a future Summit outside of Seattle drops to 69%." Wow the number drops thats bad. We must stay in Seattle then. My take however is that 69% of those willing to travel to Seattle want an event NOT in Seattle. Doesn't that suggest that people would like an event not in Seattle. I appreciate the comment about the launch years however 2012 isn't going to be a launch year because they need to get SQL out of the door before then to meet the 3 year software assurance cycle. So sticking 2012 in Seattle is IMHO a bad decision. It might keep the cost down for the PASS org, Microsoft and the attendees that live near Seattle but does it keep the cost down for the rest of the SQL Community? They do mention a possibility of an event on the East Coast and I do hope that its not just lip service. Flights for me to the East coast look ~30% cheaper than to Seattle and I've never been to the East Coast. Come on PASS show you are listening to the community.

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  • Did you know you can shrink a transaction log even when log shipping?

    - by simonsabin
    David's posted a great post on shrinking the transaction log and log shipping. Log shipping and shrinking transaction logs Unlike shrinking the data file shrinking the transaction log isn't a bad thing, IF you don't need the log to be that size. I've seen many systems that shrink the log because it has grown only for it to grow the next day to the same size becuase of an overnight operation. To reduce the growth of the transaction log you need to do one or more of the following, 1.Back it up more frequently2.Change to simple recovery model3.Use minimally logged operations4.Keep transactions short and small5.Break large transactions into smaller transactions6.If using replication ensure that your backup of the replication topology is frequent enough

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