bitly API Documentation Link

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aspConf - Free Virtual ASP.NET Conference this week - ScottGu's Blog

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About SimpleID

http://simpleid.sourceforge.net/

I guess he was having a case of the Mondays...?

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Microsoft Logo Programs - the nitty gritty...

<link href="http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/Trademarks/Logo/Programs.aspx">Article</link>

Microsoft Corporate Logo Guidelines - all that money and you still can't use their...

...logo in any way but exactly how they say, and it's pretty darn precise!

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The Ultimate Microsoft RSS Feed Page!

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The Official Windows Blog

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Pinify jQuery Zip Download

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Pinify : The jQuery Site Pinning Plugin

http://bsatrom.github.com/pinify/

How to add Pinning and Jump Lists to your website in IE9 - Build My Pinned Site

http://www.buildmypinnedsite.com/en#step_1

Add IE9 Site Pinning to your site in minutes

http://www.buildmypinnedsite.com/wizard/en

How to add Pinning and Jump Lists to your website in IE9 - Build My Pinned Site

http://www.buildmypinnedsite.com/en

Windows 8 HTML5 Metro Style App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 1/2) | Web Builder Zone

http://css.dzone.com/articles/windows-8-html5-metro-style

What .NET Developers Must Know about C++ Classes

http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/hbtRJHmPTBc/what_net_developers_must_know_about_c_classes.html

Terminal fun: Deleting repetitive files in OS X

CNET News Terminal fun: Deleting repetitive files in OS X

If you find a number of similarly named files that you would like to delete from multiple folders, the Find command in the Terminal can be used to do the trick. [Read more]


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Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest

Slashdot Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest

MarkWhittington writes "The probable discovery of the Higgs Boson particle is greeted as bittersweet news in Texas. Had the Superconducting Super Collider, at one time under construction in Waxahachie, Texas, not been cancelled by Congress in 1993 the Higgs Boson might have been confirmed a decade ago, some believe, and in America."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Hu5jXgfxIs8/texas-scientists-regret-loss-of-higgs-boson-quest

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Amazon

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Remember When Google Was A Search Engine?

TechCrunch Remember When Google Was A Search Engine?

The lineup of products announced at Google io last week was disorienting: JellyBean, Nexus 7, Nexus Q, Google Glass, an updated Google Maps, Google Now and so on. It was about as disorienting as reading and navigating through the entire Wikipedia entry for Google or getting stuck in that "YouTube" parody loop where you can't find the thing you're searching for because there are so many viral spoofs of it.

Search is so broken … Google, what happened to that problem? I thought you were ONIT.

It's not exactly clear when Google ceased to be a search company. It became more like a company that wanted a finger in every pot in order to protect its future as a search company; Perhaps it was the early acquisition of Google Earth? Perhaps, but, if the marker only counts when viewed as a defensive measure, my guess would be the later acquisition of YouTube.

Anyways, what is clear after this Google io is that Google is now a hardware company, a social company and a mobile company; And it's a company destined to be at war with other companies.

David Pogue put it well in his sprawling, and not entirely correct, analysis of what lies ahead for the search engine's Tablet front, "Nexus phone, Nexus tablet, Nexus sphere thing; what is Google thinking, anyway? If it truly wants to emulate Apple, it should minimize confusion, not foster it."

Some would argue that Google's "spray and pray" product development philosophy is strategic, "Overall, Google has lost focus because it had too," Josh Constine explained in a Branch chat on the subject, "The genesis of social and mobile means the Internet can't be won with one product anymore, even search."

"The problem is they never talk about context as to why they do those experiments so people don't quite grok their long-term impact," Om Malik defends the company's product ambitions in that same thread, "Google Glass is a perfect example – looks like a toy but it is the future of information retrieval."

Except that when I casually ask a somewhat prominent Googler whether the company did indeed have some overarching plan to get to the "future of information retrieval," as Om implies here, he said something to the sentiment of, "Oh, no, there's no plan. The different factions just duke it out." Mind you, this was just after io had finished.

Google Glass has great potential, but the problem is that there's an acute lack of a grander vision at Google (did you see what I did with "vision" right here?). Despite Larry Page's efforts to pare stuff down as a CEO, "More wood behind fewer arrows" doesn't seem to be happening. As Internet comedian Aaron Levie put it,"Google is focused, on everything."

Google is focused. On everything.—
Aaron Levie (@levie) June 28, 2012

"With all of these services, they're trying to compete with nearly every startup and big company on the planet," Levie said when I emailed him to elaborate on his initial tweet. "That's going to be extremely tough, and not a recipe to do anything really well (see: Google Health, Wallet, Checkout, Latitude, Offers, etc.)." There's this nagging suspicion that Page is driving without a map.

I guess Google fans (which, in a sense, I am) just hang onto the Google products we love while forgiving the company its trials and errors, of which there are many. We hang on to a perverse hope that there is some sort of conscious macro-vision for the company and everything will fall into place. This hope assumes that products like Google Buzz and iGoogle are just negligible colateral damage in the quest for truly visionary products like Google Glass (you see what I did just there with "visionary"?) .

To achieve this macro-vision, the acquisitions that indeed bolster the platform's ability to protect itself from Apple, Google and Facebook's advances, like YouTube, should be brought to the forefront of Google's expansion efforts and be approached as a search problem.

Like, why do you think Google Hangouts are one of the most popular things on Google+? Because they play to one of the search engine's strengths. So, it should be 1000% times easier to search for videos on YouTube then.

We Google fans are hanging on because we secretly believe that genius Google developments like Google Glass will eventually allow us to remember the name of that guy we barely recognize in the restaurant when it eludes us. Because gosh, we are so bad with names!

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Apple granted patent for head-mounted display tech

AppleInsider Apple granted patent for head-mounted display tech

The United States Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple's application for a patent describing head-mounted display technology that is tangentially related to see-through, or augmented reality, units like Google's Project Glass.

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New OS X trojan backdoor MaControl variant reported, (Thu, Jul 5th)

http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=13612&rss

Copyrights To Reach Deep Space

Slashdot Copyrights To Reach Deep Space

bs0d3 writes "Voyager 1 is expected to reach interstellar space soon. It will be the first made made object to cross the heliosphere, which is the final stop in our solar system. Voyager 1, famously contained a gold phonographic record. The record was filled with iconic sights, images, and sounds from earth, and the prevailing message, "we come in peace". The disc was comprised by a man named Carl Sagan, and it contained many pieces of art, songs, and images, that are all copy-written. According to NASA, 'Most of the material they used was copyrighted by the creators/owners and Sagan had to get copyright releases in order to assemble the original record. Subsequently, Warner Multimedia was able to obtain copyright releases for the 1992 version of "Murmurs of Earth" .. Unfortunately, the book and CDROM are no longer being published and are hard to find as a set.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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This Is the Shadow of a Single Atom [Image Cache]

Gizmodo This Is the Shadow of a Single Atom [Image Cache]

This isn't a wallpaper design from the seventies, or a close-up picture of the sun. Though it might look a little garish in orange, what you're actually looking at is the first ever recorded image of an atom's shadow. More »

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/PLJsXhJ_1Ug/this-is-the-shadow-of-a-single-atom

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Developers suspect App Store mix-up led to corrupt binaries

AppleInsider Developers suspect App Store mix-up led to corrupt binaries

After some new app updates in the App Store and Mac App Store began mysteriously crashing on launch for a portion of users, a few developers have come to the conclusion that Apple accidentally seeded corrupt binaries of their apps.

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New Videogame Lets Amateur Researchers Mess With RNA

Wired Top Stories New Videogame Lets Amateur Researchers Mess With RNA

Featuring an array of clickable candy-colored pieces, EteRNA looks a little like the popular game Bejeweled. But instead of combining jewel shapes in Tetris-like levels, EteRNA players manipulate nucleotides, the fundamental building blocks of RNA, to coax molecules into shapes specified by the game.

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/_klYL7Og4T4/

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How to move your Mac App bought from...: Apple Support Communities

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2736022

iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751

iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads

<link href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408">Support Page</link>

Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials

Bink.nu Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials

Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials prerelease is available for download.

Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials (formerly Windows Small Business Server Essentials) is a flexible, affordable, and easy-to-use server solution designed and priced for small businesses with up to 25 uses and 50 devices that helps them reduce costs and be more productive. Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials is an ideal first server, and it can also be used as the primary server in a multi-server environment for small businesses.

Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials enables small businesses to protect, centralize, organize and access their applications and information from almost anywhere using virtually any device. Additionally, Essentials has the ability to grow as your business grows, providing an elastic solution that allows you to purchase and then perform an in-place conversion to Windows Server 2012 Standard if your business needs change over time.

Download Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details

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MVC extension : Mailto

The Code Project Latest Articles MVC extension : Mailto

Don't write your email in plain text when creating mailto-links


http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/420175/MVC-extension-Mailto

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MVC extension : SubmitButton

The Code Project Latest Articles MVC extension : SubmitButton

extension to create a submit button the clean way


http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/420182/MVC-extension-SubmitButton

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Tune In to the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012

Microsoft Research News and Highlights Tune In to the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012

Selected keynotes and panel discussions will be streamed live from the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012, scheduled for July 16 and 17.


http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/facultysummit2012stream-071112.aspx

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NASA launches iPhone spaceship app in 3D SPAAAAACE!

The Register NASA launches iPhone spaceship app in 3D SPAAAAACE!

Augmented reality puts Curiosity on a sheet of foolscap...

NASA has released an app that allows would-be rocket scientists get up close and personal with the agency's spacecraft.…

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/12/nasa_spacecraft_3d_app/

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Nearly Half a Million Yahoo Passwords Leaked

Slashdot Nearly Half a Million Yahoo Passwords Leaked

An anonymous reader writes "Some 450,000 email addresses and associated unencrypted passwords have been dumped online by the hacking collective "D33Ds Company" following the compromise of a Yahoo subdomain. The attackers said that they managed to access the subdomain by leveraging a union-based SQL injection attack, which made the site return more information that in should have. According to Ars Technica, the dump also includes over 2,700 database table or column names and 298 MySQL variables retrieved during the attack."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZTOhkDIpthA/nearly-half-a-million-yahoot@passwords-leaked

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