After Ruling the Blogging Software world for the last decade Wordpress has now introduced a new addition to social networking world
The v0.2 BuddyPress release by Wordpress adds an extended social layer to Wordpress Multi-User installations. The collection of WordPress MU specific plugins offers the following list of features. Admins can select which one they want to install: Extended Profiles, Personal Blog, Private Messaging, Friends, Groups, The Wire, Status Updates, and Albums.
Key Features
Extended Profiles
Personal Blog
Private Messaging
Friends
Groups
The Wire
Albums
Status Updates
BuddyPress is only the first step towards the next social network
Although the BuddyPress development team thinks of their product as a community building tool, or niche social network, I can’t help thinking this is the first step towards the development of the next social network. If BuddyPress turns out to be an success, Wordpress will probably develop a version for the self-hosted installations - making it possible for bloggers to connect with each other through a global Wordpress platform.
Microsoft on Wednesday formally released SQL Server 2008 in no less than 7 editions, ranging from the high end Enterprise version to the free SQL Server Compact 3.5, and made it immediately available to subscribers
Microsoft on Thursday made its new SQL Server 2008 database software available for public evaluation via a free download from the company’s Web site.
Microsoft’s new operating system research project is mysteriously named “Midori” Coining the codenames for consumer tech products can be a tricky business.Thus it seems slightly strange that Microsoft has chosen the word “midori” for its latest research project. It’s an effort to create an internet-based system for a world where people use more than one machine to access applications, and it’s already being talked about
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten yesterday added a video demonstrating how to increase RSS feed reader of feed bunners have a look at the video its really great
It all started after Bill Gates left Microsoft that Microsoft has started a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows .It is centred on the internet and does away with the dependencies that tie Windows to a single PC. It is seen as Microsoft’s answer to rivals’ use of “virtualisation” as a way to solve many of the problems of modern-day computing
Well here’s the trick which you can use to prove that Windows XP is not at all secure as multi-user operating system. Hacking the system registry from any account having access to system registry puts you in to the administrator account.
REGEDIT 4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
“AutoAdminLogon”=”1″
The following are useful key strokes to eliminate the use of the mouse and increase the speed of your browsing in Firefox. These keystrokes will work in Linux and Windows.
CTRL+L: Select the URL bar
CTRL+K: Select the search bar
CTRL+T: Open new tab
CTRL+W: Close current tab
CTRL+TAB: Shuffle tabs forward
CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Shuffle tabs backward
CTRL+R: Refresh
CTRL+F: Open find dialogue
CTRL+H: Open history menu
CTRL+D: Bookmark current page
CTRL+U: View page source
BACKSPACE: Go back one page
ALT+RIGHT ARROW: Forward one page
ALT+LEFT ARROW: Back one page
ALT+HOME: Go to homepage
CTRL+K followed by CTRL+DOWN ARROW: Select search bar and change search engine
To pop a banner which can contain any message you want to display just before a user is going to log on, go to the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion\WinLogon
Now create a new string Value in the right pane named LegalNoticeCaption and enter the value that you want to see in the Menu Bar. Now create yet another new string value and name it: LegalNoticeText. Modify it and insert the message you want to display each time Windows boots. This can be effectively used to display the company’s private policy each time the user logs on to his NT box. It’s .reg file would be:
I downloaded Net Bean 6.1 last week and I have been using it since then and it has come out to be a very efficient IDE for all Java Apps Developments . Its an open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.
The NetBeans IDE 6.1 provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich JavaScript editing features, support for using the Spring web framework, and tighter MySQL integration.