Images of IE9's interface leak, including Chrome-like 'start' tab and downlo...

 

Images of IE9's interface leak, including Chrome-like 'start' tab and download manager

via Download Squad by Sebastian Anthony on 7/29/10

Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers

There's only four weeks to go until the next IE9 developer preview, and it looks like Chinese leak site Cnbeta might have got its hands on the new build already.

I'm not quite sure what to make of the screenshots, nor the Google translation. The Developer Previews (Internet Explorer Test Drive) are not meant to have a user interface -- they're just there to show off the Trident rendering engine. That means we're probably looking at the beta version of IE9 in these screenshots. Does that mean the private beta has begun -- or are these simply fakes?

As you can see above, IE9 seems to gained a proper download manager. After the break there's a couple more images -- one of the very Chromeish 'new tab page', and one that hints at restartless add-on management.

Looking at the SunSpider performance graph, I'm not sure if these images are real -- or whether this beta build sports the latest version of the Trident rendering engine. When I tested IE's JavaScript performance last month, it was about the same speed as Firefox 3.6 -- not some 10 times slower than Chrome.

[via Neowin]

Very Chromeish, eh?

'Stay Fast'? Are these really from a beta build...?

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Dr. Strange could be the first Disney/Marvel team-up

 

Dr. Strange could be the first Disney/Marvel team-up

via Blastr by Thomas Mill on 6/21/10

When Disney bought Marvel, it's a safe bet not too many people thought their first official team-up would be Dr. Strange, one of the more surreal superheroes in Marvel's lineup. That's especially true given that a Strange movie has been kicking around between different movies studios since 1986. But Deadline says there's now definite movement on the film:

 

 

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Microbreweries: What's Brewing in Chattanooga?

Coer Story – Microbreweries: What’s Brewing in
Chattanooga?

It’s Wednesday evening and hopeful beer drinkers are
spilling onto the sidewalk in front of Tremont Tavern. Along with those finding
escape from the craziness inside are as many more jockeying for position to get
in. Did I mention it’s a Wednesday evening?

Inside the small watering hole on Hixson Pike, the reasons for the hullabaloo
are Mark Marcum and Jonathon Clark—a couple of guys following a very old
Chattanooga tradition.

Ninety-five years after laws leading up to the 18th Amendment to the
Constitution (aka Prohibition) forced the Chattanooga Brewing Company to close
the doors of its downtown operation, Marcum and Clark are resurrecting the
largely forgotten company that once dominated the local beer scene.
Unfortunately, the recipes for the original Magnolia, Liebotschanerin, Imperial
Pilsner, and other labels have been lost—but that isn’t keeping Marcum and Clark
from bringing the spirit of the old brewery back to life while adding their own
tastes.

Until recently, and for more than 15 years, Chattanooga was a one-horse town
when it came to local brews. Only Gordon Biersch’s Big River was offering local
beer. While they make a good product, they do more
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17 killed in mass panic at Germany's Love Parade

As many as 80 injured after stampede breaks out during techno music festival

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Collapsed people get first aid after a panic on this year's techno-music festival Love Parade 2010 in Duisburg, Germany, on Saturday.

BERLIN — A stampede killed at least 17 people after mass panic broke out in a tunnel at a Love Parade techno music festival in Germany on Saturday.

Overcrowding at the entrance tunnel to a former freight rail station where the event was being held sparked the stampede and then a crush among the mainly young festival-goers.

The festival, which drew about 1.4 million people, was not immediately cancelled because authorities feared that could spark a second panic and more chaos at the crowded venue, the German television station ZDF reported.

About 80 people were injured during the stampede, ZDF said.

"There were piles of injured on the ground, some being resuscitated, others dead and covered with sheets," 18-year-old Love Parade participant Isabel Schloesser told Reuters.

"It was way too full in the afternoon, everybody wanted to get in," she said after leaving the rubble-strewn site where echoes of a throbbing bass beat could still be heard more than three hours after the crush.

Rescue work was hampered by the huge crowds attending one of Europe's biggest electronic music events in fine weather, officials said. People had come from all around Europe to the Love Parade with most in the 18-25 age bracket.

Police in the industrial Ruhr city of Duisburg in western Germany had earlier tried to close the tunnel entrance.

"It's a horror situation especially because rescuers cannot get through to those injured," ZDF TV reporter Thomas Muenten said earlier, adding: "The people literally trampled each other on the way into this tunnel."

"To prevent further chaos the event wasn't cancelled. The people are being asked to leave the area quietly," he added.

'There was no escape'
"There was no escape," one Love Parade participant called Marius told the Bild.de website. "People were pressed into the wall. I was afraid I'd die."

One woman raver told Bild: "I was lucky. I found a hole to escape through but two women were killed right next to me."

German Chancellor Angel Merkel sent a message of condolence to the relatives of the victims, and President Christian Wulff expressed sympathy over the tragic accident.

"It is terrible that such a catastrophe brought death, suffering, and pain to a peaceful festival full of happy young people from many countries," he said in a statement.

At first the music blared out and people danced on, unaware of the unfolding tragedy nearby.

Police said the death toll had risen to 17, with 80 more injured.

Police tried to resuscitate people with CPR and the kiss of life inside the tunnel.

Ambulances rushed to pick up victims and police set up an emergency first aid station near the entrance, where live images from WDR television showed thousands of revellers streaming out of the festival and towards the city's main train station.

Images from the venue showed the music still playing as rescue helicopters buzzed overhead, and WDR reported mobile phone networks had failed because they were overloaded.

"The emergency workers had problems getting to the area due to the massive crowds," said another fire department spokesman from Duisburg, declining to be named.

The annual event, now with a backdrop of electronic dance music such as House, Trance and Techno, flamboyant outfits and energetic dance moves, was first held in Berlin in 1989 as an event to promote peace through music.

It’s Zeppelin Country

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It’s Zeppelin Country

07.19.2010

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Memphis:  Robert Plant’s new band borrows the name of his old one. No, not Led Zeppelin. It’s Band of Joy, a late-’60s group of which Mr. Plant was a member with soon-to-be-Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. Unlike its namesake, the new unit doesn’t offer a British take on blues and soul. It plays Americana music and, as demonstrated here last week, does so with intelligence and inventiveness—even when its leader is revisiting his Zeppelin days.
Band of Joy’s eponymous album won’t be out until Sept. 14, but the group worked its songs as if they were already an established part of the 61-year-old Mr. Plant’s vast repertoire. For an opening night, the band—featuring Buddy Miller on guitar, Darrell Scott on several stringed instruments, Patty Griffin on guitar, Byron House on bass and Marco Giovino on drums—was remarkably tight. It found precedent for its airy, tasteful, bottom-rich and occasionally fierce music not only in the ‘07 Plant-Alison Krauss collaboration, “Raising Sand,” but also in Mr. Plant’s fruitful solo career, now almost twice as long as his stint in Zeppelin.
But Zeppelin was never far from Mr. Plant’s mind: The new group played seven songs associated with Messrs. Plant and Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones; each piece was delivered with a dose of irreverence while still linked to their deeper roots. Before jumping into “Houses of the Holy,” Mr. Plant said, “Hold on to your trousers!” His colleague Ms. Griffin sang the blues standard “Nobody’s Fault but Mine,” which Zeppelin co-opted some 50 years after Blind Willie Johnson recorded it. Mr. Plant also ended the set with “Gallows Pole,” which featured Mr. Scott on banjo, and began the encore with “Thank You.” “I knew you were country fans,” he said, acknowledging how the band reworked the tune. Then they launched into “Rock and Roll.”
On new, unfamiliar material, Mr. Plant showed his ability to control the stage when, late in the show, the band did a folky reading of Townes Van Zandt’s “Harm’s Swift Way” with Mr. Scott on acoustic guitar and Mr. Miller adding twangy bass notes on electric guitar. Mr. Plant conceded it was “a little premature” to showcase songs two months before the band’s versions would be available, but the audience welcomed the performances. He followed “Down to the Sea”—from his ‘93 solo album, “Fate of Nations”—with Los Lobos’s “Angel Dance,” which can be heard on Band of Joy’s new disc. Both songs were greeted with equal fervor.
Mr. Plant is beefier now, and he’s set aside the fey gestures he deployed in his Zeppelin days. But he’s still a star: The day before opening night was Robert Plant Day here and the Memphis Commercial Appeal ran his photo on its front page the morning after. The city’s importance to American music holds meaning for him; during the show, he called Memphis “his first second home.”
In the Band of Joy, he’s the centerpiece, but not the only focus. Several times during the program, he withdrew to a backing role, allowing his colleagues to share the spotlight together. In a beautiful reading of “All the King’s Horses,” he allowed them to show their versatility: Mr. Giovino turned from the drums to play accordion while Mr. Scott switched to pedal steel. Mr. Plant also exploited the band’s vocal capabilities, using three, and sometimes four, voices to form a wall of harmony around him.
A large share of the credit for Band of Joy’s sound belongs to Mr. Miller, who is based in Nashville. Mr. Miller brought to the Plant-Krauss band his easy way with Americana, and he’s done the same with this unit. His rubbery guitar lines centered “House of Cards,” and when the group tackled the Plant-Page composition, “Please Read the Letter,” Mr. Miller unleashed a garage-rock sound, then withdrew, to be followed by Mr. Scott’s gentle riffs on folk guitar. When the band played other songs from the Plant-Krauss collaboration, Mr. Miller gave them a new underpinning. Accordingly, “Rich Woman” and “Gone Gone Gone” shimmered with a new, different glow.
It’s a treat to watch Mr. Plant, who exudes a casual, though not quite self-effacing, confidence. No one in the theater seemed to enjoy himself more than he did. He played a tiny washboard on one tune, toying with it well after the song ended. During “Misty Mountain Hop,” the evening’s first Zeppelin tune, he moved his microphone next to Ms. Griffin’s and they sang in unison, a sly smile crossing his face as the audience cheered with glee.
When the brief U.S. tour ends on July 31, Mr. Plant and Band of Joy will head to the U.K. for several shows in anticipation of the album’s release. Another U.S. tour will kick off in early 2011. There’s no reason to believe Mr. Plant won’t be smiling then, too, as the new Band of Joy continues to explore the link between the Plant catalogue and its American roots.
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Where is My PST File and How Can I Move It Somewhere Else?

 

Where
is My PST File and How Can I Move It Somewhere Else?

via the How-To Geek by Matthew Guay on
7/6/10

Most people know that Outlook stores your email in a PST file, but figuring
out where that file is located is a lot more tricky. Here’s how to figure out
where it is, and how you can move it to another drive to save space on your
primary drive.

What is a PST file?

If you’ve used Outlook for any length of time, you’ve likely heard of PST
files.  PST stands for personal storage table,
is the file format for the data files that Outlook uses to store all of your
Outlook data, including your emails, contacts, calendar, and more.  The
data may or may not be compressed and encrypted, depending on your settings.You
may notice that Outlook slows down as more data is stored in your PST file;
occasionally Outlook will offer to archive your old emails to help alleviate
this problem.

You may also notice files with an .ost extension in your Outlook data
folder.  OST files are the same format as PST, but are generally used as
offline storage of email whereas PST files are used for email archival. 
Thus, a standard POP3 or IMAP account’s emails may be stored in a PST file,
while emails synced from a Hotmail account with the Hotmail Connector may be
stored in a OST file.  Exchange accounts may use both an OST file for
offline access and a PST file for data backup.

Find Your PST File

You can quickly find your current PST file from Outlook.  In Outlook
2010, open the File menu and choose Account Settings.

Alternately, in Outlook 2007, click Account Settings from the
Tools menu.

This will open the Account Settings window.  Click the Data
Files tab to see your Outlook data files, including PST and OST
files.  If you have multiple accounts in Outlook, you may notice several
data files listed.  You can choose settings for each file, or click
Open File Location to open the Outlook data folder in Explorer.

Note that some data files, including ones from Hotmail accounts, may say that
they are not available.  However, if you browse to the Outlook data folder
listed below, you will still be able to find the files.

Where Are my PST Files Saved?

By default, your PST files are stored in your User Data folder.  To
access this folder in Windows 7 or Vista, enter the following in the address bar
in Explorer or in the Run command:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\Outlook\

Alternately, on Windows XP, enter the following:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook\

As noted above, you can also open this folder from the Account Settings
window in Outlook.

Move Your PST File

If you’re running out of storage space on your primary drive or would like to
place your Outlook files in a more manageable location, you may want to move
where Outlook stores your data files.  By default, if you simply move your
Outlook data files to a new location, Outlook will automatically redownload your
emails to a new PST file.  All that would accomplish is make you have to
spend longer re-downloading your emails, as well as make it impossible to view
older, archived emails from Outlook.

Instead, you’ll first need to change a registry value to change where Outlook
stores its data files.  Exit Outlook, and then enter regedit in
the Start Menu search or Run command to open the registry editor.  Browse
to the correct key, depending on your version of Outlook:

Outlook 2010:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\

Outlook 2007:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\

Outlook 2003:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\

Now, right-click on the Outlook folder in the registry, select
New, and then click Expandable String Value.

Enter ForcePSTPath as the value’s name, then right-click it and
select Modify.

Enter the location to the folder where you wish to store your Outlook data
files, and then click Ok.

Now, move all of the contents of your Outlook data folder you opened above to
the new folder you specified, and then reopen Outlook.  Everything should
work as before, except now your Data files are stored where you want
them to be stored!

Conclusion

Whether you’re a professional with years of emails in Outlook or a personal
user that wants to backup their Gmail account offline, Outlook is a standard
tool of many of our daily lives.  Now you know a bit more about your
Outlook data files and what you can do with them.  With today’s massive
inbox sizes, your PST files can often be some of your larger personal data
files, but the above trick can help you store it where you want to make it
easier to manage.

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Fw: Microsoft Introduces Web Matrix

 

Microsoft
Introduces Web Matrix

via SuperSite
Blog by pthurrott on 7/6/10

Microsoft today released a beta version of WebMatrix, a free tool for
"building, customizing and deploying websites in one common, straightforward
experience." WebMatrix targets developers of all skill sets, and can be
downloaded today at www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix.

WebMatrix is a tool that includes the following:

• Web server: IIS
  Developer Express is a lightweight server that helps developers build
  and test ASP.NET sites and applications and works
  with Visual Studio 2010, Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, and now WebMatrix.
  
  
• Database: SQL
  Server Compact Edition 4 is a free, embedded, database engine that
  enables easy database storage. It works with existing .NET-based data APIs and
  ASP.NET Web applications.
  
• Programming Framework: ASP.NET
  provides developers a faster way to build standards-based websites with its
  syntaxes and built-in helpers, which both simplify the use of ASP.NET to perform increasingly complex and common
  tasks, such as connecting to a database, displaying a Twitter feed, or
  embedding a video.

For more info, check out Scott
Guthrie's blog post:

This tool is free, provides core coding and database support, integrates
with an open source web application gallery, and includes support to easily
publish/deploy sites and applications to web hosting providers.

WebMatrix is a 15MB download (50MB if you don’t have .NET 4 installed) and
is quick to install.

The 15MB download includes a lightweight development tool, IIS Express, SQL
Compact Edition, and a set of ASP.NET extensions that enable you to build
standalone ASP.NET Pages using the new Razor syntax, as well as a set of easy
to use database and HTML helpers for performing common web-tasks. 
WebMatrix can be installed side-by-side with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web
Developer 2010 Express.

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CD Pinball Machine Can Play Any Table You Want [Pinball]

 

LCD
Pinball Machine Can Play Any Table You Want [Pinball]

via Gizmodo by Casey Chan on 7/4/10

Can a digital pinball machine
capture the charm of the
classic game? Nike's machine, which uses a giant LCD screen as the
playfield, a soccer ball-style pinball and virtual Nike shoes as flippers, comes
pretty darn close. More »





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