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Is it just me, or did you all find that it was not very intuitive how you could pause the Lion OS download from the App Store, and then resume it again? Even in today’s always-connected-with-a-fat-data-pipe days, 3.74 GB is not a very tiny download size!
I found a quick way and wanted to share it with everyone else. So this is what you need to do; I am assuming that you have already purchased Lion on the App Store, and your download is proceeding, as can be seen within the visual indicator you see below the Lion icon on the Dock, as shown in Figure 1 below.
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Apple
Tagged as: App Store, Download, Mac OS X Lion, Pausing and Resuming
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Microsoft announced and showed the new Windows Phone 7 series at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Tons of new features and a whole new approach make this a very awaited product to watch out for — there’s a little of Zune, so much of Facebook, and Twitter — and of course even the Xbox. It looks like Microsoft is pulling no stops this time around to make sure that this product has the aesthetics and the functions that users want. It will be interesting to see what impact this has on Apple’s future plans. Meanwhile, this cool video has a lot going for it.
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Phones
Tagged as: Facebook, Twitter, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, Xbox, Zune
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One of the frustrations of working with web-based programs including email apps like Gmail, Hotmail, etc. stems from the fact that you cannot paste pictures from say your Word document or PowerPoint presentation into an email message that you are composing.
With web based applications becoming more commonplace, this sort of clipboard access option becomes more of a necessity. That’s why I was glad to see this new company called PicturePaste that has developed a product of the same name.
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Internet
Tagged as: Email, Gmail, Hotmail, Paste Pictures
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In the past few weeks that I have been playing with Windows 7, I have found many small and simple improvements that no one talks about! I’m guessing they are all talking about the big improvements.
The first of these small things is that Windows Media Player now plays QuickTime MOV files, even if you have no QuickTime Player installed! Wow, who saw that coming?
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Microsoft Windows
Tagged as: QuickTime Playback, Windows 7, Windows Media Player
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Animoto, an online video editor that I have mentioned in an earlier blog post is coming up with holiday cards that are actually video clips you customize within the Animoto interface.
The folks at Animoto do say that the personalized holiday cards won’t be ready until December 1st–but they wanted to provide a sneak preview of the holiday greeting cards that they will make available later next month.
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Video
Tagged as: Animoto, Fun, Holiday Cards, Movies
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Apple has done the impossible again! If you thought that the Apple iPod Nano music player was incredibly small, then think again because Apple has now managed to fit in video recording and an FM radio tuner within the new generation of the product without increasing its dimensions.
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Microsoft may be opening their first retail stores, a la Apple Stores as early as this fall in Scottsdale, Arizona and Mission Viejo, California.
No word is available yet about any store launches outside the US but according to eWeek, the Mission Viejo store will open at a mall that includes a successful Apple Store.
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Microsoft
Tagged as: Microsoft Retail Stores, Retail
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Do you find that some sites don’t open for you, or return errors? Move to another system in another location and the same site works flawlessly? Well, that may be happening because you are using the DNS of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) — and these are set by default to values hidden in your Internet settings or in your router, so you probably did not even know that you could change them!
So what exactly is a DNS? DNS stands for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), a service that translates Internet URLs such as www.microsoft.com, www.google.com, etc. into a set of numbers called IP addresses that read like 72.14.207.99, or 208.77.188.166, or similar sets of numbers. Your web browser understands IP addresses rather than URLs — so it needs to translate the URL you want to visit into a specific IP address. For this task, it needs to approach a DNS. Without access to a DNS, your web browser would not be able to get you anywhere online!
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Animoto is a video creation site that makes everything involved in the creation of video clips and montages super-easy. Sign-up is quick and simple, and you can get started working straight away!
While creating longer video clips requires you to pay either through a credits or subscription model, you can create 30-second short clips (Animoto calls these “shorts”) for free.
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Video
Tagged as: Animoto, Create Online Videos, Movies, Video
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What do you add to a suite of programs that already include everything apart from the kitchen sink? Three years is a long time in computerese — and that’s around the time since the last version of Microsoft Office (Office 2007) showed up. Office 2007’s biggest new feature was the Ribbon interface (also called Fluent) — and this time, Microsoft has had to create more usability features so that users are convinced to upgrade to the upcoming Office 2010 — and that’s a great thing to happen!
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Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Excel, Microsoft, New Features, Office 2010, OneNote, PowerPoint, Word
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