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OpenLR - TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology
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TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology: According to OStatic, European company TomTom (which recently settled a patent agreement with Microsoft) has announced a new open source format OpenLR for sharing routing data (relevant points, traffic information...) in digital maps of different vendors, to be used in GPS devices. The LR stands for Location Referencing. They aim is to push it as an open standard to build a cooperative information base, presumably to operate in a similar fashion as its current TomTom Map Share technology, in which end users provide map corrections on the fly. The technology to support the format will be released as GPLv2. Does that make OpenLR a GPL GPS?'
link: OpenLR - Open, Compact and Royalty-free Dynamic Location Referencing
Labels: gadgets, geolocation, maps, microsoft, open_source
RT @leolobato: Just discovered Wakoopa - It Is Like Last.fm For Apps
Wakoopa.com
Labels: fun, games, mashups, microsoft, social_software, software_tips, web_2.0, web_apps
How To Install Windows 7 Ultimate Edition using Virtualbox
Microsoft Extends Windows 7 Beta Availability to Feb. 12!
Both the 2.4GB Windows 7 Image (ISO) and the activation keys are still available, but are limited next days...
How To Install Windows 7 Ultimate Beta using Sun's Virtualbox:
1. Download Windows 7 Beta (required Live.com Account)
2. Download and Install Sun's Virtualbox (Virtualization Software)
3. Run Virtualbox:
- create a new virtual media (select the type: eg. windows7 @512mb)
- save a *.vdi file (eg. windows7.vdi @ 20GB)
4. Then append the iso file to the new virtual media and then you can press run.
Now, Virtualbox will install the windows7 ultimate edition in your virtualbox. (*.vdi ~ 5.221.457KB)
links:
windows-7/beta-download
http://www.virtualbox.org
via [lifehacker]
Labels: microsoft, software_tips, software_tools, sun
Who wants to test-drive the Windows 7 Beta?
The beta version of Windows 7, Microsoft’s next-generation PC operating system, can be downloaded today by MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet customers. Consumers who want to test-drive the beta will be able to download it beginning Jan. 9 at http://www.microsoft.com/windows7.
In the coming months, Facebook users can choose to share content they post on Facebook, including photos, directly into Windows Live.
Windows 7 Consumer Features Showcased
via [techmeme]
Labels: instant_messaging, microsoft
VirtualBox - Major Update in Version 2.0
VirtualBox 2.0, listed in Top 11 Fun Downloads May 2008, runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows machines and lets you run guest operating systems inside your computer's native environment.
For example, if you're a Linux user but you occasionally want to run a Windows application that doesn't perform well under WINE, you can load up VirtualBox and run Windows... [via downloadsquad]
Download VirtualBox
via | tags: sun virtualbox virtualization
Labels: microsoft, open_source, software_tools, sun, web_development
Synchronize your Phone Contacts with Microsoft’s Windows Live Contacts
Microsoft Phone Data Manager is available for free download, you can check the list of compatible phones for this application here.
the software syncs contacts, music, pictures, and videos between your phone and you desktop and the web.
Microsoft Phone Data Manager Download
Windows Live Messenger
via | tags: phone data manager microsoft windows live
Labels: collaboration, electronic, instant_messaging, microsoft, mobile_20, networking, sharing, software_tools, web_2.0
Why you should use Windows Search 4.0 in an Enterprise Environment
Online E-Mail Indexing
Run Your Outlook Client in Exchange Cached Mode
if your mailbox is copied locally on the end user’s computer, Windows Search performs its indexing activities locally as well. This means the Exchange server isn’t burdened during either the initial or the incremental indexing.
Remote Queries
Windows Search 4.0 extends the ability to search across remote desktops.
eg. Querying from Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
Support for Indexing Encrypted Files
WS4 supports indexing encrypted files on local file systems, allowing users to index and search the properties and contents of encrypted files
read full article on Windows Search Administration Guide.
Get Windows Search 4.0 and read how to Extending the Windows Search Index
via | tags: windows search desktop enterprise environment
Labels: collaboration, e-business, microsoft, search, software_tips
Connect your XBox 360 to Google Desktop as UPnP Server
All you need is a PC running Google Media Server and a UPnP-enabled device (e.g. a PlayStation 3). At the touch of a button, you can then: Access videos, music, and photos stored on your PC, View Picasa Web Albums, Play your favorite YouTube videos...
Why Windows?
...the only way to connect the XBox 360 to a UPnP server, was to have a service that is only found on Microsoft services ... and for the server itself to be claimed to be made by Microsoft. Legal would not allow us to pretend to be Microsoft (although there are other servers out there that do).
sources:
Google Media Server
YouTube in your Living Room
From the desktop to your TV
related:
Create a Wii media server
via | tags: media server xbox 360 upnp google desktop
Labels: google, microsoft, networking, photo, web_2.0
