Category : Microsoft

Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 Available For Download!

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Whoa! This sounds quite premature to announce but its true that an Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview can now be downloaded and tested. The IE10 has been built on IE9 with support for a wider range of standards such as multiple-columns, grid layouts and some CSS3 gradients. If you’d like to download and “test drive’ the IE10 preview platform, head over to www.ietestdrive.com and “explore a more beautiful web”!

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Windows 8 Build 7850 Leaks!

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Windows 8 build 6.1.7850.0.winmain_win8m1.100922-1508_x86fre_client-enterprise_en-us.iso has been leaked in the wild! This is the first Windows 8 build to be leaked and according to Neowin, it is the final Milestone 1 as well as the last version 6.1 build. You wont find this build yet on your favorite file sharing website because it has just been leaked to a private ftp.Windows 8

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Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Mango Update Build 7753 Leaked Already!

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According to PocketNow, a newer build of Windows Phone 7 software (supposedly a build of Mango update) has been found running on an LG Optimus 7. The handset belongs to Windows Phone Italy commenter “Huggye” who has posted a picture of his WP7 home screen showing a search button. He comments on his picture “look who came to me with the node that button.” Previously this mysterious search-style button was seen on the home screen and applications listing of an HD2 running WP7, as reported by PocketNow.

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Microsoft Releases Bing App for iPad [Review]

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Microsoft has released a Bing app for iPad. This isn’t their first Bing app for iOS, as they had already previously released a Bing app for iPhone. If you’re a Bing user with an iPad, this is the perfect app for you and it actually shows Google how to make a good search app.

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New Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 Jailbreaks iOS 4.3.1 Untethered on Windows and Mac! [Guide]

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Today the iPhone Dev-Team released a new version of their popular PwnageTool, along with a new Redsn0w. If you jailbroke on 4.3.1 tethered previously, you may want to back-up and then restore your device prior to using Redsn0w. Here’s a super simple guide to jailbreaking your device using the newest Redsn0w:

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Gmail April Fool’s Prank Brought To Life Using Kinect!! [Video]

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If there’s one thing about the Kinect that we love here at iTD, it’s the creative uses people find for it. Ever since the Kinect was hacked, the ideas and uses for it just keep coming. Yesterday, Google posted a video demonstrating Gmail gestures interpreted by your computer’s webcam. While this was an April Fool’s joke, the team that created FAAST (a Kinect hack that works with World of Warcraft) has now released a new program called SLOOW. This program uses the Kinect to make the Gmail gestures possible. You can see both the Gmail prank and SLOOW in action below.

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Samsung Laptops Shipping With Keyloggers – Check Yours!!

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If you own a newer Samsung laptop, you might have a fiasco on your hands akin to the Sony 2005 BGM Rootkit scandal. According to Network World, Samsung has been installing a keylogger on its new laptops. A keylogger, for those who don’t know, is a program designed to record every single keystroke entered, even in password-protected windows, and usually transmits the logged keystrokes regularly via email. Mohammad Hassan, who discovered the keylogger, had this to say:

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Jailbreak 4.3.1 Using Sn0wbreeze 2.4b1!

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When it comes to jailbreaking tools, Windows users often get left in the dust as PwnageTool is a Mac only application. A PwnageTool jailbreak for 4.3.1, while complicated, did become available the day after 4.3.1 was released. Windows users have been forced to wait, but not anymore. The new beta of sn0wbreeze, version 2.4b1, can now jailbreak 4.3.1. Please note that like the PwnageTool jailbreak, this jailbreak method is also tethered. Here’s how to jailbreak 4.3.1 using Sn0wbreeze:

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Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” Update Is Now Available For Download!

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The Windows Phone 7 March 2011 update aka “NoDo” is now available for download. The first WP7 update for year 2011 features the much awaited “copy and paste” and a whole lot more. Some Windows Phone 7 users who have already downloaded the update are reporting the “NoDo” update is listed as build 7390 under the “Windows Phone Update – March 2011″ push.

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Whoa! Microsoft Kinect Works With Sony PlayStation 3 [VIDEO + Source Code]

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This is pretty big guys. A hacker and developer who goes by the name of Shantanu Goel has achieved something amazing. He has successfully managed to make Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor to work with a PlayStation 3 system. He has published a demo video in which he manages to use Kinect as an input controller for the PS3. He has also released the source code for his project.

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