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Free ebook on New Techniques for Creating Better Backups

The Essentials Series: New Techniques for Creating Better Backups takes a fresh look at backup technologies that address these challenges of virtualized servers, options and management of backup encryption, and the benefits of data deduplication for efficient use of backup resources.

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Meet with Microsoft Applications Practice Team – Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4

This discussion was primarily around the Performance improvements, HTML5 significance, Integrated SVG, WOFF (Open Font Format) and the Hardware Acceleration features.

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Ebook – The Business Benefits of Rapid Application FailOver

In these articles you will learn how to Define the Peril of Application Downtime, the Power of Rapid Application Failover and the Critical Role of Failback in Application Disaster Recovery.

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Shortcut Guide to Assuring Website Performance through External Web Monitoring

This book offers a detailed look at the essential components of external monitoring, a discussion of how to leverage external monitoring to protect your brand, and finally, a roadmap for implementing and maintaining an external monitoring process.

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How to Insert and Trim Videos in a PowerPoint Presentation

PowerPoint 2010 provides us a very easy option to import a video from a Media file or from any websites like YouTube, MetaCafe, BlipTV Videos etc. We will also learn how to Trim and customize a video in a presentation.

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How to Set Default Programs for File Extension Associations in Windows

When you have multiple browsers or media players installed on a single machine, the latest software you installed takes all the Default Program Associations. This article will help you to learn how to Set Default Programs for softwares and file types in Windows.

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Remove the Background of an Image using Office 2010

Sometimes the background of the image doesn’t blend so well with our document/invite and adding them does not give a good feel. In this post, we will look at how to remove the background from a picture and create a transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image.

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Adding Artistic Effects to an Image in Office 2010

Office 2010 offers an excellent image editing feature, which would help us do a lot of stuffs with images. In this short tip, we will look at how to add Artistic Effects to an Image and stabilize it with color tone and sharpness corrections.

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Microsoft Sync Framework 2.1 Available for Download

You can leverage the Windows Azure Platform to extend the reach of your data to anyone that has an internet connection, without making a significant investment in the infrastructure that is typically required. It also lets you extend your existing on premises SQL Server database to the cloud.

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Flexera Software Introduces InstallShield 2011

Building on its native support for creating MSI installers, InstallScript and Microsoft App-V virtual packages, InstallShield 2011 continues to raise the bar for Windows installer development solutions with a wide variety of customer-driven enhancements that simplify installation development.

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Windows 8 – What features would you suggest?

A fellow MVP, Michael Pietroforte is running a poll on Windows 8′s desired features on his website, 4sysops. Featured listed include New user interface, Support for different form factors, More modularity, Bare metal hypervisor, Windows Restore Button, Cloud APIs, Better UAC and few more!

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Google Doodle – Honoring Indian Independence Day

Check out the Google home page today. The Doodle celeberates the 63 years of Indian Independence. Its great to see a Rangoli with the colors of Indian National Flag (Saffron, White and Green) and an Ashoka Chakra in the middle.

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