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One of the areas in Windows Server 2008 R2 that has been improved quite dramatically is Remote Desktop Services, formally called Terminal Services. It’s playing a new role in Server 2008 to provide an extensible platform for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

In order to fully utilize all features existing in this new Remote Desktop Services, you will need an updated version of RDP client. Windows 7 already has the latest version built in and Microsoft has just released version 7 of RDP client for both Vista and XP.

So what the new features were added to…

Windows 7 is out, and I love it. If you haven’t known, I am a huge fun of it, right from the beta days. Both my laptop and work computer are still on RC and I use them both every single day. My work computer even had been running Windows 7 non-stop for over 62 days without a single crash. So if you haven’t even tried, I urge you do so, sooner than later.

And if you are already thinking of jumping into it, you are much luckier than me because now you can have a complete…

Whether you want to be a good guy who just wants to protect yourself or a bad guy who wants to insult others, you need to cover your own ass, no matter what, especially when doing things online. That’s how hidemyass.com comes in play.

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Windows 7 is about to launch today, actually it was already launched in Australia because of the time. However, since the release of RTM, manufactories were busy on building their pre-load copy of Windows 7 for their machines. Those big corporations that have plan to upgrade will also be busying building their Windows 7 image files for deploying. One of the many ways that help them to do that is to use the Windows Automated Installation Kit, aka WAIK.

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and the deployment…

The book was written by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker, along with the Windows Server Team at Microsoft. It’s a wonderful resource that can get your hands on this new released Windows Server. And what is more awesome is that Microsoft offers this introduction book through Windows Server 2008 R2 site for FREE. Not sure how long this offer will last, so go and grab your own copy before it’s too late.

The book includes 8 chapters that covers pretty all basic stuff that you need to get started. Here is the table of contents:

Chapter…

I love Live Writer so much that I use it almost everyday. It’s the best blogging tool in my own opinion. If you still haven’t used it I urge you to give it a try right away. It’s a life saving tool for any type of blogger.

The tool is so powerful and feature rich that I never found a need that requires me to use any type of plug-ins, even though there are tons out there on Windows Live Gallery for me to download for free. But I can’t ignore this…

As an IT pro, I feel always comfortable walking to a computer with a handful tools in my hands. Hunting for good tools in portable format is always on my top 10 list that I need to keep my eyes on it pretty much all the time. Why is portable applications so useful?

With portable applications, you can leave your laptop behind; plug in the thumb drive in any client machine, run the application without worrying about leaving anything behind. In this post, we attempt to show a collection of useful and free applications you can run independently

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Finally, Twitter has started rolling out a very long missed feature, Lists, that is pretty similar to Groups or Favorite Users that are on 3rd party Twitter client tools. It first appeared on one of my two twitter account above the all status updates but disappeared now. So I guess they are still testing and working on this new feature.

I created a new list called Windows-7-Giveaway at the time when I saw this new feature showing up, in a hope using it to manage the Windows 7 Giveaway contest we are running at the moment. So…

If you had spent some time playing around in WordPress, you may find this full list of hooks that are used in WordPress handy. It’s a better than cheat sheet type of thing that will totally benefit any of WordPress lover who also likes to tweak around inside the theme. Definitely worth not only checking out but saving in bookmark as well.

Note that all blue links are clickable, which takes you to the detail hook directory page that explains the specific hook in details.

List of all WordPress hooks via Adam R Brown, shared by

With the arrival of the twin girls on Monday Oct 5, 2009, I am now officially a father to 3 lovely girls, Samantha, Arianna, and Brianna.

My motivation of doing anything just got promoted triple times, which left me no time doing things that are wasting time, e.g. writing this post.