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Archive for November, 2009

Virtual Desktop vs. Desktop Virtualization

Posted in Information Technology on November 26th, 2009 by Kent

This had confused me before so I am sure if you are just into Virtualization world you might be confused on what’s the difference between these two types of virtualization. Rodney Buike had a great post up on IT Pro Connection that explains pretty well what they are.

Basically, Desktop Virtualization is the act of running a…

Google is considering adding site speed into search result rankings

Posted in Internet on November 18th, 2009 by Kent

It’s not a rumor. It’s from Matt Cutts on his interview with WebPreNews at PubCon.

there is strong lobbying in Google to introduce a new ranking factor into the algorithm. The new ranking factor has to do with how fast a site or page loads. Matt described this as one of his ‘what to expect in 2010′

Daily Reading: Google announces big price cuts on paid extra storage, plus 3 more

Posted in Information Technology on November 13th, 2009 by Kent

Stop Paying for Windows Security

Posted in Information Technology, Security on November 13th, 2009 by Kent

The awesome How-To Geek had a very good post on lifehacker the other day, which I think worths a post space here spreading the word, loudly.

What he basically claimed in the post was

When it comes to keeping your Windows PC secure, all of the scare tactics and overblown virus stories out there make it

Daily Reading: CIO: I would never talk to my CEO about the cloud

Posted in Stuff in General on November 10th, 2009 by Kent

Daily Reading: Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Live 4.0 rumors

Posted in Information Technology on November 9th, 2009 by Kent

Daily Reading: 7 VPN services to anonymize your P2P/Torrent traffic

Posted in Information Technology, Internet on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

Quote of the day: what makes you write well

Posted in Stuff in General on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

Quote shared by CopyBlogger, about the relationship between any content creator and the people they hope to connect with:

When talented people write badly it’s generally for one of two reasons:

Either they’re blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove or they’re driven by an emotion they must express.

When talented people write well, it

Twitter finally rolls out Retweet feature

Posted in Internet on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

According to Twitter Blog:

We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy.

Yes, finally Twitter decided to roll out this long-waited feature, a…

Daily Reading: Windows 7 sales exceed Vista by 234%, plus 3 more

Posted in Information Technology on November 6th, 2009 by Kent

Will be posting more short posts like this later on to collect some of the good stuff I read online.

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