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Google Scholar beta

The Google Scholar beta is a terrific search tool for students, teachers, scientists, librarians, and journalists seeking articles within established academic journals. In our tests, we found that the Google Scholar beta sifts through more publications than does the Windows Live Academic Search beta (though Microsoft plans to add more...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Scholar, Google Scholar beta, Windows Live Academic, Windows Live Academic Search, beta, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Product reviews 2006-04-27

Windows Live Academic Search beta

Windows Live Academic Search beta is designed to aid researchers seeking current paper abstracts who might otherwise turn to Google Scholar or other sites. This service retrieves finds from journals in the areas of computer science, medicine, electrical engineering, and physics. Microsoft says it will add more biomedical sources soon,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live Academic Search beta, Windows Live Academic Search, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Academic, beta

Product reviews 2006-04-14

Additional Resources

Time to ditch Windows for online banking and shopping

Instead of a live CDWould I be able to install Linux in Windows and do the same?Amen! Happened today to a gov't computerhttp://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/computer_hacker_steals_479000.htmlYet another infected computer stealing OUR money.Absolutely ridiculous and irresponsible article!Show me an instance where a flaw in Vista/7 has led to a user being compromised? ...

Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, exploit, phishing, Linux, operating system, Adrian, online banking

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Paragon Disk Wiper 10 Professional (Windows)

Disk Wiper Professional irreversibly destroys all on-disk data in compliance with major national government and military data erasure standards, as well as the most comprehensive academic wipe algorithms, thus providing maximum level of security. Simply erasing or reformatting your hard disk drive may not be enough to prevent financial records,...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Financial, Microsoft Windows, Disk Wiper Professional, Security

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Office 2010 to hit networks and the web in style

The Office 2010 web applications throw online productivity into a new dimension by porting four of the most popular and most useful Office applications onto the web: Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. The online office-suite business - business, if you can call it that, since the main...

Tags: Web, Network, Web Application, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Will someone pull out the IE life support machine?

For those who don't live in the catchment area of the European Union, you're quite lucky. After spending a year of my academic career in a room for an hour each week with a bunch of highly politicised, fanatical and activist type students, constantly debating the point, need and will...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Tab, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?Honestly...who really cares about Vista, the lamentable agglomeration of software junk?Vista has been a great OS.However if Windows 7 is right around the corner and one doesn't absolutely need to buy new systems then my recommendation would be to wait for Windows 7.This...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?

After spending most of the morning on the phone to a number of UK universities (due to the time difference, many US universities were still sleeping), the general consensus is that Windows 7, when released, will not be the first upgrade they roll out to their networks. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, University, Microsoft Windows Vista, University Of Kent, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Ultimate Steal, DreamSpark: motives questioned

My old friend Bryant Zadegan has a way of shining light on suspect and complicated imagery, especially news which contains baffling facts and multiple levels of discourse. Earlier on in the day, I received an instant message from him telling me to read his post, which points out a few...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., DreamSpark, Ultimate Steal, MSDN Academic Alliance, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Microsoft and Lenovo: The ultimate academic PC

Some time ago, a Microsoft executive was trying to find a device to equip his son, soon to be heading off to university, without much success. Through toil and trouble, Microsoft have announced today a partnership with Lenovo, a world leader in innovative ideas and computer...

Tags: IBM ThinkPad, PC, Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Outlook Live screenshots: upon first glances

I've taken a slightly deeper look at Outlook Live, the new service from Microsoft, which provides Exchange email for free as part of their Office/Windows Live drive for students. Upon closer inspection, Office Live is difficult to describe as one thing. It's a mixture...

Tags: E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Report: 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities mitigated by Least Privilege accounts

Report: 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities mitigated by Least Privilege accountsRe:using pirated windowsThere is no reason that pirated versions of windows should be more vulnerable than genuine ones, this statistic only shows the lack of knowledge and common sense that the people using pirated windows have, since they don't seem...

Tags: Least Privilege account, standard user, Least Privilege, UAC, critical Microsoft vulnerability, Microsoft Vulnerabilities, standard User Account, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offline

Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offlineNot Outlook but...Outlook is a niche product. Gmail going offline is hardly any reason for Outlook to be concerned about. Clients like Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird will feel the heat for sure.RE: Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offlineI don't have...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Mozilla Thunderbird, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Researchers hack wired keyboards, hijack keystrokes

Researchers hack wired keyboards, hijack keystrokesOh greatnow to have to get something akin to a Faraday cage for ye ole peripherals, or just for the entire sticky cube. Wonder if they've hacked my abacus yet.RE: Researchers hack wired keyboards, hijack keystrokesThis is old news. Electic typewriters had the same...

Tags: Keyboards, SECURITY, keyboard, hacking, old new

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0

Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, On-demand, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Egnyte, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Student Technology Day: your questions to the presenters

I received an email this morning about the opportunity to participate in sending questions to the speakers at the Microsoft Student Technology Day tomorrow (that's Wednesday, for those who have yet to understand the Gregorian calendar). Whilst I'm not allowed to publish the number to text in your questions for...

Tags: Speaker, Microsoft Corp., Question, Keyboards, Internet, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-30

The end of the world?

Probably not. Today (Wednesday, well it is for me anyway), we see the first beam test of the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, in the CERN's labs in Switzerland. The point of this, quite frankly, bloody huge experiment is to try and recreate the Big Bang on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Big Bang, Computer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Students and the browser war

Note: I just want to quickly apologise for the lack of posts recently; moved into a new house and broadband won't be set up for a while, so had to resort to dial-up which is proving troublesome. I'll do my best, considering this is essentially my income,...

Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Firefox Library, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-06

Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?

Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-02