This is a cool and unique Vista wallpaper. The colors, lighting and imagery is spectacular. This is definitely going into my favorites folder. I like how the wallpaper is dark but also light at the same time.
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Quite possibly the nicest concept car ever built. I hope this Lamborghini makes it into production as this is an incredible car. Great wallpaper with the grey car on a grey background and the white lettering at the top.
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If you’ve been wondering where all the advertising for Windows Vista has disappeared to, look no further YouTube. Starting from last week, Microsoft has begun uploading a series of original short videos showcasing a combination of Windows Vista, Windows Live and Office 2007 experiences.

Unlike the $500 million heart-warming “Wow” campaign at the start of the year, this campaign focuses much more on functionality with realistic end-user scenarios and clear benefits on how using Windows Vista, Windows Live and Office can help get the job done. Perhaps this marks the beginning of the $300 million more Microsoft’s throwing into the Vista advertising pool.

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Here is the scenario, you have copied some text from somewhere and pasted it into Word; however, the text ends up looking something like this.

To see the cause of this problem, press the ‘Show/Hide ¶‘ button. As shown, the original text has carriage returns - as indicated by the ‘¶’ marks - at the end of the original lines. When this text was pasted into word the lines were no longer the same length, so, the carriage returns were in the wrong place.

The solution to this problem is to replace the carriage returns with spaces. You can do this manually, or use the replace feature in Word. To open the ‘Find and Replace’ dialog box, pull down the ‘Edit’ menu and select ‘Replace’ - you may have to click the double arrows at the bottom of the menu to display all the entries on the menu - or you could hold down the Ctrl key and press H.

Each special character has its own code associated with it. For the carriage return this is ‘^p’, for Tab it is ‘^t’ and so on (you can see them all by pressing the ‘More’ button on the ‘Find and Replace’ dialog box - this will display more options - and press the ‘Special’ button.

The text we are editing is broken into various paragraphs with an empty line between them. In order to maintain this separation of paragraphs, we need to mark all the places where one return follows another. I usually use two tildes ‘~’ to mark these, because that rarely occurs in a text. Fill in the fields as below and press the ‘Replace all’ button.

A dialog box will be shown telling you how many replacements have been made. Press OK to close it. The text will then look like this…

With the separation of paragraphs marked we can now remove all those superfluous returns. Enter ‘^p’ in the Find what: field and a space in the Replace with: field.

Press ‘Replace All’ again and OK when you are told how many replacements have been made. The text will then look like this…

We need to return the paragraphs to their original form. To do this replace all the occasions of ‘~~’ with two carriage returns, as in the following image. Again, press ‘Replace All’.

The text should now look like this. We are very close to what we want, except that there are some superfluous spaces in the quote at the bottom.

To remove these, go to the ‘Find and Replace’ dialog box again, and enter two spaces in the Find what: field and one space in the Replace with: field. Keep pressing the ‘Replace All’ button until there are no more examples to replace. The text should now look like this: nicely formatted with all the separate paragraphs maintained.

Microsoft resources focused almost exclusively on wrapping up the Windows Vista client, and then delayed yet again into 2008, with the deadline set by the summer of this year, Windows XP Service Pack 3 is long overdue, and at the same time in its final stages of development. At the end of December 2007, the Redmond company opened up the testing process of XP SP3 and made available for download a public Release Candidate. The Standalone Update Package for Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate weighs in at just 336.1 MB and was dropped via the Microsoft Download Center.

Not surprisingly, although it was mute for the most part of 2007 on both Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3, the Redmond company is favoring, in terms of information disclosure, its latest Windows client. Starting at the end of 2007, Microsoft managed to become extremely chatty about Vista SP1. Not so much about XP SP3. The reason is of course understandable. Vista, made available but a year ago, is pushed to the foreground, with XP left to eXPire in the background. (more…)

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