The concept video produced by Microsoft Office Labs that was shown at a MIX08 session last week has found its way to the interwebs. Unfortunately it is a rip from the official MIX08 session webcast so the quality to begin with is not that great, and YouTube doesn’t do it much justice either. Having said all that, you can still get a pretty good idea of what Microsoft foresees as the future of personal health management with some advances in natural interface interactions.

The scene with the pill bottle and a colored ring surrounding it on the table to show which pills to take is my favorite.

It seems like it was just yesterday that IE 7 was released. Well, the IE 8 beta is now available to the public, and anyone can download and try it out.



I had a chance to download and give it a try. It does have some ground breaking features. I am not sure if they will take hold or not.

One example is the activity providers. You can right click anywhere within a web page and launch an activity provider:



So for example, I visited our website, right clicked and went to translate. I was brought directly to a translation:



Another interesting feature is in the address bar. It highlights the domain name, so you can clearly see the exact URL you are visiting:



This is the first browser Microsoft has released that is standards compliant. This comes at a cost, since not all websites are. For example, when I went to...

Mobile PCs right now are the targets for theft and news stories misplaced or stolen Mobile PCs, laptops, PDAs filled with sensitive employee and/or customer information. Although losing Mobile PCs, laptops, PDAs ain’t such a big deal because it can be easily replaced, what’s the most frustrating about is losing what’s inside of those said Mobile PCs, laptops, PDAs : data, Confidential data, records which can cost organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business and damage its reputation.

That’s when the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs provides tested guidance and powerful tools to help you protect your organization’s most vulnerable data. Much like the BitLocker Drive Encryption The Toolkit uses key encryption technologies already available to you in Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista: the Encrypting File System (EFS) and Microsoft BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker).

• EFS allows you to protect sensitive files so they can only be accessed by authorized users. EFS is included with Windows XP Professional and with most editions of Windows Vista.
• BitLocker encrypts all data on a system volume to prevent unauthorized users from successfully booting the PC with a different operating system or swapping the drive to a different computer to read the data.

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Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box, and then locate the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

Now you can find the RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization keys in the right-hand pane. Change them to whatever values you want.

To show off the new changes, just type winver.exe into the start menu search box to see the About Windows box:

Parental controls are a great first step to keeping children safe online. To configure Parental Controls your computer must be set up with at least one password-protected administrator user account.

To Set up parental controls

1- Log in to a user account that has administrative privileges.
2- Click the Start button, choose Control Panel, and click Set up parental controls for any user.
3- You come to a page that shows the name and picture for each user account you’ve created Click the user account for which you want to set up parental controls.

To Define Web restrictions

1- To define Web restrictions, click Windows Vista Web Filter.
2- There are many ways to block Web content. The first step is to choose the first option, Block some websites
or content.
3- To define specific Web sites that the user can view, select " Only allow websites which are on the
allow list".
4- click "Edit the Allow and block list". Under the Website address heading, type or paste the URL of a single site and the click "Allow" or "Block".
5- To prevent user from viewing only the sites you put in...