Gotta celebrate a Eco-Friendly Diwali henceforth !

 

      It was a Cloudy Friday morning on the 5th November of 2010. Yhea… it was the “Diwali” Celebrations, the festiv of lights gave me a wakeup call early morning with a hyper sounding 1000 Wala crackling my ears, it wasn’t pleasant though… A days’ good start was with my resolution as to “Celebrate a Eco-Friendly Diwali”. As per which, I’d to escort my sibling to near by temple and do some rituals. I was over my laptop all day and couldn’t do any of my programming work as the crackers hit my concentration a lot and trust me, it had a very bad impact… Over here, in todays post i’ll like to talk about my city which has just passed 80 min since diwali.  

 

Coimbatore – A city where ‘Eco-Friendly’ products have just given its lick, When it has not yet realized the importance and the need for the change. A city where people are busy doing nothing, but just watching over other people do something which is nothing.

Microsoft Student Partner selection 2010

 

 

Hello Folks,

                This post goes to all my readers, followers, friends, well wishers and fellow audience. The long wait is over, the selection process for Microsoft Student Partners for the academic Year 2010 has begun. Now, you can enrol yourself for the Selection Process via this link. I’ll be updating this post will all the details of selection soon. The next step will be dispatched by July 12th,2010.

               If you are passionate about technology and looking for a unique opportunity to share that talent, we are looking for you! Motivated Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree students specializing in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths or Design who will graduate after May 2011 are invited to apply for the Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Program.

Installing .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Mobile

It was hard for me with my new Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro on HTC to work most of the latest applications which required .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed before it could initialize. Browsing all over the web i could find only Microsoft Download links which gave me way to download the compact framework and install them on a PC, but none of the sites all over the searches on bing/Google paved me way for it. Now after a long try, i found a method to install it in a safe way.

Requirements:

      @   Windows Mobile

      @   Windows Mobile Device Center installed on your PC.

      @   A backup software module of your firm, “sprit 1.7” in my case.

Steps to be followed:

     @   Connect your Windows Mobile to your PC

     @ Download the installation file from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E3821449-3C6B-42F1-9FD9-0041345B3385&displaylang=en

     @ double click to install, Click on next, Accept the Terms n Conditions, Click on Modify, as shown in the below pic, select the deployment and click on next.

    @ Once the deployment is selected, the Installer will extract a .CAB file to the Windows Mobile via Windows Mobile Device Center, check your phone for updates, it will ask for password and a Install option for .NET Framework Compact.

   @ Now its all done, share your comments n enjoy .NET ;)

Awarded as Top Performing MSP of CBEUG:

 

After a hard time of 3 months the DreamSpark Yatra of CBEUG came to an end. We celebrated the Unaccomplished victory of 10,000+ students in 10 weeks for Microsoft at OOTY. It was the BootCamp v3.0, the unforgettable days in ma life, never the less. I was surprised at the BootCamp which was held between 30th May, 2010 to 2nd June, 2010 as i was awarded as the Top Performing MSP of the year. I am really happy to extend my thanks to the Executive Body of Coimbatore User Group for encouraging me with this award.

          And to the Surprise of all, i was awarded a HTC Touch which is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Device. i’ll update the pics soon. Watch this space ;)

Windows Live Wave 4

Its always good to be a Developer than being a User of an software Developed by any firm. But now the lines have changed and goes like this “Its good to be a Pirate than a Dev :P”. Its crazy to see that the Windows Live Wave 4 has been released off to the Public {in corporate terms “Leaked”} by some Dev, even before an Employee could have an hand on it.  Windows Live Wave has been released now on the Net and i would like to share the links, so that it can be a eye-candy stuff for you. You will sure like the Windows Live Messenger, as it has the immense look of that Windows Mobile 7 Series as well as to that of Zune HD.

Go Ahead and try these piece of hot chocolates, You will need to patch the file because only Employees of Microsoft has the Authentication to login to the New Messenger [I’m IN]. I’m awaiting the patches for remaining sets, will update as and when I get those. Till then rejoice with this leak.
Download:

• http://www.hotshare.net/en/file/234711-2726315b31.html [WLW4]
• http://www.hotshare.net/file/251279-1186153ce9.html [Required Patch]

Install WLW4 (link-1) and then install the patch (link-2) for Windows Live Messenger to unlock full functionality!
Disclaimer: Use it on your own risk! 
For more information, visit- http://windowslivepreview.com/messenger/

Microsoft S2B program

 

Are you serious about future and employment?..Then here we’re with some great news for students of computer science (including B.tech, BCA, MCA, MSc. IT, MSc. Comp.).

Microsoft has started a new initiative and has collaborated with thousands of companies in order to provide employment and internship to students. And the best part about this program is that it is free. All you need to do is to have a Windows Live ID (free) and register yourself on http://www.s2bprogram.com/india/Register.aspx for free. Here are the steps.

i.) Go to home.live.com and create your Windows Live account for free

ii.) Once you are done with creating live ID, don’t close the tab and open http://www.s2bprogram.com/india/Register.aspx in new tab.

iii.) Here you’ll see an option saying

Please sign in using a Live ID account by clicking this message before completing the form. If you still don't have one, you can register for free.

Just click it and you’ll be redirected.

iv.) Now all the fields are available to fill

Make sure you type ‘sathyathemobileking’ in the referral code field, thats the way you’ll be given more priority. And fill up the remaining fields also and register.

v.) It’ll show you confirmation now and will give you option to sign in. Sign in and fill up your profile.

And now you are done.

Now you’ll receive a news letter on you Windows Live ID whenever there are some posts available of your interest and you can enroll for it.

for further queries and doubts contact me

Hurry… The registrations and priorities may end any time.

Microsoft TechEd India 2010

To be updated soon, as soon as I get relieved from the shock and excitement ;)

Metadata: There is more in your photos than meets the eye!

I came accross an marvellous post made by Mr.Ludwig J. at http://ludwigjkeck.spaces.live.com/. I would like to quote the same here.


More info and Comments can be viewed at http://ludwigjkeck.spaces.live.com/



In addition to the actual picture, photo files contain a lot of other information. It is like a little notebook with preprinted boxes for all sorts of information. The general term for that is “metadata”. Some of that information is obvious, the file name, date, file size, and more. Other data is more obscure. In this post I will explore some of that information. When a digital photo is taken, the majority of modern cameras store some data along with the image. This is known by the name “EXIF” data - “Exchangeable Image File Format”. When the photos are transferred to a computer this data is moved along. Using Windows Live Photo Gallery for making the transfer provides for attaching additional information at that time. Much more data can be added with other equipment or programs. To illustrate this I will use a photo for which I have “filled in” a lot of the data – by no means all that can be added. When the photo is selected in Photo Gallery the Info pane displays some of that data:

Windows Live Photo Gallery makes extensive use of “tags” for managing and finding photos. The Info pane shows “People tags” – none in this case, “Descriptive tags” that have been assigned either in the import operation or manually later. For this picture two tags are shown, there is a scroll bar to allow displaying additional tags. Also shown is the file “Caption” which in other applications may be called “title”. The Information portion provides the file name and details, the rating that is assigned, the “Author” and some of the camera data. Cameras assign file names, during import that can be changed. I like to retain the file name assigned by the camera. In this case that name was appended with “(2)” when I made a copy of the file.
To see more of the data, right-clicking the thumbnail and selecting “Properties” – then the “Details” tab, brings up a long list of information. Here are a couple of screen shots:


Notice the top section, “Description” includes the “title”, a “subject” – which can, of course be different from the title, the rating, tags and this can be quite a lengthy list and “Comments”. Comments can be added manually and may be quite long. Many cameras allow the user to define a comment string which is then recorded with each picture. This is what I did in this case. The next section, “Origin”, gives some data, author, and copyright, that was manually added or by a specialized program, and the automatically logged “date taken” and the name of the program that was last used to manipulate the photo, in this case Windows Live Photo Gallery. The “Image” section shows automatically generated data, as does the “Camera” and “Advanced photo” sections.
There is more, scrolling down reveals the “GPS” and “File” sections. The “file” section provides information about the name, location, and other parameters of the file pertaining to the local computer.

The GPS section shows the geographic coordinates of the location where the picture was take. Some cameras have built-in GPS receivers and can do this “geotagging” automatically. With some, an external GPS receiver can be attached. Many GPS units can transfer location data to pictures with special software. There are also applications that make adding this data manually rather easy.
The Properties dialog accessed inside Windows Live Photo Gallery is the same as what is obtained in Windows Explorer. The details pane in Windows Explorer also shows some of this data:

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There is even more data stored. Some special programs permit displaying more of this information.
I want to show a couple of examples of how some of this information is used.
The Flickr photo sharing site serves photo enthusiasts for displaying, sharing, and finding photos. Since camera data shows the details of how the photo was taken, shutter speed, aperture, etc. that information can be a valuable learning tool. Flickr thus provides just about all the data that is embedded within a photo. Here is how this picture is shown on Flickr (the image provides a link to the page on flickr):

In the lower right there is a “More properties” link – and does it ever provide more:

And more:

Note that in this list (which is shown just partially) there is location information, website of the author, even the author’s e-mail address. Here I am using the demonstration address used in my book, Digital Pictures Basics. (Mail sent to this address is not forwarded to me.)
Another sharing site, picasaweb, makes good use of the location information (the image provides a link to the picasaweb page).

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Note the little map in the lower right. It shows where the picture was taken. The “View album map” link is even more fun:

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It shows little thumbnails of the pictures in the album, placed on the map in the locations where the pictures where taken -  the map can be zoomed and manipulated. Clicking on a thumbnail shows a larger picture.
So there is a lot of information that can be attached to photos and used in many fun and valuable ways. In another post I will discuss how to add, delete, and manage this “metadata”.
If you would like to explore the flickr or picasaweb images, click on the first image in each sequence above.
Here are some links to additional information about adding data from my other blog posts:
Moving photos from camera to computer using Windows Live Photo Gallery
More on moving photos from camera to computer using Windows Live Photo Gallery
Find your photos 2


Credits : Mr.Ludwig J
Link:       http://ludwigjkeck.spaces.live.com/

Youtube – Change language from Hindi to English

Right from my childhood, I never liked Hindi and the Hindi Speaking people mainly because I don’t know HINDI. This may sound weird, but true. The Indian Youtube version was out and similar releases were made to most of the local hubs of internet word in countries and based upon the location, the language settings were made, without any prior notice, i repeat “NO PRIOR NOTICE”. It was a horror time for me to find out how to change the homepage from Hindi to English. Follow the steps below and enjoy the IPL telecasted over it.

 

1.Go to http://www.Youtube.com/ , so that the regional settings of youtube will be transferred to main control.

2.Now Scroll down to the bottom of the page and see the youtube copyright symbol. 

3.You can see some text therein hindi as “भाषाएं दिखाएं” which means “Language: Hindi”, thanks to google translators. They help me clear this crap off.

4. Click on that and select the language you need. Choose English Preferably.

5.What next ??? Go and watch

                                               IPL ROFL ;)

Oracle 11g 64-Bit on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

This day morning I upgraded my existing 64 bit vista ultimate install. That way I already had Oracle loaded and just needed to get it running.
It took several hours to do the upgrade. An install would probably have run much faster and I would have started off with a clean registry but I was afraid the Oracle installer would say it didn't recognize this version of windows and then I wouldn't be able to get it running (at least not without jumping through a bunch of hoops).
The install, while taking a long time, was flawless at the end. I had to uninstall skype and powershell because of incompatibilities. Skype was a recommendation but powershell was required. Considering the vast amount of software I have installed, I am surprised that is all I had to remove.

I had a few issues with TNS at first but I was able to fix that by fixing my hosts file. After that, the database is running fine (as you can see in the screenshot above). I created a few objects and ran a few queries and everything is hunky dory.
I did get a warning message when running SQL Developer:

Nothing I can't live with. I'm not sure if that is just a Java issue or something with SQL Developer specifically. I plan to play with it some more this afternoon to find out.
So far, I haven't found the OS to be that much different than vista. Some user tweaks in UAC. You can set the screen resolution with a single menu click now. It does feel quite a bit quicker response-wise though. I may just be psyching myself out on that though.
Rather than regurgitate a windows 7 feature list, go check out what Microsoft has to say on the issue.

I guess now it is off to play!

Fake Mails made easy ! Kudos to spoofing

It had been a week since a MSP posted about a issue that he got a mail from Mr.BillGates congratulating him for his work. Funny ! I decided to make a post on it and make some joy out of it. Do you wish to play pranks sending emails from a friend’s id? Here is how you go about doing it. It’s pretty much simple, all you need to do is go to the website, and there is a send-fake-email form where in you fill the from name, from address, to name, to address and then go about writing an email like you normally would do.

DeadFake

DeadFake allows you to edit all ‘from’ and ‘to’ details before sending the email. It’s very quick and very easy. You don’t have to connect to the SMTP port of the site, issue commands and then send the email. Everything is done just like filling up an online form. One drawback being there is sentence at the bottom of the email sent which reads “No, this email’s not real, it’s http://deadfake.com”, but these things mostly go unnoticed when the recipient reads the email because even emails sent from yahoo usually have a link underneath which is usually not noticed by the reader.

Anonymous Speech

Anonymous speech is also similar to DeadFake, here again the details can be edited before sending. But added to this you can set the date and time for sending the fake email and you could also send it to multiple recipients (up to 15). But before sending, you need to do a small sign-up with the website. But you needn’t worry; email address in the sign-up is only optional, just to trace your password.

Send Fake Mail

A website that offers proper fake email sending without allowing the recipient trace the origin of the email. You can easily change the ‘from’ details so that the receiver thinks it’s from someone else. Added to this the service also offers Anonymous Browser, a utility that lets you browse the internet without revealing your correct IP address by creating a fake IP for you.

Services offered are:

  – Anonymous Emailing
  – Fake Emails
  – Text & HTML Mail
  – Priority Support
  – X-Mailer Header
  – Anonymous Surfing

But all this is not free, available to you at very minimal charges of $4.95/ month

Fuzz Mail

Another service that could be used is Fuzzmail. Here again the ‘from’ and ‘to’ ids can be given by the user. But this not a normal fake email sending, but a service which records the act of typing and lets you send that as an email. The receiver gets to know at what point of time when typing your letter there has been a pause, or typos errors, write overs etc. This is greatly made to send those love letters to the loved ones so that receiver can get to actually feel the writing happening.

Note : Never ever try to trouble anyone, you may fall in some sort of legal problems. The use of these services is completely up to you and use them at your own risk only.

XP mode no longer requires hardware virtualization

I’d like to share some exciting news about Windows XP Mode.  The team is removing the virtualization processor requirement for Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate systems.  Windows XP Mode continues to use hardware virtualization such as Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) or the AMD-V™ chipset when available but it no longer requires them. 

Microsoft has released an update that enables PCs without hardware virtualization to also take advantage of Windows XP Mode.  This change simplifies the customer experience and makes this benefit accessible to many more PCs.

Enterprise customers should consider using Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance.  MED-V provides deployment and manageability features which are designed to address the needs of enterprise customers.

When will this happen?

The removal of this requirement has been publicly announced today, March 18^th 2010 with the update available on the Windows XP Mode download page at the same time. 

How does this impact MED-V?

MED-V 1.0 SP1 builds on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to help enterprises with their upgrade to Windows Vista and Windows 7 when applications are not yet compatible. 

MED-V 1.0 SP1 does not require hardware virtualization.

The user experience provided by MED-V is similar to “Windows XP mode” – even though a different virtualization technology is used.

MED-V 2.0 will leverage Windows Virtual PC and will benefit from the update above. Availability date for MED-V 2.0 is yet to be announced.

PhotoSynth - Sri Krishna Arts and Science College

I'm happy to produce to you my College`s PhotoSynth ! Data to be updated Soon !

Dream Spark Yatra @ Vellalar College, Erode...

No energy to blog today !

It was an damn Insane Conference with 2500+ students ;)

AWESOME  ! ! !

Be back with the full report in a couple of days....

DreamSpark Yatra @ Muthayammal College, Rasipuram,TamilNadu, INDIA.

 It was a long time for me since I saw a good crowd.
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To be blogged soon..... Please use the archives to see the previous event`s reports.

Dream Spark Yatra @ Excel Engineering

Dream Spark Yatra @ Excel Engineering College

Event: Dream Spark Yatra

Dates: 27^th February

Venue: Excel Engineering College

City: Komarapalayam, Namakkal

Organizers: Balaji , Arumugham, Abhishek Suresh

Speakers: SathyaNarayanan, Venkat, Indhuja, Harini, Shiva, Aravindhan, Gopinathan, Abhishek Suresh

Participants: 650 Students

Agenda (We had parallel Sessions:

For Auditorium 1

Time	Session	Handling
9:00 - 9:30	Registration And Distribution of Goodies
9:30 - 10:00	Inauguration
10:00 - 11:00	Introduction to CBEUG, UX+Silverlight+WPF	Abhishek Suresh (President CBEUG)
11:00 - 12:00	Windows 7	Indhuja Pillai
12:00 - 13:00	Microsoft Visio	Venkateswaran
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00	Windows Azure	Harini Palanivel
15:00 - 16:00	Imagine Cup activity	Kennedy Singh
16:00 – 16:30	Project Natal	Shiva
16:30- 17:00	Certificate Distribution & Wind Up

For Auditorium 2

Time	Session	Handling
9:00 - 9:30	Registration And Distribution of Goodies
9:30 - 10:00	Inauguration
10:00 - 11:00	Introduction to CBEUG, Windows 7	Sathya Narayanan ( Vice President CBEUG)
11:00 - 12:00	Microsoft DeepZoom, Photosynth, Live Writer	Gopinathan.R
12:00 - 13:00	Project Kodu	Aravindhan .A
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00	Blogging, Facebook, MIXed Technology	Abhishek Suresh
15:00 - 16:00	Small Basic	Indhuja Pillai
16:00 – 16:30	Imagine Cup activity	Kennedy Singh
16:30- 17:00	Certificate Distribution & Wind Up

Microsoft Dreamspark yatra is the new initiative by Microsoft Academic team to cover 100 cities in 10 weeks. We CBEUG set our own goal of covering 10,000 students across CBEUG territories during this Dream Spark Yatra. As of now our Usergroup has reached out to 16,000 Students. A major milestone for the Usergroup

This was the Second DreamSpark Event at Excel Engineering College, in Namakkal, on 27^th February 2010. This is the 3^rd city of our DreamSpark Campaign.

This event was organized by the CBEUG MSP, Balaji. The way he organized the entire event was awesome. He did it single handedly without any assistance from any other MSP.He pulled off the DreamSpark Yatra amazingly well. The hospitality provided was good. We had more than 380 students in a single hall with a mixture of students coming from various departments like MCA, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical and IT.

The chief guests were

Abhishek Suresh – President, CBEUG

Other Special invites were

Sathyanarayanan, MSP, Vice President, CBEUG

Indhuja, MSP, CBEUG

Aravindhan, MSP, CBEUG

Shiva, MSP, CBEUG

Harini, MSP, CBEUG

 

Next stop … Rasipuram | Muthayammal College of Engineering :)

Paper Presentation @ SNR & Sons College, Coimbatore.

It was a long time since I was on a outing with my college class mates, in the name of so called "Competition". Today I was called by one of my college junior Mr.Mohammed Sait in the morning, wherein he asked me whether we can go for some competition ! I was puzzled, it was almost 9:00 in the morning, for which the competition was to start at 10:30. I had very less intention of going to college today, having my bike under a damn bad condition. I started to that college and was happy to see my full gang of friends inside the college campus. It was said that all the papers that have been selected has been intimated ! Whereas it was that instance for I knew that papers should have been sent to the college before two days, and the conformation being sent the successive day.

As a normal innocent student, I went to the Program Coordinator and said, "Sir, I've sent the paper 2 days ago, and i fear that my paper is not yet selected, as I did not get any confirmation. Please do check the credentials and fallback. So that I can decide on whether to stay or leave to my college.". I was astonished to get a reply from him where he said, "Sorry sir, I'm deeply sorry for the inconvenience, You can present the paper once the confirmed list is over. There was around 113 participants inside the hall"...

I sat down with my sweet laptop at 11:00, I started preparing the slides for the paper presentation.. It was funny that i never knew the topic on which I was supposed to present the topic. Finally I came across some dump papers inside my bag, submitted it as a formality hard copy and made my own presentation which was totally irrelevant to the submitted paper.   I was suprizingly called to present the paper as 5th speaker, for which i was only done with 3 slides in the PC where it comprised of one side introducing the paper, other  an simple image of Windows Azure and other the conclusion slide, which was just my own info side. I somehow managed to make the presentation with those slides.


I went in front of the speaker and started my speech as "A very hot Good Afternoon to one and all present here, It gives me an immence pleasure to stand before you and introduce three main objects of the day, 1. Mr.Mohammed Sait... my junior 2. myself S SathyaNarayanan and 3rd My presentation on Cloud computing"..... This was to be the funniest intro ever given by anyone till date. The  judges were to say nothing but to simply sit and hear my sweet voice :D .

The session went on well till the end and questions were shooted at me for 20 min. Wherein I was feeling too hungry with the smell direct aroma from kitchen nearby. It was around some 15:00 hrs, the quiz results were out, where Mr.Aswin who is a friend of mine. and Mr.Vikram were selected for the finals. And Mr. Bhuvanesh & Ms.Sathya were short listed for the finals... I was happy that my college was short listed for the finals in all the competitions... out of the 10 ppl from my college, 8 ppl got selected. After which the final results were out and the results were simply awesome. guess what ??? Our college won the First place in all the Competitions, except debugging, where they lost by a single point :(


The prizes were distributed by the college Principal, and luckly i was awarded Rs.1000/- as first prize amount. All my college mates also got the First prize in all the events and it was summed up to some 4k... We enjoyed a lot over the victory in the college. Merrily and happily we left off the college in a passionate way!



And the saddest part of the day : I missed off Microsoft`s DreamSpark Yatra @ TCE.... I wish i would have attended it :( :( :(   Next stop----> Kanchipuram !

DreamSpark Yatra at SASTRA

 

Dream Spark Yatra event was conducted at SASTRA University, Tanjavor by the Coimbatore User Group in association with the Microsoft India Academic Team. The details of the event are as follows:

Event: Pre- Dream Spark Yatra

Dates: 21^st February

Venue: SASTRA University, Thanjavur

Organizers: Varma, Kusumakar, Animesh , Arumugham, Abhishek Suresh

Speakers: Natraj, SathyaNarayanan, Ramakrishna, Abhishek Suresh

Participants: 380 Students (Mixed Audience)

Agenda:

08.30 - 9.00:                          Registration / Welcome Speech

9.00 - 10.00:                                                Azure (by Natraj)

10.00 - 11.00:                         Windows 7 (by SathyaNarayanan)

11.00 - 11.30:                                               Ice Cream Break

11.30 - 12.30:   Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 (by Abhishek Suresh)

12.30 - 1.30:          DeepZoom & Photosynth (by Ramakrishnan)

1.30 - 14.00:                                     Feed Back & Wind UP !

DreamSpark Yatra has been planned in 15 more colleges till date and lots more to come !

Next Stop….. Erode “Excel Engineering”

DreamSpark Yatra @ Hindustan Institute of Technology

DreamSpark Yatra is an Initiative by the Microsoft India Academic Team till the end of April 2010.And the vision of my user group (CBEUG) is to cover 100 cities in 10 weeks. Being One of the proud CBEUGian, I managed to organize this event in Hindustan Institute of Technology , Coimbatore on 15th of February.

The eminent speakers aka student ambassadors for the giant companies (like google , microsoft , mozilla) present there were : Indhuja , Harini Palanivel , Siva ,  Gopinath and me as well ;) .This is the list of the sessions handled by all of my mates :

Sathya Narayanan : Multi Point SDK and some core features of Windows 7
Indhuja :Small Basic
Harini : Microsoft Academics
Siva : IE8 Customization
Gopinath: Windows Azure (cloud computing)


We had a good start in the morning with , the speech of Harini followed up by Indhuja ( the most popular bragger ... LOL jus kidding ;) ) followed up by me and siva after the Welcome note of the HOD , CSE department  (Loganathan) and a professor , and me .


The first session was about Microsoft Academics , and the second followed up by Gopinath`s session ... and this time he learned many new things more than the first time @ IRTT .Because at that time , he never cared to prepare anything and he did on the spot preparation with the help of Ramakrishnan .But this time , he went on with more stuff like video presentations and  was even prepared for the live demo but unfortunately there was no internet connection .. so he had to skip the live demo .But he would  have enjoyed the response when he said that He is  a ITian and still now I do hear that .(The students gave a roaring response) .


The students present in the Dreamspark Yatra were a mixture of CSE , IT and even ECE too .After his session we had a nice lunch and the Hospitality of the college was really good .After that , Indhuja started her session ... she was handling her audience like a play toy never minded that they were seniors to her (she is a 2nd year student).

Then I took my session with a game demo which was fun filled and we had a great time with our give aways to the participants. I had to learn lot of stuffs from that session, "Never expect more from DUMB Students". It was insane for me to make many tries and gain their attraction, I succeeded only at my 4th attempt. The session was too technocratic and I guess many would have gained knowledge from it. I had the session for 1 hour and showed them lot of demos on Win 7 & Multi-point SDK.

 

Finally Siva Concluded the Technical session with a IEAK demo which was good either, it was to be his first session and i'm proud that i gave him one such opportunity to prove his talent and the DreamSpark Yatra had a great end to its beginning ;)  

Next Stop : SASTRA UNIVERSITY | Thanjavore, TamilNadu... 

Download Offline Installers Of .NET Frameworks

As many of the new Microsoft Windows applications are developed using .NET Framework, it is becoming mandatory to install .NET Framework on our personal computers. Microsoft provides .NET Framework installer as a free download available to everyone. But it is an online installer. That means, initially we have to download a small piece of installer and upon starting the installation process the installer automatically connects to Microsoft servers and downloads the required components and completes the installation.

The offline installers works great as long as we have internet connectivity always. But many of us required offline installer to install the software on computers not connected to internet, to save the bandwidth while installing on many computers, etc.
I gathered a set of links on Microsoft servers from where we can download the offline installers of .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, .NET Framework 3.0 and .NET Framework 2.0.
.NET Framework Client Profile Offline Installer

• Download .NET Client Profiler Offline Installer Thanks cirius

.NET Framework 3.5 Setup

• Download 32 bit & 64 bit Versions

.NET Framework 3.5 Setup Service Pack 1

• Download .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

.NET Framework 3.0 Setup

• Download 32 bit version
• Download 64 bit version

.NET Framework 2.0 Setup

• Download 32 bit version
• Download 64 bit version

99 shortcuts for Windows 7:

Here are some 99 ready-to-use Windows 7 desktop shortcuts ! Simply download them and place the one’s you want on your Windows 7 desktop.

The collection of 99 shortcuts have been neatly classified and the zipped download includes the following folders with these shortcuts:



Shut Down Menu – Hibernate, Lock / Switch User, Log Off, Restart, Shut Down, Sleep.



Troubleshooting - Aero Troubleshoot, Audio Playing Troubleshoot, Audio Recording Troubleshoot, Hardware & Devices Troubleshoot, HomeGroup Troubleshoot, Incoming Connections Troubleshoot, Internet Connections Troubleshoot, Internet Explorer Performance Troubleshoot, Internet Explorer Safety Troubleshoot, Network Adapter Troubleshoot, Performance Troubleshoot, Power Troubleshoot, Printing Troubleshoot, Shared Files & Folders Troubleshoot, System Maintenance Troubleshoot, Windows Media Player DVD Troubleshoot, Windows Media Player Library Troubleshoot, Windows Media Player Settings Troubleshoot, Windows Troubleshooting Tools.



Windows Programs - Calculator, Command Prompt, Internet Explorer, Math Input Panel, Media Center, Notepad, Paint, Remote Desktop Connection, Run, Sidebar, Snipping Tool, Sound Recorder, Sticky Notes, Sync Center, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Explorer, Windows Fax and Scan, Windows Media Player, Windows Update, Wordpad, XPS Viewer.



Ease of Access – Ease of Access, Magnify, Narrator, On-Screen Keyboard, Speech Recognition.



System Administration Tools – Action Center, Aero Transparency On (works on 32-bit only), Aero Transparency Off (works on 32-bit only), Backup and Restore, Character Map, Computer, Control Panel, Default Programs, Desktop Personalization, Device Manager, Disk Defragmenter, Disk Cleanup, Display Settings, Folder Options, Fonts, Indexing Options, Keyboard, Mouse, Notification Area Icons, Parental Controls, Performance Information and Tools, Power Options, Private Character Editor, Region and Language, Resource Monitor, System Information, System Restore, Task Manager (All Users), Task Scheduler, Taskbar and Start Menu, User Accounts, Windows Easy Transfer, Windows Update.



Tablet PC – ShapeCollector, TabTip, Windows Journal.



Windows PowerShell – Windows PowerShell (x86), Windows PowerShell ISE (x86), Windows PowerShell ISE, Windows PowerShell.



Networking – Homegroup, Internet Options, Network and Sharing Center, Network, Windows Defender, Windows Firewall – Enable, Windows Firewall – Disable, Windows Firewall.



Download: 99 Ready-to-use Windows 7 desktop shortcuts



Head over to 7tutorials if you want a shortcut to a Windows 7 tool, which isn’t included in the collection,! A unique initiative, I must say!



UPDATE: Incidentally, it might be a good place to mention that we have just released one of our new portable freeware apps, Handy Shortcuts. You may want to check it out!

26 Awesome Windows 7 Themes

Windows 7 is the first ever operating system from Microsoft that has been developed largely by keeping user feedback in mind. It is much more faster and better looking than Vista. If you are one of those users looking to upgrade or buy Windows 7, then you should definitely look out for some custom made themes. Today we present you 26 delighting and refreshing themes created by users of DeviantArt.

You will find the installation details along with other information on the respective developer’s page. I am sure that you will enjoy them all.

Windows 7 Skull Visual Style by ~TheDarkenedPoet

Woodstock Windows 7 Theme by ~Markus-Deviant

Windows 7 RED Theme by ~XBMCG33K

ThaImpact VS for Windows 7 RC by ~DjabyTown

Underoath Theme for Windows 7 by ~bobmat4

Windows7 Black Transparent by ~pegass

Aerosnap 7 Theme by ~Freak180

OnlyBlack Windows 7 RC theme by ~tonev

AeroLighting For Windows 7 by ~neodesktop

Warsaw- Windows 7 Theme by ~G0DLIKE

Lumens for Windows 7 by ~alkhan

Desk 09 with New Windows 7 OS by ~Dr-Bee

Alternative for Windows 7 RC by ~oliver182

SiCo for Windows 7 RC by ~alkhan

Aero Diamond for Windows 7 x64 by ~alkhan

Heart Windows 7 Theme by ~soffl

Theme For Winodws 7 by ~Arturik1988

Windows 7 OSX by ~Black-Energy

Clean Green Windows 7 Theme by ~J-MGraphics650

Seven Aero Shine Blue For 7RC by ~molinarosp

Trans-7 Themepack by ~Crusader1080

SevenMaxClearLiveFinal For 7RC by ~molinarosp

Windows 7 Simple Black Glass by ~feliipetaumaturgo

Natural by ~phS2

Waterbomb and Windows 7 by ~Adrenalize81

Windows 7 with Classic Theme by ~RainingSkies

So which one do you plan to install? Let us know in the comments. Enjoy!

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