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!