August 2009 - Posts
You have no Office installed in your system ?
You forgot your thumb drive to carry which had some office files in it??
No problem!
With workspace office live your problem is solved.
Workspace office live is a portal by microsoft with which you can work with your powerpoint, word, pdf(though not by microsoft) and excel files even if you do not have office installed in your system.
you can share the files with your friends or groups in live.
Its live office as it suggests itself.
Its very much useful to those working in projects so that they can share and give permissions to their associates to make ammendments.
What is needed is a live ID.
Here is the link:
Many of us are blogging these days , active in forums, active in web development.
Despite visiting the sites, we are still in confusion whether that to be called a WEBSITE or a PORTAL.
Here is the difference....
Website is the one where information sharing is single way. ie. User can only grab the information but he can not share his own and neither he can make his confusions clear if he has any.
Portal is that which the user can grab the knowledge from and share his own knowledge via blogs. Moreover, he can post his confusions in forums so that others can help him clear the confusions . Its a two way learning and sharing process.
Now be sure : Are you in SITE or PORTAL ???
Microsoft Surface
The technology behind Surface is called multi-touch
-The software giant has built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world
Specialities...
-The technology allows non-digital objects to be used as input devices.
-computer interfaces will be hands-on.One can use his computers with hands and no need of keyboard and mouse.
-Surface has no cables or external USB ports for plugging in peripherals. For that matter, it has no keyboard, no mouse, no trackball — no obvious point of interaction except its screen
-use of fingers to edit digital photos size, upload them, drag them and drop them...
Features...
Microsoft notes four main components being important in Surface's interface:
direct interaction, multi-touch contact, a multi-user experience, and object recognition.
Direct interaction- refers to the user's ability to simply reach out and touch the interface of an application in order to interact with it, without the need for a mouse or keyboard.
Multi-touch contact- refers to the ability to have multiple contact points with an interface, unlike with a mouse, where there is only one cursor.
Multi-user- is a benefit of multi-touch -- several people can orient themselves on different sides of the surface to interact with an application simultaneously.
Object recognition- refers to the device's ability to recognize the presence and orientation of tagged objects placed on top of it.
Microsoft Surface in a bar.
store in
Atlanta that has the Microsoft Surface integrated into the store.
What is Groove?
-a desktop application designed for document
-used as a staging system for documents in development, where content can be worked up then transferred to a portal when complete
Who initiated?
-Groove was initially developed by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie, and developed by Groove Networks of Beverly, Massachusetts
Why?
-collaboration in teams with members who are regularly off-line or who do not share the same network security clearance.
Where?
-where offline access is important
-Groove's uses have included coordination between emergency relief agencies where different organizations do not share a common security infrastructure
amongst teams of knowledge workers, such as consultants who need to work securely on client sites.
Tools in Groove...
-Groove provides various tools that can be added to (and removed from) a workspace to customize the functionality of each space (for example a calendar, discussion, file sharing, an outliner, pictures, notepad, sketchpad, web browser, etc.).
-the SharePoint Files tools which can be used to take Sharepoint 2007 document libraries offline.Groove 2007 includes a presence subsystem, which keeps track of which users in the contact store are online, and presents the information in the launchbar.
Alt+P
In Windows Explorer, activate an additional file preview pane to the right side of the window with this new shortcut. This panel is great for previewing images in your photos directory.
Windows + + (plus key)
Windows + - (minus key)
Pressing the Windows and plus or minus keys activates the Magnifier, which lets you zoom in on the entire desktop or open a rectangular magnifying lens to zoom in and out of parts of your screen. You can customize the Magnifier options to follow your mouse pointer or keyboard cursor. Keep in mind that so far, the Magnifier only works when Aero desktop is enabled.
Windows + Up
Windows + Down
If a window is not maximized, pressing Windows + Up will fill it to your screen. Windows + Down will minimize that active window. Unfortunately, pressing Windows + Up again while a window is minimized won’t return it to its former state.
Windows + Left
Windows + Right
One of the new features of Windows 7 is the ability to automatically make a window fill up half of your screen by dragging to the left or right. This pair of shortcuts performs the same function without your mouse. Once a window is fixed to one side of the screen, you can repeat the shortcut to flip it to the other side. This is useful if you’re extending a desktop across multiple monitors, which prevents you from executing this trick with a mouse
Windows + Home
This shortcut performs a similar function to hovering over a window’s peek menu thumbnail in the Taskbar. The active window will stay on your desktop while every other open application is minimized. Pressing this shortcut again will restore all the other windows.
Windows + E
Automatically opens up a new Explorer window to show your Libraries folder.
Windows + T
Like Alt + Tab (still our all time favorite Windows specific shortcut), Windows + T cycles through your open programs via the Taskbar’s peek menu.
Ctrl + Shift + Click
Hold down Ctrl and Shift while launching an application from the Taskbar or start menu to launch it with full administrative rights.
It is a program launched by Microsoft about one and half years ago. The program provides
students with the software design and development tools at no charge.It was available for
few of the countries but now it's been expanded in Nepal as well.
Any one who is student cane tak the benefits of the program , they simply need to visit
Once they are verified they can take the full advantage of program.
The produts now offered are:
Several development software titles are available for download through the program. They
include:
Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 Professional Editions
Expression Studio 2 (includes Web, Blend, Media and Design)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition, with SP2
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Academic Edition
Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008
XNA Game Studio 3.1
Microsoft IT Academy Student Pass
So register yourself. Its easy,
Step 1 Sign in
Step 2 Get verified you are student
Step 3 Download and install