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Microsoft has launched new efficiency products like Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 with the aim to boost up the productivity alongside reducing the management costs in business organizations. But it isn’t easy to migrate from existing infrastructure to some newer technology without sufficient knowledge, guidance and tools.

To help you and provide you with enough details Microsoft along with Dell and Intel are organizing exclusive sessions for IT professionals on ‘Deploying and Migrating Your Client/Server Infrastructure to Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2’. These sessions will include interactive discussions with Microsoft experts about various tools that can be used to migrate IT in infrastructure. There may be live demos featured on Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, User State Migration Tool & Windows Easy Transfer, Application Compatibility Toolkit, Windows Server Migration Tools and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

This is a really good initiative by Microsoft as it’ll help both the professionals and Microsoft itself as many organizations have adopted Linux due to lack of knowledge about latest Microsoft products. There are rumors that Microsoft may even be distributing some Windows 7 for free among those professionals.

Event Details Microsoft Chandigarh

Dell Adamo is the best netbook of 2009 from Dell is almost an ultimate laptop in every feature and requirement. Dell Adamo the MacBook Killer is light in weight and is really a very powerful to provide you with fast and reliable results. The video provides all the features and specifications of Dell Adamo.

Most of the times you may have to reinstall Operating System on your PC and then you may have found some of the drivers missing on your system. You need to install drivers like VGA Graphics Driver, Audio Sound Driver, USB Drivers and many other hardware devices. If you are using an Intel based computer you may have faced problems with Graphics after reinstallation of OS as the Video driver may not be properly installed and people keep on blaming the LCD.

Well instead of looking into your System > Device Manager you should directly check out the Online Drivers Checkup Utility at Intel.com which will automatically scan your computer for Installed drivers and what should be downloaded which can be a perfect tool if you feel your PC is missing something.

Intel Driver Update Utility

You can check your system’s status by clicking on button that says: “Check your system for Latest updates”.  Your graphics need to be updated and Intel Driver Update Utility does that job. It automatically detects all the relevant graphics drivers and helps you install the drivers easily and quickly. You may also be asked to install Active X as an add-on in IE but it may work only in IE. Then this Utility will scan your system for the Video drivers and then will give you the option to download and install them.

Intel’s Anti-theft technology can help you recover your stolen laptop.

Everyone uses a computer or a laptop these days and rely on it for all the work and documents stored in it. There may be cases of data losses due to virus infections or hard disc damages. Virus attacks can be prevented by using a really good antivirus program and for hard disc damages you may need to create a backup somewhere other than your PC. There are other backup programs that will provide you with all the data like images, songs, documents but after that you still need to recover the PC back in place as it was before. You may have to set up your browsers for bookmarks, settings for some softwares like Photoshop and general user interface settings.

To get rid of this kind of work, you can use Handy Backup. This application is more advanced and its extensible due to the plug-ins it has that enable the complete backup of your PC including data, personal settings, skins, playlists, bookmarks and a whole lot more. Handy Backup has plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live and you can even create your plug-ins for various other applications in a simple XML file.

Handy Backup Software

Using Handy Backup you can create complete backup of your complete hard drive or some selected directories and store it in some local media like a CD/DVD or Some external hard drive. You may even have the freedom to store your backup on some external safe servers using FTP. Handy Backup lets you can have run-once or scheduled backups of your complete hard drive or specific directories.

All those who face the situation of making backups and then have to restore all the settings manually, Handy Backup is the solution for them. So get this Handy Backup to make your backup really handy for you.

1TB Passport HD

The size of storage devices are decreasing day by day and are expected the same in future. After Sony’s 32GB Memory stick and Kingston’s 256GB Pen Drive, here comes the worldwide producer in storage devices Western Digital with One Terabyte (1TB) and 750GB models of My Passport Essential SE Portable USB Drives.

The device is small enough to fit into your pocket and weights just few grams. The size is similar to a passport that gives it its name. WD’s My Passport Essential SE portable drives are available now in the U.S. at select retail stores. My Passport Essential SE 1 TB portable drive is available for $299.99 USD and for the 750 GB model is for $199.99 USD. Portable drives powered directly from the USB port on your PC without the requirement of any external power source.

Mozilla Firefox Icon

Linux has become really popular these days and many different flavors of Linux are being used on personal computers all over the globe. Ubuntu is one among them and is available for free online as well as you can order the CD on Ubuntu’s official website. Firefox is by default integrated with most versions of Linux, so if you install Firefox 3.5 then it will overwrite the existing version of Firefox. All the bookmarks and history will not be lost however some Firefox add-ons may require updating. If you don’t like the latest version of Firefox then you can downgrade to the previous version anytime.

Installing Firefox from a Tar file in Linux

1. Download Firefox from the Firefox official website and it will be downloaded in your home directory.
2. Open a Terminal and extract the contents of the downloaded file.
   cd ~
   tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2
3. Close Firefox if it’s open.
4. To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder.
   ~/firefox/firefox
   Firefox should now start. You can then create an icon on your desktop to run this command.

You may need to install the required libraries for Firefox to work as many distributions don’t include libstdc++5 by default.

You can have a look at this post to know more how to take complete and partial screenshots of webpage using Firefox addon.

These days the most booming sector is the IT sector, however recession did hit it hard but IT is coming back on track to lead the world. Being a part of IT industry, I know what it requires to be in a good IT company and the company does take care of your skills and yes your background too.

This is for sure a technical blog and will remain very much technical but these days people are seeking jobs in technical firms or some other sectors like BPO, so I thought of throwing some light on this topic too. You do tell about your skills and your achievements to the company in your Resume but you just hide your background from them. You may have some happenings in the past that may have lead to some legal actions against you, so it is wise to be honest about your criminal past to the company you may be going to spend your lifetime, after all “a healthy relation needs the strong roots of trust.” There is nothing wrong in any history problems as this can happen with anyone because there may be certain conditions that lead to such situation.

Not all will agree to my point and may not disclose themselves to the company as they feel it may make them loose this opportunity but may be in future if the company came to know about your background then this may even make you unable to apply in any other company too. It is also suggested that employers should get brief knowledge about their employee’s background and what they have done in the past. Some people might think why employers should screen their employees, but the reputation of the company will depend of its employees and what if some employee with a criminal background becomes a major member of the company and then if his/her identity is disclosed then this may really affect the image or status of that very company in the market. So it is always better for employers to screen their employees as “Prevention is always better.”

As we all know the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will be hosting the 2016 Olympics which are expected to be absolute extreme. The place is really superb and is among the few most beautiful places of the world. Coming to the point about Olympics, as Google is expected to create new logos for every event that they feel is important so how can they miss this big thing? Yes Google made a logo for 2016 Olympics at Rio de Janeiro. Keep expecting a new logo whenever you open Google’s home page.

Actual Rio de Janeiro Picture

More Google Logos:

Google Celebrates Solar Eclipse 2009 with Google Solar Eclipse Logo

Google celebrating its 11th birthday with New “Googlle” Logo

Google celebrating Mahatama Gandhi’s Birthday with yet another Logo

Google’s Amazing Barcode Logo

On this date barcode was invented. Oh you didn’t know about it, well neither do I. Thanks to Google’s new Barcode Logo that informed me about it. Google has made this habit of changing their logo now and then. Every day you expect something different from Google as the Google Logo on their home page keep on changing and informing us about some major events and importance of that very day.

Google's Most Amazing Barcode Logo

Today Google has come up with one of the most amazing Google logo which is a barcode denoting Google. It has come up with Google’s Solar Eclipse Logo, Gandhi’s Birthday Logo and Google’s 11^th Birthday Googlle logo but none has been as amazing as this barcode one.

Salute to the God of search engines Google for this initiative to make us know the importance of every day.

These days everyone is talking about the official launch of Windows 7 on the October 22 which is 2 weeks later and I am also among the ones who want to get an official copy of Window 7. I have been using the Windows 7 RC version and I found it really impressive and one of the best and Fastest Windows ever. The graphics and security features in Windows 7 have for sure improved and you can watch this video for more Windows 7 Features.

Many of us would like to use and buy Windows 7 although the Windows 7 RC version is no more available for download, but in case you are planning on buying Windows 7 then you can preorder Windows 7 on Microsoft’s official website. Microsoft is providing Windows 7 at very cheap price to students all over the world and may be even free.

You do need to apply for Windows 7 with a valid email address from your University or College and you will get to upgrade Windows 7 online in just $29.99. Microsoft is also providing free upgrade to some local students and students in SA.

The Home Premium version will retail for $200, the Professional Version for $300 and the Ultimate Version for $320. Book your copy for Windows 7 today.

The web has evolved from a bunch of simple HTML pages to fully functional Web2.0 with integration of multiple technologies. One major giant who has contributed the most to this web is no other than Google. Google is worshipped as god and has produced remarkable applications for this web including Google Earth, Google Translator Toolkit, Google Latitude for Google Maps, Gmail Applications and a whole lot more.

Google Wave

As Web 2.0 is enhancing with Social websites and forums increasing in number, Google just can’t stay out of it for long. Google has introduced Google Wave, which seems to be the next level of Web. A single place where you can where you can talk, share files, learn and may be much more.

Till date only certain people have been allowed to join Google Wave and even I have applied for it with a request. I will share its features with you as soon as I get to access Google Wave but in the meantime you can watch this Google Wave Developer Preview Video.

Getting a new mobile phone deal is really difficult if you have some bad credit history. Mobile Phones have become a major part of our daily living and its really impossible to imagine a life without mobile phones in future.

Various mobile phone service providers offer different schemes and offers to attract large number of customers, but this is not always good for customers as they may choose some plan which was not suited to them but lack of knowledge caused it to happen.

Some of the major mobile phone operators like Orange, T-Mobile, O2 are famous for providing credit offers to the users but its not that easy to get the deals done with these operators if you have a bad mobile credit history. You may require some tips to get Bad credit contracts.

Students also face problems in getting these kind of mobile phone credit deals approved by the mobile phone service providers as they don’t earn much and they don’t have any mobile phone credit history as they are not paying any credit card bills. Still after following some easy tips students can also get the mobile phone credit deals accepted by the mobile phone operators.

Wireless Power transmission is expected to change life of the people in the years to come and a US firm Witricity also managed to run TV through wireless electricity a month back. Already some big giant industries like Philips, Sanyo and Duracell are members of Wireless Power Consortium and just now one of the biggest names in the market Nokia has entered as a full member.

Nokia Wireless Power Mobile Phones

Wireless Power Transmission is expected to gain popularity in future and after Nokia being a full member of this Consortium we can expect Nokia’s mobile phone being charged in wireless manner. In a survey it is found that almost 80% of the people will prefer to charge their electronic devices via wireless electricity if it’s available, so this might have attracted Nokia’s attention and made this giant become a member of this trend. May be very soon we’ll find Nokia Mobile phones being charged wirelessly.

Have a look at this car that charges with wireless power.

In this era of amazing technology and gadgets it’s hard to imagine the conventional things used in our daily life. Even wrist watches have evolved from analog to digital ones. There have been some amazing wrist watches in the past but this lead us to the next level of thinking.

This Concept wrist watch has laser inside the wrist band and the thing that makes it spectacular is the it projects the time onto your wrist, not a conventional LED thing. The projected part is a little higher and projection is done on your wrist at such an angle that you can easily know the time by looking from the top.

Wrist watch with Laser Projector

So are you thinking of getting this one soon? Well the price is still unknown but surely it will attract lots of fashionable people to begin a new trend of wrist watches.

Almost each and everyone among us would have enjoyed the pleasure of the first bike ride and mostly with some support wheels when we were unable to balance it on our own but now technology has taken over this thing too. We no longer need to learn how to balance a bike, as this Gyrobike has automatic balancing ability.

Autobalancing Gyrobike

This Gyrobike has a 12 inch Gyrowheel on the front of the bike replacing the ordinary wheel that contains an adjustable speed spinning disc to manage the speed. The disc is powered with a rechargeable battery to make the bike running long. This Gyrowheel makes the bike stable and you just need to put the child on the bike and make him ride it without having to worry about making balance and that too without any supporting wheels or external help.

Gyrobike is expected to arrive this December at an approximate price of $100. Lets see what technology has next for us. Have a look at this amazing folding Bike by Mercedez-benz.

TATA DOCOMO, the TATA GSM service has become really very popular due to various reasons. TATA DOCOMO offers value to its customers as they will have to pay only for the time they talk because TATA DOCOMO charges per second and not for a pulse of 60 seconds. Tata CDMA Pay per call plan is also a great plan ti have as it offers a call puse of 600 seconds of Re.1 per every local call and Rs.3 per STD call.

TATA DOCOMO offers cheap call rates and has established itself in many states of India now. Although there is some network problem in some areas but the network is expected to get better as time progresses.

These days everyone access internet through one mode or the other. Many like to carry their world with them and access internet on mobile phones via GPRS. TATA DOCOMO offers attractive GPRS plans for you to access internet on the move through your mobile phones and that to with reasonable charges.

TATA DOCOMO GPRS Plans

Tata Docomo is presently providing 2 plans to access internet.

Rs.15 Pack for 3 days

To get this pack you will have to go to your nearest TATA Docomo dealer and ask him to make a special EVD recharge for GPRS/Internet use and after this you will get 20MB of internet access valid for 3 days.

Rs.95 Pack for 30 days

You need to follow the same steps as in above plan with the only difference of getting the recharge amount of Rs.95 and you will get 100MB free data access valid for 30 days.

After the free usage you will be charged 1p/1kb as the default rate and charged 10p/10kb on roaming. So now go and get your access to internet through your TATA Docomo. You can also access internet with your laptop or computer via a USB cable or Bluetooth. These are one of the best internet plan to have these days.

Settings for TATA DOCOMO GPRS

Tata Docomo Gprs Settings

Tata Docomo GPRS Settings Advanced

Google has make this a habit now to celebrate special days or events by changing their logo on the Google home page. Today is a major day in Indian history as today is the Birthday of India’s Father of the nation, Mahatama Gandhi.

Mahatama Gandhi played a major role in India’s Independence and his photo is placed on Indian currency too. However the Google Logo on Mahatama Gandhi is visible on Google.co.in and not on Google.com as this day has importance in India and not in other parts of the world.

Google Logo for Mahatama Gandhi

Google also celebrated Google’s 11th Birthday with Googlle logo and the major solar eclipse that happened in India nearly 2 months back with its Solar Eclipse Google Logo. Google does make its users aware of the happenings and the importance of the days by moderating their logo on the Google Homepage.

This trend from Google is really good and more good logos with useful information is expected from Google’s side to its users.