SQL SERVER 2008 R2

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SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers several breakthrough capabilities that will enable your organization to scale database operations with confidence, improve IT and developer efficiency, and enable highly scalable and well managed Business Intelligence on a self-service basis for your users. The download links below will launch the Akamai download manager which is designed to provide you with more control over your download experience.


In Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, several components have new or improved features. Other components have not changed since SQL Server 2008. Those components offer features that were new or enhanced in that release.
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PowerPivot for SharePoint
PowerPivot for SharePoint adds shared services and infrastructure for loading, querying, and managing PowerPivot workbooks that you publish to a SharePoint 2010 server or farm. To create PowerPivot workbooks, you use PowerPivot for Excel.

PowerPivot for Excel
PowerPivot for Excel is an add-in to Excel 2010 that can be downloaded from the web and installed on client workstations. You use PowerPivot for Excel to assemble and create relationships in large amounts of data from different sources, and then use that data as the basis for PivotTables and other data visualization objects that support data analysis in Excel.

Multi-Server Administration and Data-Tier Application
The SQL Server Utility forms a central repository for performance data and management policies that tailor the operation of instances of the Database Engine that have been enrolled in the utility.

Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2008 R2:
The largest database supported by SQL Server Express has been increased from 4 GB to 10 GB.

Connecting to the Database Engine Using Extended Protection:
SQL Server now supports Extended Protection, using service binding and channel binding to help prevent an authentication relay attack. Also, see Extended Protection for Authentication with Reporting Services.

cool download:Passwords Plus LITE (9.34 MB)

Never forget a login ID or password again! Passwords Plus® is a must-have tool for network administrators, support pros, or anyone who needs a secure solution for maintaining multiple login IDs, passwords, and confidential personal account information.

The Apple Magic Trackpad review

Mac OS X and iOS—which is a customized subset of Apple's desktop operating system—will merge.


That doesn't mean that your iMac will run like today's iPad, but its interface will change completely. It will be a lot simpler, and multitouch based. Gone will be the Finder, gone will be the windows. The traditional computer desktop will be replaced into something streamlined, but not less powerful. Perhaps for some pro users, there will be a mosaic view to watch several apps at the same time, but eventually Apple will move everyone to a modal-based interface.

On the desktop, apps won't lose its power: A professional user will be able to run Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro. Like today, they will run at full screen, and users will switch using Exposé—which has been a success for power users and many consumers alike (and, I have no doubt, will come to the iPad version of iOS 4). Side by side, the desktop computers will also run the lightweight apps available for the iPhone and iPad (of course, no Photoshop on the iPad, but perhaps Photoshop Lite in iPad 3).

This won't happen in a day. It's a multistep process and the magic trackpad is the first step. Here's my prediction from now on:

• In a few months they will announce the Magic Trackpad as standard in the next iMac generation (optionally, people would be able to get the mouse).

• With multitouch everywhere, Apple will make possible to run iOS applications in Mac OS X 10.7. Developers will recompile for the x86, either creating fat binary apps that can be deployed in the iPhone, iPad and iMacs, or just have three versions like some do now for iPad and iPhone. This is easy for developers to do, since iOS is really a subset of Mac OS X and apps are completely isolated from hardware. The apps that depend on special features—like accelerator—will be adapted. And those Apple users with Magic Trackpads will run to buy them.

• In a couple of years, after iPad 3 and iPhone 6 start to take over MacBook sales in the consumer space, Apple will make the jump, making Mac OS X 10.8 fully multitouch driven, and selling this

Computer graphics go Holographic

A new technology is being developed at Kansai University in Osaka, and it could easily be the next wave for holograms. Granted, the CG images have to have a resolution of up to 128K x 64K.
I have included a video of it after the jump so you can see what it looks like. You will notice that the images are only in red for now, so it resembles a Virtual Boy. They are working on making them with different colors.

You realize what this means. Think of your favorite Pixar, PDI, or other cool CG movie fully rendered in 3D. Granted, it would be in monochromatic red if done now, and it would take years before you would have it, but the idea of the first holographic film excites me. Considering all these 2D films that have been made into 3D, just imagine how cool a CG movie would be in true holographic 3D.

One of the advantages of Ubuntu over Windows & Mac

In a world where most of the security vulnerabilities are coming from third-party applications, Windows and Mac machines are at significant risk because they run lots of these apps and those apps aren’t always updated automatically, which leaves the machines open to attacks.


Again, to be clear, both Microsoft and Apple have comprehensive updating systems for their software — both the OS as well as company apps that run on top of the OS. The problem is with the software (programs, extensions, and plug-ins) from other vendors and the inconsistent methods they use for updating their code to protect against known flaws.

With Ubuntu, there’s one comprehensive software updating system. This is possible because Ubuntu has a centralized repository of applications and the only third-party applications that make it into the main repository are the ones that have been tested by Canonical (the company that produces Ubuntu) and are proven to work with the OS. This means that the Ubuntu main repository doesn’t always have the very latest version of Firefox, for example, but you can be sure that the one it does have will typically install easy, work smoothly, and remain updated automatically.

There are also other repositories of applications that you can connect to with Ubuntu, but these are supported by the Ubuntu community or by commercial companies. Still, if you trust them and connect to them, then their updates are also automatically run through Ubuntu’s Update Manager (below). As a result, Ubuntu offers a much more centralized and effective way to keep computers up to date — especially if you stick mostly to the software in its main repository...

Tab Candy : an experimental feature for Firefox that reimagines tabbed browsing through tab groups and reorganization.

Tab Candy is launched via a small button to the right of your tabs, but it packs a lot of functionality.

* When you click on the Tab Candy button (or hit Option-Space on the Mac or Control-Space on Windows()), it will take you to a tab overview page that lets you scan all of your open tabs.

* Tab Candy lets you drag-and-drop tabs into related groups. You can even name the groups for easier tab management.

* When you open up a tab, Firefox() will only open up tabs that are part of its group. This means the end of the over-cluttered tab bar. You can switch your tab groups by going back to the Tab Candy overview page.

* Tab group sizes can be changed and groups can be rearragned so that important tabs such as your email and calendar are easy to find and scan.


An Introduction to Firefox's Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.


http://vimeo.com/13560319

Create Your Quiz Shut Down By Facebook

‘Create Your Quiz’ has been shut down for violating Facebook Platform policies.



Create Your Quiz Shut Down By Facebook

Will it or wont it, the cheap Ipad experience

Recently Indian government have launched the $35 touchscreen computer device. Very little information is available about the device as of now all that is know by press release made by Kapil Sibal is

• Linux based
• 2 GB Ram
• touch screen
• small form factor - possible similar to Ipad
• capability of web browsing, video conferencing
• word processing using open office
• usb support
• pdf viewer

I feel positive about this device, test of this device will be on the touch handling capability in my view, if it does now manage to handle well then this device is heading for the bins.

Kapil Sibal displaying the device in news conference

Here is a link to the BBC New article about the device

Open Video Player (OVP):Simplifies the task of creatinhg HTML based video applications..

Open Video Player (OVP) is an initiative encompassing the use of open standards, best practices, and established development methodologies in the development of media player applications. Currently this project provides a code base that can be used to solve common problems as part of building advanced, scalable, and robust web-based media player applications in Flash and Silverlight.
http://openvideoplayer.sourceforge.net/html5video/

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010

Google Buys Green Energy | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

Google Buys Green Energy | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

iPhone 4....The biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone....

Image by Yutaka Tsutano via Flickr

*FaceTime
*Two cameras,two views.
*The Retina display on iPhone 4 is the sharpest, most vibrant, highest-resolution phone screen ever, with four times the pixel count of previous iPhone models.

*Multitasking.
*HD Video Recording & Editing.
*5-megapixel camera with LED flash.
*iBooks.
*iTunes.
*iMovie....& so on

Monitis-100% Cloud- and SaaS-based,

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Monitis is a 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible IT monitoring solution which consolidates backend monitoring, application monitoring, website monitoring, and cloud monitoring in an all-in-one, central monitoring service. The platform is easily customizable and may be used for managing of all kinds of IT assets such as websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices. Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system’s health and performance.
Here is a link ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eB37a0H32o&feature=player_embedded

iTunes-TuneUp plugs into iTunes to fix your messed up muzic...

Clean mislabeled music like "Track 01" and "Unknown Artist"

Fill in missing cover art - no more gray music notes in cover flow

Concert alerts based on the artists in your music collection

YouTube videos, artist bios, merchandise and much, much more

http://vimeo.com/2440151

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Making online music easy, fun and social - Jango is all about that !!

Just type in an artist - and your first station starts playing right away. You'll get the music you want, along with similar favorites of Jango users who share your taste. Customizing your stations further is just as easy. Just add more artists and rate songs that you want to play more or less.

You can also tune in to other people's stations - and they can tune in to yours! In your player, you'll see who's listening to the same music as you, who's listening to your stations, and what your friends are playing.

http://www.jango.com/

You dont get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies:Mark Zuckerberg

The film, due out Oct. 1, is from director David Fincher ("Zodiac,'' "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") and is based on the 2009 book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal." Justin Timberlake portrays Sean Parker, Facebook's founding president and a co-founder of the original Napster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWoUgftTj3Y

Microblogging:Forsst

Forrst seeks to give designers and developers a place to share all their “little somethings” in a beautiful, social setting. It’s a bit like Tumblr..

http://forrst.com/

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

FlipBoard launches as the iPad's social media magazine

Well FlipBoard calls itself world's first social magazine..It primarily connects to facebook & twitter i.e your social media accounts & uses that information to create an interface ..


Flipboard takes popular news sources (specifically the ones you choose) as well as your Twitter and Facebook feed to provide to create a unique web browsing experience. Moving through the interface is a simple as flipping the page. Items shared on Facebook are suddenly turned into magazine articles and multimedia is immediately made front-and-center.If you are a magazine lover.you'l definitely feel familiar...
Below is the related video 

Meet Flipboard.

Free Legal Downloads....Software updates & more

If you are looking for any software or need an updation to ur system.,FileHippo.com is the site for you..it gives you update checker that informs you about the updations needed..
all the latest softwares at 1 place & its free...
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Photoshop......Add water drops...Fun !!!

http://bit.ly/6Y8jD

Shorten your long links..,share & track

http://bit.ly/axg6ym

Facebook Chat History - Even Offline Friends

The Changing Cloud Platforms: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and More

The Changing Cloud Platforms: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and More

Salesforce.com: What is Cloud Computing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHgtp_WfR8&feature=player_embedded#!

Fonts on WEB

http://webfonts.fonts.com/
This site provides a little way for site designers to choose a preferred font family, backup choices, and finally a generic choice (serif, sans serif, and so on) if none of the fonts are available.
The no. of fonts available on systems is limited & downloadin fonts to your PC is a bit complicated job to do..
Monotype's Webfonts.fonts.com Web site offerins high-quality fonts that can be more easily served to site visitors. As a Web site developer, you would go to that site, create a project, pick the typefaces you want to use, and assign them to the CSS style sheet "selectors" that define different parts of your page. Fonts.com then creates a small HTML tag you add to the style sheet of your page. Visitors will then see the new fonts on your page...
Monotype Imaging says it works in all the popular browsers used on Windows and Mac PCs--Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera--with support for some Android devices coming......

One of the reasons print newspapers and magazines (and iPad apps, for that matter) tend to look better than their online counterparts is a better use of fonts. Making the Web look better as well is certainly a good step.

Make video films from stills...Its fun

I found a way to create a video using a program called Animoto. Using this app, you can create an animated video slide show from still photos you took with the iPhone camera. The program lets you create a short video with 10 pictures for free, or you can pay a reasonable fee to create longer videos with more pictures. You can even add royalty free music, and what you produce is a very slick video with a soundtrack.
The great thing about it is you can easily share videos with frenz via email or social networking sites like facebook,twitter or youtube...You just dont need to buy a new iPhone for capturing videos because this is really an app for it...

http://animoto.com/pricing

AppInventor

Have a google account.?? then you should try out AppInventor..Its a Visual Programming Language that provides you mobile pocket internet..It lets you create mobile services & applications to engage the mobile space as developers regardless of any computer programming knowledge..
Its such an enormous experience being a creator of technology rather than being just consumers of it...Android device provides it with fully featured internet in pocket..
It can be used with a phone and if not with it than a emulator for the phone can be used instead,& no software need to be downloaded for that purpose,it could be located in the AppInventorExtras Package...
AppInventor is gonna change not only how apps are created,but who creates them....