Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Microsoft Offers Visual Studio Learning Pack for Free



Microsoft Developer Network has released Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0. Microsoft created Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0, a software package, to help students learn about computer programming. It consists of five main components.



Key Features

1. Sort Designer Control is a supplementary teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular computer sorting algorithms.

2. Search Designer Control is a teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular data search algorithms. It supports binary and sequential searches.

3. Visual Declarative Designer is an intuitive variable declaration tool designed for novice programmers.

4. Assistant Class Designer is a visual class designer for novice programmers.

5. Visual Programming Flow Chart is a supplementary teaching tool designed to help students understand program control flow.

Download Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0

About Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.
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Try Visual Studio 2008 - Trial Software
Microsoft offer Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 90-Day Trial in India.
You can download it from here

Star TV launches Star Player to Watch Channels Online


Star TV India launched Star Player to watch Star TV channels online. This new video site shows the most popular and talked about videos across the Star network. The Star Player has features like - Lights Off/On, Adjustable picture settings, adjustable video size and a smart sleek look to enhance your video watching experience.

Key Features

  • It is free to watch latest videos across channels of the Star network
  • Interactive and social networking features
  • High quality videos
  • Videos are neatly classified into categories
  • Search box to aid in the discovery of videos
  • One stop address for the hottest videos of the Star network.
  • Star Player’s widget

You can watch Star Player’s videos on www.Startv.in.


Mozilla FireFox 3.5 Released



Get ready for the fastest web surfing experience. Mozilla released Firefox® 3.5, a major update to its popular, free and open source Web browser.





Key Features


  1. Two times faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2.
  2. Improved JavaScript performance.
  3. New Private Browsing mode.
  4. Support for open video and audio.
  5. Aware Browsing.

Click Here to download.

Bharti Airtel Introduces India's first Android™ Phone



Bharti Airtel Introduces India's first Android™ Phone, the HTC Magic. The Android ™ platform opens up an unique opportunity to mobile users to customize their device with multiple mobile applications. Airtel customers can avail many utility based applications such as Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel, Mobishare, In-mobile search and City Search. Airtel customers to get free data download of 100 MB per month for 6 months. The HTC Magic will be available at a market price of Rs. 29,990/- at Airtel Relationship Centres and authorized HTC resellers across 17 cities.

Key Features

  • Operating System- Android
  • Memory- ROM: 512 MB AND RAM: 288 MB
  • 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen
  • 3G/HSDPA
  • 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
  • Expansion Slot- microSD™ memory card

What is Android?

Android is a mobile phone operating system developed by Google.Android™ delivers a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. Android allows users to get the features they want in the phone they want

Is Creating a Professional Website Easy?



Are you planning to make website for your small business? There is no need to run after the web designing agencies. You can make your own website which looks as professional too. Creating a website is an easy process now and you don't worry about technical jargons. There are plenty of web tools to create websites Instantly. I prefer Microsoft Office Live Small Business for your online business.

http://smallbusiness.officelive.com
The following two You Tube videos help you to make a website in http://smallbusiness.officelive.com





Web Browsers for Mobile Phones


A mobile browser is web browser designed for use on a mobile device. Nowadays it's a trend that people use their handset for checking e-mails and everything like on desktop. There are few good web browsers which give you desktop like experience on your mobile phone screen. The following are few of the mobile phone web browsers.

Opera Mini
Opera Mini is the world’s most popular mobile Web browser with over 20 million users.Opera Mini enables you to take your full Web experience to your phone.
Download Opera Mini

BOLT
BOLT is a free downloadable browser that offers an uncompromised browsing experience on even lower-end mobile phones.Rather than offering a simplified, mini version of the Internet, BOLT provides users with a fast, efficient, feature-rich way to enjoy full PC-style web pages and rich media applications on all levels of mobile devices.
Download Bolt

Skyfire
•Free mobile browser
•Windows Mobile and Nokia phones
Download Skyfire


Microsoft IE for Mobile
•Key Features: Standard browser features
•Operating System: Windows Mobile

Safari
•Key Features: Display rich websites like You Tube, zoom feature, excellent touch-based user interface
•Operating System: iPhone

Mozilla Fennec
•Mobile version of FireFox

Google Android
•Key Features: Display rich websites, zoom feature, touch screen interface
•Operating System: Google Android