Microsoft Surface...Adding new dimensions to technology !!!

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What is Microsoft Surface??
You won't believe this until you see it. It's actually real. No mouse, no keyboards, but you can touch it and guess what . . . it actually feels you. Don't you know what is it? It's Microsoft Surface!!!

What is special about this surface??
One can touch a color in the one-screen palette and draw an image on the screen.
Touch green and draw grass, Touch red and draw flames of fire. Microsoft Tabletop can understand all this. It also recognizes various objects. Surface has been optimized to respond to 52 touches at a time.

The four main features in this device are direct interaction,Multi-touch contact,a multi user interface and object recognition.Even non digitsl devices can be used as input devices to the surface.It also responds to multiple gestures made by the user which is the most important and exciting feature in this technology wonder created by Microsoft.

The surface is much more than just a touch screen computer.The form factor of the surface is like a table.It is a big table 22 inches high, 21 inches deep, and 42 inches wide.The size of the screen is 30 inches and it is a multi touch surface.The current commercial version of the surface comes with a core 2 dou processor.
Here is a glimpse of the surface:

Microsoft Student Partners !!!

The Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Program is an annual position that recognizes people who have made outstanding contributions to the student community.Folks are selected and recognized, the most talented students from universities across the country for their dedication, passion and involvement with Microsoft each academic year.
The Microsoft Student Partners is a worldwide educational program to sponsor students majoring in disciplines related to technology.The program is available in most countries, and all students in college and university level are eligible to apply. Typically, few most skilled students from each institution are chosen at a time. If accepted, Student Partners are assumed to further share the knowledge among the academic community by, for example, arranging courses, giving presentations and initiating projects.

Benefits:

-You get to interact with the Microsoft team during various conferences and meetings.
- Get all the latest information about Microsoft's present and products.
- Get an year of MSDN Premium subscription by which you can download all Microsoft softwares free of cost.
- Other benefits include Dreamspark,student-partners.com email id,T shirts,Caps and lots of goodies.
- Most importantly,you get a position among your friends that is very coveted and you get respect from everyone.
- Also,you get a chance to be partnered with Microsoft,which itself is the greatest thing and adds a lot of value in your Resume.

All those students interested in technology and want to level-up your skills and personal value by getting the Microsoft branding should be looking forward to this program.The next MSP selections in India will most probably begin on May-June 2010.All those interested for the program should check the student partners website http://student-partners.com .In case of any doubts,you can contact me via email.

New NOKIA N97...Its just mindblowing

There were rumours about Nokia N97 and fake images were also released by some websites but Wait is now over. Finally, Nokia officially has revealed its N97 to the world.

The features the phone are just awesome, let’s see them :

Internet :

Quick and easy access to services on the Internet

Ease of writing with the QWERTY keyboard and touch screen

Touchscreen slider 3.5 inches

Personalize your home screen with widgets

Get the latest information via RSS feeds

Take pictures and videos and send them immediately on the Internet

Video and TV

Watch high quality videos on a large 3.5-inch screen, 16:9

Video at 30 frames per second (fps) for many formats

Share your videos, music and photos on your TV through TV output

Access to the videos on the Internet with the Nokia Video Center

MPEG-4 / SP and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, up to 30 fps, up to VGA resolution

Music

3.5 mm audio jack, built-in stereo speakers

Music player with editing playlists, equalizers and access to your music by category

Search, browse and buy music online on the Nokia Music Store

Supported Formats : MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC +, WMA

Navigation and Maps

Nokia Maps with integrated electronic compass and A-GPS receiver

Guides multimedia cities and navigation service.

Driving: voice guidance for car

Walking: optimal guidance through step by step

Connectivity

WLAN IEEE 802.11b / g with UPnP support

Micro-USB connector, Hi-Speed USB 2.0

3.5mm stereo audio output and TV output (PAL / NTSC)

2.0 with stereo Bluetooth A2DP support and enhanced data rates (EDR)

Integrated GPS receiver, A-GPS supported

Some more impressive features includes :
Memory: Up to 48GB (32 GB internal memory, 16GB extension via microSD)
Camera: Carl Zeiss Vario Teissar lens @ 5 MegaPixels

The Price??????

Currently it is available @ Rs 35,000...So all the guys having that much in their pockets should be ready to be the master of this masterpiece....

Pictures::Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Yes Friends...The wait for the next movie from the Harry Potter series is going to be over...Harry Potter and the half blood prince is all ready to entertain the audiences worldwide..Some of the exclusive screenshots of the movie are here..
Just take a look friends:

Transformers 2..The wait is over...

Transformers 2:the revenge of the fallen,the sequel of the much hyped Transformers is back...and back with a bang....
- The biggest movie of the summer is finally here, but that's the problem with this movie is that- it's just too too long.The visual effects are stunning and outstanding.The picture seems to be very HD like and has much more action packed in it than its predeccessor.The graphics is stunning and the colours are so bright and each and every detail has been given importance to.

The plot of the story goes as under:

It is revealed that thousands of years before Optimus Prime and the other Transformers arrived on Earth, there was a race of ancient Transformers who scoured the universe looking for Energon sources. Known as the Dynasty of Primes, they used a weapon called the Sun Harvester to drain stars of their energy in order to convert it to Energon and power Cybertron’s Allspark.

In present day, two years after the events of the first film, Optimus now leads NEST, a military organization consisting of human troops and his own team of Autobots.This is the information available now.There are confirmed news that Optimus Prime is killed by Megatrons in this part of the sequel and that Megatrons come back into power again leading to speculations that there will be another sequel after this....

Here are a few screenshots of the upcoming movie..Just waiting to watch it.....Releasing on July 10th in India...

Adobe CS4..The best Multimedia Editing suite ever

Adobe offers Creative suite professional software in five flavors. Among them, the Master Collection offers professionals the most jam-packed digital toolbox.The release of Adobe Creative Suite 3 in 2007 was the first to incorporate former Macromedia products, such as Flash. With Creative Suite 4, Adobe has unified the interfaces of all the applications for a more seamless experience. There are applications for concocting and editing digital pixel and vector graphics, print layouts, video, audio, web pages, Web pages, and animation, and then repurposing that content for mobile devices. Those who don't need the whole shebang might consider suites that cost less, such as Web Premium or Standard for Web design, Design Premium or Standard with tools for printed media, or Production Premium for film production.Its a product highly recommended only for professionals.


The packages in which the Adobe CS 4 will be available are:
1)Adobe CS 4 Master Collection
2)Adobe CS 4 Design Premium
3)Adobe CS 4 Design Standard
4)Adobe CS 4 Web Premium
5)Adobe CS 4 Web Standard
6)Adobe CS 4 Production Premium

Minimum Requirements: Users of Windows XP SP2 or Vista must have a processor of at least 2GHz, or 3.4GHz for working with high-definition video. Photoshop now natively supports 64-bit Vista, while Premiere, After Effects, Soundbooth, Encore, and OnLocation are certified for 64-bit Vista.

The various applications offered in Adobe CS 4 are:
a)Adobe Acrobat 9 professional
b)After Effects CS 4
c)Contribute CS 4
d)Dreamweaver CS 4
e)Fireworks CS 4
f)Flash CS 4
g)Illustrator CS 4 professional
h)InDesign CS 4
i)Photoshop CS 4
j)Priemiere Pro CS 4
k)Sound Booth CS 4




Cons :
The costly, heavy-duty applications take long to install, are hard to learn, and hog resources; personal tech support can exceed the price of some applications; some apps, such as Photoshop, offer few compelling reasons for most users to upgrade.

Pros :
The dozen applications in the Adobe CS4 Master Collection sport streamlined interfaces and integration for designing and editing images, Web pages, mobile sites, desktop apps, animation, film, and print layouts, and support the latest digital formats.

Android..Upcoming challenge from Google to Microsoft

So Whats Android??
Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux Kernel.It is an open source Operating system,so it will be one of the most awaited OS of the year,especially for Developer tools.


Well,Android was supposed to be a mobile and handheld devices' operating system developed by Google..It has been quiet sometime that Google decided to finalize the launch of Android,but now the latest news has confirmed that Google's Android platform would be developed as an OS for Pc's also giving Microsoft the toughest challenge ever.Google most ambitious Android project will impact Microsoft in a very significant way as claimed by experts.As of now,the mobile UI is available but the PC version is under development and the beta version may be available commercially anywhere around first quarter in the next year..


The latest SDK(Software Development Kit) of Android OS was released in Dec'08 and its version is m5-rc14.The new improvements include New User Interface,Layout animations, geo-coding and numerous new media codecs.Given below are a few screenshots of Android mobile: