Microsoft’s Worldwide telescope

Microsoft keep continuing their amazing things.And now its Worldwide telescope

Microsoft has released a free public beta of its world wide telescope that lets stargazers explore the universe from their PC’s. It’s a rich web application that accesses high resolution images  taken by ground- and Earth-orbiting telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

The main screen of the Worldwide Telescope contains stars visible to the human eye that are mapped into constellations. You can navigate with your mouse in any direction and zoom in or out with its scroll wheel. Points of interest appear when you mouse over. You can also use the top menu or search to find celestial bodies. Here you can see that the edge of the Big Dipper’s cup does indeed point to Polaris or the North Star, which is located at the plus sign.

Isnt it great…Its definitely great:-)..

JOOMLA

I was chatting with my friend recently and he asked me to visit this particular site www.joomla.org. And i was astonished visiting that here’s what its about

Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalisation. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

The name Joomla is properly written with an exclamation mark as that is part of the name, but this is commonly omitted.

It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default.

So what are u waiting for..Have a look at it

Whats ZUNE??

Zune is a name of a brand of digital music products and services sold by microsoft… It includes digital audio players , softwares and an online music store..The devices can play music , display images and also play videos.. The Zune software allows the user to manage the files on the player..The software is available for both Windows XP and Vista…

This is is one of the direct competitors of  Apple’s iPod products

April Fool:-)

Google does it again…Every year they come up with a nice intelligent idea of fooling people and this time it was Gmail’s Custom time…. and the other one was Virgile

Wondering what is??

just visit

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

PAGENEST!!!! Just browse without internet connection!!

Copy your favorite webpages to hard disk with PageNest. Give PageNest the address of a website and it will copy either the page, or the entire site (whichever you prefer) to your hard disk. It will create an exact copy of what you see in your browser including the text, html, images and css

Use PageNest to create a ‘cache’ of pages you read regularly. Use PageNest to store copies of websites so you can read them when you are not connected. Use PageNest to archive sites before they change or disappear.

• Keep a permanent copy of useful websites - use PageNest to copy websites and pages to hard disk before they disappear from the internet.
• Fast multithreaded downloading engine. PageNest can download up to forty files at once to make the best use of your connection download pages as quickly as possible.
• Designed to be easy to use. PageNest includes many unique features to make you life easier. For example, the clickable list of recent downloads, buttons to move between sites in a single click, and a range of sensible defaults so you rarely need to change many settings.
• Download once, browse anywhere. PageNest converts all links withing the site to ‘relative’ links. All files are saved to your hard disk as standard html, jpeg, etc files. You can browse the sites either within PageNest or from your favorite browser. Because they are ordinary files, you can, for example, copy them to a laptop and take them with you to view when away from an internet connection.
• Download any file type: html, shtml, php, asp and any other file type will be downloaded correctly by PageNest and given the correct extension so it is usable on your computer.
• Still stuck on dial up? PageNests long history means it has many useful features for dial up users, at a time when newer competitors assume you are on broadband: PageNest downloads sites quickly and the sites can be browsed without an internet connection, saving you time and money; It’s unique ‘Dial Protection’ prevents whatever browser you use from attempting to open a dial up connection unless you let it; You can also set PageNest to automatically dial a connection and hang up afterwards.

Just give a visit.www.pagenest.com

VISUAL SEARCH!!!!

 

This is one more cool site…. www.riya.com

Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. It looks inside the image, not only at the text around it.

Use Riya to:

• Find similar faces and objects on many images across the web.
• Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.

Riya also has a personal search service that does face and text recognition in your photos. You can use our face and text recognition technology to:

• Train the system to recognize the main characters in the story of your life.
• Share photos with friends and family.

Just hum your voice!!!!!!you get the song

www.midomi.com

midomi is the ultimate music search tool because it is powered by your voice. Sing, hum, or whistle to instantly find your favorite music and connect with a community that shares your musical interests. Give it a try. It’s truly amazing!

Its mission is to build the most comprehensive database of searchable music. You can contribute to the database by singing in midomi’s online recording studio in any language or genre. The next time anyone searches for that song, your performance might be the top result!

At midomi you can create your own profile, sing your favorite songs and share them with your friends and get discovered by other midomi users. You can listen to and rate others’ musical performances, see their pictures, send them messages, buy original music, and more.

This site is really coooooll… So people just give a try

TIP OF THE DAY-Office 07

Ctrl Z is the magic undo combo. It simply undoes your last action, say, the paragraph you accidentally erased (it works in other applications, too–try it on the Photoshop filter you really wish you hadn’t applied, or after renaming a document or a folder in a Windows directory). Programs vary in the number of times you can undo something, but some will let you Ctrl Z all the way back to the beginning. (And, yes, there is a redo command, just hit Ctrl Y.)

Ctrl B, Ctrl I, or Ctrl U apply bold, italics, or underline to highlighted text, respectively.

Ctrl P prints whatever is in an active window.

Ctrl Backspace erases an entire word at a time, instead of a letter. Ctrl up or down arrows let you scroll an entire paragraph at a time, instead of one line, and Ctrl Shift up or down arrow will select an entire paragraph.

Ctrl Enter inserts a page break in Word.

Alt Ctrl C inserts the copyright symbol (Alt Ctrl R inserts the registered trademark symbol, and Alt Ctrl T makes the trademark symbol).

In Outlook, you can jump to the section you want: Ctrl 1 switches to the Mail window, Ctrl 2 switches to the Calender, Ctrl 3 to Contacts, Ctrl 4 to Tasks, and Ctrl 5 to Notes.

Ctrl Shift M starts a new message in Outlook. (Use Ctrl Shift C for a new contact.)

In Outlook e-mail, hit Ctrl N to compose a new message, Ctrl R to reply to a message.

The only Excel shortcut I’ve ever known, Ctrl , enters the date. (If you live in Excel, you should have the Excel Keyboard Shortcuts page in your Favorites!

Just Gahooyoogle It!!!!!!!!!!

This is one more Awsome site… Worth giving a visit…Just search something …on the left side of the screen u have..yahooo search results and on the right u have google results.. amazing isnt it

Do U know whats Blackle????

One of my friend messages me to just check out www. blackle.com and i did.I was stunned at the site ….Its nothing but another version (black version of google search)….. There s a reason actually to start it…Here it is…
Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.