Microsoft DreamSpark February 28, 2008
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DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology – or just get a head start on your career.
Who can get this right now?
Currently t.hey are giving this to students from 11 countries.United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium. If you are not residing in one of the countries listed keep checking they will add more countries soon.
What do I have to do to get this software?
- just select a product
- Sign In with your Windows Live ID.
- Get verified as a student.
- Download your products.
The following products are availabele now
- Expression Studio
- Sql Server 2005 Express
- Sql Server Developer Edition
- Virtual PC 2007
- Visual Basic 2005
- Visual C++ 2005
- Visual C# 2005
- Visual J# 2005
- Visual Studio 2008
- Visual Web Developer 2005
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional
- Windows Server 2003
- XNA Game Studio
Goto: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/
Ubuntu: Hardy Heron Alpha 5 February 24, 2008
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The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Hardy Heron Alpha 5 is the fifth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features.
The features are
1. Wubi
2. Xorg 7.3
3. Linux kernel 2.6.24
4. PulseAudio
5. PolicyKit
6. Firefox 3 Beta 3
7. Transmission
8. Vinagre
9. Brasero
10. World Clock Applet
11. GVFS
12. GNOME System Monitor
13. Virtualization
14. Firewall
15. umenu
16. Wubi
Checkout this official site for more details
Download Alpha 5
Get it while it’s hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/hardy/alpha-5/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/hardy/alpha-5/ (Edubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jeos/releases/hardy/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu JeOS)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/hardy/alpha-5/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/releases/hardy/alpha-5/ (Gobuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/hardy/alpha-5/ (UbuntuStu
Extend Your Life With iMac September 19, 2007
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Your .Mac membership gives you 10 GB of online email and file storage, as well as instant access to everything you need to extend your Mac experience to the Internet:
- Web Galley for sharing photos and movies (requires iLife ’08)
- Website hosting with iWeb (included with iLife ’06 or later)
- IMAP Mail and webmail
- Groups
- Sync
- iDisk storage
- Backup
You can share photos and movies online, send and receive email, publish your own website or blog, sync and back up important data, and more. Setting up your account on your Mac takes just a few seconds, so you can make full use of .Mac right away.
I signed up for a trial membership of 60days. Don’t know whether i can try all those things because now i am working in Flip Media. If you have time don’t wait.. Try your mac life 
iPOD TOUCH September 17, 2007
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Steve Jobs introduced new Apple iPOD Touch. The new iPOD “the same size screen as the iPhone, but it is thinner (8mm), and it also touts the “same multi-touch interface” found on the iPhone. Additionally, it boasts a 3.5-inch widescreen display, the ability to “flick through your photos,” and you even get the “slide to unlock” feature, too. Some features are
Features
- Music
If a picture says a thousand words, think of what all the album art in your collection might say. With Cover Flow on iPod touch, you can flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. And when you do, a quick tap of the cover flips it over to display a track list. Another tap starts the music.
- Video
The 3.5-inch display gives you video like nothing you’ve seen before on a portable device. Watch your favorite movie. Catch up on television shows, anywhere. Enjoy video podcasts. Play music videos. All using multi-touch technology that lets you bring up onscreen controls and go widescreen (or back to full screen) with a tap.
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Photos
iPod touch holds up to 20,000 photos you sync via iTunes. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Rotate for landscape format. Or perform some sleight of hand by opening two fingers to zoom in. You can even play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Set any photo as your wallpaper to personalize your iPod touch…with a touch.
- Wi-Fi Wb Browser
Safari
With Apple’s Safari browser built in, iPod touch is the only iPod that gives you wireless access to the web, everywhere you go. See websites the way they were designed to be seen. Sync your bookmarks or add a few as you go. Search the web using the touchscreen keyboard. Zoom in and out by tapping the multi-touch display.
- YouTube
Got a bit of a YouTube addiction? iPod touch feeds it from anywhere with a special YouTube player built right in. Watch featured videos, check out the most viewed, search for something specific, then bookmark your favorites for future reference. It’s all the fun of YouTube — pocket-size.
It is available in in models based on its memory.
- 8GB which will cost 299$
- 16GB which will cost 399$
The 2007 Oscar Awards February 26, 2007
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The Departed Director: Martin Scorsese
Best Supporting Actress : Jennifer Hudson
Film: Dreamgirls
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Best Director : Martin Scorsese
Film: The Departed
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Other Awards
Animated Feature Film: Happy Feet
Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth
Cinematography: Pan’s Labyrinth
Costumes: Marie Antoinette
Documentary (feature): An Inconvenient Truth
Film Editing: The Departed
Foreign Language Film : The Lives of Others
Makeup: Pan’s Labyrinth
Music (Original Score): Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla
Music (Original Song): An Inconvenient Truth
“I Need To Wake Up” – Music and Lyrics by Melissa Etheridge
Sound Editing: Letters from Iwo Jima
Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Departed
Writing (Original Screenplay): Little Miss Sunshine
Honorary Award: Awarded to Sherry Lansing
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Honorary Award: Awarded to Ennio Morricone
For his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music.
