Archive for May, 2009

Vista will be sold until January of 2011

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

vista

According to a spokesperson for Microsoft the company expects to continue marketing its operating system Windows Vista until January 2011.

This is a little odd if we think we are now able to download Windows 7 RC, which would be marketed later this year or early next. With one year would be sold both OSes.

As for the support of Vista the company plans to extend it until April 2012, quite short compared with the support of XP, whose expiration date would be April, 2007 (in its various versions).

We know that Microsoft can offer its products for as long as it sees fit, but it is not clear if there is someone willing to buy Vista if Windows 7 is just out of the oven.

Link: Microsoft: Sun Will Slowly Set on Vista (Via PC World)

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Windows 7 RC now available

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

This is already available  for all the mortals version Release Candidate of Windows 7, the mentioned version Build 7100 with new features that you will be able to unload until the 30 of June of this year and will be able to use until June of the 2010.

Microsoft recommends a 1GHz processor or better, 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit), 16 GB hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB in the case of a processor 64-bit and a GPU that supports DirectX 9. It will also be necessary to check if the processor meets the requirement of virtualization if we use the Windows XP Mode: Intel (Intel VT) / AMD (AMD-V).

According to a bulletin Technet, users of Windows 7 Beta if you need to do a backup and do a clean install, while Windows users can upgrade to Windows Vista RC without any problems, yet they suggest not thrilled because in either case to test Windows 7 RTM later be forced to do an installation from scratch.

Microsoft is very optimistic and there will surely be more surprises as they say ™ appears as a second RC version in August before the final RTM (Release to Manufacturing).

Link: Windows 7 RC (Microsoft)

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Google Latitude

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

On Feb-09, Google has launched Google Latitude, which is taken to Google Maps mobile phones and mobile devices to share your current location in real-time with your contacts.

Google Latitude works with your existing Google account and you can send invitations to connect to people you want to connect to this service. For people who suffer from paranoia and want to maintain your privacy, the system can adjust the level of privacy desired.

This Google service is available in the following mobile platforms:

  • Almost all models of BlackBerry
  • Windows Mobile 5.0 onwards
  • iGoogle
  • Android
  • iPhone and iPod touch
  • Phones with Java (J2ME)
  • Symbian S60

Knowing Google and the wide range of products and services offered will be a matter of time for us to interact with Latitude, Gmail, Google Calendar, and whatever else they happen in a not so distant future.

Google Latitude is available in 27 countries, including India, Brazil. I’m using it with AirTel Live & Nokia 51 !! :-)

Link: Google Latitude (Google)

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SQL: Get First and Last Day of Week

Monday, May 4th, 2009

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How to get First and Last Day of Week.

Select GETDATE() AS 'Today', 

DATEPART(Week,GETDATE()) AS 'Week No of Today', 

DATEADD( DAY , -DATEPART(WEEKDAY,(DATEADD( DAY , 7-DATEPART(WEEKDAY,GETDATE()),GETDATE())))
+(7-DATEPART(WEEKDAY,GETDATE()))+1 ,GETDATE()) 'First Day Of This Week', 

DATEADD(DAY , 7-DATEPART(WEEKDAY,GETDATE()),GETDATE()) AS 'Last Day Of Week'

Happy Programming!!

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SQL: Get column names of a specified table.

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Description:
How to get column names of a specified table then do this code .

SELECT COLUMN_NAME As 'Columns' , DATA_TYPE As 'Type' FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'Your_Table_Name' ORDER BY ORDINAL_POSITION

OR

SELECT [NAME] AS 'Columns' FROM SYSCOLUMNS WHERE [ID] = Object_Id('Your_Table_Name')

Read More about INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS 
Read More about SYSCOLUMNS

Happy Programming!!

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Google automates the color filter on image search

Friday, May 1st, 2009

If it was possible filtering searches images by manually adding color code & color = imgcolor, Google announced that now that option is part of the search bar.
We will have to wait several hours to propagate the new version and have the filter for color images in our search engine Google.

The announcement, in GOS

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