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Norton 360 Version 4

Jignesh Desai — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Norton 360 Version 4

Today Norton from Symantec announced its new version of consumer product Norton 360 v4. Norton offers security products like

Norton AntiVirus: A antivirus and antispyware tool.
Norton Internet security: A smart firewall + antivirus and antispyware protection
Norton 360 V4: is a combination of Norton Antivirus and Internet Security , plus it offers Identity protection, PC Tuneup, Online backup upto 2GB and more.

I was one among the few who where lucky to receive 1st copies of the product for FREE from David Hall, Regional Product Manager Asia Pacific and Gaurav Kanwal, Country Sales Manager, India. The event was organized by http://www.2020india.com

I am yet to explore new features, some of them are

1. Norton reputation service: A technology that scrutinizes different attributes of files and applications in real-time to determine if they are safe.
2. Its now faster and occupies less memory footprint.
3. Reduces PC start-up time by allowing you to prioritize and stagger your start-up applications. No more slow startup frustration

Rest I will share my experience, when I explore it further.

Dell launches Alienware Gaming Laptop in India

Jignesh Desai — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Dell India Launches new laptop for Gamers. "Dell Alienware". Event was held at ITC Grand Central, Parel on 6th Aug.

A high-end model is targeted to audience who are addictive gamers. The base price is 1,40,000 INR. It supports upto 8GB of DDR3 RAM at 1333 Mhz and 1TB capacity of HDD @ 7200 rpm with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G1 GPU.

Above all it has Intel® Core™2 Quad processor.

+Plus

Nice at configuration
Speed was good
Nice lighted Keyboard
You can configure color of the light through Alienware control panel.
System performance was rated as 5.7 out of 8.
Slot DVD / BlueRay Disk.

-Ve

Heavy on weight
Speaker not so powerful
Price is high for indian market.

Issue with BindingSource and Nullable columns

Jignesh Desai — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

One of the issue with databinding in VS2008 is that is does not have a proper support for nullable columns. The advance databinding property does have a option to specify "Null Value" but it does not seems to accept DBNull.Value or String.Empty. Its hard to believe that such a simple thing is not supported and its frusting and disappointing for many developers.

The workaround for this is
1. Trap TextBox.DataBindings("Text").Parse event and set value to null if underlying textbox is empty.
2. or Set TextBox.DataBindings("Text").NullValue = String.Empty

Both above are tedious workaround since if there are too many textbox controls on form that you need to write that many no of times in all your Winforms.

I decided to go for a loop as below.
For i As Integer = 0 To FLOPBindingSource.CurrencyManager.Bindings.Count - 1
FLOPBindingSource.CurrencyManager.Bindings(i).NullValue = String.Empty
Next

Hope that VS2008 team comes up with a path for us to avoid all this manual workaround.

The summer heat is on! - TIPS

Jignesh Desai — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The summer heat is on!

1. Your body's water requirement increase drastically during the summer months. Always keep a bottle handy. Refuel and replenish.

2. During the day, make sure you include lime juice, coconut water and thin buttermilk in your diet. These will make up for the fluids lost while you sweat.

3. Avoid caffeinated, carbonated, or alcoholic beverages which contain preservatives. These are acidic in nature and cause a loss of fluids through urine.

4. Switch to light, nutritious and non-fatty meals. Cut down on artificial sugar as it is said to contain chemicals that could slow down the metabolic process of your body and thus lengthen the time taken for your body to cool down

5. Reduce your intake of hot and spicy foods. Fat and inorganic salts that are found in most snacky and spicy foods have a thermal effect on the body, affecting blood vessels that control and slow down heat loss.

6. Include fresh fruits in the form of salads and juices, preferably without sugar, in all your meals. Fruits not only help in cooling the body, but contain natural vitamins and antioxidants that benefit the body and prevent dehydration. They are also the best replacements for that tea time snack.
* Mangoes may be the fruit of the season but they all fall under the category of high-heat foods. If you
   can't resist them, soaking them in cool water over night would be of some help.
   * It is said that even fruits like grapefruit and roots like radish can cause body temperatures to rise
     and are high-heat foods.
   * Watermelons, water apples, grapes and other melons are coolers and preferred fruits for the
     summer.
* Tomatoes (with a high Vitamin A & C content) are said to be highly beneficial summer fruit.

Have a nice day,

Tips4Me Team

Vista Ultimate - Tips and Tricks

Jignesh Desai — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how to get the most out of Windows Vista Ultimate with this how-to booklet, available as a free PDF download (8.98 MB).

Get free tips and tricks for Windows Vista Ultimate

Microsoft Surface

Jignesh Desai — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

To know more visit
http://www.microsoft.com/surface

Mainsoft Announces ASP.NET AJAX on Linux

Jignesh Desai — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Mainsoft^® Corporation, a leading provider of .NET-Java^™ EE interoperability software, today announced that its latest release of Mainsoft products provide full support for Microsoft's^® ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions and AJAX Control Toolkit. Mainsoft for Java EE, version 2.2, allows Visual C# and Visual Basic developers to use ASP.NET 2.0 components from Microsoft to create Java pages with sophisticated, responsive user interfaces and efficient client-server communications by simply adding a few server controls to their ASP.NET pages. Ported applications deliver equivalent performance and scalability on Java as the original application delivers in .NET.

More.....

India Rejects Microsoft's OOXML Format ‏2nd Time

Jignesh Desai — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Here is another example of what happens when you do not exercise your "Right to Vote". The Open XML Std was rejected again by India BIS Committee. Out of 19 members, five of them did not attend the meeting, one of them abstained, five voted in favour of OOXML(namely Microsoft, NASSCOM, TCS, Wipro and Infosys) and the rest voted against. My anger is not on why did they vote against but i am angry on those five who decided not to vote. If they could not attend meeting its fine, but they could have atleast given their vote by writing a format letter to commitee. its it ?

More Voices here:
1. witness-academia-industry-divide
2. http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/25529/news.htm

Happening on Open XML - an update.

Jignesh Desai — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

On one had Controversy surrounding Microsoft's Open XML standards bid is being fueled by an irrational anti-Microsoft sentiment,where as on other side 2nd meeting in Geneva earlier this month, called the Ballot Resolution Meeting, sought to resolve technical problems and move the specification closer to standardization. Abhishek has posted more information links and opinions here which is quite interesting.

http://www.abhishekkant.net/2008/03/openxml-and-iso-standardisation.html

How fast is fast?

Jignesh Desai — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

You would have worked with KHz(Kilo-Hertz) micro-processors in the past; MHz(Mega-Hertz) speedy ones lately; THz(Tera-Hertz) processors too are available for .... .........EHz(Exa-Hertz) ....... .... Read More : http://www.dotnetspider.com/kb/Article4270.aspx