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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.

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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