Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra 2011 - Chennai !

Its back.. A bigger version this time.. With nice glamour, at Asia's 2nd largest auditorium at SRM University - Kattangalathur on March 4th 2011!

For those who haven't ever heard of this name before, DreamSpark Yatra is an annual Microsoft event held across the country,  for students to enrich them with information from the world of technology.

We, the CNUGStudent community, is hosting one here at Chennai offering cool sessions by Microsoft India / MSP-CHN. We also have fun contests which can bring you prizes.

Chief Guest: Mr. Floris van Heijst - General Manager, Business & Marketing Organisation, Microsoft India.

All attendees will be provided access to premium softwares via DreamSpark programme, apart from certificates.

Check out http://cnugstudent.in/cnug/dsy/ for more details.

See you there soon, for joining us in the exiting day-long event!

Regards,
Vedhapuri

Testing the iPad ...

Technology products are really useful in variety of ways... iPad is one such product that captured millions of hearts...

Check out this video where this iPad is put to use in a different way !!

70 Billion Pixels Budapest - The largest photo on Earth

Check out this 70 gigapixel shot of Budapest.. 

http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/

The photograph was taken from a 100-year-old observation tower built on the highest point of Budapest, the stitched panorama is over 5,90,000 pixels wide by nearly 1,21,000 pixels tall.
The image capturing stage of the project took over three hours to finish. The source images were then stitched with Autopano Giga software and this process took two full days and resulted in a 200GB file!

HTML5

In HTML5, you won't have to worry about installing a plugin to listen to a song or watch a video on a website. This is a good thing for platforms that doesn't support Flash (e.g., iPhone and iPad) or have some problems with it (e.g., Linux). It will also be a boon to smartphones where supporting Flash is problematic.

HTML5 is popular because of its features like media playback by tags and offline storage.
With HTML4, sites have to go for Flash or Silverlight to show a video or play music. HTML5 lets sites directly embed media with the simple HTML tags "video" and "audio" -- no plugins are required.

With this, we will be able to create files in Google Docs or draft e-mails when away from an Internet connection. These changes would be automatically synchronised  the next time we go online.

HTML5 also adds new interactivity features, like drag-and-drop, that have already found their way into Gmail.

Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 all support at least some elements of HTML5.  And many Google products already use some features.

Practical difficulties restrict HTML5 to dominate and kill Flash & Silverlight..
HTML5 has a long way to go for establishing it's strong presence..

For more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/html_5_dream/

Microsoft Academic Developer Conference 2010 !

Hi !!

There is going to be a conference at Chennai on 12th March 2010, which is open to all college students, and is titled as "Microsoft DreamSparkYatra" a.k.a. Academic Developer Conference 2010...

It will focus on topics like Concept Visualization, demos with Mobile Apps, working with Fun tech tools & practical demos of those tools along with a Tech Quiz...

Its held at MM Convention Centre in Saveetha Dental College Campus.

Attending the event requires prior registration (Rs. 60).

Interested students may register online at this webpage:
http://mdy.cnugstudent.in/mdy/

Once you register you will be receiving an e-mail with an unique registration no...Pls note it and let know about that no. to any of the Microsoft Student Partner you know so that you can get the Entry Pass for that Event....

For more information about that event visit http://mdy.cnugstudent.in/mdy

Imagine Cup 2010 !

Hi !

Imagine Cup is back once again... For those who don't know about Imagine Cup: Imagine Cup is a premier student technology competition conducted by Microsoft every year.

There are different categories:
* Digital Media (creating a video that can showcase your idea in changing the world we live, considering issues in our society)
* Software Design (which involves in developing an application, solving the specified requirements) ,
* Game Design (designing a simple 2D game or even a 3D one, using any app. like Visual Studio / Silverlight, XNA Game Studio, etc)
* Embedded development (working with both hardware and software to build a solution using Windows Embedded CE )
* IT Challenge (which involves an online quiz, where qns will be related to various MS technologies)

Have a look at this promotional video of Imagine Cup 2010..



Any student from any country can register for this..The year of study or the department / stream you belong to doesn't matter.. Participating in this international competition is absolutely free ! It gives you a great exposure !! You can have chances of winning excellent prizes from Microsoft !

Check out http://imaginecup.com/

What does Google think about Twitter? :)

Hi !
I just came across this thing..Have a look at this ...

See this for more:
http://www.omgenius.com/google-spelling-fail/

Try searching for your own & get a funny list...