Summer is at its peak. It has already cross 37°c. Many birds die in summer due to lack of water. Please place water pots for thirsty birds in Terraces, Compound Wall & Balconies.

For a moment, I got shocked! Microsoft Excel showed Formula’s instead of the values.  The Date column (Column B) showed me the internal numeric values too. I realized that I must have pressed a combination of reserved keys in Excel.  I could resolve this by pressing CTRL+` key.  Please note that in most of the keyboards, the ` key is located left to the numeric 1 (and below Escape key). As an alternate for Mouse users, you can even use the Office ribbon (Formula’s tab) to access the same option:

For the Keyboard Users, please refer to the complete list of Excel 2010 keyboard shortcuts on the Microsoft website.

Wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2012

You can donate your Old Clothes, Rice Provisions Toiletries, Old Newspapaper at Sri Rakum School for the Blind.  Its a free school for the visual impaired and under privileged ones.  This school is located at Sri Krishna Temple Road (parallel to CMH Road) Indiranagar.

You can even sponsor on your Birthday / Wedding Anniversary & Festivals by donating at their office.  The best part is that their drop-box is open 24/7.

When I visited their premises 2 days back to donate my son’s old bicycle, I got chance to meet Acharya Shree Rakumjee.  Acharya’ji was having great time with kids in the evening.

Here is the Google Map link of this school.  Please visit their official website to know about other Locations and contact numbers.  They even accept Online donations.

All donations to Sri Rakum School for the Blind are eligible for tax exemption under Section 80G(5) (VI) of the Income Tax Act.

To get directions to us from any place in Bangalore, just SMS “rakum school from <your starting point>” to 90088 90088

Agenda (Saturday January 7, 2012):

09:00AM - 09:30AM - Registration & Welcome
09:30AM - 10:00AM - Keynote (Pradipta Sharma)
10:00AM - 10:45AM - Windows 7 SP1 Deployment using MDT2012 Beta2 (Saravanan Rajappa)
10:45AM - 11:30AM - Exchange 2010 SP2 Overview (Ismail Mohammed)
11:30AM - 11:45AM - Tea Break
11:45AM - 12:30PM - Top 5 Free Desktop Deployment and Planning Tools for Every IT Professional (Aviraj)
12:30PM - 01:15PM - PowerShell 3.0 features in Windows 8 and Windows 8 Server (Ravikanth Chaganti)
01:15PM - 02:00PM - Lunch Break
02:00PM - 02:45PM - Private Cloud Architecture Design & Demos (Anand MS)
02:45PM - 03:30PM - Windows Server 8 Preview (Gaurav Anand)
03:30PM - 04:00PM - Tea Break
04:00PM - 04:45PM - Microsoft Indic in Windows 7 and Windows 8 (Dr.Pavanaja)
04:55PM - 05:30PM - Community Award ceremony & Closing Note

Venue:

JSS Auditorium
1st Main, Jayanagar VII Block, Kanakapura Road
Jayanagar VII Block
Bangalore 560011

For those who are unfamiliar with the location, here is the Bing Map and Google Map.

Click here to register for this event.

• Visit Geosense Location Sensor website and download the free tool (Geosense_1.2_x86.msi ~4mb). It has both 32-bit and 64-bit version of this tool.
• Run the setup file. During the setup, it will prompt for confirmation to install a Device Driver named from “The Within Network, LLC“.
• After the setup completes, go to Control Panel -> Locations and Other Sensors, and enable the Geosense Location Sensor.

Location and Other Sensors (Windows 7)

• Tip: Use the “View location activity” link on left to add the snap-in into the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).  This will help you to review the “Location Activity” log, which will give you details like FriendlyName, ImagePath, PID, Username, SID.

Once the above setup is over, you can use the following applications to test your Location:

• Weather Gadget of Windows 7
• Small Test Application – “Location enabled Google Maps client” (developed by Geosense team) – GoogleMapsDemo_1.0.zip ~60kb

Bingo! The Test Application gave me very accurate result on my Desktop PC.

More Information on this Topic and related area:

• How does it work? Refer the official website.
• Information on Windows Sensor and Location Platform – visit Microsoft website.
• Developers API – MSDN Documentation.

Now, I eagerly look forward to try this on a Laptop and share my result.

 Update: 24-Dec-2011

During the week, I experimented this tool with my Laptop going around the places.  I am happy to notice that the tool returns almost accurate results, provided you are using the right Internet Connection. It makes use of your IP address to find your location  In some cases, if you are in a Corporate Network/VPN, then there are some chances that you may be seen in some other Country! During one of my Test Result via VPN, I was seen at Japan

Another update, that I want to share is that this software works well in Windows 8 Developers Preview too.

I have also seen some other Support Websites, which provides user-friendly Tips (on the Online Form)to locate the Serial Number easily. I wish the same was available on HTC website too!

Coming back to the answer to this blog post, there are two “universal” ways to find the Serial Number.  Your mobile device serial number, is also available as part of the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) Number. Check this Wiki page to get an in-depth knowledge on IMEI numbers.

• Available on the little sticker under your battery (requires to switch off your phone).
• Dial *#06# into your dial-pad will give you the IMEI number.

A friendly note – the above procedure will remain same for all the Mobile Phones (Nokia, Samsung, LG…) across the world!

Agenda:

10:00am to 10:45am – The Windows Phone Opportunity
10:45am to 11:30am – Getting Starting – Tools & Marketplace
11:30am to 12:15pm – Designing Applications for Windows Phone
12:15pm to 01:00pm – Developing Applications for Windows Phone
02:00pm to 02:45pm – Making your Application Submission Ready

Event at Pune:

Date: Tuesday 20th December 2011 – 9:00am to 3:00pm
Venue: Le Meridian, Raja Bahadur Mill Road, Pune.
Registration: No Registration Fee – Click here to Register Now.

Event at Chennai:

Date: Thursday 22nd December 2011 – 9:00am to 3:00pm
Venue: Savera Hotel, 146, Dr. Radhakrishnan Road, Chennai.
Registration: No Registration Fee – Click here to Register Now.

A 10 day sale of exotic ornamental plants, medicinal plants and herbs.

Venue:

Horticulture Training Center,
9th B Main, 10th Cross, LIC Colony,
Jeevanbima Nagar, HAL 3rd Stage,
Bangalore – 560075
Phone: 25288672
Time: 9:30am to 6:00pm

Official Website: www.apd-india.org

Help us avoid using plastic. Please bring your own bags.

You can develop apps and games that target Windows Phone OS 7.1 and Windows Phone OS 7.0 with this software. The Windows Phone SDK was previously named Windows Phone Developer Tools.

A word of caution:

• If a pre-release version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Beta or RC) is installed on the machine, please uninstall it before installing this product.

• Virtual machines are not supported.

For more details, here is the official link from Microsoft website.