The Future of IT & High Impact Decisions

Recently I have downloaded and view following 2 videos which enlightening and I am assure that the time that you are going spend will worth it.  

· The Future of IT – an interesting session and which creates fear that what would happen with changes in technology. With faster pace of IT development these days and its ability to transform our society, it is time to look at the trends, disruptors and potential outcomes that IT brings to us in next years. We'll touch the transformation of IT and its impact on business, education, governments and other pillars of our society.

· High Impact Decisions – A necessary skill to grow in any direction! an wonderful session needed by both developer and architect was done by Ranganathan S. Decision taking is influenced by information one has, challenges one face and the knowledge one possess.  Information can be fact or assumption. Fact can be stated or unstated. Assumptions can be reasonable or unreasonable. challenges can be Fixed or Changing. knowledge can be accessible or inaccessible.

Go download and view it… (Decisions is your…. )

SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT)

SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT) is a windows based utility aimed at simplifying and accelerating the creation and testing of SharePoint Solutions. With a whole host of time saving capabilities and planned integration with Universal SharePoint Manager 2007, you'll never want to take on SharePoint without it again.

To download clickhere http://www.metalogix.net/SharePoint-Work-Acceleration-Toolkit/

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE!

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE!

The download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42

Starting on April 1, 2009, we are making SharePoint Designer 2007 available as a free download.

Customers with SharePoint Designer 2007 Software Assurance (SA) current as of April 1, 2009 will receive upgrade rights to Expression Web for the lifetime of their SA agreement.

More detail find @ An open letter to customers

Be sure to watch the video in the "Related Resources" below to learn more about details and future direction.

1. Video of SharePoint Designer 2007 FAQ (6.2MB)
2. Home Page for SharePoint Designer 2007
3. Video of SharePoint Designer 2007 FAQ (82.9MB)
4. Video of SharePoint Designer 2007 FAQ (16.8MB)

Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the powerful tools you need to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools on the SharePoint platform, all in an IT-managed environment.

Browser-based charting for ASP.NET 3.5

Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting applications

Download the Chart controls from the following location. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&DisplayLang=en

There is also a Visual Studio 2008 AddIn to support these chart controls. The Chart Control Samples.

STSADM on Windows UI

Build STSADM command using Windows UI

Ronalus developed this utility as a windows application. It has a dropdown which displays all the STSADM options. Once a specific option is selected from the dropdown, it displays text boxes for various parameters and help you build

To download click here

To Read more about click here

Don't Click IT

The different Website that i come across http://www.dontclick.it/ try and enjoy your self......

Color-up your Gmail

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. We've also done a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

To customize your inbox, go to the Themes tab under Settings

Online Mind Mapping

While I was searching something found following cool tool for mind mapping

1. Bubbl.us
2. Mindomo
3. Mind42
4. MindMeister
5. List of Mind mapping software : http://www.mind-mapping.org/mind-mapping-software/

This tools help you to generate ideas and Collaborate with others and publish your mindmaps.

Virtual CD/DVD drive

Every time when I download ISO image from MSDN I burn in to CD/DVD to Install software. I just wonder is there any virtual CD/DVD drive, which can save our CD/DVD cost as well out time. My colleague David Yeo told me that there is software called DAEMON Tools. Visited the website and downloaded the software… Wow…. What a wonderful tool which meet my requirement the tool can offer following things :

DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for CD/DVD discs emulation. This program allows running Backup Copies of your CD/DVD images.

DAEMON Tools needs a 1:1 Copy to run!!
DAEMON Tools is used to run CD/DVD backup images
Generic DVD-ROM is able to run nearly every CD/DVD image like it was the original CD/DVD! Just do an image file using one of the supported burning programs and mount it with DAEMON Manager

Cost : Free