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"I have today amicably resolved the issues between my two sons, Mukesh and Anil, keeping in mind the proud legacy of my husband Dhirubhai Ambani"    said Kokilaben (Wife of Late. Dhirudhubai Ambani).

The Rs.100,000 crore($20 bn) empire split between the Ambani brothers, Mukesh getting RIL and IPCL & his younger sibling Anil heading Reliance Capital, Reliance Energy and Reliance Infocomm ended after a long six month issue. It is said that the settlement is based on the idea by Mr. KV Kamath, MD & CEO of ICICI Bank.

NOPworld, a leading market research organization explores global media habits like reading, searching internet, listening to radio & watching TV. Interestingly India leads in Reading with a great score of 10.7 hours per week(hr/wk), while the global average goes around 6.5 hr/Wk. In watching TV, it is 13.3 hr/wk which is 3.3hr/wk lesser than the global average.

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Thanks to Scott Hanselman. Once again he list all the tools & utilities he uses regularly in his blog. Im sure that you will find many useful tools, which is a must for Microsoft Platform developer. Don't miss it!!!!

 

 

“Acrylic” is the codename for a new professional design tool that brings together the richness of pixel-based painting and the flexibility of editable vector graphics for a more fluid and flexible creative workflow. With Acrylic you can create sophisticated designs and graphic elements for your on-screen, Web, and print projects.  
                                                                                                                                                              -Microsoft

Looks more like Expression, its Predecessor.

Cool one, i tried it, will be posting more later........ [Download]

Though a month back, we got a news that IE 7 will have tabbed browsing, but suddenly today Microsoft released
TABBED BROWSING for IE (v5.01 & above in Win 2k & above) through MSN Toolbar, which already has a desktop searching tool, eMail Popper, POP-up blocker, etc., and was collectively called as MSN Deskbar.

All the major browsers in the market like Opera, Netscape, Firefox was supporting tabbed browsing, but not IE. But there were third party tools like Maxthon(My IE), which solved the need. As Firefox & Netscape made this tabbed browsing successful, Opera is the first to implement it.

Have an Icon to add a new Tab to the Page, icon for opening a link in a new tab & a small downsided arrow like icon to list all the tab's page title.  And also options are there to set a default page, when we open a new tab.

The only Cons, people can say is, it is integrated with MSN Toolbar, so without the toolbar, we can't use the Tabbed Feature.
So the heading goes like, The new MSN Toolbar, adds TABBED Browsing to IE.

Main Enhancements to-do:

                When we close a window with 2 or more tabbed window open, abruptly the window goes away. So a warning/alert message is better saying that there are these many tabbed windows opened.

                Other one is, when we shift from one tab to another, we can see the whole IE window shakes(flicks like anything), which looks odd. You can download from here.

Microsoft Chairman BillGates announced MSN Virtual Earth, Microsoft's Satellite/Geo Mapping & Local Search service, on 3D conference in California. It lets the user to zoom in on a local area and get information about the restaurants, cafes, hotels, dry cleaners, coffee shops & so on. The first release of it will be available in the summer, sometime between June & September.

Google, Yahoo & other search engine giants have this Local Search service running already.


Features include :

· Imagery -- satellite maps and a unique 45-degree-angle view of buildings and neighborhoods, Eagle Eye view.

· Hybrid Maps -- street maps overlaid over satellite maps

· Full-bleed Map Views – a nearly full screen map that users interact with

"High-fidelity images captured by a fleet of small planes will be added to the service in the fall", said Stephen Lawler, General Manager Microsoft's MapPoint business.

The aerial images are provided by Pictometry, the worldwide leader in Digital Aerial Photography.

MSN coming late but with Latest.

For more than a month im using Microsoft Money 2005. Its pretty good. Its basic features include  Spending By Category, Payee, then Monthly Income, Expense etc., in Reports and to say more, its having options for Investment Planning, Credit Card(even Bonus Point option is there), Loans, etc., Its having all the day-to-day activity categories. Reports in the form of Graphs are also possible(supports Bar & Pie Graphs). Actually its a web based application. And accessing the data stored in a flat file. And another advantage is  many of the indian banks like ICICI, CITI Bank etc., supports Money File Format, means we can download the account statement in Money File Format. Thats very useful, since you can't type all the bank transactions.

As I said before, it supports heavily for Stocks, Shares, Mutual Funds etc., It has a option of getting the latest Share/Stock value. But unfortunately Indian Stock Markets are not there in the list. Hopefully we can expect soon.  So as of now manually we can update it.

Even graphs for the stocks are also displayed with many tailored set of attributes. If you are using any other Personel Financial Package, you can sure try this. A 90 day free-trial is available for download.