Microsoft Phone Data Manager

Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta is an application that is designed to take away the worry of losing data on your phone – specifically contacts, music, pictures and videos. It does that by synchronizing your phone contacts with Microsoft’s Windows Live Contacts store in the cloud, or by helping you download files from the phone to your local computer.

Contacts: Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta synchronizes the contacts present in your phone with your contact store on Windows Live Contacts, which is the same store that your Hotmail contacts uses. This way, your phone contacts are always present on the internet, accessible via the contacts link on Hotmail. If you lose, or simply change your phone, all you need to do is to synchronize the contacts using Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta, and all the contacts that you stored in your Windows Live Contacts store will be downloaded to your phone. You can synchronize your contacts as many times as you like so that the changes you make (edits, additions or deletions) on your phone, or on the computer on Windows Live Contacts are always reflected on both your phone and the Windows Live Contacts store.
Music, Pictures and Video: In its current form, Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta will download the music, pictures and videos present in your phone to a local folder on the computer you are using this application on
Communication with your phone: Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta can communicate with your phone via a wireless standard known as Bluetooth, or via a USB cable.
In order for you to synchronize contacts, you will need to have a Windows Live ID (any Hotmail ID is a valid Windows Live ID). If you do not have one, you will be prompted to create one while you use the application

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good bye to cmd.exe with the new replacement from microsoft’s windows powershell

 If you ask any windows user a question like this, “Will you leave command prompt when you are given other tools ?”. They will reply “why not, If there were more powerful tools than present using command prompt” we will definitely change. Yes now windows users have more powerful tool than command prompt with more powerful features. If you are enthusiastic to know about that tool, then this is the correct place to know about it. The tool is called ” Windows Power shell Today” from Software giant, Microsoft. Power shell Today is a powerful command line shell and is based on Task based scripting technology. If anybody here used both Unix shell and windows command prompt will surely tell unix shell is a great tool than windows command prompt. To cover this microsoft has made this tool which brings unix style shell scripting to windows platforms but only to Windows xp, Windows 2003, Windows vista.

Normally Unix comes with a powerful feature Pipeline which combine two commands. Microsoft implements pipeline in its New Power shell today. This Pipeline (here how to use it [dir | >store.txt]. This will store the names of directories and files in current drive to a text file) implemented in power shell today solve storage problems quickly. For example how many cds (take 800 cds) are needed to back up 11GB? . This problem can be solved by simple command in power shell like 11GBMB/700MB. Think Power shell as the integration of windows command prompt and VBScript.

Now Another powerful feature of Unix is wildcards. Microsoft has implemented this in its Power Shell Today for windows.You can also use Working objects too in this Power shell.

Here is an another important thing  to know another thing. Power Shell is not new one, It is old and is known as Microsoft command shell or MSH and Windows Monad.

Requirements:-

                         You need to download Microsoft’s .NET Framework 2.0 Before installing Power Shell Today. You can download here .NET Framework 2.0 .

New Features:-

• (Whatif) by using this command you can test your command before you commit to execute the command
• Stop and Start Transcripts of all your commands
• you can access applications such as Windows Media Player using “Win Pow” command.
• Configuring user accounts will be made easy by using this command; set-itemproperty -path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -name ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin -value 0 . Here the last one 0 will turn of user administrator account off and 2 will turn it back.

More about power shell will be demonstrated in this video.
Powershell tutorial.

If you are unable to see then copy the below link to address bar.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Search/Default.aspx?Term=windows%20power%20shell.

 

 

New Windows Live Hotmail On Your Desktop

Hotmail one of the first email providers are in the process of renovating its Windows Live Hotmail with new design and features to rival Google Mail, an upcoming email provider. New Live Hotmail claims to be more faster and better than their previous version and its no sooner gonna hit our browsers.

Faster than ever. It’ll be up to 70 percent faster to sign in and see your e-mail.¹ Of course, along with more speed, you’ll get powerful technology that deflects spam and helps protect you against viruses and scams.

Simpler, cleaner design. We’re combining the classic and full versions of Hotmail, so you get access to everything Hotmail has to offer. The reading pane will let you check out your e-mail without having to open it up.

Put more you in your e-mail. New themes and colors will let you design the look of your inbox, so your personality can really shine through.

Closer to your contacts. Just start typing in the “To” line and you’ll get a choice of e-mail contacts that most closely match what you’ve typed. Plus, it’ll be even easier to e-mail groups of people.

Cool stuff coming soon. We’ve got even more great updates to Hotmail for you to look forward to, like ever-increasing storage², the ability to IM right from Hotmail, and new calendar features that make it easier to share your calendar with family and friends.

Microsoft Ultimate Steal: Office 2007 @ $60

Microsoft has newly introduced an offer to the students named The Ultimate Steal, which allows the students to buy Microsoft Office Ultimate at $60. This offer is launched in US and will be soon launched in other countries too. So if you find yourself eligible for the game, do buy its the best ever deal you can get.

Microsoft student promotion slashes 91% off a copy of Office Ultimate wheresas Microsoft Office Ultimate, which retails for $680.

Besides Office Ultimate other products being offered on discounted price are:

• Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 [$55.95]
• Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade [$64.95]
• Microsoft Office Language Packs [$9.95]

All you have to do is to meet the eligibility criteria that is you must have a valid email address at an educational institution ending with .edu or the educational institutions listed in the website. Eligiblity criteria as posted on the website is here

1. You must have a valid e-mail address at an educational institution ending with the domain suffix .EDU (ie, leina@contoso.edu) OR have a valid email address at one of the educational institutions listed here.
2. You must be a student at a U.S. educational institution and must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request.

So do get the mighty catch as soon as possible at Microsoft Ultimate Steal