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Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra
Its been almost a year since I updated this blog.Many things have happened since… I was selected as a MSP for my college & many more stuffs. DreamSpark Yatra is a day long event conducted for the students, organized by Microsoft Student Partners & Bangalore .Net Students User Group(BDNS) for that region. The Students had a good opportunity to learn about the new cutting edge technologies from Microsoft. The DS Yatra at Bangalore was conducted on 27th March 2010 at PES Institute of technology (Popularly known as PESIT).
There were Speakers from Microsoft and even some of the MSPs gave sessions on the new technologies like Sharepoint & MS Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010 Pre-Launch event,Photosynth – a technology which converts a bunch of 2D photos to 3D,Cloud Computing & Windows Azure, the Cloud computing platform from Microsoft, Various Academic Initiatives from MS like Dreamspark, Imagine Cup, Students 2 Business, etc.
We got a very good response of around 700+ attendees. 60 Students came from colleges in Dharwad! The PESIT auditorium became full. In case you missed to attend this very useful event, you can attend the Yatra at Nitte, Mangalore on April 5th. Click here for details. It is a really good event & make the most of it by attending! Here are some photos from the event at Bangalore. Click on them to view them in a larger size.
The Organizing Bangalore MSP Team
The following are the pictures of the crowd.
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Windows Live Writer – Blogging Simplified!
So, here is my 1st post for this blog. Long back, when I had installed Windows 7 afresh, wanted to download Live Messenger. MS has included it in its “Live Essentials” package. I had no better job to do, so selected all the available options to install. After almost 4-5 months, just a few days back, while deleting unwanted programs, just came across Live Writer in the list. I knew that it was a blogging tool, but hadn’t bothered to check it. Out of curiosity, just launched it to see how it was, & I was really surprised to see such a nice & useful tool for blogging. So, I will now show you how to blog using Live Writer.
You will need :
- A Blogging account (If you don’t have one, there are many free blogging services like blogger, wordpress etc or you can create one using Writer itself)
- Windows Operating System (Live Writer works only with Windows)
- Internet Connection for downloading Writer (I know this is pretty stupid, or else how would you be reading this!)
After creating a blogging account(If you don’t have one), head to http://download.live.com to download Live Writer. You can select other softwares if you like. After the download & installation, start Live Writer, which will be in the program files under the group name “Windows Live”, grouped with other Live softwares. Launch the Writer. When you are launching it for the first time, you will see a screen to add & setup your blogging account, which will look like:
I’m using Blogger, so selected the last option. Depending upon your blogging service, select the appropriate option. After setting up your account, the Writer displays a blank page, according to the theme set in your blog.
So, you can start blogging right away now. You can insert various Hyperlinks, insert pictures, videos, table, maps, etc. You can find all these options in the sidebar to the right. You can also add plug-in to Writer for extending Writer’s functionality. One of the features that I loved in Writer is that you can save the draft offline and later when online, you can publish the same to your blog. You can also preview your blog as to how it’ll look & also view the html source of the content, tag your blog according to some categories. If you have more than one blog, you can also add multiple blog accounts to post to different blogs at a time, or to a particular one. Sidebar also displays the saved drafts & recently posted items. You can also set a custom publish date.
So, Have fun blogging using Writer guys! Below are a few screenshots of Writer. Click on them to view larger images.
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