MS OfficeLive Beta Testing

Just recd a MS OfficeLive ProductKey.

Registered a new Domain bendre.org for Beta testing.

Getting the site setup in coming days...

Nikhil

Nikhil is a word in Hindi and Sanskrit that means "All", "Entire", "Complete", or "Whole" as in the Universe. Sanskrit fragmentation of the word yields: Ni (without) + Kh (sky or boundary) + L (agreed or liked) . It is also a popular male name amongst Hindus. Akhil is a similar-sounding synonym of Nikhil in Hindi and Sanskrit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikhil

Windows Starter 2007

Windows Starter 2007 Beta edition now listed on Ms Connect site for testing.

You can sign-up for this on http://connect.microsoft.com
Click Available Programs and click apply to Windows Starter 2007 Beta

Still no Downloads or ProductKeys listed.

Upgrade Windows 2003 to Windows 2003 R2

This article discusses how to upgrade Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows Server 2003 R2. This article does not discuss how to upgrade earlier versions of the Windows operating system to Windows Server 2003 R2. This article assumes that Windows Server 2003 SP1 is already installed.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;912309

100th Comic

TheComicProject just posted 100th comic...

This site just brings back old memories :-)

Keep the good work going fellows .. awaiting the next century

Windows LiveMail Support

The Windows Live Mail Support team has just launched http://spaces.msn.com/mail-support/, a blog dedicated to helping Windows Live Mail users like you get answers to the most common problems. They'll continue to update the blog as they find out about more common issues

http://spaces.msn.com/mail-support/


Blog of WindowLiveMail Team
http://spaces.msn.com/mailcall/

Google Beta Testing "Gmail For Your Domain"

From slashdot.org

"Google is looking for organizations to beta test its new hosted email service. From the information page: 'This special beta test lets you give Gmail, Google's webmail service, to every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.' The beta test is limited, but Google is accepting open applications."

https://www.google.com/hosted/Home

Currently San José City College testing this beta

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/big-mail-on-campus.html

Have applied for hosting the email service for my domain. Just keeping my fingers crossed. ;-)

OPK eXtender

OPK eXtender (OPX).The OPX is an OPK powertoy that adds system builder-specific features to the OPK.
Technical Support for the OPX
The OPK eXtender powertoy is in English only. It is not part of the Windows OPK and is not supported by Microsoft. For this reason, Microsoft System Builder Technical Support (sbst@microsoft.com) is unable to answer questions about OPX. If you have any feedback or questions about OPX, please contact us at opx@microsoft.com.

You would also need WindowsXP SP2 OPK to be downloaded from the OEM Builder site

Read the OPX EULA and download the OPX. Regsiterd OEM system builders only

August 23

you ask why ... August23 ?????

coz that my Birthday!!!!!!!

Here more trivia for that day

August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap
years), with 130 days remaining

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_23

Chronicles of Narnia

Narnia is a fantasy world created by the Anglo-Irish author C. S. Lewis as a location for his Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels for children.

In Narnia, animals can talk, mythical beasts abound, and magic is common. The series tracks the story of Narnia from its creation to its end, and especially the stories of those humans, usually children, who enter the land from 'our world'.

More info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narnia

Inside the Dell PC Restore Partition

Inside the Dell PC Restore Partition
An Exploration by Dan Goodell

Recent Dell computers are shipped with three partitions: a hidden Dell
Utility partition, the main (Windows) operating system partition, and
a hidden Dell PC Restore partition. DSR ("Dell System Restore") is a
feature that returns a computer to its "as shipped" state through the
use of the two specialized Dell partitions

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Evaluation

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Download link
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/1/7/817afea0-5a51-4fa9-a973-0975f7fb7daf/WS03SP1_RTM_1830_PX6_EN.iso

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Evaluation

Installing Windows Server 2003 R2 x86
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/trial/installinstruct.mspx
CD 1
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/e/e/4ee6fe6f-8042-4a02-ba41-08e0d39e9e5a/x11-03905.iso
CD 2
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/4/3/04359BD1-571C-4114-920A-B5A8952EE92B/srv03_r2_2075_usa_x86fre_adsr2.iso

Installation Instructions for Windows Server 2003 R2 x64
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/trial/installinstructx64.mspx
CD 1
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/4/6/046ed96b-8376-459d-9046-bcbb9dafe082/x11-04774.iso
CD 2
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/7/8/97880C8C-5C48-4A53-938E-5CF5D08CCB9B/srv03_r2_2075_usa_x64fre_adsr2.iso

Tools I use

[Latest Collection - Jan 2006]

Clipcache
http://www.clipcache.com/

ACDSee 2.43
http://www.acdsystems.com

Advanced Disk Catalog
http://www.elcomsoft.com/adc.html

AutoStreamer 1033
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

Bin2Iso
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/Bin2Iso.asp
http://www.weethet.nl/english/cdrw_bintoiso.php

CDImage
Internal Microsoft CD & DVD Image Tool

CDR Label
http://www.cdrlabel.com/

FreePops
http://freepops.org/

PopPeeper
http://www.poppeeper.com/

FTP Server
http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/

HashCalc
A fast and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings. It offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations
http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

ISOBuster
The Ultimate CD and DVD data recovery tool !

Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD !
Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup, ...
IsoBuster can do it all !

IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use CD and DVD data recovery tool. It supports all CD and DVD formats and all common CD and DVD file-systems (= set of files and folders). Start up IsoBuster, Insert a CD or DVD, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present. This way you get easy access, just like explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system. Instead of being limited to one file-system that the OS picks for you, you have access to "the complete picture". Access data from older sessions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.

Combine this all-revealing functionality with far better read and recovery mechanisms, scanning for lost files functionality, workarounds for a wide range of drive and software bugs, limitations or shortcomings and you have an enormously powerful data recovery tool. IsoBuster is must-have-software for every PC user and is deliberately kept low priced to be able to offer a solution for everybody, even if it is much used in the professional optical and data forensics world.
http://www.isobuster.com/

KeyFinder
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

Prodkey
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/prodkey.php

Neowin UxTheme

NetCaptor
The Best Addon for IE for Tab Browsing
http://www.netcaptor.com

NTinfo - Wininfo, TweakNT

PerfectKeyboard
http://www.pitrinec.com/pkindex.htm

RawWrite
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm

ResHack
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

RNameIt 3.11
http://www.alltheshareware.com/Rnameit-Software-66629.html

Second Copy
http://www.centered.com/

SysInternals - Process Explorer
http://www.systernals.com

TextView

TreeSize Professional
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

VCDGear
http://www.vcdgear.com

WinAmp 2.95
http://www.winamp.com

Winimage7
http://www.winimage.com

WinRar342
http://www.rarsoft.com

StealthDisk
http://www.sgsix.com/

TrueCrypt
http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net

Cryptainer LE
http://www.cypherix.co.uk/cryptainerle/

WinISO 5.3
http://www.winiso.com/

KeePass
http://keepass.sourceforge.net

Microsoft Schedule+ 7.1
Part of MS Office 95 Suite...One of best and small PIM I have used. I might be wrong in this remark If anyone know about other PIM better than this email me.

Passware - Asterisk Key
http://www.lostpassword.com

Other links
http://www.dirk-loss.de/win-tools.htm

Preserving OEM Pre-Activation when Re-installing Windows XP

From Microsoft Site

To help minimize the potential impact on licensed users, this whitepaper provides steps licensed end users can take to preserve OEM pre-activation when reinstalling the operating system using any of the four scenarios outlined below (sysprep, OOBEinfo, manual and unattended).

The following product keys should be substituted for XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX in the solutions discussed below.

Windows XP Professional 32 bit
MVF4D-W774K-MC4VM-QY6XY- R38TB

Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
XT67V-GY7FW-GR6FR-WDK2C-8T97J

Windows XP Professional x64 bit
FM634-HJ3QK-6QVTY-RJY4R-XCR9J