Pranav`s Microcosm

1. Working on a important MS Office (Word/Excel/Ppt) file and you save it , the next day you see tat your Hard disk has crashed !!!
2. You are being recruited by a top MNC and you have offer letter downloaded, and at the last minute you realize the file is missing !!
3. Went on a outing with friends or family, and took lots of pics . After few months, there is OS crash and you realize that all the pictures captured in last 5 years were in Drive C: !!

If you meet any such circumstances in your life, you are experiencing NIGHTMARES !!!

The solution to such a problem is Skydrive Explorer !! Its a free, easy-to-use and a very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive™ service using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer.

Moreover you don’t need to install and configure any additional programs or ActiveX components. SkyDrive Explorer will organize the interaction with the online storage itself.

You can download the free Skydrive Explorer and later install it on your system. View screenshots of SkyDrive Explorer here. You can drag-and-drop the files into the SkyDrive Explorer like you are doing with the local HDD.

Remember, all you need to have is a Live Id to save the files in the online SkyDrive which offers 25GB storage. In case you want more capacity, then you can use multiple Live IDs.

I don’t know why… but I was singing the song ‘Entha Nerchina…’ all the day. Just for downloading the song, I googled for it. In this process, I found Satya Sarada’s Blog. A really wonderful blog on ancient india, history and its cultural heritage. Very much inspired and impressed with the write-ups explaining the life style, the puranas and the contradictory stories etc.

Much enjoyed and learnt many things from her blog. Just wanted to share this with you…

Thanks again to Satya for a wonderful blog!

Just came across the following video while googling for carnatic music related stuff. Really an awesome song ‘Entha Nerchina… Entha Chusina…’ by Priya Sisters (Shanmukha Pryia and Hari Priya).

Here is the link

Reminisced my (g)olden days when I used to learn carnatic music… Missing them a lot… Really its a god’s  gift to learn Music.

Here is the link for a blog which is a good repository of Tyagaraja Swamy Kruthis’
http://saranaagathi.wordpress.com/downloads/

The day started a bit early today as we have to present a small session at Community Tech Days @ Hyderabad which was confirmed today itself.
The event went very well, over 200 attendees have attended the event. Speakers from various states came to Hyderabad to attend the event.
I first met Harish Ranganathan, my favourite evangelist just after entering the hall.
Hima Bindu delivered the first session on Web Development Enhancements in VS 2010 which was very interactive and informative. Next Arun Ganesh spoke on WCF - A Developer’s Perspective, which pulled out some interesting points on WCF. After this, we got a chance to give out our mini session on Hyderabad Techies.
It was really a great experience to stand infront of Tech Don’s and deliver a session (especially for a guy like me). That’s why, I was a bit tensed in the beggining, but covered later
We got many appreciations and compliments from some great people over there (both personally and regarding Hyderabad Techies).

Next sessions are IT Pro realted. Didn’t expect many developers to these sessions as it is for administrators ans IT Pros’. But, to our surprise, there are more number of developers than administrators.
Hariveer and Muqeet delivered the sessions on VS Lab Management 2010 and IIS 7.5 for Administrators.

The last but not least is Windows 7 - Core OS Enhancements and how it would matter our Applications by Vijay Raj. (I was scared after reading this big title at first). At first, I thought that it was some thing like promotion to Windows 7. But, it is not! The session went in a rational manner describing the facts of Windows 7 and its development. This was the most jovial and fun-filled session of all the sesions in the event. We really enjoyed the session like anything. The way he explained and the examples he used to describe was very funny.
I really had a great time with Vijay today, both before and after his session.

Today became a most memorable day in my life which I would never forget in my life. I am very happy and proud to be a part of the Event.
Looking forward for the next CTD…