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Last year in 2008 WinVistaClub now remodeled as TheWindowsClub had organised a contest namely The ‘Best Windows Vista Website Contest 2008‘.A ton of entries had come and after that one Winner was chosen along with 2 Runner ups.No points for guessing who the winner was,It was Vishal Gupta ASKVG.COM fame.My site was kinda new that time so i never stood a chance with competing against the best.But as time passed by my site grew and i kept sharing some nice Tech related info and will continue to do so.I am nominating my site for the Contest.

This year also TheWindowsClub is organizing the contest “Best Windows Website Contest 2009” to showcase your talents and to discover and to recognize some of the best Windows bloggers and website owners.Now if your are a Windows Blogger and a geek like me then why not give it a try and nominate your website.You might think what’s the use of this contest and what do you get from it.

The Winner of The Windows Club’s Best Windows Website Contest 2009, will be entitled to get a Free Windows Vista Ultimate box DVD, Microsoft Office 2007 box DVD, and licenses of ESET Smart Security Suite 4, TuneUp Utilities 2009, SnagIt 9, Acronis True Image Home 2009,Diskeeper 2009, Glary Utilities Pro, Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Full, Extensions For Windows & WinPatrol Plus for free.As a complimentary gift first 50 participants will get a 1 year license of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 worth $40 absolutely FREE.

The 2nd & 3rd runners-up, will each get a license of TuneUp Utilities, Acronis True Image Home 2009, Diskeeper, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware & WinPatrol Plus.

The 4th & 5th runners-up will get a free license of Webroot Security Essentials.The Windows Vista & Office DVD boxes, however comes to you courtesy WindowsClub.Last year winners and panel of judges are not eligible to participate.

The Panel of Judges are people par excellence and comprises of:

Paul Schottland, Product Unit Manager for Microsoft
Ed Bott, MVP
Rafael Rivera
Howard Lo, Microsoft’s Regional Team Manager (APAC)
Steven Sinchak, MVP
HowToGeek.com,
Emil Protalinski, ArsTechnica – One Microsoft Way
Corrine Chorney, MVP, SecurityGarden and The Windows Club Moderator
James Fisher, MVP,  The Windows Club Moderator
Anand Khanse, MVP, TheWindowsClub.com | WinVistaClub.com.

From among the participants, 10 blogs would be short-listed by the Panel and put up for a community vote. The top 5 vote getters would be judged again by the Panel of Judges and the Winner and the 2 Runners-up declared.

It will be a honour that the esteemed judges will look at your site and be one among the lots of participants who are entering this contest.The basis on your site to be judged is : “Does the website  have substantial original quality content of interest to Windows Vista & Windows 7 user?“.The websites will be judged on content, quality, originality, continuity, presentation and overall impression.So if your are a Microsoft Fanboy or any of your friend is with a site or  a forum of own then do nominate for the contest.

The Website Title, Home Page url, along with a 2-4 line description about it, needs to be submitted here.The thread for submitting entries, will be opened on 5th July 2009, 1.30 PM UTC Thats 11:30:00 PM AEST, 7.00 PM IST, 6:30:00 AM PST, same date.For a list of time zones refer TimeZone Converter.

If your are not a registered member of the forum then it doesn’t take much time to register.Click on the link to get registered.Best of luck to all the aspiring participants.

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Yesterday i had informed about the two new builds after the 7260, 7264 and 7265, out of which the 7264 build is now leaked to P2P networks.Both the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of this build are available on torrents.Point to be noted that Windows 7 Build 7264 Build is not the RTM Escrow Build.

The build string is 7264.0.090622-1900 indicates that it was compiled on 22nd.This is leaked as a DVD and not a ISO file.There are already confirmations that build 7265 has been created two days later.I don’t think windows 7 Build 7265 will be the RTM Build.I have the faint feeling that 7300 would be the RTM Build.

File Name: 7264.0.090622-1900_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD
Size: 2,444,688 KB
CRC: 0B916606
MD5: 44F04E9E5762714C3D75A3C9C88DE251
SHA1: 59BA011913B00A820A1E002B9BEDEF139AE15B07

64-bit Windows 7 Build 7264 (x64) ISO File Details

File Name: 7264.0.090622-1900_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD
Size: 3,150,518 KB
CRC: 05F87B79
MD5: 670818DB149170C652414E1F75E9390C
SHA1: C6FE386E97944511820291F515A8CBB3DDA329A6

Always verify the checksum and hash first before downloading it. I wont be downloading this one and will wait for the RTM to be out.

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Good news for budding software programmers and coding enthus, as Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0 is available for download.It’s a software package created by Microsoft to help students learn about computer programming.This pack allows you to interactively step through concepts like sorting where you can visually represent the steps taken to algorithmically perform a sort.Basically it consists of 5 components.

Sort Designer Control is a supplementary teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular computer sorting algorithms. It supports bubble and insertion sorting. The control generates initial values automatically and demonstrates intermediate states in the sorting process. It also generates sorting source code for both Visual Basic and C#.

Search Designer Control is a teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular data search algorithms. It supports binary and sequential searches. The control generates initial values automatically and demonstrates intermediate states in the searching process. It also generates source code for both Visual Basic and C#.Using the Visual Sort Designer and Visual Search Designer Controls teachers can easily develop a sample program to demonstrate the fundamentals of sorting and searching.

Visual Declarative Designer is an intuitive variable declaration tool designed for novice programmers. During the coding process the student can declare variables of various types and generate the corresponding source code. Visual Variable Declarative Designer provides a visual approach to variable declaration.Teachers in the Information Technology (IT) field can use this designer to teach students the basic concepts of variable declaration and naming, variable types, access modifiers, and initial values.

Assistant Class Designer is a visual class designer for novice programmers. This designer guides students through the processes of adding classes, properties, methods and events. The designer also generates the corresponding source code for new classes. By using this designer, teachers and students can easily create and configure complicated classes. Assistant Class Designer provides an intuitive and interactive method for designing classes and helps students to understand key object-oriented programming concepts such as classes, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. The Assistant Class Designer generates source code for C# only.

Visual Programming Flow Chart is a supplementary teaching tool designed to help students understand program control flow. It generates flow charts for functions and saves them in the JPG picture format. This tool is easily activated from the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by simply right-clicking on a function name and choosing “Generate flow chart…” from the context menu. The resulting flowchart can be customized by changing its colors and other effects. This visual tool provides an intuitive way to explore source code, to examine its control flow, and to identify logic errors.

Download Visual Studio Learning Pack

via Channel9

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Wzor reported that two new builds,6.1.7264.0.win7_rtm.090622-1900 and 6.1.7265.0.win7_rtm.090624-1905, have been assembled in the RTM branch (win7_rtm).So as per the info below are the builds which have been assembled.

• 6.1.7260.0.win7_rtm.090612-2110
• 6.1.7261.0.win7_rtm.090615-1900
• 6.1.7262.0.win7_rtm.090617-1900
• 6.1.7263.0.win7_rtm.090619-1900
• 6.1.7264.0.win7_rtm.090622-1900
• 6.1.7265.0.win7_rtm.090624-1905

Windows 7 Build 7264(6.1.7264.0.win7_rtm.090620-1900) is considered fake as from the build number the compilation date is 20th but reports say that it was compiled on the June 22th.Good news to Microsoft that there are no leaks currently regarding the builds.If everything goes as per the schedule posted by Wzor we can get the RTM release by 13th July.See below for more info on the schedule.

FINAL ROADMAP FOR WINDOWS 7 [CLIENT-SERVER]:
6/1 – 6/19  BUILDING RTM ESCROW – already assembled RTM ESCROW.
6/22– 7/10 RTM RECALL – Assembly and search for candidates to the final RTM release.
7/10 WINDOWS 7 RTM FINAL BUILD TARGET – build day “gold code”.
7/13 WINDOWS 7 RTM SIGN-OFF – the date of signing the final RTM release

“Going gold” refers to the last step before general marketing would begin by October 22nd.Lets hope everything goes as per as the schedule.Thanks Windows7news

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After a series of RC1 which was released in mid June and the consequent RC2 was made available by June 22nd and the final RC3 version was released on June 25th,now Mozilla team is mobilizing to ship Firefox 3.5 today as said by a spokesperson via email.Firefox 3.5 will include a private browsing mode that hides browser activity, a speed-up JavaScript engine known as TraceMonkey, new location services, and support for several emerging HTML 5 features.

HTML 5 support will allow the browser to natively play video encoded in the open source Ogg Theora format and Ogg Vorbis audio, which provides for manipulation and editing of video without the use of an external program.

Firefox 3.0 made its debut in June 2008, and heavy demand for the updated browser prompted Mozilla to delay its release for several hours. When it finally went live, the company reported an estimated 14,000 downloads per minute, and a total of 8 million downloads in 24 hours.Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s director of Firefox, expects over one billion downloads of Firefox 3.5.You can read the release notes here.Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5 for Windows, Mac OSx and Linux.

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