dns-the-interface-between-human-computer-view-in-network.

As we all know that the computers communicate using IP Addresses to identify each other on the Internet.

209.85.149.105
69.63.181.12
74.125.95.93
69.147.125.65
173.192.48.10

DNS

Humans, Computer Users, don’t remember IP Addresses, so they use words, which are called as Domain Names.

google.com
facebook.com
youtube.com
yahoo.com
himanshpal.com

The DNS or Domain Name System combines the two together and takes you to your destination.

google.com (209.85.149.105)
facebook.com (69.63.181.12)
youtube.com (74.125.95.93)
yahoo.com (69.147.125.65)
himanshpal.com 

So let’s see, how this Domain Name System works. The user types a web site address ordomain name in his browser’s address bar.

http://www.Himanshpal.com/

The search for the IP Address starts. First step, it goes to the Root NameServer. It gives theNameServer address of Top Level Domain’s NameServer. In our case, it is .com. It finds and reaches the .com NameServer.

After reaching the TLD NameServer, it finds and reaches the himanshpal.com NameServer.

From here, it gets the IP Address or Virtual Host of the WWW of himanshpal.com and displays the contents to your browser.

All these actions take a maximum of 500 milliseconds, approximately half a second!

Bhopal’s Dilip Rai invents ‘Jugaad Programming Concept’.

Jugaad 

Bhopal: Dilip Rai, a Computer teacher in Bhopal, has developed a Jugaad Programming Concept’ of programming.

Dilip deleted the space which is occupied in RAM in the form of variable because of which the programs, which are compiled in C and C++, performs in zero variables.

Dilip has sent this achievement to Guinness Book of World Records and he has also received the claim ID. He is now gearing up for its presentation in ‘Jugaad Programming Concept Conclave 2011’, which will be held on June 11

Dilip, a resident of Kailash Nagar, said the programs that are run on a computer, they occupy some space in the RAM, which is known as variable. Each program requires a variable. A normal application uses 1000-5000 variables, thus lowering down the Computer’s speed and causes it to hang.

Jugaad Programming Concept

This technique takes less time in loading than the current operating system (UNIX, Linux, and Windows). The operating system developed with this technique would allow the system to take 20 per cent less time to load in comparison to the other operating systems.

Dilip said, “I am a graduate in Biology. I wanted to stand out from the clutter and wanted to do something unique. I bought a computer in 2001 and learnt C language. I used to stay awake the whole night while I was learning C language. I worked as a lab assistant in a company and also taught Aptech to students.”

“These days, I am providing corporate training at the Bhopal branch of C-DAC (New Delhi. Jugaad Programming Concept is the outcome of my 8-year-long research and hard work,” he added.

Introduction to Office Web Apps.

Microsoft Office Web Apps extend your Microsoft Office experience to the web browser, where you can work with documents right there on the website where the document is stored. Office Web Apps are available for personal use in Windows Live, for organizations that have installed and configured Office Web Apps on their SharePoint site, and for professionals and businesses that subscribe to selectOffice 365 services.

Microsoft Office Web Apps

Office Web Apps work in some of the most widely used browsers, and are officially supported in Windows Internet Explorer 7 and later, Safari 4 for the Mac, and Firefox 3.5 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

INTEGRATE SEAMLESSLY WITH OFFICE

You use Microsoft Office to create documents that present information, collect thoughts, and help you and your colleagues make decisions. You store these documents on your computer, on a removable storage device, on a server. Office Web Apps provides a new way to store your documents so that they can be viewed and even edited in the browser. By using Office Web Apps, a website becomes a new storage device for your Office documents: a storage device that makes your documents easy to access and easy to share.

In Microsoft Office 2010 programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote), you can start using Office Web Apps by saving your document to your SkyDrive or your SharePoint library.

Now, your document is available to view and edit in the browser, or re-open in Office.

 NOTE    Documents don’t need to be created in Office 2010 to be opened in Office Web Apps. For best compatibility, use Office 2003 or later, or use Office for Mac 2008 version 12.2.9 or Office for Mac 2011. If you’re using Office 2003, install the most recent service pack and save documents on your computer in the Office Open XML file format (for example, .docx, .xlsx, or pptx files). Then upload the document to a SharePoint site where Office Web Apps are configured, or upload the document to SkyDrive.

BROWSE DOCUMENTS

With Office Web Apps, your documents are like web pages because they are stored on a website and displayed in the browser. To view the document, you click it. To share it with other people, you send a link.

It doesn’t matter whether your version of Office matches what your friends or colleagues have. There’s no need to download a viewer. Your documents look the same in the browser as they do in the Office programs.

EDIT ON THE FLY

Beyond viewing documents, Office Web Apps enable you to edit a document’s content in the browser.

Browser-based editing is optimized for situations when you want to rewrite some text, enter some data, add a slide, or jot down notes. If you’re already viewing the document, you click Edit in Browser in the Office Web App, make your changes, and you’re done. In most cases your updates are saved automatically (in Word Web App, click Save).

CO-AUTHOR IN REAL TIME : EXCEL WEB APP & ONENOTE WEB APPLICATION

In Excel Web App and OneNote Web App you can work with other people on the same document at the same time.Collecting information is often a group activity. Use Excel Web App to collect information in a structured way, or be free-form with OneNote Web App. The file is stored in a central location where everyone who needs to can access it. There’s no waiting for one person to finish with the file before the next person can get in. There’s no e-mailing multiple copies that later need to be reconciled.There’s no special command for real-time collaboration. You simply edit the file in the Office Web App while you colleagues are doing so.

TRANSITION TO OFFICE, SEAMLESSLY

Sometimes you want to make substantive changes that require the feature-rich Office desktop applications. In these situations, you can seamlessly transition to the corresponding Office desktop application directly from the Office Web Apps. If you have a document open in an Office Web App, click the Open command to open the file directly from the browser into the Office program that is installed on your computer. When you are finished, click Save in the Office program, and the file is saved back on the server (in the OneNote desktop application your changes are saved to the server automatically).

 NOTE :  Opening documents directly from the browser into an Office desktop application is supported in Firefox, Internet Explorer (Windows), and Safari (Mac) browsers. In Windows, you must also be using Office 2003 or later to use this feature. OneNote Web App requires OneNote 2010 to use this feature. On the Mac, this feature requires Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 version 12.2.9 or Office for Mac 2011, and the OneNote desktop application is not available.

Windows Thin PC goes RTM, will be available for download.

Windows Thin PC

Microsoft announced that Windows Thin PC has now released to manufacturing (RTM).

Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) is a new version of Windows 7 designed specifically for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) customers. Windows Thin PC is a smaller footprint, locked down version of Windows 7 designed for virtualised environments to rebuild their existing PCs as thin clients. PCs with WinTPC will not require the VDA license that regular thin clients will need to access VDI desktops according to Microsoft.

The final version of Windows Thin PC will be available to SA customers to download on July 1. Microsoft is ending its CTP program, effective June 6. The release candidate (RC) build of Windows Thin PC will still be available to download at the CTP site with associated documentation until July 1. In an email to testers, Microsoft thanked its early tester community. “We thank you for all the feedback and evaluation provided in helping make the Windows Thin PC a success in the Windows community.”

Microsoft is not planning to charge customers for Windows Thin PC. Instead, the company will offer it as part of Microsoft’s Software Assurance offerings for customers. Microsoft’s software assurance Licensing allows businesses large and small to spread licence costs over multiple years and receive “free” upgrades to newer versions during the licence period.

Windows Thin PC

Bing starts testing IPv6 version in preparation for World IPv6 day.

Bing

In February we brought you the news that Bing had plans for a one-day test of IPv6 connectivity in June. Today Microsoft announced that the Bing IPv6 experiment, which is in conjunction with World IPv6 Day, will commence at 5 pm PST.

The test will last 24 hours, concluding at 5 pm PST on Wednesday, June 8th. IPv6 will be enabled for users around the world who can support the protocol. Users who cannot will continue to use the IPv4 version of Bing without interruption.

The Microsoft search engine stated that a “complete migration [from IPv4 to 6] will take years.” All of the possible IPv4 addresses have been distributed, pushing forward the cause of IPv6 rapidly.

Unlike with IPv4, the chance of running out of IPv6 addresses is very low. According to the same Bing blog post there are “300 trillion trillion trillion [IPv6] addresses available.” If the world ever reaches that level of need, we suspect that it will not still be using IPv6.

WinRumors has a fun explanation of just how many IPv6 addresses will be available:

Microsoft’s Windows operating systems have had IPv6 support for years and it’s now the turn of Internet Service Providers to future proof the Internet. Internet Protocol 6 supports 340282366920938463463374607431768211455 addresses (340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion, 463 sextillion, 463 quintillion, 374 quadrillion, 607 trillion, 431 billion, 768 million, 211 thousand and 455) addresses.

Microsoft, in the same blog post, did state that “[a] small fraction of users (<1%) may have difficulty accessing Bing and other sites participating in World IPv6 Day during the test flight.” The company promised to report back after the test with analyzed results to share.

E3: Microsoft confirms Voice Search coming to Xbox LIVE

Xbox LIVE Voice Search

We’re still a few hours away from Microsoft’s official E3 press conference but someone inside Redmond is a little eager.

The software giant has leaked out a number of E3 announcements at its official press page for E3 2011. One particular gem (featured above) is the revelation that Microsoft is planning to include voice search in Xbox LIVE. There’s not much more information on exactly how this would work but it sounds like Bing might be coming to xbox live.in some form.

Microsoft planning built-in “Chatter” video service for Windows 8?

Microsoft might be preparing its own “Chatter” video service inside Windows 8.

References to “Chatter” have been discovered in early leaked builds of Windows 8. Forum users at MDL spotted a DLL named ConsentUX.dll which includes the following:

100,Do you want to allow %1 to use your %2 ?
101,CapabilityName
102,DisplayName

1600,Block
1601,Do you want to you allow Chatter to use your video ?
1602,Allow
1603,Always Allow

The current speculation is that the references point to a feature that Microsoft may have inadvertently revealed during its Windows 8 preview earlier this week. Manan Kakkar points out that the lock screen of Windows 8 includes video, messaging and group icons. Kakkar speculates that the icon could be the signs of Microsoft’s Skype and Windows Live Messenger integration. The icon for the group of people appears to be the same that’s used in Windows Live Messenger. Chatter even appears to have its own icon:

Chatter?

If Microsoft is building its own video calling service then it’s likely in response to Apple’s FaceTime product. Chatter could be used to unify several video calling services already available from Microsoft’s products and provide one easy route for Windows users to communicate over several Microsoft owned platforms. Microsoft purchased Skype in early May for $8.5 billion. The company says Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities. Chatter could be the unification of said services. It’s also possible that the references are to an experimental feature, created before Microsoft’s Skype deal.

Windows 8 lockscreen

Microsoft details Windows 8 hardware recommendations.

Microsoft revealed some hardware “considerations” for its Windows 8 operating system on Thursday.

The software giant unveiled a number of Windows 8 ARM-based tablet prototype devices during a technical demonstration at Computex on Thursday. Mike Angiulo, corporate vice president of Windows Planning, Hardware and PC Ecosystem at Microsoft, also revealed some hardware details for Windows 8 partner.

Windows 8 touch considerations

Microsoft has some recommendations on bezel sizes for Windows 8 slate and tablet devices. The company showed a slide, named Windows 8 Touch considerations, during its partner preview event, detailing edge to edge glass and first pixel sensitivity. Microsoft wasn't clear on whether these are requirements for ARM tablets, Acer complained earlier this week that the company wanted to “control” the whole process.

Windows 8 display considerations

Microsoft also detailed minimum resolutions for its new user interface. 1024×768 will be the absolute minimum for the new user interface, anything lower will run in the classic desktop mode. The company says that 1366×768 is the optimum resolution for devices.

Finally, Microsoft also detailed support for OEM activation 3.0 and new sensor support. The new technology will further protect devices against activation hackers.Illegal copies of Windows have been widely circulated thanks to mechanisms created to bypass Microsoft’s OEM activation certificates. Windows Vista and Windows 7, which both rely on OA version 2.0, have fallen victim to activation cracks and bypass methods.

Windows 8 hardware

Windows 8 includes a sensor control panel that is believed to provide greater use of existing hardware to act as a sensor for the operating system, including support for new hardware sensors that OEMs can incorporate into future products.

Microsoft confirms its Windows developer conference is named BUILD.

Microsoft will hold a special Windows developer event later this year.

The software gaint unveiled the final naming for the event on Wednesday during a Windows 8 demo. BUILD is a new event that Microsoft describes as showing “modem hardware and software” taking advantage of the future of Windows:

Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a billion people around the world.

Hear how the UI was designed to work seamlessly with a diversity of devices and form factors. Go behind the scenes and learn all about the new app model that allows you to create powerful new apps. All while retaining the ability to use your existing apps. Web-connected and web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript have access to the power of the PC. Touch-optimized browsing, with the full power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10 transforms your experiences with the web. BUILD is the first place to dive deep into the future of Windows.

The BUILD conference replaces Microsoft’s professional developer conference, typically held every year. The company is expected to deliver an early beta copy of Windows 8 at the conference and fully detail its plans for the next-generation of Windows. More information can be found at buildwindows.com

BUILD developer conference

Watch the new Windows 8 user interface demonstration [video].

Windows 8 Tile UI

Microsoft unveiled a new Windows 8 user interface on Wednesday.

The software gaint also posted a full demo video of the new interface, see it below. For more information on the new Windows 8 user interface please see a full overview article here.

Microsoft reveals new Windows 8 user interface.

Windows 8 start UI

Microsoft’s Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, took to the stage at All Things Digital’s D9 conference on Wednesday.

Sinofsky unveiled a taste of Windows 8 to the world, devices running Windows 8′s new user interface. Microsoft revealed a number of details of its new interface for Windows 8 to All Things Digital. Windows 8 supports two types of applications, classic desktop Windows apps and HTML5 web apps. Windows 8′s new interface uses Internet Explorer 10 as the heart to power several widget style applications for checking the weather, stocks etc. Microsoft’s new start screen includes easy touch icons to allow users of touch based devices to easily navigate Windows.

“We really did take a step back after Windows 7,” Sinofsky said to All Things Digital. “We were clearly influenced ourselves by phones.” Microsoft has also improved its classic Windows desktop look and feel to enable users to touch it more easily. The company wants classic applications, designed for mice and keyboard input, to work well with touch.

Windows 8 weather widget

The UI (see screen shots) will be driven by Microsoft’s Metro based design language. Microsoft will include a new application model codenamed “Jupiter” that will allow developers to create web based applications, deployed as AppX packages (.appx). The packages will be part of a new Windows application store, pre-installed with Windows 8.

Sinfosky also revealed that Windows 8 will not require any additional hardware requirements above and beyond Windows 7. The operating system will run on both Intel and ARM chips. The company is calling it Windows 8 for now but considered a number of codenames, including Firestorm. Microsoft is also implementing live tiles inside Windows 8, similar to the company’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. Judging by the demonstration video (embedded below) the interface appears to seamlessly interact with legacy applications. One audience member at D9 asked if the new user interface was simply just “another layer” on top of Windows. Sinofsky explained that it’s always there in the background, “it’s just part of the way that it works,” he said. Sinofsky refused to say when Windows 8 would be available but said “I can tell you it won’t be this fall.”

Microsoft summarized the main elements of its new user interface:

• Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps. 
• Live tiles with notifications, showing always up-to-date information from your apps. 
• Fluid, natural switching between running apps. 
• Convenient ability to snap and resize an app to the side of the screen, so you can really multitask using the capabilities of Windows. 
• Web-connected and Web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript that have access to the full power of the PC. 
• Fully touch-optimized browsing, with all the power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10. 

Microsoft also announced its new BUILD developer conference, kicking off in September. WinRumors will be live from BUILD to bring you all the latest on Windows 8. It’s an exciting six months ago so stay tuned.

Bing Maps Streetside view updated to include Street Slide project imagery.

Microsoft launched a new version of its Bing Maps street side view on Tuesday.

The company has now integrated Microsoft Research’s Street Slide project into Bing Maps. Street Slide allows users to simply slide along street level imagery, sideways. “The view of the sidewalk is seamlessly constructed including an overlay of business listings, street names and store fronts,” says Microsoft’s Chris Pendleton.

The technology makes it easier to navigate between store fronts and streets. “This new style keeps the immersive experience but adds smooth left/right panning navigation that makes it easy to find what’s nearby more quickly,” says Pendleton. “The street flows by as a series of smooth ground-level photographs so now you simply pan up and down the street to see the neighborhood and find what you are looking for.”

Bing is only enabling the technology in certain locations. Check it out in a flat, straight, New York street, or a steep, twisty, San Francisco one.

Bing Maps Streetside view updated