If you missed to see the spectacular launch of NASA’S Endeavour Space Shuttle live yesterday then here is the recoded video [youtube link]

Few posts that provide more information about this launch

• Shuttle Endeavour launches from Florida – BBC
• NASA Endeavour space shuttle launches Monday – Examiner
• Endeavour launch: NASA shuttle heads for space station

I’m one of the thousands of happy Windows 7 RC early adopters and it’s time for me to upgrade to Windows 7 Final version as Windows 7 RC is all set to expire on February 15, 2010. I had a free ride of Windows 7 all these days and today shelled out few bucks to get the best ever Windows operating system released by Microsoft.

I’m using Windows 7 RC for several months and it has all the required software and configurations. So I want to just upgrade RC to Final version without loosing anything and chose the upgrade option. The installer popped an error saying i can’t perform the upgrade.

What? I cant’ perform an upgrade is it? Oh that’s bad. This is not something I like or any other user as it’s very pain full to reinstall and configure all the required software on a fresh OS copy. But luckily a quick search revealed very easy trick that allowed me to upgrade Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 Final (RTM).

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We saw funny Hitler’s reaction video on iPad last week and here is yet another video that takes on iPad as well as Steve Jobs.

You don’t need to be a CEO to have a personal assistant – all you need to have an iPhone and the free application Siri. That’s what the developers of Siri application claim. Siri turns an  iPhone into your personal assistant and you can ask it for movie show times, make reservations, get a taxi or just set reminders and it will do it for you.

The demo is pretty interesting and looks like the concept of Siri will be liked by many. If you have an iPhone, it’s worth to try this application free application from iTunes

While writing SQL Server queries, often I need to extract date part from DateTime columns/variables and it’s very easy to do that:

SELECT convert(varchar,getdate(),101)

Bonus: How To Retrieve Time Part Alone From DateTime Field

Here is the bonus tip to get the time part alone from DateTime fields

SELECT convert(varchar,getdate(),108)

Hope this helps you.

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It’s very sad to know that there are only 1411 tigers left in India and if proper care is taken about them they will extinct soon! Tiger is the Indian National Animal and it’s the high time for every Indian to come forward and save tigers.

Thanks to Aircel, one of the leading mobile service provider of India, for release this awareness advertisement “Save Our Tigers”. Watch it, for sure it touches your heart.

Every little bit helps. You can speak up about the cause. If you are blogger you can write about the tigers on your blogs.  If we don’t act now, we could lose our heritage.

To know more details on how you can contribute to the Save Tigers projects, you can follow them on facebook, twitter or logon to http://www.saveourtigers.com/

Bloggers and Apple fan boys are not the only people who are disappointed with Apple’s iPad, even Hitler is disappointed. Look at this hilarious video

Interested to know how other tech pundits are disappointed with iPad? Here are few articles to read

1. LifeHacker – The Problem with the Apple iPad
2. Mashable – The Anti-Hype: Why Apple’s iPad Disappoints
3. Gizmodo – 8 Things That Suck About the iPad
4. Gizmodo -The iPad Is The Gadget We Never Knew We Needed
5. CNet – 10 things Netbooks still do better than an iPad

What about you? Do you like the iPad?

Apple Corporation has developed its latest product called iPAD, which is now ready to hit the market soon. Just like other Apple products, iPAD has gathered a high level of expectation among the customers because of its high end feature and performance.

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In one of the mobile device application we are developing using .NET Compact Framework(C#) utilizes conditional compilation to include/exclude device specific source code. In Visual Studio, we can define the conditional compilation constants using “Conditional compilation symbols” input box in Build tab of Project Properties.

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