Live WebCast of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 Celebration

All we know that Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 will be available worldwide on 2007 January 30.

Bill Gates Celebrates Worldwide Launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System on Monday, January 29, 2007. Join Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for a live webcast celebrating the worldwide launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. The celebration pays tribute to the millions of Microsoft customers, partners and product testers around the world who provided input and feedback on these products.

Schedule of Events on Jan 29, Jan 30

Live WebCast begins at 1.45 pm Pacific Monday,January 29, 2007.

View the Live WebCast

YouTube share ad money to people who upload their own full copyrighted videos

YouTube share it's revenue with people in a couple of months. This offer applies to people who upload their own full copyrighted videos to the YouTube website.

YouTube founded in Feb 2005. It is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube started as a personal video sharing service, and has grown into an entertainment destination with people watching more than 70 million videos on the site daily.

With YouTube people can upload,share videos worldwide. People can view millions of videos uploaded by community members. Google bought YouTube in November 2005.

For full details read BBC NEWS

Download free Gmail Drive

Gmail Drive creates a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, allowing you to use your Google Gmail account as a storage medium. You can copy your files to this Gmail Drive. When you copy a file to Gmail Drive then that file is stored as email on your Google Gmail account. All these files are stored in mail attachments. Also you can delete any stored file from Gmail Drive. If you delete a stored file in Gmail Drive then the corresponding mail attachment will be deleted automatically from your Google Gmail account.

All we know that Google is offering email account with a storage space of 2810 MB. So we have plenty of storage space. With Gmail Drive we can easily copy files to our Gmail account and retrieve them again when we need. When we copy a file to Gmail Drive then it generates an email and posts it to our Gmail account.

Download Free Gmail Drive

Google's Build Your Campus in 3D Competition

Simply model your school's campus buildings in Google SketchUp using photo texturing and with a low polygon count, geo reference them in Google Earth and submit them through Google's competition web site http://contest.sketchup.com/entry.php. The top 5 or 7 teams (max 50 people) will win a 3 day trip to Google's Mountain View headquarters to participate in a workshop with 3D modeling experts from Google, get free airfare, hotel and food.

Each team comprised of up to 15 students. The Contest is open to individuals who are at least 18 years old, and who are a student at a college or university in the United States or Canada only. Students who are under 18 years old are eligible to participate in the Contest but will be required to submit a signed parental consent form in order to collect any prize won.

Entries will be judged by a panel of Industry experts from Walt Disney Imagineering, Electronic Arts, Communication Arts Inc., Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Green Mountain Geographics LTD, HKS Architects, Inc.

The Contest begins at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on January 1, 2007 (5:01 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on January 1, 2007) and ends at 11:59 p.m. PDT on June 1, 2007 (4:59 a.m. GMT on June 1, 2007). The names of the prize winners will be available at http://contest.sketchup.com on or about July 10, 2007 for a period up to 30 days.

To enter the Contest, visit the Contest website and complete the online registration form, including, as applicable, registering as part of a team, and follow the instructions to create and submit your campus model in both .skp and .kmz formats. All entries must be in English. The entire campus must be modeled using SketchUp for the entry to be considered for a prize.

Fill up Competition Entry Form

Download Google Sketchup Pro 6

Industry's First Terabyte Hard Disk from Hitachi by March 2007

Hitachi company is planning to release 1 Terabyte Deskstar 7K 1000 by March 2007.

Specifications:
Capacity: up to 1 TB(1000 GB)
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Interface standard: SATA 3.0Gb/s (Serial) and ATA Ultra 133 (Parallel)
Average seek time: 8.5 ms
Up to 32MB buffer on SATA models
Perpendicular magnetic recording technology
Ramp load design increases shock protection and power savings
Thermal monitoring and fly height control enhance reliability
Three low power idle modes boost power efficiency
Silent seek acoustics achieve ultra quiet operation
Host/drive authentication for hardware security

Hitachi's Perpendicular magnetic recording technology(PMR) and media technology improves noise characteristics and thermal stability. Deskstar 7K1000 features three advanced low power idle modes active, unload and low power. They reduce power consumption at the drive level up to 20%, optimize non operational latency and lower drive temperature for cooler system operation.

Deskstar 7K1000's thermal fly height control (TFC) uses an integrated heating element to precisely maintain a constant fly height throughout read and write operations. This reduces raw soft error rate and in turn improves overall data integrity, drive performance and reliability. Deskstar 7K1000's iridium manganese chromium (IrMnCr) read head sensor technology offers better performance and reliability in harsh conditions.