Saturday, November 3, 2012

Picture WebSites

From http://www.hongkiat.com

PhotoFunia

One of the hottest site with tons of creative backgrounds to play around with. Now comes in 9 different languages.

Fun Photo Box

If you don’t get what you want from PhotoFunia, you reallly need to check out this site.

Picartia

Create a photo mosaic of your choice for free online.

Hairmixer

Choose a photo for the left and right side and start mixing their hairs up.

Photo505

We’d say, with Photo505, Photofunia and Fun Photo Box, you’ll be buzy for days.

Yearbook Yourself

Turn your face photo into yearbook alike black & white old school photo. The service is paused and will be back this Summer.

Loonapic

Make funny photos by embedding your face from the photo to the various templates.

Magmypic

Create different fake magazine covers from your photos.

Your own Wired Cover

Powered by Xerox, this service allows you to create your own Wired magazine cover. Customized everything from titles, colors to photos.

Hollywood Hair Makeover

Love those celebrities’ hair? Wear them instantly and see how you look.

More Ways To Have Fun

Write On It

Easily create your fake pictures, captions and fake magazines and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

Dumpr

Create multiple interesting effects from your normal photos.

Anymaking

Allows you to upload any photo and create "old photo", "wanted" and "puzzle" effects out of it.

Making use of their face recognition technology, this site offers several fun effects you can play with your photos. Included are Celebrity Morph, Look-alike Meter, Celebrity Collage and Tag Photos.

Letter James

Letter James has nothing to do with photo effects, but instead you allows you to blend texts and words of your choice into their existing templates.

Imagechef

Lots of ways for you to customize your photos and express them wherever you want.

Funny Photos

Similar to Fun Photo Box and Photofunia, just different effects.

Frontpage

Make yourself frontpage in 136 different magazine covers.

Fake Magazine Cover

Personalized money

Get your head into that dollar bill.

Faceinhole

Create HDR

One of the simplest way to create HDR photos online.

Blingee

Add Glitter, Graphics, and Comments to personalize your images, then share with your friends!

Moron Face

Moronize yourself and upload your photo.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Tip-of-the-Day - Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise Activation #ITPro #Windows8 by KeithMayer

Did you download Windows 8 Enterprise using your MSDN or TechNet subscription for testing in your lab? As the full-featured "business edition" of Windows 8, the Enterprise SKU defaults to using corporate Volume License activation on a business network. On a business network, this process provides a simplified end-user activation experience, because Windows 8 Enterprise automatically determines which servers to activate against using DNS without you needing to manage individual activation keys for each PC. To learn more about the Windows 8 Volume License activation process on a business network and the new Active Directory-based activation process, click here.
But, what if I'm testing Windows 8 Enterprise in an isolated lab environment?
This VL activation process works well in a business environment to simplify and automate the overall activation experience, but if you're testing Windows 8 Enterprise in an isolated environment, then you'll encounter an error during the activation process and activation will not successfully complete. This is because your Windows 8 Enterprise PC cannot find the appropriate DNS records to determine how to automatically activate. But, there's an alternative! In your TechNet and/or MSDN subscription portal, you have the ability to claim a "Multiple Activation Key" (MAK) for activating Windows 8 Enterprise by clicking the "Product Keys" button. The MAK is an alternative Product Key that doesn't require the same corporate VL activation process on a business network.

Great! I've got my MAK - What do I do now?
To enter your MAK on Windows 8 Enterprise and successfully activate, you can complete one of the following steps:

Command Line option:

Hit the Windows+R hotkeys to open the Run box and run the following command:

slmgr -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
GUI option:

Hit the Windows+R hotkeys to open the Run box and run the following command:

slui.exe 3
This command will open the following Dialog Box in which you can manually enter your MAK:

Enter your MAK in the "Product Key" field shown above, click the "Activate" button and you should be good to go!

HTH,
Keith

About the Author

Keith Mayer is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft focused on Windows Infrastructure, Data Center Virtualization, Systems Management and Private Cloud. Keith has over 17 years of experience as a technical leader of complex IT projects, in diverse roles, such as Network Engineer, IT Manager, Technical Instructor and Consultant. He has consulted and trained thousands of IT professionals worldwide on the design and implementation of enterprise technology solutions.
Learn more about Keith at: http://about.me/KeithMayer. Want Keith to speak at your community or group event in the US Heartland? Submit your request!Tip-of-the-Day - Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise Activation #ITPro #Windows8

Sunday, October 28, 2012

SQL SERVER Helpful Resources

Thursday, October 25, 2012

the type initializer for 'IBM.WMQ.MQTrace' threw an exception.

This error occurs when your .Net Application is built against 64-bit / Any CPU platform target.
Ensure that if you had installed 32-bit of IBM WebSphere MQ Client, then build the Application against 32-bit Platform target. This will resolve the issue of "the type initializer for 'IBM.WMQ.MQTrace' threw an exception.".

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Amazon Web Services Health Status Dashboard

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Table variable in SQL Server Articles link

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Facebook Data Center View

Error : there is a problem with this windows installer package

Sometimes while Setup files build by the Development team fails installing successfully and ends up throwing the error "There is a problem with this windows installer package". When this error pops up it doesn't provide the error number and you may have to search in internet using the error message.
Today I encountered the same error while installing a setup file on Test Environment. First thing I tried searching on the Google to know if there is a readymade fix to this problem. I found some of the links that talked about rectifying the issue, but it didnt help for my scenario. I kept trying for some time rebuilding the package myself and installing it. I was not successfull. Then I tried installing on a machine which had full installation of Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010. When it was installing and encountered the error, it gave me an option to debug the error. When I provided the Visual Studio editor to open the error for debugging it provided me the exact message. In my case there was a folder with no files in it and there was a custom script component that was failing. I fixed it and next time I build the setup file and installed, it installed successfully without any issues. Finally I found another answer for this kind of strange error. Hopefully I may not encounter these kind of error in future.

In Short, it would be wise to install the Setup file build by the Development team to test on a machine which has full the similar environment but not the complete replica. Hope this helps.

Also thanks for your patience to go through this lengthy piece of descripiton.

Have a great day!!

Cheers,
Ananda

Microsoft Surface RT Price

Monday, October 15, 2012

Top 10 Cloud Providers : Talkin'Cloud

Top 100 Cloud Services Providers List 2012: Ranked 10 to 1

Welcome to the Top 100 Cloud Services Provider (CSP) list for 2012. Also known as the Talkin’ Cloud 100, this portion of the CSP list covers cloud computing companies ranked 10 to 1.

10. Apptix, Herndon, VA, USA: Apptix hosted services support more than350,000 users around the world. The company’s core focus includes hosted Exchange VoIP, SharePoint, Web Conferencing, and Secure IM with Presence. Top Exec: David Ehrhardt, CEO

9. LogicWorks, New York, NY, USA: Logicworks provides cloud computing and managed hosting to Dow Jones, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Orion Health, and 1-800-Flowers.com, among others. Top Exec: Ken Ziegler, CEO

8. Layered Technologies, Plano, TX, USA: Layered Technologies focuses on compliance-based cloud services, having acquired FastServers.net (managed hosting) and GreenSoft Solutions (PCI compliance) in 2010. Top Exec: Jack Finlayson, CEO

7. SoftLayer, Dallas, TX, USA: With 100,000 servers under management, SoftLayer claims to be the largest privately held IaaS provider in the world, with 25,000 customers ranging from technology startups to global enterprises. Top Exec: Lance Crosby, CEO

6. Computer Services Inc., Paducah, KY, USA: CSI is one of the largest service providers focused on financial institutions, with an emphasis on compliance monitoring. Top Exec: Steve Powless, CEO

5. NaviSite (Time Warner), Andover, MA, USA: NaviSite provides cloud-enabled hosting, managed applications and services. The 600-person company focuses on hosted IBM Lotus, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Oracle environments. Top Exec: R. Brooks Borcherding, President

4. Equinix, Redwood City, CA, USA: Equinix connects more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies including more than 700 network service providers. Top Exec: Stephen Smith, CEO

3. Savvis (CenturyLink), Town & Country, MO, USA: Now a CenturyLink company, Savvis has 50 data centers (with more than 1.5 million square feet) in North America, Europe, and Asia, serving more than 2,500 business and government customers. Top Exec: Jim Ousley, CEO

2. Rackspace, San Antonio, TX, USA: Rackspace’s cloud services launched as Mosso in 2006. Estimated cloud services revenues were $190 million in 2011. Company revenues now exceed $1 billion. Top Exec: Lanham Napier, CEO

1. Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA, USA: Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched in 2006. From the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon’s cloud powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. Amazon has data centers in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan. Top Exec: Jeff Bezos, CEO

Where to next: Return to the Top 100 Cloud Services Providers main page

Cloud Computing from Wikipedia

Cloud computing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cloud computing logical diagram

Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts remote services with a user's data, software and computation.
There are many types of public cloud computing:^[1]

The business model, Using software as a service, users also rent application software and databases. The cloud providers manage the infrastructure and platforms on which the applications run.
End users access cloud-based applications through a web browser or a light-weight desktop or mobile app while the business software and user's data are stored on servers at a remote location. Proponents claim that cloud computing allows enterprises to get their applications up and running faster, with improved manageability and less maintenance, and enables IT to more rapidly adjust resources to meet fluctuating and unpredictable business demand.^[2]^[3]
Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network.^[4] At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services.

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