Honda, two decades ago, made a bold step forward in the motorcycle industry with the 1099cc V-Twin Shadow 1100 that became a runaway success, with new customers till today.

This post is about another 1100 milestone. SQL Server MVP from Gujarat, India – Pinal Dave has crossed 1100 articles on his popular blog, SQL Authority, last week. Starting a few years back, the blog has gained much appreciation and popularity from SQL Server enthusiasts and learners from across the globe, and has had over 8 million views.

He enjoys the prolific technology writing, and maintains that he has always enjoyed learning, sharing, and helping the community (He is a local user group leader and a popular speaker too!). Through this blog, he met many wonderful people, made great friends, and interacted with diverse readers from across the globe.

Twitter, the popular micro-blogging network, helps members talk, evangelize, build public relations, support customers, market self or products, and… phew! Now, an MVP helps you to use Twitter to control your PC. Honest!

TweetMyPC is an open-source application developed by Shoban Kumar, a Client Application Development MVP from Kerela, India, which allows you to shutdown/ restart/ log off, and do lots more on your Windows PC remotely via your Twitter account.

The latest version, TweetMyPC 2.0, has lots of new features compared to the earlier version including Screenshot, Memory usage, IP address, Custom commands, Reply from TweetMyPC, and several others.

The application has earned rave reviews, being featured on popular technology blogs like Lifehacker, Makeuseof, and Gizmodo, and has had close to 9000 downloads on Codeplex. Sara Ford, a Program Manager at Microsoft, even featured the application at TechEd US in her session on Codeplex.

The application is available, with source code, here:  http://tweetmypc.codeplex.com/.

On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, senior Windows Desktop Experience MVP, Vijay K. Malhotra would host a webcast on Indic Language Computing, which would be first of a series of similar webcasts.

Unicode and changing dimensions of Language Computing in Hindi

युनिकोड और हिंदी में भाषिक कंप्यूटिंग के बदलते आयाम

September 14, 2009 |  4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Add to Calendar

Thanks to Unicode that Hindi and other Indic languages are now exactly at par with English. This presentation will cover all language specific features including the activation of Hindi on the Windows Operating system with XP or above, the process of downloading IME to enable various users to input the text in Hindi by using the same qwerty keyboard used for English typing, Sorting in Hindi, Filenames in Hindi, Find and Replace in Hindi, Spell Check and Auto Correct in Hindi. Smart Tag features in Hindi etc. All these features have been made possible due to the Fonts-free, Browser-free and Operating System-free environment of Unicode.

Please note that the medium of this webcast will be in Hindi in the spirit of the day. 

Mr. Malhotra is a former Director in the Ministry of Railways, Government of India, and has over 39 years of experience of translation from English to Hindi in Reserve Bank of India, Union Bank of India, and the Ministry of Railways in various positions. He’s associated with various international universities like University of York, UK and University of Pennsylvania, USA, as well as Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University in Wardha, India. He also works with Microsoft as language co-coordinator and consultant for developing applications and tools for localization in Hindi.

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