Windows 7 has set new definition of Personalization. Windows Desktop Experience MVP from Pilani, Rajasthan – Ramesh Kumar, who authors a popular Windows blog, codes up useful Windows utilities, and contributes to online forums couldn’t escape the temptation.

Ramesh has released a Windows 7 Theme pack - I’m Windows 7 PC. It is combination of four wallpapers and uses the inbuilt sound scheme - Festival. Each of the four wallpapers has one of the Windows flag color.
  

Download the Theme Pack from here, and then click Open. The theme is applied to your desktop and added to Personalization in Control Panel. The wallpapers are set to change every 30 minutes, but feel free to choose your own interval.

Ravishankar Shrivastava, a Windows Desktop Experience MVP, has won the Manthan 2009 Award – a prestigious IT sector award from Digital Empowerment Foundation and Department of IT, Government of India.

Chhattisgarhi KDE 4.2 Program Suite is a localization project aimed to remove digital divide from native Chhattisgarhi speaking people of Chhattisgarh state in India. More than 100,000 strings of KDE 4.2 had been translated in to Chhattisgarhi. The Chhattisgarhi-localized applications are available for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac. It is a first of its kind applications suite for the Windows platform, in any Indian regional language.

The applications suite will allows users not knowing the English language surf Internet, email, work on office suite, and play games in their native Chhattisgarhi language.

Joydip Kanjilal, an ASP.NET MVP from India and an author of four books as yet, has just got his next book published. ASP.NET 4.0 Programming, published by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, promises to make you design and implement faster, lighter, and more efficient distributed applications using the powerful technologies and tools available in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.

In a nutshell, this book helps you to:

• Design, debug, and administer cutting-edge web sites and applications
• Work with Web Parts, Web Services, ADO.NET, and the ASP.NET MVC Framework
• Maintain state, application, and session data across multiple requests
• Use namespaces to create multilingual, globalized, and localized applications
• Build and distribute powerful RIAs using Silverlight, Ajax, and SOAP
• Develop data-driven applications with LINQ and Entity Framework
• Leverage WCF features in ASP.NET applications
• Implement reliable role- and membership-based security policies
• Optimize page load time, memory usage, and database query performance
• Simplify event handling, animation, and document traversing with jQuery

ASP.NET 4.0 Programming

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (December 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071604103
• ISBN-13: 978-0071604109

Exchange Server MVPs from India – Nitin Gupta and Amit Tank – have founded Microsoft Unified Communication User Group – India, an independent group focused on encouraging communication between IT Professionals motivated by self-interest in Microsoft Unified Communication products like Exchange Server, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint Server.

The user group is designed as an information resource where Unified Communication professionals can find articles, how-tos, videos, industry News, forums, and new product features. Though this User Group is based out of India, there will be no regional boundaries as the group plans to host virtual monthly meetings and occasional in-person events.

Join the group at http://muc-ug.org.in, and spread the word around.

The 1^st edition of Virtual TechDays: REGIONAL event was held on 3-4 December, 2009. For the first time in the history of VTD, the event was conducted in four languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam – based on the maximum feedback received on a particular language from the community.

The event was a great success with 3,014 unique individuals attending the event – resulting in a cumulative 5,397 session attendees - not without the participation of MVPs who took three sessions at the event.