Think about this video once...

When you want to throw away some excess food, think again, it might be the life saver for some others...

Opera releases Opera 10 Alpha...

I am an Opera fanboy, and I admit it. But why? Just because it caters to all my basic browsing needs and now they are going to come up with a new version of their browser Opera 10. It is still in alpha stage and I haven't tested it till date but would love to. I just downloaded it and will give you a detailed report once I feel that I had a good feel of this brand new browser from Opera.

For those who want to risk the alpha download at your own risk from HERE...

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What do you know about Vaastu Shastra???

Vaastu Shastra is a Sanskrit language term combining the words Vaastu, meaning a dwelling or work place, and Shastra, which means a system of science or art. Vaastu Shastra is an ancient Indian architectural science that evolved some 5000 years ago with roots in the sacred Vedic texts. Its principles of building planning and construction seek to bring about an ideal and harmonious balance between humans and the environment.

Vaastu Shastra considers the earth as a living entity from which other living beings spring forth. What makes this possible on our planet is the presence of the Five Elements (Panchmahabhuutas) - Space/Sky (Aakash/Ananta), Air (Vaayu), Fire (Agni), Water (Jala), and Earth (Bhumi). To bring about its aimed-for balance, Vaastu Shastra coordinates these Five Elements with Cosmic Energies and human activities.

The basic rules of Vastu Shastra are based on the eight directions -

Four principle directions:

North (Uttara, ruled by Lord Kuber, God of Wealth)
South (Dakshina, ruled by Lord Yama, God of Death)
East (Purva, ruled by Lord Indra, King of Gods, and Lord Aditya/Surya, God of Sun/Energy)
West (Pashcima, ruled by Lord Varun, God of Rain/Water)

Four secondary directions:

East-North (Ishanya,ruled by Lord Ishanya, God of All Quarters)
North-West (Vayavya, ruled by Lord Vayu, God of Winds)
South-West (Nairutya, ruled by Pitru or Ancestors)
South-East (Agneya, ruled by Lord Agni, God of Fire)

Of these, the East and North are considered the most auspicious.

For more details on Vaastu Click Here...

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Funny bus ads...

Found these funny bus ads through digg.com. Credits to the original poster. To have some more fun Visit Here...

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Feeling Hungry, eat for free...

Are you hungry but can wait till tomorrow, you have a choice to eat out for free. It may not be a catch but let me tell you, it is one good deal, rather I can call it a free give-away. You can have a small fry and a fountain drink tomorrow all for yourself and that too for free.

Jack in the box is offering you this pretty deal. Take your girlfriend, your mom, your dad and show them this magic and astonish them. Just say " I am the king here". Jack in the box is offering a free small fry and a fountain drink and you have the choice of natural cut or seasoned curly fries. You just need to print out a coupon and carry with you to get all the stuff for free. But the offer is only available for one day i.e., Tuesday, March 10th. Go and get your stuff tomorrow but remember to carry the coupon with you.

For the coupon and details of the offer Click Here...

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Virus attack by anti-virus ads, Stay Cool...

What will you do when your browser shows a pop-up which says your system is affected by virus and you should run anti-virus check? This is a kind of ads-spread virus. I take the credit for giving the name ads-spread and even the word corporate-spread. This virus just installs some adtracker in your system and keeps on nagging you to do system check. You can't use your browser and you can't access your files as well. This is strictly for Windows operating system.

I had this attack twice and I fell flat on my stomach but could do nothing but reinstall the complete OS, which by all means is a very bad habbit. But now I guess I know what to do. Just recently a computer in my house has been attacked by similar virus and I was worried what would happen to this. But there was this guy who I guess saved the day for me. When I saw and learnt what he did, I felt bad for myself. I was thrashing myself for not getting such a simple thought.

What he did was he shut down the computer, but before shutting down he turned the wireless internet connection off and then he navigated to the "temporary internet files" folder from the run command and deleted the files in it. I thought why through the run command, pat came the answer, because what ever folders you access you might be affecting those folders as well. Okay now all set I shut down the computer and restarted it. I repeat shut down not restart. Hope the virus doesn't come back again...

Source::  Adi

What is and Why Day Light Saving???

Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1907 by the English builder William Willett.

Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming, entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun. Traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight; its effect on health and crime is less clear. Although an early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity, modern heating and cooling usage patterns greatly differ, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited and often contradictory.

In U.S.A., the day light saving begins on the 2nd Sunday of March and ends on the 1st Sunday of November. The time would be 3:00 am on March 2nd instead of 2:00 am, which means you have lost  an hour of your life in the lighter vein...

Source:: WIKI

What a customer wants...

What a customer really wants and what the software people does is the theme of this cartoon. I found it on one of my friends blog. Thought to share with you. Click on the pic to have a better view of this sarcastic cartoon.

Source:: NagRockz

Oldest .com registered websites...

Here is a list of the oldest registered .com, .net, .org and .edu websites. I found it from the digg.com website and thought to share with you. This list contains some of the leading software gaints like hp, ibm and att. It was good to find that most of the top schools in U.S. are in the list for registering their domain as .edu.

Just have a look at the list, it isn't that great to look at nor it is that appealing but it is still history to relish. Here is the link:: Click Here

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Tired of Internet Explorer, just kill it in Windows 7...

You have been using the Internet Explorer from ages and most of us are tired of the browser. But untill Windows 7, we never had an option to uninstall the IE6 from our Windows Systems. You have to live with it, says Microsoft. Even when security issues have cropped up, even when your computer completely hangs up, even when you are under a virus attack and you know that IE is the culprit, you can't uninstall it but had to cry for yourself.

But at last, after ages together, Microsoft has come out of their shell, and heard the cries of the mere souls on earth and gave an option to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7, their latest Operating System. Windows is so desperate for the success of Win 7, that they may even offer free Win 7 to the customers who buy computers with Vista installed in them.

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Where's the tax money...

Every nation, every state and every district collects tax from their residents. How do they collect, I mean in which way? In every possible way is my answer. From the purchases you make to the items you sell. From the salary you earn to the money you pay to daily labor. From the transport you take to work to the gas you fill in your vehicle. In every financial matter you are involved in, you are paying tax in some form or other. But where is all this going.

Tax is defined by some intelligent guy as "Enforced charge extracted of persons, corporations and organizations by the government to be used to support government services and programs". But how good is it working when it comes to helping the public when they are in real need. I say literally very little help. The tax was introduced to help the government to help the people who are paying it. 

But with the big-heads involved, by big-heads I mean corporate gaints, the tax money is going into the pockets of a few rich guys, who by any reason doesn't need that. The involvment of corporate heads in the government, or more like the corporate people controlling the proceedings of the government have led to this mis-use of tax money. This should be stopped but who will take the initiative. 

I say the tax-payers should take the initiative, when their hard earned pennies are collected in the form of tax till they dry up paying all the taxes, why shouln't they have the right to know where their taxes are going. The tax-payers should ask the government the reason for paying the corporates so much money that they really not deserve. They should ask the government why the money is not being spent on basic amenities like food, water and shelter. 

This change cannot be achieved in a day but still it will work perfectly. When the governing body becomes answerable then the fraud gets to it's knees, the money will be spent in the right way and even in the recession periods there will not be any problem to the common public. Just think about it. As some elderly said, "If I can change the thought of a single man by my writings in a positive way, that would bring me satisfaction, as if I ate a Chicken Biryani with Mutton Kurma", Just Kiddin...

2 mins to make, 10 mins to relish...

Have you ever had the taste of Maggi noodles, in fact any noodles? This is one of my favorites when it comes to eating and will be up there when it comes to cooking. It is so easy to make that it takes just 2 mins for its preparation and this thing has been the slogan for them for decades and guess what it will be the slogan for decades to come as well.

There are a lot of preparations you could make with the noodles. You can add carrots and peas and make some veggie noodles or spice it up with some chicken pieces and egg and make some chicken or egg soft noodles. I used to prepare and eat noodles every other day when I used to live with my friends. It was more like a tradition for me. In fact it has saved me from starving to death. Hence this is a thank you post to Maggi for helping me out in the crisis period...

Why am I writing all this today? Because today morning I had some noodles made by my sister and they were so good that they reminded me of those good old days, so I just wanted to share with you....

The Shawshank Redemption - My View...

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. 

This is how the movie can be described aptly in two lines. But the movie has got more than that. The movie is about a banker who is imprisoned for murdering his wife and her lover. But did he really commit the crime? Is his imprisonment justified? What he does in the prison? These all constitute the movie.

Morgan Freeman acts and narrates the most part of the movie. He is like the main pillar for this movie, where all the weight lies. And guess what he is the only person I knew in this movie. More than 90% of the movie is picturized in a prison. The male pratogonist has got a dream role to play and he does his part to near perfection. 

The scenes I liked::

• The letter writing by our hero to get funds for the prison library.
• The way he uses the rock hammer.
• Cruelty of the prison warden.
• (spoiler) The escape plan.

The scenes where I felt bad::

• When the new prisoner who passes some test gets killed by the warden.
• When the released prisoner hangs himself.

Overall I learnt from this movie, that Life hits you so hard that it brings you to your knees. But don't loose your heart, because everyone will have a talent in them which if put to a better use could fetch you success and that too in a pretty big way. Just never loose hope, the word is Hope...

For complete cast and crew details Click Here...

Why should we blog????

Why should anyone blog? Is blogging a fashion, is this a trend, is blogging done just to impress your girlfriend or to make others around you look stupid. None of the above is my answer. Why I started blogging? I clearly don't remember but I surely can say that it was my evergrowing curiosity to know what's new. This curiosity of mine has pushed me, rather dragged me into this trade.

Firstly, it was like a hobby for me to write some stupid things in my blog, then entered the new softwares that I used. I even blogged about politics, sports and stuff like that. But in the initial days, I did not take it seriously. But once my audience increased I started blogging on different issues and most of the time the words in the blog came from my heart rather than my mind. But I never thought this to be a fashion, trend or something like that. That's the main reason that I did not tell to anyone about my blog unless asked by them. A very few people know about my blog till date. But let me tell you, who ever knew my blog, they know one thing that there is no unrelevant hatred, questionable voilence, unreasonable use of filthy language.

But these days when I visit some blogs, they are either solely maintained for money or just as a fashion statement. I rarely find genuine blogs except for a few, where the blogger keeps his heart out when he writes something and you can very rarely find an objection in the blogs. But actually why should we blog?

Blogging brings out the inner self in you. You might want to show your anger on some issue, you might want to write what you like about a movie, or you might want to show your feelings on some issue but can't say that publicly. Here is a solution, the blogs help you vent out your anger, spread your love and show your feelings to the entire world. One final word, blog more not to hog the limelight but to flag off your inner feelings and race towards the eternal truth "Living Life King-Size"... 

Download Vista SP2 RC now...

Microsoft has released the service packs for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. But let me remind you that these are not the final versions but release candidates. So you can expect the final candidates somewhere by the end of the month or in a month or two. But the question here is what is new in these releases?

Nothing new is injected into the Operating System, nor there is any good news to the end users. I feel it is just a try in vain to show that Vista is still alive and the guys in Richmond haven't left Vista behind. There are just some hot fixes and security updates which are not that critical yet but could come handy sometime in the near future.

If you want to download and update your Vista OS or your Windows Server Click Here...

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Want to marry a celebrity Look-alike...

Everyone dreams to marry a celebrity, a fewest have the luck to marry them, a fewer have the option of being a friend or lover to them. But a lot miss out on the luck. For those who dreamt of  marrying a celebrity but couldn't make it, don't loose your heart. Bharath Matrimony comes as a dream come true for you.

They have introduced this new technology, Facial Search, through which you can choose your future life partner from a list of celebrity look alikes. You can just select your favorite celebrities and then find the person or more like a look alike and then you can contact the particular person.

Out of curiosity I searched for someone looking like Aishwarya Rai, and guess what not one girl had the looks of Ash. Leave aside Ash, I don't know what the matrimonial site want to prove by this software, but I say, as of now it will just be another publicity stunt. 

Firefox updates to 3.07...

In the wake of updates from Opera, Firefox followed pretty soon with a latest update in  the form of version 3.07. There is nothing new in the User Interface, just the usual bug fixes and the stability issues. If you are one of those fans of Firefox get these update as soon as possible otherwise you might be at risk. But don't you think this browser is a little overrated, seriously guys, there isn't that aura this browser carried a few years ago. 

Want to win an Xbox 360...

Here is a small survey from Digital Inspiration website, which in the first place is free to take and it offers you to enter into a lucky draw, where you could become a lucky owner of  a brand new Xbox 360 Elite(120 GB hard drive). This Xbox is priced around $400.

 

This is one of my favorite sites, and the reason that I like this site comes from the fact that it is maintained by an Indian and the content here is completely original, unlike me.The survey took me around 5-7 minutes, which I think isn't that a big waste of time. Why don't you just give out a try...

Take the survey by Visiting Here...

Google reversed or is it...

Ever thought how the Google Search Web Page would look when it is reversed. It is really brainless and completely time wasting, but it involves the work of a genius to pull out something like this. Ofcourse it is no good in stoping the terror*sm which is being encouraged by the country of Pakistan , but it sure can waste 10 mins of mine and 2 mins of all those who read this article...


Source:: Click Here

Opera upgrades to 9.64...

The less-famous, ill-treated, low-graded web browser Opera has released a new update to it's existing Opera version of 9.63 and made it 9.64. What's the difference did this upgrade brought with it's arrival? Nothing much to the UI but it brought with it some security updates and patches and stability.

The stability has been the key issue with Opera, I don't know when they are going to treat this disease. This stability issue has kept Opera away from hogging the limelight. But trust me this is one hell of a browser with lightening speed browsing and cool UI. I would rate this higher than any other browser in the market right now, except for some issues with the security and stability.

You can have a taste of the pie HERE

Funny Computer Mechanics...

Computer Mechanics, yeah this is what I would like to call the software engineers, ofcourse just for fun though. But don't you feel the pic above depicts the real truth.

Source:: MakeUseof

Stop Terrorism, Spread Humanism...

I just saw the news that some terror*sts have attacked the SriLankan cricketers in Pakistan. I just asked the question WHY? What wrong have they done? They are mere sportsmen. They went to Pakistan to provide some entertainment to the sports lovers. I really condemn this but I am angry with myself that I am unable to do anything against such attacks.

I want to blame Pakistan for these attacks, but it would be unfair if I do that. It may be provoking terror*sm, but are the Pakistanis so heartless, that they attack the sportsmen who are sent there to develop some peaceful environment. What will happen to their careers? What will happen to the future of Pakistan cricket in particular and Pakistan as a country in general. If they couldn't provide security to a visiting team, just imagine how bad is the security of common people in Pakistan.

My heart is with the SriLankan players who are injured and the security personnal who are killed in this attack. May their souls rest in peace. I wish the injured SriLankan players get well soon and return to their normal cricketing form as soon as possible....

How future looks in 2019

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

The video is so cool and say what I want to have my hands on one of those cool futuristic gadgets. Especially the part in which the newspaper is graphical as well...

Source:: Click Here

Adbrite down with fever or what???

The so called bright ads company Adbrite is over and out. I mean it is out. I mean it is not working. I mean the site is dead. OH man... what am I talking...

Ok let's try it once again, the so called Internet's ad market place is down and it is down till 5 pm on monday March 2nd. The exact time that the website was supposed to make a come back from the temporary maintainance was on Feb 27th. With such a crappy maintainance how can you expect to get a lot of ads boy....

Update:: The bird has come back from the ashes....

Iphone ruling the mobile Web...

Apple Iphone has set up another benchmark, in which it has occupied a share of nearly 66.61% of Mobile web. It has surpassed all other mobile web users and that too with a huge difference. Talking about its nearest competitor, the windows Mobile is 9 times lesser when it comes to using the web from your mobile phone...

I wasn't that much of a fanboy of Iphone but these days I could get my hands onto some of the apps in Iphone and I felt it is worth the 200 bucks that you spend on an Iphone...

Source:: AppleInsider

Traitor Movie - My View...

When I started watching this movie, I wasn't much interested in this movie, the reason being I haven't heard much about it before. The movie doesn't have huge starcast is the other reason which kept me away from the movie. If not for one of my brother, I would never have watched this movie. Okay after all the reasons why I watched the movie, let me tell you how I felt after watching the movie.

I was so dissapointed after the completion of the movie, that I didn't even speak much about it. Usually when I watch a new movie, I brag a lot about it. But this did not happen after this movie. I started watching the movie with no expectations, except a few action episodes. The first scene in the prison caught my eye and I was involved in the movie making a lot of false predictions of the plot and in turn disturbing others who are watching the movie.

The movie starts with the right momentum as if in Bourne Series but falls flat when it comes to the climax. The protagonist Samir(Don Cheadle), was good with his acting skills but I felt it was not his cake and he shouldn't have cut it with a terror*st backdrop. 

Things I liked::

• The dialogue in the prison from one of the terror*sts, which goes something like this  "How many are ready to die for you".
• The plight of Samir in trying to save the kid from becoming a suicide bomber.
• The idea of Samir in attracting the attention of the cops when in Chicago.

Things I hated::

• Using the fear of terror*sm in the US as an investment.
• Not so attractive screen presence of the male protagonist. There was almost zero energy in this character.
• The plot was subdued not just by the story but as well by the characters.
• There was no thrill in watching a few characters talking endlessly.
• One more thing is that there is literally zero action in this action thriller.

By the way I forgot to tell you the name of the movie, it is Traitor and trust me it is a real traitor.

My Rating:: 1.5/5

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Gmail now you have problems with Opera...

This morning when I opened my Gmail account in Opera, I found this weird page in my browser. There was no regular Gmail webpage. I thought Gmail might be dead again. But it wasn't the case, since it worked fine in my firefox. So I came to the conclusion that Gmail is having an issue with Opera, hope it gets resolved pretty soon...

A small Satire...

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however like the smog statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn't have to leave L.A. to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country, and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country either, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority, feministic atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are democrats.

10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.

List of FilmFare Awards Winners...

Hrithik has ruled the roost this time. Last year more than the awards it was a show of Shahrukh and Saif. But this time the show was from Jodha Akbar team. Although it was expected that Jodha Akbar is going to bite the cake, but which part of the cake was the issue. It has ended in such a way that the icing of the cake and most part of the cake has went Jodha Akbar's way.

Best Movie : Jodha Akbar 

Best Director : Ashutosh Gowarikar for Jodha Akbar 

Best Actor in a Leading role (Male): Hrithik Roshan for Jodha Akbar 

Best Actor in a Leading role (Female): Priyanka Chopra for Fashion 

Critic Awards 

Best Actress : Sahana Goswami for Rock On! 

Best Actor : Manjit Singh for Oye Lucky! Lucy Oye! 

Best Jury Award : Nishikant Kamat for Mumbai Meri Jaan 

Lifetime Achievement Award : Bhanu Athaiya, Om Puri 

Best Actor in Supporting Role (Male): Arjun Rampal for Rock On! 

Best Actor in Supporting Role (Female) : Kangana Ranaut for Fashion 

Best Dialogue : Manu Rishi for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! 

Best Screenplay : Yogendra Vinayak Joshi, Upendra Sidhaye for Mumbai Meri Jaan 

Best Story : Abhishek Kapoor for Rock On! 

Best Music Director : A R Rahman for Jaane tu... 

Best Lyrics : Javed Akhtar for Jashn-e-Bahara (Jodha Akbar) 

Best Playback Singer (Male): Sukhwinder Singh for Haule haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi) 

Best Playback Singer (Female): Shreya Ghoshal for Teri ore... (Singh is Kinng) 

Best Sensational Debut (Male): Farhan Akhtar and Imraan Khan 

Best Sensational Debut (Female): Asin Thottumkal for Ghajini 

Sony Filmfare Best Scene Award: Rab Ne Banadi Jodi 

R D Burman Upcoming Talent: Benny Dayal for Ghajini 

Technical awards 

Best Background Score: A R Rahman for Jodha Akbar 

Best Costume : Manoshi Nath for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! 

Best Cinematography : Jason West for Rock On! 

Best Sound Design : Vinod Subramanyam for Rock On! 

Best Choreography : Longines for Pappu Can’t Dance Sala . ( Jaane Tu...) 

Best Editing : Amit Pawar for Mumbai Meri Jaan 

Best Production Design : Vandan Kataria and Monica Angelica Bhowmick for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! 

Best Action : Peter Hein for Ghajini 

Best Visual Effects Award : John Deitz for Love Story 2050

Source:: TimesofIndia

My new desktop...

This is my new desktop with the usual rainlendar calendar. But the wallpaper is new one which I picked from one of the desktops featured on LifeHacker. The photo of Aishwarya Rai is more like pinned onto the desktop using a slideshow program called DeskPhoto. 

One more thing that I have done to this desktop is that I created a new folder and when I dragged it towards the right side of the desktop, it has opened up something like a bar and it is showing out all the files inside the folder. This I found little handy as it hides all the crap away from my desktop but still gives me an option to easily access the files.

You can download the wallpaper from here...

This is what I call "Living Life KingSize"

These are the pics from one of my brother's party. Just look at the Biryani and the decoration it has got. They I guess, must have had the time of their lives. My brother is one lucky guy. He has got such a good company.

I guess the beers are from Budweiser.  I never had one till date but just look at the chicken dish. I just went wow....

What is Cloud Computing...

Ever wondered what the heck is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing refers to the use of Internet ("cloud") based computer technology for a variety of services. It is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them.

The concept incorporates software as a service (SaaS), Web 2.0 and other recent, well-known technology trends, in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. Often-quoted examples are Salesforce.com and Google Apps which provide common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers.

The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet, based on how it is depicted in computer network diagrams, and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.

Source :: WIKIPEDIA

Gmail adds attachment upload progress bar...

Whenever I had to make an attachment in Gmail, I used to worry whether the process is going on smoothly or not. This was because there wasn't any progress bar which shouts for you that the attachment is being uploaded to Google servers. But now the almighty has listened and added a new progress bar which shows the status of your upload or attachment. This is a good step by google which takes the worry out of some of us mere souls....

Once again Hail Google...

Don't like your job, Don't say So...

Kimberley Swann, 16, used to work for Ivell Marketing and Logistics of Clacton, U.K., but not any more. she was fired from her job just because she wrote on her FaceBook page that she felt her job was boring. What does Facebook has to do with her job? Her employer is so adamant about Social Accountability that they ended her employement with them, with immediate effect.

Here is the update what she got:

"Following your comments made on Facebook about your job and the company we feel it is better that, as you are not happy and do not enjoy your work we end your employment with Ivell Marketing & Logistics with immediate effect."

And the funny part is that she never mentioned her company's name anywhere on the page, but still she had to bear the brunt.

Source:: CNET

Google Apps Dashboard...

Google has provided an Dashboard for it's Apps, which indicates more or less the health reports of it's major Apps. This has come in the wake of Gmail's failure to launch on 26th of this month. Though the problem was there just for few hours but it still affected a lot of users. Hence, this comes as a welcome gesture from Google to let it's users know the status of some important apps like Gmail, Spreadsheets, Calendar, Sites, etc...

What happens if Google goes down, don't panic, for alternatives to Gmail and other apps from Google VISIT HERE

Win 7 to arrive in Late Sep or Oct...

There is this grand news that Windows 7  is going to be released late Sep or Early October. This is very good news for guys like me who is a fanatic of this yet to be refined Operating System from Windows. I have already used the beta version of Win 7 and have felt the heat in it. It was one cool ride with the OS consuming pretty less system resources compared to its predecessor. 

Amelia Agrawal, a spokeswoman for Microsoft, maintains the official company position that Windows 7 will be available within three years of when Vista shipped. The news would corroborate word of an April release candidate that would let Microsoft finish, manufacture and deliver Windows 7 well ahead of the holidays.

Source:: Electronista

A few IE7 shortcuts...

General shortcuts

 

Turn Full Screen Mode on or off 
F11

Cycle through the Address Bar, Refresh button, Search Box, and items on a web page 
TAB

Find a word or phrase on a page 
CTRL+F

Open the current webpage in a new window 
CTRL+N

Print the page 
CTRL+P

Select all items on the page 
CTRL+A

Zoom in 
CTRL+PLUS

Zoom out 
CTRL+MINUS

Zoom to 100%

CTRL+0

Navigation Shortcuts

Go to home page 
ALT+HOME

Go backward 
ALT+LEFT

Go forward 
ALT+RIGHT

Refresh page 
F5

Refresh page and the cache 
CTRL+F5 

Stop downloading page 

ESC

Favorite center Shortcuts

Open Favorites 
CTRL+I 

Open Favorites in pinned mode 
CTRL+SHIFT+I 

Organize Favorites 
CTRL+B 

Add current page to Favorites 
CTRL+D 

Open Feeds 
CTRL+J 

Open Feeds in pinned mode 
CTRL+SHIFT+J 

Open History 
CTRL+H 

Open History in pinned mode 
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Desktop tray Clock for Windows...

Are you bored with the regular desktop time keeper on your Windows desktop. That too you don't know what the day or the month untill you move your mouse onto the clock. Here is a solution, the free desktop tray clock for your windows.

Designed as a more informative substitution for a standard tray clock in Windows, Desktop Tray Clock integrates into the taskbar and shows current time (hours, minutes, seconds) in the 12/24-hour format. It also shows day, date and system uptime. Time can be displayed for any time zone, which is especially convenient for people doing business with partners in other countries. The clock can be customized with over 100 skins included into the installation package. With their help you can make the PC clock the ultimate expression of your style.

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Welcome to the new author Auro...

Plz welcome the new author Aurobind Enugala. He is a close friend of mine who has agreed to post on my blog, just on my request. He is the guy who has introduced me to the true face of internet and made Google my dear friend. His posts will be a new addition and strength to my blog. Hope he likes his stay here...

Funny but serious facts about economy...

Today morning I was watching CNN and there was this conversation, that took place between the presenter and a reporter. They were talking about the downfall of shares in the US market. They took the digg at some big companies such as GM, Citi group....

It was really funny to see the no.'s.

Price for a spark plug : $3.79 Share value of GM : $2.22

User charge at atm : $ 3         Share value of Citi :  $2.6

Cost of a GE Phone : $ 17.99  Share value of GE  :  $9.08

These figures were quoted by the news team, in a rather funny way. They were playing a guessing game with these numbers. But when you look at the big picture, what you see is how many families, how many individuals are suffering by the stock market slump. How many have lost their hard earned money by investing in the stock market. Is there a way to restock their money. Is there an end to this downfall in the coming months. Only the almighty can answer this question...

Funny Vista copying...

What if your GPS shows that it takes 365 days to travel a distance of 10 miles, what if your weighing machines shows your weight as 786 lbs, what if your windows os boots up after 7 days, you feel some pain some where which I can't explain here because of sensoring.

Have a look at the pic above where a Vista operating system shows that it needs 46368 days and 5 hours to copy a glorious 1.45 gb of data. Mr. Bill Gates what do you think are you doing in Richmond. Why did you throw this shit at us. Don't you think we deserve something better like XP. I am a hardcore hater of Vista and every other day something like this pops up from nowhere and the Vista rankings in my book droop down...

Source:: DIGG

Why AVG Anti-Virus...

The anti-virus software which is ruling the roost is AVG anti-virus. The anti-virus industry is one place where you need to be really a good player otherwise you will be kicked into abysmal. In such a industry if one software can stand tall above all those big players, what right could this software be doing?

First of all, AVG is a free software, which means you need not spend your hard earned money just to protect yourself from some bl**dy hacker. AVG is the only antivirus which gives frequent updates even though it earns nothing directly by the sale of its software. You never get any panic calls from AVG users unlike other anti-virus users, who keep crying foul about their anti-virus softwares. 

Next, the user interface of AVG is so good, that even a novice can operate it with his eyes wide shut. You don't need to manually update or you don't need to renew your out-of-date software. You can just sit back and enjoy the ride.

I was one of those loyal fans of Norton anti-virus, but I used to have virus attack once every full-moon. This made me annoyed, disgusted and you know what disgruntled as well. And then came the saviour in the form of AVG. Use it to, believe the difference...

Download:: AVG Anti-Virus

Apple mimicing Chrome...

Apple has released the all new Safari 4 Beta for Windows and Mac. I just downloaded it and the striking feature from this is the 'Top Sites' thing. This feature has been grinded and muddled in both Chrome and Opera. But still Apple is banking on this feature for their new release Safari 4 Beta.

The look and feel was just like the Chrome with the menu items on the right top of the browser and the page loading was more or less like Opera. But this definitely is not one of them when it comes to the bookmarking stuff. There is the usual personal or bookmarks bar, the rendering engine, etc...

One more eye-catching feature is that of the 'Cover Flow' where you can flip through your site history or bookmarks. But this feature isn't that great, since you don't go to bookmarks to see what that bookmark is or what we are doing with that. The tabs are also taken to the top, which I feel is an unnecessary thing. 

Download:: SAFARI 4 BETA

Want youtube videos on your hard drive...

Did you hear about this software named YouTube Downloader. It's software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats. The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!

It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3. You can use YouTube Downloader to download the videos of your choice from home, at the office or in school. Download YouTube Downloader now and get started downloading your favorite videos from YouTube.

Source:: YouTube Downloader

When Google goes down...

What would happen if Google goes down for some time, may be a few days or a few weeks or months? What would you do? Don't panic, there are a lot other options even if Google dies out permanently. Here is a list of few of the apps which are a substitute to google's apps. 

Gmail - Hotmail, Thunderbird, Yahoomail

Blogger - Wordpress

Reader and Pages - Netvibes, Bloglines

Docs & Spreadsheets - Zoho Office Suite

Picasa - flickr

Orkut - Facebook, MySpace.....and the list goes on...

YouTube - Yahoo Video, Metacafe

Calendar - Yahoo Calendar, MobileMe

FeedBurner - Feedo

Adsense - Adbrite, Clicksor

Knol - Wikipedia

News - BBC, Yahoo News

Talk - Messenger, AIM, MSN, Skype

Maps - Live Search Maps

Checkout - Paypal

Chrome - IE, FireFox, Opera, Safari

Search - Yahoo Search, Live Search

But let me tell you something, before you migrate to any of these services, just backup whatever work you have in the Google apps, so you don't have to be sorry later to urself...

The Media Player wars...

It's the war between two of the best user-friendly media players available out in the market for Windows users. But who is the winner. Who has been at the recieving end. The two media players in question are VLC player and the GOM media player.

The media player which has had a great run is VLC from the past 2 years. But here comes competition. Now enters GOM with its cusomisable shortcuts and easy to understand interface and starts grabbing all the market which was once VLC's playground. But which one is truly good. I felt in my opinion that VLC scores over GOM when it comes to startup but customizing VLC is a tidious task. GOM is a bit slow when it comes to startup but it runs smoothly after that.

I never had a real problem with any of these two but I go with GOM, and the only reason being its user interface. One more thing that puts GOM on the top is it's appearance. It has the look of a big screen in a theatre or something else like that. Unlike VLC, GOM has good user base who are loyal not just by ignorance but by choice...

Here's the popularity chart:: Download.com

Quiznos free sub giveaway ...

Today the less famous subway the Quiznos has started giving away free stuff for all those who register at their site. A free sub just for registering is really a good catch. You have a wide range of subs to chose from.

But there are some conditions you need to fulfill like the photo id that you need to carry with you and the five day limit are some to watch out for. Enjoy a free sub on me...

For your free sub:: Quiznos

Slumdog sweeps the Oscars...

Here's the list of winners of the 81st Annual Academy Awards, with the Slumdog sweeping almost in all the categories it has been nominated for. Slumdog Millionaire has won a total of 8 awards.

Hail Rahman.

A.R. Rahman has won both Oscars for which he has been nominated for. More than the awards he gave a scintillating performance which dominated the performance of his competitor from the movie Wall-E. I watched the awards ceremony with my heart pounding and was literally shouting at the top of my voice when Rahman won both the awards. I feel proud with my chest bulging out. I am proud to be an Indian once again. 

Here goes the list::

Best picture

"Slumdog Millionaire"

Director

Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire" 

Actor
 Sean Penn, "Milk" 

Actress
 Kate Winslet, "The Reader"

Supporting actor
 Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight" 

Supporting actress
 Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" 

Animated feature
 "WALL-E" 

Adapted screenplay
 "Slumdog Millionaire," screenplay by Simon Beaufoy 

Original screenplay
 "Milk," written by Dustin Lance Black 

Art direction
 "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Donald Graham Burt; set decoration: Victor J. Zolfo 

Cinematography
 "Slumdog Millionaire," Anthony Dod Mantle

Costume design
 "The Duchess," Michael O'Connor 

Documentary feature
 "Man on Wire"

Documentary short 
 "Smile Pinki" 

Film editing
 "Slumdog Millionaire," Chris Dickens

Foreign language film
 "Departures," Japan 

Makeup

 "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Greg Cannom 

Original score
 "Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman 

Original song

 "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire," music by A.R. Rahman, lyrics by Gulzar 

Animated short

"La Maison en Petits Cubes" 

Live-action short 

 "Spielzeugland"

Sound editing

 "The Dark Knight," Richard King 

Sound mixing

 "Slumdog Millionaire," Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty 

Visual effects

 "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron 

Source:: CNN