Lol, this is soooooo.......

Do you think this as the heights of privacy or stupidity, then think something differently. Don't always think like me.

Orkut Apps - the Facebook way

The Orkut team began rolling out applications (apps for short) on orkut to everyone in India and will roll out apps to all orkuteers, in local languages, over the next few weeks. Apps are integrated directly into your orkut experience. When you log into your profile, you will be able to add up to 25 apps to your orkut profile. Your friends will see all the apps you've added, be able to interact with them, and can add any apps they like to their own profiles. Apps can relate to anything, from games and music to travel and books.

This is going to be somewhat like the Facebook stuff but in the desi-style. Hope it clicks with the millions of users out there in India. Watch out for the "add apps" link in your profile over the coming weeks.

My Desktop...

Hey guys thought to share how my dektop looks. This is the same desktop pic that I shared with makeuseof guys. I like to keep my desktop as natural, scenic and neat as possible. I hate all those icons hanging around. How do you like this one....

Shutdown Day, What???

Among all the days like Fathers' day, Earth day, Lovers' day, etc... adds one more day the Shutdown Day. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate! It is obvious that without computers we would find our life extremely difficult, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?

Shutdown Day is a non-profit organization registered in the province of Quebec, Canada. Shutdown Day was founded with the sole purpose of spreading awareness about the pitfalls and dangers that lie in the excessive use of television, computers, and computing equipment like game boxes, cell phones, music players, online social websites, etc. that impinge on social space and interaction amongst our communities.

Shutdown Day is a Global Internet Experiment whose purpose is to get people to think about how their lives have changed with the increasing use of the home computer, and whether or not any good things are being lost because of this. The idea of Shutdown Day project is simple - just shutdown your computer for one whole day of the year and involve yourself in some other activities: outdoors, nature, sports, fun stuff with friends and family - whatever, just to remind yourself that there still exists a world outside your monitor screen.

Twitter saved U.C. Berkeley student...

When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter.

Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.

The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone. Twitter, the micro-blogging service for cell phone users, allows messages up to 140 characters long. Twitter users can allow anyone they wish to join their network and receive all their messages. Buck has a large network, so Twitter gave him an instant link to the outside world.

Source:: Mercurynews

Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video Files

Here is a way to convert a PowerPoint slide-show into video so you can distribute presentations more easily.

You can upload these PowerPoint video files to sites like YouTube or MySpace and some of your creation could go viral. Transfer the PowerPoint slides to an iPod or your mobile phone and enjoy the presentations while on the move. If your slideshow is like a photo album with lot of images, convert the PowerPoint to video and burn onto a DVD - you can now watch the presentations on a large TV screen.

The possibilities are endless. PowerPoint files converted to video using this technique also preserve all the voice narrations. And as expected, the total cost is $0.

For the procedure and help Click Here...

My latest Crush...

Oh boy!! I am over and out. You rarely get to see such an athletic body, and especially in India its really the rarest site. So enjoy guys. But don't disturb her practice since she is mine from now-on.

Jesus Crying!!!

An unexplained image in a hospital prayer garden window moved some people to tears and drew groups of people to a hallway before vanishing, according to witnesses. A crowd inside the Florida Hospital Medical Complex in Orlando snapped photos of the image apparently showing the profile of Jesus Christ crying.

A viewer said the image caused "a commotion" in the hallway near the prayer garden. The hospital is calling it an unexplained image. Witnesses said after a few hours, the image vanished.

I don't know whether it is really Jesus or not but these things, the so called sightings are occuring in a number of places and most of them are termed to be hallucinations or man made rumours.

Source:: AP

Will your flight be on-time?

Are you worried that your flight might be delayed or in the worst case scenario cancelled. Are you in a doubt whether you can make to that very important meeting of yours or not? Don´t blame the airlines for that, there´s a solution for everything.

Delaycast is one such website which provides you with the flight delays, cancellations info. They say they are using some mathematical or physical laws and equations running in tandom with most airlines and they promise to predict the delays of the flights. So they are providing you with some very good options to choose the flights that are not delayed.

Liquid cooled Gaming PC

This setup is the one that I saw in engadget and I thought to share with you guys. This one is a liquid cooled gaming pc. Yes you heard it right. Itś liquid cooled pc where the fluid is pumped in and out regularly so that there is no distraction to your gaming requirements.

The special thing to be mentioned here is that this user has integrated the liquid cooling technology to his refrigerator which gives extra cooling effect as well as he can get to his beer bottles very easily. I mean its pretty hard to stay away from alcohol while gaming all night.

This I hope didn´t cost him much. But the idea is innovative, may be you guys can try something like this.

Source:: Engadget

IE alias for those addon lovers...

IE Aliases for Internet Explorer 6 & 7 lets you create aliases to open single and multiple web sites, folders, and files easily. It basically lets you specify any text that you type into your address bar to load a web site, directory, or file you specify.

If you are using Internet Explorer 7, you can make a single alias open multiple items. To setup your aliases, open Internet Explorer, click on "Tools", and then click on "MuvExToE - IE Aliases Setup".

You can now type just "g" for gmail or "y" for yahoo, etc.. Just have some fun out there. At last I could find some useful addons for IE7.

For other addons click here...

World's Cheapest laptop...

After the launch of World's cheapest car, it's now the turn of the computers world from India. They have launched the world's cheapest laptop. Ever imagined that you can buy a laptop for Rs.13, 990.Yes you can now. HCL launches the MiLeap brand laptop with Windows Xp Home operating system.

This is like a boon to many students in India who mostly hail from middle class or upper middle class families and cannot afford to buy the laptops available in market. The value of laptop is low because the operating system was modified to suit the needs of MiLeap portable laptops said the Microsoft Chief Operating officer Kevin Turner. This alteration is made exclusively for Indian customers.

Click Here for further details....

Get more out of your laptop battery...

I found some tips which helped me in increasing the performance of my laptop when it is working on the battery. Most of them might be known to you but they still are pretty good and useful.

• Set your battery performance to balanced or power saver mode.
• Avoid watching movies or videos from external source like dvds/cds. They can kill 30% of your battery performance.
• Reduce your backlight to the minimal level and switch off the wireless connection when not in use.
• Kill unwanted background services like updates, defragments, indexing, etc..

There are lots other tips but I found these pretty important as they could save you some battery which can be used during emergency.

Have some change...

Do these guys really hate Bush or do they just fake it. Ofcourse I don't have any complaints against him. I don't even know him personally, then there is no reason to hate him.

Too Lazy to wakeup early...

These days it's becoming pretty hard to wakeup early. With the onset of the day light saving or nightlife killing it has become still harder for me to wake up early. There are many people around me who say early risers have added advantage and I believe in that. But I only believe in that and never follow it especially these days.

A friend of mine wakes up early in the morning because he goes out for a job, but what do I do by waking up so early. You know what, just think for a while how much work a person waking up at 6 in the morning can do compared to person waking up at 12 noon. Its 6 full hours of productive work. For this to happen stop those late night videos and parties. Stop those untimely movie watching.

Now I am gonna try this approach from tomorrow and that tomorrow I expect isn't that far away from me. Take this as an advice or suggestion or whatever it is, but follow it to be productive as one of my friend told me to be...

Ramee says,"Atlast some good stuff from you."