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 
CTRL+SHIFT+H 

 

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.

Download at your risk :: Click Here

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