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New Interactive Google Search
Do you ever think of adding , deleting or commenting your google search result ?
Now google pays way for it.
Today google launches SearchWiki , a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. It store your changes in your Google Account. If you are wondering if you are signed in, you can always check by noting if your username appears in the upper right-hand side of the page.
The changes you make only affect your own searches. But SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the "See all notes for this SearchWiki" link.
Watch google lead engineer, Amay, demonstrate a few ways to use SearchWiki in this short video:
This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives. Google have been testing bits and pieces of SearchWiki for some time through live experiments, and it incorporated much of its learning into this release. It constantly striving to improve users' search experience, and this is yet another step along the way.
Google chrome Review
Hi reader , since i was busy with my class exam it took me more time to write my reviews on go
ogle chrome. Yet another BETA product from google . This time its fast , elegant browser . I almost played a day with chrome before publishing my first review on it … Here it goes….
Small sized installation file - The install was small 468k so the download was fast and the install took about 15 seconds so in well under a minute I went from “click” to “play”.
Bug while importing bookmarks first time - I was happy when the installation process offered to import all my bookmarks from Firefox - something Firefox users like me will be sure to appreciate. But unfortunately it did not work for me at all: It warned me that I had to close Firefox first for import to happen.
Importing setting - - I did as advised and clicked the “next” button - but no matter how many times I clicked that button no import happened so I had to cancel it finally.
Finally had my bookmarks imported from Firefox (which includes saved passwords and browsing history - since both are incredibly important for the majority of users, I am so sure this functionality must determine probability of people actually migrating).
Elegant Style browser - Finally i had my browser up and running . I have to admit, it is quite a strange feeling for me not to have any menu at all . It gives me feeling like viewing browser in full Screen view but actually its orginal view .
URL Box serves all purpose - This is one of the cool feature.Ever hated having to enter search terms in a separate edit box in the browser? Not any more, all the features are integrated into the single address/search/history/etc bar.
Every Tab itself a browser ( Crash Control ) - This is other cool feature . If u have 4 tabs opened and you want the third tab alone to be opened in separate browser , just drag that tab alone outside ,that’s it . This is achieved by running Tabs independently in the browser , so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down i.e Each tab runs it’s own process ( you can see this in your task Manager ).
Incognito Mode - This feature is almost similar to the private browsing feature that came up with safari browser. Pages viewed will not appear in the browser history and they won’t leave any other traces.
Safe Browsing - Google Chrome warns you if you’re about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.
Final word : To conclude
” Atlast firefox found its competitor . Browserwar begins again .”Google's Beta concept - safeway to run product/service without user criticism.
Gmail? Excellent , superb, it rocks! This what every users say about it . But have you ever wondered why “Gmail or anyother gmail product or service is still in BETA!” What does BETA mean to Google? Before discussing it lets see what the word “Beta” actually stands for .
“Beta describes the state of an application during its development, when it has more or less full functionality but is still being tested.
During Beta, bugs can still occur so users of the software are made aware of this. New functionality can still be introduced though it’s not that common at this stage.
Following beta, the application is considered almost ready for launch. It becomes a release candidate and then goes through a phase of extensive testing prior to release”.
But how does Google decide whether an product/service is stable and out of BETA? It seems, Google considers BETA as a final release for many of its products and services.
Have you ever seen Google BETA when the company formed in 1998? See this Google BETA (1998) page from Web Archive
At least Google.com is not in BETA now!
Funny Error message to turn user attention:
“Bad, bad server. No donut for you. Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes. It’s likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server’s lack of consideration for others.“
Those are the common error message when the gmail server encounters heavy traffic. In this way google developers show their sense of humor and turn the user attention ( Good Strategy ) .
Eventhough Google keeps rolling out new features in Gtalk , Gmail , orkut etc but someone needs to draw Google’s Attention and say on fixing some bugs users experience with it.
Firefox + Safari = IE 8 Beta 2
The subject line might be confusing but to say really IE 8 Beta is back with an impressive update for a software that stagnated in Microsoft for the past years. Its more elegant and easier to use, while adding many of the missing features.
“The brand-new implementation of Standards mode in Internet Explorer 8 offers the best viewing experience of web pages created according to the latest web standards.” That means many of the web pages that include code custom tailored for IE won’t look very good, so you need to enable a compatibility view (for some reason, intranet sites are rendered in the compatibility mode by default). A post from March has more information about Microsoft’s decision to apply the standards mode by default.
IE8 adds support for suggestions in the search box and this is not restricted to Live Search. Microsoft lists many search providers that can be added: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and others. The new interface makes it easy to switch between search providers by clicking on the icons displayed at the bottom.
Another feature that should have been added to IE7 is inline search: now you can search inside a page from an elegant bar similar to the one from Safari.
Notepad wasn’t the best software for viewing the source code of a page, so IE8 includes a simple text viewer like Firefox and safari with syntax highlighting. Too bad that you can’t view the source code for selections.
A great feature from Google Toolbar allowed you to select some text from a web page and send it to Blogger, Gmail or other services. Microsoft added this feature and calls it “accelerator“. “Tired of cutting and pasting information from one website to another for everyday tasks? Now there’s a better way. Accelerators give you ready access to the online services you use everyday—from any page you visit.”
Firefox’s microsummaries didn’t become popular even if they solved an interesting problem: subscribing to frequently updated information like stock quotes or weather reports. IE’s web slices, based on the hAtom microformat, are more visually appealing, but I couldn’t find any interesting example in the gallery. Internet Explorer lets you add to the favorites bar heterogeneous subscriptions: bookmarks, feeds and web slices, even though the subscription process is not uniform. Like Firefox 3, the latest version of IE adds one-click bookmarking, visually represented by a star icon.
IE8 includes a security feature that will be rarely used for non-adult sites: private browsing. “InPrivate Browsing in Internet Explorer 8 similar to safari Private browsing that helps prevent your browsing history, temporary Internet files, form data, cookies, and usernames and passwords from being retained by the browser, leaving no evidence of your browsing or search history.” To use it, you need to click on Safety > InPrivate Browsing, which opens a new window where you can browse privately. To permanently use private browsing, edit IE’s shortcut and append -private in the target field (you could also type iexplore -private in the Run dialog or Vista’s search box).
Overall, this is a highly recommended update for IE7, even though you’ll find some sites aren’t displayed properly. Google Maps finally works well but igoogle sucks and some Google services like Gmail have minor interface problems. IE looks good again and I’ll probably try to use it again ….
But still all i want to ask one thing to the IE developer community
“What does IE8 have ” new “that I would have to leave Firefox for? “
History repeats itself - once it was IBM Vs Microsoft and now Microsoft Vs Google and tomorrow...?
I look at Google as a far more threatening company than Microsoft is today," said Joe Kraus in an interview with Robert Scoble, reiterating what he said for New York Times last year:
To place Google in context, Mr. Kraus offered a brief history lesson. In the 1990's, he said, I.B.M. was widely perceived in Silicon Valley as a "gentle giant" that was easy to partner with while Microsoft was perceived as an "extraordinarily fearsome, competitive company wanting to be in as many businesses as possible and with the engineering talent capable of implementing effectively anything."
Now, in the view of Mr. Kraus, "Microsoft is becoming I.B.M. and Google is becoming Microsoft." Mr. Kraus is the chief executive and a founder of JotSpot, a Silicon Valley start-up hoping to sell blogging and other self-publishing tools to corporations.
Beijing olymbic 2008 Medals Board . Where do we stand???
Summer Games Medals
| Total Medals (Sorted by Gold) | |||||
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 51 | 21 | 28 | 100 |
| 2 | United States | 36 | 38 | 36 | 110 |
| 3 | Russia | 23 | 21 | 28 | 72 |
| 4 | Britain | 19 | 13 | 15 | 47 |
| 5 | Germany | 16 | 10 | 15 | 41 |
| 6 | Australia | 14 | 15 | 17 | 46 |
| 7 | South Korea | 13 | 10 | 8 | 31 |
| 8 | Japan | 9 | 6 | 10 | 25 |
| 9 | Italy | 8 | 10 | 10 | 28 |
| 10t | France | 7 | 16 | 17 | 40 |
| 10t | Ukraine | 7 | 5 | 15 | 27 |
| 10t | Netherlands | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| 13 | Jamaica | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 14t | Spain | 5 | 10 | 3 | 18 |
| 14t | Kenya | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 16t | Belarus | 4 | 5 | 10 | 19 |
| 16t | Romania | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 16t | Ethiopia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 19t | Canada | 3 | 9 | 6 | 18 |
| 19t | Brazil | 3 | 4 | 8 | 15 |
| 19t | Poland | 3 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 19t | Hungary | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 19t | Norway | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 19t | New Zealand | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 19t | Czech Republic | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 19t | Slovakia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 19t | Georgia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 28t | Cuba | 2 | 11 | 11 | 24 |
| 28t | Kazakhstan | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 |
| 28t | Denmark | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 28t | North Korea | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 28t | Argentina | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 28t | Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 28t | Mongolia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 28t | Thailand | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 28t | Mexico | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 37t | Turkey | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 37t | Azerbaijan | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 37t | Uzbekistan | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 37t | Slovenia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 37t | Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 37t | Indonesia | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 37t | Zimbabwe | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 37t | Finland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 37t | Latvia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 37t | India | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 37t | Belgium | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 37t | Dominican Republic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 37t | Estonia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 37t | Portugal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 37t | Iran | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 37t | Bahrain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 37t | Cameroon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 37t | Panama | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 37t | Tunisia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | Armenia | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 56t | Sweden | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 56t | Croatia | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 56t | Lithuania | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 56t | Greece | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 56t | Nigeria | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 56t | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 56t | Austria | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 56t | Ireland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 56t | Serbia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 56t | Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 56t | Algeria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 56t | Bahamas | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 56t | Colombia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 56t | Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 56t | Morocco | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 56t | Tajikistan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 56t | Chile | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | Ecuador | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | Iceland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | Singapore | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | South Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | Sudan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | Vietnam | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56t | Afghanistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 56t | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 56t | Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 56t | Mauritius | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 56t | Moldova | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 56t | Togo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 56t | Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
China proved ...Now its left to London to prove in 2012
Nearly 40,000 people celebrated the handing over of the Olympic flag to London Mayor Boris Johnson in Beijing, signalling the beginning of the city's reign as Olympic host city for Olympic 2012.
The celebration also featured British Olympians including Dame Mary Peters, Roger Black, Sally Gunnell and Sharron Davies.
London will become the first city to stage the Olympics for a third time in 2012. On both previous occasions the capital staged the Games at short notice.
While in 1908 Rome pulled out of hosting the Olympics following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in 1948, London staged the Austerity Games following World War II.
Laptop for every child - Niuean proved once again
The One Laptop Per Child programme has lived up to its name in the tiny South Pacific nation of Niue, where 100% of children now have one.
500 of the programme's XO laptops were distributed this week to primary and high school students.
The rugged, waterproof laptops have been designed as a cheap way to bring the internet to children in the developing world.
There are 4500 more laptops earmarked for the Pacific region as a whole.
It is not the first time that Niue has proven to be ahead of the technological curve; in 2003, it became the first territory to offer free wireless internet to all its inhabitants.
Besides instant wireless websurfing, the schoolchildren will also be able to communicate with each other within a radius of one kilometre without going online.
Secretariat of the Pacific Community director general Jimmie Rodgers was quoted by the AFP news wire as saying that the laptops "have the potential to revolutionise education in ways that are difficult to imagine."
Originally the brainchild of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory, the effort has grown to garner the support of large corporations, including Google.
Thanks : bbc.com
History of A R Rehman
A.R.Rahman needs no introduction. Ever since he arrived with Roja he has revolutionised world music .Hope you also one of the Hardcore fan him like me else you wont be in this page . Here we go...
Name : Allah Rakha Rahman
Born : 6 January 1967
AR Rahman holds the credit for totally overhauling the style in which music was being made in India. Though with a career spanning just over a decade, Rahman has already sold over one hundred million records world-wide and more than two hundred million cassettes. This has brought AR Rahman into the category of the world's top 25 all-time top selling recording artists.
Allah Rakha Rahman, who is better known as AR Rahman, is a world-class musician of India. Born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on 6 January 1967 at Chennai in Tamil Nadu, AR Rahman holds the credit for totally overhauling the style in which music was being made in India. Soundtracks and scores composed by him for Indian films have a strong impression of classical, folk, jazz, reggae, soft rock and other genres. Due to his creative brilliance, AR Rahman is often referred to as the Mozart of Madras by his fans in India and abroad.
The biography of AR Rahman's career spans somewhere over a decade, but he has already sold over one hundred million records world-wide and more than two hundred million cassettes. This has brought Rahman into the category of the world's top 25 all-time top selling recording artists. Though AR Rahman is the undisputed leader in Indian contemporary music in the present times, he has seen his share of struggle in the professional life.
His father, R K Shekhar, who was a composer, arranger and conductor for Malayalam films died when Rahman was just 9 years-old and his family rented out musical equipment as a source of income. Later there was a turning point when Dileep Kumar decided to rechristen himself as A R Rahman. This incident happened when Rahman's sister was very ill once. A Muslim friend suggested if he prayed in a particular mosque, his sister would recover and so did happen. This caused the entire family to convert to Islam.
The life history of AR Rahman's music career started scaling upwards 1991 onwards when began his own studio and started making music for advertisements, television channels and so on. Rahman got his very first break into the Indian film industry when film director, Mani Ratnam offered him a chance to compose music for his Tamil film, Roja at mere Rs 25,000. This movie turned out to be blockbuster hit and then there was no looking back for A.R. Rahman.
Roja debut made AR Rahman bag the Rajat Kamal award for best music director at the National Film Awards. This was a historic moment as for the first time ever in Indian film industry, this award was being handed to a first-time film composer. There was no looking back for AR Rahman after this as film offers just started pouring in. There are now an impressive number of music tracks created by Rahman and all of them have sold like hot cakes across India and even abroad. He has made songs for super hit films like Rangeela, Dil Se Taal, Rang De Basanti, Bombay dreams , Sakkarakatti( new) etc
National Film Awards (India) 1993 - National Film Award for Best Music Direction - Roja 1997 - National Film Award for Best Music Direction - Minsaara Kanavu 2002 - National Film Award for Best Music Direction - Lagaan 2003 - National Film Award for Best Music Direction - Kannathil Muthamittal Filmfare Awards South (India) 1993 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Roja 1994 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Gentleman 1995 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Kadhalan 1996 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Bombay 1997 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Kadhal Desam 1998 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Minsaara Kanavu 1999 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Jeans 2000 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Mudhalvan 2001 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Alaipayuthey 2006 - Filmfare Best Music Direction - Sillunu Oru Kadhal  Filmfare Awards (India) 1995 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Rangeela 1998 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Dil Se 1999 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Taal 2001 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Lagaan 2002 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Saathiya 2002 - Filmfare Best Background Score - The Legend of Bhagat Singh 2004 - Filmfare Best Background Score - Swades 2006 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Rang de Basanti He also won a "Filmfare R D Burman Music Debutant Award" for Roja's dubbed Hindi version. Tamil Nadu State Film Awards 1993 - Best Music - Roja 1994 - Best Music - Gentleman 1995 - Best Music - Kadhalan 1996 - Best Music - Bombay 1997 - Best Music - Minsaara Kanavu 2000 - Best Music - Sangamam Zee Cine Awards (India) 2000 - ** 2002 - Zee Cine Award Best Music Director - Lagaan 2006 - Zee Cine Award Best Music Director - Rang De Basanti GIFA Awards (Malaysia) 2006 - GIFA Award for Best Music - Rang De Basanti 2006 - GIFA Award for Best Background Music - Rang De Basanti  IIFA Awards (India) 2007 - IIFA Best Music Direction - Rang De Basanti 2002 - IIFA Best Music Direction - Lagaan 2003 - IIFA Best Music Direction - Saathiya 2000 - IIFA Best Music Direction - Taal Star Screen Awards 2002 - Best Background Music 2007 - Best Music Direction - Guru Swaralaya Yesudas Award (India) 2006 - Swaralaya-Kairali- Yesudas Award for outstanding performance in music field 2000 - Padma Shri (India) Screen-Videocon Awards Kadhal Desam (South - Tamil; 1997) Minsara Kanavu (South - Tamil; 1998)Vande Mataram (Non-film; 1998) Taal (Hindi; 2000) Other Awards was nominated for Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (2003) (The Hilton Award) for "Best New Musical of 2002" - Bombay Dreams Musical Sangeet Awards 2005 Best Music Director (Film music - Swades) The Mahavir-Mahatma Award (Instituted by the Oneness Forum) National Lata Mangeshkar awards for 2004-05 ( The awards instituted by Madhya Pradesh government ) Sangeet Awards 2004 Best Music Director (Film music - Yuva) Best music arranger (Critics award) for 'Yeh Rishta' - Meenakshi 2004 American India Awards R D Burman Award at the SuMu Music Awards (1993) Madras Telugu Academy Puraskar (1992 to 1994) Bommai Nagi Reddy Award (1995/96) Lux-Kumudam Award for Kadhalan (1995) Mauritius National Award (1995; for contribution to music) Malaysian Award (1996; for contribution to music) Sanskriti Award from Delhi based Sanskriti foundation (1994) Kalaimamani Award from Tamil Nadu Government (1995) Thangapillai Award Rajiv Gandhi Award 3rd Channel [V] Awards - Coca Cola Viewer's Choice Award 1998 The Channel [V]-IMI Award for Best Producer for Vandemataram 1998 Fanta Award in 1999 Stardust Cine Honours Taal (2000) Filmgoers's Award Taal (2000) First Bollywood Music Awards (Best Music Director and Best Song) Taal (2000) V Shantaram Award: Taal (2001), Best Music(Guru)2006- 2007 Bollywood US Awards (2003) Best Music Director : Saathiya 8th Annual Planet-Bollywood Awards (People's Choice Awards! - Best of 2002) Best Music Direction : Saathiya, The Legend of Bhagat Singh Star Screen Award - Best Background Score - Rang De Basanti  Dinakaran Cine Awards Minsara Kanavu (1998) Jeans (1999) Mudalvan, Kadhalar Dhinam (2000) MTV Awards MTV-VMA Award for Dil Se Re song from Dil Se.. 1999 MTV Asia Awards 2003 for Favourite Artist India MTV IMMIES 2003 - Best Music Composer - 'Saathiya' - Saathiya ( Hindi ) A. R. Rahman has been nominated for the following awards: Laurence Olivier Awards (UK) Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Musical - Bombay Dreams 2003 Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Canada) General Theatre Division - Outstanding Musical Direction - The Lord of the Rings musical 2006 Thanks : http://www.iloveindia.com http://forum.itacumens.com | ||||
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Google Beijing olumpic logos and the creator
Its always nice to see the search engine gaint comes up with new doodles on every special day in this world . Google is not only famous for their search engine but also for their Google Doodles which are cartoon modifications of the Google logo to commemorate special holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events like the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.This is the new way to cover the viewers by changing logo. Even if we forget to search the on going Olympic result yet the logo remind us to search the Olympic news because the styles of the logos have been designed simply attractive and enjoyable as the Olympic Games.
However, these logos do not make any different in us but it is sure that it will deprive some seconds of us. Although changing the logos doesn’t make any different for Google yet they are doing to attract the viewer and Olympic fan is a great job.
Who is behind all this ?
These logos are created by Dennis Hwang , a 29-year-old Korean computer artist in the United States, who has been drawing the face of Google for almost eight years, creating a buzz of sorts with his simple yet witty designs.
if you want to know more of him visit http://artkami.blogspot.com/2008/01/dennis-hwang-google-logo-designer.html
My Brand new compaq blows out
HI friends i am back again after almost a month gap from my previous post . This time i am not going to discuss anything techie but all about my worst experience that i had in my brand new laptop.
Yup! Here the story begins . I brought a HP Compaq laptop a month ago in India ( Compaq presario C700 ) . I took it with me to Australia . For the first two days, it was perfect in all aspects but it was on the third day ,when i was editing the word documents, all of a sudden my laptop went on to the blue screen ( Blue screen of death ) and got shutdown .
For those who haven’t known whats is “blue screen death” …
“The Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSoD, bluescreen, or Blue Screen of Doom) is an error screen, frequently displayed by certain operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down to prevent damage.
Bluescreens on NT-based Windows systems can be caused by poorly written device drivers or by a malfunctioning hardware. In the Win9x edition, incompatible DLLs or bugs in the kernel of the operating system could also cause bluescreens. Sometimes, when the CPU is hit by any meanss, the computer may restart and shows the BSoD.”
To my suprise , i didn’t install or update any software, still it sucked. I rang the customer care and i explained the issue to them and i was said there was a fault in the Hardware ( some driver ) and they assured me to replace the faulty part with a new one. It took 5 days to get my laptop serviced.
Should i be so proud saying that Compaq services were so good that they didnt charge me ,neither for the service nor for the replacement of the faulty part or rather should i think why such a brand new laptop would get faulty which was hardly 2 days old ? .
HP being one of the most popular competitor in LAPTOP market has produced a question in me whether it could really go for its product quality in the future to come or Myself towards good quality laptop manufacturers.
Testing a products basically involves two major things .
Verification testing - has the functionality been implemented correctly ?
validation testing - has the correct functionality been implemented ?
I feel testing deparment should concentrate on the products before they are into the market or HP can never win the trust of its band among the people. Its not wise to blame all the manufacturer associated with HP . Its all under the name “HP” and its HP who should take the complete responsibility . Quality can never be compromised at any point , big or small ,an issue should be taken seriously.
Lesser the calls in customer service better the product in market .
Hope HP takes this seriously. comments welcomed
Paint.NET An Alternative for Microsoft Paint
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Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, andplugins.
It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality. The source code is available under the terms of theMIT License.
Notepad++ An Alternative for Microsoft Notepad
When Microsoft release its new OS every time there are couple of application which are most used by the people never changes or improves (Any Guess !!!). Yup! Its Paint and Notepad which people uses in day to day life. With respect to performance it sucks! Try loading a 15MB file in a notepad and check out its performance .
where as Notepad++ is a free (free as in “free speech”, but also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
In My case i need to load an 100MB file where it loads in a couple of second and the searching speed is excellent.
This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.
This project is mature. However, as you can see it’s a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums.
Here are the features of Notepad++ :
Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-completion
Multi-Document
Multi-View
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
Dynamic position of Views
File Status Auto-detection
Zoom in and zoom out
Multi-Language environment supported
Bookmark
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
Macro recording and playback
Source :http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
For MS Paint Alternative ,wait till the next post.
How India calculates inflation
Last Thursday, when journalists questioned Finance Minister P Chidambaram about the rising inflation rate in the country, he quipped:
'Thank God, it's not Friday.'
Yes, indeed, there was no need for Chidambaram to comment on the inflation rate on Thursday, because in India inflation is calculated and announced on Fridays.
How is inflation calculated in India? Why is it announced on Fridays? And how do other countries calculate inflation? Read on . . .
* India uses the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) to calculate and then decide the rate of inflation in the economy. Most developed countries use the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to calculate inflation.
* WPI was first published in 1902, and was one of the major economic indicators available to policy makers until it was replaced by the Consumer Price Index in most developed countries by in the 1970s.
* WPI is the index that is used to measure the change in the average price level of goods traded in wholesale market. In India, price data for 435 commodities is tracked through WPI which is an indicator of movement in prices of commodities in all trades and transactions. It is also the price index which is available on a weekly basis with the shortest possible time lag -- two weeks. The Indian government has taken WPI as an indicator of the rate of inflation in the economy.
* CPI is a statistical time-series measure of a weighted average of prices of a specified set of goods and services purchased by consumers. It is a price index that tracks the prices of a specified basket of consumer goods and services, providing a measure of inflation.
* CPI is a fixed quantity price index and considered by some a cost of living index. Under CPI, an index is scaled so that it is equal to 100 at a chosen point in time, so that all other values of the index are a percentage relative to this one.
* Some economists argue that it is high time that India abandoned WPI and adopted CPI to calculate inflation.
* India is the only major country that uses a wholesale index to measure inflation. Most countries use the CPI as a measure of inflation, as this actually measures the increase in price that a consumer will ultimately have to pay for.
* CPI is the official barometer of inflation in many countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Canada, Singapore and China. The governments there review the commodity basket of CPI every 4-5 years to factor in changes in consumption pattern.
* WPI does not properly measure the exact price rise an end-consumer will experience because, as the same suggests, it is at the wholesale level.
* The main problem with WPI calculation is that more than 100 out of the 435 commodities included in the Index have ceased to be important from the consumption point of view. Take, for example, a commodity like coarse grains that go into making of livestock feed. This commodity is insignificant, but continues to be considered while measuring inflation.
* India constituted the last WPI series of commodities in 1993-94; but has not updated it till now that economists argue the Index has lost relevance and can not be the barometer to calculate inflation.
* The WPI is published on a weekly basis and the CPI, on a monthly basis. And in India, inflation is calculated on a weekly basis and announced on every Friday
Firefox 3 suffers its first vulnerability
“Less than one day after its launch, Firefox 3 has a vulnerability.
According to Tipping Point’s Zero Day Initiative, the vulnerability, which it rates as critical, was reported within the first five hours of Firefox 3’s release.
“Once the vulnerability was verified in TippingPoint’s DVLabs and acquired from the researcher, the vulnerability was promptly reported to the Mozilla security team,” said a representative.
Although the Zero Day Initiative team does not offer specifics until the vendor has a chance to patch it, the blog post did say this vulnerability, which also affects Firefox 2, requires user interaction and could result in an attacker executing arbitrary code.
Mozilla is reported to be working on a fix.
The Zero Day Initiative has been criticized in the past for paying researchers who find vulnerabilities. “
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9972207-57.html
Dasavathaaram - Meaning of 10 Avataars
1.
Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned [shyamalam]. He saved draupadi when she was being violated and he was the actual diplomat in mahabharatham. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking his lower leg. Now look at how vincent was introduced.. he appears when asin is about to be molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his leg. Oh even five of vincent's men are drugged at P. Vasu's.. sounds familiar???
2. Balarama avatar - Balarama naidu
This is an easy given. as the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.
3. Mathsya avatar - Ranagaraja nambi
nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. what more clue do you want?
4. Varaha avatar - Krishnaveni paatti
During the mukunda song, krishnaveni paatti does varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame freezes on it for a second. there is the clue. Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni hides the germs - life form inside the statue so as to protect.
5. Vamana avatar - Kalifulla khan
remember in vamana avatar, lord vishnu takes the vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant kalifulla here symbolises vamana avatar.
6. Parasurama avatar - Christian Fletcher
Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya vamsa. Hence the real KILLER... Guess what thats what our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to check if he kills 21 people though. :-D
7. Narasimha avatar - Shingen Narahashi
first of all the name itself is a play on the words singam [means lion in tamil] and narasimha [the avatar being symbolised]. Lord Narasimha manifests himelf to kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha. In the movie, he shows up to kill the killer fletcher! and is also a teacher.. Lord Narasimha had to kill the asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts exponent here.. get it?
8. Rama avatar - Avatar Singh
Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind of symbolising true love.. Here Avatar portrays that spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than anything and wants to live for her.
9. Kalki avatar - Govindaraj Ramasamy
As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other than the Kalki avatar!!!
10. Koorma avatar - Bush
This is the most loose adaptation I couldn't clearly comprehend. But if you look at the real koorma avatar, the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth. This essentially creates war among the devas and asuras. Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know whom... May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is a bit dumb like the tortoise...
64 Good Jokes : Laughter- best way of relieving stress...
Relax
Laughter is the best way of relieving stress...
1. A Teacher lecturing on population - In China after
Every 10 sec a
woman gives birth to a kid.
A Sardar stands up- we must find & stop her!.
2. Sardar-why r all these people running?
Man- This is a race, the winner will get the cup.
Sardar-If only the winner will get the cup, why r
others running?
3. Teacher: "I killed a person" convert this sentence
into future tense.
Sardar: The future tense is "u will go to jail".
4. Sardarji was filling up application form for a job. He was
not sure as to what to be filled in column "Salary
Expected".
After much thought he wrote: Yes!
5. Sardar told his servant: Go and water the plants. Servant
it's already raining. Sardar: So what? Take an
umbrella and go.
6. Sardar wins 20 cr from Rs. 20 lottery ticket. Dealer
gave 11cr after
deducting tax. Angry Sardar: "Give me 20 cr or else
return my 20 Rs
back.
7. Postman:- I Have To Come 5 Miles To Deliver U This Packet
Sardar:- why did u come so far. Instead u could have
posted it....
8. Sardar's wish :when i die,i wana die like my grandpa who died
peacefully in his sleep not screaming like all the
passengers in the
bus he was driving..
9. Sardar at an
looking thing is
what you call modern art ?
Art dealer: I beg your pardon sir, thats a mirror!
10. Sardar was writing something very slowly.
Friend asked:" Why r u writing so slowly?
Sardar: "I'm writing to my 6 yr old son, he can't read very fast.
11. Flash news: A 2 seater plane crashed in a graveyard in punjab . Local
sardars have so far found 500 bodies and are still
digging for more..
12. A man asked sardarji, why Manmohan singh goes walking at evening not
in the morning. Sardarji replied "Arey bhai Manmohan is PM not AM".
13. Wife: You always carry my photo in your handbag to the office. Why?
Darling : When there is a problem, no matter how impossible, I look at your picture and the problem disappears.
Wife: You see, how miraculous and powerful I am for you?
Darling : Yes, I see your picture and say to myself, "What other problem Can there be greater than this one?
14. Girl: When we get married, I want to share all your worries, troubles
and lighten your burden.
Boy: It's very kind of you, darling, But I don't have any worries or
troubles.
Girl: Well that is because we aren't married yet.
15. Son: Mom, when I was on the bus with Dad this morning, he told me to
give up my seat to a lady.
Mom: Well, you have done the right thing.
Son: But mum, I was sitting on daddy's lap.
16. A newly married man asked his wife, "Would you have married me if
my father hadn't left me a fortune?" "Honey," the woman replied Sweetly,
"I'd have married you NO MATTER WHO LEFT YOU A FORTUNE"
17. Father to son after exam: "let me see your report card."
Son: "My friend just borrowed it. He wants to scare his parents."
18. A teacher asked her class for sentences using the word "beans"..
My Father grows beans," said one student. "My father cooks beans," said
another.
Then little Johnny spoke up: "We are all human beans."
19. Interviewer to Millionaire: To whom do you owe your success as a millionaire?"
Millionaire: "I owe everything to my wife."
Interviewer: "Wow, she must be some woman.
Interviewer: "What were you before you married her?"
Millionaire: "A Billionaire"
20. Its funny when people discuss over "love marriage" and "arranged marriage"
It is like asking a person if he would like to "hang himself" or "shoot himself".
21. What is a girl friend?
Addition of problems, subtraction of money, multiplication of enemies & division of friends.
22. Guide: "I welcome you all to
waterfalls and the sound intensity of the waterfall is so high, even 20
supersonic planes passing! by can't be heard.
Now may I request the ladies to keep quite so that we can hear the
Falls?"
23. Three patients in a mental institution prepare for an examination given by the head psychiatrist.
If the patients pass the exam, they will be free to leave the hospital. However, if they fail, the institution will detain them for seven years.
The doctor takes the three patients to the top of a diving board overlooking an empty swimming pool, and asks the first patient to jump.
The first patient jumps head first into the pool and breaks both arms.
The! n the second patient jumps and breaks both legs.
The third patient looks over the side and refuses to jump.
"Congratulations! You're a free man. Just tell me why didn't you jump?" asked the doctor.
To which the third patient answered, "Well Doc, I can't swim!"
24. As a old man was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang.
Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him,
"Herman, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on Route 280. Please be careful!"
"It's not just one car," said Herman, "It's hundreds of them!"
25. Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying?
For the same reason dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.
26. What's the definition of lawyer?
The larval form of a politician
27 Sardar comes back 2 his car & finds a note saying "Parking Fine"
He writes a note and sticks it 2 pole "Thanks 4 d complement"
28 How do you recognize a Sardar in School?
He is the one who erases the notes from the book when the teacher erases the board.
29 once a Sardhar was walking and had a glove on one hand and not on other so the man asked him why did he do so. He Replied that the weather forecast announced that on one hand it would be cold and on the other hand it would be hot.
30 Sardarji bought a brand new Maruti and decided to drive down from Amritsar, where he lived, to Jalandar to meet his friend. He reached there in a few hours. After spending a few days there, he decided to return, and called up his mother to expect him in the evening. But he didn't reach in the evening and not the next day either. When he finally reached home on the third day, his distraught mother ran and asked him " Arre Puttar, ki hoya?"
(What Happened, My Son?)
The Sardarji got out, obviously very tired from a long journey, and said, "Oy, ye Marutti wale pagal hain, agge jaane waaste chaar gear banaate hain, aur pichche jaane waaste sirf ik?" (These Maruti Car people are crazy! They have four gears for going forward, but only one for going back!)
31 Santa Singh decided to start a chicken farm so he bought a hundred chickens to begin with. A month later he returned to the dealer for another hundred chickens because all of the first lot had died. A month later he was back at t he dealer for another hundred chickens for the second lot had also died.
'But I think I know where I'm going wrong,' said Santa, 'I think I'm planting them too deep.'
3 2 Dost Suicide karne gae, Pahala : "Hey Bhagwan muje dunia ki saari
nafrat de Pareshani de Duk de!" Dusra dost : "Abe tu maut maang raha
hai ki Reliance mai Job.
34 Q - What is the Difference Between Mother & Wife ?
A - One Woman Brings U into this world crying... & the other
ensures U
Continue to do so.
35 Sardar to Shopkeeper: - Mujhe
Flag
Dikhaya, Sardar: - Isme aur Colour Dikhao.
36 How can a Sardar Kill a Lion ? Sardarji thinks N thinks hard &
comes to a conclusion: I'll drink poison n let lion eat me. O' bolo
ta ra ra.
37 A Chinese pair accidentally had twins without getting married, Guess
what they named them... Jo Hua, So Hua.
38 Wife : Honey ...... What are You Looking for ?
Husband : Nothing.
Wife : Nothing...?? U've been reading our marriage certificate 4 an
hour ...?? Husband : I was just looking 4 the expiry date.
39 Papa : beta har parai stri ko apni Maa samjho to tumhara character
thik ho jaaega.....Beta : Lekin Papa fir Aap ke character ka kya
hoga....???
40 Sardar: O Banno Car ki speed itani ky badha di..? biwi: Oji Car ki
break
fail ho gayi hai, Exident ho jaye iske pahale ghar pahunch jaate hai.
50 Sardar : Sitting on The Top of the Mountain and Studying.... When a
Person asked what he was doing.... He replied... Oye!! Higher
Studies
Yaar...!!!
51 Mayawati came to Lalu's House with a Goat.....
Lalu : Bhaiswa ko kyun Layi ho....??
Maya : Dikhta nahi, Goatwa hai..??
Lalu : Hum Goatwa se hi Puch raha Hun..!!
52
Wife : Do you want dinner?
Husband : Sure, what are my choices?
Wife : Yes and no.
53 Man : How old is your father?
Boy : As old as me.
Man : How can that be?
Boy : He became a father only when I was born
54 Teacher : Correct the sentence, "A bull and a cow is grazing in the
field"
Student : A cow and a bull is grazing in the field
Teacher : How?
Student : Ladies first.
55 Customer: If I post this letter tonight, will it get to
Post Master : Yes sir, it definitely will.
Customer : I bet you, it won't.
Post Master : Why not?
Customer : It's addressed to Mumbai.
56 1st thief : Oh ! The police is here. Quick! Jump out of the window!
2nd thief : But this is the 13th floor.
1st thief : Hurry! this is no time for superstitions
57 Man before Marriage I like Airtel...."Aisi Azaadi Aur Kahaan"
After Marriage He's Like Hutch... " Where Ever U Go Our Network
Follows."
58 Santa : That Cow is a Lovely Colour ,
Farmer : Yes, it's a
Santa : Oh, I Thought it was its Skin...!!!
59 Sagaai hui... Shadi Hui... Biwi ghar main aayi... ghar SWARG ban
60 They say that when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is
love; after marriage it is self-defense
61 It is difficult to understand GOD. He makes such beautiful things as
women..and then he turns them into Wives !?!!!?!
62 It takes thousand workers to build a castle , Million soldiers to
protect a country
BUT Just ONE woman to make a Happy HOME! Let's Thank ......KAAMWALI
64What is the difference between a woman and a magnet? Magnets have a
Positive side!