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Hello friends, It's been long break which i have taken. I tried to update this blog as early as possible but could not concentrate on it. Sorry guys. I'll try my best to update this one often. I'm starting new series to analyze some of the famous widgets and the benefits as well as disadvantages and many other things. We are nearing to Christmas i would like to introduce the Christmas Tree Widget and see it in action below. This will be available till the Christmas arrives. Get this widget! This is a simple widget which gives gives us the symbolic representation of Christmas. You can also see the History Of Christmas at http://www.thehistoryof.net/the-history-of-christmas.html Wonderful. Let us celebrate this season with this widget. More widgets are coming up. You can find more details here .

I can see a lot of emerging blogs from different regional languages Hindi , Tamil , Telugu , Kannada , Bengali , Marathi ...etc., in India, seems to be a good growth for the blogging community and the importance of the regional Language. I'm also very happy to see a number of people who browse regional blogs have been increased a lot. Some of the regionally popular blogging sites like iLand, also introduced to blog in 8 Indian languages.(Ref. The Hindu Business Line) . It is very nice to see such a good opportunity grow your language as well as B-Literature . Many poets are emerging, the information is being spread to all over the Internet and it also unites the people. What is possible bad thing about regional blogging is bound to IT companies. IT administrators can see it as threat because increasing number of regional blogs gives a strong message to control and manage these blogs too. They may also need to differentiate between good content and bad content in each language, an...

I'm very proud to participate in Blog Action day. I always had thoughts in my mind about environment in the blog. Thanks to http://www.blogactionday.org for providing me this great opportunity. OK. Let us talk about E-Waste. Being an Indian, I'll talk about What is it all about? and what is the status of it in India? Obviously my first reference about this in Wiki, "Electronic waste includes computers , entertainment electronics , mobile phones and other items that have been discarded by their original users. " Due to lack of time.. I just introduce you guys a web-site http://toxicslink.org/ which has so many articles about the environment... I request all of my readers to read and understand and think ourselves to take necessary steps. If i get time I'll post more about E-Wastes and Environment based articles more. Tags: Blog Action Day , E-Waste , Mobile , Money

The recent surfing on the net lead me to this picture... Hope you guys like it though!!! Inequality sign Originally uploaded by Paul Mushrush

You must be wondering why am i righting this? You may think what this guy is talking without any sense... Even when i typed http://www.airtel.com and pressed enter it redirected me to Vodafone's España, Hmm... This is like when you type http://www.hutch.in redirects to http://www.vodafone.in, Oh.. no.. I'm really confused.. Is Airtel and Hutch are different companies...LOL? It does not seem to ethical for me...!!! See the screen shot: //Update: Thanks to Rohit and Rajesh for your valuable comments on this one. Airtel in Spain was bought by Vodafone Spain. They have the domain name http://www.airtel.com. Now Airtel in Spain is owned by Vodafone Spain. Tags: Vodafone , Hutch , Airtel , Mobile , www.airtel.com

To-day morning I have received a suspicious e-mail from Mrs Monica Tema (of course Unknown to me), after a bit of analysis i Reported it as Spam. Don't fall into such trap... if you get the following mail from unknown people, Just report it as Spam... :) DONATION FOR THE LORD From: Mrs. Monica Tema PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD.I am the above name person from Sierra-Leone. I am married to Dr Ebenezer Tema who worked with Sierra Leonian Embassy in South Africa for nine years before he died in the year 2001. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christians and we lived happilly. Since his death, I decided not to re-marry. When my late husband was alive he secured $15Million (Fifteen Million U.S. Dollars) with financial institution here in Cote D'Ivoire. Presently, this money is still with the financial institution. Recently, my Doctor t...

Haha... Isnt it really funny. While browsing, i came across some of the blog posts archived even before WWW(World Wide Web) created... You can look at the screenshots in the left and right hand side. I'm just wondering how Google's blogger allowed to have such things...? Is it really possible to pre-post the blogs even before the WWW & Blog was created? It left me to research when was really WWW created? I just searched on Wiki, to get the answer.., From Wiki, "...The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee from England , and Robert Cailliau from Belgium , working at CERN in Geneva , Switzerland ..." Hope Wiki is not lying to me... ;-) . Hmm... So i thought Blog must be created after WWW was created... I guess you might be guessing the same.. some research vaguely shows, from wiki, Usenet was the primary serial medium included in the original definition of the World Wide Web . [3] [ not in citation given ] It featured the Moderated Newsgrou...

Hmm.. damn from yesterday I'm not able to Log-in to Skype because of major problems in their Sign in and registration AND Peer-to-peer network core problems. From their Heartbeat , "UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue is resolved, you will be logged in. We apologize for the inconvenience. Additionally, downloads of Skype have been temporarily disabled. We will make downloads available again as quickly as possible." I have to wait until it is done... Without Skype... Life Sux. I'm very eagerly waiting for you... !!! Tags: Skype Problem , Connection Problem , P2P Core problem , Signin problem

When i visited Orkut i had not seen the people's pictures in their homepage, instead i had seen the following picture, Hmm... Isn't it Indianized? It is pretty Interesting to me as an Indian. Tags: Orkut Indianized , Orkut , social networking , Independence Day , Orkut India Logo

It is not so long ago, I've written about Orkut death, and other couple of posts about Orkut and now I'm here with couple of reasons why could it happen at anytime. Recently I'm able to see increasing number of communities in Orkut both good and bad and very bad communities.. Even some of our Indian web-site have written like Google is going to shut down the communities in Orkut after many protests in India , and many other incidents recently. I want to ask only one question to Google Inc., Why can't i control my communities notifications like the messages to my "orkut Messages". My Messages are flooded from many communities where I'm member of it. Someone says my son is a member of more than 800 communities then how can it be useful to receive all the messages in Orkut Messages? Why cant you give me control over the communities i joined at least? or Is it a sign of Shutting down communities in orkut? - Or is it time to join any other social networking ...

I really wondered when i had seen this, Bangalore Live Traffic in the site.., Really it is an amazing web-site, the reason is very simple, This is the first of this kind, very innovative, bold step has taken by the Govt. to give such an opportunity to Mapunity Information Services, and they really won in this case. This is the kind of development needed for India... Use the advanced Technologies to provide solutions to this issues. I just browsed through their web-site here is their vision, Mapunity Information Services, based in Bangalore, develops geographic information systems primarily for government departments, civil society organizations, and development initiatives of commercial ventures. Founded in 2006, the company's objective is to help address India's development needs through the use of technologies for the communication of spatial information . The company is incubated at the N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the Indian Institute of Management,...

The Internet world talks a lot about Micro-blogging like Twitter , Jaiku , Pownce ..etc. In the beginning i was really thinking about the concept behind Micro-blogging... I had couple of questions in my mind for very long time. What is so great in Twitter? Isn't it just sending messages to Mobile phones instantly? How did it become so popular which has more than 300,000 users around...? Isn't it the same as updating status messages("What are you doing now?")? I did not get answers until Wayne Porter, explained me this is new because it is great because the concept of Micro-chunking is new to the Internet but very efficient. This is important because increasing User generated Content in Web like Youtube, Social networking...etc., Wayne also had a great observation about it in this post, "According to a recent report VIDEO (e.g. P2PTV, IPTV, etc) has now taken over HTTP traffic, even P2P traffic as the most prevalent form of traffic online. History aside this...

Recently i wrote an article on Orkut sometime used for good too....!!!, It does not last long... Orkut is again news for bad...!!! It is not because of Orkut. It is just the general issue with Internet and Web 2.0. It is about freedom of speech. People can express it in many ways like blogging about anything they like, don't like, discussing in forums...etc., Increasing technologies allow the people to interact more with other people who has similar thoughts can discuss about it. They can be friends also. It happens through Social networking which is very famous in recent days which is very much visible from the growth of Orkut, Myspace, Friendster..etc, Here we go about couple of recent news... From SDA Asia Magazine , The Indian government is examining a proposal to slap restrictions on the networking website Orkut following a complaint from Shiv Sena, which found some adverse comments against its chief Bal Thackeray on the portal. "We are examining the request from M...

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If you are a Wikipedia fan and tired of looking at Biased topics, Then this post may help you. Jimmy Atkinson has written an Article on Top 7 Alternatives of Wikipedia, Here is the List. For more details visit his post. Scholarpedia Citizendium Encyclopedia Britannica Online MSN Encarta Infoplease Conservapedia Uncyclopedia If you want to Digg his article here. Tags: Top 7 alternatives to Wikipedia , Alternatives , Wikipedia , Web 2.0

I blogged about WLW System Hang problem yesterday. I did not find the reason why was it hanging. Joe Cheng works as a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Corporation informed me via the comments of my previous Entry to follow the instructions, Unfortunately this problem wont be solved until next release. If you are WLW user, and have the same problem just follow these instructions. 1. Goto Services control panel (Start | Run | services.msc) 2. Find the Windows Live Update Service, open its Properties, and change the value that says Manual to Disabled. 3. You are good to go. I have not checked it either. Let me know if you still have the problem. Tags: WLW , Windows Live Writer , Windows Live Writer Problem , WLW solution

I was just checking out Windows Live Writer, Beta 2 .. It is worth looking for other Bloggers.. It has wonderful support for all kind of option Blogger want. But Blogger API does not support Image uploading so WLW does not seem to be good for Blogger(Blogspot blogs). This seems to be the GOOG's worst part. Let us see when are they going to update this feature. WLW attracted me for two major options: 1) Inserting Tables 2) Inserting Maps. These are the major options i would love to have it in my blog. Blogger API does not support these. Again one more thing is related to WLW. My system hanged couple of times after i started the WLW. I can not blame because it is Microsoft Product... lol When are they going to work out to give a better product in their life... ;) Tags: WLW , Windows Live Writer sucks , Windows Live Writer , WLW sucks

From Digg, I've got this image... Google in 20 years... :) It is really wonderful to see such a good view on Google by Google Fans... Even though I'm not against Google i feel something irritating when someone out there knows what I'm doing inside my house. Isn't it threat to the Privacy? I had seen so many Anonymizers around Like Hide IP , and many Privacy softwares around. These softwares will be like Hide From Google , ..etc., We may get Google Removal softwares like what we get now like Spyware Removal Softwares, The softwares may be like the following, Spy Sweeper may be changed to Google Sweeper , Spyware Doctor may be changed to Google Doctor , Google Eraser, Google remover, Google Cleaner, ..etc., Block Google... in efficient way... These things reminds me of the article The Final Days of Google. Really an interesting read though. Tags: Google Sweeper , Google Doctor , Google Eraser , Google Remover , Hide from Google , Spyware Doctor , Spy Sweeper

I just got a forward with a subject "Never love a stranger on Orkut-----TCS gal murder case story revealed." I was really curious to know who was such an innocent girl loved a stranger from Orkut. Something is not right. isn't it? Yup. The people who forwards the messages never wanted to know the truth. You can find real story from CNN-IBN, "Twenty-four-year-old Manish Thakur, a naval officer based in Goa, has now been arrested for allegedly shooting Kaushambi, his girlfriend, in Hotel Sun-n-Sheel in Andheri... ...Kaushambi and Manish went to the same school in Jharkhand and were reportedly dating each other since school days. Kaushambi then moved to Mumbai for a job, and Thakur used to come down from Goa often to visit her..." So here Cops used the Social networking web-site Orkut, to track the person who shot the victim. Look what Mumbai police said. Mumbai Police say " Thakur's profile on Orkut, the social networking site, helped them... ...

From Press release of Vodafone, "Vodafone today(21st May 2007) unveils its first Vodafone-only branded ultra-low cost consumer handsets, the Vodafone 125 and Vodafone 225, aimed at providing millions of people in emerging and developing markets the opportunity to access to the benefits of mobile technology for the very first time." Look at the images of Ultra-Low cost images below, Vodafone - 125 Vodafone - 225 They also quote that the price would be between $25 - $45(approx. Rs.1000 ->Rs.2000) The made a statement about Indian Mobile market after they have bought Hutchison Essar, for $10.9 billion recently. So next step seems to acquire mobile handset market with Hutch service. "...In markets such as India or Tanzania the cost of purchasing a mobile handset can be one of the key barriers to accessing mobile services..." So Indian Mobile lovers going to surely enjoy this for ultra-low cost mobiles and Hutch service. This is a very healthy competition betw...

Rediff Interview!!! .. hmm.. this is how everything started. I wrote a blog entry on Apr 11th about H1B Official Web-site, one of the comments for this is following, "hi. i work for rediff.com and we're interested in talking to you about this issue. i cannot find an email for you on your blog. can you please mail me ASAP on ch*****th@rediff.co.in. thanks." Hmm... This was the first i was attracted by Media, hence i had sent my mail ID to the ID they have mentioned. Did i get the reply.. Yup i have got the reply with the Subject - Questions from Rediff check the mail too, "Hi Peter, Thank you for replying. I'm sending you some questions for an interview I want to do for rediff.com on the H1-B issue you have blogged about. It would be lovely if you could reply to these by Monday, April 16. If I have further queries after I receive your answers, I'll be in touch. Best, Chinmayee QUESTIONS When did you become aware of this issue? Could you explain what Google ...

“Trees are our closest relationship. What they exhale, we inhale. What we exhale, they inhale. This is a constant relationship that nobody can afford to break or live without." And we as human beings who are largely responsible for the most of the environmental hazards that are being posed today due to our intervention onto the environmental balance Much of the environmental hazards faced by us today can be linked to large scale cutting down of trees (deforestation). It is not enough that we just stop our activities now at the present time of crisis but reverse the conditions with speedy and large scale planting of trees (afforestation) Project green hands is one such initiative that aims at retaining 33% Earth’s green cover that is ideal to sustain life. They have planted 8, 52,587 tree saplings on a single day during last year to inspire the people for this drive that holds the Guinness record for most number of trees planted on a single day. They aim to plant 114 million t...

Check out the price of Apple iPod nano in India here, It comes roughly around $200. This is the cheapest price you can get in India. This seems to be only for the people working in Software Industry. So it is not possible for the normal people afford for real Apple iPods. So what is the solution for this? There are number of fake Apple iPods increased in Indian markets. look at the original iPod nano in right side figure. The below one is fake Apple iPod. They also provide same features but the price of the Poor man's iPod nano 4 GB is Rs.2500 ($55) 200$ Versus 55$. So obviously the fake Apple iPod is in the markets for a while. Look at below for the picture of the fake Apple iPod. click the image to enlarge This is what written in back side of the fake one. Designsd by Appls in California Asssmblsd in China. Copyright 2005 Apple Computer. Inc. All rights rsservsd. See the title again... that is the reason why it is fit into the category "Poor man's iPod". Of cours...

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From this article, The "Bionic Man/Bionic Woman" in us gives thanks for microchips that help our damaged bodies, pills that keep our brains happy and focused, Palm Pilots that put information in our hands and eye implants that improve our vision. But will we welcome a future that includes: designer children, their brains 20% smarter and wiped clean of the most violent impulses; older adults living 20 years longer than today; wireless links connecting our brains to e-mail transmitters; perhaps even human eyes endowed with night vision? There is a big debate going on in this topic... Using technology to enhance Humans? Even this story slashdotted too.. Look at the arguments, "It's a well-known fact that technology can improve our lives. For example, we can reach anyone and anywhere with our cellphones. And people who can't walk after an accident now can have smart prosthesis to help them. But what about designing our children on a computer or having a chip insi...

I was just checking out 'Orkut' in google trends , yields the results which is not good for google.Look at the following chart to visualize this... Click the image to enlarge Orkut's trend is in decreasing mode. This looks like dying very fast. This is not the same with other famous social networking sites like Myspace or Facebook . Look at the the charts for myspace and Facebook in the following figures. Trends with facebook & Trends with myspace (Click the images to enlarge) Finally look at the combined look of all these 3. Click image to enlarge Here we can get clearly that Orkut is dying very very fast. What could be the reasons for it? Orkut is very famous of major regions are Brazil and India. In Brazil as of we know it has reached the maximum limit. So it is very very tough for Orkut to grow further in that area. Growth rate would be very very low. Next is India, as everybody know India tops in people but Orkut's growth rate is decreasing.. Why? Here we h...

Here is the Maruti SX4 official launch video.. More video reviews find out here Review this car here Tags: sx4 , sedan , maruti , suzuki , india , espionage , auto , car , factory , videos , reviews

Yes. The new era has begun. Era of streaming videos has given an opportunity to the Internet to give a new value to the Internet. We have seen a well grown Streaming videos like Youtube , Google Videos , Daily motion , iFilm , Blip.tv ... etc., You can find most of these videos web-sites hosts TV shows from almost all the channels, almost in all the languages. So Joost era has begun in order to provide streaming TV shows for free with Internet features. see what Joost says about? You get great internet features too, such as search, chat and instant messaging , built right into the program - so you find shows quickly and talk to your friends while you watch. And with no schedules to worry about, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you like - as often as you want. Joost is completely free, and works with most modern PCs and Intel Mac-based computers with a broadband connection. Get Joost today! See Instant messaging, TV shows,..oh..no. It is very good in everything. Ok what could ...

I was just searching for Cho Seung-Hui's profile in Myspace , I found some of the interesting profiles, here are some of the profiles in his name created in last 2 days... Profile 1: Profile 2: Note: Clicking on the images will allow you to view in larger view.... Profile 3: Tags: marginalized , virginia , Virginia Tech , virginia-tech , myspace , shooter , cho seung-hui

Yes you will Prevail, You will recover, ... you will... Virginia Tech, I pray for you from my heart... I'm remembering the parents of 33 students... i pray for the parents and relatives for the people they have lost.. May God give them the strength to recover from sufferings... My deep condolences to you... You will prevail.. You will prevail.. You are Virginia Tech... Tags: Virginia Tech , virginia-tech , virginia , Shooting , current-events , codolences

I was shocked when i saw this article in Indiatimes, about H1B anti-official web-site is the first result in google pages. It happened so many times in google's history. We can call it as Google Bomb. From Wikipedia , A Google Bomb (also referred to as a 'link bomb') is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine , often with humorous or political intentions. Same case happened here when we search google for "H1B official website" Click the image to enlarge So do not goto this web-site. In order to change this All the bloggers should unite and Type "H1B offcial Website" and link to this site http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis . Like i did in the following line.. H1B official web-site can be found here... H1B Official Website If you are a blogger you may need to do the same in order to increase the ranking of H1B official web-site. Help google to increase th...

In my Definition "Comment spam is either the comment is not related to the article or the comments answered in the previous articles or in related article's comments. " Most of the comment spammers start the topic from the beginning when it is discussed so many times already. This is the main reason why some of the comments rejected. If your comment is rejected then try to find my previous related articles and comments field for the answer. Don't ever think I'll discuss about the topic which is answered earlier in detail. So remember these things before post any comments in this blog. I'm forced to write this entry because Questnet members started spamming my blog. So if your comment is rejected, then your comment is spam. Recently my fellow blogger also published an entry on Questnet. Questnet members may like...lol to look at it. Comment spammers stay away from my blog. Tags: Questnet , gold Quest , Scam , wikipedia , Comment Spam , Comment , Spam

Hi visitors... Each blogger like to be in Wikipedia at some time. This is my time... It is a great feeling that I'm in wikipedia reference as cited in the image. Check out the link, for more details... I would like to thank for the people who had supported me directly and indirectly in all the ways to achieve this stuff. Thanks a lot for your support guys. //Update on 09/04/2007 (19:00 GMT+5:30): My blog post moved to discussions page of Wikipedia ... you can find my blog link at this place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gold_quest Tags: wikipedia , Questnet , gold Quest , Scam

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I would like to dedicate this Birthday video to my (collegue, Friend,..etc.,) Wayne Porter We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here. Live forever.. Wayne... Tags: Wayne Porter , Birthday

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