Yippeeee..

Y'day is really really a g8 day for Indian Formula One history. Thanks to Fischella who stood on the podium with our Force India car in Belgium GP. I did really excited watching Malya, he is really very happy.

I did never thought Force India can make it to the podium this year or even in the next season :P. Dont know wat Malya told to Fischella, who took pole in Qualifying and came second in the race. After watching the race I felt, strategy team didnt played their role well. If they could have done well, I am sure Force India might got pole in the race. Anyways Fischella gave good show.. he even got very close to Kimi in wee laps.

Anyways I am also happy to see Foce India on Podium. Hurray..!!!

I have seen QuickGun Murugan last Saturday. wow what a bang on head. Believe me there is nothing in that movie, even entertainment. My strong advice is to never ever attempt to watch that film. After watching that movie I am not even in a mood to write about it. The movie really sucks great.

If you've got a few minutes, stylish script, and a scanner, FontCapture can turn your handwriting into a font. That keeps all your mad-scientist notes on the computer, yet still gives them that essential lab bench grit.

Go to FontCapture and download their font template. Once downloaded, print it off and carefully fill in the single-sheet grid. You don't need to fill in every slot for FontCapture to create your font. If you don't use letters like ó, ò, or ñ in your daily writing, feel free to skip over them.

Once you've filled out the template, you upload it to FontCapture and it processes your handwriting into a font for personal use. That's all there is to it, but it's a pretty neat way of giving an image or document a consistent look, but a look you crafted yourself. FontCapture is a free service and requires no signup.

FontCapture
[via LifeHacker]

While most of us don't frequently find ourselves needing to translate our documents to various languages on-the-fly, Google Docs just announced a new feature that'll be great for those who do: The service now automatically translates docs in 42 different languages with a few mouse clicks.

Translating docs is a breeze: Just hit up the Tools menu, select Translate document, then choose the language you want to translate to. Docs will open the translated document in a new window, then offer to replace the original document with the translation or copy the translation to a new document. It's probably not for everyone, but it's a nice feature, nonetheless, and yet another example of Google's continued march toward integrating their various services.

Cabinet approves seven new IIMs:
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the setting up of seven new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) that will get operational in two phases. Four IIMs would be set up in Trichy, Ranchi, Raipur and Rohtak in the first phase and the classes would start from the 2010-11 academic year. The other three in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan will get operational from 2011-12.

The exact locations in these states are yet to be decided. Briefing reporters here on the Cabinet decision, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said an allocation of Rs 451 crore as non-recurring expenditure and Rs 118 crore as recurring expenditure has been sanctioned for the first phase.

Today, the judge ruled that the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer has been ordered to clean up its site and remove all torrents that link to infringing content.

BREIN’s intention was not to shut down the site. Instead, the organization called for a filter based on infringing keywords and possibly digital fingerprints to guarantee that the rights holders have sufficient means to protect their content.

The court agreed with BREIN’s assessment that Mininova is not doing enough to protect the rights of copyright holders, and ordered the site to remove all torrent files that link to infringing content within three months, or pay a penalty of 1000 Euro per infringing torrent with a maximum of 5 million euros ($7 million).

Mininova’s notice and takedown policy that allows copyright holders to remove infringing torrents is not sufficient, the court said. Interestingly, the recently announced copyright filter that Mininova launched together with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) wasn’t mentioned in the verdict.

The court did not agree with Mininova’s defense that it is impossible to moderate all torrents that are uploaded to the site. It further said that Mininova is encouraging its users to download copyrighted material, helped by the several moderators that the site has in place.

The moderators keep the site clean and ‘family friendly’ by removing torrents that link to adult content, viruses and fake files. They do this proactively and in response to user feedback, the court concluded, pointing out that they should also be able to moderate torrents that link to copyrighted material.

It was further concluded that Mininova profits from copyright infringement though the ads that appear on the site.

Mininova co-founder Erik Dubbelboer said in a response: “We are obviously not happy with the verdict.” Mininova is considering to appeal the decision, which they have to do within three months

Article from: TorrentFreak

Gmail made a tweak last night that brings better contact management to the service. When you click the “To:” or “CC:” links in front of each address field, a box pops up with your contact list. (See example at right). It is a simple change, but it saves you from having to go to another page to find a contact.

Most of the time, Gmail users probably won’t use this feature because Gmail already gives you a list of auto-complete suggestions as you begin typing in a name into the “To:” field. These are based on people you’ve communicated with recently, and usually does the trick. But if you haven’t emailed someone for a long time, their name doesn’t pop up. It also doesn’t help if you can’t remember their name.

Anything that reduces the amount of steps it takes to complete an email is a plus in my book. However, this feature is a bit hidden. You have to click on the “To” or “CC” links to expose it, something many people might only do by mistake the first time (which is why I’m telling you).

The contact chooser also works for groups.

posted via TechCrunch

OfficeTab Adds Tabs to Microsoft Office:

Windows only: Microsoft Office plug-in OfficeTab adds tabbed document support to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint—one can only wonder why Microsoft doesn't include this feature by default.

Once you've installed OfficeTab, you can head into the settings panel, where you can enable or disable tabbed support in each application, move the tabs to the side or bottom, and change the appearance of the tabs with a number of styles to choose from. You can right-click the tab bar to add a new document tab, and each time you open a document it will be added to a new tab automatically.

OfficeTab is a free download for Windows only, and while it was created by a Chinese programmer, the download itself contains an English version. Readers should note that on our test machine, at least, we got a Visual Studio setup prompt every time we opened an Office application after setting up this plug-in—but your mileage may vary.

First of all I should say, I was little bit disoppinted with the film after reading all the critics in Newspapers and other sources. They did created a hype which is missing in the movie. I rushed to the movie with g8 hopes n you know what .. I dont remember most of the scenes from the next moment I left the theatre.

Anyways Thanks to Vishal for giving such a nice script !! It's really a tight script with lots of fun n suspense. He really directed the film with a new trend.

The movie revolves around a departed twin brothers. Instead we can say their worlds revolve around them. You should not leave any scene in the movie, if you so u will not regret it. coz all the scenes are linked.. n linked.. n linked.The first half is the foundation for the second half.. It all deals with introducing all the charecters in the movie. Second half will show you how they reacted to a chain of incidents happend to them.

Shahid did an excellent job in both the roles. He did really showed amazing difference between the roles as twin brothers. One with the fooper(super) accent and other with lot of carelessness about life. n abt Priyanka, those who watches this film will never forget that she is a topper in home sciences ;). Really a g8 role.. All the other supporting charecters just fit for their roles. Give a try to this film if you felt bored in your weekend.. it will just pass way slowly..

Yahoo Upgrades Mail, Messenger, and Search:

Yahoo Mail users are getting 25MB attachment limits and easier photo uploading, a new Messenger beta allows for full-screen video chat and social network link-ins, and searchers will get refinement and analytic results as part of Yahoo's big Monday announcements.

The big thing that everyone will find use for is an increase in Yahoo Mail's attachment size limits from 10 to 25MB. Multiple photos and images can now be selected for upload, and rotated and previewed before they're sent. Yahoo's also allowing Mail users to hook in third-party applications like Flickr, PayPal, Picnik, Xoopit, and ZumoDrive, and adding a consistent header to all its applications. These features, available in 'New Yahoo! Mail,' should be rolling out to all users shortly.

Messenger actually has a whole new app out, one that allows for full-screen video chat and a side-panel Updates view that shows what your contacts have been up to on Flickr, Twitter, and other web spaces. The beta, for Windows only, is a free download.

Finally, certain Yahoo searchers will get results that offer both filtering by topic/subject, and contextual follow-ups when you search one term after another. As Yahoo explains it, if you search for 'cat' and then 'jaguar,' its engine should know that, based on the 'cat' search, your 'jaguar' is much more likely a creature than a luxury vehicle.

so simple naa... even I did worked as a computer expert ;) to troubleshoot users issues for a BIG company, trust me I never used this chart [:P] . . ofc used a different kind

Nokia Booklet 3G: Dawn of the smartbook:

These days all the companies are focusing in upgrading their NetBooks. This compitetion giving users a great pleasure. The race has taken to new heights with the Nokia entering the ring.

Today Nokia unveiled its upcoming Booklet 3G, the company's first netbook, though it has a few features that make it stand out from the pack. It certainly looks like a netbook, with a full keyboard, an Atom processor that can run Windows 7, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a 10.1-inch display — plus the added bonus of an HDMI output. But its smartphone-esque features can't be denied: a hot-swappable SIM card, built-in 3G/HSPA connectivity, and GPS (well, A-GPS) with Ovi Maps. Not to mention it's a lightweight, measuring just 0.78 inches thick and weighing 2.75 pounds.

If you believe the 12-hour rated battery life and Nokia's promise of "all-day mobility," the Booklet starts to feel like more than just a netbook… it's really closer to a smartbook — an emerging category in between smartphone and netbook — though running Windows 7 would seem to disqualify it. Is that just marketing semantics, though? And does it matter? We kind of want it either way. We'll see if it's still just as desirable when Nokia announces pricing and release dates next week.

MISSING





My little cute mouse is missing . . . I suppose it is moving across all your cubicles.
Height: 3 inches
Length: abt 10 inches
Complexion: Dark brown



Please return it to me before my B'day

Regards,

Vignesh a.k.a Ganesh

Happy Vinayaka Chavithi

Picasa Web Albums Adds Collaboration:

Till today we can only share our photos to let our friends view them. Now Picasa added a new feature collaborate to allows our frinds also add photos to our albums. Sounds good right :)

Collaborating on an album is easy:

To make an album collaborative, sign in to Picasa Web Albums and add contributors. Just click the 'Share' button, add contributors, and leave the 'Let people I share with contribute photos' checkbox selected

You can also manage access for contributors you've added to the 'Shared with' list by toggling the 'plus' icon next to their name — when the plus icon is green they can add photos.

To contribute once you've been invited to collaborate on an album, just log into Picasa Web Albums with your Google account and visit the album you've been invited to join. You'll see an Add photos button you can hit to upload your own pics to the album.

It seems like a nice little feature, and definitely something we'd like to see from more photo sharing apps (we're looking at you, Flickr).

Collaborate on Picasa Web Albums [Google Photos Blog]

A Student’s Guide to Microsoft DreamSpark: "

One of the benefits of being a college student is that you get discounts on lot of stuff especially computer software.

Almost every software vendor offers educational discounts but Microsoft took that idea to the extreme when they introduced the DreamSpark program that allows students worldwide to download certain Microsoft tools for free.

Am I eligible for the DreamSpark program?

If you are attending an accredited high school or college in any of these 124 countries, you are eligible for the DreamSpark program.

How do I enroll in the DreamSpark program?

High School students must obtain an access key for DreamSpark through their school administer, who in turn will receive the keys when they first register the high school with DreamSpark.

If your high school is not registered with DreamSpark, the school administrator can fax copies of the accreditation certificate to Microsoft and, after verification, Microsoft will send your school a set of Access Keys for distribution among the enrolled students.

The DreamSpark program is open to home schooled students as well but in this case, you parents must sign up through the same program that high school administrators sign up with.

You can also use DreamSpark if you obtain an ISIC card to prove that you are a student.

College and University students have it slightly easier. Just select your country followed by the name of your college and verify your credentials using the email address that has been assigned to you by the institute.

Most colleges are listed directly on DreamSpark, which will make your signup very easy. If you college is not listed, check the Options page which tells you who to contact about registration for your country.

What software programs do I get with DreamSpark?

Once you join the DreamSpark program, you will have to option to download the following Microsoft software tools for free :

• Expression Studio 3


• Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition


• Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition


• SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition


• .. and more - see full list.

Additionally, DreamSpark also offers free ebooks, up to 22 hours of free e-learning courses on Microsoft technologies and 1 free Microsoft certification exam.

Will Microsoft ship the software DVDs?

Unlike MSDN or TechNet, Microsoft won’t ship you DVDs but you can download the software installers from the DreamSpark website itself. If you are located in India, you can also walk into your nearest Aptech or NIIT center and request the software on a DVD.

Ok, but isn’t there a catch?

Microsoft licenses the software to you for educational use. This means that you can use the software without restriction for school assignments or personal projects. If you write or design something that you wish to sell, however, you need to purchase a standard licensed copy of the Microsoft software before you sell your product.

Is the software like a trial that will expire when I graduate?

No! The software from DreamSpark is the full version, and according to Microsoft, “You may continue to use the Software you obtained prior to termination of your student status subject to the terms of this license.”

This is taken from the license agreement that you accept before you download the software, so you can be sure that any software that you download via DreamSpark will be free for personal and non-commercial use forever.

When you graduate, however, your DreamSpark membership will terminate so you won’t have access to new software release but the software that you may have already downloaded will continue to work.

Thanks to Amit who shared this info.

ControlPad Turns Your Number Pad into an Application Launcher"

ControlPad is a lightweight application launcher that uses the number pad on your keyboard as a quick launcher for applications and system commands.

Once you've downloaded the portable version or installed ControlPad you can access the quick launch dialogue box, as seen here, by pressing the * key on your number pad. The box pops up and you key in a string of numbers that have been linked to the effect you want—bonus points for anyone who guesses what we linked 2112 to in our test of the software.

Not so keen on using numbers to launch your applications? Not a problem—you can just as easily use words if you want. You can press and hold the * for longer than you would to just call up the launcher and it will enter into editing mode. Enter a new command and hit the / button on the number pad to associate it with a new launch code. You can also bulk add new launch codes by opening up the commands.ini file, and there are several examples in there to show you the syntax.

ControlPad is free, Windows only, and available as a portable application.

ClipChain Copies Multiple Text Strings for Easy Pasting

Windows only: ClipChain allows you to copy many strings of text from different places in one document or from multiple applications to form a text chain which can be pasted where you need it to go.

ClipChain Clipboard Text Builder

Version: 0.1
Released: August 14, 2009
Creator: Dustin Luck

License: ClipChain is licensed under the GNU Public License. If you'd like to take a look at, download, or improve the source code, head over to GitHub.

What it does: Copies multiple text strings, with an optional separator, to be pasted as one longer string.

How It Works

It can get frustrating bouncing back and forth between windows to copy multiple pieces of text to get them all together in one place. ClipChain steps up to solve that problem (and does it by repurposing the loathed Caps Lock key). ClipChain is a portable application, no install necessary. Just click the download link above, copy the file to your hard drive (or USB drive), and launch it.

To get started making a chain, choose a separator character by pressing the Caps Lock key in combination with any of the following keys:

• comma
• dash
• pipe
• slash
• tab
• space
• carriage return

There is no separator character by default, so if you don't choose one, all your text will be runtogetherlikethis when it's copied. The separator can be changed as often as you'd like while building the text chain—Caps Lock+Esc resets the separator to the default (nothing).

Once you've chosen your separator, use the Caps Lock+C shortcut to copy the currently selected text and Caps Lock+V to paste the current chain—as unformatted text. Once the chain has been pasted using Caps Lock+V, the chain is moved to the clipboard and reset. To paste the chain again, use the standard Ctrl+V shortcut. The chain can also be reset at any time by pressing Caps Lock+Backspace.

ClipChain is freeware, Windows only, and works wherever Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V do. Let's hear what you think of it in the comments. If you've got a bug to submit or a feature request, submit those via GitHub so they don't get lost.

Aanjaneyulu... adding one more flop to 09

Its very surprising that how can one choose to do such a film after a hit like KICK. Ravi Teja took a very poor step in selecting this movie.

Coming to the film.. Its a rotten story. There wont be any twists in the movie, you will be surely guessing the next scenes. A very very noob script.
I dont want to discuss the story here ;)

Ravi Teja did vey well in his role. u can say its a Ravi Teja mark movie.
The first half is really funny with some giggles.
Nayanatara is surely a drawback to this film. She looks damn worst, adding no glamour to movie, even in songs. (you may feel the co dancers are looking better to her).

The other big asset to this film is Bharhmi. He did played his role well. Defenitely the first half will be blown if Brahmi is not there.
Rest of the actors like Sonu Sood, Kota, and Nassar done OK. But these roles can be made much more interesting.

One final word I want to add is, the Directer is really a NOOB. He is not at all upto mark to do a film with a star like Ravi Teja. All the locations he has chosen in the film and the catching the scenes is really bad. he need to work on his basics first.

Tag: Better watch this film when it comes in DVD. No need to see this in theater.

Blogging... a word which is making rounds in my mind from several months...
It came to a shape today . . on a sloppy boring Sunday evening.

This blog will be a window to all my thoughts, ideas, opinions, and feelings.

I wish I can make much out of myself. :)