Posted on 19 August 2010 by sadhan
eLearning through YouTube and Free !
Few weeks back one of my close friend Navin shared this interesting story of an One Many Army who has started a unique way to teach millions of people or students through the medium of YouTube channel, and that too totally FREE !
His name is Salman Khan and google his name to know more about his ‘Khan Academy‘
Check out this video to learn more …
Express your views…
Posted on 17 August 2010 by sadhan
Best of the Best FREE WordPress Themes
WordPress – is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available. Best of all, WordPress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
There are hundreds of WordPress themes online waiting to be paid for. Some of them are worth it, some are not. Just because many of our followers decided to stay with Premium themes, that doesn’t mean Free Themes are ugly, cluttered, and boring.
In this showcase below, I have handpicked some Excellent Collection of Fresh High-Quality Free WordPress Themes Around because We all know that we’re going to use our blog as a tool to promote our business, with a clean, professional, corporate look.
Most important they are FREE !!
1. Foodiary
2. ThrillingHeroics
3. Morning After
4. Berryllimous
5. Mayumi
6. WP Premium WordPress Theme
7. Florance WordPress Theme
8. Monkeypr
Hope you will enjoy using them and make your Blogs worth a visit !
Posted on 05 August 2010 by sadhan
Chanakya’s Quotes :
“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are hit first.”
“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”
“The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you.”
“There is some self-interest behind every friendship.There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”
“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”
“As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”
“Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”
“The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.”
“Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.”
“God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god.The soul is your temple.”
“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”
“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”
“Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.”
“Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
These quotes are ages old but I am sure still applicable in our current times. What do you say ?
Posted on 02 August 2010 by sadhan
Indian Currency Symbol
The Indian rupee has now got a unique symbol — a blend of the Devanagri ‘Ra’ and Roman ‘R’ — joining elite currencies like the US dollar, euro, British pound and Japanese yen in having this distinct identity.
The new symbol is designed by D Udaya Kumar, Bombay IIT post-graduate and finally we will mark a presence in International Financial scenario with this unque identity.
The following presentation nicely shares the thought around the making of this symbol….
Posted on 07 March 2010 by Ritz
Fascinating research projects presented at Microsoft’s TechFest 2010
When brains at Microsoft Research Labs are at work, we can definitely expect some path breaking techno developments. Techfest 2010 at Redmond witnessed many such demos on various projects. Lets have a look at some of them:
1. The Translating phone and The Transcriptor: Transcriptor generates a live transcript of the coversation we have over a call on a PC based communicator. The scripts are merged in email as well for searching.
The Translator is a wonderful concept that takes away the about the difference of language we might have over an important client call or anything like that. The translator translates the speech of the person on the other side of the phone to the language you want at real time. This 2-way translator also generates a live translated transcript. Find out more about the project @ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/transcriptor/default.aspx
2. Project Gustav: Project Gustav is a creative endeavor of Microsoft to make digital painting a perfect realistic experience. It is a realistic painting system prototype that simulates natural, real-world painting environment.
For a better knowhow of the project visit the official page on Project Gustav.
3. Skinput: Skinput is a technology that favors the skin of our body to be used as an input device. Various signals like location of finger taps are collected by sensors worn as armbands. To know more about the Skinput check out http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gustav/default.aspx
4. Mobile Surface: It aims at making any surface around you as a touch interface surface by linking together a mobile device, camera and a projector. It allows you to project an image on any surface and interact with it even without touching the image.
Click on http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mobilesurface/default.aspx for more information.
An altogether new world of technologies. Exciting!! Isn’t it?? Lets wait and watch how these project finally turn out. Till then keep reading and commenting.
Posted on 17 February 2010 by sadhan
50 Interesting Facts
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. A raisin dropped in a glass of freshchampagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
3. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
4. 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
5. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830′s as a medicine.
10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas g@mbling casin0s.
13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
15. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
17. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
23. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
25. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
26. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
30. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
33. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
34. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
35. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
46. There are more chickens than people in the world.
47. It’s against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is “s ub c ont in ent al”.
50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
Do you have such interesting Facts to share, here is the place ! Add on……….
Posted on 04 February 2010 by sadhan
What a digital age we are now into… interesting ? amazing ! Yes… it is but there are questions and thoughts around it as well which in others words can be put as concerns as well.
Most of us have been growing with the computing evolution in terms of social media way, as we have first learnt about ‘email account’ and what it does and slowly adopted emails as part of our daily life like other daily activities. Email has been working fine to express all our eMotions in the electronic way, official communication became blessed with the emailing stuff and we almost made the retirement of the postal services.
And then … we were still not satisfied maybe with long, boring emails to express our needs. As the mantra today with almost every product or service is ‘Do More with Less’, we started playing with this and Jack Dorsey translated this idea into action by creating ‘Twitter’.
Cool … now we have learnt rephrasing our expressions internally to produce it with a ‘Limited Edition’ of only 140 characters. Wow … they say Life is short and now expressions are shorter and gosh… don’t know what is waiting for us when we become smarter.
We need to think and express ourselves with character limitations when we need to be social in the internet domain. Forget about the character limitation in the text box to enter but also our ears and mind will get tuned to listen and understand the first 140 or shorter characters that you say or write.
Folks, we are lucky that in 2010 we still have 140 words but be prepared to do (express) the same maybe in next few years with 100, 80 or 60 character limitations in gradual way.
With the addiction to get hooked onto the social networking services, a person is now incomplete if he/she is does not maintain a Facebook, twitter or Linkedin profile. I met my neighbor the other day, in line with our social networking bondage, she asked me ‘is everything okay … as I don’t see you tweeting these days ?”
So, if you find a friend of yours who is not doing the tweets, posts, commenting on the wall, scraps etc for some days spare some minutes out of your hectic life to give him/her a buzz (not again restricting to your mobile plan of pulse/minute etc) or visit him/her to say ‘hey! How are you?” and carry on with the conversation beyond any expressive limitation.
