The world was what it was. Moving in its own pace.Then came technology, and the world started shrinking and started moving at a faster pace.First they wanted to bring the people together around the world to chat rooms to get to know about each
other.Distances apart, but available online.People from different places whom you wouldn't have dreamed of knowing.I once had a pen friend in Romania.Then it started moving at more faster pace and people started to drift apart.Then they realized to forget about strangers, there is more to connect with friends in one's own circle, as gone are the days where people settle down in the same places they grew up.So we saw Classmates,Geocities,Friendster.Now we keep seeing Orkut ,Facebook and a lot more.
For people who weren't getting enough from having a profile and scrapbooks,walls to write, Twitter came to rescue.Now we know what our dear ones and not so near ones
do every single day.Celebrities have found it a perfect way to communicate with their fans.First there is not much to write which saves more time.So its just few words but still they can be connected to their fans.I have a friend of mine who is a cricket freak ,she watches the match on tv and listens to the commentary over the fm at the same time.She anxiously follows her favourite cricketers' tweets.When one realises there is nothing more to be connected to,Apple wronged them.
People,when apple gave us iTunes10 ,it also gave us "Ping".Ping , a social network for music.Now I know what my friends listen to .What concerts they are planning to attend.He may be a long lost friend from school.But I still, can even know, what is his taste in music.Also I can get to know what are the songs the celebs listen to.So when you are walking down the streets of Sydney far away from home, and you see an old friend , who is so active online,you can connect with him or her in the current moment precisely without the traditional "How have you been?", for its not, just his or her current status you are aware of, but even their play list too.
So after a little talk, you may also want to ask "I see you are listening to Endhiran.So is your favorite song ,Robo da"?
Welcome to Ping.
And it might be, just this ultimate one for music.But then for sure, tomorrow we will be wronged again.
Google Chrome, one of the fastest growing web browser is on top of the competition again with it's new release of the beta version of Chrome browser - Chrome 5. Considered to be faster than the pervious versions, it has several new features that makes Chrome more preferrable than the other browsers.
The bookmark sync feature helps user to keep the bookmarks synchronized along with themes, start up settings and langugaes on multiple computers using a google account.
This beta release also includes new HTML5 features like file drag-and-drop, Geolocation APIs etc.
Another good thing about this browser is that, it has a built in Adobe Flash Player that gets updated automatically, thus rescuing the user from the usual flash update problems.
To demonstrate the speed at which this browser renders a page, Google has come up with a series of fun, unconventional speed tests that actually shows how fast the browser is.
Excited about the features of Chrome 5 and want to give it a try?? Get it here.
When was the last time you listened to something and felt every hair stand up,felt the rush in your veins , feeling liberated. When was the last time you listened to a song after a tiring day and felt so full.A song which speaks straight to your heart.Hats
off k'naan!
India - better known for its diverse culture and religion, is also best known for its one religion that unites the country like nothing else does and one god almost everyone in the nation worships. Yes in India, Cricket is the religion and Sachin is the God!!!
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, born on April 24 1973 is celebrating his 37th birthday today. On his birthday, the whole nation salutes the little master for all the success he has brought home.
Sachin made his first Test Cricket Debut when he was 16 years old and from then on there was no going back. What a journey it has been, completing 20 years in cricketing world... from where he was to where he is now... Sachin is truly the Master Blaster!!!
Checkout the video below, one of the early interviews with the master!
Who would have thought, that this boy from Bandra would make the nation go crazy whenever he starts the fireworks with his bat and that one day he would become the God of Cricket.
It's been said that only God can make miracles happen and yeah, Sachin is no exception to that!!! He made one in Gwalior on 24th Feb 2010 while batting against South Africa, by becoming the first man on the planet to score a double century in the One Day International Cricket.
Those last few moments, when Sachin was about to make wonders, the whole nation came united and was praying for one cause. From farmers to multi billionaires, from gully cricketers to great cricketing legends... everyone was hoping for that one thing to happen... and Sachin made that happen. He created a new world record by scoring a double century.
Sustaining for the full 50 overs and earning those full 200 runs all by himself even at the age of 36 ,who could question his fitness and his love and passion for Cricket??
Sachin always loved playing for his country and he proved that once again when he dedicated his world record to the people of his country and making the nation proud.
That is Sachin, modest and humble. Anil Kumble, former Test Cricket Captain of India put that in best of his words "I thought the way he celebrated when he reached his 200 epitomised the man's persona. There was no running laps around the field, no aggressive gestures,nothing over-the-top. He did what he always does, raised both his arms, closed his eyes for a moment and quietly acknowledged that it had been done"
Being the successful batsman in cricketing world, Sachin knows what is best for him and his team. Way back in 2007, when Rahul Dravid decided to step down as captain of Indian team, the selectors were planning to give it to Sachin. But it was Sachin who recommended MS Dhoni for captaincy, who was performing extremely well and was in good form at that time. Thanks to Sachin, else India would have lost its Captain Cool.
Success is nothing new for Sachin. He holds all world records under his name. So, what else is left for this man who has seen success in almost all form of his career. Well, there is this ICC World Cup that is coming in about a period of 8-9 months and the whole country is hoping that their God would make miracles happen once again and bring home the trophy, which has been a dream since 1983.
Hope Sachin answers all the prayers. Long Live Sachin!!! Happy Birthday!!!
Football , the religion in most parts of the world.The top stars- Gods of the religion.
Lets have a look at what cars the Gods drive.
The much anticipated movie of the year, Mani Ratnam's Raavan is finalized for May 21. The audio of the movie will be releasing on April 24th. The cast and crew includes all big names director & producer mani ratinam, Music by ARR, Abhishek Bachan, Aishwarya Rai Bachan, Vikram, Prithiviraj, Bipasha Basu, Lyricist Gulzar and so on. Raavan is a present day version of the Indian epic Ramayana which depics the same old story of Rama whose wife Sita is kidnapped by Ravana, the demon king of Lanka.
A leaked song from Raavana:
What would you do when you come to know that, the sports shoe of yours is special... Special in a way that it contains your favourite sport star's air????
Well yeah... that's what Nike claims!! With it's new featured video, Nike tells us that its Nike Air shoes is actually filled in with air from world famous athelets.
Check out the video below and see how Nike collects air from Maria Sharapova, Troy Polamalu, Paul Rodriguez and many more to use it in their Nike Air shoes.
Kudos to Nike for coming up with a funny and entertaining video for promoting their product.
Now... i want one with Federer's air :)
PVR(Priya Village RoadShow) Cinemas finally began its operation in Chennai on 9th April 2010. The long wait for the Chennaites is over. PVR Cinemas is located in the Ampa Skywalk (Junction of Nelson Manickam Road and Poonamalee High Road) fourth floor. We can expect some stiff competitions to Sathyam Cinemas, Inox who are already providing state-of-art screens,high class seating and wonderful audio-visual systems in the metro. PVR Skywalk Chennai has 7 Screens, Children play area, Restaurant etc.
Visit PVR Cinemas
Google has launched a new android mobile application which translates animal sounds into text. According to Google this is how the application works
The mobile application records the sounds of animals and sends it to a centralized server where google runs a matching algorithm against the millions of stored noises in the animal linguistic database and returns the matching text to the user. Wow !!! Sounds Cool !!! Look at this video
Haa haa !! That was Google 's April Fools Prank for 2010 . :)
In the adventure, guests will also get to explore Dumbledore's office (in the picture above), Dark Arts classroom, Gryffindor common room, Room of Requirement and much more.
"Snaptu" is a completely free mobile application browser which provides ultra-fast secure mobile applications for your browser which works on any phone (which has Java installed). It provides a Iphone like style interface with a variety of tools like Face Book,Twitter, Picasa, CricInfo, Google Calendar and so on. Snaptu is ad supported so all the apps downloaded in the Snaptu are for free. The company is based in Israel and the Company had claimed that the application is downloaded 4 million times. TechCrunch Snaptu Application has been recently added to the Snaptu Application Catalog.
After a fairly disappointing 3rd movie of the Series (Shrek -3), the Ogre is back greener, bigger and faces more challenges than ever. Dreamworks fourth movie of the series Shrek, Shrek 4ever after hitting the screens this May. The final chapter of the series, the trailer looks really funny and comes with an interesting plot and comes in 3D and Imax-3D.
Synopsis from Imdb:
"After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws' kingdom, whats an ogre to do? Well, if you're Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. Whats happened to this ogre's roar? Longing for the days when he felt like a "real ogre," Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it's up to Shrek to undo all he's done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love."
Forbes reveals the list of world's richest people for the year 2010.
It's surprising that Bill Gates hasn't topped the list.
Carlos Slim Helu, a Telecom tycoon from Mexico who came third last year is the World's Richest Man now.
Bill Gates is in Second position followed by Warren Buffet.
India's Mukesh Ambani - Chairman of Reliance Industries and Lakshmi Mittal - World's largest steel maker are in 4th and 5th position respectively.
List of Top 10 Billionaires:
1. Carlos Slim Helu (Mexico) - $53.5 billion
2. William Gates III (USA) - $53 billion
3.Warren Buffett (USA) - $47 billion
4. Mukesh Ambani (India) - $29 billion
5. Lakshmi Mittal (India) - $28.7 billion
6. Lawrence Ellison (USA) - $28 billion
7. Bernard Arnault (France) - $27.5 billion
8. Eike Batista (Brazil) - $27 billion
9. Amancio Ortega (Spain) - $25 billion
10. Karl Albrecht (Germany) - $23.5 billion
Forbes also declared that Asia is leading the world's financial recovery and said the number of its billionaires, 234, reflects the "remarkable changes taking place in the global economy".
“Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away”
Rings a bell! For Rock fans it will. ‘In the End’ By our very own LP.
Linkin Park has come with a new game called 8 bit rebellion. Soon available only for Apple iPhone and iTouch for a start, they are hoping to release it for other mobile platforms as well in the future.The game, as said my mike in a chat with him is as follows,
"The game takes place in a world that used to be all "low resolution." 8-bit and lower...
Then an evil corporation arrived, and they've brainwashed everyone to buy higher resolution. They are called PixxelKorp. A small rebellion has begun, to fight against PixxelKorp. You (the player) may be our only hope to combat the evil!
As you get through the game, It's laid out like an RPG style game, but it's got a strong social community aspect. You can talk to all your friends playing, and play together. You solve various missions to fight PixxelKorp. If you finish the whole 1st mission, you get something AWESOME.”
Items have been stolen from the six leaders of the rebellion. The players get selected by the rebellion and collecting the stolen items is the rebellion’s only hope to thwarting the plans of the evil PixxelKorp.” The secret at the end of the game is a brand new Linkin Park song. Really awesome. How cool can that be! Can’t wait! But it’s still waiting period! They have conducted a series of testing events in LA, Berlin and Hong Kong.Hoping it to get released soon. Can’t wait to play the game hard to listen to the brand new LP track. It sure is worth a wait.
The much awaited action flick of the year 2010 "Iron Man 2" the new trailer has come up. Check this out
“Iron Man 2”, the world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new forces.
"Synopsis from Apple.com"
The year 2010 has created much hype as world's leading companies have their own products lined up for release..jpg)
The software is designed from scratch and is totally different from the ones that are already available making it one of its biggest advantage. As stated by Microsoft, it is a "clean break" with the past and won't run any applications written for older versions of Microsoft's phone software.
The Indian Premier League 2010 the cricket extravaganza, the greatest cricketing tournament is all set to rock the cricketing fans from next week. Though it is one of the Cricket’s most spectacular events, it has received strong criticism right from its launch. Most of its ideas have been ripped off from other sporting major sporting events from other countries the strategic time outs, franchisees, Player auction and home away matches etc. With more and more money into the Cricketing event, it has become such that it is cricket match in between commercials and not the vice versa these days. We keep seeing the Promos and the Ads of IPL every now and then. Some Promos and Ads have been very creative that we get highly impressed. However at a later point we come to know that it has been a rip off of another promo of another sporting event from another country it leaves a bad taste with us and gives us a sense of irritation whenever we see the promo next time. The promo of IPL 2008 “The cricket ka karmayudh” was a huge hit when it was launched. However after few days we came to know that it’s a Rip off of the Promo of an American baseball team (The Yankees). Watch this video.
IPL Promo
Yankees Promo
It is IPL 2010, Have they learnt their lessons this time?? Sadly Noooo, Not at all. They don't want to.The “Sare Jahan Se Acha, IPL 2010 Promo Video has been another Rip Off of the Coke Ad for the Beijing Olympics.
IPL 2010 Promo
Beijing Olympics Ad
You can't go seek love .It will never stay.It should happen.It should blow us.
Change our life upside down.It happened to me.These are the lines at the start of the movie.When most of the movies are about seeking love and making woman fall in love with man, this for sure is different.Its about what happens naturally, spontaneously.The starting is classic with hero's definition of love and about his ladylove and about his love for her and you get to see a beautiful church in God's own country in a beautiful angle with Aaoromale's starting guitar sequence filling up your ears.You feel so good and sit back relaxed in your seat smiling to yourself.
The story is simple.He finds the women of his dreams walking in the street and its love at first sight.He loves her.She loves him.Girls parents disagree.Love and Religion are the villains to them.Girl tries to convince her parents.But in vain.One moment she wants to be with him, when he is far away in Goa.Another moment when he is right at her doorstep she wants him to leave her forever.Such is she-Jessie.Confusing.But he ,Karthick is mad about her and knows not what to do.Only to find out later that she got married to someone abroad.He starts making a movie about her and when goes abroad for the shooting we are under the impression that she is not married and that they(karthick&Jessie) get married.Only to find out later that that's how his movie(the one he makes about her) ends and we see him sitting and watching it in the theater with her - the married woman, who comes on his invite to see the movie.They part ways , she asking him to find a girl and fall in love again , to move one and he smiles at her and walks back saying to himself that one cannot seek love.It should happen and we are back to those lines with which the movie began.
Its a wonderful musical till the first half.The scenes are pretty intense between them.Music adds to the intensity with which we feel ourselves in those scenes.In short,fills your senses.The second half is so round about and gives you an impression of watching a story which doesn't know how to end.The twist at the end cant be called as one.The dialogues are not strong enough to say the feel which the movie creates.They are repetitive and annoying at times.The camera is awesome and music blends with the scenes.Aaoromale keeps ringing in your ears after you leave the movie hall.Ganesh who comes as karthick's friend makes you laugh all the time.His dialogue delivery is too good.
Its a story of whats feeling and being in love all about.The heights and levels it can take you.The love which strikes you hard , you get drenched in it, lost into it taking it in you and it becomes a part of you.A natural reaction.It talks to the one, in you,makes you chase your dreams ,strengthens your will , such that you feel like you can change the whole world.Anything and everything is possible in love.That's what you feel when he talks to her(unga appa va erundhalum parthukalam).That's what you feel when she says she will cum to him wherever he is .Such is the confidence love gives.It should happen and persist.We will realize we can bring heaven to Earth.
Gone are the days when we used 128MB of RAM, 2 GB of HDD and 14" CRT monitors and boasted to our friends that we have a High End System. Thanks to Microsoft they somehow or the other kept us updating the hardware with its every release of Operating Systems ( From Win 95 till Win 7). Microsoft with its every release of OS gave huge importance to User Interface(they even named an OS after that user e'XP'erience), they kept improving it so much, that even performance of the system was given the second priority. Microsoft also kept updating the user Interface of the utilities provided along with the OS like the Microsoft Office 95 to 2003 to 2007, Microsoft Internet Explorer etc. The only stagnant program with microsoft has been its much loved program "The Microsoft Paint" which never received any attention from the developers however In 2010 techfest they announced and showed a prototype of a Project named “Gustav” a realistic painting-system prototype.
Project Gustav aims at providing hobbyists and professionals a new way to create digital art, by taking advantage of today’s multitouch hardware and high end processers.
An awesome video showing how people in South India prepare Parotta(the national food) one guy making the Parotta and throwing it off and another guy catches it to deep fry to make the delicious Parotta. Amazing hand eye coordination ;) Very Impressive.
Google Buzz, Google Talk, Google Mail, Google News, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Android, Google Nexus One, yes truly Google has become a character in our life. As always Google is coming up with interesting, simple and innovative products. There are some interesting products which I happen to come across in the Google Labs (a website for Google products that aren’t quite ready for the big screen yet) like Google Fast Flip, Google Image Swirl, Froogle, Product Search, Patent Search and Similar Images Feature. Try them you can definitely benefit out of them .
Ever wondered flipping through news articles in web like we do in magazines or newspaper? , Google has answered with a nice product named “Google Fast Flip”. Google Fast Flip is an application which allows users to search for news article and presents them in a nice flip through pages. The users can customize the topics and the publishers. Also there is a mobile version which is released which works currently in iPhone and Android Phones.
Most of us would have got irritated with the way the image search engine behaves. We would be trying to download an apple (fruit) image, When we give “Apple” in the search keyword we would be getting
Formerly named as “Froogle” is a price comparison product launched by Google. It uses Google’s search technology to search for products and compares the products and directly points to where one can buy that product from. The search results are completely unbiased and Google ranks results based on only the relevance of the search terms. Sellers can include their products using Google Base or by visiting the information for sellers page.
If you are planning to build an iPad Killer, before starting off with the actual implementation check once if someone else has already obtained a patent for your idea using the Google Patent Search. A search engine which indexes around 7 million patents which were on paper. OCR has been performed to make them searchable. J Google is trying to improve the indexes as some of the IBM patents were not found in the search results. If you are really planning for iPad killer ;), worth double checking with some other resources as well.
What if you are specifically looking for a picture of Tajmahal from a very specific angle, its near impossible to give search keywords in the Google images and find out the specific image we are looking for. In this case Google s Similar images product helps us. Give Tajmahal in the Google Images Keyword and on the results click on the similar images link to refine the search. Recently this similar Images product got graduated to Google Images. Kudos Similar Images Team!! J It is yet another awesome feature to the already massive Google Image Search Engine.
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