Family' Fun + Infotainer

Michael Jackson Best Moonwalk

2009-07-20T19:15:00.001+05:30

Stunning Moonwalk by Michael Jackson in a live stage show... Breathtaking!

R.I.P MJ :-(

Video Link (Available in HQ too)

Twitter Followers Marketplace

2009-07-17T11:32:00.000+05:30

Hope you all have set and using twitter regularly (mine can be found @arkarthick). For those who're unable to get followers on consistent basis, there is a new kid on the block available for you to just do so.

It's named "FastFollowers"

As the name suggests, you can build your twitter followers base very quickly as well as consistently there.

How does it work? (From http://FastFollowers.com)

FastFollowers creates a virtual marketplace for followers. Unlike some of the other schemes out there that require you to follow a hundred people before they place you on the list, FastFollowers uses a fair credit system. When you follow people you earn credits from them, and vice versa when they follow you. You can decide how many credits (from 0 to 10) you want to offer per follow, and when you run out you remain on the list so people can still follow you if they like. You can also bulk-purchase credits if you'd prefer to do less following yourself, and just want to grow your own followers. Or purchase a 'Feature user' slot for a day and get great visibility.

More details available at their FAQ

The site is still new (beta stage). So get in now and increase your reputation/followers. As more users join this site, it'll be a super hit twitter tool. You may join the FastFollowers network here.

Chevy's Billboard Penny Pinched!

2008-07-26T11:24:00.014+05:30

Chevrolet created havoc with its 20-foot billboard advert made entirely from one-pence coins in London’s New Oxford Street.

The unique billboard that consisted of 20,000 pennies was created to advertise the 769,500-pence starting price of the new Aveo.

Understandably, it didn’t take long for hundreds of opportunistic by passers to strip it clean. To be exact, the penny-billboard only lasted for a mere 30 minutes…

Chevrolet's Les Turton commented: “There have been some great car adverts before, but none that has stopped traffic and actually put money back into the motorist’s pocket so this is certainly a first"... -Continued

..."We’re glad we’ve topped up lots of people’s wallets, purses and, in some cases, rucksacks, but it would have been nice for the billboard to last a little longer than 30 minutes.”

[Source: AutoBlog]

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Blogging takes a New Avatar

2008-07-18T22:25:00.001+05:30

Yes! How about blogging from just using your e-mail only?

Enter the Posterous then!

Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email them at post@posterous.com and they reply instantly with your new posterous blog with a cool address: http://yourname.posterous.com. Whenever you email them from the same address, your mails will be converted into blog posts and promptly will be posted under the same blog URL. Instant blog for you and everyone to love. No signups, no special tools, no fancy bells and whistles.

If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. You can attach any of these files (+ embed Video links too).

You get up to 1 GB of space for personal use. Have your say about this new one-click blogging!

Best of the Rainy Day Pictures

2008-07-12T23:48:00.002+05:30

With these incredible photos on rain, I'd like to give you a brief aspiration to do some picture taking on rainy days. Many people’s first thought when they assure it raining down, is to put their camera away - however Stormy and rainy days are some of the greatest chances to shoot moody atmospheric images.

Now I will leave you with some of finest pictures with rain that the cyberspace has ever seen. Let’s get cheered!

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Via Sources: flickr and deviantart Every picture's index number is linked with the original source in this presentation.

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Lab Chaos

2008-07-08T22:46:00.001+05:30

Here is a joke that I find really funny (as well as informative too:-) and I would like to share it with you:.

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello."

"Mrs. Andrew, please."

"Speaking."

"Mrs. Andrew, this is Doctor Emily at the Medical Testing Laboratory. When your doctor sent your husband’s biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr. Andrew arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is your husband’s. Frankly the results are either bad or terrible."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Andrew asks nervously.

"Well, one Mr. Andrew tested positive for Alzheimer’s and the other one was positive for AIDS. We can’t tell which is your husband’s."

"That’s dreadful! Can’t you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Andrew.

"Normally, yes, but Medicare won’t pay for these expensive tests more than once."

"Well, what am I supposed to do now?"

"The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don’t sleep with him."

Note: For those who can't understand the last line of this joke: If he finds his way home (Means he doesn't have Alzheimer), don’t sleep with him (Means he has AIDS)." Click on links: Alzheimer, AIDS to know more about these diseases!

Stunning Golden Ray Transmigratory

2008-07-05T08:47:00.004+05:30

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea, thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico.

The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.

Gliding silently beneath the waves they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks.

Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 metres) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays.

They have long, pointed pectoral fins that separate into two lobes in front of their high-domed heads and give them a cow-like appearance.

Despite having poisonous stingers they are known to be shy and non-threatening when in large schools.

Source: Sandra Critelli | Barcroft Media

Are you ready to Turbo-Charge your Brain Power?

2008-07-04T09:15:00.003+05:30

Have you ever felt exasperated when you bumped into someone at the store but absolutely couldn't remember their name? Sure, it happens to all of us.

Despite being the strongest computer on the planet, our brains do lapse. It's hard to blame them really.

No matter how powerful our brains are, they need recuperation time, to be kept in shape, and even an occasional charge. Think of it as a tune up for your brain. Here are some things you can begin doing as soon as today to turbo-charge your brain power.

1. Eat Almonds

2. Drink Apple Juice

3. Sleep well

4. Enjoy simple Pleasures, such as enjoying music you love, playing with your kids, appreciating others etc.

5. Fast for a day

6. Exercise your mind through playing scrabble or crossword puzzle, interacting with others, starting a new hobby such as blogging, reading, painting, bird watching and learn new skill or a language

7. Practice Yoga or Meditation

8. Reduce Sugar intake

9. Eat whole wheat

10. Eat a light meal in the night

11. Develop imagination

12. Sex

13. Control your temper

14. Take Vitamin B-complex

I don't believe these are that tough. If you find yourself increasing stumped, give a couple of these a try. Continue to Read More in detail.

Map of the Web2.0

2008-07-01T15:43:00.003+05:30

What looks like an ordinary piece of work/drawing of the World is not what it's intended at all. It's the fabulous World Mosaic created from 1001 Unique and Famous Web2.0 application logos. Made with AndreaMosaic software by AppAppeal. You can use it as a instant gateway to the World of Web2.0. But you'll have a tough time to figure out your favorite links though unless otherwise you have a ultra power eye sight. Hehe! just kidding. Go check this stunning work.

YouTube For Kids!

2008-06-25T08:34:00.002+05:30

We all know that, Online video is a great new experience, and new parents discovered that showing their kids/tots videos on the computer screen is a great way to spend time together. So they head to the leading video websites. While the sites have great content for all ages, including tots and kids, they were not intended for children under the age of 13. They provide no way to filter anything that may be inappropriate and they provide very limited tools to find what is appropriate and relevant.

This is where Totlol steps in.

Launched for beta testing in May 2008, Totlol is a community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. Videos available at Totlol are all intended to be enjoyed by tots. Parents can easily find the content they want because all the "other stuff" is now out of the way.

Totlol is a cool idea, and the only children's video site that we know of that relies on parental screening to decide which videos to add to its database. The site has all the tools to potentially develop a great online community of parents and the young-at-heart.

TypeRacer - Fun typing speed game

2008-06-19T08:26:00.004+05:30

You might come across plenty of online typing speed tests that's boring and not so fun to do repeatedly. Typeracer is a new kid on the block that makes typing and finding your speed a fun process. It's a social typing game that lets you match your typing speed against strangers or friends by letting you see how your skills stack up against others. Let me tell you, it's extremely addictive and you will be going to fire your keyboard again and again.

Enter the RACE...

TypeRacer demands you to type a comparatively short snippet of text, which may be a citation from a book, movie, or something else you can buy on Amazon (they are affiliated with Amazon of course!). As you're typing, a little car will move across the screen and you can see other drivers/typists racing. Fresh races begin pretty regularly so you should only have to wait a few seconds to join a race. Just recall, if you drop a bit much time eying the competition, you're going to fall back and so you'll never make the high scores list.

and adding icing to the cake, your stats are tracked by cookies too.

Enjoy the thrilling typing speed test!

Up above the Sky so High!

2008-06-14T20:19:00.004+05:30

One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography, and here are the some of the best shots of Earth's skies, taken from above - way above (over 200 miles to be precise).

Click the pictures to see in High-resolution!

1: Cumulonimbus Cloud over Africa - 2/5/2008

2: Anvil clouds seen at sunset.

3: Storm clouds over the Libya/Chad border, Africa - 10/18/2003

4: Over the Gulf of Mexico - 1/8/2007

5: A cloud wake appears on the downwind side of Isla Socorro, Mexico - 2/12/2000

6: Golden sunset reflected over the Pacific Ocean - 4/26/2008

7: Thunderheads loom over the US Midwest - 8/19/2003

8: A dust storm appears over Mali, Sahara Desert - 6/6/2001

9: Moonset, over the Caribbean - 10/10/2007

10: Lightning flashes, city lights, sunset, Aurora Australis, atmospheric glow and some stars, seen over Argentina on 4/23/2003

11: Cloud, dust storm over central China - 6/3/2002

12: Storm clouds over Central Africa - 5/4/2005

13: Atmospheric distortion apparently flattens the moon as it sets, seen from above Cuba, 2/24/2005

Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center

Wanna purchase a Ghost?

2008-06-11T15:35:00.003+05:30

Hope you all remember my post about USB Ghost Detector. OK! think some of you might need a Ghost to be detected in first place! ROFLOL (Rolling On Floor Laughing Out loud) stuff for you. So enter the 'St.Augustine's A Ghost in a bottle'.

Each Ghost is captured from a reported haunted establishment, (house, hotel, ship, cemetery, etc), by their Ghost Hunters. They seal the ghost in it's own bottle for your protection. No maintenance required; except occasional dusting. You may release the Ghost at your own discretion and at your own risk.

The Ghost in the Bottle is contained mysterious elements and is therefore sealed with wax shortly after the Ghost is caught. It comes with very important WARNIN G information . They supply the Ghost, you supply the name (means Testimonials!). Individual Ghost experiences may vary as "Each Ghost is Unique"!

Each Ghost also comes with a "Ghost Certificate" which is signed by the Ghost Hunter that captures each Ghost and is engraved with a Ghost Hunters seal. "The Ghost Bottle is 10.5 X 2.5 inches". Bet you'll all like it (to have a pet ghost!). A ghost in the house (released from the bottle) along with the USB Ghost detector might be the perfect choice to become a Van Helsing! Go for it. ROFLOL again! Get it from HERE for $20!

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Human numbers formation!

2008-06-09T23:37:00.006+05:30

Really stunning formation/grouping of humans as numbers! I can only form number '1' (Stand still!) and all other digits are out of my reach! Anyways are you gonna try?

Click the thumbnails to see the bigger pictures!

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Innovative 'Midomi' Music search!

2008-06-08T15:03:00.006+05:30

Let's face this! you listened to some cool music/song and forgot what song that was or lost it's traces somehow? Well, then you have to search for it in Google all day without much success. But not any more! All you need is a Microphone and Midomi.

Midomi is the transcendent music search tool and it's pretty unique in concept as it is powered by your voice. Sing, hum, or whistle to instantly find your favorite music and connect with a community that shares your musical interests. Give it a try. It's truly stunning!

At Midomi you can create your own profile, sing your favorite songs and share them with your friends and get searched by other midomi users. You can listen to and rate others' musical performances, see their pictures, send them messages, buy original music, and more.

Midomi features an extensive digital music store with a growing collection of more than two million legal music tracks. You can listen to samples of original recordings, buy the full studio versions directly.

Midomi's mission is to build the most comprehensive database of searchable music. You can contribute to the database by singing in Midomi's online recording studio in any language or genre. The next time anyone searches for that song, your performance might be the top result!

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Stunning PhotoShop Effects

2008-06-05T09:20:00.004+05:30

In PhotoShop, photo effect is considered as the final result which had to be quite different from the orignal picture and be recognized as a post production photo manipulation. That idea would leave all kind of complex photo retouching and subtle color correction out of the discussion. So, with that idea in mind, Enrique Flouret gathered, what I consider 100 of the best photo effects Photoshop tutorials available on the web.

If you ever want to create a photo effect on PS, just refer to this stunning collection!

Here are some of the photo effects which you can create by these tutorials... (In pictures order: Dramatic gritty effect, Water reflection, Watercolor painting, Illustration effect, Photo to sketch, Polaride collage, Pencil sketch, Da vinci style, Dusk lighting effect, Snow effect, Vector art, Lichtenstein pop art, Portrait painting effect, Blurry scanlines, Frosted pixels, Motion blur, iPod style, hot and fiery effect and many more!

100% recommended for PS lovers!

Wearable Bike!

2008-06-03T19:10:00.002+05:30

What looks like a 'Alien suit'...

isn't a 'Alien suit' at all! It's a wearable bike/motorcycle, named "Yamaha Deus Ex Machina (God Out of a Machine)" designed/created by Art Center Pasadena student Jake Loniak.

Bye bye to too boring conventional linear bikes! Enter the Biomechatronics (Biology, Mechanics, and Electronics) inspired, the Deus Ex Machina which is an electric, single passenger, vertically parking and wearable motorcycle controlled by 36 pneumatic muscles with 2 linear actuators. It is worn like an exoskeleton and features seven artificial vertebra as well as the pneumatically attached helmet.

The motor is in-wheel, powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries similar to those already used in hybrids. It's also capable of 0 to 60Mph in three seconds and top speed is 75Mph with a recharge time of 15 minutes and cycle time of one hour. Hats off to Mr.Loniak for designing such a hightech, sci-fi urban transportation machine. Although it's still in proto design, hope it'll sell like a hot cake when it'll release.

Via GreenCarDesign, Engadget and BeSportier

Lol Pole dancing!

2008-06-02T19:41:00.004+05:30

Hmmm... Hope you will never/ever get to see such a LOL Pole dance performances in your life. Enjoy the collection:

Starting with 'My favorite' blonde pole dancer!

Please don't turn off the lights while i dance!

Making a living for many years...

OooHoo...How is the slide?

To dance or not to?

Pole dancing for peanuts?

Fruity pole dance and bonus stripping too!

Feeling guilty to pole dance!

Err! just jerked!

For your information...

- Collected via various web sources.

how to fairly cling a baby?

2008-05-31T13:08:00.002+05:30

Hope you all know how to clasp your baby (or any baby). Now it's time to teach a thing or two about the same to your dog! Lol...

1. If you think you've eyed a baby, affirm by employing vintage sniffing techniques. Baby powder is a dead giveaway.

2. Floor the baby before actually initiate the hugging process.

3. Simply drift paws around baby and prepare for feasible close-up.

4. If a camera is present, you will need to accomplish the laborious and patented hug, grin, and lean in order to attain the unsurpassed photo quality.

Via Source

Portable Firefox

2008-05-29T08:34:00.002+05:30

Cute! isn't it? But hey, it's not what i am about to suggest here...

We all know, Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go. You can get it from HERE!

Life and Death

2008-05-27T06:29:00.006+05:30

Imagine a earthquake of magnitude 7.9 richter scale just rocks the entire nation right after your wedding ceremony! Scary indeed. The wedding shots by Wang Qiang and other photographers on May 12 in the town of Bailu are an eerie record of China's deadliest natural disaster in a generation. Take a look at few of those snaps.

- Poor couple, just before the incident

- Debris falling all over. This 100 year old building couldn't stand a chance to survive this earthquake. Eyewitnesses said that the entire building just collapsed with in 10 to 20 seconds.

- Couples, relatives, everyone attended the party and the entire place was filled with dust cloud.

- Aftermath of an earthquake

- Luckily in this ceremony, no one got hurt heavily and all the 33 members (incl: the couples) survived the earthquake while the entire nation's casualty is closing to 70K.

- Final shot: The remaining facade of a deserted catholic seminary is seen after it collapsed in an earthquake

One photo shows a couple just before the earthquake, their arms around each other, smiling and clean. "What is happiness, happiness is safe and sound," the caption says. "Having gone through a life-and-death test, they surely will clasp hands and grow old together." God bless them.

Read the entire story...

Via sources: Dragon photo, 1 2 3 4

Big Blue (IBM) Unleashed Solar power

2008-05-23T20:26:00.006+05:30

IBM, a well known/reputed multinational computer technology and consulting corporation recently enter into 'Solar energy' segment which isn't their cup of tea/coffee/what ever! But the results are and will be amazing indeed. Similar to what we did in childhood for fun, i.e. using a magnifying glass/lens to burn a match stick or a leaf to start a fire, IBM researchers have achieved a breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity. Can you believe it?

By employing a trick normally used to cool high-performance computer chips, IBM researchers have found a way to make concentrated photovoltaic cells that are more efficient in converting the sun's energy into electricity. IBM scientists are using a large lens to concentrate the Sun’s power, capturing a record 230 watts onto a centimeter square solar cell, in a technology known as concentrator photovoltaics, or CPV. That energy is then converted into 70 watts of usable electrical power, about five times the electrical power density generated by typical cells using CPV technology in solar farms. By using a much lower number of photovoltaic cells in a solar farm and concentrating more light onto each cell using larger lenses, IBM’s system enables a significant cost advantage in terms of a lesser number of total components. If it can overcome additional challenges to move this project from the lab to the fab, it'll be rocking, am sure!

Via Sources: IBM, GoodCleanTech, TechnologyReview, and Physorg

For Flora Lovers

2008-05-22T09:12:00.004+05:30

Just came across 'Plantwire' which is a fun, easy site to search and ascertain about plants.

PlantWire provide information on many of the world's most beautiful, interesting, and important plants. You can search by plant name, flower color, or by tags. Their database now includes over 300 plants and is growing quickly. It provide general descriptive information, flower colors, and basic instructions on how to grow and propagate each plant. More than 6000 images are included.

As this is in a public beta phase, they are working hard to develop and improve the website. It's database is growing, and they are working on new features for searching and navigating the world's plants. You can help it grow by suggesting new plants, recommending new features, and correcting errors in it's database.

Explore the PlantWire!

Bi(JET)Cycle!

2008-05-21T16:19:00.004+05:30

Robert Maddox, a 47-year old American who specializes in designing and building the largest pulse-jet engines with powers up to 1000 pounds in the world. If that's not a cool enough hobby, he's also bolted one to a bicycle. Believe it or not!

The 50-ish pounds of thrust (run on kerosene) developed by the engine could push the bike up to 75 MPH, which would be a real bone-shaker of a ride. And a deafening one too: the pulse jet engine makes a frightening racket, and its humming sound earned the Second World War cruise-missile V1s that used similar engines the nicknames buzzbomb and doodlebug. You can hear and see the results of this DIY craziness in this video clip.

I am not so sure that your neighbors would love you as you fired up your jet-powered bicycle for the morning commute, but with a 75 miles per hour top speed, at least you'll get to the office/school/college or even to hospital (no pun intended) quickly. Cheers Maddox!

Via sources 1 2 3

The real Windows

2008-05-20T23:26:00.002+05:30

Introducing you to the Real, the Original and probably, Bugs free!:-) Windows!...