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Why Bada is bad ?

2011-08-22T21:43:00.002+05:30

‘The customer is always right’

This fair policy of business doesn’t seem to make any sense to the modern day MNCs.

All they seem to be interested in is making big bucks which are not wrong by any means, but the fact is that most of the products being sold are a complete rip-off.

Even Calvin and Brian agree

One of key examples that i would like give is based on my experience as well as several others.

'Samsung Bada' is the new word on the web and media which is creating ripples with its own series of ‘Wave - future beyond smart phones' actually its rather terrible waves .

Why I say this is, are not purely my critiques, but also the opinions of the many agitated bada customers.

To start off when you walk into a store to buy yourself a new cell phone I am sure that based on statistics 80% of gullible customers are lured into considering Samsung phones due to its eye candy looks, range of hyped features and most important of all low price tag. {Myself being one}

I don’t about how the situation is in countries of other continents but this is the scenario in most Asia Pacific countries like India where MNCs sell their low end products with lack of support and later based on the sales , improvise and finally sell their top notch products to European and North American countries.

When I asked a techaholic about the buzz created by the Samsung’s own platform for mobiles, the bada OS, this is what he had to say:

"
The future beyond   smart phones   project was   a   lucrative   attempt   by Samsung   to   capture   the   mobile   market and test their own self-developed OS   which   is not   wrong   but   the   introduction   of   lower   end   models particularly to countries of large middle class population just for their dummy testing along   with   inadequate   support   services   just   to build   upon   their higher   range   of   phones   is   definitely unethical.
  "

Once you buy a bada phone you might like feel a proud customer of a feature loaded phone but it’s only a matter of time before you realize its lack of apps as well as lack of compatibility with almost anything!

And what about those Samsung apps, you don’t get one decent app if you have the wave 1 models like s5253, s533, s575 if you do get it will cost more than Rs.300, not to be offensive but 90% of the people download apps to their phone for free but on bada its virtually impossible to get even one paid app for free as its almost impossible to crack it. Whereas if you would have bought a Nokia phone, and even if it was cheaper you would definitely find thousands of apps for free on the Ovi store and even get the paid apps for free just by running a Google search for it.

I mean what is Samsung trying to prove, that they are sovereign defenders of illegal downloading

80% of the population downloads something or the other illegally. They have developed a mechanism by which customers are forced to pay for good apps, thanks to Kies.

I mean why be so greedy?!

So the next time you are hanging out with you geeky friends showing off your smart phones and their apps, how would you feel when you see some android phone owners relishing in happiness with amazing and FREE android apps , while you are stuck with the worst kind BADA OS with useless apps.

Looking at the eye candy Football game picture above you would feel amazed and get lured into buying it, thinking that such amazing games are available even for Wave 525, which makes it close to an itouch Fifa 11 game.
But believe me guys no such game exists for the 525 or other cheap versions
I mean its OK that phone cannot support such high-end games but why add photoshop editing to it and lie to gullible customers about its not so amazing .................

This is the bare truth.

Let’s look at the situation when you own a bada wave 1 or 2 model. You initially find out that

most of the apps on store are paid apps and the later that even if you find the app files on the web, there is no way installing them through wavespoofer.

And finally to conclude that the touch phone is just a useless clunk of metal about which nothing can but wait till next Christmas (if you bought an Android phone you just got lucky)

If you own the cheaper wave model you realize that not only is there any good apps available but also that the CPU processor struggles to perform and simultaneously eats away the battery power. It’s a phone which doesn’t fail to hang up with everything. So if you are new bada owner just wait till the same feelings set in.

Well you can’t exactly blame them for the lack of support reason being that every fortnight there is a new phone in the market more attractive than the previous ones so if thought you bought the latest phone, guess what there is already a newer one.

Companies deliberately cut short on some of the features, promising to deliver them in their next phone and continue to do this or give a fancy label to an ordinary feature. This is a strategy to keep the customers coming for more.

So what to do at a time when companies keep ripping off customers and only make empty promises? Which phone to buy? Which is the right touch one?

I have to be honest, it’s the Iphone

Well figures don’t lie, when they say that

‘There is an app for that ' they really mean it

There really is an app for almost everything

In fact millions of eye candy apps.

With a phone like that you don’t have to worry about the other phones in the market because your phone has all the features you could hope for.

And no I am not marketing any of apple products for incentives; I am just sharing my experience

Or if the price of I phone is just a pinch too much, then opt for an Android phone. You will be blessed by this close rival of Apple in apps.

But please for god's sake avoid Bada I am telling for your own good. Take heed to it if you want.

And also I forgot to mention that I had type parts of this document on my Wave 525 and the stupid phone couldn’t even get that right.

Believe it or not it had spaces between every letter of a word and I had to sit and search and correct every word!!

The Bada effect
Please click to enlarge and see

Also one more rather amazing flaw I stumbled upon was that in Samsung there are region restrictions too for apps.

For example if you live in China and you want to download some apps from www.samsungapps.com then you have access to only your country’s site and hence you cannot download apps from other country’s sites like UK .

Wow! Now why is there a restriction like that?

The Bada OS is full of restrictions and misery.

Is the developer some sort of strict army general placing restrictions on the customers from doing anything they want.

Samsung has not only programmed a unhackable OS but also managed to program the customers to follow rules and guidelines of Bada.

Here's what another customes rather angry customer had to say :

" Bada is the worst m****f***ing ! OS. what are they trying to do, bring in a disciplined OS and program us according to Bada's structure.
I never thought that Samsung would get so low !

So do you want to buy misery or freedom?

It’s simple as

Android, iOS, Symbian = Millions of Rocking apps for free and freedom to get them

Bada, other related Samsung OS = Limited yet horrible apps, which besides being costly can never be obtained for free

The Kies PC connections software by Samsung, yet another failure, as it frequently crashes causing your PC to hang or slow down.

But without this software no Bada app can be installed. SO I believe now you can imagine the extent of pain and misery you have to endure with BADA.

If you are still doubtful about my words, just watch the video below to free your mind

Thank You

#2 Amazing CSS effect: Add a Polaroid effect to your snaps with a twist

2011-05-06T00:28:00.000+05:30

Since this is my third blogger tutorial, I would like to know whether my previous tutorials have helped you in any way at all, if it has then it is my pleasure.Please dont be shy to send me queries,or ask some info or help you with any problem.

Now to get back to the Polaroid effect, as you know there are already many tutorials on Polaroid boxes, but i will also show you how to add an animated caption.

Well to start off, go to the Edit HTML page and add the following CSS code before ]]></b:skin> section the document.

td.pol{
background-color: #F2F5ED;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .25);
padding: 20px 20px 25px 20px;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease-out;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease-out;
-webkit-transform: rotate(-6deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(-6deg);
border-radius: 1px 3px 2px 4px;
border: 1px solid whiteSmoke;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .75);
}

td.pol{
border-radius: 2px 3px 2px 4px;
border: 1px solid whiteSmoke;
background-color: #F2F5ED;
padding: 20px 20px 25px 20px;
text-align: center;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.25);
-webkit-box-shadow:0px 0px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.25);
transition:all .3s ease-out;
-webkit-transition:all .5s ease-out;
-moz-transition:all .5s ease-out;
-webkit-transform:rotate(-6deg);
-moz-transform:rotate(-6deg);
}

td.pol:hover{
box-shadow:0px 0px 15px rgba(2, 2,2,.5);
-webkit-shadow:0px 0px 15px rgba(2,2,2,.5);
-webkit-transform:rotate(-2deg);
-moz-transform:rotate(-2deg);
-webkit-transform:scale(1.2,1.2);
-moz-transform:scale(1.2,1.2);
}
p.cap1
{
font-family: 'Special Elite', arial, serif;
color: silver;
font-size: 12px;
-webkit-transition: all .3s;
-moz-transition:all .3s;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 1.5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
bottom: 20px;
position: absolute;
left: -20px;}

.ff p:hover{color:black;
font-weight:normal;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 1.5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2)}

p.cap2{
z-index:3;
color: silver;
font-size: 18px;
-webkit-transition: all .3s;
-moz-transition:all .3s;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 1.5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
font-family: 'The Girl Next Door', arial, serif;
vertical-align: text-bottom;}

Also you will need the font so add the following piece of code after head tag.

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Special+Elite&subset=latin' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=The+Girl+Next+Door&subset=latin' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

Now that the coding part is done, its time to for a demo.

To use your CSS Polaroid effect simply add the attribute

class='pol' to the <td> tag inside a table.

The advantage of this is that you can add the Polaroid effect to

a photo of any size without the hassle of awkwardly sized
images due to preset sizes.

For the two captions use the selector for the Date as

class='cap1'

and for the text caption as

class='cap2'

See the Example below:

<table> <td class='pol'>

<img src='http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.4976985.1.flat,550x550,075,f.old-analog-nostalgia.jpg'/>

<p class='cap1'>20/04/89</p> <p class='cap2'>The backyard mobike pic </p>

</td> </table>

20/04/89

The backyard mobike pic

So pretty neat right, feel free to use it and ask me if you have any problems.

Amazing CSS effect : Make Link Buttons that GLOW

2011-04-06T15:01:00.009+05:30

Please use Chrome or Safari to be mystified by the animation.Firefox doesn't work.

Once again a very happy day to all of you.This will be my second tutorial on HTML under the tech label.
With CSS becoming very popular due its innovative eye candies, javascripts are slightly fading away.

Alright in this tutorial i will be elaborating on how to make your links appear as attractive buttons with a glow effect, this way you can popularize your site or blog.

Actually the credits for creating this piece of usefulness goes to Zurb who call it radioactive buttons, but honestly whatever codes they had given, never actually worked, I just could not figure it out.You will lose your head, if you are amateur CSS dummy like me.
So after many painstaking hit and trail attempts, I managed to succeed and here is what you have to do.

Since I have performed this on the blogger platform, i will explain it on its basis, but its pretty similar for other platforms too.

First....

1.First thing you need to do is go to CSS section of your webpage which is before the </head> tag and paste the following code.

.green.button {
background-color: #91BD09;
}

@-webkit-keyframes greenPulse {
from { background-color: #749a02; -webkit-box-shadow:: 0 0 9px #333; }
50% { background-color: #91bd09; -webkit-box-shadow:: 0 0 18px #91bd09; }
to { background-color: #749a02; -webkit-box-shadow:: 0 0 9px #333; }
}
a.green.button {
-webkit-animation-name: greenPulse;
-webkit-animation-duration: 2s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

.red.button {
background-color: #E33100;
}

@-webkit-keyframes redPulse {
   from { background-color: #bc330d; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 9px #333; }
   50% { background-color: #e33100; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 18px #e33100; }
   to { background-color: #bc330d; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 9px #333; }
   }
a.red.button {
-webkit-animation-name: redPulse;
-webkit-animation-duration: 2s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

.blue.button {
background-color: #2DAEBF;
}
@-webkit-keyframes bluePulse {
   from { background-color: #007d9a; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 9px #333; }
   50% { background-color: #2daebf; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 18px #2daebf; }
   to { background-color: #007d9a; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 9px #333; }
   }

a.blue.button {
-webkit-animation-name: bluePulse;
-webkit-animation-duration: 2s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

.orange.button {
background-color: #FF5C00;
}
@-webkit-keyframes orangePulse {
   from { background-color: #d45500; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 9px #333; }
   50% { background-color: #ff5c00; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 18px #ff5c00; }
   to { background-color: #d45500; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 9px #333; }
   }
a.orange.button {

-webkit-animation-name: orangePulse;
-webkit-animation-duration: 3s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

.magenta.button {
background-color: #A9014B;
}
@-webkit-keyframes magentaPulse {
   from { background-color: #630030; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 9px #333; }
   50% { background-color: #a9014b; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 18px #a9014b; }
   to { background-color: #630030; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 9px #333; }
   }

a.magenta.button {
-webkit-animation-name: magentaPulse;
-webkit-animation-duration: 3s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

By doing this we are assigning the animation and color

We can also vary the duration of animation by
changing the numeral in

-webkit-animation-duration :

2. Next for giving shape to your buttons paste the following code
below the above one.

.button {
background: #222
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px 15px 6px;
color: white !important;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 1;
text-decoration: none;
-moz-border-radius: 50px;
-webkit-border-radius: 50px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
overflow: visible;
width: auto;
}
.large.button {
font-size: 14px;
padding: 8px 19px 9px;
}

3. Finally save it.
   And whenever you would like to use this exhilarating CSS effect add
   class = "large green button" as an attribute of the anchor tag <a> .
   to change colors use "large blue button" or "large magenta button" or "large orange button"
   Like below.


<a class="large blue button" href="www.decryptlife.blogspot.com">Blog 4 Fun is awesome</a>

   This will give a button like this

Blog 4 Fun is awesome

Similarly for a red button

<a class="large red button" href="www.decryptlife.blogspot.com">Blog 4 Fun is awesome </a>

   This attribute will give you a button like this

Blog 4 Fun is awesome

So I hope you have understood this tutorial given to you by a dummy.
Hope it helps you in enhancing your websites's looks.
Fiddle around with it and you ought to understand it.

For more colors you have to add another 3 paragraphs of CSS with a different hexadecimal color code.

If you have any questions or abuses at all please don't hesitate to use the comment box.
So Like, Comment, Share or Subscribe.

Indo-Pak World Cup 2011 semifinal: Tension Both on-field as well as off-field

2011-03-29T14:56:00.013+05:30

Note: India has clinched the Cricket
World Cup after a break of 28 long years.

'Cricket is a gentleman's game' having said that its quite important to retain the fair spirit of cricket between the players.But now it seems that the fans are taking the match to their heads and Indo-Pak rivalry seems to be exploding ahead of the Indo-Pak match which is to be held at Mohali on March 30.

I am not saying this to start off a dispute between communities for my gains but to voice my opinions and also to show you a proof of the enmity.

It was just yesterday when i was youtubing to find the world cup anthem that my eyes struck upon the comments bar. People are already lashing out at their opposite countries

Don't believe me check it out below

Click to enlarge ( if you know hindi )

Along with these abuses the match at Mohali is going to be one hell of a show. Fans are protesting for more tickets and the police are charging at them and black marketing and betting is rampant, yes its all happening here in India

So to all my brothers and sisters, enjoy the game and don't get too emotional and go about ripping one another's arms, cause its a game involving two countries and not a battle between two communities.
We are all divided by social barriers but we are still humans with the ability to understand and decide.

Also one more point to be noted is that people are performing all types of rites and religious practices with the hope that their country triumphs but really its up to the players who are going to going to give their best, we can just sit and cheer for them, build confidence to win.
All these ceremonial hyperbole is just another way to prove our lack of civil sense.

India's 2010: Looking back at the Scams

2011-02-27T21:47:00.007+05:30

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed”
-M.K. Gandhi
how rightfully said by the father of my nation, and how strikingly matches with india's current scenario
In this post, though i know am late will voice my opinions on the scam filled year of 2010,
Nothing in detail about the scams just a slight sweet and sour side of the scams.

Click to Enlarge

Of all the scams in the decade, the year 2010 has the highest record ranging from all the parts of the country.
It began with the IPL scam where the IPL commisioner Lalit Modi was marred with scams for selling the stakes of teams illegally to make money.

What the Hell Happened?

Tax authorities probed the three-year-old Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, valued at an estimated $4.1 billion, after junior government minister Shashi Tharoor resigned after allegations of improper influence.

The widening scandal sparked off tensions between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), a key ally whose chief is seen close to Modi, ahead of a possible confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday over high fuel prices.

The cricket board axed Modi immediately after the final match of the series, past midnight, saying he had "brought a bad name to the administration of cricket and the game itself."

Then it was the Common Wealth Games Scam .

What the Hell Happened?
The loopholes in the games event were that despite taking hoards of money from the common man of India, it was improperly organised which led to many athletes pulling out even before the event began. And also one more defect which was obviously expected from everyone around the world was the failure to finish the constructions in the given time limit.The person to blame for the irregularites and supposed to answer the whereabouts the huge sums of money- Suresh Kalmadi
What started out as a new beginning to erase the miserable past of India's incapability in achieving ANYTHING ended up in pretty much the same result.
This shameful turnout has probably lost india the chance to host any major games event in the future

Something to smile About

On the other hand it was the dawning of good times for the Indian athletes as they bagged enough golds to consolidate India's spot in the second position in the overall rankings. It was similar to the success of the opening and closing ceremony extravaganza of the event.

Then it was the Yeddyurappa Scam in the state Karnataka who was responsible for nepotism in the state.
What the Hell Happened?
Accused of favourably giving away acres of govermental land to his son, he continues to remain in power despite the huge protests by the opposing parties and ministers.
Yeddyurappa despite being on the edge managed to escape the allegations many times.
Seems like good times for the man.
The big question is
How long is the good luck going to last?
or was he born to be fortunate?

The most major scam probably in the history of scams was the 2010 India's 2G Scam which resulted in the loss of lakhs of crores of rupees for the Government
And guess who is the Goverment

Its the people, it was us who had to endure the loss

What the Hell Happened?
As far as I know ( please see articles on the web for a better explanation ), the scandal was that many of the top private telecom companies increased the quality of their cell phone service by increasing the spectrum frequency which is not allowed according to Indian norms.
And how did they do it
Ask the sly and not-so-naive ex-telecom minister of India - Raja
He took bribes to illegally increase the frequency range of the private companies and improving the clarity and hence attracting a large number of users.
The main companies involved in the scam were Airtel ( got sold ), Idea ( Aditya Birla Group ), Tata Indicom ( I personally don't find any ads of this network service provider, maybe its been banned. I also understood why this company was boasting about the superb voice clarity prior to the scam. Remember the 'SUNO DIL KI AWAAZ' slogan )
The scam went through rigourous litigation before the verdict was passed- Repay every single penny with additional charges for fradulency

I would like to conclude by saying that despite the previous infamous Satyam scam, business magnets in india fail to learn anything.Indian entreprenuers are more asscociated with indigenous scams than plans for empowerment of the world

Greed has brought upon them shame and misery, despite which they have no shame.

I would like to thank the highly responsive media of india for creating agitation by shedding light upons these fraudulent activites.In the previous years god knows how many such scams went unseen, but now through technology we have been really benefitted.A salute to camerapersons and reporters who are on their heels.

And to wrap it up

'Mera Bharat Mahan, Par Kuch Kaminoe Karte Hai Uski Badnaam'

But wait
Seems like another scam is breaking dawn, its about top investors stashing away millions of supposed-to-be-tax money in foreign banks.
Google it Now

My strenuous visit to Tirumala

2011-02-07T21:58:00.017+05:30

Hey once again to all the visitors who took your precious time to read till here.In this post, similar to my Hampi post i will be telling you about another tourist spot which i have visited so as to make your visit pleasurable and satisfying.

The place is (drum roll.........) Tirupathi Devastanams atop the Tirumala hills.

Its a the most visited Hindu temple in the world.More than 50,000 devotees visit the temple on a daily basis, without a break.So i think you can imagine the hoard of people pushing one another.

I have visited the temple for more that 4 times and this was my 5th time so this time we decided to climb the 7 hills through the footpath instead of simply taking the bus.On our way through the walk we were joined by thousands of pilgrims many of them who got out to a good start but then huffed and puffed to sit down.I guess there is nothing surprising about that as India is known as the diabetes capital of the world.

'So without further due

and without further bugging you'

Here are some of my pics i took through the trek up the hills. ( I lost some of them - sorry )

The trek begins

Peaceful morning

There are, i think around 3500 steps to climb with additional miles to walk.

1400th step

1600th step
By now most of them had started to take rest for

a while or buy something to eat!

Beautiful Sunrise

Even better

Entrance to the first checkpoint ( temple )

Well at this point i thought we were done but no we had to walk 6 miles more.But all is not well at this pilgrimage site, its the etiquettes that people are losing.

Bad piece of editing due to greed of earning

2011-02-04T22:07:00.006+05:30

Hey to all my readers and visitors,today i would like to show you all something funny that i saw in newspaper.I am not showing this to make you all just laugh but also to tell how people are losing their mind over adversting and marketing.

Spot the Failure

So if you didn't understand what was so funny about the image let me convey to you what i mean.
You can see that through this article the editor of the newspaper has copied and presented an article which tells us about how technology and gadgets have captured our imagination and have appealed to us so much that now we find it hard to put that all away.But one mother has been successful in eradicating the internet and tech fever.Ok so thats fine.
Now check out the right bottom corner of the article.While at one end it says us how and why to unplug ourselves from these gadgets while on the other hand he is advertising to buy a gadget.
WTF?!
Is it irony in poetry or what?
Ok wait i figured another mistake there are two articles in this image, ( this will make it even funnier ).

One which i have described above titled "Unplugging Teens for 6 months" and the other
titled
"Net use tied to kids' depression". So this makes even more funny and you will get the point.
The articled tells how depression in kids is connected to spending time online.And right below that BAM.
An Ad offering us 3G speed internet at exclusive offers and with speed upto 21.1 mbps presented by.........What the heck! It does not matter.
But i hope you are getting my point on how money hungry editors are only looking for revenue.Making revenue isn't bad but placing ads with articles which contain info protesting against it, now that is bad.

Is it time to study about "everything" again?

2011-01-18T20:42:00.002+05:30

No i am not talking about going back to school and dozing over the boring lessons. I am talking about should we re-learn whatever we learnt. Here's why?
The Theory Of Everything or The String Theory

String Theory, in physics, a theory that describes the most elementary objects in nature as extremely small, one-dimensional structures called strings. Conventional theories in physics, in contrast, describe the most elementary objects in nature as point-like particles. The goal of string theory is to combine quantum mechanics (which describes the behavior of and forces acting between atoms and between subatomic particles) with the general theory of relativity (which describes the force of gravity). Such an all-encompassing theory of nature is sometimes called a theory of everything. A major advance made in the 1990's was the discovery of how various string theories relate to each other.
The specific vibration pattern of an elementary string determines the unit of matter or force it generates in roughly the same way the vibration of a violin string determines the musical tone it makes. Mathematical equations used in string theory require that the universe be formed by at least six dimensions in addition to the four commonly experienced dimensions of length, width, height, and time. Physicists do not agree on the nature of these extra dimensions.

So what i have understood is that the string theory is trying to bridge a gap between Quantum mechanics and Theory of Relativity.But how and where, these are what i want to know.
So please help me know.

The Most Naive pet in the world!

2011-01-18T20:07:00.003+05:30

If there is one thing about cats its that they are one of the most unpredictable creatures.You don't know when they are happy or angry or lazy whereas dogs on the other hand just listen to everything you say with all smiles.

So devious

Well to begin with I too, well mostly my mother, nurtured a cute fluffy snowball which you can see on the right, from a kitten to full grown Tom cat.

We gave it a home after we found it abandoned by the streets by some heartless owners in 2003

After we took it even its mother used to visit our home to check on its baby,but soon even its mother abandoned it, (if you want i will tell you why, its a long story).

So lethargic!

So this fellow was no ordinary lazy couch potato cat.He was kinda lazy at times but he was quite a sly, smart cat.

You may ask me why he was so smart, it was because he was amazing at gesture and sound recognition!

How?

Every weekend we used to prepare non-veg stuff, and we used to serve him too.

So after a period of 1-2 months he used stay at our house and meow till he gets a chunk of meat.

Another example of his intelligence was he used to recognize my mother calling him 'Biliya' (meaning white guy in Kannada) or when she rapped the utensil accidentally or non-accidentally.It was sign saying him "time to eat".

Here is a real funny one-

The cat did like me too much for my diabolic(in a good kind of way) behaviour, so it would always try to keep away from me.

Every morning until i would leave for school it used to wait for my exit in the opposite building and after i left it used run to my house to the comfort of my mother.

Kinda funny right?

meow !

The Pride of Karnataka: Hampi

2011-01-05T22:13:00.026+05:30

Hampi is a village in northern Karnataka state, India. It is located within the ruins of Vijayanagara, the former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. Complementing the city of Vijayanagara, it continues to be an important religious centre, housing the Virupaksha Temple, as well as several other monuments belonging to the old city.

A view of Virupaksha Temple from inside

I visited this historical marvel back in 2007 and had taken several snaps and thought i would share those moments with you.The village is located in the district of Bellary near the city of Hospet (city of iron).

God Narasimha

Source:The belt joining the knees was to prevent the

structure from falling due a previous lightning strike

There are two ways of visiting this hotspot(literally) by road or rail.
All accomodations are easily available and affordable but the only thing that gets you is the preposterous heat, so if you are planning to visit in the summer, you have to be out of your mind.

Try to visit during the winter.

Make a touring vehicle as you get down, so you can quickly be able to cover the vast area of the ruins.

Once you set foot into ruins of Hampi i will guarantee you, you will feel like taken back in time.I got so nostalgic that i didn't feel like coming back.
You wish you could see the mounuments as they were but sadly they have been lost over the invasions by muslim and other external forces (read the history please).

The Vijayanagara Empire had reached its zenith under the rule of King Krishna Deva Raya who had spanned the empire all over south india.

Now i would like to display some photos by me.

An Underground temple sort of thing (it was filled with water inside)

The Queen's palace.(i think)
But one thing i am sure is that the monument had a pipeline cooling system to keep the rooms cool .

A watch tower (pretty defensive)

The stables

The invaders seemed particular in chipping off the chest and faces of the sculptures

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The Stepped Tank where a Dr.Rajkumar film on Krishnadevaraya was shot

This was the stepped platform on top of which the king used to sit and view the annual festivities (Dasara).

The Queen's Bath Pool (Pretty Small!)

The Stone Chariot at the Vittala Temple

Inside the Vittala Temple

The Musical Emporium

The vast empire that lies in ruins

Another must visit place-Aihole

Well thats it readers i hope you enjoyed seeing the pics, so visit the place and be mesmerized.

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Blogger Tutorial: How to unlock or remove embedded page elements in blogger ?

2011-01-03T13:17:00.009+05:30

Hey there to all bloggers, tech majors and people of the world. I wanna thank you all for taking time to read my post.
This will be my first tutorial on blogging in blogger.
Many of you who are new to blogging may find HTML coding head banging ( like me! ).
One of the problems when you opt for a custom or classic template is that some elements in the page will be locked and you don't have the freedom to move em around or remove them.
So in this post i will tell how to unlock elements which have been embedded or locked and prevent you from making changes to them like removing or dragging.

All right so here we go

So as shown in the image if you see :-
1. the element to be without border then it is locked ( means you cannot remove it or drag )
2. the element with the border then its unlocked ( yes you can drag or remove )

1.So if you want to change it go to the 'Edit Html' and using the search button find the places where the 'locked' html code has been added.

Using search option (CTRL + F) type locked

It will look something like the image below

Here you can see that HTML6 has been locked that is value set to true

2.So edit the locked value and change it from true to false.

3. Edit and click save template. ( And you are done! )

Go to page elements tab and check it out and you will see that the element HTML/Javascript which i previously showed you has been unlocked and you can remove or drag it anywhere around.

So similarly you can unlock other elements too.

Note : You can unlock the Blog Posts element but you cannot remove it (its obvious if you remove it, where else will you post!!).

So go ahead give it a try

BREAK THE RULES!!

Google dishes out new doodle to celebrate and begin the new year celebration

2010-12-31T19:47:00.001+05:30

Its 6:30 PM IST
And Google has doodled a new logo for the upcoming new year 2011 celebrations.Here is an Image

The M is for value of 1000

X for 10

I for 1

So M+M+X+I = 1000+1000+10+1 = 2011

(I have added a countdown widget check it out)

So with that i wish you all a happy and a prosperous new year, don't get hit by a bus (just jokin, wait i seriously dont mean, aarrgh!)

Any tech queries please comment,like,etc.

Welcome 2011

Cheers!!

Google launches new search doodle to commemorate diverse cultures in this festive eve

2010-12-23T21:06:00.001+05:30

Google has just launched its new web search doodle displaying some of the exquisite places and cultures around the world.

There are 17 images in collage form to show the diversity.

Here is the names of the images in clockwise

1.St. Basil's Cathedral

2.Acropolis

3.Mt. Fuji

4.Great Wall of China

5.Sahara desert

6.Sydney Harbour

7.Venice gondolas (or boats)

8.Chilean vineyards

9 "Up on the housetop" (a Christmas song written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864 in the town of New Paris, Ohio.)

10.Henna lamp or Moroccan lamp
11.African kanga (a colourful garment similar to kitenge, worn by women and occasionally by men throughout Eastern Africa.

12.Nepal

13.Chili pepper

14.Oud ( a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in Middle Eastern music (arabic).

15.Indian dance styles
16.Pierogi (boiled, baked or fried dumplings of unleavened dough stuffed with varying ingredients.)

17.Buche de Noel (a traditional dessert served during the Christmas holidays in France, Belgium, Quebec,Lebanon, Vietnam, and several other Christian-populated francophone countries—and in the UK.)

Why are prices of commodities rising in india?

2010-12-20T19:27:00.003+05:30

It was only a month back when the price rise began on food grains but now its raising for all commodities incessantly.One reason could be shortage.India was known to have the least prices on vegetables and fuel oil but now it has changed.

As we know India is home to many non-taxpayers and due this the government faces huge losses every year and they are unable to properly provide proper amenities to people

And guess what the people just dont get this and blame the govt. for everything

Dont they understand from the ad that 'you pay the nation and the nation pays you back'

Could it be that the government is trying to get money from people who are not paying taxes?^*

*corrupt officials are another concern

Yes It is quite true that unseasonal rainfall wiped out the crops and now they are gearing for any food shortage.But remember one more thing that Food Corporation of India takes cereals directly from farmers and sells it at really low rates

But wait a minute

You also saw how tonnes of foodgrains were wasted instead of filling the common man's stomach. I mean while one side when they say shortage on the other the same food is being wasted. WTF?!

I wish government would try to be more transparent.Don't you?

India vs. New Zealand 4th ODI at Chinaswamy Stadium,Bengaluru

2010-12-14T16:43:00.002+05:30

It was 7 of December 2010 and though India had taken a lead in the series New Zealand was playing for pride and both the teams were geared up to lock horns in fantastic display of skill and honor.
I had bunked school just to watch the match, don't ask which stand.
Well everything seemed just fine, the kiwis and the men in blue got out onto the field for their pre-match practice.
The Indian team looked cool and joyously played football while the kiwis were stern and keen on practice.

Finally India won the toss and invited New Zealand to bat first.

Though i did not support any team in particular and wanted to enjoy the game the kiwis seemed to have an upper hand with 315
Ross Taylor could not manage many fours or sixers as he was not in form.

The main wickets were taken by Y. Pathan and R Ashwin
But kiwis were dominating but not until Parthiv Patel and Gambhir came out to perform brilliantly not until getting out.

It was then that Yusuf and Tiwary saved the show by playing some of the best strokes i have seen.Sadly i came after the drizzle started and watched the game at my home.
But i brought back many memories here are some of it.

Yuvi wavin to the crowd

Overcast moment

The Bengaluru blues

A serious Praveen Kumar

A Panoramic snap

Daniel Vettori giving a hard time

The point where i had to leave

Watch Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows

2010-11-28T20:33:00.000+05:30

Olden Golden Bangalore

2010-11-28T18:31:00.001+05:30

I am a resident of Bangalore in Karnataka.Its also known as the silicon valley of India as all you techies know for the tremendous success it has had in IT in the past decade.
There has been rapid development with malls being erected,discotheques,advertisers making a mad dash to sell their products,its absolute money and splendor.

But Bangalore was not like this in the past 60-90s.Though it was a big city at that time, the lush prestigious greenery was not sacrificed but now all the past beautiful historical homes and greenery has been destroyed in the name of development.

I have this longing to revisit Bangalore's past so i watch the 60-90s movies and browse through the photos but i guess the golden olden Bangalore cannot be reclaimed.So if have any memoirs of the past Bangalore please share not just with me but the world.

Also i request all of you to share the nostalgic feelings you have for your city if it is facing the same situation as Bangalore

Epical Song

2010-11-11T17:48:00.000+05:30

Download this mp3 from Beemp3.com

WHAT DO YOU RATE THIS SONG?

Bad vibes

2010-10-23T19:20:00.001+05:30

Hi , while i was browsing on youtube i came across this video

please see...
It helps us get motivated,i like the theme and the music but between 0:50-1:00 he says nothing is free, Life is Hard,Hard,HARD..
I dont think this is true as in the secret according to the law of attraction which has been a key to success for many pioneers like Jack canfield,Clement stone,Einstein,Buddha life is what we believe and see it to be.
But in this video he says the exact opposite.Isnt he harming millions of people who watch it.Please see and reply i dont know what to believe in.
check out these videos and you will find the concept entirely different

CWG

2010-09-24T22:24:00.001+05:30

I would like to convey this message regarding the Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010 controversies
I would like all of you to please cooperate and support especially you my fellow Indians.Lets stop fighting and unite to save our country's pride.
Let us show them they are wrong.

Let's sing the anthem

My first Post

2010-09-13T17:54:00.000+05:30

Hello to everyone so i would like to begin with my first post.

And this is going be about an extract from The Secret

If you look at what Denis Waitley has said it is clear that

the secret was kept hidden for a long time so people were on a treadmill.

But even now after acquiring the knowledge of the secret people continue to be unhappy and stressed.

What do you say?

Intro to My Blog

2010-09-12T20:16:00.000+05:30

Hello to everyone this is my first blog and i am a newbie to blogging so i would like some help on designing my blog.

The main theme of my blog is on discovering the secret to success and life .As you all know there are various programmes which teach us about goal setting,achieving our goals, spiritual living and happiness.So now i would like to ask you whether you have had CHANGE watching these programmes, what are your life problems and eventually we can solve them through interactions.

Apart from this i will also blog the numerous questions buzzing in my mind about my life and the world.

So hope you will cooperate and share as many views and opinions as possible