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MTV Hero Honda Roadies 7 Delhi & Bengaluru Audition

2009-11-30T03:25:00.000-08:00

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MTV Hero Honda Roadies 7 - Kolkata Audition

2009-11-29T23:14:00.000-08:00

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India witnessed 692 websites hacked in Sep 2009 - Govt

2009-11-29T21:02:00.000-08:00

According to a report prepared by the Indian Computer Emergency Research Team (ICERT), which handles computer securities incidents in India, 692 websites were hacked in September 2009. Of the total 692 Indian websites hacked, 74 per cent belonged to the dotin (www.example.co.in or www.example.in) domain, while 20 per cent of the websites were in the dotcom domain (www.example.com).

Sources in the ministry say hacking has been carried out through several methods. “The most common method is to try and steal the password from the administrator or even get the user password. Another method is to try and enter the FTB or web server and destroy the site. If successful, the hacker can completely destroy the website. Another method is to try and ‘poison’ the URL,’’ added the Government official.

Health Tips for Bloggers

2009-11-29T13:27:00.000-08:00

In Today’s world, large number of working professionals belong to IT profession and bloggers too come in this category regardless of their part time or full time blogging.

There are numerous health problems faced by those people and the main reasons for their unhealthy conditions are:

» Carelessness on their own health
» No time to take care of themselves
» Long hours work
» Mental strain or stress

I would like to help you with some very simple and useful tips. And I hope that it will help you all in living better and longer with good health.

1. Back pain, neck pain and hand pain :

These problems can be solved by stretching your neck before starting your work and do some simple exercises for your hand, wrist and fingers. Posture is important and you must maintain straight posture. Take breaks in between your work if you are working for long hours.

2. Eye problems:

Eye problems are very common. For this you have to avoid sitting long hours before computer or laptop screens. Drink more water to avoid puffiness. Do some eye exercises (refer some exercises related to eyes). You can use anti-glare glasses to avoid strain on eyes.

3. Obesity and weight gain:

These problems are due to sedentary life style. The only solution for this is to exercise and exercise. Do daily morning exercises for at least 30 minutes or if you have no time you can do it in your working place or office before starting your work. AVOID JUNK FOODS.

4. Stress and depression:

To solve these problems you must have positive attitude. Have enough sleep and relax your mind by practicing meditation and yoga.

5. Bad addictions ( alcohol and smoking):

This is a very important which must be seriously looked into. People living in this tech world are very easily get carried away by the addictions which are very bad for the health and wealth as well. Learn tips that can help you in avoiding those addictions. Consult your doctor and take counseling.

Hope the above mentioned tips will help you to lead a very happy and healthy life.

Twitter Dictionary | 35 Twitter Abbreviations

2009-11-29T12:54:00.000-08:00

Do you know how to speak Twitter? It makes sense that with only 140 characters, there would be a need to create some shortcuts, but with all the new abbreviations popping up every day, I think it is becoming more of a dialect. (They are technically called acronyms, not abbreviations)

Just the other day someone tweeted me with IMHO in the tweet. What the heck does that mean? How does someone figure that stuff out? I remember it took me a month to learn that TY stands for thank you. I know… duh!

If you are new on Twitter, I’m about to save you a whole bunch of time and shorten your learning curve a lot. I made this master list of 35 Twitter abbreviations for us to share. I’m sure there may be some I’ve forgotten, so please leave them in a comment below.

Enjoy!

1. b/c = Because

2. BG = Background (when someone refers to their Twitter background page)

3. BFN = Bye for now

4. BR = Best regards

5. BTW = By the way

6. DM = Direct message

7. EM = Email

8. FB = Facebook

9. FTF = Face to face

10. FWIW = For what it’s worth

11. Gr8 = Great

12. IMO = In my opinion

13. IMHO = In my honest opinion or in my humble opinion

14. IRL = In real life

15. J/K = Just kidding

16. LI = LinkedIn

17. LMK = Let me know

18. LMBO = Laughing my butt off

19. LMAO = Laughing my ass off

20. LOL = Laughing out loud

21. NP = No problem

22. OMG = Oh my God

23. OMFG = Oh my f—- God

24. PLZ = Please

25. ROFL = Rolling on the floor laughing

26. RT = Retweet

27. RTHX = Thanks for the retweet

28. TMB = Tweet me back

29. TMI = Too much information

30. TTYS = Talk to you soon

31. TTYL = Talk to you later

32. TY = Thank you

33. WTH = What the heck

34. WTF = What the f—

35. YW = You’re welcome

<3 = This is the text version of a heart

How about some others? If you liked this post, Share it to your friends spread the word. And also, you can comment below if you know more Twitter Abbreviations, if its not listed above.

Sneak Peak | New Adobe Photoshop CS5

2009-11-29T11:34:00.000-08:00

Are you working as a designer and using the CS4 series from Adobe? Well if you just got it and still feel it doesn’t measure up to your standards and want even more awesome features the this post is just what you have been waiting for. When I first saw this clip I was stunned. I couldn’t believe how many new cool things they are packing in the next version of the awesome image processing software Photoshop. With a slew of new technologies one starts to wonder where this software is heading next. I mean, it basically uses the 3D technology already and with these new things coming I am just wondering when we’ll be using this instead of Lightwave, 3D Max or even Maya. Photoshop CS5 is just the shizzle.

Wouldn’t it be cool to have everything in one place. Why not pack Illustrator, After Effects and Maya all in the same software. Maybe it would get too cramped but hey I would so want to be able to work on my textures while having my 3d model mesh right there in front of me without having to have 2 software’s open. Imagine the release of RAM that would enable. Yeah I know, it would still take a lot of RAM to run such a software but as the computers get stronger and stronger I think this would not be a problem. After all RAM is cheap and computers are as well. Well, sort of.

So, watch this awesome short clip of what’s packed inside the up-coming CS5 and you’ll be amazed. Imagine the possabilities. Imagine the creativity you could release with such a software. The only thing I am afraid of is…will people make me do the polka now when they can? Yikes! Enjoy!

Photohops CS5 | PatchMatch Feature – O M G!

Just when I thought I had seen it all I stumble over a few more features coming up in the next edition of the most used image processing software Photoshop. I’ve always been very satisfied with Photoshop and what it always deliver in my day to day work. The amount of sheer power it sustains is just one of the reasons why it is so successful among designers and artists. So, can it get any better?

Well, at first i thought that the next leap that Adobe would take with CS5 was just another minor update with features that you somewhat don’t use but are there and always ready to make your work just a little easier. Then, I found this clip. In all my prior CS5 articles the features have been awesome yet somewhat expected. Then this new and totally awesome feature comes along and changes all that.

The feature, conveniently named “PatchMatch” is something I could never have foreseen. At least not in at least 3-4 version from now. I really have no other way to describe it more than that it is one of the coolest features I have seen in Photoshop. The work flow of it is just genius and as it seems you don’t have to be a Photoshop wizard or guru in order to use it which will be really handy for the newer and more novice users of Adobe’s powerhouse Photoshop.

Just have a look at this amazing clip and sit in awe of its possibilities. Soon reality is Photoshopped to the point where for example going to Egypt to check out the Pyramids is going to be something entirely new and genuine as the pictures of them will always be perfect. In reality, not so… Enjoy!

CS5 User Interface Mod – Amazing! | Photoshop

Working in the same environment day out and day in can get somewhat tedious and boring. I usually do something to make each day different whether it is just taking a trip to a nearby Internet cafe or switch to another location at home or in the studio. These small things can really do wonders for the work morale. However, one thing that can get even more uninspiring is the same view in your software’s that you use everyday to get through the work load. In some you can change the background but that is like changing the light from darker to brighter, not much of a fix really, right?

But, I recently found a picture of what must be the most creative user face modification so far. Just looking at it makes me wish there was something I could do in Photoshop to make it look just like that. I find new details all the time. It doesn’t really matter how much or how long I look at it, it still gives me more and more inspiration. Imagine picking up a real brush or a sponge to do your daily work. Painters really do have an advantage in their work, right. But what I mean is, imagine picking up a real brush in your software that behaves just like a real brush.

That would be the ultimate goal for Adobe I think. But we’re well on our way. Just take a look at my latest article where some Photoshop CS5 features are showcased. Adobe, if you read this, please make my user interface ultimately cool, just like this one!

Coca Cola Invented Santa Claus ?

2009-11-29T07:02:00.000-08:00

Who created Santaclaus? Was it Cola Cola? Read this very interesting article exploring the origins of Santaclaus and his connection to Coca Cola.

The jolly old St. Nick that we know from countless images did not come from folklore, nor did he originate in the imaginations of Moore and Nast. He comes from the yearly advertisements of the Coca-Cola Company. He wears the corporate colors — the famous red and white — for a reason: he is working out of Atlanta, not out of the North Pole.

Origins: Santa Claus is perhaps the most remarkable of all the figures associated with Christmas. To us, Santa has always been an essential part of the Christmas celebration, but the modern image of Santa didn't develop until well into the 19th century. Moreover, he didn't spring to life fully-formed as a literary creation or a commercial invention (as did his famous reindeer, Rudolph). Santa Claus was an evolutionary creation, brought about by the fusion of two religious personages (St. Nicholas and Christkindlein, the Christ child) to become a fixed image which is now the paramount symbol of the secular Christmas celebration.

In 1804, A Visit from St. Nicholas the New York Historical Society was founded with Nicholas as its patron saint, its members reviving the Dutch tradition of St. Nicholas as a gift-bringer. In 1809, Washington Irving published his satirical A History of New York, by one "Diedrich Knickerbocker," a work that poked fun at New York's Dutch past (St. Nicholas included). When Irving became a member of the Society the following year, the annual St. Nicholas Day dinner festivities included a woodcut of the traditional Nicholas figure (tall, with long robes) accompanied by a Dutch rhyme about "Sancte Claus" (in Dutch, "Sinterklaas"). Irving revised his History of New York in 1812, adding details about Nicholas' "riding over the tops of the trees, in that selfsame waggon wherein he brings his yearly presents to children." In 1821, a New York printer named William Gilley issued a poem about a "Santeclaus" who dressed all in fur and drove a sleigh pulled by one reindeer. Gilley's "Sante," however, was very short.

On Christmas Eve of 1822, another New Yorker, Clement Clarke Moore, wrote down and read to his children a series of verses; his poem was published a year later as "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" (more commonly known today by its opening line, "'Twas Thomas Nast's Santa the night before Christmas . . ."). Moore gave St. Nick eight reindeer (and named them all), and he devised the now-familiar entrance by chimney. Moore's Nicholas was still a small figure, however — the poem describes a "miniature sleigh" with a "little old driver."

Meanwhile, in parts of Europe such as Germany, Nicholas the gift-giver had been superseded by a representation of the infant Jesus (the Christ child, or "Christkindlein"). The Christkindlein accompanied Nicholas-like figures with other names (such as "Père Noël" in France), or he travelled with a dwarf-like helper (known in some places as "Pelznickel," or Nicholas with furs). Belsnickle (as Pelznickel was known in the German-American dialect of Pennsylvania) was represented by adults who dressed in furry disguises (including false whiskers), visited while children were still awake, and put on a scary performance. Gifts found by children the next morning were credited to Christkindlein, who had come while everyone was asleep. Over time, the non-visible Christkindlein (whose name mutated into "Kriss Kringle") was overshadowed by the visible Belsnickle, and both of them became confused with St. Nicholas and the emerging figure of Santa Claus.

The Louis Prang 1886 Christmas card modern Santa Claus derived from these two images: St. Nicholas the elf-like gift bringer described by Moore, and a friendlier "Kriss Kringle" amalgam of the Christkindlein and Pelznickel figures. The man-sized version of Santa became the dominant image around 1841, when a Philadelphia merchant named J.W. Parkinson hired a man to dress in "Criscringle" clothing and climb the chimney outside his shop.

In 1863, a caricaturist for Harper's Weekly named Thomas Nast began developing his own image of Santa. Nast gave his figure a "flowing set of whiskers" and dressed him "all in fur, from his head to his foot." Nast's 1866 montage entitled "Santa Claus and His Works" established Santa as a maker of toys; an 1869 book of the same name collected new Nast drawings with a poem by George P. Haddon Sundblom illustration Webster that identified the North Pole as Santa's home. Although Nast never settled on one size for his Santa figures (they ranged from elf-like to man-sized), his 1881 "Merry Old Santa Claus" drawing is quite close to the modern-day image.

The Santa Claus figure, although not yet standardized, was ubiquitous by the late 19th century. Santa was portrayed as both large and small; he was usually round but sometimes of normal or slight build; and he dressed in furs (like Belsnickle) or cloth suits of red, blue, green, or purple. A Boston printer named Louis Prang introduced the English custom of Christmas cards to America, and in 1885 he issued a card featuring a red-suited Santa. The chubby Santa with a red suit (like an "overweight superhero") began to replace the fur-dressed Belsnickle image and the multicolored Santas.

At the beginning of the 1930s, the burgeoning Coca-Cola company was still looking for ways to increase sales of their product during winter, then a slow time of year for the soft drink market. They turned to a talented commercial illustrator named Haddon Sundblom, who created a series of memorable drawings that associated the figure of a larger than life, red-and-white garbed Santa Claus with Coca-Cola. Coke's annual advertisements — featuring Sundblom-drawn Santas holding bottles of Coca-Cola, drinking Coca-Cola, receiving Coca-Cola as gifts, and especially enjoying Coca-Cola — became a perennial Christmastime feature which helped spur Coca-Cola sales throughout the winter (and produced the bonus effect of appealing quite strongly to children, an important segment of the soft drink market). The success of this advertising campaign has helped fuel the legend that Coca-Cola actually invented the image of the modern Santa Claus, decking him out in a red-and-white suit to promote the company colors — or that at the very least, Coca-Cola chose to promote the red-and-white version of Santa Claus over a variety of competing Santa figures in order to establish it as the accepted image of Santa Claus.

This legend is not true. Although some versions of the Santa Claus figure still had him attired in various colors of outfits past the beginning of the 20th century, the jolly, ruddy, sack-carrying Santa with a red suit and flowing white whiskers had become the standard image of Santa Claus by the 1920s, several years before Sundlom drew his first Santa illustration for Coca-Cola. As The New York Times reported on 27 November 1927:
A standardized Santa Claus appears to New York children. Height, weight, stature are almost exactly standardized, as are the red garments, the hood and the white whiskers. The pack full of toys, ruddy cheeks and nose, bushy eyebrows and a jolly, paunchy effect are also inevitable parts of the requisite make-up.

It's simply mind-boggling that at the beginning the 21st century, historians are still egregiously perpetuating inaccurate information like the following:
So complete was the colonization of Christmas that Coke's Santa had elbowed aside all comers by the 1940s. He was the Santa of the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street just as he is the Santa of the recent film The Santa Clause. He is the Santa on Hallmark cards, he is the Santa riding the Norelco shaver each Christmas season, he is the department-store Santa, and he is even the Salvation Army Santa!
As we just pointed out above, the modern Santa had "elbowed aside all comers" long before the 1940s, and well before Coca-Cola co-opted him as their wintertime advertising symbol. And we're at a loss to understand how anyone could have recognized the Santa of Miracle on 34th Street, a BLACK-AND-WHITE film, as the red-and-white Coca-Cola Santa.

All this isn't to say that Coca-Cola didn't have anything to do with cementing that image of Santa Claus in the public consciousness. The Santa image may have been standardized before Coca-Cola adopted it for their advertisements, but Coca-Cola had a great deal to do with establishing Santa Claus as a ubiquitous Christmas figure in America at a time when the holiday was still making the transition from a religious observance to a largely secular and highly commercial celebration. In an era before color television (or commercial television of any kind), color films, and the widespread use of color in newspapers, it was Coca-Cola's magazine advertisements, billboards, and point-of-sale store displays that exposed nearly everyone in America to the modern Santa Claus image. Coca-Cola certainly helped make Santa Claus one of the most popular men in America, but they didn't invent him.

Top ten blogs in the world in various categories

2009-11-29T06:32:00.000-08:00

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Learn Stunning Facts On Twitter With #omgfacts

2009-11-29T06:00:00.000-08:00

#omgfacts is currently the top trending topic on Twitter and my curiosity brought me to the profile of @omgfacts.

I must say I was really amazed by the number of stunning facts being tweeted. While they are not facts that would help you win a client or improve your skill set, these tweets really make you go ‘OMG!’.

Here are some of my favorites:

#1. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. #omgfacts

#2. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined. #omgfacts

#3. Hitler was voted Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1938. #omgfacts

#4. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. #omgfacts

#5. Butterflies taste with their feet. #omgfacts

I’m a fan of his tweets. Follow @omgfacts if you wish to receive these stunning facts.

75 ways how you can use twitter in your business

2009-11-28T18:35:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we mention about 42 signs You Are A Twitter Addict. Today we like to tell you about how twitter can be used as key tool for marketing your business.

We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer.

So here are the 75 ways how you can use twitter in your business

1. To promote your worthwhile cause/favourite charity on justgiving.com
2. To point people to the latest copy of your newsletter
3. To promote your internet radio show on blogtalkradio.com
4. To tell people of your event on eventbrite.com
5. To send out an updated price list to clients & prospects
6. To share your powerpoint presentation on slideshare.net
7. To ask for referrals
8. To qualify prospects
9. To tell people about your latest press release on prfree.com
10 To promote your latest article on ezinearticles.com
11. To get eyeballs on to your ad on ebay
12. To Share some useful tips about your services
13. To get signups for your workshops and seminars
14. To conduct market research
15. To promote your latest podcast
16. To share your seminar talk on slideserve.com
17. To give your feedback of software you just bought
18. To conduct marketing research
19. To show the latest thread on your blog (twitterfeed)
20. To point them to your press release on PRWeb.com
21. To get eyeballs on to your squidoo.com lens
22. To get people to book on your workshop via regonline.com
23. To position yourself as an expert
24. To get new members to your clubs on groups.google.com & groups.yahoo.com
25. To promote your articles on goarticles.com
26. To increase response to your base.google.com ads
27. To tell people about onlywire.com
28. To share your white paper on scribd.com
29. To launch your new premium service
30. To tell people you’re going on holiday
31. As a way to promote your products online
32. To promote your latest video on You Tube
33. To promote your ad on oodle.com
34. To allow people to download a trial version of your software
35. To promote your latest job vacancies
36. To find out what latest job vacancies are out there
37. Share some useful tips about your products
38. To promote your latest photographs on flickr
39. To get comments onto your blog
40. To share an important fact form wickipedia.org
41. To give referrals
42. To help others generate traffic via trafficswarm
43. To show your demo video on video.google.com
44. To show people your trial software on download.com
45. To boost morale
46. To create mutual opportunity for friends
47. To simplify/improve your customer service and support
48. Tto tell people about theresultsacademy.com
49. To promote your new membership site on ning.com
50. To promote your latest book
51. To help with recruitment for your MLM Opportunity
52. To remind people of your terms and conditions
53. To tell people how to create a mobile website with mofuse.com
54. To give people a google map url on how to find you
55. To direct people to your ezine sign up page
56. To get people to vote for you at dig.com
57. To collect case studies
58. To get people to sign up to your webinar at gotowebinar.com
59. To share customer testimonials
60. To run a poll or survey using surveymonkey.com
61. To advise others of bad payers / bad debtors
62. To point people to your latest article on Business-Scene.com
63. To tell people about ping.fm
64. To tell people about your new listing on reddit.com
65. to tell others what the best sellers on ebay are
66. to link to your ads on Friday-ad.co.uk
67. to encourage others to subscribe to your group on facebook.com
68. To share financial market info from http://finance.yahoo.com/
69. To ask for ideas, suggestions and recommendations for new products
70. To share a Spreadsheet via Google Docs
71. To Tell people how to book on your next webinar
72. To share your diary and get your appointments booked up
73. To give your feedback of a workshop or seminar you attended
74. To demonstrate to journalists how responsive your network can be
75. To say thank you to people you care about.

How about some others? If you liked this post, Share it to your friends spread the word. And also, you can comment below if you know more ways to know how you can use twitter in your business or not, if its not listed above.

42 signs You Are A Twitter Addict

2009-11-28T13:11:00.000-08:00

Are you addicted to Twitter? Twitter is the popular micro blogging platform which allows you to send messages (tweets) to your friends, relatives and followers. You can send tweets to your followers with text up to 140 characters. As Twitter has got really popular, there are people spending all day over twitter with signs of twitter addiction.

Warning signs of Twitter Addiction

You are warned that you are addicted to Twitter when you…

1. Get excited when someone follows you on Twitter.
2. Feel the end of the world when twitter gets an outage.
3. Send @ and RT in messages to your friends in emails.
4. Beg your blog readers to follow you on twitter, and then beg your Twitter followers to Retweet the tweet.
5. Post more tweets than blog posts, and turn from full time blogger to full time tweeter.
6. Spend all day on twitter giving yourself the excuse that you are doing great service to your followers, and bunk going to office.
7. Tweet on Twitter more than doing office work.

8. Feel over the Moon and on top of the world when someone Retweet your tweet
9. Keep searching for your twitter name and your tweets in real time twitter search.
10. Keep refreshing the twitter page every second for new tweets.
11. Include your twitter profile in your Gmail signature instead of your blog
12. Print your twitter id on business cards.
13. Set Twitter as your browser home page.
14. Add notice in front of office door – “I am on Twitter, Don’t disturb”.

15. Use more than 5 twitter clients.
16. Add your twitter name to Google alerts to know what others are speaking about you.
17. Blog more about twitter applications.
18. Add your status message as “Follow me on twitter” to Gtalk and yahoo messenger
19. Use Twoogle to search in Google and Twitter.
20. Keep urging your family members to get a twitter account.
21. Follow lot of people on #FollowFriday
22. Introduce yourself to new persons more as a tweeter than as a businessman.
23. Go crazy about twitter and advertise on newspapers, TV and distribute pamphlets to follow you on twitter.
24. Ask your bosses wife to follow you on twitter!
25. Add your twitter id to the nameplate of your house.
26. Keep sending SMS to all your friends to follow you on twitter.
27. Ask questions about Twitter rather than job related queries during interviews.
28. Threaten your wife to get a twitter account and follow you, or warn her of divorce
29. Only wear dresses with twitter logos.

30. All of your friends’ names start with @.
31. You know what a tweet is and don’t snicker.
32. Your tweeted while your wife gave birth.
33. Your tweeted while giving birth.
34. Your kids have to tweet you to get you to make dinner.
35. Your mom joined Twitter to chat with you.
36. All you want for Christmas is unlimited SMS use on your cell phone.
37. You don’t read emails that aren’t highlighted replies to you.
41. You Twitter before you start the coffee in the morning.

42. You Twitter from your candlelight anniversary dinner that you are celebrating.

How about some others? If you liked this post, Share it to your friends spread the word. And also, you can comment below if you know more ways to know whether someone is addicted to twitter or not, if its not listed above.

Play Geek Enuf Contest 2 in 3 simple steps

2009-11-28T07:30:00.000-08:00

Tata Docomo has always given the best to its users. Recently Tata Docomo has got over with the two contests. Now it’s the third contest all setup to start on midnight of Sunday November 29th. In order to win you need to be a geek, not that prefect geek among your friends. But all you need is the coolest gadget in town, the Samsung Galaxy i7500 to be a geek.

Now here is the 3 easiest steps to play Geek Enuf Contest 2

So next log in using facebook or orkut or twitter to play the contest.

6 important tips to be noted before playing Geek Enuf contest 2

1. As soon as you click the button below you will be taken to the Geek Zone challenge which will have 10 multiple choice questions. You have 90 seconds to answer them.

2. If you answer question 1 correctly you get +1 point, if you get it wrong you get -1! Get Question 2 correctly you get +2 points but if you get it wrong its -2! Each question gets you greater points and so for example question 10 gets you +10 points if you get it right and -10 if you get it wrong!

3. You can pass a question and no points apply

4. In case of a tie the person with the lesser time taken wins!

5. Remember if time runs out your score till that point is calculated

6. BEWARE - DO NOT REFRESH the page from now on or you lose your chance! No cheating!

So why waiting click below tab to start playing Geek Enuf Contest 2

#NOTE: Each day you can play once using each of your Facebook, Orkut or Twitter ID's - max 3 chances a day. You can only crack into the geek zone if your final score is positive!

Osama Bin Laden Tagged On Facebook Pic

2009-11-27T23:56:00.000-08:00

Is Mr. Osama Bin Laden social media savvy?

Not quite so when it came to Facebook. A friend tagged him on a picture captioned: “Chillin at the new crib in Islamabad”, but he didn’t know how to untag himself. CIA replied promptly and the rest was history.

How good if this was true. It could easily be one of the best social media disasters ever!

75 Ways to know whether you are addicted to Facebook.

2009-11-27T19:19:00.000-08:00

You feel popular when someone "tags" you in a photo (it shows others that you do actually get out).
The mini-feed was a hot topic of discussion for a while among your friends.
You think "poking" is a valid form of flirting.
You have Facebook "friends" that you've never met in person.
As soon as you meet someone in real life, you go home to search for them on Facebook.
You feel cheated now that everyone can join.
You have pressured someone to join just so you can "friend" them.
You think your image is controlled by your profile picture.
You've created a group and evangelized everyone to join.
You think that wishing someone "happy birthday" on their wall is sufficient.
When you are talking to someone on the phone and writing on their wall at the same time.

You take pictures for the sole purpose of putting it on Facebook.
You join a new group on a daily basis
You stop talking to people who haven’t joined Facebook yet.
You break up with someone by changing your relationship status.
You find yourself saying things like "I will tag you in this photo" when you are out.
You check your account more than one time every hour!
You often make references to Facebook when you are in social situations! (ie. "Oh I think I am friends with you on Facebook")
You converse with other people more on their "walls" than in person
You wake up in the middle of the night just to write on people’s walls about your dream/nightmare you just had.
You check your facebook when you walk into a computer store.
You write on people’s walls more than you write notes in class.
You try to check the profiles of people you don’t even know
You create a group.
You tell everyone to invite their friends to your group.
You ask people to join even though you know they wont use it.
You make short wall posts so that you can post more often and therefor receive more walls yourself.
When someone writes on your wall, and you respond in a matter of seconds.
When you take your laptop in the bathroom with you so you can finish a conversation without asking the other person to wait.
You poke people for no reason and repoke over and over (not realizing there’s no point in doing it).

You consider FACEBOOK as part of your activities, hobbies and interests.
When your dog has FACEBOOK.
Your usual bedtime has shifted by two or more hours.
Are you unable to make it through the day without opening FACEBOOK once?
You write on someone’s wall and tell them you wrote on their wall when they’re RIGHT BESIDE you when you could’ve told them in person.
You deactivate your account, then reactivate it, then deactivate, then reactiviate it again…. don’t bother trying to leave.
Do you look at all your friends' pics nonstop?
You are in class and you use all the class time to create a quiz to keep your group members active.
You check Facebook daily, multiple times a day, or all day.
You always ask for admin or officer when you join a group.
You wake up at night wondering is someone wrote on your wall.
You add people you don’t know just to have more friends
You belong to more than 30 groups.
You post at least 10 comments a day.
You regularly read through the list of groups so that you can be sure to add yourself to clubs.
You make your first priority to check your e-mail in the morning, just in case someone added you or messaged your Facebook account overnight.
You find yourself frustrated when you search for someone, only to find that they are not (yet) a Facebook addict like yourself.
You have forced at least one of your friends to join Facebook.
You have pressured someone to join just so you can “friend” them.
You update your Status daily.
You use Facebook Mobile.
It's the first thing you do in the morning, and the last thing you do at night.

You log into Facebook before checking your regular email.
You trawl your address book for who hasn’t signed up yet, or who you haven’t invited yet.
You can't wait to attack as many friends you have in wereolves, vampires, zombies, werewolves vs vampires, ninjas vs pirates & etc to gain point and level up to be stronger, changing your status and icon.
You made Facebook.com your home page.
You search through a list of first names to pick out the picture of that random person you met last night when you were out—you don’t know their last name.
You are disappointed when you click on a person’s picture only to find that you can’t access their personal information because you are not their “Facebook friend.”
You randomly search through your friends’ friends to find more people to add.
You spend hours of precious study time viewing photo albums and pictures of people you went to high school with but haven’t talked to since.
You enjoy in glee receiving drinks whether from Booze Mail, Top Friend, Happy Hour, Octoberfest, or Pub Crawl.
You get in a fight with your significant other because he/she doesn’t want to be officially “Facebook dating” yet.
You throw yourself a little Facebook party when you reach the big marks: 50 friends, 100 friends, 200 friends...
You feel faint or shaky during work or class—and other times when you don’t have access to Facebook.
You add as many applications as possible—and actually use them actively.
You constantly look at your online friends list to see who's available to talk with wall-to-wall.
You constantly do things to your profile so that you will show up in your friends' news feed more, and hopefully their friends will see your name, and those who know you will become friends with you.
You name a pet after one of your Facebook friends.
Your homepage does not even get to load before you switch to go to facebook.

You celebrate being someone's #__ (100th or 1000th) wall post by leaving a post of just that. "Haha I'm your 4372 wall post..."
Facebook is in your T9... and automatically caps the F
You own three or more accounts.
You talk about flair in daily conversation.
You refer to Facebook as FB
Yes, You are right. If you keep sharing blog posts, like the way you are going to do this post, Then Undoubtedly you are addicted to Facebook.

If you liked this post, Share it to your friends in Facebook and spread the word.

and also, you can comment below if you know more ways to know whether someone is addicted to facebook or not, if its not listed above.

Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta

2009-11-27T19:09:00.000-08:00

Now you can download MS Office Professional Plus 2010 from Microsoft’s official website. As it is a beta version, so you can download to test its new features. With new Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, you get a wide range of powerful new ways to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, smartphone or web browser. From insightful updates to Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook, to new server integration capabilities that make it easier for everyone to track, report and share vital information, Office Professional Plus 2010 offers the complete package through familiar, intuitive tools.

System requirements are :

500 MHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher
256 MB of system memory or more
3 GB of available disk space
1024×768 or higher resolution monitor
DVD-R/W Drive
Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit)
Windows Vista with SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Download Instructions

Click here to download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta

The Complete Guide to Google Wave

2009-11-27T10:26:00.000-08:00

Google Wave is not available to everyone just yet. It is currently in a limited preview. So I was surprised when I saw a comprehensive guide (book) to Google Wave. I thought the book was just another social media tools or stuff, you know, like the ones social media marketers on Twitter are tricking you t buy. I’m glad I did a quick scan (yup, quicker than a quick skim) over the chapters.

Okay basically i have Two things to share with you friends:

1. The book looks great. Google Wave is a complex web application and has a reputation of being difficult to understand. But the book makes Google Wave easier to understand. It lives up to its title being comprehensive. From setting up your Wave account and creating your first wave to adding interactive content to your waves with gadgets, the book guides you complete with screenshots as visual aid.

2. The book is free! Its contents are freely available to view online.

Here are some screenshots from the book:

Rich text-editor

Files/file sharing

Slideshow

Google Wave is still an incomplete web application and technology. And there’s still a lot to learn about it. The book will be a continuous collaboration as Google Wave evolves. Try out The Complete Guide to Google Wave.

The Complete Guide to Google Wave is an unofficial guide to Wave written by a community of contributors and edited by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

Buy the Book

Wanna Google Wave invite from Bmiint?

14 Drawbacks of Google Wave

2009-11-27T09:44:00.000-08:00

The Wave preview is pre-beta software, with lots of missing functionality. This appendix is a quick list of 14 things what you can't do yet in Wave.

Currently, in the Wave preview you cannot:

1. Disable real-time, keystroke-by-keystroke live-typing in draft waves, then post them to the hosted conversation by clicking Done (this feature is forthcoming)

2. Remove participants from a wave if that participant is not a bot (this feature is forthcoming)

3. Make a wave read-only (Google "looks forward to offering this functionality in the future.")

4. Ctrl+Z (Undo) changes as you're editing a wave

5. Copy gadgets; the menu item is disabled in the date drop-down menu, a likely indicator this
is forthcoming

6. Cut blips into other waves (Wave surgery). Google has said that this is coming

7. Hide or expand all inline blips; the menu item is disabled in the date drop-down, a likely indicator this is forthcoming

8. Diff revisions that aren't sequential in playback

9. Set your status to invisible or away (if you're online you've got the green dot whether you like it or not)

10. Merge waves or blips

11. Organize your contacts into groups

12. Rearrange blips' vertical order

13. Delete waves or remove participants from waves (both promised)

14. Prevent someone you added as a participant form making the wave public, and thus exposing a potentially private conversation.

Oh still you don't have wave account, Wanna Google Wave invite from Bmiint?

One-Day Apple Shopping Event

2009-11-27T07:20:00.000-08:00

Black Friday the very next day after The day of Thanksgiving, ie this year it today and it marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping craze.

Capitalizing on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, Apple has announced a “special Apple one-day shopping event” on November 27. The company posted a teaser saying the following:

“Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only shopping event. You’ll find lots of great iPod, iPhone and Mac gift ideas — all with free shipping.”

So make the most of now, Power is to you. So what waiting for now; if you don’t know what to do with your extra cash, here’s a chance to blow it all on Apple’s gadgetry (hopefully at a good discount).

Technological bonanza: Eye test through phones

2009-11-27T00:42:00.000-08:00

Doctors in Bangalore have launched a special initiative where one can get his eyes checked medically even if he isn't physically present in front of a doctor. This all will be possible by an I-Phone application.

Eye Test ($1) is a tool that can be used to test a users sight. Users can test their near visual acuity with a Snellen Chart, record their results and then track their vision over time. The application also includes a color test to help users see the difference between what they see and what a colorblind person may see. Their is also a series of visual illusions included, each with an explanation of why it happens.

Each Negative Social Media Comment Costs 30 Customers

2009-11-26T19:35:00.000-08:00

Research by Convergys Corp. has shown that a negative customer review on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook can cost a company about 30 customers.

Here’s the math:

Each remark/comment would be viewed by an average of 45 people and about two-third of them would avoid the brand that was being criticized (45 x 2/3 = 30 customers).

We saw how social media has transformed the way we communicate and consume information. Marketing is no longer in a company’s full control. It is now largely dependent on what people say about it; especially with the rise of social media.

You can lose but you can also gain!

30 customers are lost when a company gets a negative comment on social sites. But would a company gain 30 customers if it earns a positive comment instead?

I would probably think so. It just highlights the importance of tracking the social media buzz surrounding your brand.

Source: Bloomberg, Stock photo powered by pixmac.

Win a Google Wave Invite with Bmiint

2009-11-26T18:46:00.000-08:00

Hi I know everyone of you or at least most of you are looking for Google wave invitation and I really wish if I can invite everyone here.

The problem is I already got enormous request from Google wave invitation and I have only 16 invites left now. So to make it fair, I have come with an idea on who will get this invitation.

I will be running this giveaway for a week from today. All you need to do is:

1. Subscribe Us

2. Comment or Tweet on our maximum blog post:

I will be giving away 16 Google Wave to Bmiint readers and participation is very easy. I have installed My top commentator plugin, that will help me to keep track of all who is commenting here at Bmiint and no. of times he has commented on different posts.

I will be running this giveaway for a 4 days from today, (ie from 27th november 2009). All you need to do is, Comment on Bmiint Different posts (minimum any 10 post). Top 16 commentator after 4 days will get the Google Wave invite instantly.

Tweet at least 10 useful posts from Bmiint including this post, you can see Tweet button at the top of this article. Make sure you add a comment on this post, including your tweet link, so that we can confirm your participation.

Also use the all new orkut share button to share any post on Bmiint with your orkut friends.

Some tips and rules to be followed:

No keyword in name, use your real name when filling the comment form. You also need to enter the same email address, so that I can keep track of your no. of comments.

Any comments like “Nice info”, “Good Share” will not be counted. You need to add values to posts.
To spice up your comments, you can signup for Gravatar to show an image with your comment.
To speed up your comment you can also install Easy comment firefox plugin.

The only reason I have to come up with this contest, because I need to be fair with this invitation and I can only invite few people. So all you need to do is read useful posts from the past and add useful comments.

You can also write about this giveaway on your blog with link to this article, this will increase your no. of comments to +15.
One comment = 1 point.
One blog post with link to this article : +15

Contest closes on December 1st Tuesday 2009

it's time for Thanksgiving!

2009-11-26T14:02:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. While perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.

Lots of food, football games, parades and plenty of time to spend with the people you cherish most in your life. These things are all inescapable parts of Thanksgiving day. But who would want to escape from them anyway?

The traditional "first Thanksgiving" is the celebration that occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. The Plymouth celebration occurred early in the history of what would become one of the original thirteen colonies that became the United States. The celebration became an important part of the American myth by the 1800s. This Thanksgiving, modeled after celebrations that were commonplace in contemporary Europe, is generally regarded as America's first. Elementary school teacher Robyn Gioia has argued that the earliest attested "thanksgiving" celebration in what is now the United States was celebrated by the Spanish on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada.

If you haven't logged into orkut yet today, make sure you do so that you can check out our special Thanksgiving doodle in action:

Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members and friends. It's known as Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

Firefox 3.6 Beta (revision 4) now available for download

2009-11-26T10:49:00.000-08:00

This morning the Mozilla community released Firefox 3.6 Beta 4, making it available for free download and issuing an update for all Firefox 3.6 beta users. This update contains over 100 fixes from the last Firefox 3.6 beta, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users. Almost 70% of the thousands of Firefox Add-ons have now been upgraded by their authors to be compatible with Firefox 3.6 Beta. If your favorite Add-on isn’t yet compatible, you can also download and install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter – your favorite Add-on author will appreciate it!

The Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features for users to evaluate:

(New in this version) Support for the HTML5 File API
A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to increase stability.
The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
Support for the WOFF font format.
Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Please use the following links to download Firefox 3.6 Beta:

How to add orkut share button on your blog or site

2009-11-26T05:07:00.000-08:00

Orkut is keeping on updating their interface to face out the rivals facebook and twitter. Recently orkut has whole new makeover by changing its looks completely, with plenty of brand new feature which the old orkut didn’t have. And now its Orkut share, it just same like the widgets tweetmeme and facebook share does. Just by clicking Orkut share, the user or the reader can share the interesting content with his /her orkut friends. In short the orkut share widget allows the website owners or bloggers to enable their visitors to share the post with visitors friends on orkut

Do add it up into your site or blog. Have fun by sharing interesting post!!

When the visitor click on share button and share the article, it automatically appears on the visitors friends update list, which instantly have the potential to spread it virally among a larger group of people. Every single such share could tremendously increase the traffic to the site / blog.

Download the script and to add it up into your site. Click download

For Blogger and For Wordpress

While implementing the above process in your site or blog, the shared content by visitor gets automatically in the shared visitors orkut promotion page-

And this is how it seen in yours updates-

And do add up Orkut Share Widget on your site or blog. And have fun by sharing interesting posts!!

Killer fungus threatening amphibians: Study

2009-11-24T02:29:00.000-08:00

A new aquatic fungus is threatening the existence of many of the amphibians like frogs and toads that have existed for 360 million years, a new study claimed. Bd infects over 350 amphibian species by penetrating their skin, but little else is known about where it came from and how it causes disease.

A new aquatic fungus is threatening the existence of many of the amphibians like frogs and toads that have existed for 360 million years, a new study claimed.

The fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), was found to be associated with waves of amphibian extinctions in Central America and north-eastern Australia in the 1990’s, according to an article in journal Microbiology Today. Bd infects over 350 amphibian species by penetrating their skin, but little else is known about where it came from and how it causes disease.

The earliest published record of Bd is from a specimen of an African clawed frog in 1938 from South Africa. Around this time there was a huge trade in clawed frogs when they were used in one of the earliest human pregnancy tests.

The global exportation of the clawed frog is likely to have spread Bd around the world. The infection is spread by fungal spores released into the water supply from imported infected animals.

Researchers are trying different approaches to treat existing Bd infection. Some are treating tadpoles with antifungal drugs, whilst more innovative approaches involve introducing ‘probiotic’ bacteria that naturally secrete antifungal compounds which kill Bd on amphibians’ skin.

To help limit the spread of infection, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) now recommended screening imported amphibians for presence of Bd.