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All about ZIKA virus

2016-09-19T11:08:00.001+05:30

Here's all you need to know about the Zika virus - from the dangers it poses to pregnant women to the steps one can take to minimise risk of exposure.

Q: What is the Zika virus?

A: It is a virus infection transmitted by the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito, which also carries the dengue and chikungunya viruses.

It is generally a mild disease; four in five people who become infected with Zika do not show any symptoms but could be infectious.

Q: What are the symptoms?

A: They include a fever, an itchy rash, body aches, headache, red eyes and occasionally, nausea and vomiting.

These usually develop within three to 12 days after the mosquito bite and often last between four and seven days.

Q: Who is at greatest risk?

A: Unborn babies are the most at risk should their mothers become infected with the Zika virus.

Between 1 per cent and 10 per cent of women infected during pregnancy give birth to babies with defects. The most common defect is microcephaly, where the baby is born with a much smaller head, sloping forehead and damaged brain.

Q: Is there a cure?

A: At the moment, there is no cure or vaccine. Only the symptoms can be treated.

To avoid getting infected, use insect repellent and wear clothing that covers the body, arms and legs.

The public are also encouraged to do the five-step mozzie wipeout to prevent mosquitoes from breeding at home.

ZIKA AND THE LINK TO PREGNANCY

Q: If a woman is pregnant, does that put her at higher risk of getting infected by Zika?

A: There is currently no evidence that this is so, says the Ministry of Health (MOH). However, the consequences can be more serious if a pregnant woman is infected as her unborn child can get a birth defect known as microcephaly, that is, an abnormally small head.

The risk of microcephaly from a Zika virus infection is still unknown, although some studies have put it at between 1 per cent and 13 per cent. Research is still ongoing.

Q: Is the baby at risk throughout the pregnancy?

A: Associate Professor Arijit Biswas, head of obstetrics and gynaecology at the National University Hospital, says the risk is highest during the first trimester and the early part of the second trimester of pregnancy.

Though the risk is lower in the third trimester, the virus could still cause fatal outcomes such as stillbirth.

Courtesy : the strait times, Singapore.

The Essence of a Religion

2016-03-19T10:22:00.000+05:30

Every religion is like a river and its followers are like the water molecules. The moment the molecules leave the source, the river gives them their purpose and to always progress towards the destination, the vast infinite ocean of wisdom. The molecules stumble, crumble and fumble, but the river always show them the leading light by treating every molecule the same. Sometimes they pass through the beautiful mountains and cities, sometimes through rocky terrain, but the river tells them that happiness and sadness are part of the journey, and they should not stop until they reach there. Same time the other factors throw in garbage and dirt, the wind brings in dust, the water becomes dirty, but the molecules maintain their true identity and the river tells them that this identity, the inner self, is all that matters while external is temporary and insignificant. The molecules may sometime deviate, evaporate, get stuck at the shores, drunk away, but the natural cycle always bring them back to this river, and the river readily leads them to the ocean, again and again, until they become one with it.

This is the essence of every religion - it gives a path, a guiding light, to an individual so that he can merge with the infinite One. That may be god the almighty or the ultimate goal of everyone's life is all about. Sometimes the goal is know or unknown. Our religion defines true identity to inner self, which is untouched by the external world. And it tells that success, failure, sadness and happiness are an integral part of one's journey and one should not get influenced, discouraged or hindered by these forces. All the philosophies like Karma, Dharma, scriptures like Gita, bible and Quran, preachings by the same, practices like Yoga and so on explain this simple essence through different means.

Now because there is no one definite way to reach the infinite ocean of self realization, Religion is always open-ended and dynamic. Like an open-source software, Hinduism has received invaluable contributions from great ancient saints and rishis, but at the same time, has also got corrupted from fake godmen and selfish saints who misinterpreted and misguided others primarily for the benefit of their own or some other section of population, like the Kings, etc. We will further discuss each one in a very detailed manner. Some of the many ways that it has got corrupted are:

The entire notion of castes, which was originally division of work for maintaining stability in the society.
The social evils of dowry, sati, etc
All the superstitions.
Taboos like love marriages.
Adding steroids and other chemicals and destroying Ayurveda
Fear created in the minds of people by fake Godmen and priests.
So-called Vedic rituals by so-called Brahmins. We will also contribute a much under this topic to unravel the mysteries behind all.

I can go on and on, but I believe you got the point. Due to ego, power or misunderstanding, a lot of people have corrupted Hinduism - so much so that nowadays its even hard to realize its true essence.

Here comes my part to largely explore and find out the true essence of every religion and unravel the mysteries behind every practice and with you judge each one of them and lets join hands to pure our thoughts about religion once again.

All New Series about our Indian Ancestry and Culture

2016-03-19T09:15:00.000+05:30

After repeated requests from viewers and friends, I here by start a new series based on the Culture and heritage of Indian Ancestry.

The very essence of the religion and the beliefs that led us through the vast culture and heritage as earlier as the Human race itself. This series will remain as a dedication to all the world cultures and practices that were made for the people and for the goodness of mankind. We will try to find the fabric and the reason for every hope in the aspects of humanity which paved a great way for the religious beliefs.

Hope to follow to get complete update on all the topics discussed.

1. The essence of every religion

GENERAL NOTICE!!!
The reason behind the article is mainly to uncover all the most common beliefs in every aspect of religion to make clear of the mind that the fact of following a religion is to find the very essence of human kind and to help others with a heart more clear than before.

New in ASUS Family of Phones

2015-01-09T20:24:00.000+05:30

hen you hear about the word ASUS, you might think of processors, laptops and versatile tablets etc. To be little clear for the understanding, The New ear for smart phone industry have seen a verity and trend in phones. Each day new companies arise and bring out the best of them to the phone market and compete with the market giants like Apple, SAMSUNG and Microsoft.

Being a hard (even more harder) fan of new technology in PC, Laptop and mobiles, We daily go through lot of techies day to day lives. ASUS is one such emergent as it uses INTEL Atom Processor for their Zenfone series. Now A New technology is coming out from them.

A 3x OPTICAL ZOOM LENS CAMERA PHONE!

It has a 3x optical zoom, but not one that’s inside an unsightly bulge like the Galaxy K Zoom.

Instead, the Zenfone Zoom uses a system which sees two lenses slide horizontally beside the lens, producing extremely similar results, but taking up far less space, and without an elongating extension. It’s not completely flat, but it’s still less obvious than the Lumia 1020’s lens housing, for example, and the phone is no thicker than a G3 inside a QuickCircle case.

Smartphone zooms are primarily digital, and result in lower quality pictures when used. An optical zoom does a better job without the drawbacks, and is a truly differentiating feature.

Asus hasn’t slapped the clever optical zoom system on the Zenfone Zoom and stopped there, however. It’s paired with optical image stabilization to improve those zoomed in shots, and those taken in low light. Added to this is a laser autofocus sensor, just like the one seen on the LG G3. It impressed us on that phone, and works even faster on the new LG G Flex 2, so we’re excited to see how Asus’ system performs. All this is attached to a 13-megapixel sensor, and the software can be used manually for complete control.
The phone we tested was a pre-production model, and the software installed wasn’t complete. Still, we were treated to a look at how the optical zoom performed. A photo of a Chinese yuan note was taken on zoom, then zoomed in again to reveal the level of detail it captured. Compared to the same image taken on an iPhone 6 Plus, the difference is very noticeable – revealing detail that wasn’t visible to the naked eye.
Android 5.0 is installed on the phone, displayed on a 5.5-inch, 1080p display. Asus hasn’t decided on which processor will be used inside the phone, but a Snapdragon chip is most likely. An Intel Atom powers its Zenfone 2.
While this is the first time we’re seeing this optical zoom tech inside a smartphone, it’s not the first time we’ve heard about it. We chatted with DynaOptics recently, a company developing the same type of module, but it hasn’t supplied Asus. What we learned talking to DynaOptics was how complex these modules are, and they aren’t perfected yet.
Asus told us it’ll have a 95-percent finished Zenfone Zoom at Mobile World Congress, followed by a release before the end of the first half of 2015. A price of 25,200 INR has been attached, which sounds excellent value, considering the high specs. The good news is Asus intends to release the Zenfone Zoom in the U.S. and the U.K., indicating it’s aware of the opportunity the phone presents to promote the Asus name.

How to root the latest ASUS ZENFONE 5

2015-01-08T23:36:00.000+05:30

ROOTING A PHONE:

ROOTING your phone may void warranty, Completely brick the device or even worse.

ROOT on your own risk.

The following tool and files are necessary to carry on the ROOTING process:

1. ROOT TOOL:
Link : http://www.mediafire.com/download/p5vauei9sd79oa1/RootZenFone5KitKat.zip

2. Intel Drivers:
Link : iNTEL Driver

3. A PC running Windows OS. (Preferably Win7 - as I used)

STRICTLY FOLLOW THE STEP BELOW :

1. Install the Intel driver first.
2. After its been installed, Connect your phone to the PC using USB cable. Before that, Make sure you switch on USB Debugging in the setting in the phone side. Its not easy to turn on debugging in ASUS Zenfone 5. Read the note below.

NOTE: In ASUS ZENFONE 5, the developer option is hidden by default. To enable this, Go to,

Settings -> About -> Software Information -> Build Number. (TAP 7 TIMES)

Then go back to,

Settings -> Developer Options -> USB Debugging -> Check it.

3. Test for authorized connection between phone and PC. To do this, Go to the downloaded ROOT TOOL Zip file, Extract the content to a folder and (hold shift and right click) "files" and select "Open command prompt here" type "adb devices" and press enter. The command prompt should return as below:

If unauthorized appears, you should not proceed. Unplug the device and plug in again and try until you get as displayed.

4. Please read the following instructions carefully. The upcoming is we will root your phone. Now, stay connected to your pc with your phone and open the folder you extracted "rootz5kitkatv2" from the download file. Double click "root-zenfone5-ww" or "Root-ZenFone5-en"

5. The bat file will open and the rooting process is now started. Your phone will reboot 5 to 6 times. Just press any key to continue. Wait for some more time until you see this last screen.

6. If your phone is locked and showing the lock screen and the ROOT process is stopped, Open the screen lock and Allow USB debugging (Press OK) to continue.

7. Last reboot will appear, check your phones app drawer, if you can see SuperSU,

Congrats! you are now rooted. Go Enjoy your phone without any limits.

You may like to read : Rooting Basics

Six Best Android Apps for Geeks

2015-01-04T01:44:00.000+05:30

1. ConnectBot:

Every geek will always have a hand on these kind of stuffs. Forget your PC or laptop and guess this SSH Client will satisfy all your ultimate geeky thing. ConnectBot is a powerful open-source Secure Shell (SSH) client. It can manage simultaneous SSH sessions, create secure tunnels, and copy/paste between other applications.
This client allows you to connect to Secure Shell servers that typically run on UNIX-based servers. Use Connect Bot to maximum number of sessions and feel like GOD
Features:
-Support device with hardware keyboard.
- Popup keyboard with all those normally hard to find characters
- Use the volume keys to quickly change font size
- External keyboard support
- Telnet support
- Local Android terminal support
- Click URLs to open in a browser
- Copy & Paste within sessions
- UTF-8 character support
- Easily organise your connections by group
- Keep multiple SSH sessions running in the background
- Password & OpenSSH private key support
- SSH key agent forwarding

2. RealCalc:

Android's #1 Scientific Calculator. A fully featured scientific calculator which looks and operates like the real thing.
RealCalc includes the following features:
* Traditional algebraic or RPN operation
* Unit conversions
* Physical constants table
* Percentages
* Result history
* 10 memories
* Binary, octal, and hexadecimal (can be enabled in Settings)
* Trig functions in degrees, radians or grads
* Scientific, engineering and fixed-point display modes
* 7-segment, dot-matrix or standard font display
* Configurable digit grouping and decimal point
* Full built-in help
Another revolutionary Calculator application where you feel handy to use the base digit calculations. You can switch between Decimal, Octal, Hexadecimal and binary without any trouble. Also It has Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) in which every operator follows all of its operands in contrast to Polish Notation. (image showing RPN)

SCAN HERE TO DOWNLOAD (RealCalc):

3. Drop Box:

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your Android device, and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.
Read your docs or flip through your albums when you're out and about. Save photos or videos to your Dropbox and share them with friends in just a couple taps. Even if you accidentally leave your Android in a taxi, your stuff is always safe on Dropbox.
Features:
• Always have your stuff with you, no matter where you are.
• Save photos and videos to your Dropbox.
• Share your photos and docs with family and friends.
• Save email attachments straight to your Dropbox.
• Easily edit docs in your Dropbox.
Yet another Box of stuffs in the cloud where geeks can actually download and upload data where ever and when ever necessary, Drop Box offers free cloud based storage and provides front end applications across variety of platforms. It makes it easy to access files from different locations and devices.

SCAN HERE TO DOWNLOAD (Drop Box):

4. ElecroDroid:

ElectroDroid is a simple and powerful collection of electronics tools and references.
This is the free version, which contains ads; you can also buy from the Market the PRO version of the app to support the developer, unlock more features and get rid of the ads.The app includes:
• Resistor color code decoder (3-6 bands);
• SMD Resistor Code;
• Inductor color code decoder;
• Ohm’s law calculator;
• Reactance/Resonance calculator;
• Voltage divider;
• Resistors ratio, value/series/parallel;
• Capacitor charge calculation;
• Operational amplifier;
• LED resistor calculator;
• Adjustable voltage regulator/LM317 calculator;
• Heat dissipation;
• Battery Life calculator;
• Inductor design tool;
• Voltage Drop calculator;
• PCB Trace Width calculator;
• Simple Filters calculator;
• NE555 calculator;
• Power Calculator;
• Decibel Converter;
• Frequency Converter;
• Analog-Digital Converter;
• Y-Δ Transformation;
• Port pin-out (USB, Serial, Parallel, Ethernet, RJ, SCART, DVI, HDMI, S-Video, VGA, VESA, Display Port, FireWire, Jack, RCA, XLR/DMX, ATX Power, PC Molex, EIDE, SATA, PS/2-AT, MIDI/Game port, Apple 30-pin, PDMI, OBD-II, 25-pair phone cable color code, Color Code for Fiber Optic Cables; ISO connector for car audio; Arduino pin-outs);
• Resources (Resistivity table; Table of standard resistors and capacitors; Capacitor marking codes; AWG and SWG Wire size; Ampacity Table; Symbols and Abbreviations; Circuit Schematic Symbols; SI Units prefixes; Battery info; Boolean logic gate and algebra Theorems; 7400 info and pinout; ASCII codes, Batteries list, 78xx IC, ChipDB IC pinouts, Switch Information, Decibel Table, PIC ICSP/AVR ISP, SMD Package Size, Radio frequencies);
• Full support for EIA resistor series for all calculators;
A Perfect app for some perfect Guys and gals (Mentioned, As they think so), A perfect App for electrically enthusiastic and active project members. This is a handy tool that can be used as a reference for resistor calculators, Pin out guides, Circuit Schematic Symbols, Capacitor marking codes.

SCAN HERE TO DOWNLOAD (Electrodroid):

5. ConvertPad:

ConvertPad is a free unit converter with an ugly but easy-to-use interface. Sure you might remember how many centimeter are in an inch, but can you remember that 1 metre is (approximately) 118.11023622 barleycorns?

6. ES File Explorer:

Simply a file manager for your android phone with some added features for a Geek like you. It has the capability to read internal as well as the external memory (SD CARD). Also it has an option to read network files where it has access to to share drives that are available in the same network. Easy to use best recommended File manager.

Since for a open source operating system where the freedom for innovation is unlimited, The maximum of the world of Android seemed to be some geeky stuff. Explore and learn. Update and let others learn.

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Rooting HTC

2012-10-25T16:49:00.000+05:30

Rooting your HTC smart phones:
Recently i come across a problem with one of my customer that rooting an HTC phone requires a little more effort than usual rooting process for every smart phone. I as usual GOOGLE'd things and found a variety of confusing walk-through's everywhere. The worst part is even in the official website, the steps are of a lot messy.

Here i present the perfect walk-through to root your HTC:
(Especially for Explorer series)

The basic steps in rooting your HTc involves 3 steps:
* Collecting the necessary data ( MUST)
* Unlocking your Boot-loader.
* Rooting your phone.

The following are very essential to finish your rotting process:
1. An active internet connection.
2. HTC sync service
3. Google Android SDK
4. Jave runtime Environment
5. A310E recovery
6. Superuser.zip

Unlocking your Bootloader:
   1. For this you need to go to www.htcdev.com , Follow the instructions given there.
                 2. DONT be mad at me, I will now explain what i found confusing with their website.
    NOTE:
            * All android phones can be unlocked by selecting 'All supported phones' option.
            * DO NOT follow the steps like remove battery listed in the first page. Instead go to the next page.
            * Download all the listed files and supporting programs like ADB, ADK, java.
            * Then before doing step 6, Goto Step 1 and prepare your phone.
            * Just follow from step 6 to step 10 and complete unloading bootloader.

Add a recovery:
            Doing this will allow you to install .zip ROMs. You can access to it in the menu android phones have when booting the phone after removing-inserting the battery and pressing "volume down" and "power" buttons simultaneously. (Other phones have different button combinations).

- Download A310E Recovery.zip (better google it !)
- extract it in any window on your PC (i recommend: C:\HTC)
- run the recovery.bat (from PC) with phone in fastboot mode (first option in the "3 android menu" ) when connected with usb.

Done! You got the recovery installed if no errors, you can now install any compatible ROM or root operable apps.

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Jelly Bean 4.1 - What i know

2012-08-13T17:21:00.000+05:30

On June 27, 2012, at the Google I/O conference, Google announced Android 4.1. Based on Linux kernel 3.1.10, Jelly Bean is an incremental update with the primary aim of improving the user interface, both in terms of functionality and performance. The performance improvement involves "Project Butter", which uses touch anticipation, triple buffering, extended vsync timing and a fixed frame rate of 60fps to create a fluid and "buttery"-smooth User Interface. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was released to AOSP on July 9, 2012, and an OTA update for the Sam-sung Galaxy Nexus to Android 4.1.1 was released on July 11, 2012, making it the first device to run Jelly Bean.

Features of Android 4.1:

V sync timing across all drawing and animation done by the Android framework, including application rendering, touch events, screen composition and display refresh
Triple buffering in the graphics pipeline
Enhanced accessibility
Bi-directional text and other language support
User-installable keyboard maps
Expandable notifications
Ability to turn off notifications on an app specific basis
Shortcuts and widgets can automatically be re-arranged or re-sized to allow new items to fit on home screens
Blue-tooth data transfer for Android Beam
Off-line voice dictation
New interface layout for tablets with smaller screens (closer resembling that of a phone)
Improved voice search
Improved camera app
Google Wallet (for the Nexus 7)
High resolution Google+ contact photos^{[citation needed]}
Google Now
Multichannel audio^[72]
USB audio (for external sound DAC's).
Audio chaining (also known as gapless playback)

List of Phones with Android 4.1:

Samsung

The Korean giant is planning to upgrade its Galaxy S3, Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note to Android Jelly Bean. However, Samsung has not specified how much time it will take to bring these phones to the latest version. Samsung Nexus S and Nexus Prime, which are part of Google's Nexus lineup, are already getting the update, but then Nexus Prime is not available in India.Other phones in the Samsung line up like the Galaxy R, Galaxy S Plus and S Advance have the desired specification to support Android 4.1. However, Samsung has not announced any plans to upgrade them. These devices have not even been updated to Android 4.0.Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is also likely to get Android 4.1, but there has been no announcement to that effect till now. Samsung has just announced that older Galaxy Tabs like the 750 will be getting Android 4.0 shortly.

HTC

HTC has announced that it has started working on the Jelly Bean update. One X, One XL and One S are likely to be the first HTC devices to get it. Some of the older phones like the HTC Desire line might not get updates as most of them are stuck at Android 2.3.

Sony

Sony will update its Xperia 2012 lineup, which includes Xperia S, Xperia P and Xperia Neo etc. It has also backtracked on a statement that the 2011 line-up is not getting the update and has now informed that it is still evaluating which of the phones from 2011 will get the upgrade.

Xperia Arc S is likely to make the cut.

Motorola

Given that Motorola is now owned by Google, updates are expected to come faster. Motorola is already updating Xoom tablets to Android 4.1 and is soon expected to roll-out updates for its flagship Razr lineup and the Atrix 2.

LG has been a laggard in terms of updating its devices. According to some reports, LG Optimus 4X HD will get updated to Android 4.1 but only in the first months of 2013.

Asus

Asus sells only two tablets in India. While it is confirmed that its Transformer Prime TF 201 will get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean shortly, Transformer TF101 is also likely to get the update.

Acer

Acer has also officially announced that it will update some of its Iconia tablets to Android 4.1. However, it has not specified which those tablets are. Given that in India only Iconia A500 and A501 are available and both have high end hardware, they are both likely to get the update.

Karbonn

Karbonn, with Smarttab 1, became the first one to bring a product based on Android 4.1 to India. The company also said that the Smarttab 1 already sold with Android 4.0 will be updated shortly, probably before other manufacturers do so.

What's NEXT?

It’s hopefully not a secret anymore that Google likes to name Android releases after desserts and nd while that wasn’t true right from the beginning, so far we have had Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Frozen Yogurt (FroYo), Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and the latest released Jelly Bean(4.1). That’s still the latest version of the operating system, yet it’s quite clear that Google will have a new one out later this year.

But what about the next version of Android? The one after Jelly Bean ? Well, according to a source of The Verge, it will be called Key Lime Pie. This is still an unverified rumor right now, but we’re hard pressed to come up with another dessert that starts with the letter K – so Key Lime Pie it may be in the end.

Unfortunately we don’t know whether the version will be major or minor iterations, so it could be Android 5.0 or 4.2, it’s also possible that we’ll still be on the 4.x branch by the time we hit L.

What is fairly clear is that we shouldn’t be seeing Key Lime Pie this year. Google has vowed to slow down Android development and releases to about one per year, so for 2012 it’s probably just going to be Jelly Bean.

I’ll keep you posted.

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786 - What really it is ?

2012-07-28T06:16:00.000+05:30

Over the years, I have come across many misconceptions of 786, many heated debates on it as well. Personally I found it hard to believe that we can simply summaries an ayat of Quraan with 3 numbers.
Anyway, below is an answer to the nagging question

“What is the significance of 786?”

“786″ – Does it stand for Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem’?

For those who seek the Truth or the sake of the Truth.

786 being used by people who are misguided as the numerical representation of “Bismillah-hir Rahmaan-nir Raheem” should be informed that it has no religious or Islamic significance whatsoever. The numerals 786 or any other numerals does not represents “Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem” or any other Surah of the Most Noble and Holy Qur’an and is not a Sunnah either.

CAN NUMBER 786 REPLACE THE HOLY NAME OF ALMIGHTY ALLAH AZZA WAJJAL MOST EXALTED?

Almighty Allah Rabbul Ala’meen tells us very clearly in verse 2 of Surah Yusuf:
“Verily, We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran in order that you may learn wisdom”.
In the above verse we are told that the word Quran means:
1. Something to be read,
2. Recited,
3. Proclaimed.
It may apply to a verse, or a Surah, or to the entire divine Book of Revelation.
Again in the conclusion of verse 103 of Surah Al-Nahl, Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala tells us:
“……….While this is Arabic, pure and clear.”
Even the most eloquent Arab could not, and cannot produce anything of the eloquence, width, and depth of the Glorious Quranic teaching, as is evident from every verse of this Heavenly revealed Book from Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wataala. In part of verse 44 of Surah Fussilat we are reminded with words of wisdom:
“Had We sent this as a Quran (in a language) other than Arabic, they would have said: “Why are not its verses explained in detail? ”
It was most natural and reasonable that the Nabee Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam being Arab, the Message should be in his own tongue, that he might explain it in great detail, with the greatest power and eloquence. Even though it was to be for the entire world, its initial exposition was thus to be in Arabic. But if people had no faith and were spiritually deaf or blind, it would not matter in what language it came. We are instructed to recite the Most Holy and Noble Quran in the manner as prescribed to us in verse 106 of Surah Al Isra:
“(It is) a Quran which We have divided (into parts from time to time), in order that thou might recite it to men at intervals: We have revealed it by stages.”
Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala informs
us in part of verse 20 of Surah Al Muzzammil:
“..Read you, therefore, as much of the Quran as may be easy (for you).”
y Beloved brothers and sisters, the verses mentioned above makes things very clear to us to the extend that none of us need to be brain surgeons or rocket scientists to understand that the Most Holy and Noble Quran was revealed in the Arabic language over fourteen centuries ago and remains a spoken language to this day and will remain so till Kiyamah. This old game of numbers was practiced by the ancient Egyptians, as did many other civilizations. Islam came to ELIMINATE ALL such superstitions, mysteries and numerological mumbo-jumbo. However, Muslims are still enslaved to the numbers game, and think that 786 represents Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem

The innovation of writing ’786′ replacing Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem has been adopted for a very long time and there are many Muslims who inadvertently continue to indulge in this un-Islamic practice. Apart from the common folk, certain people also heed no attention towards it and to avoid disrespect to the Holy Words – they use it on their letter-heads, correspondence and documents. They adopt it as a ‘correct’ and ‘better’ way to invite Almighty Allah’s blessings. This trend has continued and there are misguided Muslims who have also started replacing the Holy Words by this number on their houses, car license plates, offices, etc., etc.,
Unfortunately, this tendency will continue until people come to their senses and extricate themselves from the tentacles of such gross ignorance. Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala has made it crystal clear that the Most Holy and Glorious Quran was revealed in Arabic. If we study the Most Noble Quran, we see that it commences with the holy words of “Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem” in a letter from Nabee Sulaiman Alayhis Salaam to the Queen of Sheeba – Bilqis – who was an infidel at that time.
O Ummatul Muslimeen! Even our Beloved Nabee Muhammad Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam in all of his letters to different heads of states and governments, used Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem at the very beginning. Whosoever uses 786 with the intention to obtaining Almighty Allah’s blessings, is a misguided person and any attempt to justify it, is steeped in gross ignorance and Bidah. Islam’s foundation is laid on the belief in Tawhid – the Oneness of Almighty Allah Rabbul Ala’meen. If we associate anyone with Almighty Allah’s Exalted names orally or practically, we would be committing infidelity which is an unpardonable sin.
The Most Noble Qur’an warns us that those who find a rival against our Most Glorious Creator and Sustainer will not enter Jannah, and his or her abode is reserved in Jahannum. Calling someone by a nick name is also a sin. Almighty Allah Rabbul Ala’meen Most Exalted says: “Don’t call one another by nick names.” If Almighty Allah Tabaraka Wata’ala prohibits the use of nicknames for our fellow human beings, how can He allow the use of such numbers for His Most Holy and Glorious Quran?
O you who believe! When we Muslims commence eating do we say 786? Do we begin our Tawaf around the Baitullah by saying 786? Do we utter 786 before starting our Wudhu our Salaat or when we open up the Holy Quran? Do we utter 786 before we slaughter an animal or do we begin any work by saying 786? The answers to these questions is a resounding NO! Why then do we continue to indulge in such un-Islamic practices? Are Muslims not commanded to begin any work with the name of Almighty Allah Who is Most Exalted and Merciful?
May Almighty Allah Most Merciful guide us to those things with which He is pleased, and may He in His Infinite Mercy make us abhor the things that are totally wrong. May Almighty Allah make us mindful concerning the signs that have been made prevalent around us at this time. Signs within our very selves, signs that are within our households, signs that are all around us. These are the signs which Almighty Allah makes very clear that we can only ignore them, refuse them, as a result of the hardness of our hearts. When we can perceive what the hardness of our hearts is producing in our lives, when we recognize our errors we shall Insha’Allah most certainly see the Signs. May Almighty Allah Most Merciful and Exalted give us the strength to turn from those things which are unnatural and ungodly.

And Almighty Allah knows best.
The Truth is from Almighty Allah
The errors and mistakes are mine.

""Baarak Allaahu Feekum wa-sal-Allaahu wa-Sallam ‘alaa
Nabiyyinaa Muhammad Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam.""

Advance Ramzan wishes

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My grand list of horror movies

2012-07-28T06:01:00.001+05:30

I here by going to bring a huge(not really!!!) list of horror movies with great twist. Hope you all expected this list. Have a good day.

The Sixth Sense
These top several twists are hard to rank in any clean order. The movie was pretty decent but didn’t have much of a plot, and I was wondering where the movie was going to go. And then – bam! Bruce Willis has been dead the whole time. Not only is it an amazingly good twist ending, but it also saves the movie from being just a decent ghost story – and, on a second viewing, Shyalaman throws the truth in your face repeatedly.
Primal Fear
Ed Norton jumped into his career in a big way with this courtroom thriller, where Richard Gere comes to the defense of a seemingly innocent and kind altar boy accused of brutally murdering a priest. Not only is the movie extremely good and offers a first glimpse at the exceptional acting talent stored within Norton, but as it turns out, Norton’s character was faking split personality the entire time.
The Usual Suspects
Considered the best twist ending by many people, it was hard to put this so far down at #3. I’ve seen a couple people put this crime thriller starring Kevin Spacey on “Worst Twist Endings” lists, but those people are just idiots wanting to sound smarter and more sophisticated than everyone else.
Oldboy
Probably the best f-ed up twist ending on the list, this film starts out with a guy waking up in a suitcase on a rooftop after years of mysterious captivity. As he seeks out the truth, he teams up and falls in love with a younger woman. He has sex with her. Then, as we learn, he’s been hypnotized to fall in love with his own daughter – and thus he has unwillingly had sex with her. A second twist comes when the guy decides to erase his memories so he can continue to love and have sex with his daughter.
Seven
This exciting and intriguing thriller has a great cast and a creepy villain, who remains elusive through most of the movie until he conveniently decides to show up for one of the most disturbing twist endings ever. Spacey, the killer, leads the detectives (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) out into the middle of nowhere to find the final victim, only to reveal that he is the one who will be killed by Pitt. Why? Because Spacey killed Pitt’s wife, played by Gwenyth Paltrow, to drive him over the deep end. Nice!
Angel Heart
OK, Oldboy is pretty screwed up, but this one isn’t exactly innocent, either. In this movie, a much younger Mickey Rourke starts investigating murders in New Orleans, only to discover that he himself made a deal with the Devil himself and is responsible for much of what has happened. Wow. [this entry has been edited since the original post]
The Prestige
The inspiration for writing this post, the Christopher Nolan drama about magicians has several small twist endings that aren’t fully appreciated until repeated viewings. For one, Christian Bale’s character tricks Hugh Jackman into thinking that he got a hold of his journal full of secrets – until Jackman reads that it was all planned. Jackman pulls a similar trick on Bale, revealing to his adversary that he intended to frame him. Then, it is revealed that Jackman’s character is still alive, a result of cloning himself and murdering himself every night. If that’s not f-ed up enough, Bale actually has a twin brother and the two having been living a single life, sharing both a wife and a mistress.
Les Diaboliques:
In this 1955 French thriller, a wife conspires with her husband’s mistress to murder the husband. They devise an intelligent plan to make the murder look like an accident, but then the body disappears. The wife begins to freak out as more and more clues seem to suggest that either the husband is alive or that someone else knows and is toying with them, to the point where she starts having panic attacks. Ultimately, she ends up dying of a heart attack when the truth is revealed… but since the director actually asks us before the credits to not reveal the ending, I won’t say what the cause is.
The Others
An elegantly simple and creepy ghost story turns out to be a lot more when it is revealed that Nicole Kidman and her two children, who are allergic to sunlight, have in fact been dead the entire movie, and the ghosts they’ve been seeing are living people attempting to drive them out of the house.
Unbreakable
This is a love-it-or-hate-it film, but M. Night Shyalaman’s follow-up to The Sixth Sense, which also stars Bruce Willis, is one of my favorite movies. There’s not a lot of plot to the film, but once again Shyalaman throws a zinger at us by revealing that Samuel L. Jackson, who has befriended Willis and helped him realize his potential, is in fact a psychopathic killer who has been committing mass murder just to find someone who is “unbreakable.”
Arlington Road
This fast-paced suburban thriller has Jeffrey Bridges suspecting that his neighbor (Tim Robbins) is a domestic terrorist. As it turns out, he’s right, but he unfortunately drives the bomb into the federal building himself, and is ultimately blamed for the deaths of hundreds of people.
The Devil’s Advocate
The title isn’t as metaphorical as one would suspect: Al Pacino really is the Devil, and he wants Keanu Reeves to have sex with what turns out to be his sister to have a Devil grandbaby. When Reeves refuses, the Devil just starts trying all over again.
The Game
This movie is full of coincidences and conveniences, but there are so many little twists in the film that it’s hard not to be entertained. Is everything a game, or is it reality? Sure, it’s pretty unbelievable that Michael Douglas would choose to commit suicide through the exact window (and avoid all of the rafters) where a big balloon is waiting to catch him for his birthday party, but you didn’t see it coming, did you?
Scream
A lot of slasher films have “twists” in regards to who the villains are, but few have pulled it off as well as Wes Craven’s classic. I remember sitting in the theater (sadly, with my mom) when Skeet Ulrich – who had been sliced up quite heavily a few minutes before, hence proving his innocence – licks his fingers and declares that his blood is in fact corn syrup. And there’s not one killer, but two.
Psycho (1960)
I knew the ending before I ever saw the film, so the impact of the big twist was rather lessened, but you still have to respect the fact that Norman Bates dresses up like his mother to kill unsuspecting innocents. That’s just disturbing. Oh, and the “star” of the movie, Janet Leigh, gets killed off early on in the infamous shower scene. [this entry has been edited since the original post]
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Another movie where I had seen shots of the ending before I actually saw the movie, the realization that Charlton Heston was never going to make it back home because… he’s already on Earth!
American Psycho
I still don’t fully understand the ending, but I believe Christian Bale’s psychopathic tendencies are all, actually, in his mind. The great thing about this movie is that even if the entire film may “be a lie,” the actual events are up for debate. Did he or didn’t he? Everyone has their own opinion. [this entry has been edited since the original post]
Donnie Darko
With more of a strange ending than a twist one, it turns out that Donnie’s sleepwalking – which saved him from being crushed by a jet engine at the beginning of the film – has put his mother and sister in peril, as a month later, they are on the plane that will eventually crash into their home a month earlier. Donnie decides to sacrifice himself and die so that his family wouldn’t a month later. Or something like that.
Stephen’s King The Mist
I just watched this movie the other night, and wow, what an ending. This movie shouldn’t have been that good, with mediocre special effects and overblown acting (not to mention it’s a film about random monsters from another dimension), but it is. And the capper: an utterly depressing ending. Thomas Jane’s truck runs out of gas, leaving the five survivors, including his son, stranded in the middle of the mist, which has apparently taken over the entire world. With no chance of survivor, he turns to his gun, which only has four bullets left. He kills the other four people, including his own son, and then steps outside. A minute later, the army shows up and the mist begins to clear. Had he waited a minute longer, he wouldn’t have had to murder his only child! Ouch!
Soylent Green
They’re people! They’re people! The movie is a bit dated now, but if I hadn’t known the ending ahead of time, this would have been a pretty damn good twist ending.
Chinatown
Pretty common nowadays (just watch an episode of Law and Order: SVU), this Jack Nicholson film featured a twist that revealed that 1) Faye Dunaway was not who she first appeared to be and 2) that she had an incestuous relationship with her own father.
Night of the Living Dead
It’s a bit of a stretch to call this a twist ending, but it’s still a shocking one. Zombies are everywhere, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Militias have moved in to clean out the walking dead, and it looks like our hero (an African American) is safe. But, then, one shooter takes him to be one of the bad guys and shoots him in the head. Not a cheerful ending, but a memorable one.
The Ring
The Naomi Watts horror-thriller that took cinema by storm has a couple twist endings, even if you don’t recognize them as such. In most horror movies, once the protagonist discovers the dead body of the mean ghost, the spirit is usually set free and the movie ends. In The Ring, after Watts saves herself and her son by pulling Tamara’s body from the well, she things all are good. Wrong! Tamara is evil, and she’s just released her spirit to kill at will. And, to ultimately save themselves, Watts decides that she and her son will pass the video onto someone else (I believe a relative).
Memento
Guy Pearce, suffering from severe short term memory, goes through life searching for his wife’s killer and not trusting people. Since the film works in backwards order, we slowly discover that his wife killed herself by tricking Pearce into giving her multiple insulin shots; furthermore, Pearce tricks himself by writing notes about people that aren’t true, so that in the future he won’t listen to their “lies,” which are actually truths.
The Descent
If you’ve seen the original, European version, you’ll know what I mean; if you’ve only seen the American version, where the main character escapes from the monster-filled caves, you won’t. While we get to see the woman escape from the cave, drive away and so on and so forth, that escape is actually in her head – she’s still miles underground, surrounded by the creatures that are going to kill her.
Minority Report
Not really a twist ending, but another one that makes you think. After Tom Cruise is accused of murder, he sets out to clear his name. Since the whole criminal system is based on a predictive, psychic machine that is never wrong, his only way to do that is to prove that the system, which he has believed in for years, is wrong. How does he do it? He sets out to kill the creator of the program, thus triggering the system to alert the authorities. But, since he knows the truth about the creator, the creator wants to kill him, too. If Cruise succeeds, the system fails. If the creator succeeds, the system fails. Bam!
Mulholland Drive
No one really knows what David Lynch’s movie is about, but that doesn’t stop me from being intrigued by the completely weird ending to Mulholland Dr., the movie that put Naomi Watts on the map. There’s something about Pandora’s box, about two leading women being the same person, Watts masturbating and making out with herself, etc.
12 Monkeys
I didn’t love this Bruce Willis/Brad Pitt movie, but it does have a disturbing ending. After Bruce Willis is sent back in time to stop a virus from wiping out most of mankind, you expect him to find the solution and save humanity. Instead, he fails, and his child-self gets to watch him get killed by security guards in an airport. Cheerful.

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Digital Cameras

2012-04-12T23:10:00.002+05:30

Hi you all...
I am little upset today. Raising temp... tropical country... obviously in home... Lots of disagreement commotions... hmmm... what can i do...

Ok lets come to the topic. Today i thought of purchasing a Digital Camera. So as usual i googled some information regarding digicams. Its pretty cool and worth sharing. But i want to make a note that it took a lot of time to find all the information i needed to know regarding the digital cams. This incident only gave me the light to this blog. BRINGING ALL TO ONE ROOF.

Digital Camera:

Steven Sasson was the first engineer to invent a digital camera in Eastmen Kodak in the year 1976 using a charge-coupled device image sensor. These are cameras meant to take digital photographs or even videos utilizing the electronic image sensor. They have their own advantages as they can cover the entire marriage function coverage with a single chip of memory. The awesomeness of digital photography is the ability to show what is taken at that moment. The varied digital quality from its resolution.

Resolution:
The resolution of digital camera is limited by the image sensor, considered as the heart of the camera (probably a eye, i am not saying, LOL :P) that turns light into discrete signals. The sensor is made of millions of buckets that essentially count the number of photons that strike the sensor. Therefore, the brighter the pixel at a point, the greater the signal at that point. A color filter array may be used depending on the physical structure of the sensor. So the number of resulting pixel determines its pixel count.

Lets say... a 640x480 image would have 307,200 pixels or approximately 307 kilopixels. like wise a 3872x2592 image would have a 10 megapixel size.

The pixel count alone is commonly presumed to indicate the resolution of a camera, but this simple figure of merit is a misconception. Other factors impact a sensor's resolution, including sensor size, lens quality, and the organization of the pixels (for example, a monochrome camera without a Bayer filter mosaic has a higher resolution than a typical color camera). Where such other factors limit the resolution, a greater pixel count does not improve it, but may rather make the digital images inconveniently large and/or exacerbate image noise. Many digital compact cameras are criticized for having excessive pixels. Sensors can be so small that their 'buckets' can easily overfill; again, resolution of a sensor can become greater than the camera lens could possibly deliver.

Look at the small example:

Image in the LEFT has a lower resolution than the RIGHT one, but has higher spatial resolution.
So Dont just go for a high resolution cam, see for the spatial resolution.

Spatial Resolution:
It is a major determinant of image resolution, we most people dint know this. Really, this is very important while purchasing a camera. Spatial Resolution, also called as angular resolution is the ability of the camera, obviously the CCD sensor to process minute details in the image. Now see the image back. Now you are a PRO !

A image showing A 170px CCD sensor:

It contains a array of pixel sensors with a integrated chip with each pixel having a photo detector and a active amplifier. A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time. CCDs move charge between capacitive bins in the device, with the shift allowing for the transfer of charge between bins.

Method of image capture:
Based on the hardware configuration of the sensor and the color filter, the method of capture falls into 3 basic category:

1. Single Shot:
Single-short system uses either one CCD with bayer filter mosaic, or three separate image sensors, those RGB combinations employing a beam splitter.

2. Multi-shot:
In this method, the camera aperture is opened multiple times to capture separately the RED then BLUE and GREEN image data. There is also a term called Microscaning, where a bayer filter is used and final image sets are stitched together to form a higher resolution pictures.

3.Scanning:
This is more or less like a Desktop scanner. In this the sensor moves across the focal plane.

BUT... The choice of method of capture is Subject depend. It is usually inappropriate to attempt to capture a subject that moves with anything but a single-shot system. However, the higher color fidelity and larger file sizes and resolutions available with multi-shot and scanning backs make them attractive for commercial photographers working with stationary subjects and large-format photographs.

Dramatic improvements in single-shot cameras and raw image file processing at the beginning of the 21st century made single shot, CCD-based cameras almost completely dominant, even in high-end commercial photography. CMOS-based single shot cameras remained somewhat common.

Types of cameras:

Digital cameras are made in a wide range of sizes, prices and capabilities. The majority are camera phones, operated as a mobile application through the cellphone menu. Professional photographers and many amateurs use larger, more expensive digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLR) for their greater versatility. Between these extremes lie digital compact cameras and bridge digital cameras that "bridge" the gap between amateur and professional cameras. Specialized cameras including multispectral imaging equipment and astrographs continue to serve the scientific, military, medical and other special purposes for which digital photography was invented.

1. Compact Digital Cameras:

Compact cameras are designed to be tiny and portable and are particularly suitable for casual and "snapshot" uses. Hence, they are also called point-and-shoot cameras. The smallest, generally less than 20 mm thick, are described as subcompacts or "ultra-compacts" and some are nearly credit card size.^[8]

Most, apart from ruggedized or water-resistant models, incorporate a retractable lens assembly allowing a thin camera to have a moderately long focal length and thus fully exploit an image sensor larger than that on a camera phone, and a mechanized lens cap to cover the lens when retracted. The retracted and capped lens is protected from keys, coins and other hard objects, thus making it a thin, pocketable package. Subcompacts commonly have one lug and a short wrist strap which aids extraction from a pocket, while thicker compacts may have two lugs for attaching a neck strap.

Typically, these cameras incorporate a nearly silent leaf shutter into their lenses.Compact cameras are usually designed to be easy to use, sacrificing advanced features and picture quality for compactness and simplicity; images can usually only be stored using lossy compression (JPEG). Most have a built-in flash usually of low power, sufficient for nearby subjects. Live preview is almost always used to frame the photo. Most have limited motion picture capability. Compacts often have macro capability and zoom lenses but the zoom range is usually less than for bridge and DSLR cameras. Generally a contrast-detect auto focus system, using the image data from the live preview feed of the main imager, focuses the lens.

For lower cost and smaller size, these cameras typically use image sensors with a diagonal of approximately 6 mm, corresponding to a crop factor around 6. This gives them weaker low-light performance, greater depth of field, generally closer focusing ability, and smaller components than cameras using larger sensors.

Starting in 2011, some compact digital cameras can take 3D still photos. These 3D compact stereo cameras can capture 3D panoramic photos for play back on a 3D TV. Some of these are rugged and waterproof, and some have GPS, compass, barometer and altimeter.

2.Bridge Cameras:

Bridge are higher-end digital cameras that physically and ergonomically resemble DSLRs and share with them some advanced features, but share with compacts the use of a fixed lens and a small sensor. Like compacts, most use live preview to frame the image. Their autofocus uses the same contrast-detect mechanism, but many bridge cameras have a manual focus mode, in some cases using a separate focus ring, for greater control. They originally "bridged" the gap between affordable point-and-shoot cameras and the then are not affordable earlier digital SLRs.

Due to the combination of big physical size but a small sensor, many of these cameras have very highly specified lenses with large zoom range and fast aperture, partially compensating for the inability to change lenses. On some, the lens qualifies as super-zoom. To compensate for the lesser sensitivity of their small sensors, these cameras almost always include an image stabilization system to enable longer handheld exposures.

These cameras are sometimes marketed as and confused with digital SLR cameras since the appearance is similar. Bridge cameras lack the reflex viewing system of DSLRs, are usually fitted with fixed (non-interchangeable) lenses (although some have a lens thread to attach accessory wide-angle or telephoto converters), and can usually take movies with sound. The scene is composed by viewing either the liquid crystal display or the electronic viewfinder (EVF). Most have a longer shutter lag than a true dSLR, but they are capable of good image quality (with sufficient light) while being more compact and lighter than DSLRs. High-end models of this type have comparable resolutions to low and mid-range DSLRs. Many of these cameras can store images in a Raw image format, or processed and JPEG compressed, or both. The majority have a built-in flash similar to those found in DSLRs.

In bright sun, the quality difference between a good compact camera and a digital SLR is minimal but bridge cams are more portable, cost less and have a similar zoom ability to DSLR. Thus a Bridge camera may better suit outdoor daytime activities, except when seeking professional-quality photos.

In low light conditions and/or at ISO equivalents above 800, most bridge cameras (or megazooms) lack in image quality when compared to even entry level DSLRs. However, they do have one major advantage: their much larger depth of field due to the small sensor as compared to a DSLR, allowing larger apertures with shorter exposure times.

A 3D Photo Mode was introduced in 2011, whereby the camera automatically takes a second image from a slightly different perspective and provides a standard .MPO file for stereo display.

3.Digital Single Lens Reflex Cameras:

Digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLRs) are digital cameras based on film single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs). They take their name from their unique viewing system, in which a mirror reflects light from the lens through a separate optical viewfinder. At the moment of exposure the mirror flips out of the way, making a distinctive "clack" sound and allowing light to fall on the imager.

Since no light reaches the imager during framing, auto-focus is accomplished using specialized sensors in the mirror box itself. Most 21st century DSLRs also have a "live view" mode that emulates the live preview system of compact cameras, when selected.

These cameras have much larger sensors than the other types, typically 18 mm to 36 mm on the diagonal (crop factor 2, 1.6, or 1). This gives them superior low-light performance, less depth of field at a given aperture, and a larger size.

They make use of interchangeable lenses; each major DSLR manufacturer also sells a line of lenses specifically intended to be used on their cameras. This allows the user to select a lens designed for the application at hand: wide-angle, telephoto, low-light, etc. So each lens does not require its own shutter, DSLRs use a focal-plane shutter in front of the imager, behind the mirror.

So finally after all theories and confusions regarding digital cameras, I decided not to buy anything now.

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How to unleash your smart phone

2012-03-22T02:40:00.000+05:30

Tired of looking at the stock OS in your android powered smartphone?

You are in the right place.

Android, a single operating system changed the way we interact with the mobile phones today. Thanks to the Google for keeping it free still. There are a various versions available with various functionality depending on how much bugs you spend to get your phone.

Ok now lets start with some basics. Android powered handsets are just like a desktop or a PC, where you will be having a ROM basically and a RAM for the temporary actions.

So to jailbreak your smartphone, you really need to do the following as necessary:

1. Forget your warranty claims after you accidentally damage your phone. Not physically anyway :P
(if not done properly, you may brick your phone for sure)
2. Do a full backup of all you contacts, messages, call logs too.
(Don't loose all as I LOST :P)

Now lets get to know something about ROOTING:

ROOTING IS LEGAL "Rooting is a process of unleashing the beast of android." - a very rubbish definition you usually get when you google it. But the truth is rooting refers to the process of just entering the admin mode of your phones internal memory. Root thus means just the internal memory with the file system where we can alter thing to get done a variety of things. Just like a sudo command in linux.

SUPER USER:
Super user may be referred as a administrator. A fresh opened phone is just a user whereas a rooted phone is a Super User. Normal work on such a system is done using ordinary user accounts, and because these do not have the ability to make system-wide changes any virus and other malware or simple user error - do not have the ability to adversely affect a whole system. So taking control of the super user, makes you manage the file system in fact. SU or # is used to refer super user.

Basic Necessity of Rooting:

1. Manufacturers usually stop your android update after some point of time. Rooting to is the only process to switch to newer life style.
2. You can be able to use a variety of apps that is Geek users.
3. Ability to use features not available in your stock OS.

Requirements to root your phone:
1. A PC running windows.
2. Your USB data cable
3. Your phone(for sure)
4. A program to root your device(google to find. i dont advertise, so name hidden)
5. A strong desire to dig your stock OS.

The simple steps to root your phone are as follows:
!!!Follow strictly!!!

1. After downloading that rooting program file to your PC, extract the content to a local folder.
2. Run the SOC.exe file (Oops i said a hint)
3. Plug in your phone to the PC via USB cable.
4. Click ROOT.
5. Wait for the process to finish.
6. Your done! You have a rooted device. Allow Busybox and su command.

Now we ll come to the real serious part of the article. Installing custom ROM is a real pain when its not done properly. Because i learnt those in the hard way. Thats why i thought of writing a article here to tell you fellas i really lost my phone OS and got that back.
There are so many custom ROMs available for android. I like to share the best 5 of all.

Ginger Villan ROM:

This is considered as the best ROM in the market today. This is mainly based on Android 2.3 codename Gingerbread. This is designed based on Android Open Source Project. This ROM is made by Richard trip that has also made previous ROMs as well. This ROM is mainly comes from Android alone and it has got an exceptions of Cyanogen Mod extras and also for of the apps. Some of the basic apps added in this ROM are Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Navigation, News and Weather and Google Voice. Apart from all these there are many more features that can be experienced once we use this ROM on our own.

ReDux ROM

This customized ROM is designed by keeping main three features in mind: Stability, Speed and Cleanliness. This ROM is thought to be for day-to-day usage. Every single feature implemented in this are very carefully selected and programmed accordingly. Users will surely get performance because smoothness and speed are the two main features that are required in our daily usage. ReDux is considered as bug free. It also provides good battery life and its UI is nicely working. They have added functionality like Camera options and new browser. This also uses ext. partition on your SD card that provides extra space utilization for apps.

Insert Coin ROM

Biggest part about this ROM is it had more than 200,000 downloads and still it is rising. Basic features provided with this ROM are improved bass effects. It has also added camera functionality with Panorama. It comes with modified browser having more tabs and all the settings are exposed. This has also got a feature that lets your CPU to run faster at very high frequency by preventing meltdown. They have also made some changes in GPU configuration.

MiUi-AU ROM

This is a Chinese ROM which is built from source code of Google. It has got similar look like iPhone. This is mainly translated in English and it is most suitable for any Android phone. Some features are MIUI-AU is: It is having updated A2SD+ with DalvikCache2SD. It provides customized memory optimizer. They have also tweaked it in such a way that it provides faster GPS access. FM radio provided in this ROM also works nicely like Sense ROMs. It has also got in-built backup software. User can also easily manage themes based on their requirements.

Starburst ROM

This is for those people who really love complete functional ROM on install. This is designed based on Sibere’s Data2SD scripts. This ROM has got Smartass, Performance and Power saving features. Some other basic features included with this ROM are Gmail, Google Maps, Google Voice, Facebook specially designed for Android, Unread message counter, SMS unread counter. It has also got built-in file explorer called File Expert which is having root explorer function. It is also having video capturing capability of 720p.

Before these, I suggest GingerDX, stable, somewhat a nice ROM we can use with.

Requirements to install custom ROM:
1. A PC probably running windows.
2. Data cable
3. A rooted device
4. xRecovery
5. Again a strong desire to dig your stock OS.

Getting and installing xRecovery:
One important and basic step in installing a custom ROM is installing xRecovery. It is a bridge between your old and the current OS and the custom ROM you are about to flash into your mobile. So setting up of a Recovery is essential.
!!!Caution: Follow without a slip!!!

1. Google and find : xRecover 1.0
(you should be having 3 files, a XXXXXX.tar file, two other files)
2. Now put those on your SD card under the name xRecovery.
3. Boot up your phone.
4. Using a file manager, Copy the contents of xRecovery to this location </system/bin>
5. If your device is rooted properly, you will see a request asking for super user permission.
6. Grant access and reboot the device.
7. Now when you see the logo, Press BACK key several times. This may vary from model to model as you may be required to press volume up or down key.
8. Now you will be taken to the recovery mode.
9. Use backup and recovery to take a back up of your stock OS. This is very essential as it will help you to get back when anything goes wrong.
10. It is advisable to have a copy of the backup in your system. This file can be seen in the folder xRecovery in your SD card.

Now you have the backup and its time to play with your phone's life :P

Assuming you have:
1. A custom ROM's zip file which you want to flash.
2. xRecovery setup and working like charm.
3. again a desire to dig your stock OS.

Steps to install custom ROM:
1. Just mount your SD card and copy paste the zip file you downloaded earlier.
2. unplug USB and reboot your phone to recovery mode.
3. Now select install custom ROM from SD card.
4. Select YES and wait till its done.
5. Hurray! Now you have a custom ROM running successfully.
6. Reboot your phone. Wait... as first time boot usually takes time.

Your now having a working Custom ROM.

Comment for doubts and suggestions.
Follow my next post for detailed explanation on cynogen mode flashing.

Have a great day
Thanks for your valuable time in reading this.

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Timeline of Child Growth

2012-02-29T13:27:00.000+05:30

The biggest problem with today children is designing their behavior based on the day to day activities the come across. Most of the parents are still on the mayhem to direct and motivate their children towards goodness. Children are impulse driven. They do not understand the real consequences and reap experience through learning in the hard way.
As a old proverb says, "Old habits die hard"

Often grownups see the children as just a small grownups. But their minds are really different. That's why we don't put them in jail for their crimes. They cant be responsible. Their minds are not matured. There are lots of things running in their minds. Actually we adults don't have. Lots of chemical processes, mental processes.

Now what i am coming to say is the timeline of child growth. The timeline is changing so fast than it could be imagined.

Past showed a reasonable child behavior with moderate levels of goodness in children. The mentality of the children of the past was well in manner till date. But the actual fact is the affection and love the children had have with their parents. The fact lies with this is they actually bid with their parents as a matter of fact. They hide their childish desires and went well with their parents for their sake. They eventually carry the genetic memory of all their desires within them.

The next generation of children, carrying the genetic memories started to learn the new world more better than the past generation. So there comes their own desires and the desires from the past. Their past memories comes true as the parents of these generations are broadminded in bringing up their children.

For a example: owning a toy car may be a dream and desire of the 1950's children. But every child now enjoy the privilege of playing with toys ordinarily. Sequentially think of a child dream of having a computer for him/herself that it affects the future of Children as the parents enjoy the privilege of paying bills alone.

Now what here to see in this is that, How will be the future of children will be?
What is the potential of Children with desire, not having in mind the consequences of the world around them?

Lets see...
First of all Children are like computer programs especially a interpreter like thing. Basic life molding range of a child will fall to 5 years from 3 years of age. What is done in this age effects the future characteristics of the children.
A basic functionality of a interpreter is to execute the command line by line. As far as babies are concern, we need to execute them line by line. Children always wanted to do everything in their way. Even from drinking a glass of water to the maximum of their potential.
So its necessary to go in their way subdued not letting them know we are following them in their way.

Ultimate Guidelines in preparing for the interview

2012-02-22T17:33:00.000+05:30

The biggest mistake in interviewing is not being fully prepared. It behooves job-seekers to use every conceivable means possible to prepare for the interview and to allow ample time to fully prepare. Understand that interviewing is a skill; as with all skills, preparation and practice enhance the quality of that skill. Preparation can make the difference between getting an offer and getting rejected.
There is no one "best" way to prepare for an interview. Rather, there are specific and important strategies to enhance one's chances for interview success. Every interview is a learning experience, so learning that takes place during the preparation and actual interview process is useful for future interviews.
Initial preparation requires recent assessment of skills, interests, values, and accomplishments; a re-assessment and updating of one's resume; and research on the targeted company/organization and position. Preparation also includes actual practice of typical and targeted interview questions. Final preparation includes details of dress and appearance, knowledge of the location of the interview, what to expect, and protocols for follow-up.

General preparation before you begin the interview process:

Self-assessment:
I recommend self-assessment annually, but most people resist this step. When one is unemployed or fearing lay-off, the time is right for reassessing current skills, talents, abilities, strengths, weaknesses, interests, and work values. In addition, it is clearly time to re-examine accomplishments and achievements, particularly those that may be relevant to a prospective employer. I recommend keeping an on-going accomplishments file in which to maintain such items as articles, congratulatory letters, kudos from the boss or clients/customers, 360 evaluations, and descriptions of successful activities as they occur. In the course of daily business life, one often forgets those notable successes.

Updating your resume:
The accomplishments file serves as a springboard to reassessing your resume. The file contains content for selective resume inclusion. If we assume that a resume must be accomplishment-based rather than descriptive of one's responsibilities, then the file serves to jog one's memory about recent notable activities. Bare-bone the resume by removing all superfluous and/or irrelevant material, all articles (a, an, the), and work at getting it onto one page. Use functional headings to help focus the reader on what you have done and what you can do for the prospective employer. Be absolutely certain it is error-free.

Let's now assume you have a specific interview lined up.
Research, research, research :
Depending on available time, use every possible means to learn all you can about the company and position. Use the public library or local bookstore to locate and read information about the company/organization. Access books, journals, magazines, newspapers and any reference materials useful for investors and job-seekers. Ask the reference librarian about connections to investor online publications or services, such as Valueline, Lexis-Nexis. Read and/or check online resources for major business publications, such as Forbes, Money, Kiplinger's, The Wall St. Journal , or Investors Business Daily . Go online to the company's Web site as well as competitors' sites. Use investor Web sites to learn what's happening now in the news with this company and its competitors. Use websites to find business news by industry and/or location.

Use your friend's network to the best advantage :
if your college offers a searchable online database, search by company name. Contact any alumni who work for that company. Choose fairly recent graduates (to learn about the interview and hiring process, and early experiences on the job) and older alumni as well (to learn about corporate culture, history, and career paths.) All alumni contacts are valuable for their insights as well as their connections. Always come away from any networking meeting with at least two additional contacts.

Re-assessing your resume :
Even if you have sent your best-yet resume, which was obviously successful in making the cut, review it thoroughly and know everything that's on it. Be prepared to discuss supplemental experiences that might be important to this employer. Use a job interview prep sheet to focus on experiences you feel are most relevant and match them to the employer's needs.

Practising typical and targeted interview questions :

Why are you interested in this field?
Why are you interested in this company?
Why are you interested in this position?

Be prepared to discuss anything on your resume. Be prepared to answer questions/issues you really don't want to answer. For example:

your greatest weakness
your lack of related experience
your low GPA (Grade Point Average) or your low grades
your lack of leadership experiences
your record of job-hopping

Practice with a friend, career counsellor or coach, or in front of a mirror. Video or audio-tape your answers for future review. Scrutinize how you look and sound. Note inflection of your voice, mannerisms and gestures, facial expressions, poise, energy and enthusiasm in your answers as well as in your body language. How can you improve, enhance, develop, or revise your answers and/or delivery?
Because interviewing is a skill, you can only improve your style and acumen with practice. College and university career services offices typically offer mock interviews and interview workshops. But you can always prevail upon family or friends to help you prepare. Ask for genuine feedback that will be helpful in working out the kinks. Practice is important too in assuaging fears and nervousness. However, a degree of tension is beneficial toward maintaining a level of alertness that causes you to sit up straight and forward in your seat, leaning toward the interviewer. The ideal is to strike a balance between poise/calm and energy/enthusiasm.
Prepare questions to ask. These questions should reflect your research on the company and position and should never include questions whose answers are readily available in company literature or Web site. Do NOT ask about salary or benefits.

Final preparations Select appropriate attire long before the interview day. Know the culture of the organisation for which you are interviewing and dress accordingly -- perhaps a notch above that -- especially if the company has espoused corporate casual. A business suit is always acceptable. Be certain that your clothing is clean and well pressed. Do a test run to determine comfort level. Too short or too tight may cause you -- or others -- to be distracted or uncomfortable. Minimise accessories. Remember: less is more. You want to be memorable for the right reasons.
Know the location of your interview. Do a drive-by if possible. Plan to arrive at the designated office 10 minutes in advance. Allow ample time for traffic, the possibility of getting lost, and parking difficulties. Bring extra copies of your resume in a folder or portfolio. Bring a small notebook for notes, but keep note-taking to a minimum.
Collect business cards from every individual with whom you interview. Ask about timeframes for filling the position, how and when you will be notified, and if they would like additional information or materials from you. DO NOT ASK ABOUT SALARY OR BENEFITS!

Follow-up Send a thank-you note within 24-48 hours of your interview. Send one to every person who interviewed you. Email is OK, but follow protocols for formal business correspondence, which is always more formal than typical email. Use the thank you note to reiterate your interest and to emphasise your specific qualifications for the position. What do you want them to remember about you that is likely to "sell" them on you as a viable candidate? Everything about the job search should be focused on what YOU can do for the company, what YOU bring to the position, and why the employer should hire YOU! The interview may be your one shot -- so make it a good one!

All the best

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வழி விடும் விநாயகர்

2012-02-19T00:00:00.000+05:30

வண்டியில் போகும் போது
நான் வணங்க சொன்னேனா...
விபத்தை சந்தித்தான்
பாவம் என் பக்தன்.

Life - explained differently

2012-02-05T19:58:00.001+05:30

Everyone's Life is a unique. Some make it meaningful and others fail to prove or they dint get the right opportunity I have to say.

Everything was good when we came into being. No desires. No wishes. No worries. Life went as it was ment to be.
Schooling starts as we ventures out to start our life.

People pass their life as a late stimulus responder. They dint know what to do at what stage.

In the childhood age, we think of all adolescent things. When we come to adolescent stage, we will think as if we missed our childhood life.
This is not our fault too.

People are often made to do what they are actually prepared to do and at the same time, they were pushed out before they fully enjoy or cherish what they are now.

The fault lies with the people above them. They influence others life easily in taking their life decisions. We cant completely blame them too. Because They are also trained and brought up like that.

The responsibility lies with the society and the customs people blindly follow.

Every child is born good. Brought up good. The society doesnt need to be good. What I am supposed to say or ask is just some questions.

"what is right? What is wrong?"
Who is supposed to decide it?
Why we are blindly following someone?

It doesnt mean people should act individually not worrying about the others. I am not talķing about the life science.
Bringing into account the various beliefs we blindly follow.

Life is unique for each and everyone. Cherish your life. Life will cherish you in turn. Forcing someone into something may make you happy and satisfied as if you helped someone. But it is a shame part on your side as your stealing someone's life.

Let people dream wish desire and do what they wished to. You may be his/her parent or wellwisher or someone who takes care of them. It doesnt mean that you can influence into their life.

As you had a single life, every one is given a life. Let live.

Frnds I am back with your blog

2012-01-21T19:02:00.001+05:30

Due to some technical issues whe little personal problems, blog went out of management.

How to remove Recycle Bin Icon from Desktop

2011-09-07T23:55:00.000+05:30

hello Friends,

Most of us love wallpapers. But we find the annoying icons all over the desktop. As far as the priority is concern, We always manage to remove all blocking icons that includes

1.My Computer
2.My documents
3.Even sometimes the most annoying Nero Scout.

But we often find ourselves going mad about removing the Recycle Bin icon.

Here is a registry tweak i found to permanently remove Recycle Bin Icon.
Be aware to backup your registry before you do this thing(click here to know how to back up the registry).

I do not guarantee the success depending on your machine. Try at your own risk.

1. Open registry editor through START-->RUN-->type regedit--> hit enter.
2. then using the side tree go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Destkop\NameSpace\

3. Delete this key : {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
4. Do not forget to restart the system.

you will find the Recycle Bin gone from your Desktop.

Thank you
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How to back up your registry

2011-09-07T23:36:00.001+05:30

Often we found ourselves so bored about our default things about our OS. Sometimes the best thing we do are changing sounds, wallpapers, sometimes even themes. So many times there are a simple way of changing the way your OS looks. But rarely it goes tough. You may need to touch the registry for some change.
Thus for a good sake, Microsoft have provided a open registry so that you can edit things and make it as you like. But editing registry is a bad idea that it may cause a fatal error and corrupt the OS itself.
you may say or ask as "There must be a other way." Yes, of course. The easiest way to save your OS from fatal attack is backing up before you edit your registry.
Basically there are two types of backup methods for registry. Here i am going to tell you both the methods in detail.
This tweak is for Windows XP, but with some OS knowledge you can follow this with any OS with some slight change. If you found difficult, post a comment. I will reply with the corresponding OS.

1. Steps to backup the entire registry - (easy one)

You can use the built-in Microsoft Backup Utility (accessible from Start-->All Programs-->Accessories-->System Tools) to back up the system state. The system state includes the registry, the COM+ Class Registration Database, and your boot files.

2. Steps to export registry subkeys

Use the following procedure to export a registry subkey before you edit it

a. Click Start, and then click Run.
b. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
c. Locate and then click the subkey that contains the value that you want to edit.
d. On the File menu, click Export.
e. In the Save in box, select a location where you want to save the Registration Entries (.reg) file, type a file name in the File name box (i normally use the format subkey_name_date_hour), and then click Save. This is create a *.reg file containing your subkey backup.
f. In case you want to undo the changes you made to the registry after the backup, locate your *.reg file and double click it.

your done.

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How to manually install apps in your android phone

2011-09-02T22:37:00.000+05:30

First of all i want to talk something about Android and apk files. Now a days, Androids become most important in today's mobile phones. This is a smart phone era is seems. Here we go, APK is Application Package File. The file format used to install applications in Google's proud and bright Android Operating system.

APK are a variant of jar file format with an .apk extention. jar files you might have seen in Symbian phones.

Here are the steps to be followed strictly :

1. First you need to open your browser and google for android apps providers (except market, as it wont provide you .apk files)
Here are some sites i found useful:

mobiles24.com (you will need to create a ID here for free.)
androidzoom.com

also u can search in rapid share and mega upload for apk files.

2. Now assuming that u reached your website page, Browse the content you want and click download to download the apk file you needed. ( U need to be sure about the OS version. Check for it in phone and then download the appropriate file. Usually sites provide option to select phone model. So its easy. Even if you are unable to find your phone, Find your phone OS version and look for the phone in list with the same version.)

3. Half done ! Now go to the download folder of your browser.

4. Find your File you downloaded. usually a *.apk file.

5. Connect your phone and copy the file to your SD card.

6. Disconnect the phone and run your Application Installer app from your phone. ( By default, all Android phones are provided with Application Installer. If not you can find it in android market and download through wap.)

7. Now you can see that your phone searches your SD card for apk files. A final updated list of apk files are listed there.

8. Click on the file name you copied to your phone.

9. Touch install and complete the installation.

10. You are done ! You will find the app in your menu list.

post comments and ask what else you wanna know about anything !

Happy Ramzan

2011-08-30T23:33:00.001+05:30

May the festival of lights be the harbinger

of joy and prosperity. As the holy occasion of

Ramadan is here and the atmosphere is

filled with the spirit of mirth and love,

here is hoping this festival of beauty brings

your way, bright sparkles of contentment,

that stay with you through the days ahead.

Ravivarma

Creating your resume

2011-08-18T23:19:00.000+05:30

For any interview you attend you need to have a good resume. You need to know what are the contents of your resume and the real meaning of it, im saying this because one of my friend called josh once in his inteview, he wrote in his objective so complicated like “Aspiring for a career that places me in a challenging position within a fast-paced and learning-oriented environment for developing my technical and inter personal skills and work with the dynamic skills that I have” See how complicated for his knowledge and he was questions by the HR who saw his resume that what are the dynamic skills you have. He was just blinking. So HR asked him about his objective and he was just telling it as if he was reading it from history text book.

Similarly don’t write data structure is your area of interest, this happened to me, once i was questioned which is youtr area of interest and i answered ‘I love data structure’, Here it starts, what id the behaviour of stack and queue?, what is tree? what is graph?, what is linked list? you think these are easy right? here it goes again? how will you insert an element into circularly linked list and write a program for it, Write a program to sort a number of elements in graph and in tree. Write programs for heap sort. What the hell, i don’t know anything in data structure and i made a mistake by telling that i know data structure.

So these are the main things you need to be cautious about resume. Here is my resume and i think i made it as simple as possible. Click this to view resume sample.

Remember you can clear any interview that you attend. No matter you have knowledge on the subject, it’s all about the way you talk and your attitude.

Interviewer doesn’t check whether you know everything on the subject, he just check your attitude and check whether you are trainable. Have guts, be bold, be prepared. You will be selected.

Good Luck!

Best Security Tips

2011-08-07T23:34:00.000+05:30

After users repeatedly asking me about the security ways of avoiding data theft and sometimes identity theft too, i am writing this article on FRIENDSHIP DAY and dedicating to all my friends.

Disable Remote Registry Editing

Only you should be editing your Windows registry, so make sure this service is disabled by clicking Start, Run, and then typing "services.msc." Scroll down to Remote Registry and make sure the service is stopped, and then set it to either manual or disable.

Lock It Down

It's always a good idea to lock your PC if strangers are nearby and you step away for a few minutes. Just press Windows key+L to lock your PC. Alternatively, you can set your screensaver (via the Screensaver tab in Display Settings under Control Panel) to require a password if it's deactivated by checking the box in "Settings" that says "On resume, password protect."

Prevent Phishing Attacks

Protect yourself from identity theft and phishing attacks by using the the latest versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera. These browsers include protection that double-checks URLs against a blacklist, and will notify you if you're about to visit a known phishing site.

Keep Your Software Up to Date

Hackers and crackers love to take advantage of exploits found in software, which causes the developers to release a patch to plug up the holes. Therefore, it's imperative you not only enable Windows Update but also download the latest version of any software on your system, especially your Web browser and antivirus program.

Be Wary of P2P Files

Virus makers love peer-to-peer file-sharing services. They name their virus "Angelina Jolie Wallpapers" or something similar and upload it. Then millions of people download it, launch it, and wonder why their computers are infested with viruses. Download with caution, and always use antivirus software. If you need an effective, free antivirus solution, we recommend AVG Free.

Wipe the Drive Before Donating Your Old Computer

If you are getting rid of a hard drive and want to render all or some of its data unrecoverable, you have two options. You can download Eraser to securely wipe any file or folder, and you can use Darik's Boot and Nuke SE (DBAN) to write over the entire drive. To use DBAN, download it and burn it as an ISO disc, then boot from it. It will provide you with instructions on the welcome screen.

Encrypt Sensitive Files

If you want to encrypt sensitive data, you can buy a portable USB drive with built-in encryption like the CMS ABS-Secure Encrypted Backup System, but if you just want to protect a specific folder or group of files, we recommend Truecrypt, which is free. It encrypts a custom-sized volume with 256-bit AES encryption, so it's extremely secure.

Verify Your Backups

Many people have a "set it and forget it" mindset when it comes to backups. Even after you establish a regimen, however, it's critical that you check the target folders periodically to ensure the proper files are being backed up. If not, re-configure your backup routine to make sure it's working properly.

Back Up Your Data

You must back up your data, period. If you have the means, we highly recommend an external USB drive like the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus. If you already have an extra drive in your system—but just need some good backup software—try the free version of 2BrightSpark's Syncback, which is sublimely easy to configure.

Turn Off Your PC During Lightning Storms

Even surge protectors can be overwhelmed during electrical storms, and we've seen the results first-hand—fried motherboards, processors, hard drives and power supplies. If you're experiencing a heavy-duty electrical storm, take our advice and unplug your computer from the wall socket—just in case. And buy a laptop to use until the crisis passes.

Enable S.M.A.R.T for Your Hard Drives

S.M.A.R.T (self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology) allows your drive to report whether it's about to fail, which can give you a heads-up to replace it. All the modern hard drives have it—go into your PC's BIOS (press Del or F2/F10 during bootup) and enable it.

U can also refer my previous blog about S.M.A.R.T here

Enable Extension Viewing

By default, Windows hides file extensions, and virus-makers exploit this feature by giving their executable program names like Popularsong.exe, which appears as a harmless audio file if you have extensions hidden. To enable extension viewing, open any folder and click Tools, Folder Options, and uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types."

How to speed up your PC

2011-08-04T23:31:00.001+05:30

If like mine, your PC is getting slower and slower, there are a number of things you can do to speed it up. You will be surprised how much faster your computer gets after these steps, you won’t need to buy a new one.

Here is what you can do yourself to improve your Windows XP’s performance:

Step 1 : Remove unused software

You probably don’t use half the programs you have installed over time. Removing the ones you don’t need anymore can significantly speed up your Windows XP computer. To remove software:

Go to the Control Panel (Start -> Control Panel) and select Add Or Remove Programs. It may take a while for the list to load if you have many programs installed.
Going through the whole list, select programs you rarely use and uninstall them, one by one.
Restart your computer to see the changes.

Step 2: Use Less Graphics

Do you really need a wallpaper and the fancy animations when opening or closing windows? Disabling animations can increase the speed at which your computer opens and closes windows. To disable window animations:

In Control Panel, go to System and select the Advanced tab. Click the Performance Settings tab.

In the Visual Effects window, disable all the animations in the box, or simply select “Adjust for best performance” as shown on the screenshot on the right. Press Apply.

In the same Performance Options window, choose the Advanced tab, and press the Change button in the Virtual Memory area. From there you can change the size of your paging file – a file on your hard drive that acts as RAM. By increasing the size of your paging file, you can significantly increase speed, but be warned! Using your hard drive as RAM can cause damage to it, so it’s a good idea to buy a better RAM instead.

Step 3: Clean your Registry

You should regularly clean your Windows XP’s Registry to remove old errors that can clog up the registry. To properly clean the Registry, you need a reliable Registry Cleaner software. There are some free ones out there, but I would not be too comfortable with using them. Instead, buy a trusted registry cleaner program so for a little bit of extra cash, you can feel safe.

Step 4: Stop unwanted Startup programs

By disabling programs that are set to automatically open when the computer starts, you can greatly speed up your startup process – the time between turning on the computer and being able to fully use it.

Here’s how to disable Startup programs:

Click Run in your Start menu, type msconfig into the box and press enter.
Select the Startup tab.
Go through the list, disabling programs you don’t need by un-ticking the box left of them. Only disable programs you are sure you do not need, and I recommend not touching the ones in the WINDOWS directory.

Step 5: Clean up your hard drive

Performing a disk cleanup can free some hard drive space and also speed up your computer. To use the disk cleanup tool:

Go to Start -> Run and type cleanmgr.exe. Press Enter.
It will probably take a while, especially if you have never used this tool before.

Step 6: Defragment your hard drives

Defragmenting your drives can make a big difference in your computer’s speed. Defragmenting places files physically closer on the hard drive, making it easier and faster for the hard drive to read these files and write new ones. It is a good idea to defragment your hard drive regularily, so it alway stays optimal.

There are also a number of commercial defragment programs available, which are more powerful than the Windows tool and come with a wide variety of features. If you don’t want to spend any money on this, I would recommend Auslogics Disk Defrag, which is a great, free tool.

Here’s how to defragment your hard drives using the built-in Windows tool:

In My Computer, right click on a drive you want to defragment.
Click Tools and select Defragment
Click the Analyse button first, which will analyse your hard drive and see how fragmented it is.
Once the report is finished and the system finds it necessary to perform a defragmentation, press defrag. This will take a very long time, but you have to be patient.

Step 7: Use a PC optimization tool to do the rest

There are a hundreds of other ways to improve your computer’s speed and performance but it is impossible to list all of them here or go through them manually. To fix them, you can either purchase a separate tool for each one, which will end up costing you a fortune, or buy an All-In-One optimization program that will do all the dirty work and fix errors behind the scenes for you. Going through all the steps mentioned above will definitely speed up your Windows XP, but running a professional tool even after following these manual steps will increase performance even further.

enjoy with us.

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Top 6 useful Windows Tricks

2011-08-04T00:20:00.001+05:30

You know that feeling you get when your friends or family see you do something on your computer that they've never seen before? If you’ve had this experience, you know that “world's coolest power-user” feeling. But if you haven’t, start here. Knowledge is power!

Read these six tips for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP that will keep you schoolin' your friends and family.

1. Don't just maximize your windows—go full screen

When you need a really big window for viewing photos and videos, don't just maximize it: go full screen! This tip works great for viewing photos and videos at maximum size in Windows Explorer or Windows Media Player, utilizing screen space usually occupied by the header at the top of the screen and the taskbar at the bottom. Here’s how:

Open any photo in Windows Explorer, or open a photo or video clip in Windows Media Player. Do one of the following:

In Windows 7 and Windows XP, click the F11 key at the top of your keyboard.

The photo or video image enlarges to its maximum size and the title bar and taskbar are hidden.

Viewing a photo in Windows Explorer standard view

To undue full-screen mode and restore the window to its normal view, press theEsc (Escape) key at the top of your keyboard

2. Customize the Navigation pane

You can use the navigation pane (the left pane) to find files and folders and display links to frequently used folders and other items. You can also move or copy items to a destination in the navigation pane.

If you don't see the navigation pane on the left side of an open folder window, clickOrganize, point to Layout, and then click Navigation pane to display it.

To customize the navigation pane in Windows 7

In an open folder or library window, click Organize, and then click Folder and search options.
In the Folder Options dialog box, click the General tab, and then do one or both of the following:
- To show all the folders on your computer in the navigation pane, including your personal folder, select the Show all folders check box, click Apply to see the change, and then click OK.
- To automatically expand the navigation pane to the folder that's selected in the folder window, select the Automatically expand to current foldercheck box, and then click OK.

Customizing the navigation pane in Windows 7

More ways to customize your favorites in Windows 7

To add a folder, a saved search, a library, or even a drive as a favorite, drag it to the Favorites section in the navigation pane. Note: You can’t add individual file to Favorites, but you can add them to any folder in Favorites.
To change the order of favorites, drag a favorite to a new position in the list.
To restore the default favorites in the navigation pane, right-click Favorites, and then click Restore Favorite Links.
To view the folder where your favorites are stored, click Favorites in the navigation pane. Favorites are stored as shortcuts.
To remove a favorite, right-click the favorite, and then click Remove. This removes the favorite from the navigation pane—it doesn't delete the files or folders that the shortcut points to.

The Favorites area of the navigation pane in Windows 7

Add folders and files in Windows Vista

In Windows Vista, you can add folders to Favorite Links in the navigation pane so that you can open them from any folder window at any time. To do this, first open the folder that contains the subfolder you want to add. Then simply drag its icon from the original folder to where you want it in the navigation pane. You can also click Folders at the bottom of the pane and drag a folder from the folder list up into the Favorite Links section of the pane. Note: You can’t add individual files to Favorite Links, but you can add them to any folder in Favorite Links.

Pictures folder in Windows

3. Pin a program or items to the Windows 7 taskbar

You know what would make a great taskbar? One where you could pin your favorite applications or files so that you could open them quickly from any window at any time. Guess what? You can.

In Windows 7, you can also pin shortcuts for favorite or frequently used files, folders, and websites to the Jump Lists for each of those programs to the taskbar.

Pin a program to the taskbar

To pin a program shortcut to the taskbar, do one of the following:

If the program is already running, right-click the program's button on the taskbar (or drag the button toward the desktop) to open the program’s Jump List, and then click Pin this program to taskbar.
Or if the program isn't running, click Start, find the program’s icon, right-click the icon, and then click Pin to Taskbar.
You can also pin a program by dragging the program's shortcut from the desktop or Start menu to the taskbar.

Pinning a program to the taskbar

4. Customize the Quick Launch Bar in Windows XP

In Windows XP, the customizable Quick Launch Bar also gives you convenient shortcuts to your favorite programs, folders, and files. The Quick Launch Bar remains accessible from most windows, so it’s a handy way to open the applications and files you use frequently.

If the Quick Launch Bar isn’t already visible to the right of the Start button , you’ll need to turn it on. To do that, right-click an open area of the taskbar. Hover your mouse pointer over Toolbars, then click Quick Launch. The Quick Launch Bar appears on your taskbar.

The Quick Launch Bar on the Windows XP taskbar

To add a program shortcut to the Quick Launch Bar, click the Start button, click All Programs, then click and drag the application you want to the Quick Launch Bar. Release the mouse button and the application’s icon appears in the Quick Launch Bar.

To add a folder or file shortcut to the Quick Launch Bar, open Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder, subfolder, or individual file you want, click and drag the folder or file you want to the Quick Launch Bar. Release the mouse button and the icon for the folder or file appears in the Quick Launch Bar.

To remove a shortcut from the Quick Launch Bar, right-click on the icon in the Quick Launch Bar of the application, folder, or file you want to remove and right-click it, click Delete, and then click Yes when asked if you’re sure you want to delete the shortcut. Note: Although the shortcut is removed from the Quick Launch Bar, the actual application, folder, or file has not been deleted from your computer.

5. Arrange windows on your desktop

In Windows, you can arrange windows side by side, which can be especially helpful when comparing two documents or when moving files from one place to another. Note: If you’re using a nonstandard setup (such as dual monitors), the tricks below may not work as expected.

Windows 7

Drag the title bar of a window to the left or right side of the screen until an outline of the expanded window appears.
Release the mouse to expand the window.
Repeat steps 1 and 2 with another window to arrange the windows side by side.

To return a window to its original size click the Maximize button in the window’s title bar and the window expands to full size.

The Maximize button

Tip: To snap an active window to the side of the desktop by using the keyboard, press Windows logo key +Left Arrow or Windows logo key +Right Arrow.

Viewing windows side by side in Windows

Windows Vista and Windows XP

In Windows Vista and Windows XP, it’s easy to display any two (or more) windows side by side on the desktop, all equally sized. Press and hold the Ctrl key and click two or more of the window buttons on the taskbar that you want to open. Release the Ctrl key, right-click, and then do one of the following:

Windows Vista users, click Show Windows Side by Side.

Windows Vista, Show Windows Side by Side command.

Windows XP, Tile Vertically command.

6. Organize your files into groups

Windows offers a variety of options for organizing folders and files in the ways that work best for you.

Windows 7

The easiest and most effective way to organize your stuff in Windows 7 is to use file arrangements in your libraries.

You can arrange files in the Documents library by author, for example, or you can arrange the Music library by artist if you're looking for an album or song by a particular band.

To arrange a library

In the taskbar, click the Windows Explorer button .
In the navigation pane (the left pane), click a library (such as Music).
In the library pane (above the file list), click the Arrange by menu, and then choose a property. For example, in the Music library, you can choose Artist to quickly arrange your music collection by artist.

The "Arrange by" menu
When you arrange your files, Windows doesn't just put your files in a different order. Instead, they are presented in a completely different way. The arrangements work differently depending on which one you choose. For example, arranging your pictures by month puts your pictures into stacks, like this:

Files arranged in "stacks"
Arranging by day puts them into groups, like this:

Files arranged in "groups"
There are four default libraries in Windows 7, each with its own specific arrangements. You can also create new libraries and choose which arrangements are available for them.

Windows Vista

Open a folder that contains several different subfolders and file types. Right-click any empty space on the window's contents pane, point to Group By, and then click your grouping choice.

Windows Vista Group by command.

Windows XP

Open a folder that contains several different subfolders and file types. Right-click any empty space on the window's contents pane, point to Arrange Icons By, and then click Show in Groups. To arrange the window's contents, right-click again in any empty space on the window's contents pane, point to Arrange Icons By, and click Name, Size, Type, or Modified (the choices may vary depending on the contents).

Windows XP Arrange icons by command.

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