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Android phones price list

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:22:00 -0000

http://www.mysmartprice.com/mobile/pricelist/android-mobile-price-list-in-india.html

Check this out.. There are Android phones below 5k also

"Select Distinct" in DataTable

Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:16:00 -0000

http://sampradan.blogspot.com/2011/10/fetching-distinct-values-from-datatable.html

Converting a DataRow[] to DataTable

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 03:03:00 -0000

http://sampradan.blogspot.com/2011/10/conversion-datarow-to-datatable-without.html

Brain Actuated Technology

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:50:00 -0000

Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI Test User Guide

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:50:58 -0000

Just surpassed a terrific traffic jam.. A bunch of cranes moving back-n-forth, in the middle of the road.. as if they were to build all the metros of Bangalore in a day, with the traffic police whining his time, thinking all the time in the world was his own.. Felt like locking the traffic police in the dustbin, throwing off the key, and driving the crane out of the road.. I wonder why these guys pretend to work so much

Wed, 3 Aug 2011 06:51:41 -0000

Home | Random Hacks of Kindness

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:17:00 -0000

This site encourages hacking done for a good cause. Greatly appreciate the efforts of the

Gmail Priority Inbox

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:54:38 -0000

This is a nice new feature introduced by Google, especially if you fall in the category of people receiving loads of email

Facebook, Youtube spam

Wed, 18 May 2011 14:09:00 -0000

This is regarding the recent spam circulating on Facebook, Youtube.
Whenever a user clicks on a wall post containing status messages like "I can't believe you are in this vid", "Why do you look so stupid" and the likes, the user is redirected to a url containing the following javascipt.

[Courtesy: http://www.tech18.com/alert-facebook-youtube-spam.html]
Below is the screenshot of the file :

Follow the below steps to get rid of this spam

Step 1 : Delete that Facebook Wall post so that at least your friends who are viewing your Facebook wall do not come across to this spam.

Step 2: Restrict other people from posting on your disabling your friends to post on your wall as shown below. Browse to Account=>Privacy Settings -> Customize Settings -> Things others share -> Friends can post on my Wall

So friends share this with all your friends to beware of this spam.

Viral Apps/Spam in Facebook: Please..You can't find out who saw your profile. You won't see what u'll look like in the future. You won't know what that man saw when he walked in on his daughter. There are no free iPads. You can't see the video of Osama's death on FB. And tht's not ME in that video.Please stop clicking the spam links, exposing yourself and friends to virus risks. If you agree re-post this and stop stupidity..get wel soon Facebook

Wed, 18 May 2011 11:26:37 -0000

Akshaya Patra:: Unlimited Food for education

Thu, 12 May 2011 13:31:00 -0000

The kitchen from the outside -
a three-storey building which uses Gravity Flow Mechanism developed in-house
by our team. Each kitchen has the capacity to cook between 50 000 to 100 000
mid-day meals per day. Costing approximately 9 crores to set up, they are built with funds from public donations.

The kitchen from the inside,
consisting of rice cauldrons each of which
cooks up to 110kg of rice in 20 minutes.
Sambar cauldrons cook up to 1200
litres of sambar in two hours.

It is washed thoroughly on the 2nd floor

Washed rice is sent down the chute to the
1st floor

Rice pours down into steam heated cauldrons
for cooking. The entire cooking process
takes place on the 1st floor

Super heated steam is used
to cook food instead of flame.

When cooking is finished, it is
loaded into trolleys

Cooked rice is sent down the chute
to the ground floor

It flows down the pipe into containers

Piping hot rice on its way to being
loaded into food vans. Around
6000 kiloso...

Caution:: Osama malware illustrations

Thu, 5 May 2011 11:24:00 -0000
The cyber criminals have always taken media and news as a tool to intrude more and more systems accross the world.

Osama's death though came out to be an element of surprise / shock, its no surprise that the bad cyber guys have used similar strategies that they used for the Japanese disaster or the calamities and news which have taken place lately.

Each of them have used the Viral marketing strategy to tap more systems through social networks other than the legacy methods of email spamming, botnets.

A request of caution to all users who may or have fallen prey to such attacks.
Do identify the pattern of these attacks. You can refer to the strategies that have been followed in the past in my blog

So, I would really not go through the same strategies again.
But to caution you with a few detected illustrations here.

Phishing attacks reported targeted on big brands like CNN (Mexico)

The spam email contains a link to bogus "photos and uncensored videos" which redirects to the user to a phis...

Tata pixel: Its out in European markets

Mon, 2 May 2011 05:10:00 -0000
Tata pixel out in Europe??? Being an Indian company, why is it not in the Indian markets first??

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Viral Facebook Techniques

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:44:00 -0000
Facebook is a platform truly loyal to marketeers and companies / institutions involved in brand endorsement campaigns. It helps a business reach a vast number of audience with minimal manpower marketing effort in a very short span of time.

Hey.. wait a moment.. "a very short span of time"?? How?
Here's where the viral facebook techniques pitch in.
Each facebook user has been caught by atleast one viral facebook technique.. mostly unknowingly,
You will learn for yourself how.
The following techniques could be found useful by marketing professionals trying to reach a target with minimum effort and time,

Invite before Action
This method forces the facebook user to send application invites to n number of users.
Astonishingly, this technique worked well with a lot of Facebook users. There is an instance of the "Happy Hour" application which turned out to be Facebook's top 13 popular application.
Naturally, the upcoming FB apps followed suite.
But, I really do not recommend this method. This may ...

Lions sleep 18hrs a day!! If hardwork is the secret to success, then donkey would have been the king of the jungle.. Its not how much you work, rather how you work that makes a difference.

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:54:18 -0000

Japanese Disaster - How cyber criminals misused it

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:55:00 -0000
The Japanese series of disasters, which has been one of the saddest starts of the year, and yes we find a bunch of international charitable institutions donating for the cause and requesting the same through social media.
Some though not all of them being genuine. Do take a walk-through of how these bad guys take advantage of this event to trouble your systems.

These are some of the techniques used by cyber criminals.
SEO poisoning
Rogue AV (anti-virus)
Phishing emails asking for donation
Malicious files attached to emails claiming to be legitimate documents
Facebook apps with CPA (cost per action) lead surveys
Though Websense confirms that its customers are protected by the Advanced Classification Engine analytics.

SEO Poisoning

Its a term for a complex black-hat method of attacking your computer by using websites that selectively “poison” or infect users with spyware, viruses, or other malware. SEO Poisoning is different from other such attacks because it is hard for a search engi...

Japan.....What a nation!!!!!!!!!

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:46:00 -0000

The Picture of gaping chasms in a Japanese road demonstrated the power of the March 11 earthquake. Now the astonishing speed of reconstruction highlights Japan’s ability to get back on its feet.

Work began on March 17 and six days later, the cratered section of the Great Kanto Highway in Naka was as good as new and ready to re- open to traffic.

Implement File Preview in C#

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:34:00 -0000
Windows Explorer view in C#..... My first thoughts were of a set of APIs provided by .Net to implement the same.

Well, I did check my thought with the web, and yes, a lot of people came to be of the same opinion. I went through one code, which used some shellScript, and the other one was a tool by the name of GhostScript.

Sorry to say, that none of them impressed me. Now, there was one project that I found on codeProject.com. Unfortunately, I just lost that link. But, nevertheless let me share this project with you readers. Once I find the link, I shall update it here.

The original project comes with the feature that mimics the Windows Vista Explorer view with a preview. Here's the sample output of this project. You can find the project attached with this blog as "FilePreview From CodeProject.zip".

I have modified the code so that it can be plugged to an existing application. It would be a single line code-integration, once the properties are correctly set. You can fin...

Microsoft Says: 'Good Riddance' to USB Autorun http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/02/09/microsoft-says-good-riddance-usb-autorun/

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:08:34 -0000

Touchpad Vs Xoom Vs iPad Vs iPad2

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:22:00 -0000

Other perks from the iPad competitors: The TouchPad can charge wirelessly with a separate accessory, and the Xoom can output HD video.
As far as the pricing is concerned, Xoom may start at $799!
iPad 2 prices, even the model with Wifi + 3G will come out at US$629 with 16GB, the the upper limit for the 64GB model would be US$829

[Courtesy: http://www.pcworld.com/article/219243/hp_touchpad_vs_motorola_xoom_vs_ipad_how_they_stack_up.html]

Thers' one thing though. The variety of apps provided by the Xoom and Touchpad cannot match the apps provided by the iPad (the number is about 60,000)

There have been glitches noted in iPad too, the smart phone apps do not give the same satisfying experience on the iPad.
Nevertheless, the career of the iPad has been pretty fulfilling.

IPad is due for an upgrade. I believe its been in market for the past one year. It would be right though to compare the above tablets with the soon to launch iPad2.

BTW, the carriers for iPad 2 are both AT...

Japan Earthquake:: Before and After

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:36:00 -0000
Its indeed sad to see so much of damage done to Japan due to natural disasters and the nuclear blasts. My sincere prayers for the affected people.

To view the before and after effects, you would need to hover your mouse on each image and move towards the left.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

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Multiply overtakes Facebook as the best social media site

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:10:00 -0000
Why is Facebook not the best social networking site.
Multiply overtakes facebook! Why? Take a look.

http://whisperwalk.multiply.com/journal/item/62/Multiply.com_congratulated_for_defeating_Facebook.com

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Saving birds / animals apart from drought this summer

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:44:03 -0000

Summer is advancing to its peak. We make way for water, but with rivers and lakes drying, poor birds and animals are facing the summer's wrath.

Lets do our bit to save them. We can place water pots for the birds and animals, so that they do not suffer and die 'coz of lack of water.
Do share this message to maximum people because they need you.

Summer is here and its going to be equally harsh to the animals around us. Kindly do your tiny bit by keeping a bowl of fresh water out side your balcony or garden.

IN AUSTRALIA , IT WAS SO HOT FOR A WEEK
THAT KOALAS WERE ASKING PEOPLE FOR WATER . IT'S NEVER BEEN SEEN
BEFORE.

"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened."

.Net:: Reuse Code Analysis configurations accross projects

Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:09:00 -0000
So now that we are all familiar with how code analysis can be done in Visual Studio, lets see how your configured rules can be re-used across different Visual Studio projects.

The version in consideration is Visual Studio 2008.

If you had tried to reuse your rules-set, you would have wondered, where on earth are my configured rules saved in the Project?? Ever come across this difficulty?

True, Visual Studio does not store your configured rules in some kind of config file, as it should have.

But then, it stores these rules in your project file. For instance, if you are using a C# project, then this configuration will be stored in your .csproj file. You can view it in Visual Studio, but to migrate / re-use these rules, it may be required to re-configure it manually. But what if your solution consists of say 50 projects??

Here's an easier way.
Firstly, you will need to configure the rules for one project. Once configured, save your project.
Open Windows Explorer and locate your project file (t...

Technical expertise enough in the world of software products??

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:39:00 -0000
"The knowledge of a PHD fresher cannot equate the knowledge of the graduate professional with years of industrial experience . Knowledge through experience weighs higher.
"
Today every other guy or gal knows how technology works. Each attaches at least one computer technology, certification to their resume. But is technical expertise enough to create world-class software products for your employer / your company?

Think about it.
Take an example.
You need to create an Agile process automation tool for your client.
He gives you a set of requirements, you design it, prepare screens and develop the system and deliver it.

The client now needs the tool to analyze dynamically as to which methodology (life cycle management) suites best for a particular kind of product.
Here, you need to know more about how exactly Agile works, and when you need to use it and for what kind of project.

Here, you realize that just knowing technologies like .Net, Java, php, mobile technology is not enough.
You will now...

Security Alert!!!! Fake videos are being sent accross multiply as personal messages PMs. They come with a standard template: Hi , you have received a video.

Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:32:40 -0000