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An Hour for Mother Earth

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:36:00 +0000

Lights went out at tourism landmarks and homes across the globe on Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, a global event designed to highlight the threat from climate change.

From the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and London's Houses of Parliament, lights were dimmed as part of a campaign to encourage people to cut energy use and curb greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.Organizers said the action showed millions of people wanted governments to work out a strong new U.N. deal to fight global warming by the end of 2009, even though the global economic crisis has raised worries about the costs.

"We have been dreaming of a new climate deal for a long time," Kim Carstensen, head of a global climate initiative at the conservation group WWF, said in a candle-lit bar in the German city of Bonn, which hosts U.N. climate talks between March 29 and April 8."Now we're no longer so alone with our dream. We're sharing it with all these people switching off their lights," he said as delegates and activists sipped bluish cocktails.

World emissions of green house gases have risen by about 70 percent since the 1970s. China has recently overtaken the United States as the top emitter, ahead of the European Union, Russia and India.

BILLION PEOPLE TAKE PART

The U.N. Climate Panel says rich nations will have to cut their emissions to a level between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 to avoid the worst effects of warming. Developing nations will also have to slow the rise of their emissions by 2020, it says.

Australia first held Earth Hour in 2007 and it went global in 2008, attracting 50 million people, organizers say. WWF, which started the event, is hoping one billion people from nearly 90 countries will take part.

"The primary reason we do it is because we want people to think, even if it is for an hour, what they can do to lower their carbon footprint, and ideally take that beyond the hour," Earth Hour executive director Andy Ridley told reporters at Sydney's Bondi Beach.

In Asia, lights at landmarks in China, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines were dimmed as people celebrated with candle-lit picnics and concerts.Buildings in Singapore's business district went dark along with major landmarks such as the Singapore Flyer, a giant observation wheel.Other global landmarks that switched off their lights included the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Reserve Bank in Mumbai, the dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Egypt's Great Pyramids and the Acropolis in Athens.

18 Awesome Wallpapers and their Swatches !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:25:00 +0000

Hope you guys enjoyed my last tutorial.I was quite busy last month as we had our college Cultural festival, KurukSastra '09 and a Conference (NCRAMT). I was searching for a inspiring and a good looking wallpaper for my laptop 'coz my friends were cursing the previous picture that I had. I ended up in a site where they had these wonderful collections.I made a compilation using some I already had and few new ones.Then I thought, Why not do a favor to our visitors by uploading the color schemes along with it ? And now I'm giving you the cool collection of 18 desktop backgrounds along with their swatches (ACO file). As the total size is pretty big for uploading in googlepages, I have split the collection into 3 parts containing 6 wallpapers each. Just in case you didn't know how to use it click here .

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Make a Card for your Valentine : Photoshop Tutorial

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:31:00 +0000

I've been working with photoshop tutorials for quite some time. Now its time for me to some share some of my knowledge. I've combined several tutorials along with some of my ideas and designed a type of e-card or a wallpaper, however you may call it. Follow the tutorial and blend in some of your experience too to get a wonderful card for your valentine ;).

Step 1:
Open Photoshop.
File>New or Ctrl+N.
Create a 1024px X 768px and have the default settings for the rest.

Step 2:

Click on Gradient tool and choose foreground and background colors to this #fc5181 and #ff0049 respectively. Choose linear gradient and hold shift and fill the layer as shown. You can also try different colors but just make sure they don't vary much to get a neat gradient.

Step 3:

Make a New Layer.Use your pen tool and draw neat curve. Then right click and select Make Selection. Take a soft brush of size 400 or 500 with white color and then gently apply it near the selected part. Make sure you don't make it too white. Then convert the layer into Soft Light. You should be getting something like this. Don't loose the selection you'll be needing it later.

Step 4:
Invert the selection by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I and then use the same brush and apply a very light white shade. This time don't change the layer blending option. You'll get something similar to this.

Step 5:

Create a New layer and use you pen tool and draw a neat curve on it. Then fill it with #f73f74 color.

Step 6:
Select the entire layer that we created in step 5 and use 'move' tool. By holding Ctrl move the layer a little bit. This will select only the places where your image is present. Restore the image back in its previous position. Then create a new layer and invert your selection. Use a black soft brush of 500px that we used before. Create a light, black, shadow kind of background. Then in a new layer invert the selection and use the same black brush. Make a light shadow over the curve. Then change the layer's blending mode to overlay.

( After applying black shadow)
(After Overlay) Step 7:

In a new layer use custom shape tool and select heart shape. There is one more shape called heart card don't use that. I feel its sort of bulky so go with the former one. Draw hearts of different sizes and rotate some of them as you wish. Make sure you maintain good distance between them. Then select all the hearts and right click and then select stroke path. Make sure Stimulate pressure is enabled and stroke it. Keep the brush size between 3-5px. Decrease the opacity of the layer between 15-20.

Step 8:

Select the entire layer that we created in step 5 and use move tool. By holding Ctrl move the layer a little bit. Make sure the image is restored in it original position. This will select only the places where your image is there. Then come to the previously created layer. Cut the hearts that come under the selection. Put them in a new layer and make a black Color Overlay. Make sure the opacity of the layer is the same as the previous one.

Step 9:
Create a new layer and draw a bigger heart with Custom shape tools as shown. Then go to blending options. Enable drop shadow. Just change the shadow color to #9f0121. Let the rest be the same. Keep 4px or 6px shadow if it looks better.

Then give outer glow with #fd7dac color and keep the spread to 0 and size to 30. Change the blend mode to Screen for the glow.

Then enable Bevel and do as shown in the image.

Your finished image will look like this. (Ignore the broken part for the time being)

Step 10:

Add some more features to your image like flowers or animals. I just drew two ants along with some extra accessories. You can apply your own creative brain to come up with a better ideas. Here I have used showcard Gothic font at the bottom and Orange LET on the top.

The Million Dollar Sorry

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:11:00 +0000

It is not often that you encounter apologies or confessions from people in power. But, there is someone who doesn't adhere to this rule. Guess who ~~ Barack Obama.
"I think I screwed up. I take responsibility for it and we're going to make sure we fix it so it doesn't happen again," Obama told CNN in an interview. In a setback to his two-week old administration, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer withdrew respectively from their nominated posts of Secretary of Health and Human Services and White House's Chief Performance Officer -- both facing tax related issues primarily having failed to paid their taxes.

As if this weren't enough humbleness, the US president went on to add and i quote : "What became clear to me is that we can't send a message to the American people that we've got two sets of rules: one for prominent people and one for ordinary people. So I consider this a mistake on my part and one that I intend to fix and correct and make sure that we're not screwing up again,"

In a world where apologies are improperly made even after 14 years(intended to refer to Kalyan Singh's "apology" about the Babri Demolition), ProBlog4u salutes the spirit of the American President and hope other politicians take a lesson or two from him.

OBAMA = CHANGE?

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:57:00 +0000

Change? What Change?

One of the words in the google Zeitgeist of 2008, One of the most often used words in America in 2008. Whats all the Obama-change buzz about?
What is so glaringly different about the 44th President's Agenda? Well, Now that the Obama swearing in is complete, we have a lot to expect from the new President. The million dollar question is : Will the words translate into actions?

Here are a few important excerpts from Obama's agenda. Refer to http://www.whitehouse.gov/ for the full text of his speeches and agenda.

THE PRESIDENT'S AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT PLAN
With each passing day, families across America are watching their bills pile up and their savings disappear.

President Obama believes that if we do not act quickly, this recession could linger for years – and America could lose the competitive edge that has served as the foundation for our strength and standing in the world.

That's why the President has put forth an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that will jumpstart job creation and long-term growth by:

Doubling the production of alternative energy in the next three years.
Modernizing more than 75% of federal buildings and improve the energy efficiency of two million American homes, saving consumers and taxpayers billions on our energy bills.
Making the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years, all of America’s medical records are computerized.
Equipping tens of thousands of schools, community colleges, and public universities with 21st century classrooms, labs, and libraries.
Expanding broadband across America, so that a small business in a rural town can connect and compete with their counterparts anywhere in the world.
Investing in the science, research, and technology that will lead to new medical breakthroughs, new discoveries, and entire new industries.
On January 8th, 2009 -- less than two weeks before taking office -- President Obama spoke on the need for urgent action on his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan to save or create over 3 million jobs while investing in priorities like health care, energy, and education that will jumpstart economic growth. The plan represents not just a new policy, but a new approach to meeting our most urgent challenges.

IMMIGRATION
For too long, politicians in Washington have exploited the immigration issue to divide the nation rather than find real solutions. Our broken immigration system can only be fixed by putting politics aside and offering a complete solution that secures our border, enforces our laws, and reaffirms our heritage as a nation of immigrants.

Create Secure Borders: Protect the integrity of our borders. Support additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry.

Improve Our Immigration System: Fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill.

Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally: Remove incentives to enter the country illegally by cracking down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.

Bring People Out of the Shadows: Support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

Work with Mexico: Promote economic development in Mexico to decrease illegal immigration.

The work is half done when it is planned. All that is left is for Obama to put his words and thoughts into actions. ProBlog4u takes this opportunity to wish Obama all the very best for his term in office.

GRADIENTS 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:37:00 +0000

Combination of lighter and darker shades of the same color will always be a good one.when i comes to designing a banner or the entire website theses colors come in handy. Right from softpedia.com to deviantwear.com all of them use this idea to make their site look good.Once this is done the only thing remaining is to design a good background either with patterns or different shades. To make things easier you can just load the gradient and start using it. We always welcome constructive criticism so never hesitate ;).

Click Here to download the zip file.

Report to me in case of broken link

I am also giving you this wonderful video link, the funniest star wars story ever told. You don't want to miss this.Seriously it is so funny. Click here to go right into the "action".

The Satyam Disaster

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Satyam computers- India’s 4th largest IT Company has always been known for being a dedicated IT company with client lists ranging from small departmental stores in Australia to the World Bank. However, the whole world was in for a brutal shock on the 7th day of this year when its Former Chief Executive Officer(CEO) Mr.Ramalinga Raju admitted that accounts of the company were fudged to the tune of a whopping Rs.7106 crores(INR) over a period of several years.
The whole Satyam Fiasco was first noticed by the World Bank in November ’08 when they received improper responses from the management of the IT major upon asking for documentation pertaining to their business dealings with the company. The World Bank went public in criticizing the company, the response from Satyam was anything but expected: The very next day, letters signed by the former CEO were wired to the World Bank and the Media asking the World Bank to tender an apology and take back the “untrue” statements they had issued previously. This was just the beginning of the end. The next few days saw yet another interesting complication surface. It was learnt that the former CEO was on serious efforts of trying to merge two companies: Maytas(Satyam in reverse) Infra and Maytas Properties, both run by the Raju family, with Satyam in order to nullify the losses accumulated by the companies. This move was the last nail in the coffin. The board of directors were startled and turned down the acquisition in the strongest terms.
After several unsuccessful attempts to cover up the whole issue, the former CEO finally gave in on the 7th of January ’09. In a 5 page letter to the board of directors and the Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI), Mr.Raju admitted fraud and confessed that the Company’s balance sheet contained inflated cash and bank balances to the tune of Rs. 5040 crore which never existed. The Man went on to give a clean chit to every employee of Satyam and his family members except the Former Chief Financial Officer Srinivas Vadlamani.
The SEBI and Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) have launched independent enquiries into the scandal. Mr. Raju has surrendered to the Police on 9th January. The whole scandal leaves several questions unanswered:

• What is the fate of the 53,000 employees of Satyam who stand helpless in the current situation? (The word is that they might have to work without salary for 2 months, at least!)

• What punishment should be awarded to the architect of the whole scandal?

• Will any other company ever come forward to take over Satyam?(The real net worth of the company can never be calculated owing to the misinterpreted balance sheets.)

• The Scandal raises several questions about India’s corporate governance policy. Will the Indian IT market sustain the Scandal?

• Will the issue throw the $40 billion Indian IT industry into a Tailspin?

Problog4u wishes to stand by the employees of Satyam at this hour of crisis and hope the Indian Government ensures justice is done.

6 GREAT TIPS FOR GUEST BLOGGING

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:08:00 +0000

One of the most familiar terms used in the blogging community. What is it? What does it do? And the most of all, how will I benefit out of it. This post will circle around what guest blogging is and what you should do to become a guest blogger. Special Thanks to Darren Rowse for his articles on guest blogging. They were wonderful.

To begin with, Guest Blogging is the art of writing posts for blogs owned by others, sometimes people whom you don’t even know personally. Well, becoming a guest blogger is no big deal. All you have to do is maintain your blog with everything you have. Keep it updated, make sure every information you give is right, and most of all have it regularly posted. Once you've done this the rest is way too easy. There are several steps that make you a guest blogger.

Keep yourself ready: Visit different sites and watch for opportunities. Sometimes bloggers mention that they are going away or busy and are looking for posts. Get in touch with them and tell them that you are ready.

Be in touch: Keep yourself in touch with professional bloggers and interact frequently with them. But don't pester. Make sure you build up trust in him.

Approach: If you don't know the blogger send him a short intro of yourself and attach a back link of your site. If you can, send him some relevant information that you think might interest him. Don't bore him with too many of them. Show him that you're the right guy.

Get one step ahead: This is just a way of impressing the blogger. Send him a sample post on a nice topic that suits his type. Ask him to use it freely. If he doesn’t use it don't worry, you have your own blog to dump it in.

Make your post catchy: Use good fonts and attractive phrases. Make it in your own style do not imitate or copy others style. Sometime this might be a setback for your career. Avoid lengthy posts, make it short and simple. Be professional in approach, lest pretend.

Set yourself a benchmark: Set yourself a standard. Do not write articles that are substandard. There might been times when you won’t be able to give posts. Please refrain yourself from providing articles which may tarnish your reputation.

After reading this article if any of you guys are interested in guest blogging you are always welcome at problog4u.blogspot.com. ;).

Gradients 1.0

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:54:00 +0000

Its not difficult to put colors together and make a combination out of it. But the real thing lies in making a combination really impressive ,and that's difficult. This 24 gradient pack has got all the bright combos that might cross your mind when you think of good colors. For a better look, try applying a linear gradient at angle 0. I have to agree that I haven't experimented with this. So if you guys find any other method that makes it look more appealing, suggest them. Readers, this is not the end of it. I will update you with other gradient combinations as and when I try them.

Click Here to download them.
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WELCOME 09 !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:47:00 +0000

Hi Guys,

This year things are going to be different. I just happened to browse through the internet and saw most of the sites coming out with new plans for 2009.
So we thought we should just tell you guys about our plans for this year.

* I'm currently working on my new template.
* We are going to increase he number of post by 2 per week. (Hoping that my college doesn't block blogger under entertainment)
* We are also working on setting up a site. (Oops! did I jus say that)
* Invite guest authors to write articles.
* Have competitions and prizes.
* Increase feed readers.(Which is currently 5 !!!)
* Provide you better articles instead of the boring personal ones.
* And make sure that you get the best of "EVERYTHING".

Just like that if you have any suggestions and ideas that you think should be implemented
be kind enough to leave them in comments.

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Ten must have Vista Icon packs

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:10:00 +0000

Hello readers !

It feels good to resume my pastime of blogging. Back with a bang for this new year we are here to hit you with the latest information and updates that attracts the world. We are making serious efforts to make this blog better place for you guys. And believe me when I say that I have been collecting tips from my blogger friends for the betterment in future.

Lets start with this.
I have been hunting icons for styling my desktop and I found a hand full of them awesome enough to drive you crazy.Here we go with the collection of ten best must have icons packs (Click on the image to download).

#1 The old school collection:
A set of super six collection each of them in 5 different sizes.

#2 The old school collection 2:
A massive set of icons which really give your desktop an antique swish look.

#3 The Baggy collection:
A set of five fantastic icons.They look really amazing on a red background.

#4 The Phuzion collection:
A set of 150 icons with a funky and professional flavor.

#5 The iVista pack:
A Black and Blue wonder that gives a royal touch to your screen.

#6 The iVista pack 2:
A Professional pack that has a touch of vista in every pixel.

#7 The City collection:
A set of 16 perfectly crafted set. The blue puma bag is my personal favorite.

#8 The Blue Folder set:
A set of 18 folders perfectly fitting a blue vista wallpaper.

#9 The Cartoon Collection:
Well I haven't actually tried them but my friends say they are good.Just a funny side of your screen.

#10 The Ultimate Black:
A black beauty set. The icons look just like the default ones except for the color.

These icons go well with Vista because of the glassy appearance.Xp users can always use the transformation pack.In fact my collection floated around few websites.If you guys can find other interesting sets do help us by leaving the link in comments.

Another Treasure for music downloads!

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:14:00 +0000

Its been quite a while since there was a post on music sites. So, i thought up this particular post, which'll be really useful for those kind of people who spend half a day looking for the site which gives you a free download of the song you like or want. There are many sites out there which connect onto stuff like rapidshare or megaupload which are way too difficult to use unless you own an account. And there are the other lot of websites where we click on and on. link after link and finally end up not finding what we want.
I came across this site from one of the blogs on blogger. The site is really useful because it has direct downloads of songs of several languages, categorised for easy search and retrieval. The only catch is that you need to be a Quicktime Pro user. Only then can you download songs. The address of the site is:

www.123musiq.com

Yaaradi Nee Mohini: A Success in the making???

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:13:00 +0000

A super delayed release which was originally slated for a feb 14th release finally hit the screens on the 5th of april. Getting finally delayed by a day due to the tamil film industry's fast to support the speedy resolving of the hogenekkal issue.

The Tamil remade version of the telugu hit film Aaduvari maatalugu arthalu verule has had a very promising response from the box office so far. Thanks to debutant director Jawahar managing to retain the basic essence of the original, which sways our hearts instantly and a better performance by Dhanush, the movie strike chord instantly.

A right mix of action, humour, drama, sentiments and family emotions, 'Yaradi Nee Mohini' provides a fresh feel to the audience, who had witnessed a slew of action-packed commercial masala entertainers in the recent past. The canvas is huge in the second half with a large number of family members, but each member have a role to play.

Yuvan Shankar's brisk musical score and the dazzling performance by Dhanush, Nayantara, K, K Vishwanath are the other major highlights of the movie.

However the real scene-stealer is Raghuvaran. As a strict father, his natural and subtle emotions evoke applause.Jawahar has treaded a safe path by simply recreating the original and retaining the emotions to the maximum.

A must watch family entertainer which problog4u gives 8.5/10

Tamil Videos without buffering!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Well, How many of u out there finish ur breakfast or a quick snack by the time ur video buffers on youtube or stage6??? I myself have done tis a lots of times...

Well ppl...here's the solution to our problem... i found an awesome site out there on the web.... its called tamilvideos and features loads of songs movie wise and the best part is tat videos require no buffering on the site. All the videos play on a single click itself.

So, enjoy guys... check out the site soon...

http://www.tamilvideos.tv/

Tats it for now.... keep those wonderful comments coming in.!!

Tips for BLOGGERS..

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:04:00 +0000

People blogging in web are increasing, and to find a right site to help them is becoming difficult. There are many sites that are displayed in the search results but not all give you the right information for editing your blog page. And I came upon a similar situation last week. So I thought it would be useful for you guys if I give you the best site which helps you with customizing. If you guys have a blog and don't know how to customize it then this is the right site for you.
http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/

This guy gives you all the html codes you need and you just have to copy and paste them. And people using blogger might find it more than useful.

Warning:Before changing any template, please remember to save a copy of the current template in your hard disk.

The Link Post !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:34:00 +0000

Link post of all My favorite links.

http://pluking.blogspot.com
THE TECH THING!!!

http://srikumarsblog.blogspot.com
THE TITLE DOESN'T MATTER

www.marcofolio.net
MARCO FOLIO

http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/
Blogging Tips

For people fond of the word : Unique

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:05:00 +0000

It’s true that every person’s thinking differs from the rest. In that way some people like to think unique, especially when it comes to owning a company and branding it with a name. People come up different names and finally end up with one, which they think is most relevant to the company’s products. Some are impressive like ADIDAS (All Day I Dream About Sports). I sometimes have a wired idea, how would it be if your company’s name is contradicting to your product. Like

Examples:

An antivirus solution named INFECTED.

A grocery shop named ROTTEN.

A hospital named DISEASE.

A film production company called FLOP. (Oops!)

A transport company called ACCIDENT.

A courier company called EMPTY. (Make sure they get it to destination!)

Airways called TOTAL CRASH. (Think twice before boarding)

A speaker company called MUTE. (Lets listen to music!)

A mobile service provider called NO SIGNAL.

These names grab attention and are proving to be an easy way to make your brand popular in the market. But you must make sure that your product’s quality isn’t a synonym to your brand name. You might lose your customers quicker than the rest, having common names. Don’t forget being unique applies for everything and especially for your quality. Not only these but funky brand names (E.g.: Knoti, Muzic) that bypass the normal English words have also gained an upper hand in achieving popularity. Though these might not attract everyone in the population it has a strong effect on people 20-40 age span. We very well know they make up to more than 60% of the consumers. Anyways its your product ; have it in the way you want, and make it popular.

Marcofolio.net - Worth to visit

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:51:00 +0000

Remember the times you ran mad at search engines for not giving right websites on the list.Well one such thing happened to me last week.I was searching in Google for an article related to RSS feeds. I happened to go past a site which had no relation with the matter I was searching for. It had an article about RSS icons and provided a list of ten RSS icons which were looking really cool. I kind of liked the site so I just browsed through it and found many articles interesting. To my surprise I had actually spent more than 3 hours on that site, reading the entries.

Through the weekend, I always had that website in a tab on Firefox and went around telling my friends about the new website I discovered and its contents.
Starting with the site's header which reads "Your only limit is your imagination" and the creativity of the author, there were several other things I found interesting in the site, one of them was the IMAGE DUMP. The author has a wonderful collection of cool and funny pics under that title.So I wanted to post an article about this website, just to make sure my readers are aware of it.
This site has a tab titled useful. Take a good look at that, you may find many articles that stress on things you wouldn't have noticed. And don't forget to visit the Fun part, you might miss the real action. Things like Gmail Cheat sheet and Photoshop tutorials also fall under the must read category.

I Guess thats about enough to tell u how good this site really is.

click here to go to the site and here to know about the author of this site.

ProBlog4u: DAKSHified

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:38:00 +0000

Its Tech fest time at our University and this time, loads and loads of money to be won. The title sponsors of SASTRA University's DAKSH national tech fest this year is DELL. Apart from the softeare giant, other sponsors include the likes of Sun Microsystems, HPCL, Siemens, TCS, IOB, Wipro, Cognizant and SMSgupshup.com. The wide array of events include everything from Roboraces to Treasure hunts. Be there and enjoy the thrills and spills of what is surely going to be a wonderful tech fest. Guaranteed!!!

Check out the events and register at:

Official DAKSH Website

DAKSH '08~~ We the ProBloggers are DAKSHified.... What about U??

A smart and peppy media player

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Everyone of us use different players/softwares for listening to music. The most popular and the common one is Windows Media Player. I should say music has gained a new dimension after people started using these softwares. Some people listen to music just because they love the player i.e., its looks. True, and thats the reason why players have skins. The second thing why people prefer a particular player is the sound output is good. In that way i would like to make you familiar with yet another player called the QUINTESSENTIAL PLAYER. Exploring on the above mentioned points i found this has satisfied them extraordinarily.
Right from visualisation to very good audio effects quint rocks. Skins like chameleon, speedo, phaseless will give your player a God like look. Its advantage is that it uses lesser RAM compared to other players of its kind.
Though not a familiar one, people like us who use it will never give it up. Here is the link for you to download this free version
www.quinnware.com

We are back again

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:18:00 +0000

To our readers,

Its been quite a long time since we posted stuff on our blog. Well, we had our exams to bother us. Now that everything is over, we're back in business , with a bang of sorts. We'll keep pouring in whatever we can lay our hands upon. Readers do start checking the page regularly for updates regarding all the stuff in the world that is interesting and useful.

Yours' Truly
The Probloggers

Who's the best?

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:58:00 +0000

IE vs FX

IE popularly known as Internet Explorer was the only popular browser back in
the mid 90s. It was always the best browser, rated above Netscape Navigator and all the others.In 1999 it was the best browser and was used by almost everyone who had access to the Internet. But this situation did not prevail too long. All the internet spammers and spywares started attacking it as it was very vulnerable and most commonly used. The codes of IE were cracked by several hackers across the world and unwanted stuffs were added. This was the time when many people started switching over to php and xml based browsers like Opera,Mozilla etc.,taking this into notice mozilla.org started an opensource project. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies.The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project. Then the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. As it encountered problems from the database server's development community forced another change; on February 9,2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as simply Firefox and sometimes abbreviated as Fx .Fx's first version came out on Nov 9,2004. Fx was aimed to build a browser which will overcome almost all the problems faced by IE. And yes it did, now Mozilla Firefox is the second best browser in the world. Now as Netscape Navigator has been closed by its company its fans are also turning their attention towards Firefox as many of the features are similar.
There are many reasons why Firefox still prevails to be the best. As i was searching on this topic I found a website where the owner had given reasons why people use firefox.

He Quoted:

Reason #1:Constant bugs and security fixes that were affecting IE and other plugins,toolbars and homepages are not there in FX.

#2:The majority of these spyware and vulnerabilities are commonly programmed for Internet Explorer being that IE holds over 70% of the internet browser market.

#3: Pop-Up blocking.

In recent days no browser works without a pop-up blocker.“Firefox stops annoying popup windows dead in their tracks”, according to Mozilla.org.
To confirm it tou can visit a pop-up blocker test page http://www.popup-blocker.info.
Mozilla Firefox’s built in popup blocker was able to handle the “Stress Test”, which according to pop-upblocker.info

#4:Tab browsing.
Firefox allows you to do tab browsing which cant be done in case of IE.This reduces the time and also the trouble in having multiple windows.

#5:Download manager.
This feature is present in IE too but in Fx it has been modified.We can do multiple downloads which can be seen in the same window.It also allows us to pause and resume the downloads which is an addition compared to IE.

#6:An Inbuilt Search engine.
Fx has an inbuilt search engine which takes lesser time than any other homepage .

#7: Options.
Fx's options are better arranged than IE which makes the users to change them without much difficulty.

#8: Pages get loaded faster in Fx than in IE.

#9:Added advantage.
The Mozilla project is an Open Source project where thousands of independent programmers can work on finding security holes before they are exploited.

#10:You can easily block the images with a right click and selecting block image option.

For further details visit :
go to : http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=32

To download Mozilla Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

The World's best Search Engine...

noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:26:00 +0000

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I found a search engine over the net which combines the expertise of the two best search engines in the world to create one hell of a search engine which went on to be christened Gahooyoogle!!(obviously after its sources). The site displays results from the Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask, AOL, Dogpile, Altavista search algorithms simultaneously. This way, the time we take to find our desired info is minimal. From the next time , when u wanna use a search engine, do try out the following links.

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http://twingine.com/

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noreply@blogger.com (Gokulnath.S) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:11:00 +0000

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Rain favours our college.

noreply@blogger.com (Viswanath.J) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:10:00 +0000

For the past few days there has been heavy pour in my area as a disastrous cyclone hit the coast.The death toll has kept increasing due to the heavy floods and acres of land has been devasted by this deadly rain.Yesterday was declared as a state holiday and all schools and colleges were not functioning except mine.My college had some 'extraordinary guts' to keep it working.We had to go to the classes drenched.The roads that lead to my department building were simply flooded.I had a wicked idea of bunking the classes too.But a funny incident took place on the way to our mess for lunch.A guy happened to slip into a big pool of water and was totally soaked.It seemed that he never took bath for the past three days(According to his friend's comment).In my hostel,like the other collage hostels people wake up late in the morning and never find time to take bath.Some never brush their teeth(these dosent include me).And not to say anything at times like this when the water is cold and the temperature outside is freezing.They say everything happens for a reason.A good one.and i discovered one good reason why we had college yesterday.I think it was in a way useful because people who usually don take bath are forced to go in rain to the classes and eventually they get to have what i call a 'pseudo bath'.And may be this could help us to have Stink Free classes.But still,what do we do about the people who dint have a bath but had a umbrella and the poeple who never had a bath and bunked their classes during rain?.We could probably plead to them to take bath or we just hold our breath when they walk past us.And i think water conservation is not much essential in rainy days like this and that too in this way.!!!