ONE'S AND ZERO'S

DID U CALL ME?

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:38:00 +0000

GOD: Hello. Did you call me?

Me: Called you? No... Who is this?

GOD: This is GOD. I heard your prayers. So I thought I will chat.

Me: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am in the midst of something.

GOD: What are you busy at? Ants are busy too.

Me: Don't know. But I can’t find free time. Life has become hectic. It's rush hour all the time.

GOD: Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it.

Me: I understand. But I still can’t figure out. By the way, I was not expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat.

GOD: Well I wanted to resolve your fight for time, by giving you some clarity. In this net era, I wanted to reach you through the medium you are comfortable with.

Me: Tell me, why has life become complicated now?

GOD: Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.

Me: Why are we then constantly unhappy?

GOD: Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That's why you are not happy.

Me: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty?

GOD: Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.

Me: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty.

GOD: Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.

Me: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer?

GOD: Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don't suffer. With that experience their life become better not bitter.

Me: You mean to say such experience is useful?

GOD: Yes. In every terms, Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Me: But still, why should we go through such tests? Why can't we be free from problems?

GOD: Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons (to) Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems.

Me: Frankly in the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we are heading..

GOD: If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.

Me: Sometimes not succeeding fast seems to hurt more than moving in the right direction. What should I do?

GOD: Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the compass. Let others work with the clock.

Me: In tough times, how do you stay motivated?

GOD: Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.

Me: What surprises you about people?

GOD: When they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they prosper, they never ask "Why me" Everyone wishes to have truth on their side, but few want to be on the side of the truth.

Me: Sometimes I ask, who am I, why am I here. I can’t get the answer.

GOD: Seek not to find who you are, but to determine who you want to be. Stop looking for a purpose as to why you are here. Create it. Life is not a process of discovery but a process of creation.

Me: How can I get the best out of life?

GOD: Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.

Me: One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.

GOD: There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is NO.

Me: Thank you for this wonderful chat. I am so happy to start the New Year with a new sense of inspiration.

GOD: Well. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.

NEVER GIVE ANYONE THE AUTHORITY TO HURT YOU OR MAKE U SAD
HAPPINESS IS NOT WHAT YOU DO OR HOW YOU DO IT
IT'S THE WAY YOU THINK
SO THINK HAPPY, STAY HAPPY
KEEP SMILING!

With warm regards

Bhoopathy J

Girl's Diary VS boy's Diary

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:23:00 +0000

          
HER DIARY

------------------ 

Day night, I thought he was acting 
weird. We had made        plans to meet at a 
cafe to have some coffee. I was shopping with my        friends 
all day long, soIely thought he was upset at the fact that I        
was a bit late, 
but he made no comment.Conversation wasn't flowing        so

I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk, he        agreed but 
he kept quiet and absent. I asked 
him what was wrong -        he said, 

"Nothing."I asked him if it was my fault that he was        upset. He said it had
nothing to do with me and not to worry.

On        the way home I told him that I loved him, he simply smiled and kept        
driving. I can't explain his behavior; I don't know why he didn't say,        "I love u,too."
 When we got home I felt as if I had lost him, as if he        wanted nothing to do with me anymore. 
He just sat there and watched        TV.; he seemed distant and absent.Finally I
decided to go to bed..        About 10 minutes later he came to bed. I decided 
that I could not take        it anymore,
so I decided to confront him with the situation but he had        fallen asleep. 

I started crying and cried until I too fell asleep.        I don't know what to 
do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with        someone else. 

My life is gonna be a        disaster.
_______________________________ 


HIS DIARY

==========


Today India lost the cricket        match 
against bangladesh.

DAMN
IT.



Simplicity        of Men 
Vs
Complexity of Women !!!         :) 


     

Geolocation API which shows where the desktop is....

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:14:00 +0000

I am thrilled to announce that today we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world. Whether your users are Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or (soon) Opera users, you can now automatically deliver an experience that is tailored to their current location. For example, lastminute.com's new Radar application allows users to find nearby hotels, ITN's Google Earth mash up in Firefox allows users to see nearby news stories and Rummble's social discovery site allows users to automatically set their current location for friends to see.

When we originally proposed the Gears Geolocation API our goal was to make it easy for developers to deliver location enabled web sites on mobile phones. However we realized laptop users would benefit from location enabled web sites too. Today we are adding WiFi signals to the Geolocation API so that laptop users can benefit from location enabled web sites for the first time and mobile users from the increased accuracy. And because the Geolocation API is the same for developers in both desktop and mobile browsers you can even use the same code on both platforms!

In Chrome and Android, with Gears built in, you can deliver a location enabled web site without requiring your users to install a plug-in, but in other browsers they will need to go through a simple plug-in install process. We also submitted a simplified version of the Geolocation API as a WC3 specification and the upcoming Firefox 3.1 plans to support the W3C version directly. The Gears Geolocation API is completely free to developers and users through the default Google location provider.

To protect user privacy, the Gears Geolocation API server does not record user location. However, third party sites may do so, and we recommend that users only allow web sites they trust to access their location. Gears will always tell a user when your site wants to access their location for the first time and the user can either allow or deny your site permission. We recommend users check the privacy policy of your web site if they are in doubt as to how your site may use location information.

Vehicle to vehicle GPS for safe riding

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:28:00 +0000

Better awareness guarantees better safety, we know this. Given the number of road accidents we hear of today, society needs technology to shed refuge. Nothing requires a long wait nowadays; Honda has it before we realize – a Vehicle-to-Vehicle GPS system, which assures awareness and safety to motorcyclists – the most vulnerable on roads. Revealed at the CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium event in Germany, the system developed aggregates data on the motorcyclists’ navigation device, informing them in advance on the direction, speed and distance of the other vehicles nearby.

What’s innovative:

Human perception is perhaps the biggest reason for road accidents. Honda’s GPS system aspire to make obvious the potential risks ahead, warning the exposed riders providing them with audible instructions of the peril through a Bluetooth to the in-built speakers in the helmet, possibly cutting on human errors.

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Most road accidents are owing to the other driver’s slipups, we know. Therefore, no matter how safe you try keeping on the road, a bad day will have you in glitch. But if you were evident of the risk up-forth, the possibilities could minimize. The only reason we believe Honda’s safety system may well answer the questions of road safety, reducing on the number of reasons that fright all road users.

How to hide user account in XP

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:30:00 +0000

You can hide a user account from the Welcome screen in Windows XP, but it requires editing the Windows registry. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do it unless you use a third party application. I’ll explain both ways in this article.

Note that when you hide a user account in Windows XP, it’s better if you are running Windows XP Professional rather than XP Home edition. Why? Well, once you hide an account, it will no longer show up on the main login screen, so how do you access it?

Well in XP Pro, you can press CTRL + ALT + DEL twice to get the old Windows 2000 login box and type in the user name and password to access the hidden user account. But if you have XP Home, this trick does not work and the only way to access your hidden account is to start the computer in Safe Mode, which is major pain if you want to use that account often.

So before doing this, make sure you are running XP Pro otherwise you will not have normal access to your account.

Hide User Account in XP

Step 1: Open the Windows Registry editor by clicking on Start, then Run, and typing in regedit.

Step 2: Navigate the the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ SpecialAccounts\UserList

Step 3: Now right-click on UserList and create a new DWORD value and name it exactly what the user name you want to hide is. For value, give it a value of 0. 0 Means hide the user account and 1 means show the user account.

As you can see from below, I added “Aseem Kishore” to the UserList as a new DWORD key with a value of 0. Make sure that the name you enter matches exactly with the user name displayed on the Welcome screen. So if you want to hide the Administrator account, type in “Administrator”, etc.

Step 4: Close the registry editor and reboot your computer. Now press CTRL + ALT + DEL twice and you should be able to type in the user name and password to access the hidden account!

You can also download a free program from IntelliAdmin that will do the same thing for you, but make it much easier. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and you’ll see a link for the program.

It’s called XP User Hide and you can simply check off which user accounts you want to hide and it will modify the registry for you. You can learn more about User Acounts in Windows here. Enjoy!

Chandaryaan 1, India’s unmanned moon probe launched to seek the unknown

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:20:00 +0000

On OCT22nd, when most of India dozed off in the comfort of their cots, ISRO scientists at the PSLV slowly took us into the history books. A 44-meter, 316-ton PSLV-11 rocket carrying 1,380-kg Chandaryaan 1, the unmanned Indian lunar orbiter, was set in quest to unravel the hidden mysteries of the moon, from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota at 6:22am IST. In the next 12 days, amid all events, the orbiter will arrive at the desired lunar orbit – putting India in the lunar questers group, and setting on the operational period. Hauling 11 payloads, the Chandaryaan 1 will aspire to explore the moon over the next 2 years.

What’s innovative:

The robotic probe to the moon is India’s grand step forward in its objective to keep pace with the space investigating nations around the world. Chandaryaan 1 is powered by a single solar panel generating a maximum of 700 W. A 36 Ampere-Hour (Ah) Lithium-ion battery powers the spacecraft when the solar panel is not illuminated by the sun.

The main objectives of the Chandaryaan 1 - carrying 11 payloads, of which five were built in India itself, while the other six foreign-built – are: to explore the moon thoroughly, poles included for water, ice on the celestial body, plus search for Helium 3, an isotope in rarity on Earth, but vital for the energy needs of the future. Besides these, the spacecraft with all the high resolution equipment embedded will make all efforts to create a complete map of the moon’s chemical characteristics and its three dimensional topography.

In order to acquaint us, Chandaryaan 1 in due course of the journey, will send all detailed information available, back to Earth through its built-in transmitters, modified into radio waves to the ground antennas. DSN Antennas have been installed at various locations to keep note of the craft’s health and other aspects, while the spacecraft control center will keep it updated with the required chores.

Jump down further to see video of the successful launch of Chandaryaan 1.

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Because India has never gone beyond Earth’s orbit, this mission to space holds precedence, not just for ISRO but for the entire nation. Spending approximately 380-crores for a space mission in a country where millions dwell in extreme poverty seems critical. But when nations follow the policy of limited reveal information – a country like India, that’s knocking on the doors of development, needs to be self equipped and well posted on all technological expertise when it comes to outer space.

Multi-Touch SMART Table - next high in learning ways for kids

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:05:00 +0000

When it comes to mimicking and remaking, the best in the trade are the biggest targets. If the iPhone clones and remakes were Apple’s nightmare, next best thing on the edge of things could be Microsoft’s multi-touch wonder – the Surface. Designed to embark upon the feel and learn principle, SmartTech’s multi-touch SMART Table, featured here, is most like the Surface, but least identical on utility. The SMART Table houses multi-user capability with gesture recognition, and comes cheaper and earlier than the awaited Microsoft Surface. Fixing high-end technology into learning vicinity, the SMART Table offers complete interactive learning on a 27-inch screen and helps develop skills of the children simultaneously.

Price and Availability:

Available at SmartTech, this really customizable multi-touch table would cost anywhere between $7,000 to $8,000.

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Coming from the makers of the touch sensitive SMART Board and interactive whiteboard, the SMART Table - given its interactive and near innovative perception - will find abode amid the information hungry youth. Early 2009 could be the time to see the sensational dragging experience for learning go real

How To Download Music From Esnips

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:53:00 +0000

Esnips is a popular file sharing and storing service that offers its members 5 Gigabytes of online storage space that can be used to host videos, pictures and audio files. The audio hosting comes with a music player that recently got updated having the result that Esnips music downloaders were not working anymore.

Esnips have added a referrer check to the music player which means that users can only download songs if they initiate the download with the correct referrer. The process of downloading files from Esnips is therefor extended by one step.

Most steps stay the same on the other hand. The user visits the Esnips website and opens a page that contains a music file that is played in the Esnips player or perform a search and copy the links pointing to the music files to the clipboard. The url of that page is copied into an Esnips download link generator which converts the encrypted download link to the unencrypted one. The step that has changed is the last one. Instead of downloading the music from Esnips directly or pasting it into a download manager the user has to paste the unencrypted url back into the web browser to be able to download it. That is an inconvenience but still better than not being able to download the music from Esnips at all.

Step 1: Visit Esnips

Step 2: Copy Link URL

Right-click a link and copy it to the clipboard or copy the link from the address bar

Step 3: Paste the link and convert it

Now visit a script that can convert Esnips links so that they point to the correct url that can be used to download the mp3 files from Esnips. One script that can do it is Zuhaib’s Esnips Link Generator.

Step 4: Download

Copy the Download Link and Paste it back into a browser tab. The download for the correct mp3 file should pop up immediately.

Microsoft Touchless

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:42:00 +0000

Microsoft Office Labs are always good for a surprise. For anyone who does not know what Microsoft Office Labs is about: It basically is used to publish software programs created by Microsoft employees in their spare time that relate to Microsoft products.

Microsoft Touchless (via Shell City) is an interesting application that fits well into the touchscreen craze that Microsoft started with the Windows 7 announcement. Everyone knows that Windows 7 will provide better support for touchscreens. Users without a touchscreen could make use of Touchless which utilizes a webcam to provide a touchscreen-like experience.

A Touchless demo can be downloaded from the Office Labs project page which contains four demonstrations. Snake is the well known snake game while Defender offers a up to four player pong experience. Map is a basic map application which supports rotating, zooming and moving while Draw lets the user draw on the screen.

Touchless requires a computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista and a webcam that is DirectX9 compliant. The application can be started by extracting the contents of the archive to the computer system and double-clicking on TouchlessDemo.exe.

Microsoft Touchless provides access to the Touchless SDK which can be used to create third party applications that make use of the system. The whole package is Open-Source and could provide a way to add basic touchscreen support to webcam owners in Windows 7 which would surely explode the number of users that would make use of the Touchscreen features.

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:59:00 +0000

"Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design is a refreshing look at subject of OOAD. What sets this book apart is its focus on learning. The authors have made the content of OOAD accessible, usable for the practitioner." Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson Consulting "I just finished reading HF OOA&D and I loved it! The thing I liked most about this book was its focus on why we do OOA&D-to write great software!" Kyle Brown, Distinguished Engineer, IBM "Hidden behind the funny pictures and crazy fonts is a serious, intelligent, extremely well-crafted presentation of OO Analysis and Design. As I read the book, I felt like I was looking over the shoulder of an expert designer who was explaining to me what issues were important at each step, and why." Edward Sciore, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Boston College Tired of reading Object Oriented Analysis and Design books that only makes sense after you're an expert? You've heard OOA&D can help you write great software every time-software that makes your boss happy, your customers satisfied and gives you more time to do what makes you happy. But how? Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design shows you how to analyze, design, and write serious object-oriented software: software that's easy to reuse, maintain, and extend; software that doesn't hurt your head; software that lets you add new features without breaking the old ones. Inside you will learn how to: * Use OO principles like encapsulation and delegation to build applications that are flexible * Apply the Open-Closed Principle (OCP) and the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) to promote reuse of your code * Leverage the power of design patterns to solve your problems more efficiently * Use UML, use cases, and diagrams to ensure that all stakeholders are communicating clearly to help you deliver the right software that meets everyone's needs. By exploiting how your brain works, Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design compresses the time it takes to learn and retain complex information. Expect to have fun, expect to learn, expect to be writing great software consistently by the time you're finished reading this!

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PIC Microcontrollers, Second Edition: An Introduction to Microelectronics

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:55:00 +0000

A comprehensive, highly illustrated introduction to microelectronic systems and the PIC microcontroller. Product Description The use of microcontroller based solutions to everyday design problems in electronics, is the most important development in the field since the introduction of the microprocessor itself. The PIC family is established as the number one microcontroller at an introductory level. Assuming no prior knowledge of microprocessors, Martin Bates provides a comprehensive introduction to microprocessor systems and applications covering all the basic principles of microelectronics. Using the latest Windows development software MPLAB, the author goes on to introduce microelectronic systems through the most popular PIC devices currently used for project work, both in schools and colleges, as well as undergraduate university courses. Students of introductory level microelectronics, including microprocessor / microcontroller systems courses, introductory embedded systems design and control electronics, will find this highly illustrated text covers all their requirements for working with the PIC. Part A covers the essential principles, concentrating on a systems approach. The PIC itself is covered in Part B, step by step, leading to demonstration programmes using labels, subroutines, timer and interrupts. Part C then shows how applications may be developed using the latest Windows software, and some hardware prototyping methods.

The new edition is suitable for a range of students and PIC enthusiasts, from beginner to first and second year undergraduate level. In the UK, the book is of specific relevance to AVCE, as well as BTEC National and Higher National programmes in electronic engineering. * A comprehensive introductory text in microelectronic systems, written round the leading chip for project work * Uses the latest Windows development software, MPLAB, and the most popular types of PIC, for accessible and low-cost practical work * Focuses on the 16F84 as the starting point for introducing the basic architecture of the PIC, but also covers newer chips in the 16F8X range, and 8-pin mini-PICs

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Pidgin 2.5.2 - A multi-protocol Instant Messenger client

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:13:00 +0000

Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin can work with: AIM Bonjour Gadu-Gadu Google Talk Groupwise ICQ IRC MSN MySpaceIM QQ SILC SIMPLE Sametime XMPP Yahoo! Zephyr Pidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it and to modify it, but if you distribute your modifications you must distribute the modified source code as well. SO why you are trying with different messenger & installing separately.. Why not all together in single installation... Click here to download:http://www.pidgin.im/download/windows/

Audacity:Free Audio Editing Software

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity...

You can edit MP3 songs, mix two diferent songs into a single track. I am using this software to clip most of the good musics to Mobile Ringtone.. Try this software & post your comments below.

The latest release of Audacity is 1.3.5 (Beta). Because it is a work in progress and does not yet come with complete documentation or translations into foreign languages, it is recommended for more advanced users. See New Features in 1.3 for more information about the 1.3.x Beta series.

For all users, Audacity 1.2.6 is a stable release, complete and fully documented. You can have Audacity 1.2.6 and 1.3.5 installed on the same machine.

Next version of Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:53:00 +0000

Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows--known internally as version "7".
The company discussed Windows 7 on Thursday at a conference for its field sales force in Orlando, Fla., according to sources close to the company.
While the company provided few details, Windows 7, the next client version of the operating system, will be among the steps taken by Microsoft to establish a more predictable release schedule, according to sources. The company plans a more "iterative" process of information disclosure to business customers and partners, sources said.
Windows Vista, the oft-delayed most recent release of Windows, shipped to businesses in November and to consumers in January after more than five years of development. Vista's gestation period was marked by shifting product details as internal priorities changed and problems arose with development.
Like Vista, Windows 7 will ship in consumer and business versions, and in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The company also confirmed that it is considering a subscription model to complement Windows, but did not provide specifics or a time frame.
The discussion of Windows' future isn't surprising, given that Microsoft has been criticized by business customers for delays related to Vista. Many business customers pay for Microsoft's software under a license agreement called Software Assurance.
Windows 7 was previously known by the code name Vienna. A Microsoft representative confirmed that Windows 7 is the internal code name for the next client release of Windows. The details were released "as part of our ongoing outreach to enterprise customers and partners, Microsoft has begun sharing plans for how they will continue to deliver value to businesses in the future?Software Assurance customers in particular," a representative said in a statement via e-mail.
"Microsoft is scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year time frame, and then the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar," according to the representative.

Internet Marketing Basics For Newbies

noreply@blogger.com (Kalai) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:53:00 +0000

A guide to Internet marketing for beginners. Discover how how you can make vast amounts of money online. Internet marketing is a business where you can work from home, work the hours that suit you and pay yourself the income you deserve. Read this book but be sure to click on the link that the author has put in at the end... for a BIG surprise.