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Windows Phone Wallpapers (New)

2012-04-29T15:18:00.004+05:30

All images and logos are courtesy www.google.com. The Windows Logos are a private property of Microsoft.

Hey Mr. Bill Gates...I am not making much profit from your logos...No hard feelings yaar.

Windows Phone Wallpapers

2012-02-24T03:32:00.000+05:30

Here's my collection of Windows Phone 7.5 Wallpapers.

All images and logos are courtesy www.google.com. The Windows Logos are a private property of Microsoft.

Hey Mr. Bill Gates...I am not making much profit from your logos...No hard feelings yaar.

World's Tallest Tower

2011-08-04T11:28:00.001+05:30

Kingdom Holding, the Saudi firm owned by billionaire businessman Prince Alwaleed, has signed a construction contract to build the world’s tallest tower in Jeddah. US-based Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill are the design architects of the project (All images: © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture)

The tower’s height will be at least 173m (568 ft) taller than the world’s current tallest building, Dubai’s 828m tall Burj Khalifa.

At more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and a total construction area of 530,000 sqm (5.7m sq ft), Kingdom Tower will be the centerpiece and first construction phase of the Kingdom City development on a 5.3m sqm site in north Jeddah

Kingdom Tower will feature a Four Seasons hotel, Four Seasons serviced apartments, Class A office space, luxury condominiums and the world’s highest observatory, the building's design architects, Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill said in a statement Tuesday

Design development of the tower is under way, with construction to begin later. Kingdom Tower will cost approximately $1.2bn to construct, while the cost of the entire Kingdom City project is estimated to be $20bn

The tower will also feature a sky terrace, roughly 30 meters (98 feet) in diameter, at level 157. It would be an outdoor amenity space intended for use by the penthouse floor

Another view of the sky terrace

The streamlined form of the tower was inspired by the folded fronds of young desert plant growth, Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture said

The 23-hectare Kingdom Tower Waterfront District, which surrounds the tower and which will include residential and commercial buildings, a shopping mall, high-quality outdoor spaces and other amenities (Image: © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture)

Binladin Group, one of the kingdom’s biggest contractors, won the $1.2bn deal for the project, which will include a hotel, serviced apartments, luxury condominiums and offices, and will occupy a 500,000 sq m area (Image: © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture)

How much time the project shall take to complete?

Let's do little arithmetic. A very similar kind of project (Burj Khalifa) which is 828 m high, took almost 4 years from January 2004 to January 2010. That's 2192 days, counting two leap years. That's 2.65 day per meter of completed building. Now at the current height of 1001 meters, Kingdom Tower shall take almost 7.27 years.

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2011-07-04T16:41:00.000+05:30

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Google Plus threat to Facebook, Twitter

2011-07-04T10:35:00.001+05:30

RAMYA KANNAN - THE HINDU

And thus, with Plus, Google owns us whole.

That is, of course, only one way of looking at Google's labour of over one year, when the team guys sat writing codes, eager to make as big an impact in the social media sector as in the mail, search, photo and document storage domains.

This time, they were also hoping to do one better than Orkut, which was literally steamrollered by Facebook in popularity and functionality, and certainly better than its disastrous Wave. The idea, one supposes, was to create a product that would make a mash of its prime competitors Facebook and Twitter and wipe them out. Will Google + do that?

Google + is still in its snooty, exclusive, I-will-call-you-don't-call-me phase, but let us remember that was Mark Zuckerberg's strategy initially as well. Facebook was the privy of exclusive Ivy League schools in the U.S. and the U.K. until the blitz happened. So, invitations are still scarce to come by, not all those in the Plus can extend invitations to friends who are still nonplussed. However, for sure, there are many more being added to my circles every night, nearly thrice the number than I started off with.

But when you are in, you may not notice this; it automatically signs you in on a secure (https) server, significant if you consider the recent controversies over Facebook taking liberties with users' privacy. So far, so good.

Even if you missed that, there is no way you cannot pause at the nearly spartan, neat, user interface. As yet uncluttered in comparison to FB, and only four silos (Home, Photos, Profile, Circles) to click on. Yeah, no games, and thankfully, no Farmville! On the face of it, it is simple; yet, it takes some initially to figure out the Google +. The ‘Stream' is the equivalent of FB's scroll newsfeed, and there are similar options — to share, edit, host photos and videos, and delete them. You can also ‘mute' those annoying conversations on your Stream. Phew! There is also the ‘Sparks' component, which according to Plus, “…looks for videos and articles that it thinks you'll like, so that when you're free, there's always something to watch, read and share.” Your grandpa will approve, it adds, but who is looking for Grandpa's approval rating on social media?

What is utterly out of the box for social media is the ‘Circle' concept. Literally, you can create your own social spheres, including friends, acquaintances, colleagues and contacts in different circles that are more than faintly reminiscent of school-level Set Theory. You can choose who you want to share specific information with, hiving off various groups that may be in conflict with each other: a boss versus someone to whom you are bitching about him.

A thumb tack aids you to transfer multiple persons on to the circles; and every circle you delete merrily jigs away out of the screen. Will subsets of intersecting Venn diagrams soon come to play, where diagrammatic impressions mapping friends who belong to more than one circle? It certainly will jazz Plus up. ‘Hangout' is Google's version of ‘teleportation,' a.k.a. ‘video chat' and is certainly cool thus far.

Mobile Google Plus is adapted finely for Apple's iOS and is functional on the Android platform (tried on HTC phones), but does not deign to work on the Symbian platform (tried on two of Nokia's E-series). Snooty again? Because even as the migration to Android or iOS gathers steam, there are still millions of users on Symbian, and everyone knows the link between Twitter's phenomenal growth and the facility of mobile phones.

Even if you are in, there is the fact that Plus is about a week old.

Source Link - Image via Google Images

A-Musing: Bring back the lungi I say...

2011-06-24T12:21:00.001+05:30

A-Musing: Bring back the lungi I say...: "Baba, this one is for you In India, most of us sweat buckets most of the year. Rivulets of perspiration , trickling down our back is an al..."

10 Things better than girls...

2011-06-02T16:25:00.003+05:30

My list of things which are Better than many Girls...

1. Of Coarse Trees

2. Matchbox

3. Stone

4. Eraser

5. TATA Magic

6. Water Bottle

7. Permanent Marker

8. Binder Clip

9. Cigarette (This is serious)

10. Soap Case (There was a tough competition. Girls lost just by few points.)

PS: Girls are just slightly better than Vegetables that grow in summer season.

PPS: This is my answer to all those girls who have never offered a seat to anybody in their whole life while travelling in bus number 534, but has always claimed my hard earned seat. Shame! Shame!Shame!

Why is India still a Developing Country?

2011-05-18T16:24:00.000+05:30

An Old Story:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.

Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

Indian Version:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .

Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.

CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.

Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.

Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.

CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '

Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

Many years later...

The Ant has since migrated to the US set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley,

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India,

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As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers,

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India is still a developing country !!!

This article was written by Mr. Saurabh.
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DHARMA, MYTH AND OSAMA

2011-05-18T15:45:00.001+05:30

SURESH M IYER: DHARMA, MYTH AND OSAMA - WHAT NEXT FOR INDIA AND P...: "In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the vanara Bali was famous for the boon that he had received, according to which anyone who came before him lost..."

Failure at Delhi Metro - An Analysis

2011-05-16T13:54:00.000+05:30

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Windows 8 Transformation Pack

2011-05-16T13:53:00.000+05:30

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Suspended Monorail

2011-05-16T13:52:00.000+05:30

Nokia W10

2011-05-16T13:50:00.002+05:30

* Windows Phone 7.5
* Quad-band Network
* 4G-LTE Network
* Quad Stereo Speakers
* Super Amoled Plus – Clear Black Display – 16 M Colors
* Capacitive Touchscreen
* 1280×720 Screen Resolution
* 4.5 inch Display – Dragontrail Glass Display
* TV-out (1080p video) via HDMI with Dolby Digital Plus sound
* 15 MP Primary Camera, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual Xenon flash, 1/1.83” sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging, face detection
* Video Recording Full HD 1080p@30fps
* 5 MP Secondary Camera, Carl Zeiss optics, EDoF, Xenon flash, face detection
* Proximity sensor
* Ambient light sensor
* Thermo sensor
* Magnetometer sensor
* 3-axis Gyro sensor
* 2 GHz Quad-Core Processor – 32 GB Storage – 2 GB ROM – 2 GB RAM – GPU
* MicroSD up to 64 GB
* USB on the go
* Battery Li-Ion 2000 mAh
My Dream Nokia #N26: Nokia W10 and Nokia X10, Windows or Symbian with 720p screen, 15MP, 2Ghz Quadcore and 4G

Food of India

2011-05-10T18:48:00.000+05:30

At least this gives me a genuine reason

to love the diversity of India.

A Peep Into 2020

2011-05-09T16:14:00.000+05:30