Think about this video once...

When you want to throw away some excess food, think again, it might be the life saver for some others...

Opera releases Opera 10 Alpha...

I am an Opera fanboy, and I admit it. But why? Just because it caters to all my basic browsing needs and now they are going to come up with a new version of their browser Opera 10. It is still in alpha stage and I haven't tested it till date but would love to. I just downloaded it and will give you a detailed report once I feel that I had a good feel of this brand new browser from Opera.

For those who want to risk the alpha download at your own risk from HERE...

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What do you know about Vaastu Shastra???

Vaastu Shastra is a Sanskrit language term combining the words Vaastu, meaning a dwelling or work place, and Shastra, which means a system of science or art. Vaastu Shastra is an ancient Indian architectural science that evolved some 5000 years ago with roots in the sacred Vedic texts. Its principles of building planning and construction seek to bring about an ideal and harmonious balance between humans and the environment.

Vaastu Shastra considers the earth as a living entity from which other living beings spring forth. What makes this possible on our planet is the presence of the Five Elements (Panchmahabhuutas) - Space/Sky (Aakash/Ananta), Air (Vaayu), Fire (Agni), Water (Jala), and Earth (Bhumi). To bring about its aimed-for balance, Vaastu Shastra coordinates these Five Elements with Cosmic Energies and human activities.

The basic rules of Vastu Shastra are based on the eight directions -

Four principle directions:

North (Uttara, ruled by Lord Kuber, God of Wealth)
South (Dakshina, ruled by Lord Yama, God of Death)
East (Purva, ruled by Lord Indra, King of Gods, and Lord Aditya/Surya, God of Sun/Energy)
West (Pashcima, ruled by Lord Varun, God of Rain/Water)

Four secondary directions:

East-North (Ishanya,ruled by Lord Ishanya, God of All Quarters)
North-West (Vayavya, ruled by Lord Vayu, God of Winds)
South-West (Nairutya, ruled by Pitru or Ancestors)
South-East (Agneya, ruled by Lord Agni, God of Fire)

Of these, the East and North are considered the most auspicious.

For more details on Vaastu Click Here...

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Funny bus ads...

Found these funny bus ads through digg.com. Credits to the original poster. To have some more fun Visit Here...

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Feeling Hungry, eat for free...

Are you hungry but can wait till tomorrow, you have a choice to eat out for free. It may not be a catch but let me tell you, it is one good deal, rather I can call it a free give-away. You can have a small fry and a fountain drink tomorrow all for yourself and that too for free.

Jack in the box is offering you this pretty deal. Take your girlfriend, your mom, your dad and show them this magic and astonish them. Just say " I am the king here". Jack in the box is offering a free small fry and a fountain drink and you have the choice of natural cut or seasoned curly fries. You just need to print out a coupon and carry with you to get all the stuff for free. But the offer is only available for one day i.e., Tuesday, March 10th. Go and get your stuff tomorrow but remember to carry the coupon with you.

For the coupon and details of the offer Click Here...

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Virus attack by anti-virus ads, Stay Cool...

What will you do when your browser shows a pop-up which says your system is affected by virus and you should run anti-virus check? This is a kind of ads-spread virus. I take the credit for giving the name ads-spread and even the word corporate-spread. This virus just installs some adtracker in your system and keeps on nagging you to do system check. You can't use your browser and you can't access your files as well. This is strictly for Windows operating system.

I had this attack twice and I fell flat on my stomach but could do nothing but reinstall the complete OS, which by all means is a very bad habbit. But now I guess I know what to do. Just recently a computer in my house has been attacked by similar virus and I was worried what would happen to this. But there was this guy who I guess saved the day for me. When I saw and learnt what he did, I felt bad for myself. I was thrashing myself for not getting such a simple thought.

What he did was he shut down the computer, but before shutting down he turned the wireless internet connection off and then he navigated to the "temporary internet files" folder from the run command and deleted the files in it. I thought why through the run command, pat came the answer, because what ever folders you access you might be affecting those folders as well. Okay now all set I shut down the computer and restarted it. I repeat shut down not restart. Hope the virus doesn't come back again...

Source::  Adi

What is and Why Day Light Saving???

Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1907 by the English builder William Willett.

Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming, entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun. Traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight; its effect on health and crime is less clear. Although an early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity, modern heating and cooling usage patterns greatly differ, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited and often contradictory.

In U.S.A., the day light saving begins on the 2nd Sunday of March and ends on the 1st Sunday of November. The time would be 3:00 am on March 2nd instead of 2:00 am, which means you have lost  an hour of your life in the lighter vein...

Source:: WIKI

What a customer wants...

What a customer really wants and what the software people does is the theme of this cartoon. I found it on one of my friends blog. Thought to share with you. Click on the pic to have a better view of this sarcastic cartoon.

Source:: NagRockz

Oldest .com registered websites...

Here is a list of the oldest registered .com, .net, .org and .edu websites. I found it from the digg.com website and thought to share with you. This list contains some of the leading software gaints like hp, ibm and att. It was good to find that most of the top schools in U.S. are in the list for registering their domain as .edu.

Just have a look at the list, it isn't that great to look at nor it is that appealing but it is still history to relish. Here is the link:: Click Here

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Tired of Internet Explorer, just kill it in Windows 7...

You have been using the Internet Explorer from ages and most of us are tired of the browser. But untill Windows 7, we never had an option to uninstall the IE6 from our Windows Systems. You have to live with it, says Microsoft. Even when security issues have cropped up, even when your computer completely hangs up, even when you are under a virus attack and you know that IE is the culprit, you can't uninstall it but had to cry for yourself.

But at last, after ages together, Microsoft has come out of their shell, and heard the cries of the mere souls on earth and gave an option to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7, their latest Operating System. Windows is so desperate for the success of Win 7, that they may even offer free Win 7 to the customers who buy computers with Vista installed in them.

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Where's the tax money...

Every nation, every state and every district collects tax from their residents. How do they collect, I mean in which way? In every possible way is my answer. From the purchases you make to the items you sell. From the salary you earn to the money you pay to daily labor. From the transport you take to work to the gas you fill in your vehicle. In every financial matter you are involved in, you are paying tax in some form or other. But where is all this going.

Tax is defined by some intelligent guy as "Enforced charge extracted of persons, corporations and organizations by the government to be used to support government services and programs". But how good is it working when it comes to helping the public when they are in real need. I say literally very little help. The tax was introduced to help the government to help the people who are paying it. 

But with the big-heads involved, by big-heads I mean corporate gaints, the tax money is going into the pockets of a few rich guys, who by any reason doesn't need that. The involvment of corporate heads in the government, or more like the corporate people controlling the proceedings of the government have led to this mis-use of tax money. This should be stopped but who will take the initiative. 

I say the tax-payers should take the initiative, when their hard earned pennies are collected in the form of tax till they dry up paying all the taxes, why shouln't they have the right to know where their taxes are going. The tax-payers should ask the government the reason for paying the corporates so much money that they really not deserve. They should ask the government why the money is not being spent on basic amenities like food, water and shelter. 

This change cannot be achieved in a day but still it will work perfectly. When the governing body becomes answerable then the fraud gets to it's knees, the money will be spent in the right way and even in the recession periods there will not be any problem to the common public. Just think about it. As some elderly said, "If I can change the thought of a single man by my writings in a positive way, that would bring me satisfaction, as if I ate a Chicken Biryani with Mutton Kurma", Just Kiddin...

2 mins to make, 10 mins to relish...

Have you ever had the taste of Maggi noodles, in fact any noodles? This is one of my favorites when it comes to eating and will be up there when it comes to cooking. It is so easy to make that it takes just 2 mins for its preparation and this thing has been the slogan for them for decades and guess what it will be the slogan for decades to come as well.

There are a lot of preparations you could make with the noodles. You can add carrots and peas and make some veggie noodles or spice it up with some chicken pieces and egg and make some chicken or egg soft noodles. I used to prepare and eat noodles every other day when I used to live with my friends. It was more like a tradition for me. In fact it has saved me from starving to death. Hence this is a thank you post to Maggi for helping me out in the crisis period...

Why am I writing all this today? Because today morning I had some noodles made by my sister and they were so good that they reminded me of those good old days, so I just wanted to share with you....

The Shawshank Redemption - My View...

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. 

This is how the movie can be described aptly in two lines. But the movie has got more than that. The movie is about a banker who is imprisoned for murdering his wife and her lover. But did he really commit the crime? Is his imprisonment justified? What he does in the prison? These all constitute the movie.

Morgan Freeman acts and narrates the most part of the movie. He is like the main pillar for this movie, where all the weight lies. And guess what he is the only person I knew in this movie. More than 90% of the movie is picturized in a prison. The male pratogonist has got a dream role to play and he does his part to near perfection. 

The scenes I liked::

• The letter writing by our hero to get funds for the prison library.
• The way he uses the rock hammer.
• Cruelty of the prison warden.
• (spoiler) The escape plan.

The scenes where I felt bad::

• When the new prisoner who passes some test gets killed by the warden.
• When the released prisoner hangs himself.

Overall I learnt from this movie, that Life hits you so hard that it brings you to your knees. But don't loose your heart, because everyone will have a talent in them which if put to a better use could fetch you success and that too in a pretty big way. Just never loose hope, the word is Hope...

For complete cast and crew details Click Here...

Why should we blog????

Why should anyone blog? Is blogging a fashion, is this a trend, is blogging done just to impress your girlfriend or to make others around you look stupid. None of the above is my answer. Why I started blogging? I clearly don't remember but I surely can say that it was my evergrowing curiosity to know what's new. This curiosity of mine has pushed me, rather dragged me into this trade.

Firstly, it was like a hobby for me to write some stupid things in my blog, then entered the new softwares that I used. I even blogged about politics, sports and stuff like that. But in the initial days, I did not take it seriously. But once my audience increased I started blogging on different issues and most of the time the words in the blog came from my heart rather than my mind. But I never thought this to be a fashion, trend or something like that. That's the main reason that I did not tell to anyone about my blog unless asked by them. A very few people know about my blog till date. But let me tell you, who ever knew my blog, they know one thing that there is no unrelevant hatred, questionable voilence, unreasonable use of filthy language.

But these days when I visit some blogs, they are either solely maintained for money or just as a fashion statement. I rarely find genuine blogs except for a few, where the blogger keeps his heart out when he writes something and you can very rarely find an objection in the blogs. But actually why should we blog?

Blogging brings out the inner self in you. You might want to show your anger on some issue, you might want to write what you like about a movie, or you might want to show your feelings on some issue but can't say that publicly. Here is a solution, the blogs help you vent out your anger, spread your love and show your feelings to the entire world. One final word, blog more not to hog the limelight but to flag off your inner feelings and race towards the eternal truth "Living Life King-Size"... 

Download Vista SP2 RC now...

Microsoft has released the service packs for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. But let me remind you that these are not the final versions but release candidates. So you can expect the final candidates somewhere by the end of the month or in a month or two. But the question here is what is new in these releases?

Nothing new is injected into the Operating System, nor there is any good news to the end users. I feel it is just a try in vain to show that Vista is still alive and the guys in Richmond haven't left Vista behind. There are just some hot fixes and security updates which are not that critical yet but could come handy sometime in the near future.

If you want to download and update your Vista OS or your Windows Server Click Here...

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