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Collection of Rapidshare Tools and Tricks
apidshare is world’s biggest file storage/sharing network and one of the most trafficked websites on the web. With it’s enormous file database (ebooks, software, audio,video, etc…) it became highly popular download destination. In this article you’ll find bunch of handy tips and tools(download managers and accelerators,search engines,how to get premium account, etc) designed for rapidshare users. apidshare is world’s biggest file storage/sharing network and one of the most trafficked websites on the web. With it’s enormous file ... more
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Take Advantage Of The New Windows Live Writer
If I could name one Microsoft application which has met with the near unanimous approval of the tech crowd then it’s Windows Live Writer. I can only speak for myself, but I know a lot of bloggers who wouldn’t be able to live without this handy piece of software… and now it has just got even better.
Live Dev stated that “this release is largely about updates to the Writer SDK” but once you load it up and have a bit of a poke around you’ll find quite a number of subtle new features and UI changes. Here is a rundown and a guide to making the best use of them as you can:
Word Count
Yep. This is a bonza one.
In the previous Live Writer getting a word count required a plugin. That was still pretty simple, but more involved then it had to be (such as, select all text> insert> word count).
Now its been added into Writer itself and you can simply go to Tools > Options and select “Show real-time word count in status bar” to get it displayed just like this: If I could name one Microsoft application which has met with the near unanimous approval of the tech crowd then it’s Windows Live Writ... more -
Father`s Day: A day in the life of a father…
Most of the movies end with the wedding of the lovelorn couple, their exploits being the theme. Clichés “and they lived happily ever after”, “just married”, “the end” (wedding generally marks it?) or the more innovative “the beginning” (of trouble?), bombarded our psyche during school and college days and we, like well contented fools have come out of theatres feeling overjoyed at the happy ending of the cinema…something that seemed just so perfect!
At other instances, the so called “out of the ordinary directors” have sometimes woven tales of woe around the dear- darling -sacrificing -suffering mother whose poverty stricken, grief wrung life becomes the motive behind the revenge of the angry young hero.
Among all hype and hoopla of this ideal mother-son saga one person is severely wronged almost inevitably and that is the father, who is sometimes shown as the wrong doer, sometimes as an escapist and sometimes as totally oblivious of the pains of his wife and children and living happily in some far off land amidst untold riches! With caste and class being the stalemates of Indian society, shockingly a huge number of movies even show fathers as the enemies of lovers- stopping them from trying to live ‘happily ever after’ at the might of his wealth.
Painted in the darkest hues, fathers have really been wronged in the Indian cinema. I specifically mention cinema because in the age that we live in, movies mirror life and society more than any thing else does and probably can.
I really feel like thanking the American woman (Sonora Smart Dodd), who, inspired by Mother’s Day, first celebrated Father’s Day on her dad’s birthday to thank him for having brought her up along with her siblings single handedly after the death of their mother. A noble, well thought of gesture on her part and that too way back in 1910!
But I feel that fathers have become more inimical today than they were a century ago. No wonder their names have now started appearing in the list of suspected killers in sensational murders, no wonder they being regarded as stumbling blocks in “progress” of their children, no wonder they being thought of as against every thing new, modern, fresh and innovative. A useless peace of furniture they are, aren’t they? Blocking the door of freedom by their needless presence?
I remember to have read a quote on father long back-“What thankless position a father has in the family-the provider of all and the enemy of all”. But who really cares to read a quote on dads. Right? Most of the movies end with the wedding of the lovelorn couple, their exploits being the theme. Clichés “and they lived happily ever a... more -
Will Reading This Blog Improve Your Love Life?
Maybe…you never know! But if you love technology, odds are you’re already a geek and according to the Geeks are Sexy blog, that could be a great boon! They have a great article called “12 Reasons why a geek will steal your girlfriend this year” and I think they’re right on the money. Maybe…you never know! But if you love technology, odds are you’re already a geek and according to the Geeks are Sexy blog, that could ... more
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Kylie Minogue lands top spot in ‘Most Photogenic Celebrities’ list
London, Jun 13 : When it comes to facing the camera, celebrities like Kylie Minogue, Brad Pitt and Kate Moss all have one thing in common - they never fail to look their best.
However, the one who almost never fails to put the right foot forward is pop princess Kylie Minogue. London, Jun 13 : When it comes to facing the camera, celebrities like Kylie Minogue, Brad Pitt and Kate Moss all have one thing in com... more -
6 Ways to Get Social with Microsoft Outlook
Let’s face it, the 2 main constants in the working world are Blackberries when it comes to mobile and Microsoft Outlook when it comes to stationary. With Flock taking over the Social world for the browsers, Outlook support is getting rather social too. Here I want to go over a bunch of useful Outlook add-ons and toolbars that can make it more Let’s face it, the 2 main constants in the working world are Blackberries when it comes to mobile and Microsoft Outlook when it comes ... more
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The Best Websites for Gadget Freaks
Like any other geek I have an eternal love for gadgets, especially those shiny, slick and expensive ones. If you’re reading this, I am sure you’re in that category as well. Over time, I discovered a number of websites that I found extremely useful for my gadget mania. Some help me decide what to buy next, other for troubleshooting, and a couple to get rid of the old ones. Here you go … Like any other geek I have an eternal love for gadgets, especially those shiny, slick and expensive ones. If you’re reading this, I am... more
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Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God'
Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average.
A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, he claimed.
But the conclusions - in a paper for the academic journal Intelligence - have been branded "simplistic" by critics Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the "intellectual elite&... more -
Two Picassos stolen in second art heist in Brazil
Sao Paulo, Jun 13 : Armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints and two works by Brazilian artists from Sao Paulo’s Pinacoteca Museum on Thursday, officials said, the second major art theft in the Brazilian city in six months.
The three robbers entered the museum in broad daylight and threatened security guards. They made off with the Spanish artist’s 1963 print The Painter and the Model and Minotaur, Drinker and Women from 1933, the state culture secretariat said.
They also snatched the print Couple by Brazilian artist Lasar Segall (1891-1957) and the painting Women in a Window by fellow Brazilian Emiliano Di Cavalcanti (1897-1976).
The artworks, belonging to the Jose and Paulina Nemirovsky Foundation and worth in total about 1 million reais ($613,000), were on display in the Pinacoteca Station annex of the museum.
It was the second theft of works by Picasso, who lived from 1881 to 1973, in Sao Paulo in recent months. Sao Paulo, Jun 13 : Armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints and two works by Brazilian artists from Sao Paulo’s Pinacoteca Museum... more -
Your guide to a career in online tutoring
New Delhi, Jun 13 : Gone are the days when tuition classes meant long hours after school with a bespectacled, cane-wielding tutor, for tutorials are now available on the Internet and tutors today are smart and tech-savvy.
Anushree holds a Bachelors degree in Science. She teaches Biology to a student in the UAE via video conferencing. Just a couple of hours a day, and Anushree can earn as much as Rs 10-15,000 a month.
“Timings are flexible and there are no geographical boundaries. I can pursue something else alongside,” Anushree says explaining the job benfits.
It may not sound glamorous enough, but e-tutoring is a booming industry, with students from UK, USA, UAE and India logging on to seek help with their Math and Science homework.
And as schoolteacher Deepika, who’s also a part time e-tutor, explains, a huge advantage of the job is that you can work with an e-tutoring company either on a full-time or part time basis.
“Neither the students nor I have to travel. It’s the same as teaching one-on-one as both the audio and visual elements are there,” she explains. New Delhi, Jun 13 : Gone are the days when tuition classes meant long hours after school with a bespectacled, cane-wielding tutor, for... more -
Myanmar: General asked to quit for son’s drug trade
In a rare instance, the Myanmar Army general whose son was arrested for dealing in drugs was asked to quit. The order to resign came from Myanmar’s military junta supremo senior general Than Shwe who seemed extremely annoyed..
In an instance, which is rare in military ruled Myanmar, a senior general was asked to resign. Lt gen Ye Myint, the head of the Special Operation Bureau (I) had to go because his son was arrested recently for being involved in drug trade.
The Myanmar junta supremo senior general Than Shwe had wanted the general to resign with immediate effect, the Myanmar media in exile reported.
Aung Zaw Ye Myint, the general’s son was picked up by the police on June 7, by a joint force of the military intelligence and the special branch of the police from his office Kyi Myin Dine Township. He owns the Yetagun Construction Company and was involved in executing government construction projects.
Besides drugs, a handgun, handcuffs and several million in Burmese currency notes were seized from his office. Several film celebrities, including actresses and a young tycoon, among one of the richest in Myanmar, were also nabbed on suspicion of being part of the drug ring. The film world people are out on bail. The general’s son was suspected to be supplying all kinds of drugs to the glamour crowd in Myanmar’s film world. Ecstasy, Yaba, Heroin and Methamphetamine among other drugs is said to be in high demand in the Myanmar film fraternity, media reports added. In a rare instance, the Myanmar Army general whose son was arrested for dealing in drugs was asked to quit. The order to resign came f... more -
BPO blues: India is competition, says Obama
Washington, Jun 11 : The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama says he would make the US economy strong and competitive again by expanding opportunity outward rather than clamping down on outsourcing to countries like India and China.
“Revolutions in communication and technology have sent jobs wherever there’s an internet connection; that have forced children in Raleigh and Boston to compete for those jobs with children in Bangalore and Beijing,” he said outlining his vision of the economy in a speech on Monday.
“We live in a more competitive world, and that is a fact that cannot be reversed,” Obama acknowledged as he kicked off his presidential election campaign in Raleigh, North Carolina by accusing his Republican rival John McCain of essentially endorsing President George Bush’s flawed policies.
The US has faced such fundamental change before, and “each time we’ve kept our economy strong and competitive by making the decision to expand opportunity outward; to grow our middle-class; to invest in innovation, and most importantly, to invest in the education and well-being of our workers.”
“We’ve done this because in America, our prosperity has always risen from the bottom-up,” he said outlining his vision to build a “21st century economy that works for working Americans.”
Obama said he too believed in the cause of free trade, as professed by Bush but with a difference. “There is nothing protectionist about demanding that trade spreads the benefits of globalisation as broadly as possible.”
“Because we know that we can’t or shouldn’t put up walls around our economy, a long-term agenda will also find a way to make trade work for American workers.”
“We do the cause of free-trade - a cause I believe in - no good when we pass trade agreements that hand out favours to special interests and do little to help workers who have to watch their factories close down,” Obama said.
“For all of George Bush’s professed faith in free markets, the markets have hardly been free,” he said accusing the president of throwing open the gates of Washington “to high-priced lobbyists who rig the rules of the road and riddle our tax code with special interest favours and corporate loopholes.” Washington, Jun 11 : The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama says he would make the US economy strong and competi... more -
Adam Ferguson (His Lens on Manipur)
Adam Ferguson was born in Australia in 1978 and graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Photography in 2003. In 2004 he was awarded a Peace Scholarship from Griffith and traveled to South East Asia to document Peace Art Project Cambodia, a European Union public awareness campaign aimed at curbing small arms. After working for regional newspapers in Australia and Mexico, he moved to Paris in 2006 and interned with VII Photo Agency. In 2007 he moved to New Delhi, India, where he is currently based as a freelance photojournalist. Adam’s work has been published in Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg News, Courrier International, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.
About the Photograph:
With the ‘Golden Triangle’ stretching between Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China, a porous Indian border leaves India’s northeastern states like Manipur vulnerable to an illegal heroin trade. Ongoing tribal insurgencies, corruption and a disregard for India’s northeastern states from New Delhi, render communities like Churachandpur in Manipur politically volatile and economically stifled. High unemployment and minimal opportunity cause a high number of youth to turn to drugs to escape poverty. But with Myanmar as a rogue neighbor, and corruption making the stifling of the heroin trade almost impossible, heroin trafficking goes on and little hope is left for any action to stop the free flow of heroin that devastates lives in India’s volatile northeast. Adam Ferguson was born in Australia in 1978 and graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Photography in 2003. In 2004 he ... more -
Mighty mites
A cellphone that weighs just 42g, a PC small enough to fit in your palm, and even a mini video camera the size of a packet of Wrigley’s chewing gum… These innovative small wonders are designed to save space, but there is virtually no compromise on their megawatt performance
OCULON HIKARI PRO920
POCKET PROJECTOR
www.oculon.com.tw/en/products/pro-type.aspx?pid=2
Price: $299
A palm-sized pocket projector, the Hikari Pro920 has a projective size of 25 inch in 640×480 (VGA) resolutions. It deploys a 10 lumen LED as light source and consumes only 5 Watt of power to play its front-projected images to any white surface. With its high spec input interface, it can also be used with smartphones, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 game consoles, portable media players and DVD players. And if you want to check out an even smaller portable projector, point your browser to www.explay.co.il for the Explay nano-projector.
TOUCHSCREEN UNIVERSAL TV/DVD REMOTE WATCH
www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5954
Always fumbling for the TV and/or DVD remote, but never finding it where you think you kept it the last time? Maybe you could think of getting this fully-functional, watch-based universal remote control. Extremely lightweight (and rather “plasticky”, of course), its touch-screen operations allow you to control the volume, switch channels, and even turn on/off the power in most popular TV, SAT, DVD player, LD player and VCR brands. The green backlit screen (electroluminescent for visibility in the dark) requires tiny taps with a finger or stylus to do your bidding. And, of course, it also functions as a regular digital watch. The build quality of the watch may leave you a little disappointed, but then, you don’t really expect titanium with such a price tag. A cellphone that weighs just 42g, a PC small enough to fit in your palm, and even a mini video camera the size of a packet of Wrigley’... more -
Top 10 Reasons to Trade Clothes on Wardrobe Exchange (WX)
Everyone wants to look good without breaking the bank and having cool clothes is a big part looking good! Here are the top 10 reasons to use Wardrobe Exchange:
1) You want to be fashionable and have a fresh new look whenever you feel like it!
Express your fashion sense without leaving your paycheck at the mall. With WX you can have a new outfit for every day of the week. It’s a fun way to show of your sense of style.
2) You want to save money!
Who wants to spend money on something they can get for free (WX is free).
3) You want to be environmentally friendly!
It takes a tremendous amount of energy and resources to produce fabrics, dies, and other items that go into manufacturing, transporting, marketing, and disposing of clothes. Help the environment by prolonging the usefulness of your wardrobe.
4) You want to find clothing that may not be available in local retail stores!
By having an international network of members, you’ll have access to clothes from different parts of the country and the world (Italian suit anyone?)
5) You want to find clothes that fit you properly!
Our bodies change all the time. Whether you lost or gained weight recently, your clothes must fit you well in order to look good.
6) You want to dress age appropriately!
Whether you are just turning 21 or are 80 going on 18, having clothes that fit your lifestyle will make you feel good.
7) You need specialty clothes on certain occasions!
Whether you want some cool retro threads for a costume party or desperately need a pair of sky pants for your trip to the slopes, check WX before spending your money at a store.
8) You just want a change!
The quickest an easiest way to a quick makeover is a new outfit.
9) Sometimes life demands a different wardrobe!
Whether you are moving from one climate to another, changing a career path, having a baby, etc, you may need a major wardrobe overhaul once in a while.
10) Because you are cool
Enough said. Everyone wants to look good without breaking the bank and having cool clothes is a big part looking good! Here are the top 10 reasons ... more -
Buy Fair Trade Chocolate for your Valentine!
There's no denying that eating chocolate, if you are a chocoholic, makes you feel good because it tastes so good. Now you can feel even better by buying "Fair trade" chocolate for Valentines Day and help end child slavery. There's no denying that eating chocolate, if you are a chocoholic, makes you feel good because it tastes so good. Now you can fe... more
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