LIFE IS A POEM….

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, – act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

HP Launches SkyRoom: Skype Meets WebEx

Hewlett Packard is taking another stab at the virtual video conferencing market dominated by the likes of GoToMeeting and WebEx. The company unveiled SkyRoom, a PC desktop program that combines aspects of video conferencing, Skype, and IM.

The product, launched simultaneously at the Intel Developers Conference and DEMO, is at the core a two-way video conferencing system. It has similarities to Halo, HP’s teleconferencing solution, but it seems focused on smaller businesses and consumers.

What makes it killer though is the ability to share high quality image and videos (even movies) to others in the conference, as well as standard tools like screencasting capabilities.

It’s cheaper than most conferencing systems at $149 (a one-time cost, no subscription), but that also means it’s still more expensive than Skype, which is free to download. However, HP desktops or workstation notebooks will come with the software standard.

As HP admits, this product won’t replace video conferencing systems or Skype (Skype), but sits nicely in between Skype and WebEx as a teleconferencing solution.

Facebook Platform

In May 2007, Facebook unveiled the Facebook Platform. This launch revolutionized how applications can and would be written to integrate with Facebook's social network. The Facebook Platform provides several ways that developer's can write applications what leverage and integrate with Facebook. The Facebook Platform introduced the concept of "Canvas" applications. Canvas applications are Web applications written by third parties that run within the Facebook platform and appear to users as if they are actually part of the Facebook Web site. Canvas applications provide different integration points for the application developer to promote their application and leverage the social network.

Since the original release, Facebook has continued to update the Platform and provide new and different ways for Facebook Developers to use the platform and the data that Facebook makes available. "Canvas" applications today have many different integration points than the original "canvas" applications of the Facebook platform.



In addition, Facebook has continued to expand its REST APIs and privacy policies to provide more data and more ways for applications to publish the data they generate.

Facebook Platform Core Components
Facebook Platform comprises a number of core components, including:

o The API, which consists of a number of methods that let you add social context to your applications.
o FBML, Facebook Markup Language, which allows you to integrate your application into Facebook.
o XFBML, an extension to FBML, which lets you incorporate FBML into Facebook Connect sites and IFrame applications.
o FQL, Facebook Query Language, which lets you quickly and easily query for Facebook user data without using the API.
o FBJS, Facebook's method for letting developers incorporate JavaScript into their application

Points to Solve Indexing Problems

I’ve outlined certain possibilities to the website not getting indexed:

(a) Your site was temporarily unavailable when the Googlebot was passing through.

(b) Your website has drastic errors – This includes having dead links or orphaned pages that are not allowing the Googlebot to crawl through all the pages of your website.

(c) Javascript or Flash is “un-crawlable” – The Googlebot may have trouble following links in Javascript or Flash meaning pages of your website may be excluded in the Google index. This means, your website contains Nofollow or Robots.txt code placed in the website.

(d) You are black listed – Google has the power to omit your website from their search results if they believe you are doing something illegitimate to boost your PageRank. Illegitimate practices include: Cloaking – having text/links on your website that are invisible to browsers, Over-use of Keywords – repeating keywords artificially to boost keyword count, Duplicating material etc.

(e) Your page may not be relevant to the search terms you want- if the content of your webpages are not relevant to your keywords, your pages won’t appear in search engine results.

Your website may be indexed but not appearing in search engine results due to poor performance. You can check if this is the case by searching for your URL as the keyword. For example, if your URL is www dot example dot com, enter “www dot example dot com” as your search keyword query. If your website appears in the search engine results, then you are indexed.

Microsoft’s Next-Gen Zune Digital Media Player Begins to Take Shape.

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday disclosed the first official details regarding its next-generation portable digital media player. As expected, the new Zune HD will feature touch-screen, high-definition radio tuner as well as a new version of Windows CE operating system and revamped Internet browser.

Microsoft indicated that Zune HD will use flash memory, even though the company will continue to ship its Zune versions with hard disk drives. In addition, Zune HD will be equipped with OLED multi-touch screen with 3.3" diagonal and 480x272 resolution. Unfortunately, no additional technical details have been revealed: capacity and pricing of flash memory inside Zune is unknown; it is also unclear whether the new Zune HD supports 802.11n Wi-Fi or relies on older-generation 802.11g.


The main feature that will distinguish Zune from its competitors, such as Apple iPod Touch, will be HD radio, which provides high-quality music experience. By contrast, Apple iPod does not support any radio at all. Another important feature of Zune HD is gradual integration of Xbox Live and Zune store services into one. For example, the device will be able to output video in 1280x720 resolution (720p) to HDTVs.

“It’s really one of the first portable HD radio receivers out there.It’s going to be important for us to communicate the value of HD radio since it is a fairly nascent technology,” claimed Mr. Stephenson.

Microsoft Zune HD will be released in early Fall, however, its pricing is yet to be unveiled.

Breaking The XP Password:

In case of user password boot the pc in safemode by pressing the F8 key and then selecting the Safe Mode option. You can now logon as an administrator and XP wont prompt for the password. Incase of an administrator account try rebooting the pc in DOS.

access C:\Windows\system32\config\sam .

Rename SAM as SAM.mj
Now XP wont ask for password next time You Login. Also

Go to the cmd prompt .
Type net user *.
It will list all the users.
Again type net user "administrator" or the name of the administrator "name" *.
e.g.: net user aaaaaa *(where aaaaaa is the name).
It will ask for the password.
Type the password and there you are done.
Logging In As Administrator:

Hold the Ctrl-Alt key and press Del twice. This will bring up the normal login and you can log on as Administrator.

To unhide the Administrator account so it does show up:

Start Regedit

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

Unhide the Administrator key by giving it a value of 1

Finding IP address who sended you mail to ur gmail account

1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the headers,
* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.
* Click on Show original
4. You should get headers like this:
Gmailheaders :Ankit
Look for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets. In this case, it is 65.119.112.245.
That is be the IP address of the sender!
5. Track the IP address of the sender

Increase your Internet Speed By 20%

If you use Windows XP Professional then it is possible to squeeze an extra 20% out of your internet connection. By default Windows XP Pro holds back 20% of your Internet speed for various services like windows update and spyware checks.
 
If you want to tap into this locked speed then make the following changes:
 
1. Go to Start-> Run-> and type gpedit.msc
2. Expand the Administrative Templates branch
3. Expand the Network tab
4. Highlight QoS Packet Scheduler
5. Click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and check the enabled box
6. Then Change the Bandwidth limit % to 0 %
 
Once you have done this click apply and restart your PC. After rebooting you should see a noticeable improvement in your net speed.

Speed Up XP Booting.

Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).

Locate the following key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current
ControlSet\Control\Ses
sionManager\MemoryManagement\Prefetch
Parameters

Make sure you backup the keys by exporting them to a .reg file.

On the EnablePrefetcher value, change the setting from 3 to 5 (decimal).

Close the registry editor.

Restart your computer.

Make ur XP Genuine

This will allow you to bypass the Microsoft Genuine Validation thing

this method works better than many others i've tried before. forget the cracks and injectors etc... this is the BEST WAY:

1) start > run > "regedit" (without the quotes of course)

2) go to the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents\OOBETimer

...and doubleclick on it. Then change some of the value data to ANYTHING ELSE...delete some, add some letters, I don't care...just change it!

now close out regedit.

3) go to start > run > "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a" (again, dont type the quotes)

4) the activation screen will come up, click on register over telephone, then click on CHANGE PRODUCT KEY, enter in this key: JG28K-H9Q7X-BH6W4-3PDCQ-6XBFJ.




Now you can dl all the updates without activating, and the Genuine Microsoft Validation thing won't bug you no more!!



***Note, this works best after a format***

Lookup For windows 7 Features ..

Windows 7 is here!

With just 1 days after Windows 7 hit the shelves, i decided to make (yet another) post with all the great features, the available versions and their differences and much more. The first version of Windows 7, originally codenamed Blackcomb and later renamed to Vienna, officially available to public was Beta which was released on January 10th, 2009 (MSDN and TechNet subscribers got it a bit earlier as usual). A Release Candidate of Windows 7 Ultimate followed on May 5th, 2009, with a multilingual UI pack available for download via Windows Update on May 26th. RC was the last version officially available, before Windows 7 was Released to Manufacturing (RTM) on July 24th, 2009.  MSDN, TechNet and MSDNAA subscribers are able to download the final version since August 2009. After this brief timeline of Windows 7, let’s see some of the most interesting features (in no particular order).

Features

1. Taskbar and Jump Menus

Probably one of the best things in Windows 7 is the new and improved Taskbar. The taskbar in general is visible to users at almost all times and provides the means to perform many tasks, so the more powerful and user-friendly it is, the better. The new Taskbar was created with that in mind i guess, since it’s much better than the one that we were used to. An first sight you may not notice much of a difference but it is significantly improved. First of all, you will see that items on the taskbar now appear with just their icon without the text, saving up space for more applications. Also the icons are by default larger so that you can easily identify each item and same instances of an application are grouped together. One of the coolest new features is the preview of an application; you can see it by hovering your mouse over the icon. You can also move your mouse over the thumbnail itself to preview the application in full size, which is pretty useful if you have many instances of a program running. You can also pin any programs you like on your taskbar to access them even faster. Another great addition is the Jump Menus. You can right click on the items in taskbar and the Jump Menu will appear. There are many things you can do from the jump menu depending on the application, for example you can start InPrivate browsing for Internet Explorer or change your status on Windows Live Messenger. Last but not least, there is a permanent button to switch to desktop on the right end of the taskbar.

2. Aero Effects – Snap, Shake

Imagine that you have a dozen windows open and you just want to focus your attention on the excel sheet you are currently working on. Minimizing all the other windows is just a matter of “shaking” the window you are interested. You also have the ability to snap a window in the left or right half of the screen by just moving it. See the following video to better understand what i’m talking about.

3. Libraries

Windows 7 can group similar content, like Movies, Music, Documents and Pictures into “special folders” called Libraries. For example, you can add the folders of your Downloaded music, the CD-ripped music and your own written songs folder into the Music Library and access them from one place altogether. No matter where in disc (or discs) your files are stored you can view all of the same type in the corresponding Library. The files are physically located in their original location but you just can see them all in the same place. There are 4 libraries (the ones at the start of the paragraph) created by default, but you can create your own and add whatever folders you want. With the power of Home Group (see #5 below), sharing of the libraries is easier than ever.

4. Device Stage

Device Stage, a new addition to Windows, provides a centralized location to interact with various devices attached to the computer, such as MP3 players, digital cameras, mobile phones and many more. It supports devices connected to USB, Bluetooth or network. Device Stage is customized by the manufacturers and provides easy access to the device’s main functions. For example if you connect a mobile phone you may have options to import pictures taken, browse the phone’s file system, start a custom application from the manufacturer. Since i don’t own any device stage-compliant device, i borrowed a screenshot from Windows Team Blog. You can see a Device Stage in action in the video on Windows 7 website.

5. Home Group

It took Windows many versions to get an easy way to share files across computers but now it’s here! You can create a Home Group (or join an existing one) and immediately start sharing files/folders or libraries. You can also select who to share it with and password protect it if privacy is an issue. Creating a Home Group option is only available in Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise editions, but you can still join an existing from Home Basic and Starter editions (see further down in this post for various editions and their features).

6. Touch support and Multi-Touch

One-finger touch support was built-in windows for a long time, but now you can do much more. Windows 7 supports multi touch and there are several gestures for common mouse actions. You can easily zoom, scroll up or down, navigate, rotate, etc using just your fingers (well, if you have a device that supports multi-touch). It’s really fun and changes the way you interact wit the computer! Windows Taskbar and Start Menu have larger icons so it’s really easy to navigate using fingers. Also Jump Menus (see #1) automatically adjust their size depending on the input method (mouse, touch).

7. One-click Connect to Network

With Windows 7, it takes just two clicks to connect to a WiFi (or other) network. Just click on the network icon on the tray and you get a list with all available networks!

8. Customized notification tray

You now have the power to select not only which items will be shown on your tray (you can do that in Vista), but also if which ones are allowed to show notifications. So, no more annoying balloons popping up if you don’t want to!

9. More options on User Account Control

The unmanageable UAC of Windows Vista belongs to the past. Microsoft has heard people’s complaints about the UAC and decided to add more options so each user can customize when a warning message should appear. Most Vista users used to completely turn it off, to get rid of the notifications each time they wanted to do the simplest thing. Now, you can just tune UAC to relax the restrictions and still enjoy the security it offers.

10. Calculator, WordPad, Paint

All these 3 applications are finally revamped with many new features and redesigned UI. Paint and WordPad now have ribbons instead old-style menus and calculator includes things like unit conversion. Here are a couple of screenshots.

11. Gadgets – No more Sidebar

Microsoft decided to remove the Sidebar which was introduced in Windows Vista. The gadgets can now be added anywhere on your desktop where you can now resize them to your needs! You can read more about the gadgets on this MSDN article.

12. “Play To”

This new feature will be quite welcomed by multimedia enthusiasts and those who own a Media Center PC. You can play your music on other PC’s or devices in your network by just right clicking on the file and selecting Play To. There is a large number of devices that support this feature including PCs running Windows 7 and Xbox360. You can find a list of more devices here.

13. Search in folders

A cool new addition on Windows 7 is the ability to search for a file inside the current folder of Windows Explorer. The search panel is there since Vista but it would search the entire computer instead. Now, you can also set filters like Size or Date Modified easily.

14. Speed and Hardware Requirements

Windows Vista users complained a lot that the OS was slow and unresponsive with long boot times. It seems that all these issues are resolved in Windows 7. The latest version of Windows feels like XP in terms of speed and responsiveness, and also uses less resources like RAM. Windows 7 can run smoothly even on low-end PCs, unlike Windows Vista. The Starter edition is specifically designed for entry level PCs and Netbooks.

15. Windows XP Mode

This feature concerns mostly businesses who have applications running on Windows XP. Using Virtual PC behind the scenes, users can now run older Windows XP programs in Windows 7 without any problems. So they can still keep using their software without any modifications and benefit from all the great stuff in Windows 7!

16. Hotkeys

On Windows 7 you can do many many things from just your keyboard.

 

Editions

Windows 7 will be available in 6 editions, but only the three of them will be sold in retail stores. Those are Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate. Below is a table with some of the main features that each edition will / won’t include. This list is not complete, you can view the “Compare Editions” page on Windows 7 website or the relevant wikipedia article.

Features	Home Premium	Professional	Ultimate
Aero	x	x	x
Mobility Center	x	x	x
Media Center	x	x	x
Multi-Touch	x	x	x
Home Group	x	x	x
XP Mode		x	x
Presentation Mode		x	x
Backup on network		x	x
BitLocker			x
Multilingual Pack			x
Boot from Virtual HD			x

The other three editions are: Starter, Home Basic and Enterprise.

Windows 7 Starter

The Starter edition includes a subset of the features available in full versions and is targeted for Netbooks. It will be available through OEM licensing and there won’t be an 64-bit version, just 32-bit one. Also some more limitations apply. For more information about Starter edition you can read this blog post.

Windows 7 Home Basic

The Home Basic edition will only be available to some emerging markets. This edition will include more features than the Starter edition but it will still lack some that are available in Home Premium, such as Media Center, Multi-Touch support and some Aero options.

Windows 7 Enterprise

Available only through Volume licensing, this edition will contain the same features as Windows 7 Ultimate that is available to individual users.

 

Source:- self written + various websites from microsoft .

Imageine Cup 2010 "Microsoft"

Imagine Cup 2010
Attention students! Since 2002, the Imagine Cup has been challenging the world's brightest students to step up and make a difference. Last year, over 300,000 students from 142 countries regions registered for the 2009 Imagine Cup. Now in its eighth year, Microsoft’s Imagine Cupis a global student technology competition focused on finding solutions to real-world issues.

The 2010 Imagine Cup competition encourages the world's most talented software designers, programmers, game developers, and digital media enthusiasts to tackle, head on, issues related to the 2010 theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.” Whether it is providing solutions related to hunger relief, poverty, education, disease control, healthcare, or the environment - this is your chance to make a difference in our world today.
The 2010 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals will be held in Warsaw, Poland in summer 2010. It’s fitting that this cutting edge competition that celebrates the opportunities and creative potential of students hold a Worldwide Finals in Warsaw – one of the fastest growing cities in Europe.

Source :- Microsoft Tech Club

Fixing or Getting Back GRUB After A Windows Installation

Put your bootable Ubuntu/Xubuntu install disk in the CD drive and run it. Instead of installing anything, click on the menu to open the terminal application.

In terminal mode, type the following:

sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
After typing the above command you will display
root (x,y)
something like (hd0,1) in place of (x,y)
x,y are the values you will get as ur partion
setup (x)
place the value as u get frm root(x,y)


brief:
The resulting “find” command will . In this example, you would then type root (hd0,1) and then setup (hd0) in the above area.

restart ur pc and grub will be re-installed.

See the Future of Developer Technology

November 17 – 19, 2009
Workshops November 16
Los Angeles Convention Center

What you’ll get at the PDC ?
Microsoft’s vision and roadmap for the future of developer technology.

Deep, technical content delivered by Microsoft’s technology leaders.

Hands-on access to the latest developer technologies and over 1,000 Microsoft product and technology experts available to answer your questions.

Unique networking opportunities with leading-edge developers and technology leaders just like you.

Cant get an appropriate title for it..........!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every morning i wake up in d hope to c him

n evry nite i close mah eyes waiting to hear him

n evryday n evrynite i wish for him to b mine

i dnt knw for hw long dis wish wud remain a wish

ol i knw is dat as long as i breathe i will wish 4 d same wish to get true

at tyms i force mahself not to love him

bt d more i force d more i get close

i try to make mahself strong

n i decide not to cum in front of him

bt mah heart doesnt support my mind

n mah eyes keep searchng 4 mah life

i know wat i want

bt i cant get it

ol i can do is wish for it

every morning i thnk its a new day

...a new beginning

but at the end of the day i just hope

..to begin with him...

..n to b wid him..!!!

Source : oops...!!! confidential cant tell it....!!! :) :)

Ubuntu 9.10 On its way

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala on its way. All new and dynamically exploding in technology with numerous new features added.


         

Mix 09 -- The power to inovate ....its back

The Web Belongs to You. <3 Your Web.

Take your web development and design skills to the next level at MIX09. Now in its fourth year, the MIX conference is a gathering of designers and developers who are building the world’s most innovative web sites.


Just like you, Microsoft understands that the Web is the future of commerce, education, and communication, and we want to make sure you have the tools and knowledge to create the next generation of UI, applications and web design.


At MIX09, you’ll get in-depth exposure to exciting new Microsoft technologies, exchange ideas with fellow developers and designers, meet the industry’s thought leaders and be inspired. MIX09 brings together the best ideas, sessions, parties and people, and it’s where you’ll find everything you need to <3 your Web.


* Explore the next wave of opportunities and help redefine the boundaries between content and commerce, PC and TV, Windows® and the Web

* Be inspired by an impressive lineup of UX, design and development sessions

* Connect with experts on a wide range of topics for one-on-one guidance and inspiration

* Learn about the future of Silverlight™, Internet Explorer®, Expression®, ASP.NET and other web technologies from Microsoft

* Network with executives from Microsoft and some of the world’s largest web sites and interactive agencies


MIX09 brings together the best ideas, sessions, and people, and it’s where you’ll find everything you need to <3 your Web.

Who Should Attend

MIX is for designers and developers who build innovative web sites. Attendees are coders, strategists, information architects, visual designers, UX professionals and digital marketers. They represent top web sites, web start-ups, interactive agencies and other organizations that do business on the Web.

Windows Azure is the cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Internet or cloud applications. and services on the Internet in Microsoft data centers.

Windows Azure supports a consistent development experience through its integration with Visual Studio. In the early stages of CTP, .NET managed applications built using Visual Studio will be supported. Windows Azure is an open platform that will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments. Windows Azure welcomes third-party tools and languages such as Eclipse, Ruby, PHP, and Python.


Windows® Azure is the operating system that serves as the development, run-time, and control environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure handles load balancing and resource management and automatically manages the life cycle of a service based on requirements that the owner of the service established. A developer who wishes to deploy an application to Windows Azure specifies the service topology, including the number of instances to deploy and any configuration settings. Windows Azure deploys the service and manages upgrades and failures to maintain availability.

Basic Working Model


Storage Services

The Windows Azure storage services provide persistent, durable storage in the cloud. To access the storage services, you must have a storage account, which is provided through the developer portal.

The fundamental storage services include:

* Blob service, for storing text or binary data

* Queue service, for reliable, persistent messaging between services

* Table service, for structured storage that can be queried

The Windows Azure SDK offers REST APIs for working with the storage services. You may access the storage services from within a service running in Windows Azure or directly over the Internet from any application that can send and receive data over HTTP/HTTPS.

Compute Service

Windows Azure offers an Internet-scale hosting environment built on geographically distributed data centers. This hosting environment provides a runtime execution environment for managed code.

A Windows Azure compute service is built from one or more roles. A role defines a component that may run in the execution environment; within Windows Azure, a service may run one or more instances of a role.

Currently Windows Azure supports the following two types of roles:

* A web role is an ASP.NET Web application that may be accessed via an HTTP or HTTPS endpoint. Web roles run in integrated pipeline mode on an Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Hosted Web Core.

* A worker role is a background processing component. It does not accept inbound network connections.

A service may be comprised of one or both types of roles, and may include multiple roles of each type.




Developers can use the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio® to build, package, and run services from within Visual Studio. The Windows Azure Tools also provide project templates for designing roles. The tools are available as a separate download and are not included as part of this SDK.
Developer Model

­Windo­ws 7 ­on th­e way­!

Well, Windows 7 is officially released to the manufacturer as of last week - it's due to be available to the public on Oct 22. While a lot of people have already had a chance to try it out via the publicly available RC (release candidate) version, I think everyone else is still in for a shock when they see how cool this new version is! I've had the chance to spend the summer interning on the Windows team and have gotten to know Win7 as part of the process. Here are a few of my favorite features:

- The taskbar: simpler, easier to use and prettier

- Aero: a cool desktop feature that allows you to see tranparently through windows when you want to and to view previews of windows in the taskbar (you have to check it out for yourself to really understand)

- Devices: I've been using cameras, phones, printers, a wireless mouse, etc. with Win7 and everything connects no problem and works seamlessly...a nice improvement from needing to always install drivers.

Has anyone else been using the RC? Any other cool features that should be pointed out?

In any case, I hope everyone else is as excited for the release as I am. You can get lots of previews and info on the internet and at www.windows.com.

Source: Virtual Tech Days global video chat by one of the designer in windows 7

Google Dominates Internet Landscape in India

In India, Google Sites accounted for 88.4 percent of all searches conducted, and had commanding share of time spent in social networking with Orkut (68.2 percent), maps with Google Maps (63.9 percent), multimedia with YouTube (82.8 percent). It also commanded slightly less than half of all time spent in the blogs category with Blogger (47.6 percent) and email with Gmail (46.8 percent).

Google-Owned Sites Across Selected Site Categories India July 2009 Total India, Age 15+, Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix and comScore qSearch
Site Category	Google Site	Category Rank by Unique Visitors	Google’s Share of Time Spent in Category
India
Search*	Google Sites	1	88.4%
Social Networking	Orkut	1	68.2%
Maps	Google Maps	1	63.9%
Photos	Picasa Network	1	16.2%
Blogs	Blogger	1	47.6%
Multimedia	YouTube	1	82.8%
Email	Gmail	2	46.8%

Facebook User Statistics- August 2009

Facebook has now more than ever become a potent force on the web and also a “parallel” internet. Optimization on Facebook is a must for every organization, brand and individual.

Facebook General Growth

* More than 250 million active users
* More than 120 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
* More than two-thirds of Facebook users are outside of college
* The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older

Facebook User Engagement

* Average user has 120 friends on the site
* More than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
* More than 30 million users update their statuses at least once each day
* More than 8 million users become fans of Pages each day

Facebook Applications

* More than 1 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
* More than 10 million videos uploaded each month
* More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week
* More than 2.5 million events created each month
* More than 45 million active user groups exist on the site

Facebook International Growth

* More than 50 translations available on the site, with more than 40 in development
* About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

Facebook Platform

* More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
* Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
* More than 350,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
* More than 200 applications have more than one million monthly active users
* More than 15,000 websites, devices and applications have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008

Facebook Mobile

* There are more than 30 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
* People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
* There are more than 150 mobile operators in 50 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

Web Awards

Using web services is no longer a one time activity , it is now a part of our lives,and a serious investment of time ,energy and money.
users now need to trust these sites as much as they do on jeweller, doctor or a mechanic.
So i decided to give some web awards on my basis :

Search Engine
"In blind test done, there was a neck to neck competition between google and bing. While yahoo didn't garner many points."
www.google.com
www.bing.com

"Email service"
www.gmail.com

"Social Networking"
www.facebook.com

"Business Networking"
www.linkedin.com

"job Sites"
www.naukri.com

"Online Office Suites"
www.zoho.com

"Travel Sites"
www.makemytrip.com

"Video Streaming"
www.youtube.com

"Real Estate"
www.magicbricks.com

"Image Hosting"
www.flickr.com

"Image Editing"
www.pixlr.com

"Photo Printing"
www.zoomin.com

"Tech Shopping"
www.ebay.in

"Games"
www.zapak.com


I think that's all Hats off to all these websites , in my view they are best in there work.

Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10)

The Open Source Community is all set to offer u the latest and greatest software till date. The Ubuntu developers are moving (working)quickly to bring up this gift to its users--The Karmic Koala Alpha 1 . The Karmic Koala Alpha 1 is the first alpha release of Ubuntu 9.10, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of Ubuntu.

The final stable version will be released on October 29th, 2009.


New features in Karmic

Development for Karmic just recently opened and many of the new features have not yet started to appear. Currently the changes include the sync of packages from Debian Unstable or Sid has begun, a new kernel based on 2.6.30 and the latest development release of GNOME, 2.27.1.

Alpha 1 includes the 2.6.30-5.6 kernel based on 2.6.30-rc5.


Download Alpha 1

Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:

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http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Alternates, Server, Netbook Remix, and MID)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/karmic/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu ARM)

Firefox vs IE (No need for comparison but still..)

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Hmm.. See no comparion of firefox ... Ie is no where in comparison to firefox...

At last my first blog....!!!

I am not a blogger , not a writer so you will not find any interesting stories or poems in my bolg ..hehe  My friends keep on telling me to start with a blog so i just wake up at night not feeling sleepy decided to at last do it .
Lots of things to tell but dont know where to start from  , hmm let me try ...

So lets start with my time line of knowledge..

3 years back
Introduced to computer . My 1st computer dont know much about it just know that can play games and listen music on it.
Till 6 months i only used it as a play station for me was enjoying it.
Then one day i heard about a programming language termed V.B.(visual basics) by one of my computer teacher . He told me that it can be used for making softwares , i was impressed by that words without even knowing what this ol abt.
I started with it , it took me around 3 months to complete its basics . That made me crazy about computer now i left it as a play station used it as a programming machine.

2 years back
V.B. made me so crazy that in the next 9 months i completed it in detail along with it i completed Oracle , My Sql .
Then one day i was sitting at a shop for some work . In that shop there was an accountant fighting with papers handling his store records , I suggested why you just switch to a software and it will solve your problems , he replied i tried but couldn't get one , that day i thought of making it . I discussed him about the details and ol , and made the software in next 15 days and gave him to test it . He was happy all his work was done . That gave me spirit to know more and develop things.

1 years back
I completed C, C++ , Java, Clipper and sold about 30 softwares that year, along with i completed Linux (it was a new experience for me ).
1 year back
Me and my two friends started my own company know Dreamaginations - Converting dreams into reality . We provide complete web solutions like SMS and E-mail marketing , Web site development , Web hostings and many more...
alongwith i completed Joomla , Drupal, Wordpress, PHP , Ajax ,Html,Dhtml,Flash..
Got many projects , all were happy work going well and were trying to make it stable.

Present......
Getting bored with all this work , but doing it for stablizing our company.
Currently deeply indulged in networking and Data structures.



This was my first blog talking about me .. Just introduced my self