Archive for May, 2008

31 May 2008

What if a nuclear attack on Washington D.C?!

The below is a computer generated image below was posted on an Islamic extremists’ website yesterday.

computer generated image below was posted on an Islamic extremists' website on nuclear attack took place in Washington D.C

This computer generated image posted on terror forums depict what would happen if a nuclear attack took place in Washington D.C.

Read full article. Published on May 31, 2008.
30 May 2008

HTC Touch Diamond Launches in India

HTC Touch Diamond(Windows mobile) Launches in India

Seeking a breakthrough in size, style, connectivity and overall user experience, HTC a provider of mobile phone innovation and design, and Bharti Airtel announced a strategic alliance to introduce HTC Touch Diamond in India exclusively on the Airtel network.It has Windows Mobile 6.1 (for the moment, anyway) in India.

HTC chief Peter Chou himself was on hand for the announcement, saying that he’d like to sell 50,000 Touch Diamonds in India this year – Pricing comes in at Rs.27,500 (around $642).

Watch the HTC Touch Diamond youtube Video below:
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Read full article. Published on May 30, 2008.
29 May 2008

Great Bloggin-Ads Contest Giveaway

Bloggin-Ads.com is currenlty holding a contest where we can win a whole lot of laptops and cash prizes. 2 MacBook Airs + $1,000 Giveaway will be won by 12 people. Entering the contest is also really easy like the normal points method.

2 MacBook Airs + $1,000 Giveaway Contest

There are only 3 prizes, but there will be 12 different winners. The below are the prizes:
» 2 x MacBook Air (a value of $1,799 each)
1.6Ghz Intel Core Duo
2GB Ram
80GB Internal Drive
13.3″ Display
Built-In WiFi and Bluetooth
» 10 winners x $100 (a value of $1,000)

The Contest will end on June 13, which is Friday the 13th so hurry up!

Read full article. Published on May 29, 2008.
25 May 2008

1GB Pen Spy Camcorder with Audio

1GB Pen Spy Camcorder with Audio

Get the mission completed with with this awesome secret agent pen camcorder with audio. Sitting in your shirt pocket, standing in the pen cup or lying on the desk no-one will ever notice as you secretly capture their every move.The built in flash stores the video until it is ready to be downloaded to a computer via USB, and with 1GB of memory you’ll get almost 3 hours of recording time. The colour video is encoded on the fly through a buffer system to MPEG 4 and if the battery runs low during a recording session the pen will ensure it writes the video from the buffer to flash before shutting down. All video is captured with audio making this the perfect tool for recording confessions, secret rendezvous or interviews. You can also use the device as a common flash drive to transport important files around safely. The pen itself is an attractive writing instrument with a gloss black finish on the main body, rubber finger grip and chrome detailing. You can buy today at Chinavasion for $167.50.

Read full article. Published on May 25, 2008.
21 May 2008

Create a shortcut to shutdown and restart

If you feel bored to follow all  the steps to shutdown the computer,than here is a tip for you.You can shutdown the computer using custom made shortcut.This shortcut can be place whereever you want.

Lets us start

Create a file “shutdown.bat” on your desktop

Right click -edit

Add this lines to it

cd\

shutdown -s

Save it

Replace -s with -r if you want to restart the computer

You can add timmer by using -t.Here timer is set to 60 seconds

shutdown -s -t 60

You can also display a messegae when the timer starts.

shutdown -s -t 120 -c "Please save your work."

Creating abort shutdown shortcut button

It will come in handy if you accidentally clicked the shutdown button.

Create  a  file” abortshutdown.bat”

Edit and add this lines

cd\

shutdown -a

This shortcuts are very useful for task scheduling.You can even compile them to .exe program using Batch file compiler and give them nice decent icons.

Read full article. Published on May 21, 2008.
19 May 2008

India benefiting from person to person outsourcing

In 1776 in his book named as the wealth of nation Adam smith propagated the competitive advantage theory, which championed the division of labour and specialization of work, which add to the economies of scale when there is a production done in a huge scale. However, in that theory, which he proposed, laid hidden a far more vital idea which today claims to be the reason behind 7% of India’s GDP in the year 2007. yes we are talking about outsourcing, which in the days of Adam Smith meant, a particular part of the entire production process, was meant to be dealt by a particular group of workers who are specialized in that part of the job.

India benefiting from person to person outsourcing

Nevertheless, you have to agree that ever since 1776, the definition of outsourcing as undergone a quantum change. Before we proceed let us have a brief idea about what is the meaning of outsourcing, this for those who are not very familiar wit the term. In the process of production, there are various subordinate processes, which contribute to the primary output. However, it is not possible for many firms to pay equal attention to every department. So in the face of this kind of situation they tend to outsource or hand over a particular part of the production process to another firm who are specialized in that particular category, thus giving it the responsibility for the design and implementation of that process. In this way the outsourcing firm saves a lot of money and time too, which it invests in some other areas, whereas the firm which is providing the outsourcing service is also earning huge profits owing to external economies, which comes from the highly specialized but cheap labor.

Now that we have discussed the main idea, let look at the outsourcing background of India. The wave of globalization first kissed the Indian soil in the early 1990’s and After the initial boost, the next successive governments have pursued the trend of economic reform toward liberalization and privatization of public sectors. Even till the year 1994 the indian telecom sector was under the government control and they were enjoying a monopoly in this field, which was a major reason for the lack of growth in the IT Sector of the Indian economy. Nonetheless it was in this year owing to a policy of the existing government their was considerable liberalization in the field of telecom and
private participation was encouraged, and thus started the upward growth of the IT sector. Then in the year of 1999 the new IP telephony was introduced under the ‘new telecom policy’, which kind of terminated the monopoly of the state government on the international calling facilities. Now this step structured a huge cut in the calling expenses and heralded the golden era of the IT industry. And thus started the sudden spurt of inbound and outbound call centers and data processing centers.
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Read full article. Published on May 19, 2008.
9 May 2008

RSS and Internet Marketing

The original idea of RSS came from Netscape, where their intention is to provide a means for users to customize their personal homepage to contain links to websites that interest them, similar to bookmarking websites.

The application of RSS to internet marketing was an unforeseen development to RSS technology developers. Since users are given the freedom to add RSS feeds to their aggregators, those who are interested in particular products and services available in the internet can now be notified real time. Marketing becomes more specific to interested people and not a hit-and-miss operation.

Those who intend to use RSS for marketing their products and services should consider linking up with email account providers, (e.g. Yahoo, MSN, Google mail); networking websites (e.g. Friendster, Multiply, My Space, Hi5); websites of newspapers and television network websites (e.g. New York Times, CNN) for medium to big-scale companies. Small-time industries can also look into networking websites as well as personal blog websites (e.g. Blogspot) and websites of clubs and organizations that would probably make use of their products or services e.g. a fishing supplies store can look for the website of their local fishing club for possible RSS marketing.

Clearly, RSS is an innovation in information management in the worldwide web as well as online marketing. We can expect better RSS technology in the not-so-distant future as its popularity increases among users and website owners alike.

Read full article. Published on May 9, 2008.
3 May 2008

What are the drawbacks of RSS?

The disadvantages of RSS use are brought about by its being a new technology and some user-preference concerns.

What are the disadvantages(drawbacks) of RSS use are brought about by its being a new technology and some user-preference concerns.

1.Some users prefer receiving email updates over an RSS feed.

2.Graphics and photos do not appear in all RSS feeds.
For conciseness and ease of publication, RSS feeds do not display the photos from the original site in announcing the update except for some web-based aggregators

3.The identity of the source website can be confusing.
Since RSS feeds do not display the actual URL or name of the website, it can sometimes get confusing on what feed a user is actually reading.

4.Publishers cannot determine how many users are subscribed to their feed and the frequency of their visits. Moreover, they would not know the reasons why users unsubscribe which could be important in improving their advertising.

5.RSS feeds create higher traffic and demands on the server.
Most readers still prefer the whole update over a brief summary of the entry, thus they still access the site.

6.Since it is a new technology, many sites still do not support RSS.

How do I start using RSS?
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Read full article. Published on May 3, 2008.