VIMEO PICK OF THE MONTH #2 - THINK DIFFERENT

VIMEO PICK OF THE MONTH #2 - THINK DIFFERENT

Think Different - Apple on Vimeo.

I would like to start this video as Mike Shinoda does in the Remember The Name highlight reel version by Fort Minor- "This video is dedicated to and inspired by regular people that do amazing things. Thank you guys for being a part of this video."
The people at Apple, Inc have always been benchmark setters in case of innovation and in playing art with technology. They have always seemed to stick to their tagline "Think Different" and so they do with every product and service they come up with.
The above video is one of the best featured video commercials till date by any company across the globe. This video was launched by Apple, Inc in the year 1998 and secured several awards including the Emmy Award by the Academy of Telivision Arts & Science (ATAS) and the Effy Award for Marketing Effectiveness.

Transcript (Subtitles):
(Voice of Richard Dreyfuss)
Here's to the Crazy Ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify or vilify them.
But the only thing that you can’t do, is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.

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5 REASONS WHY ONE MUST SWITCH TO LINUX

5 REASONS WHY ONE MUST SWITCH TO LINUX

As of now, it has been long time that I have been writing a good host of articles regarding open source softwares. In succession to them, here I support another open source software. The only point of consideration here is that this one is not an application software but a system software. Most of the visitors reading this article would suposedly be Windows users. But supposedly they don't know that there's something better waiting for them- Linux.

REDISTRIBUTABLE AND FREE OF COST

First and foremost, most if not all Linux-based OSs are developed under the GNU General Public License and are completely free of cost and can be download, uploaded, distributed and redistributed totally free of cost. The GNU General Public License ensures that you get all the freedoms to redefine and redistribute the source-code of the OS.

3 BEST OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVES FOR WINDOWS APPS

3 BEST OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVES FOR WINDOWS APPS

When it comes to windows applications, the first and foremost thing that seems to trouble people's pocket is that most of them are either paid or require some kind of premium activation to support full-stretch use. At the same time, many users suffer for the reason that some application they have paid for don't stand up to the mark. Why would you pay for something that is already available for free? They say- "All the best things in this world are for free." So is the case with the apps that I elaborate here- The most purchased pirated ones.

INFRA-RECORDER FOR NERO STARTSMART

The InfraRecorder is a versatile disc recording utility that enables you to record discs and create disc images in a very light-weight environment. Although it possesses all the features as Nero StartSmart, it is amazing light when it comes to disk space. At one end, where Nero 6's setup itself costs you 21 MB (approx.), the net size of InfraRecorder after installation is no more than 8 MB (approx.) excluding quick launch icons and multi-lingual support. And after all its free of cost. The best of both worlds deal, isn't it?

VIMEO PICK OF THE MONTH #1 - THE FOURTH SCREEN

VIMEO PICK OF THE MONTH #1 - THE FOURTH SCREEN

The Fourth Screen (Nokia ad) on Vimeo.

The title "The Fourth Screen" refers to the small portable device screens such as those of mobile communication devices, PMPs and iPods. The video illustrates beautifully the concept of the above statement. The video pulled me so much into itself that I finally landed up sharing it with you on my blog.

Please don't forget to share your comments on the video! cheers! :)

BEST ONLINE WEB DESIGNING TUTORIALS

BEST ONLINE WEB DESIGNING TUTORIALS

A good web page is always categorized by its design and user-friendliness at the first place. People often find web pages undigestable just because they don't find it pleasing and welcoming. A good web-designer would always keep in mind all the goods that a page must possess in order to be eye-catching and inviting for the visitor. Most people and organizations that invest for a website in order to expand their user circle fail just for the reason that the websites that are either homemade or freelanced are not welcoming and pompous.

Many people resort to this problem by using flash modules and vectors. But along with the bells and whistles, the page must also be light weight so that the user is not overburdened with the webpage and doesn't need to wait long to see a webpage at work.

PORTABLE APPS - YOUR DIGITAL LIFE, ANYWHERE

PORTABLE APPS - YOUR DIGITAL LIFE, ANYWHERE

I have generally seen people suffering lack of software resources while they are not home and they have to use public computers to serve the purpose and they find it so difficult to adapt that they finally land up making blunders out of their job. So I decided to find a solution to the problem and I landed up with a free, convenient and a portable solution - Portable Apps.

WHAT IS A PORTABLE APP?

A portable app is essentially a normal application which has been made lighter in size and open to install on any device or platform, generally pendrives and other portable devices. It is convenient to carry anywhere and has a good user-friendly interface. It gives an environment analogus to the regular application softwares that might be installed on your PC or the PCs next door.

BEST PHOTOSHOP GEEK CENTRALS

BEST PHOTOSHOP GEEK CENTRALS

Well, a long way since my last post- Hola fellas! I dedicate this post to all the wanna-be photoshop geeks who are struggling to find a way to really trun and twist the brains of their most idiotic ex-significants out of their photographs. In this post I take you on a tour of all the most wanted photoshop tutorial websites.

ABDUZEEDO.COM

This is a photoshop tutorial website that really speaks the truth behind its tagline- "Abducted by Design". If you really want to work on some website background images and such things, this website is really gonna help! The website also features the best encountered websites of the week that may server a further help. The site even helps you to make up logos and so on.

Visit abduzeedo.com

4 MOST WANTED WEB 2.0 ADD-ONS FOR FIREFOX

4 MOST WANTED WEB 2.0 ADD-ONS FOR FIREFOX

To make your browser and user environment more friendly, Firefox provides you with some add-ons. Below I speak about some add-ons that are considerably most wanted for the Web 2.0 people. Just check them out! :)

Stumble Upon Toolbar

Stumble Upon is one of the most wanted content sharing and social networking websites today. The Stumble Upon toolbar allows you to "stumble" random sites and make them popular if you like them just by clicking the "I like it!" button. You can stumble through videos, photos, news, friends' favorites and even websites. You can share the content or website with your friends using the "Share" button. Other than this you can make a collection of your own favorites, say Stumble Bookmarking, that can be viewed anytime on your Stumble Upon homepage.

DOWNLOAD STUMBLE UPON TOOLBAR FOR FIREFOX

PCSLOW.NET - GET THE BEST OUT OF YOUR PC

PCSLOW.NET - GET THE BEST OUT OF YOUR PC

PC Slow is a weblog or a website rather, that provides you with tips tricks and advice to tweak your PC to get the best of performance. When your PC seems to be working really slow and you are not able to find a reason behind the cause, I would recommend PCSlow.net. It seems to possess a solution for all your system's performance issues.

REMEMBERING THE NUCLEAR MARTYRS: HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI ATTACKS

REMEMBERING THE NUCLEAR MARTYRS: HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI ATTACKS

I dedicate this post to all those who, even though were innocent, still suffer the greatest curse of all times- The victims of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear attacks. It has been more than 6 long decades now when mankind confronted its darkest day following the rage of revenge over the Pearl Harbor attack in the USA- The Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear attacks. Japan faces the curse even today and the suit will continue in future as well.

TECHNICAL ASPECT:

It was on 6^th August, 1945 that the "Little Boy" wrecked havoc in the city of Hiroshima. It was a nuclear bomb weighing 600 kg and could result in a destruction approximately equal to the explosion 17-19 kilotons of TNT. It gained this immense power from the nuclear fission reaction of U₂₃₅- an isotope of Uranium.

FIREFOX 3.5.2 RELEASED!

FIREFOX 3.5.2 RELEASED!

The Mozilla Foundation has now released its latest update of Firefox- 3.5.2. The update has been a consequence of fixing certain security issues and improvements in the user environments. The security issues involve some including extremely high, high, low and very low level vulnerabilities. For a complete detail on the security issues with the previous update please visit: Bug List of Firefox 3.5.1.

With the latest update, the Mozilla Foundation has made made Firefox capable of displaying images with ICC Profile perfectly on all monitors. To download the latest version Firefox click here (direct download link).

FIREFOX CROSSES ONE BILLION DOWNLOADS : FACT OR FICTION

FIREFOX CROSSES ONE BILLION DOWNLOADS : FACT OR FICTION

I was just going through some Technology news content on Yahoo! and what did I find- Firefox crosses 1 Billion downloads (article indexed from PCWorld). I just wondered how this could ever happen, because it was not more than around a week ago that I posted on Firefox crosses 50 Million downloads mark. It made no sense that the people around the world are now downloading Firefox at a rate greater than a rate at which they were downloading it the were downloading it at the time of its launch. So I tried to figure out the point in it.

THE PIRATE BAY NOT LIKELY TO BE SOLD OUT

THE PIRATE BAY NOT LIKELY TO BE SOLD OUT

This post is regarding the torrent-based file sharing giant The Pirate Bay being auctioned at US $ 7.8 Million. Looks like the giant is still surviving the battle of the beasts. The company has suffered a lot of nightmares during the past season. First, it is sued for breaching copyright lawsuits. Then, its founders go to jail for the same. And, after all the mess is up, the company is auctioned to Global Gaming Factor X for US $ 7.8 Million.

But now the scene is turning out to be something different from what it looked like last fortnight. It seems the Global Gaming hasn't got enough funds to work out the deal. Okay, lets take a deeper look into the scene. It all started when Global Gaming hired Wayne Rosso, the former head of Grokster.com (A file-sharing company that was sued for copyright infringement by MGM and 27 other companies) to negotiate with music and other media biggies to get legal license for the website's contents.

Wayne has now quit Global Gaming. In an interview with CNET, Wayne said that the reason he quit Global Gaming was that the company hadn't been open in the necessary manners to him and that the company didn't seem to possess enough funds to takeover Pirate Bay with the bid.

The second issue with the takeover is that Pirate Bay, even after being sued for copyright infringement, still doesn't seem to remove the objectionable content from the website. Hence the consortium of companies that filed the lawsuit against the company, want The Pirate Bay to be shut down.

So, will the company be totally shut down, or will it be back on track with the host of torrents? Possibly not! Will it be seen back in the market for some other legal business? Share your opinions below! :)

FIREFOX 3.5.1 CROSSES THE 50 MILLION DOWNLOADS MARK

FIREFOX 3.5.1 CROSSES THE 50 MILLION DOWNLOADS MARK

It was not past a fortnight that the Mozilla Corporation released the patched version of its latest version of Firefox 3.5 series and today, the company sees a huge 50 Million downloads all over the world. Mozilla Corp. patched Firefox 3.5 to fix some security vulnerabilities in its TraceMonkey JavaScript Engine.

The download statistics of the browser have been placed in a Worldwide Real-Time Firefox Download Statistics web page. The US hosts greatest number of Firefox Downloaders accounting to approximately 20% of the net downloads. Following the United States are Germany, Brazil, France, United Kingdom, Russian Federation, India, Japan, Poland and Italy.

These statistics are a live proof of the fact that Firefox is gaining a lot of authority in the browser world. The open-source project has seen a growth of leaps and bounds in the past years beating the growth rate of IE and other major releases ruling the markets.

AMAZON ACQUIRES ZAPPOS FOR US $ 900 MILLION

AMAZON ACQUIRES ZAPPOS FOR US $ 900 MILLION

Amazon.com, a multimillion enterprise serving online products and services market, is finally up with acquiring an online shoe retailing company Zappos.com. The company has expectantly taken this decision after seeing the exponentially growing turnover of online shoe markets.

Zappos.com is a privately founded company and has a reputation in the markets and among its customers since the past 10 years for its customer royalties such as free shipping and credit card shopping and loads more.

Online shoe markets have seen a growth of a whole of US $ 1 Billion in the past year accounting for US $ 4.3 Billion in 2008 as compared to US $ 3.3 Billion of 2007. And hopefully this is what has affined Amazon towards Zappos.

The current stats say that Amazon has acquired Zappos for 10 Million shares worth US $ 900 Million. The company has also announced an additional $ 40 Million for the employees working at Zappos.

This has been one of the largest transactional decisions in the history of Amazon.com

GOOGLE EMPOWERS MOBILE SEARCHES WITH VOICE

GOOGLE EMPOWERS MOBILE SEARCHES WITH VOICE

Mobile market is one of the most rapidly developing industrial markets. Today approximately three-quarters of the the world's adult population affords mobile phones. Further, today internet is the widest source of communication media. Hopefully this is what has pulled search giant Google to peek into this sector.

Google has worked out a voice-based search utility for mobile phones. The search app was developed by the Google Team in India and takes care of Indian accent. This app is currently available for Blackberry phones but is soon expected to arrive for other handsets as well.

The developers at Google feel that with the cheap-growing of GPRS based mobile phones and with greater number of people exposed to internet through mobile phones, this feature can be extended to social networking sites as well.

Will this feature soon empower voice-scrapbooking as well?

INTEL TO PROVIDE HARDWARE SUPPORT FOR CHROME OS

INTEL TO PROVIDE HARDWARE SUPPORT FOR CHROME OS

Intel, the multimillion chip enterprise has announced to provide hardware support for the search engine giant, Google's Chrome OS. As soon as the news was on the buzz that Google is working on its new operating system based for Chrome web-browser, all the tech biggies started mapping their plans for having an entrepreneurship with the giant. First Nvidia, and now its Intel.

As state of current world market, Intel occupies more than 80% of hardware market. Google will of course need to work with Intel to get into business and get Microsoft out of business. Hope Google comes up with something good.

At least better than an OS stolen from Apple! :P

MICROSOFT WARNING OF SECURITY FLAWS IN INTERNET EXPLORER

MICROSOFT WARNING OF SECURITY FLAWS IN INTERNET EXPLORER

Microsoft has buzzed up internet explorer users of security flaws in the software that can be illegally used by a hacker to breach ones system and possess the same access rights as the local user. Guessing the result? A possible system crash! :(

The problem was found in a program that serves the purpose of online video playing ActiveX Controls of the browser. The flaw, if successfully exploited by a cracker in particular, it can be used to gain the local user rights to access the computer which may have disastrous results.

Microsoft has advised its users to disable the ActiveX Controls till it launched the patched version of the software that the are working on with associates.

Why don't they advice their users to use Firefox? :P

The people at Microsoft are working to fix this problem and also developing a Windows security update to solve the problem.

MICROSOFT BING SUPPORTS TWITTER FEED BASED SEARCH RESULTS

MICROSOFT BING SUPPORTS TWITTER FEED BASED SEARCH RESULTS

Microsoft Bing- the most competent search engine by the company, which is said to be clashing against search giants, Google and Yahoo! will now have twitter feeds displayed in its searches. The best tweets for a particular keyword search will now be displayed in the Bing search results.

The update to the search engine is in order to provide better real time data feeds to the search. The search engine will also display the latest feeds on the Twitter charts. The reason why Microsoft chose twitter is evident from the fact that Twitter is the currently, most rapidly developing social networking communities on the web.

The idea seems to be innovative and is expected to improve Bing's ranking on the Search Engine charts.

Will Bing be able to jolt Google or Yahoo! by its latest update?

Post your comments to share your views. :)

MOZILLA MARKETS OFFICIAL FIREFOX 3 T-SHIRT COLLECTION

MOZILLA MARKETS OFFICIAL FIREFOX 3 T-SHIRT COLLECTION

Mozilla, the market giant that is currently in the buzz for its latest edition- Firefox 3.5 (Download link!) has come up with a whole range of its coolest ever Firefox 3 T-shirts.

Earlier this year Mozilla Inc. hosted an open source T-shirt designing contest which was invited by more than 2000 participants around the world. Out of all the submissions, five designs were polled for a final public voting. The contest was finally won by the lineup designed by Tracie Andrews- a professional graphic designer from the UK.

Although cool, the T-shirts will cost your pockets to some extent as well. Anyways, the T-shirts are now open for purchase at the Mozilla Store. Hope you find your best fit.

Wanna sponsor my T-shirt? :P

PIRATE BAY SOLD OUT FOR US $ 7.8 MILLION

PIRATE BAY SOLD OUT FOR US $ 7.8 MILLION

The online torrent based file sharing giant- The Pirate Bay has been now acquired by the Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factor X for $7.8 Million. The company was sold after it was found to breach the international copyright laws and was sued to provide its customers with a complete channel of songs and movies for instant download.

The founders Gottfrid Warg and Peter Sund said that the company auction was too much undervalued than what it actually was. The website income is projected to be invested on a free speech and information forum.

The "now owner" of the website said that the website will be based on a newer model that satisfies all including the service and content providers.

Will Mininova and Rapidshare be soon auctioned too?

Hope you share your comments with us.

MULTIPLE MICROSOFT SERVICES RETIRE TOMORROW

MULTIPLE MICROSOFT SERVICES RETIRE TOMORROW

Microsoft, The Multimillion Software Enterprise has decided to pull off its MSN Web messenger online chat software, asking its users to use the Messenger integrated with Live People and Hotmail. Microsoft had provided an official deadline of 30th June, 2009 (Tomorrow!) to shut down it's Web Messenger Service. The company has also planned to pull off its Microsoft Money and Encarta on the same date.

Microsoft came up with this decision in order to streamline its investment on updates and to realign its services under one brand. Microsoft says that its main advantage lies in the fact that it lets you know if a person is online or not, so that you decide whether to send him/her a message or make a direct chat. Now how innovative is this idea? Google and Yahoo! have been doing this since generations. And that's what they call innovation- Same as they did with the multi-touch feature introduced in Windows 7. :P

Will the world like this change in Microsoft's strategy?

What's your reaction to it? Speak out through your comments!

GOOGLE BLOGGER TO TURN 10 YEARS OLD SOON!

GOOGLE BLOGGER TO TURN 10 YEARS OLD SOON!

Google Community is soon going to celebrate it's second 10th birthday in a row after feasting its own 10th birthday on 17th September 2007. This August 24, Blogger turns 10. Originally founded by Evan Williams of Pyra Labs in 1999 and later acquired by Google on 17th February 2003, Blogger today hosts around 100 Million blogs all over the world.

Today Blogger has become the Trademark for the phenomenon of writing blogs, after all it is open to every newbie saying hello to the web. Every minute around 270,000 words are written on Blogger. That's too many people expressing there feelings. Huh! I still wonder what made Evan think of this phenomenon. Anyways, that's why he is what he is today- The "Blog" Father. How good would he feel seeing his baby turn an adolescent!

"Happy Birthday Blogger" :)