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Indian American whizkid behind Google Chrome

When search giant Google launched its own Internet browser, Google Chrome, on September 2, it has one Indian American to thank for making it possible.


Sundar Pichai, a technology whiz-kid and an IIT-ian, was responsible for the development of the Google browser as the company's vice president of product development.

"We realised that we needed to completely rethink the browser. The Web gets better with more options and innovation Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the Web even better," Google's Sundar Pichai said in a blog post.

Pichai believes Chrome can capture a sizeable portion of the market. His blog also said that Chrome was designed for newer online content, such as videos, television and music.

Chrome is an open-source Web browser designed to rival Microsoft's new Internet Explorer version 8 and Mozilla Firefox.

The browser can be downloaded for free and since it has an open source code, no rights will have to be paid by those who use it.

With this, the Google strategy to become the category leader in all Internet-related areas is very apparent. Currently, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has over 70 per cent market share, followed by Mozilla Firefox at a distant second spot.

Pichai joined Google in 2004 and now leads product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's search products, including Google Toolbar, Chrome, Desktop Search, Gadgets, Google Pack, Google Gears, Firefox extensions and Mac products.

He has over 12 years of experience developing high-tech consumer and enterprise products. Before joining Google, he held various engineering and product management positions at Applied Materials, and was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company for a variety of software and semiconductor clients.

He holds an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.

"He is responsible for our overall desktop strategy and ensuring access to Google services for our desktop users," said Google spokesperson Jay Nancarrow.

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Google Chrome-New Browser from Google

Google has launched its first ever browser on 02 September 2008.Visit http://www.google.com/chrome to download and start exploring.(For the moment, it's available only for Windows users, but you can sign up on the download page to learn when the Mac and Linux versions are available.)With the release of Google Chrome, JavaScript applications received a much needed performance boost. Google Chrome, the newly released open source web browser, incorporates a high performance JavaScript virtual machine called the V8. Mozilla is also working on including a high speed JavaScript engine called the TraceMonkey in its next release. Test results for Mozilla have shown almost 83% peformance improvement in JavaScript execution. So it seems that web applications that used JavaScript heavily have been breathed new life with the advent of these new breed browsers.

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Public beta of Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 is the next version of Microsoft’s popular browser, and in beta 1 it delivers significantly improved standards support and developer platform investments with enhanced user experiences. Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 delivers increased interoperability, offers developers better predictability when designing sites, and will feature full support for cascading style sheet (CSS) 2.1 at release to manufacturing. Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 includes integrated developer tools to quickly debug HTML, CSS and scripts in a visual environment. Two new features, Activities and WebSlices, will enable developers to reach beyond the page and introduce news ways for users to stay connected to the content and services of their choice. To download Internet Explorer 8 beta 1, developers can visit the IE8 Web site.

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The Six Financial Mistakes Couples Make

IF YOU AND YOUR partner are like most couples, chances are, you fight about money. Numerous studies have shown that money is the No. 1 reason why couples argue — and many of the recently divorced say those battles were the main reason why they untied the knot.
While anyone will tell you that talking about money is the first step in resolving problems, talk alone won't do the trick.
In fact, a 2004 study commissioned by SmartMoney magazine and Redbook, another Hearst publication (SmartMoney magazine and SmartMoney.com are jointly published by Dow Jones and Hearst), found that more than 70% of couples talk about money on a weekly basis. So what's the problem? "Most of us don't know how to talk about money," says Mary Claire Allvine, a certified financial planner (CFP) and co-author of "The Family CFO: The Couple's Business Plan for Love and Money."
"People tend to be emotional and reactive about money, not strategic," she says.
When emotions run high, people tend to make fiscal mistakes. Allvine's solution: Approach family finances as if you were running a business. "If you put a business metaphor into the picture, you'd be surprised how much more methodical people are."
And so, to help make your next state-of-the-financial-union meeting run smoothly, we've assembled a collection of the six most common mistakes couples make when handling money issues, along with some advice on how to correct them. Do yourself a favor: Make sure all board members review this before you talk.

1. Merging the Finances
The Wrong Approach: United we stand, divided we bank.
The Right Approach: It's yours, mine and ours.
One of the first issues newlyweds face is how to handle their finances. "Couples struggle about this one," says Ruth Hayden, author of "For Richer, Not Poorer: The Money Book for Couples." Should you merge everything you have and earn into one joint account, or should you maintain individual accounts and open a joint one for household expenses?
SmartMoney magazine's survey found that the majority of couples (64%) put all of their money in joint accounts, while 14% kept everything in separate accounts, and 18% had both. "Married couples should try different ways of handling the money to see what works for them," says Ginita Wall, CFP and co-founder of the Women's Institute for Financial Education.
For many newlyweds, the right choice may be somewhere in the middle. "You should have some autonomy money, I should have some autonomy money, and we need to learn how to practice being a couple together with our money," says Hayden.
The advice is different when one spouse enters the marriage with a high debt load. (See our next point below.) But assuming you both have a clean bill of fiscal health, finding a way to blend finances comfortably without feeling like big brother is watching every financial move you make can dramatically cut down on fights. Over time — once kids and mortgages come into play — many couples find that merging all their finances is simply easier. But unless you're both comfortable with the idea, there's no need to rush things.

2.Dealing With Debt
The Wrong Approach: Your debt will ruin us; you must find a way to pay it off.
The Right Approach: It's our debt: Let's decide how to pay it off together.
Of all the issues that spark a fight, debt ranked No. 1 for most (37%) of SmartMoney's survey respondents. "That's one of the places where couples have most disagreement," says Hayden. Couples often don't see eye to eye on how much debt is too much and which kind of debt is bad.
Compounding the problem: in many cases, one spouse enters the marriage with a lot more debt than the other. "We saw that more frequently than we anticipated when we began interviewing couples [for our book]," says Allvine. "It's almost unavoidable. Even if you manage to get to your 20s or 30s without debt, you hook up with a partner who's in debt."
What to do in situations like that? Like it or not, once you're married, your spouse's debts can become your problem. Granted, you're not legally responsible for the credit-card balances ran up before you got married, or for any loans opened in your spouse's name alone — provided you keep your finances completely separate. (Unfortunately, all bets are off should you get divorced. For more on that, click here). But even with separate finances, your spouse's credit score will affect your ability to get joint credit. "It's a public [credit reporting] system, and what you do will absolutely affect the other," says Hayden.
For those couples not yet married, it may be worthwhile to think about a prenup, just to make sure that assets that one spouse brings into a marriage will always be protected from the other spouse's creditors.
But those who've already tied the knot should find a way to pay down the debts as quickly as possible, and without any late payments. For help with this, visit our Debt Management center.

3. Keeping Spending in Check
The Wrong Approach: I'm a saver and you're a spender. That's the problem.
The Right Approach: We both spend, but on different things. Let's budget.
Your husband keeps nagging at you that you spend too much — but then comes home one day with a huge smile and — surprise! — a 70-inch flat-screen plasma TV. He happily explains how he sealed the "terrific" deal. You're definitely not impressed.
Sound familiar? Spending is the second most common reason why couples fight, according to SmartMoney's survey. What usually happens, explains Hayden, is that one spouse gets labeled the "spender" and is blamed for skimming all the money out the checkbook. In most cases, however, that's not accurate. "Studies show that men and women spend the same, they just spend differently," she says. Women usually take care of most of the family's daily expenses: the groceries, the bills, clothes for the family — while men spend on large purchases like plasma TVs, cars or computers. "If you counted up your money, you would be spending about the same," Hayden says. "But because you spend so differently, the perception is different."
The solution here is to identify the real problem, Hayden says — namely, that you're both spending money on a tight budget. Then sit down and decide how much money you'll allocate to the "dailyness" of life, and how much to save for the big purchases. "What we're trying to do is get the 'Surprise!' out of it," she says.
For help with daily budgeting, see our worksheet.

4. Investing Wisely
The Wrong Approach: You're a risk-taker, I'm risk-averse. Hands off our retirement savings.
The Right Approach: Let's think in time frames and take as much risk as our goals allow.
SmartMoney's survey showed that when it comes to investing, men are more willing to take financial risk than their wives (62% for men vs. 19% for women). But fighting about how much risk to take with your investments based on how you feel about risk doesn't do much good. Rather, sit down and talk about your investment goals and time frames, says Christine Larson, co-author of "The Family CFO". "You could be completely risk-averse with money you need for next year, but you can be a huge risk-taker with money you're saving for retirement," she says. If that doesn't work for you, seek the help of a broker or a financial planner.
Whatever your investment choices, review your investments together at least once a year and make sure that, overall, your portfolios balance each other out, suggests Wall. "I have one couple — they're in their 70s. She likes to take risks and it scares him to death, so they do invest themselves separately," says Wall. "We let her take risk with part of the money, but not all of the money."
Use our asset-allocation tool to help determine the best way to allocate your portfolio. Our retirement, college-planning and short-term-investing departments can help you save for specific goals.

5. Keeping Money Secrets
The Wrong Approach: What my spouse doesn't know will never hurt him/her.
The Right Approach: Big financial secrets can ruin a marriage.
Among Hayden's clients is a family that first came to see her when the wife found out that her husband had lost a lot of money trading commodities. The real problem? She didn't know his little secret. "It got them in horrible trouble!" Hayden says. "He's very steady, he's a fabulous doctor, he's a great dad...but he had this other part of him that's pure gambler, and it almost brought the marriage down."
Will you be shocked to hear that most couples do keep money secrets from each other? While secret trading or gambling may not be that common, our survey saw 36% of men and 40% of women confess that they had at one time or another lied to their spouse about the price of something they bought. "It's the most common secret," says Wall.
Is it a big problem? Depends on how you deal with it. "Most people also lie to themselves about what they're spending, just as they lie to themselves about how much they're eating," says "The Family CFO" author Allvine. And let's face it, if your wife saved up the extra $100 for her "only $30" Givenchy scarf from her monthly mad money, it's not that big a deal. But if your spouse has been squirreling away thousands of dollars, it may be time to seek the help of a family finance professional. "If this happened in a company," Allvine says, "they'd call it embezzlement."

6. Emergency Planning
The Wrong Approach: We're fine. We don't need to worry about money.
The Right Approach: Anything could happen. Let's plan for emergencies.
Even if you have a great career, earn a comfortable living and don't have to worry about debt, you could find yourself woefully unprepared for an emergency. "Couples today are under so much stress that anything could tip them," says Hayden. An unexpected pink slip, an accident, illness — anything could throw you off track if you don't have an emergency savings account.
"With the couples we interviewed, we found a tendency to panic [in an unexpected emergency] that could lead to the wrong decisions," says Larson. Bottom line? All couples should have an emergency stash of three to six months' worth of living expenses held in a safe place, like a money-market fund. Simply knowing it's there can reduce stress, since you know you're not walking a fine line between comfort and catastrophe.

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Workplace etiquette: Mind your manners!

Here are certain guidelines to follow in a working environment.

How to welcome newcomers
• Newcomers should be welcomed by their seniors and colleagues.
• They should be briefed about their jobs and company practices.
• Staff at any level should be introduced to any newcomers they encounter.
• Courtesies should be extended to everyone you meet, irrespective of whether it's the receptionist or the CEO.
• Avoid asking personal questions regarding the newcomer's educational qualifications/ parentage/ marital status/ age/ income etc.
• Our names are an important symbol of our identity. Do not mispronounce, misspell or mix-up anybody's name.'
• Using someone's first name usually implies that you are superior to him, decidedly equal or friends. Therefore, it is best to start off formally. Use their surnames, preceded by Mr, Mrs or Ms. He/ she can then easily suggest that you use a first name.

How to show courtesy towards colleagues
• Greet everyone you encounter cheerfully and with a smile on your way into the office. On your way out, remember to thank the receptionist / office boys etc.
• Good bosses, employees and colleagues don't forget their manners. Remember 'please' and 'thank you'.
• Always show your appreciation with a smile.
• Small talk and light chitter chatter at work is essential; it expresses friendliness without demanding attention. Whether you talk about the traffic or the weather, the vital message is that you are all part of the same team.
• Be polite to hired help like peons, drivers, delivery boys etc.
• Do not talk loudly when you talk over the phone or to your colleagues. Talk in a soft and clear voice.
• Take instructions with grace and give instructions gracefully.
• On occasions like birthdays, staff members should receive a personal gift, good wishes and words of appreciation from the boss and colleagues.
• Always be considerate. The last person to leave the office should not have to switch off all the lights, air conditioners and computers. For example, when a photocopier runs out, whoever used the last sheet of paper should refill it.
• When you are going to get yourself a cup of tea, coffee or a cold beverage, offer to bring one for your co-workers as well.

How to make yourself likeable and pleasant to work with
• Don't be a whiner who is always complaining and miserable with his/ her lot in life.
• Never use words like 'can't' and 'won't', nor phrases like 'I'm busy' and 'that's not my job'.
• Do not criticise anyone -- that's not your job. And if you get criticised, be professional about it. Do not take it personally.
• Keep personal conversations down to a minimum and keep out of earshot of others.
• It is shabby to look through people's computers, emails or letters -- and don't ever make the mistake of sneaking into people's personal property like handbags or wallets. Be responsible for your own property and valuables. If you lose your expensive items, everybody else becomes a suspect and nobody likes being one!
• Never borrow anything from someone's desk without permission and when you do always return it in good condition.
• Do not misuse office property. Keep your workplace orderly. Do not infringe on other people's space.
• Be friendly with colleagues of the opposite sex but know where to draw the line. Don't get involved needlessly in any situation which could lead to embarrassment and could potentially damage not only your reputation, but that of the organisation as well.
• Do not get indulge in office gossip or discuss delicate topics (religion, politics, money, sex etc).
• Do not fidget or make unnecessary sounds which can be distracting to your co-workers.
• Maintain stringent standards of personal hygiene. Do clean up after yourself when you use the restrooms so the next person using it does not have to scrunch up his/ her nose!
• Do not convert your desktop into a place of worship. Since you might be working with people who follow different faiths, it might be better to display a vase of flowers instead.
• Use office privileges like sick leave etc thoughtfully so that you don't burden your co-workers with extra work.

Business meeting etiquette
• Be punctual. If you are late, apologise briefly but sincerely and immediately give total attention to the meeting. Those who wish to leave early should ask their seniors' permission beforehand. Leave quietly, with an 'excuse me' and catch the eye of the person who is talking at that point.
• Dress well -- it gives a good impression.
• Always remember to switch of your mobile phone.
• If there is an established seating pattern, accept it. If you are unsure, ask.
• Do your homework; get all your facts and figures in order. Go prepared.
• Acknowledge any introductions or opening remarks with a brief recognition of the chair and other participants.
• When discussions are underway it is good business etiquette to allow more senior figures to contribute first.
• Never interrupt anyone -- even if you disagree strongly. Note what has been said and return to it later with the chair's permission.
• When speaking, be brief and ensure that what you say is relevant.
• It is a serious breach of business etiquette to divulge what has been discussed at any meeting with a third party -- consider it confidential.
• Thanking the person who organised the meeting is not only good etiquette; it is also a sign of respect.

Keep competition within the organisation healthy
• A team tends to behave like a human body, accepting what is part of it and rejecting any alien tissue. People are accepted if their behaviour mirrors the group norms.
• Faults and blunders usually take place due to lack of communication. Find out the cause of the mess-up and solve the problem so that it is not repeated.
• Curb your annoyance and control your temper.
• Do not strive to pull a colleague down just to get the approval of the boss. This will backfire on you in the long run.
• Back-stabbing and petty talk is not only unpleasant, it is in poor taste.
• A secure and efficient worker never grudges another's success. Envy and jealousy among co- workers ruins the working environment for everyone. The following notice, seen on several office walls, gets the point across well:
'This department requires no physical fitness programme. Everyone gets enough exercise:
• Jumping to conclusions
• Flying off the handle
• Running down the boss
• Knifing friends in the back
• Dodging responsibility
• Pushing their luck!'
Suneeta Kanga freelances as a corporate groomer, international etiquette expert, beauty advisor and aesthetics and style consultant for various individuals and organisations including airline training centers, finishing schools, banks, hotels and corporate business houses. Vist her website at www.suneetakanga.com

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7 ways for effective blogging and engaging readers

Blogging! It seems to be the buzzword nowadays. Everybody who is somebody seems to have a blog – your own personal space on the internet. To write, to express ones thoughts on various issues and broadcast it to the world.

Now what makes a blog effective and interesting? What is it about some blogs that makes you keep coming back to it, makes you wish the writer would write more often? These are some basic rules which need to be kept in mind while writing :



1.Love what you do
First and foremost rule when doing anything is learning to love what you do. Whatever you do, do it with a lot of passion and immense love for the task. The passion with which you write will invariably be communicated to your readers. A blog is uninteresting only when the writer himself isn’t very interested in his own writing and doesn’t put his heart and soul into it.
2.Be yourself
Never try to be someone you are not or try to project an image which is not akin to you. It never works. Most of the good blogs we have read / good writers we know are the ones who put in a lot of themselves into their blog. There is so much of them in their writing that at some level you start relating to them and their blog becomes a must read and sooner than later you start becoming addicted to their blog. Such is the power of a well written blog
3.Write for yourself
Never write to please anyone else because it is just not possible to please everyone. Remember you can please some of the people all the time and all the time some times but you can never please all the people all the time. So write for yourself. Let good quality writing be the first and foremost thing in your entry. Everything else will automatically fall in place.
4.Be Creative
Roald Dahl used to say that a good writer is one who can bring a scene alive in the minds of the readers. While reading your blog a writer should be able to visualize the scenes you are describing as vividly as you did when you wrote the blog. Remember, the minute a reader feels that he is not able to relate to your posts you have lost him. Keep the readers interest alive. A good writer is one who can make even the most mundane and boring topics come alive just with the power of his/her writing.
5.KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
As clichéd as it sounds, this is a very very effective point and will go a long way in attracting visitors. Never try to use big words when simple words will suffice, never try to make a sentence large and complicated when the same idea can be conveyed in a very simple manner. Remember if readers wanted to learn English they would rather buy a dictionary or enroll themselves in classes than read your blog. Simple ideas are the ones which are conveyed most effectively. There is no point in confusing your reader. Amuse your reader, don’t bemuse him.
6.Be Original
This is a golden rule to be followed when blogging. Post original stuff which you have written, not forwards or poems or articles lifted from elsewhere. As the header on BlogAdda said “If you have original content, readers will stay longer and come back sooner”.
7.Use Humour
Lastly, use humour effectively. The best thing you can give a reader is a good laugh, the best thing in the world for a writer is the realization that he/she has the ability to make people laugh and the best way to talk about any issue is to talk about it in a lighter vein. Humor can be used to drive a point quickly and effectively. So use humor wherever possible.
These 7 points are not exhaustive and do not cover all the ways of attracting readers but are the key points to be kept in mind when you write and if you want more readers visiting and reading your blog. And remember attracting readers and making a blog interesting are not mutually exclusive of each other. If your blog is interesting, it will be noticed for sure.

This info is from www.blogadda.com

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21 Simple rules for a simple life

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
3. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
4. When you say, ‘I love you,’ mean it.
5. When you say, ‘I’m sorry,’ look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams
don’t have much.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don’t judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer,
smile and ask, ‘Why do you want to know?’
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Say ‘bless you’ when you hear someone sneeze.
16. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
17. Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for
others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
18. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
19. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
20. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice
21. Spend some time alone.

From Site : http://www.charlesyarbrough.com/alifestory/

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Camel..Good One..

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LOL

IF YOU yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have
produced
> >enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
> >(Hardly seems worth it.)
> >
> >If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced
> >to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
> >(Now that's more like it!)
> >
> >The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body
to
> >squirt blood 30 feet.
> >(O.M.G.!)
> >
> >A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves
to
> >death. (Creepy.)
> >(I'm still not over the pig.)
> >
> >Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
> >(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)
> >
> >The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached
to
its
> >body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
> >("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")
> >
> >The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
jumping
the
> >length of a football field.
> >(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
> >
> >The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
> >(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
> >
> >Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
> >(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
> >
> >Butterflies taste with their feet.
> >(Something I always wanted to know.)
> >
> >The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
> >(Hmmmmmm......)
> >
> >Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed
> >people.
> >(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
> >
> >Elephants are the only
> >animals that cannot jump.
> >(okay, so that would be a good thing)
> >
> >A cat's urine glows under a black light.
> >(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
> >
> >An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
> >(I know some people like that.)
> >
> >
> >Starfish have no brains
> >(I know some people like that too.)
> >
> >Polar bears are left-handed.
> >(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
> >
> >
> >Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
> >(What about that pig??)
> >
> >Now that you've smiled at least once, it's
> >yourturn to spread these crazy facts and send this to someone you
want
to
> >bring a smile to (maybe even a chuckle)...In other words, send it
to
> >everyone.

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A Joke - S/W Experience

Once a man went to a Veterinary (Animal) Doctor and
said: Doctor I came on vacation so that I can get treated.

Doctor: I think you should go to the Doctor opposite to my clinic

Man: No, I am coming to you.

Doctor: But, I am a Veterinary Doctor. I am an animal specialist.

Man: I know, but I want you to treat me.

Doctor: I cannot, because you speak like me and think like me which means

you are a human, not an animal.

Man: I know I am same and I am a human but the problem is

> I get up in the morning like a horse



> I go to work like a deer



> I work all day like a donkey



> I wag my tail in front of my manager like a dog



> I play with my children like a monkey



> I am like a rabbit in front of my wife



Doctor asked: Do you work in Software Company

Man: Yes

Doctor yelled: Come Dear, no body will treat you better than me.

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Garfield

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Link for TULU Songs

To listen TULU Songs Click Here

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Dilbert

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Photoshop, now turned more intelligent...... Very Good one...

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Awesome Dance...

Watch this video...

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Personality Test

There are many sites offering free personality tests on the web.
The test is based on the Jung-Myers-Briggs topology which reflects an individual's preferences on four different scales.

A free version of the test can be taken here...Click Here

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A Joke- God & Marwadi...!! !

A Marwadi having no child, no money, no home, a blind mother, prays to God.

God happy with his prays, grants him only ONE wish!

Marwadi : I want my mother to see my wife putting Diamond bangles on my Child's hands in our new home!

God : Damn !!! I still have a lot to learn from these Marwadi's

Lessons learnt from the above story:-

Compile all requirements and present in one line rather boring appraiser for long time.

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A Joke- 6 INCHES OFF THE GROUND......

A small balding man stormed into a local bar And demanded, "Gimme a double of the strongest whiskey you got! I'm so pissed I can't even see straight!"
The bartender, noticing that the little man is a bit the worse for wear,
pours him a DOUBLE.
The man swilled down the drink and demanded, "Gimme another ONE!"
The bartender pours the drink, but said, "Now, before I give you this,
why don't you let off a little steam and tell me WHY you're so upset?"
So the man begins his tale: "Well, I am a salesman for this fancy goose
pillows. I got an order and took several samples to an apartment in this
neighborhood. I knock on the door and this woman opens the door. Now,
the lady can't make up her mind, so she asks me to take the samples to
the bedroom and check them there. As I get into the bedroom I hear some
keys jingling, and SOMEONE starts fumbling with the door."
"Well, the woman says, 'Oh my god, it's my BOYFRIEND. He must have lost
his WRESTLING match today, he's gonna be REAL MAD! He won't believe that
you are just a salesman. Quick, HIDE!'
"So, I opened at the CLOSET, but I figured that was probably the FIRST
place he would look, so I didnt hide there. Then I looked under the
bed, but no, I figured he's bound to look there, too. By now I could
hear the key in the lock. I noticed the window was open, so I climbed
out and was hanging there by my FINGERS praying that the guy WOULDN'T
see me."
The bartender says "Well I can see how you might be a BIT FRUSTRATED at
this point."
"Well, yeah, but I hear the guy finally get the door open and he yells
out, 'Tell me, who you been seeing now?'"
"The girl said, 'Nobody, honey, now have a glass of water and calm
down.'
Well the guy starts TEARING up the room. I hear him tear the door off
the closet and throw it across the room. I'm thinking, 'Boy, I'm glad I
didnt hide in there.' Then I hear him lift up the bed and throw it
across the room. Good thing I didn't hide under there either."
"Then I heard him say, 'What's that over there by the WINDOW?' I think
'Oh boy, I'm dead meat now'. But the woman by now is trying real hard to
distract him and convince him to stop looking."
"Well, I hear the guy go into the bathroom, and I hear water running for
a long time, and I figure maybe he's gonna take a bath or something,
when all of a sudden the guy pours a pitcher of scalding HOT WATER out
of the window right on top of my head! I mean look at this, I got second
degree burns all over my scalp and shoulders!"
The bartender said, "Oh man, that would have pissed me off for SURE."
"No," the customer replied, "that didn't really BOTHER me. Next
the guy starts slamming the window shut over and over on my hands. I mean, look at my fingers. They're a bloody mess, I can hardly hold onto this
glass." The bartender looks at the guy's hands and agreed,"Yeah,
buddy, I can understand why you are so UPSET"
"No, that WASN'T what really pissed me off."
The bartender then asked in exasperation, "Well, then, what DID finally
piss you off?"
"Well I was hanging there for hours, and I turned around and looked
down, and...
I WAS ONLY ABOUT 6 INCHES OFF THE GROUND!"

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ForgottenBooks.org

http://forgottenbooks.org/ From here you can read thousands of books FREE online (100% viewable) and purchase the books you like as high-quality paperbacks at wholesale prices.
They are specialized in historical writings, this includes works such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, religion, folklore, mythology and sacred texts, in addition to secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic and ancient knowledge. Fiction and non-fiction books.
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QuillPad

Quillpad is a free online Hindi typing tool. Now it is very easy to type in Hindi. For example, type 'aap kaise hain' in the text field Click Here. Quillpad will convert it directly into Devanagari script. If you write a word like 'vishesh', first sh should become 'श' and the second sh should become 'ष'. Quillpad will intelligently do that for you. No need to use shift keys or to memorize any key mappings. So 'राष्ट्रपति' can be written by typing 'rashtrapati' or 'raashtrapathi'. Quillpad can also predict if multiple words are possible for your input. You can click on the word to select from those options. In addition Quillpad allows you to type English words freely in between Hindi words. It intelligently transliterates them into Hindi.

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Cool Browser add on

I don't get too caught up in the "hot new thing" on the web. There is just so much stuff out there that is, well, a waste of time. Mostly I see new services and widgets that are neat but don't help you do anything better than before. I found on http://www.cooliris.com/ about 3 weeks ago and have been bragging on it ever since. Basically it is a "3D wall" of images or videos that runs on your browser. I use it on Firefox 3 but it is available on all the other major browsers as well. It makes viewing photos & videos smooth as opposed to the clunky way of I used to search for them one at a time. It works with google images, yahoo images, youtube, myspace, facebook, flickr, photobucket and more.It’s nice to have all the photos in one place to just click through as you please. I can't swear to it but the images look enhanced as well. Using it for youtube videos is even better as you don't have to wait for another page to load before starting your next video. More sites are becoming compatible with Piclens everyday so it should only get better. If you have a giant screen for your PC or connect your computer to your bigscreen TV that just amplifies the experience. Oh yeah, it costs exactly nothing.

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Speech by Thomas Friedman of New York Times....

When we were young kids growing up in America, we
Were told to eat our vegetables at dinner and not to
Leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the starving
Children in India and finish the dinner.'

And now I tell my children: 'Finish your maths
Homework. Think of the children in India who would
Make you starve, if you don't.

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Chetan Bhagat's lecture at Symbiosis ******* Keep the Spark Alive ********

Inaugural Speech for the new batch at the Symbiosis BBA program, Pune 23rd June, 2008
By Chetan Bhagat
Good Morning everyone and thank you for giving me this chance to speak to you. This day is about you. You, who have come to this college, leaving the comfort of your homes (or in some cases discomfort), to become something in your life. I am sure you are excited. There are few days in human life when one is truly elated. The first day in college is one of them. When you were getting ready today, you felt a tingling in your stomach. What would the auditorium be like, what would the teachers be like, who are my new classmates - there is so much to be curious about. I call this excitement, the spark within you that makes you feel truly alive today. Today I am going to talk about keeping the spark shining. Or to put it another way, how to be happy most, if not all the time.
Where do these sparks start? I think we are born with them. My 3-year old twin boys have a million sparks. A little Spiderman toy can make them jump on the bed. They get thrills from creaky swings in the park. A story from daddy gets them excited. They do a daily countdown for birthday party – several months in advance – just for the day they will cut their own birthday cake.
I see students like you, and I still see some sparks. But when I see older people, the spark is difficult to find. That means as we age, the spark fades. People whose spark has faded too much are dull, dejected, aimless and bitter. Remember Kareena in the first half of Jab We Met vs the second half? That is what happens when the spark is lost. So how to save the spark?
Imagine the spark to be a lamp's flame. The first aspect is nurturing - to give your spark the fuel, continuously. The second is to guard against storms.
To nurture, always have goals. It is human nature to strive, improve and achieve full potential. In fact, that is success. It is what is possible for you. It isn't any external measure - a certain cost to company pay package, a particular car or house.
Most of us are from middle class families. To us, having material landmarks is success and rightly so. When you have grown up where money constraints force everyday choices, financial freedom is a big achievement. But it isn't the purpose of life. If that was the case, Mr. Ambani would not show up for work. Shah Rukh Khan would stay at home and not dance anymore. Steve Jobs won't be working hard to make a better iPhone, as he sold Pixar for billions of dollars already. Why do they do it? What makes them come to work everyday? They do it because it makes them happy. They do it because it makes them feel alive. Just getting better from current levels feels good. If you study hard, you can improve your rank. If you make an effort to interact with people, you will do better in interviews. If you practice, your cricket will get better. You may also know that you cannot become Tendulkar, yet. But you can get to the next level. Striving for that next level is important.
Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature's design. Are you? Goals will help you do that.
I must add, don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.
There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.
You must have read some quotes - Life is a tough race, it is a marathon or whatever. No, from what I have seen so far, life is one of those races in nursery school, where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.

One last thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. One of my yoga teachers used to make students laugh during classes. One student asked him if these jokes would take away something from the yoga practice. The teacher said - don't be serious, be sincere. This quote has defined my work ever since. Whether its my writing, my job, my relationships or any of my goals. I get thousands of opinions on my writing everyday. There is heaps of praise, there is intense criticism. If I take it all seriously, how will I write? Or rather, how will I live? Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.
I've told you three things - reasonable goals, balance and not taking it too seriously that will nurture the spark. However, there are four storms in life that will threaten to completely put out the flame. These must be guarded against. These are disappointment, frustration, unfairness and loneliness of purpose.
Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don't go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. What did this failure teach me? is the question you will need to ask. You will feel miserable. You will want to quit, like I wanted to when nine publishers rejected my first book. Some IITians kill themselves over low grades – how silly is that? But that is how much failure can hurt you. But it's life. If challenges could always be overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember - if you are failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential. And that's where you want to be.
Disappointment's cousin is frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially relevant in India. From traffic jams to getting that job you deserve, sometimes things take so long that you don't know if you chose the right goal. After books, I set the goal of writing for Bollywood, as I thought they needed writers. I am called extremely lucky, but it took me five years to get close to a release. Frustration saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making you a bitter person. How did I deal with it? A realistic assessment of the time involved – movies take a long time to make even though they are watched quickly, seeking a certain enjoyment in the process rather than the end result – at least I was learning how to write scripts, having a side plan – I had my third book to write and even something as simple as pleasurable distractions in your life - friends, food, travel can help you overcome it. Remember, nothing is to be taken seriously. Frustration is a sign somewhere, you took it too seriously.
Unfairness - this is hardest to deal with, but unfortunately that is how our country works. People with connections, rich dads, beautiful faces, pedigree find it easier to make it – not just in Bollywood, but everywhere. And sometimes it is just plain luck. There are so few opportunities in India, so many stars need to be aligned for you to make it happen. Merit and hard work is not always linked to achievement in the short term, but the long term correlation is high, and ultimately things do work out. But realize, there will be some people luckier than you. In fact, to have an opportunity to go to college and understand this speech in English means you are pretty damm lucky by Indian standards. Let's be grateful for what we have and get the strength to accept what we don't. I have so much love from my readers that other writers cannot even imagine it. However, I don't get literary praise. It's ok. I don't look like Aishwarya Rai, but I have two boys who I think are more beautiful than her. It's ok. Don't let unfairness kill your spark.
Finally, the last point that can kill your spark is isolation. As you grow older you will realize you are unique. When you are little, all kids want Ice cream and Spiderman. As you grow older to college, you still are a lot like your friends. But ten years later and you realize you are unique. What you want, what you believe in, what makes you feel, may be different from even the people closest to you. This can create conflict as your goals may not match with others. . And you may drop some of them. Basketball captains in college invariably stop playing basketball by the time they have their second child. They give up something that meant so much to them. They do it for their family. But in doing that, the spark dies. Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others.
There you go. I've told you the four thunderstorms - disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die.
I welcome you again to the most wonderful years of your life. If someone gave me the choice to go back in time, I will surely choose college. But I also hope that ten years later as well, your eyes will shine the same way as they do today. That you will Keep the Spark alive, not only through college, but through the next 2,500 weekends. And I hope not just you, but my whole country will keep that spark alive, as we really need it now more than any moment in history. And there is something cool about saying - I come from the land of a billion sparks.

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A Quality Engineer... Good Joke. :-)

A Quality Engineer married an average girl…

After 24 months of tough life with her, finally Engineer got angry and sent a note to father-in-law stating that
"YOUR PRODUCT NOT MEETING MY REQUIREMENTS".

The smart father-in-law replies,
"WARRANTY EXPIRED. MANUFACTURER NOT RESPONSIBLE"

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You can reduce the price of oil if you wish!!!!!

I am posting this blog to make people aware of the inflation.If we wish we can bring down the price of oil.Below is the mail received from one of my colleague.Go through this article once.
Thanks!!

Try reducing the consumption of fuel as much as possible.

Nice Logic - It May Work !!

A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the Kirana store he pays Rs. 12 a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won't last a week he normally buys two dozens at a time. One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to Rs. 16. The next time he buys groceries, eggs are Rs. 22 a dozen.

When asked to explain the price of eggs the store owner says, "The price has gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly" . This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. He checked around for a better price and all the distributors have raised their prices. The distributors have begun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been driven out of business. The huge egg farms sell 100,000 dozen eggs a day to distributors. With no competition, they can set the price as they see fit. The distributors then have to raise their prices to the grocery stores. And on and on and on.

As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He saw the big egg trucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changed there. He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000 dozen eggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of eggs.

Then week before Diwali the price of eggs shot up to Rs. 40 a dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "Cakes and baking for the holiday". The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up. Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family cooking, baking, etc. happen.

This pattern continues until the price of eggs is Rs. 60 a dozen. The man says, " There must be something we can do about the price of eggs".

He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed eggs.

Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need. He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day.

The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs.
Maybe wouldn't need any all week.

The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not need any for at least two weeks.

At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs. To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that they could buy the eggs at a lower price.

The distributor said, " I don't have the room for the %$&^*&% eggs even if they were free". The distributor told the grocery store owner that he would lower the price of the eggs if the store would start buying
again.

The grocery store owner said, "I don't have room for more eggs. The customers are only buying 2 or 3 eggs at a time. Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back down to the original price, the customers
would start buying by the dozen again".

The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmers but the egg farmers liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, those chickens just kept on laying. Finally, the egg farmers lowered the
price of their eggs. But only a few paisa.

The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. They said, "when the price of eggs gets down to where it was before, we will start buying by the dozen."

Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to slash their prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers.

The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn't buy at a higher price than they were selling eggs for. Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a while.

And those chickens kept on laying.

Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were throwing away eggs they couldn't sell.

The distributors started buying again because the eggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell them at the lower price.

And the customers starting buying by the dozen again.

Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry.

What if everyone only bought Rs 200.00 worth of Petrol each time they pulled to the pump? The dealer's tanks would stay semi full all the time. The dealers wouldn't have room for the gas coming from the huge tanks. The tank farms wouldn't have room for the petrol coming from the refining plants. And the refining plants wouldn't have room for the oil being off loaded from the huge tankers coming from the oil fiends.

Just Rs 200.00 each time you buy gas. Don't fill up the tank of your car. You may have to stop for gas twice a week, but the price should come down.

Think about it.


Also, don't buy anything else at the fuel station; don't give them any more of your hard earned money than what you spend on gas, until the prices come down..."

...just think of this concept for a while.

............ ......please pass this concept around....reaching out to
the masses ...the world .....

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Bugis Catwalk

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Cheat codes for AirTel subscribers

Some Cheat codes for Airtel users-

1. How to Check Main account Balance :::: *123# n then call.
2. How to Check A 2 A Balance of Call:::::: *123*1# N then Call.
3 How to Check A 2 A Balance of Messages:::::*123*2# N then Call.
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*144*030# N call >>> Deduction Made:::: Rs140>>>> 1 Month Validity Extend. Bt Now these days Rs 98 recharge option is available in which u get 1 month Validity N Rs 9 Talktime.
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7. Postpaid to Prepaid Recharge:::::: *107*375* Senders Number(ie Prepaid Number)# N then Call.
8 Excuse Me Service :::: Activation Procedure :::: *104# N then Call... Charges >>>> Rs 1/ request. U Get a Fake Call frm Airtel.
9. Check the Value Voucher Validity::::: *121# N then Call.
10. Check the Validity :::: *122*1# N then Call.
11. Recharging Paper Coupon:::: *120*16 Digit Pin No# N then call.

If U want to know Any Kind of recharge Information >>>> Simply Type in Ur Text Message ::: RC Amount>>>>170(Toll Free) U get all the Information.

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http://www.german-flashcards.com

This is the best site for those who wants to learn German from the scratch.I have created my account in this site and I have been getting "sentence of the day " daily since then.This sites really helps who is novice in German language and want to Expertise in this language.

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Ten Tips to Reduce SDLC Costs

Ten Tips to Reduce Software Development Lifecycle Costs

With the credit crunch affecting IT budgets, Experimentus, the leading UK software quality management solutions consultancy, highlights ten ways to reduce software development lifecycle costs within IT departments :-

1. Focus on well documented Functional Requirements

   Without well documented Functional Requirements, there is potential for a system to be delivered which does not meet the customer’s expectations. For example, perhaps it does not work as they believe it should – even though the development team believe that they have worked in line with the requirements as documented. This can lead to development rework, which is likely to delay the release, increase costs, and create discord between the customer and the software team.

2. Ensure all Non Functional Requirements are clearly defined early

   Many organisations focus solely on the Functional aspect of systems – WHAT it does – rather than the Non-Functional – HOW it does it. Non-Functional elements comprise everything from performance to security to usability.

   Without clear, early definition of Non-Functional requirements, it is possible that a system could be delivered which does exactly what the customer wants – but is difficult to use, slow, insecure, unreliable, or is not scalable. Once again, this can lead to development rework – although some non-functional areas are so integral to the design of the product, it can be difficult to correct them without starting the project again.

3. Ensure change control procedures are in place

   Without Change Control, system development can find itself in an uncertain and constantly changing state. For example, development may be initially performed against what is believed to be the final version of a requirements document. However, more changes might be made to the requirements whilst development continues, each change without a proper impact assessment.

   As there is no procedure for consulting with or informing development of the changes, it may not be the case that the knowledge of the changes is passed on in a timely fashion. Additionally, the impact of some changes might be so large that they cannot be incorporated into the software easily at a late stage. In this case, if the changes are deemed to be vital, major development rework might have to take place. For these reasons, every change should be strictly controlled. Change can be allowed, but should only take place after a full impact assessment to see how it will affect the project timescales and costs.

4. Ensure strict Configuration Management is in place for code, data and documentation

   Without Configuration Management, a high quality of testing is impossible. This is because there cannot be high levels of confidence that the right version of the software or documentation is being tested, or that the right version will be released to the customer.

   Organisations with poor Configuration Management might test one version of a product, and yet perhaps release a slightly different version – a version which then enters the field UNTESTED. It is viewed as untested, as potentially major faults may have been introduced which change the behaviour of parts of the system from that which was intended – or, in some cases, even disabling the entire system.

5. Focus quality approach on product risks, focus on preventing rather than detecting defects

   It has been proven many times that the later in the software development lifecycle that a defect is found, the more costly it is to rectify it. For example, correcting a mistake in a requirements document before development begins is a far quicker and cheaper activity than correcting the software after it has been developed against the faulty requirements document.

6. Begin UAT(User Acceptance Testing) test design during requirement definition

   If an organisation is using the ‘V-model’ of software development correctly, then the test team should be involved with the project from the very beginning – during the requirements definition. Not only can the testers use their expertise and experience to help assess whether or not particular requirements are testable or not, but they can also start to design the relevant tests, which helps to ease the test schedule later.

   In this scenario, the User Acceptance Tests should correspond directly to the user requirements. This is because the requirements are the items that the user wishes to see in the system, and the tests represent the way that the system is proved to meet those requirements. It clearly follows that the best time to write the UAT is when the requirements are being constructed.

7. Begin system test design during the system design stage

   It is important that the system is designed to be easily testable, if possible. This can only occur if testing expertise is involved in the system design stage. Collaboration between the testers and the system designers can help ensure that the system produced fulfils this aim. During this early involvement, the testers can also start to construct the System Tests, which helps ease the testing schedule. An additional benefit to this approach is the enhanced team collaboration between the system design and testing team.

8. Focus test effort on unit test where it is cheaper

   As previously stated, correcting defects earlier in the software development lifecycle is far easier, quicker and cheaper than otherwise. Given this axiom, it is surprising that many organisations spend little or no time on unit testing activities – often with the reasoning that “our developers develop, and our testers test”.

   However, not only does this approach mean that potential defects reach later stages of testing than they should, it is possible that they may not be found at all – as later stages of testing normally perform different testing activities, in different ways, to those used in unit testing.

9. Plan test approach using risk to define focus of test effort

   Test time is often limited, due to reasons like fixed release dates, or late software delivery from the development team. This can often mean that not all tests that were originally planned are carried out.

   In this scenario, it is vital that those elements of the system that are considered critical to product success have been tested. Therefore, the approach to testing should always be to focus effort on the ‘highest risk’ areas of the system first. Following this, medium risk and low risk areas of the system can be tested, in turn, as time permits.

   This risk-based approach ensures that, when under time pressures, the areas of the system which remain untested (and potentially flawed) are the lowest risk areas possible from those that are left to be tested.

10. Use tools to test for functional and non functional errors very early on when they are cheaper and more effective at removing errors, and throughout the lifecycle

    If an automated test set is created and maintained, it can be repeatedly utilised from an early stage of the software development lifecycle, as a ‘smoke test’. This method has the potential to find a lot of defects quickly at an early stage, saving time in later test phases.

    Additionally, sometimes specific tools may indicate flaws in the system design – which should be exposed as early as possible. For example, early performance testing on parts of the system that are available might reveal a poorly-designed module, which would hinder the system beyond the tolerance levels of the user when released.

    In this way, the module is easily identified, isolated, and fixed or replaced – an activity that would be much harder if performance testing was only conducted when the system was about to be delivered to the customer.

Martin Adcock, Managing Director of Experimentus, comments:

“At Experimentus we ensure our clients have the strategies and the most appropriate processes in place to get the most out of their software. In the current economic climate, more for less or finding areas where our clients can reduce cost across the development lifecycle are increasingly becoming the business drivers.”

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babbel.com

This Web site is a portal to learn new languages online, such as Italian, German, French, Spanish and even English. Simply create an account, choose the language that you want to learn, and you’re all set! The course starts off with basic exercises, such as the spellings and pronunciations of numbers and small words, and goes on to more complex sentences and phrases as you progress.

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How to Become a Millionaire

Introduction
Start by being a Billionaire. It’s an old joke. But the concept has two very important truths that you need to consider. The First Truth: Whatever level of income you are at, if you spend more than you earn, you are not on the path to wealth. If you are a billionaire and spend your money lavishly and foolishly, you very well might end up as a millionaire. The Second Truth: The concept of “The Rich get Richer…..” is true. If you are a Billionaire, with $1 billion in the bank, overnight for one night, your money has earned $2,192. That would be $66,667. per month. In less than 14 months, your invested billion dollars will create another million dollars. But, even without starting as a billionaire, it is very conceivable that if you focus on your goal and follow the laws of money, you WILL be a millionaire.

Instructions
Difficulty: Challenging
Things You'll Need SOME startup cash ,Time ,Persistance ,Resolve

Steps :

1
Step One
DEFINE what being a millionaire means to you. A banker will consider you a millionaire if your aasets are worth more than your liabilities by a million dollars. Depending on what those assets are though, it is quite likely that they could be valued differently tomorrow. YOU may define being a millionaire as having a bank account with one million dollars of disposable income. KNOW exactly what your goal is, and be prepared to work toward it.
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Step Two
Assess your current situation. IF you possess Aladdin's lamp, you will likely be able to obtain your goal in no time at all. If not, you need to assess exactly where you are, what your skill set is, and what steps you will need to accomplish your goal. Even though I don't know your circumstances, I do know the path to get you where you want to go. If you follow these directions, you will eventually be able to reach your goal. The unknown factor is how much time it will take to get you there. Another factor, known only to you, is how much effort will you make to get here? What things will you do to accelerate yourself to the goal?
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Step Three
Make a Lot of Money! Find a way to make money. You need to start with something. Your basic needs: food, shelter, and clothing need to be taken care of. If you have a family, you will need to attend to their needs as well. Obviously a job is a good way to start. There are other ways of making money, such as selling assets or being self employed, which are all fine. The goal is to have a consistent financial income, and a job is a good place to start.
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Step Four
Find a way to Make MORE money! Now, CONSTANTLY ASSESS! Find a way to make more money than what you do. Perhaps you need more formal education. An investment of a few years of college gives you better earning potential for your entire life. Make yourself promotable. Discover what your company wants in its management, and BE that. Perhaps you need to have a part time job as well for a while. Perhaps you are interested in making money from your home, such as selling on Ebay. Always keep your eyes and ears open to opportunity. But weigh each opportunity carefully. Often that opportunity can come within the same company where you work. Sometimes that opportunity needs to come in a new job or perhaps even a new career.
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Step Five
Spend a LITTLE money! Live below your means. Today's biggest temptation is to have it all and to have it all now. The problem is that the cost of that immediate requirement is often putting yourself deep in debt. You want to do the opposite. My uncle grew up very poor on a 20 acre farm. He and his brothers started a small business. While his siblings were buying bigger homes and fancier cars, he lived in a modest home and focused on reinvesting his capital into his portion of the business. Ultimately he was richer by far over his brothers and ultimately had far greater assets. Simply put, it was his dedication to allowing his investments to grow over time while he lived comfortably but modestly for several years that propelled him to wealth.
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Step Six
PAY YOURSELF. Pretend it's a car payment, and pay it to yourself and invest it. Starting NOW! Understand the concept that you have a higher potential to make more money in a venture that has more risk. Likewise, you can lose a lot more money in a venture that has more risk. I suggest you start your portfolio of very solid (lower earning) investments. Start with 3 months salary in a savings account for family emergencies. Progress to some solid known return items such as CDs. There are other articules about investments. This one is about making you a millionaire. Try to invest a minimum of 10% of your income in known return items. Let's use 8% as a return goal, and we'll assume an income of $40,000. If you wait until the end of the year to invest $4,000, you will have $4,000 at 12/31
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Step Seven
CONTINUALLY INCREASE your EARNINGS and your INVESTMENT amount. That may seem difficult but isn't as tough as it seems. If you work for the same company for years, you will most likely increase your salary annually by receiving raises. If you aren't getting consistent annual raises, you need to reasses yourself and your job. The important thing to remember is to invest more each time you make more. This is one of the secrets to real wealth.
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Step Eight
UNDERSTAND and USE the POWER of COMPOUNDING INTEREST If you wait until the end of the year to invest $4,000, you will have $4,000 at 12/31. If you invest $333.33/month for each of the 12 months of the same year, at year end you will have $4,149.93. That's not too impressive, but after 10 years, the numbers look like this: $4000 invested at year end for 10 years = $ 41,221.58 $333.33/month invested for 10 years = $60,981.40 That hardly seems like it's going to make you a millionaire. But let's change just two factors, and see how you DO get there. Let's change the number of years to 40. We'll assume you start working around 20, and can retire by 60. That means you can start at 25, retire at 65, and still obtain your million dollars. Did you say you only wanted $1 million? If you invested your $4,000/year annually for 40 years, you will have your $1,036,226. If you invest your $333.33/month faithfully for 40 years, invested at 8%, you can retire with $1,163,657.64. But, you've
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Step Nine
ELIMINATE your credit card debt. That doesn't mean eliminate your credit cards. Use them often. In fact, use them for almost everything you buy. But pay them off when the bill comes in. That will build your credit. But you don't want a lot of outstanding credit card debt, because the Power of Compounding Interest works in the favor of the credit card companies a whole lot quicker than it does for you. The amount of interest that you can earn is usually far less than what the credit card companies charge. Remember the Power of Compounding interest works both ways.
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Step Ten
Be AGGRESSIVE! If you truly want to be a Millionaire, chances are you want to do it quickly. Use the SAME steps. Push them harder. Find ways to make more money. Find ways to save more money. Find ways to invest more money quicker. Each little tweaking of the formula will move your goal into site much quicker.
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Step Eleven
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: Year One: Start with your $40,000 salary and invest 10% (on a monthly basis, not on an annual basis.) End result: $4,149.93 Year Two: Your salary increases to $44,000 Invest 10% on a monthly basis, coupled with earnings on the $4,149.93 already saved. Result: $ 9,059.30 You're not rich yet. But after just 10 years of saving in the same manner, you would have invested $63,749 and change, and would have a cash balance of $91,320. Nice, but not a million! After 20 years of consistent saving and investment, you would have input $229,097 and would have $439,562. Hmmm. Getting interesting! After 26.25 years on the same course, Input: $ 448,640. Available: $1,000,306! It's a long time. But there's your million dollars. And you aren't close to retirement. If you start at 20, you will only be 46 years old
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Step Twelve
STAY THE COURSE: As your investment grows, your sense of security and well being grows with it. If you enjoy your work, you'll want to keep on working. If you don't like what you are doing, you'll have enough socked away to find what you DO want to do. But, the best advice I can give is for you to stay the course. Change jobs, fine. But life spans are getting longer. As long as you are healthy, work in happiness, and continue contributing. If you continue the same path for the 40 years originally mentioned, you can retire with not one million dollars, but $5,122,791. Every small change, particularly early in the game will influence your final numbers. If you can only eek out a 6% adjustment per year, you can still retire with roughly $2.5 million. If you started late, and only have 30 years to invest, you can still retire with $1,590,000. Or, if your starting salary was only $20,000, after 40 years, you can still reach $1,261,900 with only 6% increases. It is all about CONSISTENCY, and the POWER OF COMPOUNDING INTEREST, and TIME.

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Cool Sites

Qipit
www.qipit.com
This free service turns your camera phone or digital camera into a virtual “mobile copy centre” by converting photographs of written or printed material into near-scan quality digital documents that can be easily archived or shared. With Qipit, you can turn images of documents (book excerpts, newspaper clippings and so on), notes and whiteboards into digital copies (PDFs), share them via email or fax, often even from your smart phone. Qipit is based on advanced, patented image processing technologies developed by Realeyes3D, a camera phone applications developer whose products reportedly have been embedded in more than 28 million phones.
Mozy
www.mozy.com/home
You may have heard of this Web service because paeans have been sung for it far and wide. It offers 2GB of free backup space. You don’t have to set up anything, nor are there any payments to be made, no conditions, no expiry date. Backups—especially off-site—are the best possible insurance against virus attacks, disk drive disasters and office gremlin follies. What you get in the Mozy bargain is open/locked file support, 128-bit SSL encryption, 448-bit Blowfish encryption, automatic scheduled backups, email backups and much more.
Text Analyser
www.usingenglish.com/resources/text-statistics.php
If you want to analyse your text documents in terms of statistics, point your browser here. This tool gives you statistics on word count, unique words, word frequency, number of sentences, average number of words per sentence, lexical density and a rating on the Gunning Fog Readability Index (a readability test designed to show how easy or difficult a text is to read). Yes, Microsoft Word also gives you something similar, but that is limited to just character, word, line and para counts. If you think the 10,000-character limitation of Text Analyser is a handicap and want to check longer documents with even more detailed analysis, sign up as a member for the advanced version. The accompanying Word Analyser database contains information about 97,000 English words. It lets you check a word on grammatical connotations and usage simply by keying in the word.
GigaSize
www.gigasize.com
What do you do when you have to transmit a very large file across the Internet? No, we’re not talking about a 10-20MB size file. Most Web mail services today already do it with ease. We are also not talking about chopping up the file into smaller bits using a file-splitting program and then having them reassembled at the other end. We’re talking about some 500-600MB—or more—of computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, video clips, high-res images... Even file hosting services such as YouSendIt, RapidShare or MegaUpload can’t do it beyond a couple of hundred megabytes. But GigaSize allows you to zip across up to 600GB per file for free and 2GB per file with a premium account. Bookmark this for a rainy day.
Short Text Service
www.shorttext.com
This is perhaps one of the simplest, no-fuss tools to post text and messages online. You don’t even have to sign up for the service or login each time you post some text (up to 30,000 characters). You can also treat it like a permanent text clipboard on the Internet to cut-paste text between computers located anywhere. All you need to do is copy-paste or enter the text you want online into the text dialogue box on the site, click on the Create URL button, and beam it. You can also keep your data private with the help of a unique passkey, or leave it open for public viewing. What’s more, you can link to pictures or videos on the Net and also allow comments.
Rich Chart Live
www.richchartlive.com/RichChartLive
If you are tired of conjuring the same stale, humdrum, oft-seen graphs that Excel churns out every time, use this online service to generate something refreshing, visually rich and even animated. Again, no downloads or installs required. You can start with the free version—and even stick to it if you don’t mind a small logo appearing on each of your charts. The data can be input by importing, copy-pasting from Excel or typing in manually. Almost all chart elements are customizable. Once you’ve finished, you can export the chart as PowerPoint or Flash file. One major drawback: You can’t save anything on the site and come back to edit it.
Vuvox
www.vuvox.com
This is an easy-to-use Web-based presentation building service that can create some impressive Flash presentations incredibly fast. Your creations can be based on your own collection of photographs, video clips, charts, music, audio, etc. (upload 100MB in size) or you can blend in content from the Web from sites such as YouTube, Flickr and PhotoBucket. You can create a fusion of these elements, pick backgrounds, colours, textures from within Vuvox, and then share your creation with the world.

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http://www.softpedia.com/

This is a very good site for those interested in download and devlopement stuff.. Enjoy...

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A Little Piece of Google History: BackRub

As stunning as it might sound, Google is only the second name given to the Stanford students’ project. Philipp Lenssen, of blogoscoped.com, discovered that its precursor back in 1996 was called "BackRub" and that it was a search engine research project that was headed by who else than Larry Page, the last Page to wed, at the computer science department at the university.It was pretty impressive at the time, in August 1996, it had indexed 75 million URLs and its crawler

had downloaded 30 million pages. Given that the Internet was not the huge web it is today, that’s really a lot. BackRub was written in Java and Python based "on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux".Larry had had help from others with the project, on the homepage he thanked Scott Hassan, Akan Steremberg and (guess who!) Sergey Brin for their help, which means that, at that time, he was pretty much the owner of the whole thing. Unlike today when you hardly ever get to see him or see footage of him, back then he gave his mail address and phone number in the FAQ for help with any and all unanswered questions one might have had about the project.
Enlarge pictureThe change to Google came in 1997 and the homepage had two search boxes, one for searching Stanford and the other for searching the web, the number of search results per page was by default set to 10 and the mode of visualization was "clustering on". Philipp Lenssen refers to a cached copy of the BackRub engine from C63.be and gives the second picture on the left that has the Google logo all weird and with nasty colors. He does say that it might not be the real deal, but it’s the best piece of Google history so far. By the way, the hand in the first picture belongs to Larry Page. It was that small of a project.

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