World's first Air Postal Service from India

Modern Postal service techniques are credited to the Britishers, and the Wright brothers credited  with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane. But there is also one thing that is less noted that on 18 Feb 1911 India, there was the first Aeroplane was taken off with about 6500 post cards.


Detail :


Source : Allahabad, near Holy Yamuna River
Destination : Allahabad, Central Incarceration (Nainy Junction)
Distance : 15 Kilometer
Take off Timing : 5:30 PM
Air time : 13 min.
Pilot : Henry Pekat (France)


The plane was made up of the wood, and several parts were tied with the lace. There was attractive view during the Agriculture and Trade Exhibition in the UP Exhibition by this plane. "First Arial Postal" and "UP Exhibition" was written on that plane and it was also painted with one picture showing a plane in mountains.
40 Mail out of the 6500 was the picture card of the pilots and planes. Out of which today only 10 are left
and out of that 1 is in the at the Department of Post, Allahabad.

Save The Roaring Tigers

The number of tigers in the world has diminished at an alarming speed in recent years


In India, which is home to nearly half of the world's tigers, or 1 400 animals, the number of the big cats has shrunk by 60 percent over the past three to four years




What we can Do? How we can help to Save the Tigers?


Roar Online : 
       Share it with YouTube, Twitter, Orkut, Facebook, your Blog, E-Mail !, Let everyone know what is happening and what movement are going on to save the tigers.


Speak Up : 
       Write a letter or an email to editors of popular newspapers and magazines, asking them to support the cause and highlight the urgency to save our tigers. The more people we can reach and inform, the stronger our roar will be


Donate : 
       No Matter How small or Big your Donation is. You can support to such organizations which are fighting for the Tigers. One of them is WWFIndia. Every little bit helps. Your generous contribution will make a great difference in saving this majestic specie.


SMS : 
A short message can go a long way to help save our tigers. Let all your friends know about the movement through SMS. We send SMS everyday to our friends, so why it can't this ?And you can also send SMS with free web sites like 160by2, way2sms etc.


Preserve our Natural Resources :
Loss of habitat is one of our tigers’ biggest problems. We can reduce pressure on forests by avoiding unnecessary use of forest-derived products, such as paper and timber.


Be a responsible tourist : 
The wilderness is to be experienced and not to be disturbed and polluted. Follow the forest department guidelines when visiting any wilderness area, tiger reserve in particular. As the saying goes ‘Don’t leave thing anything behind except foot steps, and don’t take anything except memories.’


Please comment for more suggestion




If we Don't Act now we will lose this part of our Heritage Forever

Interesting Facts about India

Interesting Facts about India...

• India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
• The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
• Chess was invented in India.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
• The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
• The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
• India is the largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.
• The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
• India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
• The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
• The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
• The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
• Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
  (Source: Gemological Institute of America).
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
• Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
• Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
• India exports software to 90 countries.
• The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
• Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
• Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
• The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
• Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
• The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.
• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
• Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
• Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
• His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
• Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
• Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.

PROUD TO BE INDIAN....
Main Source : India.org.in (Interesting Facts about India)
Hindi Version : Bharat.org.in (भारत के बारे में रोचक तथ्‍य)

Gmail Introduced Buzz...

Five years ago, Gmail was just email. Later they added chat and then video chat, both built right in, so people had choices about how to communicate from a single browser window. Today, communication on the web has evolved beyond email and chat — people are sharing photos with friends and family, commenting on news happening around them, and telling the world what they're up to in real-time. This new social sharing is valuable, but it means there's a lot more stuff to sort through, and it's harder to get past status updates and engage in meaningful discussions.

They have Launched Google Buzz, a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting and share updates, photos, videos and more. Buzz is built right into Gmail, so there's nothing to set up — you're automatically following the people you email and chat with the most.

But, Yahoo launched Yahoo Buzz in 2008 as part of Yahoo Updates in an attempt to filter hundreds of social networks through Yahoo Mail, Messenger and Yahoo.com. But the company signaled in December that its social networking experiment wasn't working when it announced it would "deeply integrate" Facebook Connect into Yahoo Updates.

Similarly, Microsoft's Windows Live hasn't exactly taken the world by storm. Microsoft is right in saying the social networks that Google Buzz would integrate with Gmail have been integrated into Hotmail for years.


See below Video Description::

You can choose to share publicly with the world or privately to a small group of friends each time you post. And you can connect other sites you use, today there's Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader, and Twitter, so your friends can keep up with what you're doing around the web — all in one place.

To make sure you don't miss out on the best part of sharing, Buzz sends responses to your posts straight to your inbox. Unlike static email messages, buzz messages in your inbox are live conversations where comments appear in real time.

You can follow the specific people whose posts you want to see, but Buzz also recommends posts from people you're not directly following, often ones where your friends are having a lively conversation in the comments. If you're not interested in a particular recommendation, just click the "Not interested" link and your feedback will help improve the recommendations system.

For all those times when you want to share something but aren't in front of your computer, Buzz is also available on your phone.

Visit: Buzz.google.com for more detail...

Google Chrome Operating System

Hi Friends,

After the successful release of Google Chrome Browser, Google Released the Google Chrome OS

Here is some screen shots of the Google Chrome OS.

(Click on the image to View it Larger)
Enter the username and password of your Google Accounts (i.e. Gmail)

Signing in...

Online Applications...

Network connectivity option...

Battery and Power...

You’ll also see right at the top of the application page a message that says UI under development. Designs are subject to change.


At the top corner, you can see the time, power information, network connectivity.

Find Invisible Friend on Gmail - Gtalk

Siddhesh described the Invisible mode in Google Talk Lab Edition in previous post.

This version is still in LAB so, till then most of the people are using Gtalk and Gmail's web interface.

Now in Web Interface You have the invisible mode, but this is not in Gtalk .

If you want to know your friend is actually online or he/she is invisible, you can do this just follow this simple steps.

1.) Start a new chat with the intended user.

2.) Set the chat to off the record so that it doesn’t get logged to the gmail account.

3.) Send a message to the user. If the user is online and invisible, the message will be delivered.

4.) If the user is offline, you will get an error message indicating that the user is offline.

 Have Fun !!

Offline Status Invisible mode in Gtalk client

Wondered why can’t you set “Invisible” status in your Google Talk program? And still want to hide your online status from some of your Gtalk contact list then here are some tips to stay in invisible offline mode in Gtalk desktop client and the Google mail web interface!
Gmail web Invisible mode

If you do not want to block people and still want to chat with some of your friends in gtalk list then make use of Gmail.com web interface, you will have the option to set an invisible mode and chat from the left sidebar.




Basically the desktop Gtalk client doesn’t allow you to set invisible offline status so one tip you can try out is by downloading the Gtalk Lab edition (Download Gtalk lab edition) which is a google talk desktop client with a lot of features unavailable in the Gtalk gadget (the one which we use regularly).You can also launch orkut, google calendar with a click on a button using the lab edition and use those cute smileys bar in the chat window.

Another way to show offline status to your friend’s is to make use of multi protocol chat client for mac and windows but I prefer the lab edition as it is light and developed for users who wants to connect with only Google friends :)

Keyboard in place of Mouse.

Use Keyboard As Mouse 

When mouse isn’t working properly , this trick can be very helpful. To activate mouse keys all you do is press Alt+Left shift key + NumLock and click OK or press enter .
Use the Numerical pad for controlling the mouse pointer.

5 is for click.                                  
+ is for double click
- for right click.

You can click on the setting button to change the Speed and various other options

On Screen Keyboard

On screen keyboard is one of the great windows feature that displays a virtual keyboard on the computer screen that allows people with mobility impairments to type data by using a pointing device or joystick..
To use it go to start-> run and type osk

But if your keyboard is not working how can you type OSK in Run ???

You can also start this application from Start -> All Programs->Accessories->Accessibility ->On Screen Keyboard

Moving Rocks

The moving rocks (also known as  sailing stones, sliding rocks) are a geological phenomenon where rocks move in long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention.

They have been recorded and studied in Death Valley, Racetrack_Playa.

Racetrack stones only move every two or three years and most tracks develop over three or four years. Stones with rough bottoms leave straight striated tracks while those with smooth bottoms wander. Stones sometimes turn over, exposing another edge to the ground and leaving a different track in the stone's wake.

Speed is an unknown variable. Since these stones are rarely transported and nobody has witnessed the movement, the speeds at which the rocks travel are not known.

Be careful using PC in public places

KeyLogger



This is a Device is called as KeyLogger.

This device stores the all the Key Strokes.
Even your e-mail ID and passwords also.

New storing device fits at the end of the keyboard cable connecting to the PC specialized to save all typed keys in it.



Mostly could be used in net cafes, exhibitions, hotels and airports therefore be careful especially the people who use the internet in these places to enter their bank accounts online or any other important sites. 




After you enter the bank account and leave the PC it will be easy to open your account again as all what you have typed has been saved in the Black device.
Therefore, you should check the PC for any suspicious piece behind it before using the net in public places for important sites. 







This Device is used in PS/2 Keyboard, but in USB Keyboard there is also another connector out in the market.


So Be careful ! 

Remove the Recycle Bin from the Desktop

If you don't use the Recycle Bin to store deleted files , you can get rid of its desktop icon all together.

Goto Run (Window Key + R):
Type Regedit and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/ Desktop/NameSpace

Right Click on {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} And Delete it !

Works in Windows XP / 2003.

Top 10 Ways to Unblock WEBSITES

Top 10 Ways to Unblock Websites
How to unblock websites? These days, Internet filtering and controlled access is the new trend. More business owners are implementing filters within their companies with the purpose of blocking websites. Their intention is understandable but, on the other side, people love freedom and sometimes they feel mistreated. However, here are some things you can do that will help you bypass filters and unblock websites.






1. Use web proxies.
Many free online services allow you to access blocked websites through a proxy server. A proxy server is an intermediary between the user and the server where the request was send. Here is a list with the most known resources of web proxies: Proxy.org>, HideMyAss.com, Kortaz.com, KProxy.com and Anonymouse.org




2. Use VPN connections.
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is like a tunnel over the public network. The advantage of using VPNs over web proxies is that VPNs are more secure because they are using advanced encryption and allow you to access all the applications (mail, chat, browser etc) in complete anonymity and not only the web sites. The most known free VPN is Hotspot Shield




3. Use Hide IP software.
These are easy to use and even if the main functionality is to hide IP address and unblock websites, there are applications that can provide you more than that – like cleaning online tracks, testing proxies, manually adding proxy etc. Usually if you choose a free software, then this will provide you a minimal number of proxies and no other features than hiding IP address. Not My IP is one of the latest free hide IP address software that has already gained a large market followed by the old UltraSurf which is already very popular. Regarding paid applications that provide more features and have a complex structure, my recommendations are IP Privacy and Hide My IP.




4. Use Toolbars and Firefox add-ons.
Toolbars and Firefox add-ons are in fact software applications that work on specific browsers and with a simple click you can enable or disable online anonymity.




5. Use translation services.
Introduce the link of the blocked website in the translation field (for example in Google Translator) and choose a random language to translate from because translation from English to English is not supported.




6. Use Google cache.
In the Google search field type cache: before the URL of the blocked website. For example type cache:http://www.domain.com




7. Use Internet Archive.
Internet Archive allows you to view blocked websites through the Wayback Machine. This will retrieve all pages of a specific website indifferent if the website is blocked.




8. Use Web2Mail service.
Web2Mail it is a free email service that can sent to your email address specific web pages. You sign up for an account and get set to receive specific websites by email.




9. Change the http of an URL into https
This is the  easiest way to access blocked websites. Of course, this might not work every time but you have many other solutions also. This is the fastest one.




10. Use IP address of the website instead of URL.
To use the IP address of a website instead of URL, you must first find its IP. To do this open command prompt and type: "ping domain.com".
For example : http://74.125.45.100/ will open Google English

SixthSense technology (Pranav Mistry)

The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology by Pranav Mistry



Pranav Mistry (b. 1981 in Palanpur, India) is the inventor of SixthSense. He is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. SixthSense has recently attracted global attention. Designer, Engineer and Inventor, Pranav Mistry is passionate about integrating the world of information with our real world interactions. Among some of his previous work, Pranav has made intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages; a pen that can draw in 3D; and a public map that can act as Google of physical world. 

Intel Shows How A PROCESSOR Is Made

Intel Shows How A PROCESSOR Is Made - Amazing process

Sand. Made up of 25 percent silicon, is, after oxygen, the second most abundant chemical element that's in the earth's crust. Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing. After procuring raw sand and separating the silicon, the excess material is disposed of and the silicon is purified in multiple steps to finally reach semiconductor manufacturing quality which is called electronic grade silicon. The resulting purity is so great that electronic grade silicon may only have one alien atom for every one billion silicon atoms. After the purification process, the silicon enters the melting phase. In this picture you can see how one big crystal is grown from the purified silicon melt. The resulting mono-crystal is called an ingot.     A mono-crystal ingot is produced from electronic grade silicon. One ingot weighs approximately 100 kilograms (or 220 pounds) and has a silicon purity of 99.9999 percent.   The ingot is then moved onto the slicing phase where individual silicon discs, called wafers, are sliced thin. Some ingots can stand higher than five feet. Several different diameters of ingots exist depending on the required wafer size. Today, CPUs are commonly made on 300 mm wafers.   Once cut, the wafers are polished until they have flawless, mirror-smooth surfaces. Intel doesn't produce its own ingots and wafers, and instead purchases manufacturing-ready wafers from third-party companies. Intel's advanced 45 nm High-K/Metal Gate process uses wafers with a diameter of 300 mm (or 12-inches). When Intel first began making chips, it printed circuits on 50 mm (2-inches) wafers. These days, Intel uses 300 mm wafers, resulting in decreased costs per chip.   The blue liquid, depicted above, is a photo resist finish similar to those used in film for photography. The wafer spins during this step to allow an evenly-distributed coating that's smooth and also very thin.     At this stage, the photo-resistant finish is exposed to ultra violet (UV) light. The chemical reaction triggered by the UV light is similar to what happens to film material in a camera the moment you press the shutter button. Areas of the resist on the wafer that have been exposed to UV light will become soluble. The exposure is done using masks that act like stencils. When used with UV light, masks create the various circuit patterns. The building of a CPU essentially repeats this process over and over until multiple layers are stacked on top of each other. A lens (middle) reduces the mask's image to a small focal point. The resulting "print" on the wafer is typically four times smaller, linearly, than the mask's pattern.     In the picture we have a representation of what a single transistor would appear like if we could see it with the naked eye. A transistor acts as a switch, controlling the flow of electrical current in a computer chip. Intel researchers have developed transistors so small that they claim roughly 30 million of them could fit on the head of a pin.     After being exposed to UV light, the exposed blue photo resist areas are completely dissolved by a solvent. This reveals a pattern of photo resist made by the mask. The beginnings of transistors, interconnects, and other electrical contacts begin to grow from this point.     The photo resist layer protects wafer material that should not be etched away. Areas that were exposed will be etched away with chemicals.     After the etching, the photo resist is removed and the desired shape becomes visible.     More photo resist (blue) is applied and then re-exposed to UV light. Exposed photo resist is then washed off again before the next step, which is called ion doping. This is the step where ion particles are exposed to the wafer, allowing the silicon to change its chemical properties in a way that allows the CPU to control the flow of electricity.     Through a process called ion implantation (one form of a process called doping) the exposed areas of the silicon wafer are bombarded with ions. Ions are implanted in the silicon wafer to alter the way silicon in these areas conduct electricity. Ions are propelled onto the surface of the wafer at very high velocities. An electrical field accelerates the ions to a speed of over 300,000 km/hour (roughly 185,000 mph)     After the ion implantation, the photo resist will be removed and the material that should have been doped (green) now has alien atoms implanted.     This transistor is close to being finished. Three holes have been etched into the insulation layer (magenta color) above the transistor. These three holes will be filled with copper, which will make up the connections to other transistors.     The wafers are put into a copper sulphate solution at this stage. Copper ions are deposited onto the transistor through a process called electroplating. The copper ions travel from the positive terminal (anode) to the negative terminal (cathode) which is represented by the wafer.     The copper ions settle as a thin layer on the wafer surface.      The excess material is polished off leaving a very thin layer of copper.     Multiple metal layers are created to interconnects (think wires) in between the various transistors. How these connections have to be "wired" is determined by the architecture and design teams that develop the functionality of the respective processor (for example, Intel's Core i7 processor). While computer chips look extremely flat, they may actually have over 20 layers to form complex circuitry. If you look at a magnified view of a chip, you will see an intricate network of circuit lines and transistors that look like a futuristic, multi-layered highway system.     This fraction of a ready wafer is being put through a first functionality test. In this stage test patterns are fed into every single chip and the response from the chip monitored and compared to "the right answer."     After tests determine that the wafer has a good yield of functioning processor units, the wafer is cut into pieces (called dies).     The dies that responded with the right answer to the test pattern will be put forward for the next step (packaging). Bad dies are discarded. Several years ago, Intel made key chains out of bad CPU dies.     This is an individual die, which has been cut out in the previous step (slicing). The die shown here is a die of an Intel Core i7 processor.     The substrate, the die, and the heatspreader are put together to form a completed processor. The green substrate builds the electrical and mechanical interface for the processor to interact with the rest of the PC system. The silver heatspreader is a thermal interface where a cooling solution will be applied. This will keep the processor cool during operation.     A microprocessor is the most complex manufactured product on earth. In fact, it takes hundreds of steps and only the most important ones have been visualized in this picture story.     During this final test the processors will be tested for their key characteristics (among the tested characteristics are power dissipation and maximum frequency).     Based on the test result of class testing processors with the same capabilities are put into the same transporting trays. This process is called "binning". Binning determines the maximum operating frequency of a processor, and batches are divided and sold according to stable specifications.     The manufactured and tested processors (again Intel Core i7 processor is shown here) either go to system manufacturers in trays or into retail stores in a box. Many thanks to Intel for supplying the text and photos in this picture story.

Video of the making Intel Processor core i7:-