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Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

Published on Thursday, August 25, 2011 in






'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.


The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, the SixthSense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture.  

The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. 

For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. 


The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch.





The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build. Instructions on how to make your own prototype device can be found here (coming soon).




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2011 Dialog Wallpapers!!!!!

Published on Sunday, August 21, 2011 in




Calendar 2011 – Wallpapers



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The Art Of Writing Best Content

Published on Thursday, August 18, 2011 in

Blogging, with no doubt, has revolutionized our lifestyle today and the possibilities and effects of blogs seems endless. Blogs have become our medium of expression and it looks as there is nothing we can’t do without blog. Blog have not left even minor aspects of our life to be changed and it’s effects are seen to be limitless. Most interesting, you do not even require any technical knowledge for getting and running up a blog in no no time and the best part of it, vitally anyone can do it at ease. With some basic blogging framework sketched on your mind and with original qualitative and unique information published in your blogs, you can even make some extra cash out of it with very less effort. But to make most out of it, it requires your true enthusiasm to blog and your ability to carve some engaging content out there. If it is a problem for you, that’s where I’m going to make a breakthrough today and teach you how to enhance your art of writing best content ever!
If you are already running a blog by now, you must have known that your content is the best traffic generator for your blog and traffic is the blood of your blog. It is the information people are looking for in your blog, and if you are able to provide them with it, you can have a successful blog running up out there. But writing a better content is not an easy job every time and you have to keep several things in mind while writing the article for your blog. I’m sure the following tips or hints will be a great help for you to increase your blogging quality. Make sure to check them out:


1.Research, Research and research
If you are not well known or not confident enough to carve your posts smartly, research a lot. In such cases, what I usually do is I find out several articles about my topic in internet and download and print them. I then sped my time reading all of them carefully and highlighting the important part of them. I sketch a rough article or draft. Then when I start my actual writing, I keep all those articles spread around me and I try to include the highlighted points. Try this trick. It is very easy, effective and not much time consuming. This is the best trick I use myself to write down the posts.
2. Personal, engaging and straight
While writing posts, consider making them more personal engaging and straight. While you write your posts, add your personal touch and tone. This encourages the reader to continue reading and it makes them feel that somebody personally is teaching themselves. Make your post engaging, by trying to involve interesting facts, examples and blueprints. But always remember to put your thoughts in a straight manner so the readers aren’t distracted. Writing in points and help you doing this. Try your best to make your posts reader friendly too!
3.The KISS technique
I did not invent this term but at least, this is my one of the favorite abbreviation in blogging. It is the short form of KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE. Yes, always keep your post simple and short and meaningful. Long posts may get your readers bored so make your post compact while also interesting because people nowadays want a lot of things very fast. You blog will be appreciated if you keep your blog post short and simple.

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Software හොරුන්ගෙන් බේරෙමු

Published on Sunday, August 14, 2011 in


මම අද කතා කරන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වෙන්නේ ගොඩක් කට්ටිය නොදන්නා හා ගොඩක් කට්ටිය දන්නවා කියල හිතන් ඉන්න මාතෘකාවක් ගැන , ඒ තම මෘදුකාංග හොරෙන් පාවිච්චි කීරීම ගැන . මොකද දන්නවද ? මේ හොරෙන් මෘදුකාංග පාවිචිය නිසා එම මෘදුකාංග අයත් සමාගමට වසරකට මිලියන ගනන් මුදල් පාඩු වෙනවා . ඒ විතරක් නෙමේ, අලුත් මෘදුකාංග හදන්න ඒ අයගේ තියෙන්න උනන්දුවත් අඩු වෙනවා . ලංකාවේ වගේ ආසියාවේ මිනිසුන්ට මෘදුකාංග සල්ලි ගෙවලා නියම ආකාරයෙන් ගන්න හැකියාවක් නැති බවත් අපි දැනටමත් දන්නා කාරණයක් නේ . ඒවා මොනවා වුනත් මෘදුකාංග හොරෙන් පාවිච්චි කීරීම හිරේට වුනත් නියම වෙන්න පුළුවන් කාරණයක් නේ .

පසු ගියද අපේ රටට ලෝකයේ 2 වෙනි තැන හම්බුනා . ඒ මෘදුකාංග හොරෙන් පාවිච්චි කරන පිරිසක් සිටින ලෝකයේ 2 වැනි රට කියල . ලෝකයේ හැමදෙයකින්ම 1 වෙනි තැන හම්බවෙන අපේ රටට 2 වෙනි තැන හම්බුනා එකනම් ලෝක ප්රැශ්නයක් .
දැන් ගොඩක් කට්ටිය හිතනවා ඇති මොකද්ද මේ මෘදුකාංග හොරෙන් පාවිච්චි කරනවා කියන්නේ කියල. පිටකොටුවේ වගේ පොඩි සෙවිල්ලක් දැම්මොත් එහෙම windows , adobe සමාගම් වල මෘදුකාංග විතරක් නෙමේ, ලෝකයේ තියෙන ඕනෑම මෘදුකාංගයක් රුපියල් 100 යක් හෝ උපරිම වුනොත් 200 වගේ ගානකට හොයා ගන්න පුළුවන්. ඒ තරම් අපේ රට පරිගණක වලින් ඉදිරියට ගිහිල්ලා. අපි සාමානනයෙන් මෘදුකාංග ගන්නේ කොහෙහරි තියෙන Internet Café එකකකින් . ඒ හින්ද අපි වැඩිය ඔය Genuine Software පස්සේ පන්නන්නේ නැහැනේ .
එත් ලෝකයේ හදන ඕනෑම මෘදුකාංගයකට අදාල සමාගමක් හෝ පුද්ගලයෙක් ඉන්නවා . අපි මෘදුකාංග නියමාකාරයෙන් ගන්නවා කියන්නේ ඒ අදාල සමාගමෙන් හෝ පුද්ගලයාගෙන් මුදල් දීලා ඒ අදාල මෘදුකාංගය ගැනීම . පුතෝ එතකොට නම් ඔය මෘදුකාංග රුපියල් 100 ට 200 ට ගන්න හම්බුවෙන්නේ නැහැ . මොකද ඒ අය ඔය මෘදුකාංගයක් හදන්න රුපියල් කොටි ගණන් වියදම් කරනවා. ඒ විතරක් නෙමේ ඒ අයගේ මහන්සිය, වියදම් කරපු මුදල් ඒ සියල්ලම තුට්ටු දෙකකටවත් ගණන්ගන්නේ නැතුව පිටකොටුවෙන් රුපියල් 100 ලෝකයේ තියෙන මෘදුකාංග අරන් එනව . මෙහෙම ගත්තහම මේ මෘදුකාංගය හදන්න මහන්සි වෙච්ච සමාගමට තමා පාඩු . ඒ හින්ද මේ සමාගම් එකතුවෙලා පොඩි ආයතනයක් පටන් ගත්තා . ඒ තමා Business Software Alliance ( BSA ) කියන්නේ . මේ ආයතනය හැමවෙලාවෙම , හැමතිස්සෙම වෙහෙසෙන්නේ මේ හොරෙන් මෘදුකාංග පාවිච්චි කරන මහජනයා හරි මගට ගෙන එන්න .මොකාද දන්නේ නැහැ මේ මෘදුකාංග හොරෙන් පාවිච්චි කරන්න පුළුවන් විදියට හදන්නේ . මේ කට්ටියට කියන්නේ Crackers ලා කියල . මේ කට්ටියට software ගැන හා Programming ගැන හොඳ දැනුමක් තියෙන කට්ටිය . මේ කට්ටිය කරන්නේ මෘදුකාංග Decompile කරලා එකේ තියෙන Serial Number තියෙන කොටස ඉවත් කරලා , මෘදුකාංගය ඉදිරියට යවන්න පුළුවන් විදියට හදන එක . තව වැඩක් තියෙනවා , මෘදුකාංගයට දෙන්න ඕන Serial Number එක වෙනුවට එකට ගැලපෙන number එකක් හදල මෘදුකාංගය ඉදිරියට යැවීම . මේවා කරන්න තහනම් ඒ විතරක් නෙමේ මේ මෘදුකාංග Crack කරලා මේ කට්ටිය නිකම් අපිට මේ මෘදුකාංග දෙන්නේ නැහැ . මොකද ඒ අය මේ සදහා මහන්සිවෙන්නේ යටි අදහස් ඇතුවයි.

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අලුත් පරිඝණකයක් මිලදී ගන්නා වි‍‍ට සැලකිලිමත් වන්න!!!

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ලෝකයේ හොඳම computer එකක් ගන්නේ කොහොමද ?

ගොඩක් අය පරිගණකයක්  ගන්නකොට උත්සාහ කරන්නේ දැනට තියන හොදම computer එක ගන්න හදන එක. ඒ අය හිතන්නේ එහෙම ගත්තහම සැහෙන කාලයක් පාවිච්චි කරන්න පුලුවන් කියලා වගේම අනිත් එක්කෙනාට වඩා ලොකු එකක් ගැනීමේ  අදහසත් ඒ අය ළඟ තියනවා . ඔබ අද ගත්ත computer එක මේ මාසේ තියෙන හොදම computer වෙන්න පුලුවන්. එත් මතක තියාගන්න මාසෙකින් පස්සේ ඔය computer එක පරණ බව. ඒ හින්ද තමාට තමාගේ අවශ්‍යතාවට ගැලපෙන පරිදි තෝරාගන්න උත්සහ කරන්න . ඒ විතරක් නෙමේ මේ ගැනත් සිතන්න.


Processor / CPU / Central Processing Unit









මේක තම පරිගණකයක  වැදගත්ම කොටස . දැන් නම් Market (වෙළද පොලේ) එකේ තියෙන්නේ Core 2 Duo / Core i3 / Core i5 / Core i7 මේ වගේ Processors තමා . මේවා වලින් Intel සමාගමට අනුව Desktop/Laptop පරිගණක සදහා තියන ඉහලම Processor එක Intel Core i7 Processor එක . එහි වේගය හා එහි ඇති තාක්ෂණයන් ඉහත තියෙන හැම Processor එකකකටම වඩා ඉහළින් තිබීම තමා ඒකට හේතුව . නමුත් තමන් පරිගණකයක කරන වැඩ අනුව ගැලපෙන processor තෝරාගන්න ටිකක් හිතලා බලන්න ඕනේ. මොකද මේවා මිල ගනන් වලින් වෙනසක් හා වේගය අතින් වෙනසක් තියෙන්නවා. ඒ විතරක් නෙමේ, Processors වල තියෙන්නවා Cache Memory (L1, L2, L3)කියල කොටසක්, ගොඩක් කට්ටිය මේ ගැන සැලකිලිමත් වෙන්නේ නැහැ . දැනට නම් Cache Memory 1MB – 12 MB දක්වා අලුත් CPU වල තියෙන්නවා. Cache Memory වැඩි වෙන තරමට පරිගණකයේ වේගය හොඳ මට්ටමක තියාගන්න පුලුවන් , නමුත් Cache Memory වැඩිවෙත්ම එම Processor එකේ මිල වැඩිවෙන බව මතක තියා ගන්න. අපි මෙහෙම හිතමුකෝ , ඔන්න අපි කඩේකට ගියා , Processor වර්ග 2 ක් තියෙන්නවා
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.9 GHz [ 2 MB Cache Memory ] – Rs. 20000.00
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.2 GHz [ 4 MB Cache Memory ] – Rs.20000.00
මේ වගේ වෙලාවක ඔය තෝරාගන්න ඕන 4 MB Cache Memory එකක් තියෙන Processor එක. මොකද දන්නවද ? මේ Processor 2 වැඩ කරන කොට පැහැදිලි වෙනසක් Intel Core 2 Duo 2.9 GHz [ 2 MB Cache Memory ] වලට වඩා Intel Core 2 Duo 3.2 GHz [ 4 MB Cache Memory ] බලගත්තහැකි . නමුත් මෙය යලිත් වෙනස් වෙනවා තමන් එම පරිගනකයේ කරන වැඩ අනුව.
තවත් CPU වල එන දෙයක් තමයි Core ගණන. මෙයින් අදහස් කරන්නේ එක CPU/Processor එකක් තුල Processor කීපයක් තීබීමයි.  උදාහරණයක් ලෙස අපි Intel i7 CPU එකක් ගත්තොත් එහි Core 2කේ සිට 6දක්වා තියනවා. මෙයිනුත් පේනවා i7 එකක් ගැනීමෙන්  පමණක් පරිගණකය වේගවත් නොවන බව,  i7 CPU එකේ විවිධ මාදිලි තියන බව, එයින් තමන්ට ගැලපෙන processor එක  එහි මාදිලි අනුව තෝරාගන්න ඕනේ කියන එක.  Intel Core i5 චලද Core 2 කේ සිට 4 දක්වා තියනවා. සමහර විට i5 core 4 ඇති එකක වේගය i7 core 2 අකක් ඇති එකකට වඩා වැඩි වෙන්න පුලුවන්.  අලුතෙන් එන Sandy Bridge තාක්ෂණය යොදාගන්න Intel CPU වල VGA පවා දැන් එනේ CPU එක තුලයි.  මේවාත් CPU එකක් ගැනීමේදි සැලකිලිමත් වෙන්න ඕනේ දේවල්.

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අලුත් එක තිත්තයි නම් පරණ එක දාගන්න...

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මම අද ඔයාලට දෙන්න යන්නෙ තවත් ඔයාලට වැදගත් වෙයි කියලා හිතුන දෙයක්. අද කාලේ ෆේස්බුක් කියන දේ ලංකාවේ කස්ටියට නැතුවම බැරි දෙයක් බවට පත් වෙලානෙ තියෙන්නෙ. කන්න නැති උනත් කමක් නෑ ෆේස්බුක් යන්න තියෙනවා නම් නේද?...:P. ඉතින් මේ ෆේස්බුක් වල සිදුකරන අලුත් අලුත් වැඩි දියුනු කිරීම් සමහරක් වෙලාවට පරණ ක්‍රම වලට හුරුවෙලා හිටපු අයට දිරවන්නෙ නෑනේ. මේ ලඟදි ඒ විදියට වෙනස් වෙච්ච දෙයක් තමයි ඔය ෆේස්බුක් චැට් එක. සමහරුන්ට ඒක මල වදයක් වෙලා.


මම අද කියන්න යන්නෙ පරණ චැට් Box එක ඒ විදියටම ආයෙත් ගන්න හැටි. කරන්න තියෙන්නෙ බොහොම පොඩි වැඩයි. මම පහලින් දාන ස්ක්‍රිප්ට් එක ඔයාලගෙ වෙබ් බ්‍රව්සර් එකට ඉන්ස්ට්‍රෝල් කරගන්න එක විතරයි කරන්න ඕන. එහෙම ඉන්ස්ට්‍රෝල් කරගෙන ඉවර වෙලා බ්‍රව්සර් එක ක්ලෝස් කරලා දාලා ආයෙත් ඕපන් කරලා ෆේස්බුක් එකට ගිහින් බලන්න. පරණ චැට් එක ආයෙත් ඇවිල්ලා ඇති. එහෙනම් මම අද වැඩිය කතා කරන්න යන්නෙ නෑ. වැඩේ කරලම බලන්නකෝ කොහොමද කියලා.

Full support for Firefox 5, Google Chrome 13 & Opera 11.5 (Earlier versions may be compatible, these are the browsers used for testing)

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

Published on Saturday, August 13, 2011 in


Lion

Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Russia.
Lion 11 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

64th Independance Day

"On the ocassion of the 64th Independace Day, I hereby salute all the martyrs and freedom fightersand dedicate this design to their sacrifice. Jai Hind!!!" Designed byChandrakant Bagade from Bangalore, India.
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Before The Fall

"August stands just right before the Fall." Designed by Eject-studio from Russia.
Before The Fall 39 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

Moths In The Night

"Moths fly in the dark nights towards the light. They are like thoughts that search for light to shine in the minds of the people." Designed by Olivia Osik from Estonia.
Moths In The Night 61 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

Circus

"In Soviet Russia, Circus Watches You." Designed by Cheloveche.ru from Russia.
Circus 68 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

Greeny Droplets

"The rain makes all things beautifull,The grass and flowers too,If rain make all things beautiful,why doesn’t it rain on you?Enjoy This Rainy Season." Designed by Shravan Mishra from India.
Greeny Droplets 13 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

Underwater Swimming

"Black boy enjoys underwater swimming with fish. They make bubbles that form caption of the month." Designed by Tina Kraљovec from Slovenia.
Underwater Swimming 72 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

August Lemonade

"August is here! and the hot weather too, what about drinking some fresh cold lemonade? it’s gr8!." Designed by Almog Shemesh from Israel.
August Lemonade 85 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

Flutist

"Flutist – a strange occurence in the forest:)." Designed by Nina Magradze from Russia.
Flutist 73 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

Sights Of Summer

"The sight of vibrant flowers during a summer stroll through the park. Photographed and designed by Michelle Bodamer." Designed by Michelle Bodamer from USA.
Flower Summer 98 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

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Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Published on Friday, August 12, 2011 in


Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York to Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist. He and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle, were brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York  Zuckerberg was raised Jewish and had his bar mitzvah when he turned 13,although he has since described himself as an atheist.


On Zuckerberg's Facebook page(Facebook.com/MarkZuckerberg), he listed his personal interests as "openness, making things that help people connect and share what's important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism".Zuckerberg sees blue best because of red–green colorblindness; blue is also Facebook's dominant color.
In May 2011, it was reported that Zuckerberg had bought a five bedroom house in Palo Alto for $7 million

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004. An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, “The Photo Address Book,” which students referred to as “The Facebook.” Such photo directories were an important part of the student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their proximities to friends, and their telephone numbers.

Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first started it at Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Penn, Brown, and Yale, and then at other schools that had social contacts with Harvard.
Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with Moskovitz and some friends. They leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard but eventually decided to remain in CaliforniaThey had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy out Facebook. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning:

It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.
He restated these same goals to Wired magazine in 2010: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open."Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie about financing strategies for Facebook
On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500 million-user mark. When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained:
"I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads ... That’s the simplest thing we could do. But we aren’t like that. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to".
In 2010, Steven Levy, who authored the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, wrote that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks of himself as a hacker." Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better. Facebook instituted "hackathons" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project. The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended. "The idea is that you can build something really good in a night", Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that's part of the personality of Facebook now ... It's definitely very core to my personality."
Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age". Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009. In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman's annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

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Sergey Brin and Larry Page Co-founder of Google

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Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Co-founders of Google

Sergey Brin and Larry Page co-founded Google in 1998, and redefined the way people use the web. Now two of the world's richest people, they still play an active role in the company, encouraging fresh approaches to Google's unique culture and its expanding suite of services.

Why you should listen to them:

Sergey Brin and Larry Page invented Google: the technology, the company, the verb. How did their search business, relatively late to the game, come to rule the Web?

The answer might be found in the personalities of the Google founders. Brin and Page met in grad school at Stanford in the mid-'90s, and in 1996 started working on a search technology based on a new idea: that relevant results come from context. Their technology analyzed the number of times a given website was linked to by other sites — assuming that the more links, the more relevant the site — and ranked sites accordingly. In 1998, they opened Google in a garage-office in Menlo Park. In 1999 their software left beta and started its steady rise to web domination.

But technology alone doesn't account for Google's breakaway success. In fact, Google's approach to site design and advertising may have been more radical than the technology itself: In an era when search engines were super-saturated with sponsor messages, Google broke the mold with their famously friendly and simple interface. Paid links were clearly identfied; no pop-windows or banner ads were used; the homepage offered little more than their whimsical logo and a single search box. Customers loved it.

Brin and Page's innovation-friendly office culture (beyond the famous free food, there's the company's "20 Percent Time," which encourages engineers to spend a fifth of their time pursuing whatever projects ignite their interest) has created fertile ground for spectacular successes beyond search, including AdSense/AdWords, Google News, Google Maps, Google Earth, and Gmail. The company's belief in clean design and ethical ad sales, and its corporate philosophy — often simply stated as "Don't be evil" — continue to set the company apart.

In 2004, Brin and Page launched the company's philanthropic arm, Google.org, focused on solving worldwide problems relating to poverty, energy and the environment. Google.org Director Larry Brilliant met Brin and Page through TED; his new position was announced at TED2006, just before he accepted his TED Prize.

http://www.ted.com/speakers/sergey_brin_and_larry_page.html

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Cars 2 Movie Review

Published on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 in






Plot : ‘Cars 2’, as the title of the movie suggests, is all about the road journey with some of the most powerful, yet cute and colourful cars of the world. ‘Cars 2’ is an animated movie, which focuses on two powerful cars, one being the Lightning McQueen and the other being, the Mater. While the former is a power-packed car, which aims to compete with the World Grand Prix, we have the powerful tow truck, the Mater, on the other hand. The movie focuses on the budding relationship between these two cars, as well as some of the unseen contingencies and issues, faced by the Mater. While it’s all set to befriend Lightning McQueen, it experiences world’s most ridiculous surprises, coupled with a lot of thrill and adventure. Mater knows now that the road journey is not as easy and plain, as it appears. It’s got a lot of unseen and unheard aberrant paths, which makes Mater travel all the way to Japan and Europe. And, the best part of which is that now, it is not alone. Mater has the world with it, which is constantly keeping an eye on its chase through different nations, which is coupled by its friends, who’re acting as the world’s best navigators. Mater now manoeuvres through its on-road journey with keeping the right pace, to reach McQueen on time.

Cars 2 Movie is Directed By : John Lasseter, Brad Lewis

Starring : Owen Wilson, John Ratzenberger, Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Larry The Cable Guy


Watch the Trailer




http://www.moviewatchlist.com/movie-cars_2



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How to Improve Your Computer’s Performance

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Tips for Speeding Up Your PC

Few things are as frustrating as dealing with a slow, sluggish computer. When a computer is brand new, it works wonderfully well. Over time, though, its performance can slowly begin to worsen. This happens for a number of reasons, but the biggest culprits are things like spyware, adware and other computer threats that are unwittingly downloaded along with other content while online. You don’t have to download thousands of MP3s, movies or other items to experience these problems, either – nobody is immune to them. Instead of accepting the situation, there are plenty of techniques and strategies that you can use to make it better – a few of the best ones are outlined below.

Strategy #1: Clean Your Computer’s Windows Registry

The biggest cause of slow, sluggish PC performance is errors and problems within its Windows registry. Adware, spyware and other threats usually target the registry, damaging or misplacing important files within it. When it comes to PC cleaning, a daily Windows registry cleaning should be at the top of your list of priorities. However, this should never be done manually – there are too many opportunities for major errors that could seriously damage your PC’s operating system. Instead, invest in a high-quality Windows registry cleanup program and configure it to run once per day – you won’t believe the difference that it makes.

Strategy #2: Remove Unneeded Files

Every time you log on to the Internet or otherwise use your computer, temporary files are generated. They are usually only needed once; however, they don’t disappear on their own. Instead, they accumulate over time until they are cluttering up your computer’s file system and affecting its performance. While it’s possible to remove these files one-by-one, it’s much easier and quicker to use a PC cleaning tool that’s designed for the purpose. Try to do so about one time per week to keep your computer humming along with ease.

Strategy #3: Remove Unneeded Programs

Like many people, you probably download and try out many different programs each month. How many of them do you actually end up using on a regular basis? Chances are, not very many of them. By getting into the habit of uninstalling unused and unneeded programs, you can keep your computer’s file system a lot less cluttered. In turn, your PC’s performance will improve dramatically. You can optimize your computer in this way by using its Add/Remove Programs feature. Its location varies by operating system, but you should be able to find it somewhere in the Control Panel.

Strategy #4: Empty the Recycle Bin

When you click “delete” on a file or a program, it doesn’t go away for good – not immediately, anyway. Instead, it sits in a kind of purgatory in your computer’s Recycle Bin. As things pile up in the Recycle Bin, your computer can start exhibiting some very annoying problems. If sluggish startups and frequent crashes are occurring with increasing frequency – and your computer’s recycle bin is very full – go ahead and empty it. From then on, get into the habit of doing so about one time per week. This small but important strategy can make a huge difference.

Strategy #5: Perform a Disk Defragmentation

Windows isn’t very efficient when it comes to storing files. It actually splits them up, depositing them into whatever spaces are available. The more spaced apart the pieces of a file are, the harder your computer has to work to make them run. The Windows disk defragmentation system tune-up utility works to piece all of those files back together again. The process is a long one, though, and only needs to be done about four times per year. Set it up to run automatically once every three months. By doing so, you’ll be able to keep your computer running in tiptop shape.
When it comes to keeping your computer running optimally, small but regular maintenance is the best way to go. Protecting your PC only does so much; even the most careful Internet users in the world unintentionally download malicious software from time to time. By using basic system tune-up tools, cleaning your computer’s Windows registry regularly, performing regular file-cleaning maintenance and otherwise optimizing your PC, you should be able to keep it in like-new condition for a lot longer. Even if your computer has been performing slowly for some time, beginning this regimen is sure to produce results. In the end, you’ll be able to enjoy a computer that flies along – instead of one that spins its wheels.


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ෆේස්බුක් හිමිකරුගේ නැගණියගෙන් අලුත් සමාජ ජාල වෙබ් අඩවියක් !

Published on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 in


ෆේස්බුක් හිමිකරුගේ නැගණියගෙන් අලුත් සමාජ ජාල වෙබ් අඩවියක් !


ලොව ජනප්‍රියතම සමාජ ජාල වෙබ් අඩවිය වන ෆේස්බුක් වෙබ් අඩවියෙහි හිමිකරු වන මාර්ක් සකර්බර්ග් ගේ නැගණිය වන ෆේස්බුක් ආයතනයේ අලෙවි අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා වශයෙන් කටයුතු කල රැන්ඩි සකර්බර්ග් ෆේස්බුක් සමාගමෙන් ඉවත් වී තිබෙනවා.

ඇය ඉවත් වී තිබෙන්නේ ෆේස්බුක් අභිබවා යන සමාජ ජාල වෙබ් අඩවියක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ අරමුණෙන්.

ඇයට මෙම අදහස පහල වී ඇත්තේ ඇය ෆේස්බුක් වෙතින් මාස තුනක මාතෘ නිවාඩුවක් ලබාගෙන සිටින අතරතුරයි. 

රැන්ඩිගේ අදහස වන්නේ අන්තර්ජාලය තුල සියලු දෙනාම තමාගේ සැබෑ නාමය හා තොරතුරු භාවිතා කරන්නේනම් අන්තර්ජාලය මෙයට වඩා යහපත් ස්ථානයක් වනු ඇති බවයි. 
ඇයගේ ඉවත්වීම ෆේස්බුක් වෙතින් තහවුරු කර ඇති අතර ඇයගේ සොහොයුරා වන මාර්ක් විසින් මේ සම්බන්ධව කිසිවක් ප්‍රකාශ කර නැහැ.


ඇයගේ නව සමාගම RtoZ Media ලෙස නම් කොට ඇති අතර එමගින් විවිධ වෙළඳ සමාගම් සමාජගත කිරීමේ කටයුතු වලදීමට නියමිතයි. 

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Sony Ericsson's original Xperia X10

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Sony Ericsson's original Xperia X10 was a brave first go at an Android phone, offering a large screen, a collection of social media enhancements and a stylised version of Google's rapidly growing mobile operating system.
However, the X10 was hindered by delays, held back by glitchy software and arrived running the already ageing Android 1.6 – and only received an update to 2.1 recently. It was, to put it mildly, a bit of a mess.
You can check out our Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc video review:

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc obliterates all of those awkward memories in a flash. It's running the very latest Android 2.3.2 version of the OS. It's arrived on time. It's fast, and it's very, very stylish indeed.

And it's not that expensive for a single-core Android phone in 2011 at £430 SIM free or £30 per month on contract – can Sony Ericsson's Reality Display, Bravia Engine and Exmor R buzzwords win pocket space in today's extremely crowded Android marketplace?

First impressions are that the Xperia Arc is unbelievably, impossibly thin. It's also flared slightly around the back, giving the rear of the phone a slightly fatter top and bottom. And it's light, too – a mere 117g. The rival Google Nexus S weighs in at 129g. How it has all been squeezed in is a mystery.
The solid-feeling 4.2-inch screen fills much of the front of the phone, with only a few millimetres of bezel to the left and right. The handset itself is only marginally longer than the old HTC Desire – and is significantly slimmer. In fact, you get an HTC Desire HD-sized screen in the body of a much smaller, slimmer phone.
But you only get Sony Ericsson's standard selection of three physical buttons – Back, Home and Menu – in reverse order to how they featured in the X10. That will mess with the minds of upgraders. The buttons are solid silvery plastic, plus there's a piercing white LED light shining through the gaps between them to help guide your thumbs in the dark.
The top of the phone features an HDMI output hidden behind a little dust stopper, plus a tiny power button. The power button is recessed to stop accidental presses – but so tiny it can be a little hard to find. It's a fingernail job and a bit of a pain. There's also a proximity sensor, which shuts off the screen when it's pressed to your ear.
The left edge features the 3.5mm headphone jack, while the right-hand edge houses the micro-USB, a small volume up/down rocker and a physical camera button near the bottom.
The back of the Xperia Arc is simple, with its curved case lending it quite an air of style. We've been using this one for over a week, and still keep picking it up to marvel at how thin it is.
Turn the screen on and it's bright and sharp. Icons are clear and well defined thanks to Sony Ericsson's Reality Display technology, whatever that may be, with nothing in the way of pixilation on show.
It's not quite as sharp as the superb display of the iPhone 4, but is easily on a par with the sharp output of the Samsung Galaxy S' gorgeous Super AMOLED screen.
The screen is very usable outdoors in direct light – you don't even have to max the brightness to read text while outside. It's a lovely piece of hardware to have.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-930891/review