The joy of Sharing!

Ho ho ho…! Here comes the Christmas month, which brings with itself the zest, zeal and gusto of love, of gratitude and the altruism reverberating peace and joy all around. What make it more interesting are the festivities and gifts, the merriment, fun and the spirit of sharing floating around.

Festivals and tradition go hand in hand. These traditions always remind us of our roots, of who we are. The thing which makes us different from other fauna is humanity. Human is human only when the spirit of love resides in oneself. Many a times, life gives us opportunities in form of blessings to do something for the fellow beings. And, this burgeoning act of sharing delivers an elysian-ic joy … more appeasing then the greatest of greatest gifts.

In all the religion sharing is considered to be the greatest form of devotion. Call it ‘Zakat’ in Islam or the holy ‘Daswant’ in Sikhism. Hindus perform the act of ‘Daan’ while the month of Christmas is devoted to sharing. All of them have their indigenous roots associated with unconditional sharing and altruism. This not only brings in the cognition of serenity but also bustles ones inside with the feeling of superlative joy … the joy of sharing.

In virtue, a core aspect of being human, sharing doesn’t bind itself to the concept of materialistic ventures, but is more prolific. It has more penchants towards any act of selflessness. Sharing is not about giving money for charity but sharing a smile while spending time in an old age home. It is not about lending a penny to the misfortunate but sharing that hidden piece of chocolate in your desk with colleagues. Share a joke over a cup of coffee…share the crying brows… share your guitar notes.  Sharing is an ideology, share your knowledge, share your stories, share your dreams. The joy of sharing is not a secret recipe, it is imbibed within you. Let that joy set free.
Sigmund Freud truly said, “When we share – that is poetry in the prose of life.”

Happy Sharing…!

The new Domain Saga

With growing internet technologies and the need to institute cyber presence has really fueled the existence of websites. If you own a website, domain name plays a vital role in marketing your strategy online. But the problem is, whenever we try to list our desired domain name… “It-is-already-TAKEN!” The alternate option is to compromise with our choice or to have all such cheesy domain names having numerals, hyphens or crazy extensions. But, the New Domain Saga has cured this predicament.
You always tickle your nerve and end up thinking about the magnanimity of internet fraternity to allow you for various domains (this also include internationalized domain names – names in different text script). So the questions are: what’s the size of this colossal list and who maintains it? When does this list will get over or exhaust?
We would like to answer the latter one first. The answer is ‘Never’! There are more than 2 Billion domain names and this list is main-tained by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In order to solve this problem of unavailable ‘.COM’ do-mains, ICANN structured regional, national and other domains to furbish the needs of internet users( E.g.: .ASIA, .IN, .TV, etc.) calling them Generic Top Level Domain (gLTD’s).
Unfortunately, again, these gLTD’s exhausted with the advent of social network and other new advancement in this field. As a meas-ure, ICANN commissioned internet giants to propose new domain names. In the year 2011, history was re-written, and here came the concept of ‘community based and open gLTD’s. With these new gLTD’s, we will have around 1900 new domains registered instead of having generic gLTD’s. Now, if you own a pizza center, you can have something like www.dominos.food or better ‘www.dominos.pizza’. If you host an app on any of the markets, you can host a website with domain www.angry-birds.app. Just imagine, the torrent of do-mains available and potency to which you can utilize (exploit?) it.
Considering the trend and new mechanizations, Google have ap-plied for more than 101 new domains including crazy ones like ‘.dog’ and ‘.lol’. Though, the master of domain registrations is Donuts Inc. with more than 300 register requests. Why these numbers are so hyped, is because of the reason that the cost per domain is $185,000. Another bizarre consideration is that, it is not sure that each application will be accepted. Amazon and Google both have registered for ‘.cloud’.
Advent of this new trend is like a new field of research, how the market will react and what all can be registered. Also, it brings out market opportunities for players to bid for their and other’s do-mains. The other side, with top level 22 gLTD’s, we have millions of websites but with new 1900 inclusions. It surely is a call for chaos. The new e-world will be suffering from domain phishing, domain squatting, domain crouching and all the vices. There will be more struggles and less stability. Domain fights and domain burgling will be the general seen. Amazon started the fight by bidding for Facebook’s ‘.like’. Is this the start of new tech war? Whatever it is, but surely it opened new vistas to create and publish content with one’s unique identity and will ham-per the notion ‘identity crises’. 

Quick Facts Price for a new gLTD is $185,000 and to maintain it you have to pay $25,000.
 Even political parties can’t remain unaffected by technology, watch for .DEMOCRAT and .REPUBLICAN.
 Amazon applied for 76 while Google applied for 101 domains. Winner is Donuts Inc. with 307 domains. Donuts Inc. ––– A com-pany started in 2011 just after announcement of new Do-mains. Interesting!
 The most sought out registration was for ‘.APP’ ––– 13 appli-cants. Now, there will be a bidding for multiple application (here .app) which may earn a lot of profit for the NGO, ICANN.
 Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc. are the other lan-guages apart from English for which registration has been filed.

Plea of an MBA aspirant!

Yes! I am an MBA aspirant, so are the other 3 lacs, competing to get into the prestigious colleges of India. But, thorns of desires bring up with them a sharp sword of hard work. The toiling part was normal and ordinary, analogous to previous year; you just need to be ‘the best’. But, this year, things are berserk. I bet, authorities have to define another superlative degree for the word ‘best’. Laudatory thanks to all such events this year which increased our burden to keep a stack of every Scam and Fasting Occasion(s). It’s like mugging facts and figures are next to impossible. I have a question for politicians, social workers, pseudo- social workers and hastily- converted sacrosanct. Why all of a sudden you all got this great idea of creating Impeccable India and writing inexorably in the history books? I mean, come-on, Akbar and Britishers were sufficient enough to occupy our three-fourths of brain. There is no need of Raja, Kalmadi and their infinite amount of scams. I would have presented the actual figures, but unfortunately I can’t remember, so many of them.

The year 2011, was CURSED. Indeed it was! Apart from scams, Indian Cricket Team won the WoldCup after 20 years, Poonam Pandey, price rise figures were dynamic enough to beat Michael Schumacher, US finally duped Osama, Government’s philosophy on Black Money in Swiss Banks, Anna Hazare and his ‘Jan’ Lokpal Bill, following the trend was Narendra Modi and surely will have many more.

I request you all on behalf of every MBA aspirant that we are fed up of mugging the general knowledge part, Mathematics and English were enough to make things next to impossible. We earnestly beseech you all to amass all your plans for the next year.

धर्मं मंदिर नहीं , ज़रूरत है कर्म मंदिरों की!!!

A ruined Jain Temple of Great Historical Importance

बीते सालो में मंदिरों के बेतहाशा निर्माण हुएं | कही से लाखो करोड़ का धन निकला तो कुछ के स्वामी संत एवं प्रभावशाली व्यक्ति धनवान निकले| छोटे छोटे गाँव में जहाँ की जनसंख्याँ दो-तीन हज़ार या इस से भी कम है वहा हर वर्ष एक नया मंदिर निर्मित हो जाता है| यद्यपि, इस तथ्य में कोई संदेह नहीं है कि हम भारत वासियों की धार्मिक भावना/प्रतिबद्धता की मिसाले विश्व में कही और नहीं मिलती, तथापि जब यह प्रतिबद्धता, धर्मान्धता में तब्दील हो जाएँ तो यह मसला अवश्य ही विचारणीय हैं! गौरतलब है कि जब-जब नए मंदिर बनाये जाते है,जिनकी लागत १०-२० करोड़ से कम नहीं होती हें, तो मूर्ति स्थापना, सामूहिक भोज, यज्ञ अनुष्ठान आदि संपूर्ण आयोजन पर हजारो रूपये मुक्त-हस्त लुटाये जाते है(ज़ाहिर है, यह खर्चा मंदिर निर्माण के लागत के अलावा होता है) जबकि उसी स्थान पर पुराने मंदिरों कि दुर्दशा पर रोने वाला तक नहीं मिलता| वे कुटेवो के अड्डे बन चुके होते है. मूर्ति का स्नान, सफाई एवं पूजा अर्चना जैसे नियमित कर्म नहीं हो पाते है. जबकि इनमे से अधिकांशतह मंदिर इतिहास, कलात्मकता एवं पौराणिकता कि दृष्टी से बेजोड़ होते है. ऐसे में, और अधिक मदिरो का निर्माण इसलिए किया जाए कि कुछ बरस बाद मंदिरों के भगवान् को "भगवान्" के हवाले ही छोड़ना पड़े? इससे बेहतर यही हो कि पुराने मंदिरों का जीर्णोद्धार कर उसे व्यवस्थित किया जाए या फिर सबसे उत्तम कि नए मंदिर कि राशी में गाँव कि सड़के, गरीब छात्रो के लिए आश्रय, यात्री प्रतीक्षालय आदि जैसे अभिनव प्रयास किये जाएँ जो मानव सेवा का अनुपम उधाहrण बने. क्या मानव सेवा ईश सेवा नहीं है? क्या ऐसा करने में हमारी धार्मिक आस्था प्रश्नों के कटघरे मै खड़ी हो जाती है? निश्चित ही यह प्रश्न विचारणीय है और यह तीखा सच भी है कि अब हमें नए धर्म मंदिरों कि नहीं अपितु कर्म मंदिरों कि ज़रुरत है!

सान्निध्य नानावटी

इंदौर

100 things I want to do before I die.!!!

~Sanidhya

I was tagged by one of my friend in a FB post telling “what do you want to do before you die?”. At first I thought …I have enuf time to think about it…whats the deal..! But I was helpless to figure out what these things should be. There are n(as usual, my 'n' always tends to infinity :P) number I haven’t yet thought off..tried…nailed! This realization made me compile a list of 100 things one should do before their death. I already nailed few….many more to go!!!
So the crazy list goes like this:(these are my personal preferences...and thus they are one of the best list :P)

1.    Board a random train/bus/plain with a ticket to unknown destination.

2.    Go on a Blind Date.

3.    Write a letter to your University that how they suck in their business.

4.    Own a flat downtown.

5.    Eat “pakodas” with “Garma garm chai” during rainy seasons listening rain pouring down on the tin roof.

6.    Learn French, English or any other foreign language. More interesting…hunt  a friend who can teach you this…!

7.    Learn to prepare your favorite dish.

8.    Construct a Tree house…better a multipurpose one…! Envy others !!

9.    Work for some NGO or govt. as a social service. Teach someone illiterate.

10.    Run a marathon or participate in some competition.

11.    Hunt for an opportunity to meet your favorite movie star. Better, get a photo clicked.

12.    Gym…! Get a perfect shape.

13.    Try adventure sport: Sky Diving, bungee jumping, climbing etc etc  etc…

14.    Bath in Garam Chashma (hot geyser) in Hindukush ranges, Himalayas.

15.    Learn your favorite dance: ballroom, salsa, folk or classical.(Barat dance will do if you have two left feet)

16.    Spend a night in BHOOT BANGLA( haunted house)

17.     SCREEEEAM in the Library.

18.    Share food with unknown. (Its about their food…”I never share my food”..the joey thing ^_^)

19.    Write an article or novel or poem …get them published.

20.    Stay all night partying..dancing…get up Early for office/college…better…stay up for 24 hours.

21.    Practice in a shooting range.

22.    Work part time in a pizzeria or a coffee shop.

23.    Get tickets of India v/s Pakistan cricket match(even though in ‘Black’)

24.    Dance in some random Baraat…! Attend the marriage in which urnt invited.

25.    Eat samosa, kachori pizza..johhny hot dog all day long....without caring about fats and strict diet schedule...!(just for a day)

26.    Call your friends from school...if you haven’t talked in years.

27.    Forgive !!!

28.    Show off…and make someone jealous!!!

29.    Plant a tree.

30.    Pilfer in your Boss’ office and spray paint about how fat does he/she look. If you are college student you can try this with your teacher! :P

31.    Go for a superman ride or..any other ride to …Experience zero gravity.

32.    Get passionate about things to such an extent that you forget food and life. It should be Colossus :P

33.    Buy yourself the most expensive gift you ever dreamt to have.

34.    Love someone.

35.    Have a break up.

36.    Love someone again.
>>>>36.5.  repeat(34 to 36)untill(you get your true love) :P  

37.    Make sand castles during your vacations…better if its Goa..!

38.    Fart in a crowded place or vomit on someone else’s tee..

39.    Create a website. Dedicate it to your friend.

40.    Go for a trip with your best friends.

41.    Go for a job you love..(at least once in your lifetime)

42.    Get a role in some show in your local news etc. or get a chance to be live on radio.

43.    Learn a musical instrument.

44.    Sing aloud your favrt song amongst sophisticated philistines. (better if its kinda obscene item number…eg:”MUNNI, SHEELA, JALEBI BAI"...you have options )

45.    Praise someone wholeheartedly.

46.    Celebrate all the festivals with full enthusiasm.

47.    Fight…against injustice.

48.    Drive across Indian pastorals on a bike. (Leh laddakh…)

49.    Act stupid…mimic Jim Carrey whole day at your school, clg or work.

50.    Watch illegal movies...you know what i mean ;)

51.    Grow your hairs or beard until it is difficult to look or do daily stuff.

52.    Pee in the open air.

53.    Insult someone…’sarcasm’ ..i am talking about.!

54.    Prepare lunch or dinner for your parents on their anniversary.

55.    Get your room wall painted with portrait of your favorite cartoon character.

56.    Run naked for a mile.

57.    Be a part of political campaign.

58.    Visit Taj Mahal or any of the seven wonders.

59.    Walk in rain, holding hands with your loved ones.

60.    Get a pet…(for those who are allergic…you can try virtual pet)

61.    Help  your dad in his work.

62.    Watch movies all day long in a theatre...9-12 , 12-3, 3-6, 6-9, 9-12

63.    Bird watch...stalk someone.

64.    Sleep under the stars on the beach.

65.    Lose money in a bet.

66.    Kick best friend on his birthday…THE GrAND BHANDARA.

67.    Mooh se aag nikalana bhiyaooo...! (I seriously dunno what this is called…but am talking about the thing in which you take a sip of Kerosine and spit it out,…aag bahar nikalti hai ). :P 

68.    Go on an Auto Ride with your loved One or better spend all day in a City Bus with them.

69.     Learn a magic trick…and show it to others.

70.    Tease your best friend with the name of a gal/guy which he/she hates a lot.

71.    Grow the biggest Pumpkin or similar thing Or better Try to get into guiness record.

72.    Try a stunt !!

73.    Address a huge gathering or Plan an event.

74.    Accompany your grandma to some Holy Place.

75.    Plan a Surprise Birthday Party!!!

76.    Trip round the world ..!

77.    Nukkad pe baith kar Gappe maarna.

78.    Participate in Ganesh Chaturthy Competitions.

79.    Eat…until you are on the verge of vomiting.

80.    Search marine life. Visit Galapagos, Australia etc.

81.    Feed young one of the elephant .. . the elephant  calf.

82.    Flirt with someone.

83.    Visit some national Park.

84.    Get yourself clicked…the most beautiful photograph.

85.    Visit any of the poles…tough one…! (Visit Antarctica)

86.    Purposely tease your teacher.

87.    For a day..Dress as HOT and Sexy as possible.

88.    Own a car…the coolest one.

89.    Once in a life time…have a huge bank balance

90.    Get Married.

91.    Get a patent on your name.

92.    Get Famous.

93.    Hitchhike

94.    Lie whole day in the bed! (With or without someone as per your comfort :P)

95.    Call ‘100’..and give a fake news…!

96.    Conquer a powerful addiction of something…! (Sweets…I would say ..)

97.    Create a gang or group and popularize it.

98.    Write a blog.

99.    Try to follow your dream for a while.

*This list can expand or compress in size. Still it would be great if you help me to make it BIG…!

100 things I want to do before I die.!!! by Sanidhya Nanavati is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

KEYBOARDS…Seriously!!

The most essential part of a computer system is KeyBoard(Yeah we know its CPU…but this article is about KEYBOARD...so we will give a lil exaggerated benefits to it!!!). So,  Keyboard form the basis of all the input devices..from mouse, lightpens to touch generation devices. Since the ages of Early men they were important. Keyboard can be found in prehistoric cave paintings and in recent excavation in Silicon Valley, California.

There are mainly two species of keyboards which are being used by Facebook Addicted Humans or those who use Computers:

1)      Qwerty     and     2)Dvorak

Recently, many new hybrid variants of both of ‘em , like Maltron Keyboard & Microsoft Keyboard , have been developed to prevent the much dreadful disease of software engineer community, The Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Well, most of you know that what a QWERTY is! Still, for general dim witted humans, it’s a type of keyboard used mostly in the world or just browse your keyboard to find the letters QWERTY. Before QWERTY, there were around 51 patents for keyboard model, but our QWERTY emerged a winner and is still being used since 1873. And yeah, the creator of this marvel is, Mr. Scholes(*Should not be confused with fuball player, Paul Scholes).

So, what’s wrong with this QWERTY and what this hack Dvoark is? (Even this dvoark is bit tough to pronounce…and yeah damn uncool..!)

The reason is simple, QWERTY keyboard was designed to make typing slower! SHOCKED?!? Yeah, that’s true; actually, the patented QWERTY keyboard was actually a typewriter in 1870’s. The typewriter should be optimum in speed so the alphabet hitting rods of typewriter should not collide with each other while printing on paper. If two keys near each other were pressed quickly in succession, the bars they controlled sometimes collided or jammed. So QWERTY was deliberately made slower!

Dvorak: An alternative to Qwerty.

So August Dvorak created a keyboard in 1936 to solve the lazy problem of QWERTY. It is a keyboard layout designed to minimise movement, and make typing as easy and painless as possible. The idea behind it is to have the most commonly typed keys under the fingers, and make it as easy as possible to type common words and combinations of letters. To give an impression of just how big a difference this makes, consider that the average Dvorak typist's fingers will travel about one mile in a day of typing. A Qwerty typist's will travel anything from 16 to 20 Kilometer. Try to consider, for a moment, the effect that must have on your fingers.(We are not sure of this fact ‘coz we have plagiarized this part :P)

DVORAK KEYBOARD:

It is a fact that Dvorak keyboards are expensive as they are not produced in bulks. But still you don’t need to rush out and buy Dvorak keyboard. Today computers come with free Dvorak software installed and all you need to do is to switch in Control Panel to Dvorak keyboard. Also if you are quite adamant that you already know Qwerty - if you do not have a need to retrain that's fine, but does the new generation have to use obsolete typing method because once up on a time there was a typewriter with moving arms in it?

Choice is yours…you want to die or use DVORAK ?? ….  : |

Maltron Keyboard:

These keyboards are special type of boards with idea taken from both QWERTY and Dvoark. Here special placements of ENTER and SPACEBAR makes typing easy and comfortable plus the tilted positions of keys make further easy to type. Still they are under research and let’s see what our kids will be using ;) :P.>!

 Microsoft Keyboard ctrl+alt+dlt keyboard:

Microsoft has launched a special all purpose keyboard with consideration to keys which are being used most by the user. This streamline design thus can solve all the problem of your system. Cttrl+alt+dlt can solve all your problems....the hang, restart..counting the most. Delete button can remove all viruses and unwanted downloads. SO get this ASAP, THE only keyboard you need.

KEYBOARDS…Seriously!! by Sanidhya Nanavati is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Let the Apple Fall again !

What is the special ingredient which can help you to be different among that swarm of aimlessly moving crowd? The answer to this simple question is to "EXPLORE". We have loadz of things around us, the necessity is to search and chose the best possible option. 

As a Software Engineer, options are many but choosing from the following would really help you to create a not-so-typed-profile: So here we go....let your mind breathe...Let the apple fall again ..! 

Microsoft Student Partners

The Microsoft Student Partners is a worldwide educational program to sponsor students majoring in disciplines related to technology. The MSP program attempts to enhance students' employability by offering training in skills not usually taught in academia, including knowledge in various Microsoft technologies.
The program is available in most countries, and all students in college and university level are eligible to apply. Typically, few most skilled students from each institution are chosen at a time. If accepted, Student Partners are assumed to further share the knowledge among the academic community by, for example, arranging courses, giving presentations and initiating projects

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Google Ambassador

The Google Student Ambassador Program is an opportunity for students to act as liaisons between Google and their universities. These ambassadors …

• Learn about innovative Google products and programs
• Plan and host fun events on campus
• Act as a campus contact for Google teams
• Help Google better understand each university’s culture

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Opera Campus Crew

Are you a student or educator passionate about bringing Opera and Web standards to your campus?* Then become a volunteer member of the Opera Campus Crew, and join our team of more than 700 Opera representatives at 400 schools and universities in 40 countries around the world! The Opera Campus Crew is a community outreach initiative to spread the word about Opera and Web standards on campuses.
Membership in the Opera Campus Crew is open to students from all degrees and majors. Be the gateway between Opera and your campus!

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Mozilla Campus Representative

Be the face of Mozilla at your school and help spread the word about Firefox and why it's the browser of choice for students everywhere.

Feel the need to educate people about why Firefox is the best browser on campus? Know people that are passionate about open source software and the participatory Web? If you answered Yes to any of those questions, you should be a Mozilla Campus Rep!   

Source: From various heads