Are you Infomaniatic?
BBC has reported Infomania as worser than marijuana. What exactly is Infomania…well the name says it all…Mania about information…Refreshing your outlook inbox 2 times every minute, checking personal mail account every 30 minutes…what so ever is similiar to that…is called “Infomania“
Infomania causes lot of side effects in IT workers according to BBC. They found 62% of people checked work emails at home or a holiday. This was reported in april, 2005. Now it must have shooted up to 80% for sure. This behavior causes severe imbalance in Work and Life. It also effects other employees who enjoy life as life.
There is one more side effect worser than all of the above…i.e a 10 point fall in thier I.Q. (marijuana causes 5% fall only).
Side Kick : I found myself as an Infomaniatic…:-(, I don’t check work emails at home, but blogs, digg, techmeme, koodali etc…and I am blogging this at 3:01 AM IST.
Create your own Online Radio
Creating own online radio is a dream for many of us. It involves a very big problem “bandwidth cost”. Hosting streaming media results in to a huge budget. Live365 used to be a good stage to host our own online radio, but now seems to be useless.
Diino, a new Web 2.0 venture seems to be a good alternative to host your own radio online. Diino is an online storage solution which allows you to store your documents, music, mails etc on a 2 GB online drive. The best feature is, it allows you to listen to your music via streaming…wwwwoow
Let is see how to create an Online Radio using Diino…
01. Create an account with Diino.com and download the diino client.
02. Login to your Dilino Client and create a folder “music”.
03. Upload your mp3 files to diino account and enable web access as follows..
04. Unable web access on the mp3 files you wanted to stream…(Right Click on the mp3 file and click “Enable Web Access”)
05. Once diino publishes your mp3 files, you can access your playlist at http://youraccount.diinoweb.com/files.
06. Now you can play your songs 
and share it with your friends too..
Is’nt cool ?
SQL Server beats Oracle atlast
Atleast in security…
According to a recent security research done by David Litchfield, SQL Server 2000 with SP4 turned out as the most secured database in the market. You can read the full report in the following PDF Article. David also pointed that SQL Server 2005 is more secure.
Via Vunet and Vineet Gupta
Indian Democrasy : Now Impersonated
We all know that, agree that Indian democracy is the most flawed democracy. Is’nt it? You wanna disagree with me? In the words of software world, no other system in this world has got the defect density that Indian democracy (so called) got. A democratic country with no proper human rights, heavy beauracracy, land lords, corruption, illegitimate politics, child labour, illitarcy and what else…
Economic Intelligence, a division of leading magazine The Economist has published a new index of flawed democracy and India stands at 9.58 out 10 score. Congratulations to all the politicians who made thier contributions to India’s achivement. Jai hind…(Hail India)
A mouse that floats (literally)!
Here comes the world’s first friction less mouse. This is really a craziest gadgest I have ever seen till now. This mouse uses electro maganetic field to float on the surface and makes it a best mouse for Gaming.
Besides this feature, It has 6000 DPI optical engine with a aluminium metalized surface.
India Outsourcing 101
eWeek has published a video hosted by Stan Gibson that talks about setting up outsourcing shops in India and managing the budgets as per expectations. As there are much publicity happening on India losing it’s low salary edge, this talk seems to be very interesting. In this talk stan talked about various factors like Wage inflation, Turnover, Cultural Factors.
Read more stories on Outsourcing in India here
Thrilled to be a part of Dev Con 2006, Hyderabad
It was proved again ! Hyderabad is a place for happenings for Developer communities. It was a sunday, the weekend. Indian cricket team is touring south africa and they’re supposed to play africans on the same day. Would any indian cricket fan dare to step out of home? But the developer community in Hyderabad did so. Dev Con 2006 has got a massive attendance of ~400 developers. The enthusiam and passion they have showin is just beyond the word “Amazing”. I am proud to be associated with the event as a manager and speaker. Thanks and hats off to the developer community out there in Hyderabad, India.
Some of the glimpses…
01. Folks are ready at registrations by early morning 8:15 AM (well, I dint even reach the venue by that time )
02. .NET tracks are extended till 7:30 PM as per demands from attendees. They dint agreed to seperate the halls and have parallel tracks. They have got an additional session on BLINQ too.
03. Many of the developers are thrilled to see the power of Ajax and Browser’s capabilities in building applications on top of Internet Explorer in a session presented by Cordys folks.
04. 90% of attendees are aware of many web 2.0 products like Orkut, Windows Live Messenger and Skype.
05. Many of the attendees demanded for both SQL and .NET sessions as they’re asked to split in to different streams.
06. Some of the registrants are from govrnment orgs like A.P High court and BSNL.
Let me also contribute !
Employees of a Software Company are all worried. Some are roaming
around.
Some are in Loud discussions during office time…..
Some Trainees, who had just joined,notice this and enquire about the issue with a senior employee,…
“Terrorists have kidnapped all of our Project Managers, he replied..
They’re asking for a Rs.500 Crores ransom, otherwise they’re going to douse them with petrol and set them on fire.
We’re going from desk to desk, taking up a collection…
One Trainee asks, “How much is everyone giving, on average?”
The senior guy replied cool…Its About a litre…
OmniDrive is here for you !
I am awaiting this moment since long. I have enrolled myself for a beta, but never happend to get an invitation till now. Today OmniDrive opened the doors for public and I am now happy
OmniDrive is nothing but an Online drive to store your files of any type. Initially every account holder would get a 1 GB free space allocated. The best advantage of Omnidrive is the windows explorer extension. You can use OmniDrive right with in your Windows explorer just like any other drive. Xdrive also supports this kind of feature.
TechCrunch praises OmniDrive as “Online Storage Perfection“.
What are you waiting for? Dont waste time reading this stupid blog…go grab an account with OmniDrive .
Photosynth just went Live !
Atlast Microsoft has opened up the curtains of the much awaited imaging technology preview “Photosynth” Go grab a session of technical preview here. (All the stuff you enjoy is actually will be done in a web page..)
Q. What does Photosynth do?
- A. Photosynth combines hundreds or thousands of regular digital photos of a scene to present a detailed 3D model, giving viewers the sensation of smoothly gliding around the scene from every angle. The scene can be constructed regardless of whether the photos are from a single or multiple sources. It’s like a hybrid of a slide show and a gaming experience that lets the viewer zoom in to see greater detail or zoom out for a more expansive view. By viewing the photos in a 3D context you are able to get a better sense for the place where they were captured.
I cant wait to jump in to this page and roam around the virtual place stitched by Photosynth using some snaps.
A Post from MS Word 2007 RTM
If you’re able to read this post, it means I just can’t stop myself using MS Word 2007 as my blog editor besides the cool Windows Live Writer !
Microsoft BlogStars Contest : The Fun Side…
Recently Microsoft India has launched a contest “Microsoft BlogStars“. The contest was designed to hunt the best developer blogs in India.
Today they have announced the contest winners. Most of them are MVPs. Thats a great news. Obviously they maintain the best possible developer connection with community as well as Microsoft. You can see the winners list here.
I found some funny things on this contest page…
01. Out of three judges only one judge manages his personal blog (A very good one), the other two judges does’nt have any blogs (or they are not listed).
02. The contest page listed some blogs by employees under “Cool Blogs”. I can see there is only one/two active blogs in those 7 blogs. 3 blogs have got under 6 total posts. One blog was stopped in March, 2006 and one in Dec, 2006.
I am surprised to see this page and was not able to understand what message they want to give the contestants? To be frank….the developer blogs in india are not living up to mark. Thats for sure. Am also surprised to see Digital Inspiration slipped off from Top 5. That was one of the top visited tech blogs in India. I could not find top .net blogs like www.dotnetindia.com too 
Anyway, I am happy to see Indian dev bloggers getting enough recognition. Kudos guys !
Wired : Zune could become a serious threat to the iPod
Wired magazine’s blog has got hands on Zune atlast. Well, it was not very extensive review of the music player, but clears some of the stories webbed around Zune.
Read more about the story at
Hands-On with the Microsoft Zune (New Details Emerge)
Golden South ! and Andhra Pradesh
CNN-IBN is celebrating 50 years of Soutern states in India, and running an online poll to find out most popular Andhrite. This list includes famous politicians like NTR, movie actor Chiranjeevi, Sania mirza (I am not sure why she was suddenly so popular), Ramalinga Raju (Satyam Computers), and Satya Saibaba (a spiritual guru) and Mir Usman Ali Khan.
Somehow I felt, this list is very much immatured and IBN is depending too much on movies and latest popularities. I dont understand why on this Mr. Mir Usman Ali Khan will be a popular “Andhrite” ? It was funny.
He was kicked out to form the state “Andhra” itself.
I found only one genuine entry in this list …That is Mr. NTR.
Anyway, You can also cast your vote here… (New windows)
En route in India
Via Ankit Fadia…
Bingo ! A new shiny fully functional mapping website is ready for India. MapmyIndia.com allows you to find out a route and directions to near by market or the famous park in your city. This is the first interactive map guide built for India.
I am too much impressed with this website and excited with the results too. Happy to see a map guide atlast for highly unmanaged roads, and routes of India.
Pick the color for your webpage
You loved a color in a cool snap somewhere online…You wanted to use the same color for your web page too. But web can understand standard web color codes only. What do you do? You should then use a cool color picker like this…
Download of the Weekend : Color Pic
Get a Free Download Manager and Save Your Time
Get this cool free download manager fully loaded with all the cool features anyone expect from it.
Read more about feature here and go download it ! and save your time with 5X times faster downloads.
RSS Lists, Simple Lists Extensions and the future
Yes, we all know much about RSS. We subscribe, We Create, We search..and We xxxxx. RSS has now become everyone’s end point to outer world. Your kid may get his home work questions delivered from his teacher’s RSS feed very soon.
Having found too many advantages, industry experts tried to put thier brains on work just to see how they can push this revolution in to hands of customer? In to a micro device affixed in to a toy? or a dustbin…Is it possible?
I heard long time backm that Microsoft has made a smart home where you can find smart gadgets everywhere..you can play with these objects as if you are dealing with real software objects. I am not sure if it is hypothetical Similiar concept was made by sun and named it as Jini in which you can talk to any device in it’s language protocol. But somehow all these efforts never made it to the hands of customer yet.
RSS Lists and Simple List Extensions are one more step in this concept. You will publish self desribed lists using RSS protocol and make devices presnt those lists..
Read more about RSS Lists here
and check out some RSS lists (Use some RSS reader like IE7 or Windows Live Mail Desktop).
Yahoo! Music Top Songs
Yahoo! Music Top Videos
Yahoo! Music Top Albums
In future, you can think of a Windows Side Show Gadget showing up RSS lists from the local departmental store on all discounted items available that particular day…Sounds exciting ! Isnt it?
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