Picasa 3.5

WOW 57 - Picasa 3.5

      Today Google had launched a new version of Picasa (v3.5). With this new version, organizing your photos based on Name Tags (A completely automatic feature) and Place Tags (AKA Geo Tags). This tagging feature will be automatically be synced up with your Google account if you are signed in to Picasa when you use it.

      To download the latest version of Picasa from Google point your browser window to "http://picasa.google.com/". You could use the direct link from over here. "Download Picasa 3.5"

      To watch a You Tube video on Picasa 3.5, follow this link. http://tinyurl.com/m44y6q

      Have a great day.

Danish :)

Fast Flip

WOW 56 - Fast Flip

     It is sometime in the previous weeks that Google had come up with a Google Lab feature called Fast Flip.

What Fast Flip Does?

     How many of you read Online Newspapers and Magazines and feel bored because it takes a hell lot of time to scroll through the pages? Well, most of them must feel this way. Google Fast Flip does this really really fast. You just have to visit this site.

     As of now, Google Fast Flip has sources from 39 different News Channels. Check out the list of all of Google's Fast Flip sources here.

     Google just amazes me everyday by giving so many many things. Way to go Google.

Danish :)

Taking a Break

         I'm taking a break today. No WOW articles and most probably no blogging/ tweeting too. Will return again on Monday.

Danish:)

True Education

    Something that I want to share in my blog reg. "True Education". Robert Frost is to be thanked for this.

    Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

Danish :)

Captcha

WOW 55 - Captcha

      Today we shall see what is meant by Captcha. If you have seen an image as shown below, it means that you know what a Captcha is.

      The purpose of Captcha is to avoid spam. In the picture above, the words "inget" is a captcha. The official definition of Captcha: "A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot."

      The term "CAPTCHA" (based upon the word capture) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper (all of Carnegie Mellon University), and John Langford (then of IBM). It is a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." 

      Hope this information helps. To visit CAPTCHA's official site, follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/3pkrd. Here you can learn how to add CAPTCHA to your own site.

Danish :)

Error - Excel 2000

       An error that I found in Excel 2000. Yup, I use it for Excel programming with VB6 DLL's. Damn compatibility issue with higher version of Excel. Check the screenshot which displays '%USERNAME%' instead of the actual username.

Danish :)

How Stuff Works - Sewing Machine

WOW 54 - Sewing Machine

          I had planned to take an official day off from blogging today when I came upon this image which shows how the Sewing Machine works.

           If you are not able to see the Animated Graphics, check this link out.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/ork7je

Danish :)

IM Bots

WOW 53 - IM Bots

         We all know what an IM is and we use them to communicate with our friends and/or colleagues in everyday life either in the way of Office Communicator or by using GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, etc. IM is the abbreviation for Instant Messaging.

         We come across Bots(Robots) in most of the aspects of life. These days we have Online Chat Programs where we talk to Bots just like we talk to any other person. At times, we fail to notice that we are in fact chatting with a BOT. The AI (Artificial Intelligence) is so perfected that it will be a little hard to find a BOT from a human.

         The purpose of this article is to make aware of the dozens of IM Bots that are available out there. These bots when talked to gives information like:

a) The latest News,

b) Live Cricket Scores,

c) Calculator,

d) Horoscope,

e) Translation from one language to another and many many more.

         I use a huge number of IM Bots in my GTalk and you can too. Check this site to know more and add the ones you require. Link: http://bit.ly/v7JIB

         Also, you could refer this article on how to create an IM Bot yourself. Link: http://bit.ly/UpO2K

Danish :)

True Identity

WOW 52 - True Identity

        I always had this inner feeling which puts me with this question(s);

"What is the True Identity (read "True Face" (or) "Character") of an individual?"

"How/ When do we see the True Identity of the individual?"

        Meditating on this thought, I came up with an answer which I'm providing here as as One Liner:

Don't believe the identity of the person to be true when he/ she says "I Love you" rather believe 'em to be true when they say "I hate you."

Danish :) 

Anagrams

WOW 51 - Anagrams

It's a long time since we have seen some topics regarding the English language. Today I'll be talking about Anagrams. 

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place. Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist. The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram.

A few popular ones include:

Dormitory: Dirty Room

Schoolmaster: The classroom

The Country Side: No City Dust Here

Desperation: A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code: Here Come Dots

Conversation: Voices Rant On

Mother-in-law: Woman Hitler

Eleven plus two: Twelve plus one

Princess Diana: End is a car spin

George Bush: Shoe Bugger

I have come up with a few with my own name too: "Danish Thomas"

Had Smash into

Had Main Hosts

Admonish Hats

Hosts Mind, Aha!

No Asthma Dish

You could create one that best suits you. Visit http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html, put your thinking caps on and create one.

Thanks,

Danish