Unveiling the Enigma: The Historical Odyssey of the Name Rahul
Names hold within them a treasure trove of cultural, linguistic, and historical significance. One such name that has traversed through the annals of time is "Rahul." A name that resonates with ...
Rediscovering Precision: Unraveling the Overuse of 'Amazing' in Everyday Discourse
Language is a powerful tool that allows us to communicate thoughts, emotions, and experiences. It shapes the way we perceive the world around us, and the words we choose carry a weight that ...
Finding Peace in the Chaos: Unveiling the Secrets to Inner Serenity
In the hustle and bustle of today's fast-paced world, the pursuit of peace has become a cherished endeavor. We often find ourselves juggling various responsibilities, striving for success, and ...
Ink & Imagination: A Journey Through the Writer's Haven
In a world driven by technology and rapid communication, the allure of a tranquil haven for writers remains undeniable. As an aspiring wordsmith, if I were to open a shop, it would be a sanctuary ...
The Indispensable Companion: What Should You Carry With You at All Times?
In our modern world, where technology and convenience are at our fingertips, the question of what is truly essential to carry with us at all times remains a pertinent one. From smartphones to ...
Making a Difference: The Power of Small Changes in the Blogging World
Blogging has evolved from being a personal journal to a powerful platform for sharing ideas, insights, and information. With its global reach, it has the potential to create ripples of change, both...
Life in an alternate universe
In an alternate universe, the contours of my life have been molded by divergent choices, unforeseen events, and the intricate interplay of chance. Stepping into this alternate reality unveils a ...
Gastronomic Grandeur: Exploring High-Cost Dining Experiences in Chicago
Chicago, known for its vibrant culinary scene, boasts a plethora of dining options that cater to a wide range of palates and budgets. From hole-in-the-wall gems to Michelin-starred establishments, ...
Embracing Joy: 30 Simple Pleasures that Bring Happiness
Happiness, that elusive emotion we all seek, can often be found in the little things that life has to offer. From the soothing caress of a gentle breeze to the heartwarming embrace of a loved one, ...
Download and Convert Audible AAX files to MP3
Audible is one of the most popular audiobooks services in the world. One of the most common questions that I have come across users using Audible is if it is possible to move the native Audible fil...
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a sequel to the immensely popular Black Panther movie by Marvel Studios. The film will focus on the titular kingdom. There is a lot of hype around the fi...
The China Coup and Xi Jinping House Arrest
In the last week of September 2022, the internet became alive with rumors of something happening in China even though there has been no official version announced anywhere. Citizens of the internet...
Taylor Swift fans hoping she's headlining Super Bowl 2023
The news is that Taylor Swift is gearing up to headline the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show. This came after a major NFL announcement. The corporation announced that Apple Music has replaced Peps...
Killers of the Flower Moon
The movie Killers of the Flower Moon is an American Western crime drama film which is directed by Martin Scorsese. The film is based on the best-selling 2017 non-fiction book Killers of the Flower ...
The Virtual Web3 Paradise
Despite the obscure rise of the term Web3 and it's close association with crypto currency and blockchain, it is interesting to see how the recent decentralization storm is taking up everything. As ...
Write a Guest Post for Insight Crunch
Insight Crunch is the most happening place for discussions and information on the IT sector, the latest technology, and the gadgets that emerge. This site is viewed by thousands every day and have ...
Evernote and how it transformed my digital life
As digital data has grown over the years and our dependency on gadgets has risen, there came a need for something more than the concept of simply storing files in different folders in the cloud. Th...
H1B DropBox Process: Eligibility, Documents, Change of Employer
When you are applying for the United States visa renewal and you meet all the eligibility and criteria that are defined, you can get it stamped in your passport without attending the visa interview...
Dropbox seems to be waiting to raise a hurricane
There was a time when file storing in the cloud was almost synonymous to Dropbox. Provided it’s amazingly simple plans with storage, there is absolutely no doubt users are going to love it. Along ...
Will the new Outlook be a dark horse?
The new version of Microsoft's new mailing service, [Outlook](http://outlook.com), has taken the internet world by storm. And should it not! It’s the first ever big boost Microsoft has given to one...
Dropbox vs Google Drive - The War Begins
When the emperor is proudly marching forward conquering everything that comes it’s way, can he leave behind a kingdom that is being defended securely by its rivals over the years? Definitely not. ...
Software Engineering best practices we do ‘Not’ follow at our own risk
Software engineers all over the world were at some time or the other taught in their initial days some best practices to treat as the Bible while developing software and writing codes. But most of ...
Team work and the odd ones out in IT sector
The IT sector boasts of team work and team spirit at the very core of its values. It comes as no surprise that the kind of work that is being done inevitably demands absolute team work. A perfect ...
Small mistakes get hyped, no mistakes (read work) get hyped too
In the professional world of the corporates, there is an invisible network of thoughts that is spread all across. The wavelengths from different individuals, each uniquely different from the other,...
Achieving and performing without working in the IT sector: Tribute to the ‘a class apart’
There are no end to deadlines in the IT sector. If you are working on a development project, you have deliverables and codes to complete within the timeline. If you are working on a support project...
Work culture in the IT sector
*All characters are imaginary. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.* Over years of observation, like any other sector in the professional world, the IT sector too boasts of a chameleon of work ...
Good looks pay off in the outsourcing world?
The popular concept that hard work is the main key behind success might take a small back foot in this discussion. True that there is no alternative to hard work, but apart from that, there are som...
‘Onsite’ and the ghost in the IT industry
The term ‘onsite’ is a favorite in the IT industry. Everyone wants to go onsite. Such is the madness, people start dreaming of onsite even before entering the company. It has cast a mysterious spel...
Facebook smileys you wished to have forever
Emoticons and smileys are the key essence to online chatting and communication. It lets us express ourselves a lot better with them. Facebook till now doesn’t have a clear-cut display as to the lis...
Amazing Android App with Gesture Search
Have you ever fantasized to search your contacts, applications, games, settings, and everything on your phone by just using 3-4 swings of your finger? Well, all of us have, and here is just the app...
Bing bleeding millions, as Google remains at top
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been one of the most recent disasters by any giant organization. Microsoft spent millions of dollars on it’s search engine, advertising it to the fullest potentia...
Importance of Communication Skills in the global upfront
*This is a guest post by Ashish Nandwani. *
Engineering years - The ideal approach
*This guest post was written by Ashish Nandwani*.
Users now realizing Facebook’s latest changes show they are wary of their competitor Google Plus
Facebook has recently made some pretty decent tweaks into their existing interface. All of them aims at the popular features which had been giving an edge to their closest rival Google Plus. These ...
How is South Point going to change with the CBSE board being introduced
South Point will finally be allowing its students to opt for the CBSE board. The previous West Bengal board will also continue to be present alongside. Needless to say, this top prestigious ...
Google Plus will be a Facebook and Orkut killer
People have never really sticked to one particular social networking site for a long time. Since Orkut started out way back in the 2000s, people flocked into it, and it became a madness. There was ...
Hitler echoes Bengali’s sentiments on Paschimbanga
It has been an epic change to the state. The people of Bengal are totally against this as is evident by the campaigns and slogans going on across the social networking sites. In the midst of all ...
Bengal hit out of the park, Paschimbanga for a new name
All the frenzy regarding the flashy only Bengal campaign was hit by massive surprise as the name got changed to a very Bengali version of West Bengal, Paschimbanga Like many other Bengalis and ...
Few sidewalk reasons why we should support Anna Hazare
Do you know what will happen if 1,456 Lakh Crores come back to our country?
Health of IT professionals
“Hi, did you taste that new Zinger meal at KFC? It’s awesome! Well it doesn’t have as much cheese as you would get in the Chicken Cheese Italiano Pizza in Pizza Hut, but it tastes good. Also try th...
IT Sector National Delicacy - Food at Barbecue Nation!
It is always a delight to visit this place. Loaded with the all-famous starters (some people finish their course with only the starters and desserts itself!), there is no doubt that every single IT...
Disliked the biased documentary on Kolkata on CNN IBN by Nilanjana Bose
Today I watched a show on CNN IBN. I love the channel for it's straight forward and informative approach on any topic. But today I watched a program that was showing a documentary on Kolkata the ci...
India Pakistan encounter spice up sick leaves
The semi-final clash between India and Pakistan will be doing a trick this week. The companies and schools will see a fishy rise in the number of people falling ill ;) No doubt this is going to be ...
TCS ILP Experience - The girl next row
This is a TCS ILP guest post by Debapriya Mukherjee. The views expressed are entirely of the author.
The Great Businessman
This is a guest post by Debapriya Mukherjee. The views expressed are entirely of the author.
Unleash the power of new Notepad: Q10
We all know how useful is the notepad. Now what if I tell you that I can enhance its powers 10 times over. Yes. [I tell you to just click here](http://www.baara.com/q10/downloads/q10-1.2-spell.exe)...
Lock Folders and Hide your secret Files
How many times shave you wanted to hide a particular folder and searched in vain for a free tool. Finally, you can get it. Install this and let your wings let you fly as you store virtually all kin...
How to delete large folders in your PC with GBs of files in them
Often we see that it takes a lot of time to remove and delete large folders in Windows. Now it won’t. You should feel lucky that you are a reader of this popular blog now because it is presenting y...
Add Facial Recognition even to your prehistoric PC
Have a webcam? Now you can add the latest highest level of technologies, authenticating a user by his looks, by this simple software. By facial recognition, you can login to your PC in no time. ...
Finally, you can rotate a PDF document
Many times we PDF readers have faced problems when the landscape and portrait orientation in our document is not as we want it to be. Now it can be done in a breeze. [Visit this ...
Control Mouse Cursor using Keyboard
This is a very very very small tool that is going to be very very very useful to you. No joke. How many times have we faced a problem when we wished if we could control our mouse using our keyboard...
Monitor Folder Changes: Track Activities on a Folder for any Activity
This is a tool many of us would be surprised to know that it exists. More of us would be amazed as to how it works. Watch 4 Folder answers just that question with amazing simplicity.
Know the CPU temperature inside your computer and laptop
This very useful program lets you know all the details that is going to save you a lot of bucks and help a lot in improving the condition and health of your machine.
How to set your inactive windows to minimize automatically?
If you want to minimize your windows that have been idle and are left unused for a specific period of time, then you can try this new tool from here. This is going to let you choose when your windo...
Love to forward mails to a lot of friends? Make Gmail Contact Groups
This will let you mail a lot of your friends by mailing your favorite article to just one single id. This is going to be really useful to you. Instead of typing the emails of your friends one by on...
Top popular extensions for Google Chrome
1. Google Chrome Dual View lets you view two pages at the same time. It will split the page into two halves and let you view the articles of both together.
Add RSS feed subscription icon to Google Chrome address bar
Unlike Firefox, Google Chrome does not have the subscribe to RSS feed icon in its address bar. This might make many users feel uneasy because feeds ar such a great way to stay connected to a ...
Google shows custom Birthday logo doodle on Your Birthdays
This is a rarely known feature of Google but Google will show you a custom doodle wishing you happy birthday on your very special day.
New York Tornadoes kill thousands
As National Weather Service officials declared Friday that two tornadoes had indeed swept into New York City on Thursday, some tree-lined streets in Brooklyn and Queens looked - at least from the a...
PowerPoint Presentations: How to make killer slides
We have all come across presentations, some of them we have found boring to death and struggled to stay awake and some were so enthralling that chills ran down our spine as time passed. No doubt th...
Windows 7 Theme and Wallpaper
This is probably the best ever version of operating system released by Microsoft. The looks and feel of this one are better than even Vista. It may be a bit of resource hungry, but it is surely wor...
Web 2.0 Toolbar: Social Networking and Bookmarking with Kewll experience
With the internet advancing with newer Web 2.0 sites every day, it often becomes necessary to get some tool that would make our life easier by helping to use these sites faster. Who wouldn’t like t...
I am aware of Java. Unexpected finds.
The most powerful and versatile tool that’s been built. It has practically got entangled with most of the apps that we use everyday, be it on our desktops, laptops, mobile devices or other portable...
Wordpress 3.0 is here to delight bloggers
The world’s one of the most popular blogging software, Wordpress, has released it’s 13th version in its history. It’s Wordpress 3.0, codenamed Thelonious. With the version 2.9 being downloaded more...
Google Docs ready to take on Microsoft Office 2010
Google has rolled out some stunning upgrades for its Google Docs, the undoubtedly superb platform for working online with documents. And, not coincidentally for sure, they come in the same week as ...
Facebook responds to open letter from advocacy groups
Even after modifying its privacy controls, Facebook seems to still have a lot of work to do. A number of major advocacy groups, including the ACLU, EFF, and CDT, sent Facebook an open letter ...
eBay search now directly through Kewll
Searching for relevant products and getting an idea of their prices is a breeze now with the integration of eBay search in the dynamic Kewll. There has been the latest add-ons to this toolbar. With...
Android team determined to bring new user friendly features in its next release
The Google Android team has been working furiously to bring more features that would make user’s experience friendly like anything. Since the Android first hit the market in 2008, many features had...
Yahoo! taking a dive into social networking
Yahoo had been having this social feature for quite some time now, where the user would have to share his status updates. Then it would be visible to his friends if he had a mutual both way followi...
IE6 usage at 4.7%, IE8 up at 30%, browsers lookout!
The IE6 had been a worry for many web developers till now, but in the last one year, its usage has dropped by around 7%. So it's really a cause of cheering amongst them, not to forget Microsoft too...
Steve Jobs: People voting against Adobe Flash by buying an iPad every 3 seconds
It had been a craze for quite a long time, and still so a lot now. But Adobe Flash seems to be on the verge of decline of its usage and popularity with people giving thumbs up to the iPad, which ...
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Twitter spammers sending out malware via random replies
Twitter’s spam accounts, which nearly everyone who knows Twitter knows about, are gradually turning more threatening. With URL shorteners compressing links more and more, the possibility of users ...
Chrome Frame: Turn IE 6/7/8 into Chrome
A project that started in September last year has been made stable enough so much so that it is now in the beta stage. What project Chrome Frame has done is, it renders everything on IE as it would...
Twitter to begin wrapping up links officially with t.co link shortener
With many changes that have been coming to Twitter, none were as big as this. Now all links that would be posted in Twitter would be shortened in the t.co/****** format. On one hand this would help...
Google stops experimenting with background image after hiccup!
Google Homepage Design
Google added a background image to its homepage
Google may be taking note of the photogenic interface of the Bing homepage which led it to add a background image last month. The traditional neat look of the homepage faced a sharp contrast with t...
Wordpress becoming unreliable
With a fairly reliable track record over the years, Wordpress.com faced a big hiccup last month which affected more than 10+ million blogs, and then again on June 10th, 2010. Most of the blogs ...
Two planets named after South Point High School students!
Great news for Pointers! Two students of South Point High School in Kolkata will now have minor planets named after them.
Google Music: iTunes competitor unleashed?
We might soon be able to search a song or music in the market and click the download button to save it in our Android devices. The idea is pretty compelling of Google Music, if that is what it is ...
Reeder: The best feed reader on the iPhone is going to launch on the iPad
Most of the RSS readers work average with the iPad, many of the ones which used to provide superb performance for the iPhone work more or less efficiently in the iPad. Reeder didn’t have such a ...
Yahoo! wants Huffington Post badly
According to an article in Techcrunch, Yahoo is wildly wanting to acquire the Huffington Post, which is nearly the biggest thing on this planet with nearly 26 million unique visitors worldwide in ...
Pedestrian follows Google Maps, gets run over and sues Google for $100,000
Hugh Pickens writes "The Toronto Star reports that a Utah woman is suing Google for more than $100,000 in damages, [claiming its maps function gave her walking directions that led her onto a major ...
Picasa: Now launch from Kewll Toolbar
In a recent blend of activities that had been going on taking Kewll to the next level, the Picasa program launcher had been added to it. If you have Picasa installed, you can click ‘Launch Picasa’ ...
Google Docs: Now try the best online tool without a Google Account
Google Docs had been adding many desired feature off-late, but all of it required to have a Google account to log in and then access it. But now anyone can simply visit docs.google.com/demo and sta...
Google Chrome on iPad: Sneak Peek
The iPad offers undoubtedly great browsing experience, one which may be easily taken as a good competitor for any browsing device, provided the user doesn't visit heavily flash based sites. Here’s ...
Blogger Blog Security: Disable Right Click, Disable Text Selection
All of us, into blogging or engaged in online activities, at some time or the other has faced the issue of our images and own articles being copied to other sites without our permission. This cause...
Add Bing Search Box to your Blogger Blog
Many people had requested for a search box which would enable the visitors of their websites and blogs to search directly through Bing. So here is the code that is sure to help a lot of people. ...
Twitter has doubled in staff in past 6 months
Twitter, the favorite microblogging service of many including [me](http://twitter.com/Rahul_B), has nearly doubled its employee strength in the past few months., Back in 2009 they had only 22 staff...
More high resolution satellite images on Bing
The images on Bing are captured at an effective distance of 20 feet from the ground and hence the level of detail is so amazing compared to Google Maps where the distance is 50 feet.
Box.net adopts HTML5 and adds Drag and Drop functionality
Cloud storage and document sharing startup Box.net is the latest startup to adopt HTML5. The startup is announcing today that it is incorporating a broad implementation of HTML5 drag and drop ...
Secret powers of Time
All of us have different perspectives of time as we move forward in our life. Here let’s take a look at how we can view the perspectives yet from more different angles. And as we watch this video, ...
Google Chrome aiming to be the best browser with the coolest extensions
Google Chrome had been my default browser for quite some time now. And with over nearly 5,000 extensions available, it’s cooler more than ever before. With cool popup that tell you from Gmail mails...
Cricket will win
Cricket, once again is tarnished and going through a rough phase after a decade. Speculations of match-fixing and ownership issues in IPL3 has sadly taken to the headlines. Even the thrilling conte...
Jyoti Basu dies at 95, an era comes to an end
The veteran Marxist leader died today at 95 with the entire nation mourning at his death. One of the most pragmatic leaders who played a pivotal role in shaping his party, Jyoti Basu commands awe a...
Google News finally responds to News Pubs
As most of the news agencies have been crying out of Google’s supposedly thieving ways of indexing news where users can simply search in Google News and read an article from leading newspapers by a...
E-Book Readers: Battle like never before
Amazon’s Kindle is the most talked about stuff that is selling like anything right now. Though e-books are not likely to replace books in any time soon, but the craze of portability and getting to ...
Facebook to have new Privacy Controls
Facebook, the popular networking site, is finally rolling out some much talked about and desired privacy control features. From now on each post made by the user will have privacy control settings ...
You In? Yahoo spreads ripples of kindness around the world in 129 characters
Yahoo has struck upon an innovative campaign where users share their small acts of kindness in as little as 129 characters which gets mapped in a world map based on their privacy settings and then ...
Opera Mini: Most popular mobile browser
The world’s most popular mobile browser, Opera Mini, has recently crossed the 35 million users mark. With no near rival in sight apart from Apple’s Safari browser in iPhone, Opera is surely going t...
Google Wave aimed at a revolution
Another amazing service started by Google. Something that would fascinate people already acquainted with collaborative working and sharing documents, presentations, sharing files and more. Google ...
Proofread Contents for Insight Crunch
Insight Crunch is the most happening place for discussions and information on the IT sector, the latest technology, and the gadgets that emerge. This site is viewed by thousands every day and have ...
What is the best Contrast, Sharpness, Saturation and ISO settings for your camera?
First and foremost there are some assumptions to be made before this article gets underway. Many of us use Photoshop and other image editing software, well, if you are not, no problems. But you hav...
Why iPhone is so much popular on Flickr?
Flickr shows various statistics of usage of its site and one of them is the [“Most Popular Cameras in the Flickr Community"](http://www.flickr.com/cameras/). It’s absolutely incredible to see a ...
TweetMeme : Storehouse of hot Twitter topics
Many sites have already added the “Retweet” button to their articles as you can see here also. As one retweets the article, a “RT @tweetmeme” is added in front of the tweet. And the articles gets ...
Twitter direct messages: Somewhere between email and chat
Often while getting to use Twitter regularly I find that using the direct messages (not @) feature is pretty much like internet sms-es, or if I might put it, somewhere between chatting and emailing...
Yahoo Mail growing up with Gmail’s features and some more
Recently Yahoo Mail had been a lot more innovative and their new interface is far better and appealing to users than the old classic interface. There have been lots of additions it seemed specially...
Struggle of the Blacks
It’s good to see today that the oppression of the whites over the blacks has decreased to a great extent, to a major extent over the last 100 years. Some prominent personalities such as Malcolm X ...
Chelsea Transfer Ban
Here’s a small parody, which under no circumstances should be taken seriously. Share this with your friends ;) Under the current scenario, the situation could well may or my not be like this. The ...
What can Picasa do to beat Flickr?
This would be really a demanding question given the current scenario. The Picasa vs Flickr war will go on forever as these two companies exist. There is absolutely a big gap considering the feature...
Windows 7 Compatibility: Test your PC
If you have Java installed, you can check out right now if your computer meets requirements of the resource hungry Windows 7 OS. Practically if Vista was making your PC sweat up everything it has ...
Twitter’s uniqueness could be it’s greatest disadvantage
So all of us have heard of Twitter and 99% of those who have heard about it have got a Twitter profile.[ ...
Flickr's addiction : How not to get rid of it
If you are an avid lover of photography and a bit net savvy you have surely heard of Flickr. And not to forget it’s Pro feature which comes at a cost of ...
How Google Labs will continue to be an integral part of Google products
As is apparently interpreted by many that Google Labs is only a testing ground for crazy fun and not real prime time implementation, I feel Google’s Labs are really in with an awesome amount of ...
GDrive : Google’s online storage
Amidst lots of rumors, Google’s new online storage platform is all set to launch soon, maybe within an year. No official launch date has been announced as yet. The specialty of this system with ...
Flickr photos on sale report by Jim Goldstein is shocking
It’s not Flickr’s fault to start with. And no photos of users that were marked “Private” were compromised. But however this incident is sure to raise a few eyebrows of Yahoo and it’s API licensing ...
Add your Tweets in Google
This is some tech workaround way. I don’t know whether this is worth the effort but with so many social networking sites around nowadays, you can try this. Click on the time below your tweet. That ...
Why Bing would be an eternal threat to Google
This competition is no doubt one of the greatest on the Internet at present. This is also between the two biggest honchos in the market at present and none of them seem to really take the beating ...
File sharing services review
With what seems like the most useful tools for anyone looking to transfer or share files online, online file hosting and sharing is getting tremendous importance and exposure like[ ...
Subhas Chakraborty dies, West Bengal Sports and Transport Minister, at 66
West Bengal Sports and Transport Minister and senior Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) leader Shubhas Chakroborty, who was under treatment at AMRI hospital in Kolkata, died this morning at ...
How Google should add real-time search results of Twitter and other sites
Most of us who are familiar with real-time search engines have heard about some top guns in this business like [Scoopler](http://www.scoopler.com/), [Collecta](http://collecta.com/), ...
Looking to share your Nature, Landscape and Wildlife photos?
All photographers whether an amateur or professional quickly finds he has a pretty large collection of photos, often the better ones finding a place only in their backup storage devices like DVDs ...
Firefox Toolbar: Kewll, now with Twitter, Bing, Real-time search, Email notifier, Best Firefox addons, extensions and more
Yes, you have heard it right, cool! This could be a completely new beginning in the usage of toolbars for all the tech-savvy guys around. The toolbar Kewll has been uniquely prepared to cater to so...
Power of Technology : Did you know?
It has been obvious and undeniable for quite a few years now, the rate at which technology is engulfing and taking part in every minute aspect of our day-to-day lives. But seldom we can imagine at ...
Microsoft Internship Experience
This is a guest post by Kaustav Dey Biswas. He is a total tech geek and loves his computer and computing stuff like anything in the world. Programming is something as natural to him as sleep. He’s ...
Envisioning the future with technology
Ever dreamt of what the future would be like with further advancements. I find it pretty tough to imagine what will be the limits of our achievements. With the touch generation already getting old ...
South Point High School opts for CBSE board along with West Bengal Board
South Point High School, Kolkata has got approval from the School Education Authorities to keep CBSE Board besides it’s existing famous West Bengal Board which churns out some of the best students ...
Does COMPUTER SCIENCE research really help the industry in India ?
*This is a guest post by one of my cool friends Ratnajit Mukherjee. He's really a lover of technology and has a flare for photography. He wanted to share his information on the impact of computer ...
Project Natal : Breakthrough in home entertainment by Microsoft
[Details on Project Natal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal) You stand in front of your Xbox 360, and it recognizes your face and voice instantly and logs you in immediately, and you can ...
Michael Jackson no more, an era comes to an end
There’s no word which can express the grief the world is experiencing right now, as messages keep popping up praying for Michael Jackson to rest in peace here. Speculations whether his cardiac arre...
Picasa vs Flickr : Ultimate giants of photo sharing, which service is better for you?
There has been really increasing debates as to which is best amongst these two giants. Each one beats the other in their own segment making the choice difficult for the end-users. I am an avid ...
ECHOES of LIFE
Pink Floyd often called the greatest band of Progressive Psychedelic Rock, perhaps the greatest rock band ever is always known for its bizarre experimentation with music. It’s obsession with ...
Laptop Review, price, feature, durability, ergonomics
Amongst the various brands of laptops available, some of the top brands really provide a tough time for the consumers to choose their product. Various issues like the price, style, features, ...
Google’s Chrome Experiments to showcase JavaScript applications
Yesterday I was using Google when suddenly Crash! The whole Google page fell apart! Just check out [here](http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/) what it looked like. Just ...
My Life without Google
It is quite amazing how I have indexed my life so much into a particular company. Using all the products of Google, I am an avid Googler like many of us. Many of us would blindly agree that they ...
Bing Toolbar and Search Box for Blog
Microsoft has long been trying to find something to compete with in the search engine market, finally they seem to have got some foothold. After much hard work and strain they have come up with Bin...
Google Reinvents Email, Docs with 'Google Wave'
What would e-mail look like if it were invented today, rather than several years ago? Here comes Google Wave, a preview application shown off at the Google I/O conference. Below is the video which ...
Wolframalpha search, threat to Google?
Firstly I would like to share the Fan Community of Wolframalpha !! The problem with the web today is, it has no idea what the hell you’re talking about! It doesn’t understand what you are asking of...
Vodafone ZooZoo, star attraction of IPL 2009, some cool Zoo Zoo ads
Not a single person can deny of having not yet seen these cute creatures during the IPL 2009 .. they grabbed as much attention as the tournament itself !! Extremely nice concept and timing to start...
Value of Rs.500
It’s a queer feeling to hear so many answers from the different sections of the society to the same question - “What will you do if I give you 500 rupees now?” Something evident crops out in the mo...
One of the finest illusions
If your brain works normally this is neat. This is another example of an amazing illusion!!! The last sentence is so true. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will ...
Memories Forever, College Days
It has been an amazing journey. Right after school when I stepped in to my college, I had not the least idea what it would be like. It was just a queer feeling. Finally, it all happened, studied, ...
Never to forget those days
A small but priceless piece of work by me ... to cherish all those lovely days spent together. It's as emotional as it could get.
Experience during GATE Examination
I wanted to share this awesome article written by my friend Somdas on his experience during the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering 2009. He ranked a stunning 87 and is invariably a role model fo...
Next World
Have been recently viewing a program. What it going to be like with the advent of technology in the next few decades. Days of communication technology are over with nearly every sphere of our life ...
Einstein and Alex – Redefining Parrots
Not that we haven’t heard of talking macaws and parrots, but having the ability is one thing, and breaking the limit is another. Some recent videos of parrots are really amusing and a pleasant ...
Feeling of safety
Recent steps taken by the authorities are trying to ensure road safety measures in very enthusiastic ways. Several placards and signboards in the local language ensures that people notice them and ...
Sourav Ganguly Interview
Undoubtedly one of the first of his kind in Indian cricket, who started the brand of aggression in Indian cricket, Sourav Ganguly, being interviewed here by none other than Cyrus. Some obvious fact...
The Devil’s Advocate – Unmatched and unparalleled
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, chief minister of West Bengal, in a one-on-one interview with Karan Thapar. A really grim truth about the reality comes out in the forefront while the discussions progress.
Kabir Suman
One of the brightest singers of the new generation, Suman Kaku had been my personal favorite since I was a kid, back in the early nineties. I simply loved the tone and melody of his songs. His bold...
It’s beautiful, to say the least
Amazing what life brings with it. So much joy, so much successes to cherish, so many lovely people around us, so much to enjoy !! Its absolutely stunning to wonder there’s so much to do in life in ...
Cute Birdie
This cute bird fell of from its nest beside my house. My brother was quick enough to notice the chirpings of its family members and get it indoors :) … Too young to walk or stand up, it’s got a new...
Chaos rule
Some recent unwanted incidents happening in some engineering colleges in West Bengal. Students saying last semester’s questions were of far difficult standard than expected and weren’t given a hint...
Indian Movie Slumdog Millionaire
It’s a bit really late to write on this now, a week gone by almost. But really the hype over Slumdog Millionaire, a pretty average film to me, has been on my mind for quite sometime now. The movie,...
Music in Anakhronos 2009
This is the fest in our college, the last and final one before we pass out. I couldn’t go because of some engagements, but didn’t forget to catch up with these videos from one of my close friends a...
Education System pending introspection
This is crazy. Just visualize this. Heard it happened in a college nearby. A student doesn’t get to sit in internal class test of 30 marks coz he has poor attendance. A new rule has been made, gues...
Can blog from mobile now
This is just a short post from my mobile before I fall asleep now. I just discovered the fun of blogging without using a computer! Now I can blog even in my tight schedule in the next 3 months !! ...
Kolkata Maidan, free for all
The court has made its directives clear early in 2007. But the Kolkata Maidan continues to be mailed by rallies repeatedly. Regardless of the orders by the court, the offenders just go on with thei...
Kolkata Maidan being mauled by rallies again and again
Our beloved maidan has been hurt again by a rally by a political party, flouting court directive. Its really feels bad when our beloved bookfair has been shifted to a different venue for the same ...
Google Reader bug fixed, hooray
For the past few months I had been having trouble with Google Reader. My subscriptions just wont show up under the Subscriptions heading though the respective articles all appeared fine in the body...
Racism row over New York Post
This picture, supposed to depict the killing of a pet chimpanzee which suddenly attacked it’s owner’s friend by a policeman, became extremely controversial due to the caption, hinting at president ...
Let's try to make it straight
Last few days has really been grim. Bottom-line being caught in a tangle between showing moral support for our juniors along with our other 4th year friends, and our fear of getting our image, mark...
Change is finally here
The D-day has finally come . The world will wait to see how the major issues like Gaza and India-Pakistan are tackled. The economy is at its helm of turmoil at this point of time adding to the woes...
Suchitra Sen - The unveiling
Was this hype really necessary to unveil someone with today’s spy cam technology who has voluntarily said she would not like anyone to keep contact with her or disturb her? One of Bengali cinema’s ...
The Maestro - A.R. Rahman
I have always been an ardent fan of this amazingly talented musician..just hope its time for him to bag a few Oscars after this Golden Globe award. His songs simply stand apart from the lot, filled...
If every living thing talked human
As a kid I often wondered if only I could have communicated with my pet dog, an Alsatian..which used to be my best friend back home. What if other than playing with balls and Freezbie we could talk...
Rise, Calcuttans
Its sad to see my home town deteriorating like this in terms of its progress. It has only heard the plans of its improvement over the last couple of years but alas, it couldn't be given a shape whi...
Why do one blog?
The most staggering question in today’s world of Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and several such sites has left me wondering, actually why do so many people blog? In fact, why was it that I started ...
Breaking the photo limit while using Windows Live Writer and Blogger
As we all know, Blogger uses Picasa Web Albums to store any image that we upload in our blog. It creates an album with the same name as the blog and stores all images from Blogger in it. As for ...
Is Sector 5 ready?
It has been about three and a half years that I have been going to my college in Sector 5 via Chingrighata. Sector 5, the new tech town of Kolkata, the future pride of Kolkata, the main attraction ...
Pak tour rightfully called off
Being an avid cricket lover, I really found it a heart-breaking news. But considering the present scenario, I couldn’t help but thank the BCCI to have judged the situation so well and have managed ...
Google fills my world
Its been quite sometime now that Google has kept impressing me with their innovative stuff. The latest addition being the Chrome. Microsoft takes a beat by Google for the fact that their ...
Farewell Mr.President, here’s my shoe
Yesterday’s incident was really one to be remembered. Bush came to Iraq to meet the Prime Minister. Later, while holding a press conference, where he highlighted how America played a role in bringi...
How to become a famous blogger
I just came across this thing which I think will help all bloggers to try and become famous... ;)
Mockery of India’s security
The tragedy in Mumbai can be nothing but a total collapse of our Intelligence failure. When we have been warned of the attacks, even their locations specified as 5-star hotels by the US and some ...
End to an unforgettable era
Its been an awesome journey, starting since 1996. The dream debut itself hinted what the world was going to witness over the next few years. And to say the least, we got a lot more than what we ...