Why Everyone Talks about Cloud Computing ?

Are there some Nimbus formations in the sky? Guess not but what seems to be the latest buzz about clouds all about? What in the world is Cloud Computing? Well, if you seem to be hibernating a lot these days, be in the know.

Cloud Computing is being used by giant names in the I.T. World like IBM and microsoft. They happen to visualize this as the future of the software industry. These two giants have already released their own versions of the hosted messaging as well as collaboration platforms.

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In a nutshell, cloud computing is the same as social networking, collaboration of even an Enterprise 2.0. It is the answer to the organization’s corporate needs towards it’s overall productivity.

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There is the IBM Bluehouse while Microsoft has their Project Azure which will be hounding you like a rain cloud by 2010. The former is an online service that puts together the features of social networking and business-collaboration tools. You can enjoy instant messaging, web conferencing, and even document sharing that is being utilized via the cloud platform. The advantage of the IBM Bluehouse is that you need not install any software in the computer.

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Microsoft’s Windows Azure on the other hand is another cloud services OS that provides service hosting and management. They provide transactions such as storage, scaling and managing of web application via the Internet. Basically this technology would work in line with the ASP.NET, the IIS, FastCGI, P/Invoke, as well as the Visual Studio 2008.

Cause of the Crisis

Cause of the Crisis

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Creativity

And People Call Muslims Extremists

And People Call Muslims Extremists

NON-MUSLIMS BURNING THE HOLY QURAN…

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY MUSLIMS AS YOU CAN IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

SO THAT IT MAY REACHES THE MEDIA WHICH WILL - FOR SURE COVER IT AS WELL AS IT

DESERVES, AND THE MUSLIMS & OTHER RELIGIONS, ALL OVER THE WORLD MAY KNOW &

DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. THIS IS AN EXCLUSIVE PICTURE AND IT'S THE ONLY PROOF

OF THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN DONE BY THE NON-MUSLIMS

Mail from a frustrated victim of chain mails

I wanted to thank all my friends and family who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and continuing it in 2009 also....... Because of your kindness:

• I stopped drinking Coca Cola after I found out that it's good for removing toilet stains.
• I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with AIDS.
• Forwarded hundreds of mails but still waiting for FREE DESKTOP, LAPTOP, CAMERA, CELLPHONE etc….
• I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer...
• I don't leave my car in the parking lot or any other place and sometimes I even have to walk about 7 blocks for fear that someone will drug me with a perfume sample and try to rob me.
• I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a phone bill with calls to Uganda, Pakistan, Singapore and Tokyo.
• I also stopped drinking anything out of a Can for fear that I will get sick from the rat faeces and urine.
• When I go to parties, I don't look at any girl, no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel, drug me, then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.
  
• I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account. A sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times.. (Poor girl! she's been 7 since 1993...)
• Still open to help somebody from Nigeria who wants to use my account to transfer his uncle's property of $ 100 million. So much trustworthy.
• I have forwarded 35 emails to 400 people hoping that Ericsson or Nokia will send me latest mobile phones but those models are also obsolete now.
• Made some Hundred wishes before forwarding those emails with friendship ppts, mazhabi, quotes etc. Now most of those 'Wishes' are already married (to someone else)
  

NOW IMPORTANT NOTE: If you do not send this e-mail to at least 11,246 people in the next 10 seconds, a bird will Pee on your head today at 6:30pm. Nothing has happened till now......... ......... ... but who knows. So please forward.

Top 50 Freewares

Our daily life is overloaded with lots of freeware as almost 80% of internet users can’t afford to buy paid software’s.Do you ever buy any software for personal use like listening music or browsing websites? (May be Yes but chances are below 10%), Guess what if Firefox,Internet explorer or Chrome is paid ?

In a basic concept we often confused about the freeware, open source , free software’s , shareware and paid software.First of all freeware is a software offered free of charge and can be easily downloadable off of the Internet. Some software’s that are free but requires the user to view ads while using the program then it is can’t be declared in the category of freeware but its actually is a adware. Moreover freeware is also different from shareware which have specific duration of trail period and requires a payment after the expiration of the trial date.

What is the intention of this post?

This purpose of this post is to let you know with the top 50 freeware that can freely boost up your performance and can be easily used in day today life without losing any experience or money.This list contains the top performable and free applications for general function like movie players ,antivirus ,photography applications ,dictionary ,browsers ,messengers ,downloader’s and several other uses.The list is as follows:

1. GOM Media Player
2. PrimoPDF
3. IrfanView
4. WordWeb
5. Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10
6. VLC Media Player
7. Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus
8. Avast Home Edition Free
9. LimeWire
10. Camfrog Video Chat
11. Youtube Downloader
12. Orbit Downloader
13. Easeus Partition Manager 3.5
14. BitComet 1.12
15. Advanced SystemCare Free
16. FrostWire
17. Download Accelerator Plus
18. Trillian
19. Free YouTube to MP3 Converter
20. PhotoScape
21. Trend Micro HijackThis
22. Windows Live Messenger
23. Wise Registry Cleaner
24. Apple iTunes
25. Hotspot Shield
26. Any Video Converter
27. Riva FLV Encoder
28. FLV Player
29. Internet Explorer 8
30. JetAudio Basic
31. Spybot - Search & Destroy
32. Avant Browser
33. Glary Utilities
34. Paint.NET
35. Apple QuickTime
36. Adobe Reader 9.1
37. Windows Movie Maker (Windows XP) 2.1
38. PaltalkScene 9.7
39. SpywareBlaster
40. Smart Defrag
41. Little Fighter
42. Flash Player
43. AVGAnti-Virus Free Edition
44. uTorrent
45. ObjectDock
46. BS.Player
47. MP3 Rocket
48. ManyCam Virtual Webcam
49. CCleaner
50. FreeZ Online TV

Note: I didn’t write any description of the applications as they are very common but in case you want to know more then feel free to drop in comments.Moreover if you know any better applications then also drop in comments, we would like to introduce that application under your credits.

10 Tips to Decide Niche for Your Website

What’s a website if no one visits it — additional garbage floating around the Information Highway. Their are millions of website having undefined goals and are neglect by the users. Most of the website owners and bloggers don’t know about what actually they want with their website. FAIL is ultimate results of those confused fellows and via this post i would like to drag your attention towards your baby websites/blogs. For getting fruitful traffic/business, ideally you should target the right audience with the right niche.

So abide by these 10 Tips to help you decide the niche for your website:

1. Focus on one category – If your website is a jack of all trades you dilute your regulars since you’re all around.
2. Come up with information that only you can provide. – If it’s just something you grab from other sites, your credibility decreases. How can you sell anything if you don’t have an edge?
3. Determine if you would put your website’s identity under one category, territory or channel.
4. Get an affiliate website that has already entered and succeed in that particular niche market – This way you can take advantage of the customers that you really need.
5. Get in touch with the market – Surely, Beta-max players are way out of circulation. You’re selling tapes? Good Luck.
6. Create your USP or Unique Selling Proposition – Customers would want to avail of what you offer if you are the best in a certain field so capitalize on it.
7. Streamline your resources.
8. Design a landing page that will divert your customers to your site when you do an email blast.
9. Locate your information equilibrium or your balance. Not too much or not too less.
10. Seek vertical domination. Going wide is definitely not the core of Niche Marketing.

The best way is to feel the market before you dive right into it without testing it first.

How many girlfriends should a geek have ?

Today i’m not in the mood of writing any tips or technical reviews and you may be confused about this trick question of the title.

For starters, geeks are often related to things not human beings to begin with. Have you ever heard a geek say the L word to a person? They say the L word to the blinking ensemble of wires and nodes sitting still in front of them.

They are pale and deathly looking since they literally live all bundled up in their rooms. So definitely, they are not the outdoor type. Meaning, they DO NOT step outside their doors.

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These geeks would amaze you if you are one of them. As a lady geek, wouldn’t it also be a little hard for you to go outside and bask under the sun in your cut-offs and “Gates, you rock my world” printed on your baby tees?

If you thinks that why particularly i’m talking about the geek only ? or Why not any simple human or confused about the relevancy of this post then i’ll suggest you 12 Reasons Why a Geek Will Steal Your Girlfriend.

You see, geeks often find it hard to engage in a lengthy conversation with non-geeks since what will they talk about? The Stock Market or perhaps the rise and fall of the economy? They are so updated with the latest virus strains that have attacked the World Wide Web but not the current flu virus.

Although these geeks may have a string of buddies they call friends, have you met any one of them? They are mostly found online just like him. Your geek is the Casanova of the Net world unfortunately, a nobody in the real world.

So to answer the question on how many girlfriends a Geek should have, are you speaking of a living and breathing girlfriend? None.

Top 10 Productivity applications

Their are two ways of doing any work, 1.Simple and Traditional way which require lot of time and resources and 2.Optimized way with the help of specified tools.This post is dedicated for the people who wants to increase their working productivity and in search of way to fulfill their requirements.

I like this quote

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

The top 10 applications discussed here are into very daily use, these utilities can make your life worthy and easier.

1.Post-it Digital Notes

Post-it Digital Notes are easy, intuitive, and packed with features to get you organized. So you can make lists and reminders, key-code them with colors and photos, sort them by category, and set alarms to remind yourself of projects and appointments.

2.MarketBrowser

Almost every one shakes from the effects of the market and eagerly waiting for the market updates. MarketBrowser brings the world class charting on your computer in seconds. It helps in quickly checking the portfolio performance with the at-a-glance toolbar. Track every stock, mutual fund or an index. Quickly run studies like moving averages, spreads and oscillators. Chart and manipulate economic data. They says that

The 12-window investing software makes charting funds and stock quotes easy. It’s perfect for at work and at home stock market monitoring.

3.Amortization Schedule for Excel

Amortization Schedule for Excel spreadsheet can easily creates an amortization schedule or payment schedule for a fixed-rate loan, with optional extra payments. within this application the payment frequency can be annual, semi-annual, quarterly, bi-monthly, monthly, semi-monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly.

4.Debt Reduction Calculator for Excel

The Debt Reduction Calculator spreadsheet for microsoft Excel helps you plan how to reduce credit card debt, auto loans, student loans, and other debts. The spreadsheet lets you choose from various debt reduction strategies, including the popular debt snowball strategy (paying the lowest balance first) and the highest interest first strategy. Easily print a debt snowball payment schedule to help you keep track of your progress. The Snowball Growth Chart lets you visualize how your snowball grows over time as you wipe out your debts. Version 1.2 includes templates for OpenOffice.

5.Desktop iCalendar Lite

Desktop iCalendar Lite is a free desktop calendar for windows. It allows you to manage your events, to-do list on desktop. It allows subscribing public google Calendar, such as holidays, election or NBA. It is full customizable. A build in skin editor makes it easy to set the skin by your own taste. Desktop iCalendar is full compatible with iCalendar standard, and can work with the calendars created by Thunderbird Lightning, Sunbird.

6.WinCalendar for Windows, Word & Excel

Planning and scheduling is quite important task that reflects the proper management of the life. WinCalendar is dedicated for use in planning and scheduling purposes. It has built-in holidays for 10 countries and even works stand-alone as a desktop calendar. It have the supports of over 100 different calendar layouts. Moreover it can also be used as a graphical fertility calculator and ovulation predictor.

7.Cell Phone Manager

Now a days we have more than one mobile phones and it is very hard to manage them together with your computer. MobTime Cell Phone Manager is easy-to-use PC software that helps manage your mobile phone via data cable, IrDA, or Bluetooth dongle. The best part of this software is that it supports most famous mobile phones of Nokia, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Motorola, LG, and Siemens. They itself says that

With the software, you can manage contacts, calendars, and messages, send and receive messages, chat via messages like MSN and Skype, create own logos and ring tones, manage other multimedia files, such as MP3s, photos, E-books, and video, install Java games and applications, synchronize contacts and calendars with Outlook and Outlook Express, access Internet via GPRS connection. Check if your phone is supported at the developer’s Web site.

8.Sony Ericsson PC Suite

I think you all known with the term PC Suite.It is basically an application that connect your mobile with the computer and provides the data exchange between them. Before going further you have an option of Nokia Suites , LG PC Suites , USB Drivers for Motorola.

The Sony Ericsson PC Suite connects your phone to your computer and expands the capabilities of your phone.
With PC Suite you can:

• Easily Synchronize calendar and contact information on your phone and computer
• Easily Transfer data between devices, including music, images and videos
• Easily Set up the software to connect your computer to the Internet using your phone as a modem
• Easily Create and send text and picture messages.

PC Suite for Smartphone’s and business phones also includes:

• Email synchronization
• Backup additional data

You also have the option of:

• Downloading software to your PC and install it on your phone
• Downloading and install additional languages on your phone.

9.Active Desktop Calendar

You must notice the sidebar widgets in the windows vista, it lacks some features. Active Desktop Calendar is a fully customizable calendar with notes, tasks, alarms and contacts provides seamless integration and interactivity with the desktop background. It provides you with an option of organizing data in color coded layers and share them in a local network with your friends. It also patch with the Outlook and fetch the appointments/tasks on the desktop and offers integration with Google calendars and web based ICS files.

10.Moffsoft FreeCalc

The default calculator comes with Microsoft’s lacks so many dedicated and advance calculations. Moffsoft FreeCalc don’t get you deprived of that, as it is a great replacement for your existing Windows calculator. In a short note it have extra functionality like an option of printable/savable transaction tape, color schemes , sizable display, digit groupings, tray icon and other features.

Their are many other tools that also counts in the productivity applications but i keep this list short and simple.If you want to know more then you can simply go through Top 20 Free Applications to Increase Your Productivity, 36 Productive Facebook Applications , Top 10 Great Web Based Office Suite Service .

Note:If you thought that some ingredient is missing in this list of utilities then feel free to drop in comments.We will glad to resolve your queries with the help of optimized suggestions and consultation.

Ten Tips To Date On Twitter

We know that twitter is becoming more and more popular that it has even become the current buzzword in gaining more potential customers for online businesses on the Internet. This micro-blogging and social networking tool combines to send a very short but powerful message to the world at large, and it is never too heavy a read, being only 140 characters per tweet. Many Tweeter fans say it is here to stay.

Twitter is also making an impact on how people interact on the web, in particular, online dating. This seems to be the next logical step for this micro-blogging phenomenon to take, because how else will you keep from boring your dates to death, except through short but sweet messages. Let’s consider some Twitter dating tips:

One, have a really good and reliable sounding user-name. No slutty porn names please. Using last names are a must if you want to appear trustworthy.

Two, create a realistic but sexy sounding bio and avatar. Tweak your potential dates’ interests.

Three, start following the people you fancy. But not on the stalker-ish level.

Four, be yourself and be genuine. Nothing spells date disaster more than a fakie.

Five, help your love interests out. Be nice, and soon you’ll have a romantic following.

Six, keep it simple, be light-hearted and upbeat. Trying too hard or being too emotional will only drive people away.

Seven, compliment as often as you can, but be sincere. How else will you start flirting?

Eight, appear confident and optimistic. If you feel good about yourself, people will feel good about you.

Nine, don’t forget to have fun. Remember, a sense of humor is always considered sexy.

Ten, don’t come on too strong. Don’t be overly sexual, or you’ll lose your following and get branded as a sexual predator.

Note:Its quite easy to share informations, links, suggestions and even chat on twitter.But their are many ways when tweets moves from public time lines to Direct Messages.Feel free to comments your innovative ideal ways to date via twitter.

PS:This post is part of humorous thinking of my mind, don’t take this serious and stay part of it by commenting your views.