Google Talk Doesn’t Require Gmail Anymore

Google realized that one of the reasons Google Talk has such a small number of users is that you need to have a Gmail account to use it. And that wasn’t too necessary. Of course, you had your Gmail contacts, mail notification, your chats were searchable in Gmail and the voicemail you received looked better, but the basic client doesn’t need a Gmail address.Google Blog reports that now anyone can try Google Talk, if they have a Google Account. So if you’re in this situation, you just have to sign up for GTalk, choose a nickname, and get the client (1.5 MB, Windows 2000/XP). You’ll notice that the interface still talks about Gmail and features like mail notification are visible, but don’t work.

Google claims “there are millions of people around the world to chat with”.

Update: Google also released Google Talk 1.0.0.98, fixing some bugs, and introducing others. Offline contacts and those who use Gmail Chat have non-working options like “Call” and “Send files”.

Attitude towards life..

Laugh like you have never cried…
Play like you have never lost…
Love like you have never been hurt…
Live like there is no tomorrow…
Always Be Optimistic…

“Jana Gana Mana”-Indian National Anthem… Are you sure??

“Jana Gana Mana” – Just a thought for the National Anthem!
How well do you know about it?

Many of us always wondered who is the ” adhinayak” and “bharat bhagya vidhata”, whose praise we are singing. I thought might be Motherland India !
Did you know the following about our national anthem??? I didn’t.

India ’s national anthem, Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka, was written by Rabindranath Tagore in honour of King George V and the Queen of England when they visited India in 1919.
To honour their visit Pandit Motilal Nehru had the five stanzas included , which are in praise of the King and Queen. (And most of us think it is in the praise of our great motherland!!!)

In the original Bengali verses only those provinces that were under British rule, i.e. Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat , Maratha etc.were mentioned. None of the princely states were recognized which are integral parts of India now Kashmir, Rajasthan, Andhra, Mysore or Kerala.

Neither the Indian Ocean nor the Arabian Sea was included, since they were directly under Portuguese rule at that time. The Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka implies that King George V is the lord of the masses and Bharata Bhagya Vidhata is “the bestower of good fortune”.

Following is a translation of the 5 stanzas that glorify the King:

1st stanza: (Indian) People wake up remembering your good name and ask for your blessings and they sing your glories. (Tava shubha name jaage; tava shubha aashish maage, gaaye tava jaya gaatha)

2nd: Around your throne people of all religions come and give their love and anxiously wait to hear your kind words.

3r: Praise to the King for being the charioteer, for leading the ancient travelers beyond misery.

4th: Drowned in the deep ignorance and suffering, poverty-stricken, unconscious country? Waiting for the wink of your eye and your mother’s (the Queen’s) true protection.

5th: In your compassionate plans, the sleeping Bharat (India) will wake up. We bow down to your feet O’ Queen, and glory to Rajeshwara (the King)

This whole poem does not indicate any love for the Motherland but depicts a bleak picture. When you sing Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka, whom are you glorifying?

Certainly not the Motherland. Is it God? The poem does not indicate that.It is time now to understand the original purpose and the implication of this, rather than blindly sing as has been done the past fifty years.

Nehru chose the present national anthem as opposed to Vande Mataram because he thought that it would be easier for the band to play!!!!!!!!
It was an absurd reason but Today for that matter bands have advanced and they can very well play any music. So they can as well play Vande Mataram, which is a far better composition in praise of our Dear Motherland – India .

Wake up, it’s high time! I dont know if we shud disrespet this POEM or not but I guess Vande Mataram shud be our National Anthem.
Guys I am ashamed I was singing glory of the killers of legends of Revolution and that too loudly and standstill coz I never knew this (another) blunder of Nehru.

Are Spelling so important??

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT SPELLING WAS VERY IMPORTANT BUT NOW DON’T FEEL THAT WAY…………jsut raed tihs……..I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azmanig huh?

yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!

 I THINK YOU MAY AGREE WITH ME NOW ?

World’s Tallest Residental Building

 

 

The Eureka Tower is the world’s tallest residental building – which was offically opened in Melbourne, on October 11, 2006. At a height of 300 metres, the building is the highest in Melbourne, the 35th highest in the world and is the same height the
Eiffel Tower in Paris. The building consists of 92 storeys and 556 apartments ranging in price from 390,000 dollars (292,000 US) to 7 million dollars (5.25 million US) and also features the fastest lifts in the Southern Hemisphere, taking just forty seconds to reach the top.

 

A Man’s remote

Every man needs one of this…

Trix n Flix…

Dis Dynamic Twins(Trix n Flix) are the official mascots of EURO 2008…..And for the first time in soccer history two mascots hav been used as the venue is two countries,Austria and
Switzerland…. 

 

Trix and Flix, the names of these two official mascots for UEFA EURO 2008 were chosen by more than 67,000 Austrian and Swiss football fans….. The other names in the voting were Zagi and Zigi, Flitz and Bitz…..Trix and Flix won a public vote in the two countries with 36.3 per cent of the vote.

 

At the Euro 2008 mascot launch, the tournament’s organisers described one twin as being “the serious and self-controlled type” while the other “is more rebellious and creative”.

Going Home!!!

Am goin home today for diwali (Festival of lights)      ……Onethin I like abt diwali is crackers,which I dont fire ….wil enjoy by watchin …..Dis diwali is stil more happier occasion to me as my sister wil join me at home….I was surprised to hear dat coll is givin OD on friday :o  …..Its gettin late ….I hav to get ready!!!

Weird record….

 

A man named Matt Mcallister of Santa Barbara CA managed to wear 155 t-shirts at the same time….Te world record for wearing the most number of t-shirts…..

I wonder how he would hav got them off  :^)  …. How bored must he be to do something like that??? Anyway He got publicity and will have something grt to tell his kids and grandkids……

 

Wats Illusion?

An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present.

In the world of optical illusions , your eyes and your brain wil fool you.

Our visual system is designed to allow us functioning in three-dimensional environment which is filled with light, shading, color, texture, and full of objects of different sizes at different distances. Most of us take vision for granted without realizing how complex and difficult task our brain is performing in order to correctly represent the “real outside world”.

Our perception is created by our brain’s interpretation of visual information and sometimes it results in fascinating visual illusions. Our mind gets “actively” involved in interpreting the perceptual input rather than passively recording the input. It does not always accurately represent that input.So dis results in Illusion……