Hi Friends Long time no see huh!

Well I was bit busy as I got into software and I now deal with Administration of one of the Largest Software Providers on Earth!

But here to Google is God. Something interesting stuck me after I came across an interesting Ad of GOOGLE over YouTube. And I decided to make Google tell me what is searched most for a particular letter. And zoom here is the compilation which I get.

The google ad you can see there too! Ow seems Bravenet has removed the option where we could link youtube videos!

Thanks . . .

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

A good home must be made, not bought.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

A wise man will be master of his mind; a fool will be its slave.

Act as if it were impossible to fail; that is the formula for success.

An angry man is seldom reasonable; a reasonable man is seldom angry.

The best advice is usually worthless- the wise don’t need it, the fools don’t heed it.

One who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new.

Contentment consists not in great wealth, but in few wants.

Don’t through stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are made of glass.

Good friends are treasures of immense value.

Hard work is the only investment that never fails.

If you want to see a man angry, keep him hungry.

Knowledge is man’s best acquisition; it is a lifelong friend and the safest guide.

Laughter is inner jogging.

A really honest executive is one who is willing to share the credit with the person who did the work.

He who has not learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle

It is better to have a true enemy than to have a false friend.

Manners reveal character.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job; but the person who knows the ‘why’ will be his boss.

Every one of us has a role to fulfill, a work to do, a place which we alone can occupy. – The Mother

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. - Pythagoras

Unless you have a forgiving nature, you will not see God. – George Herbert

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

Facts do not seize to exist just because they are ignored. – Aldous Huxley

The more a man learns, the more he is inclined to be modest about his knowledge.

Love of God and love of neighbor are two sides, inward and outward, of a truly religious man. – S. Radhakrishnan

If parents want honest children, then must be honest themselves.

Worry is interest on trouble, which is paid before it is due.

If your foot slips you can regain your balance, but a word once spoken cannot be talen back.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy with none. – Benjamin Franklin

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man. – Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness depends on what you can give, not what you can get. – Mahatma Gandhi

Speak little about what you know and keep quiet about what you do not know.

There is on kind of an achievement equal to perfect health.

Cheerfulness is the principal ingredient in the composition of health.

Think more about what you can make happen than what happens to you.

When everything seems lost, remember future remains.

Doing good to others is not a duty; it is a joy for it increases your own health and happiness.

 You cannot change the past, but you ca ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.

If anyone speaks ill to you, let your life be such that no one believe him.

 Patients and perseverance overcome mountains.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

God gives every bird its food but never drops it in its nest.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does to the body.

Unless you learn to be happy with what you have, how can you be happier with more?

Experience is the best school master, only the school fee is heavy.

Men make house, but women make homes.

Imitation is human, creation is Divine.

The books that help you most are those that make you think the most. – Theodore Parker

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin

Hello NETIZENS!!!!

            Guess what! Today’s blog is all about guys who just love to browse the web simply with no actual purpose, browse all over, search images, web sites and all cool stuff. Really sometimes it’s hard to tell how and when time passed away! I tell you what; we belong to the era when browsing was 60 bucks per hour and that’s when I learned about the internet, hoe to browse, create email IDs and I still have (almost) email IDs active created then; and I was just a school kid. It was the enthusiasm that made me feel nothing of the money I spent in that hour against the work I did over the net.   I tell you what; the first time I went to a cyber café, I just typed espnstar.com and wondered over the pictures that flashed after 10 minutes and just for that I paid 60 bucks. I did such stuff many times, over and over again but never failed to awe over the things that I learned even if it were of the scale of nano or pico whatever you say.

            This time, by the corner I discovered a site; in fact many but I shall discuss them later; that defined human creativity and the extent it can dumbstruck another human. Over the decade of internet browsing (obviously) never ever I have found that I cannot browse or keep on browsing the net for ever.

            Well, coming back to my discovery (don't laugh if I call it so because that’s what it should be called according to English); it’s a web site feeding from Flickr.com that displays images in an absolutely astounding and innovative manner. The concept combines the fact that today’s modern search is all built around the tags; and really the search thing is as enormous as any galaxy. Tags, linked tags, associated tags, related tags, etc all work together; and in a day by day improving algorithm to serve your queries better. It’s TAGGALAXY.COM!

            The taggalaxy.com, as I said feeds from flickr.com brings you images from flickr.com in a very refreshing and vibrant manner and don't know why they seem more vibrant, colorful and real than they’d have normally felt if browsed over their original sites (well that’s only my mind going wayward).

            As you type in those letters in your address bar your get black flash embedded page with ‘Tag Galaxy’ encrypted besides a dwarf white galaxy revolving smoothly appears. Here comes the irony that I often face; your about to start a search where you can type anything you wish, yet you find yourself blank and blink what to type for at least 2 minutes!!! Hell, leave that and type whatever you like in the box. Say N85 (I don't know why I was not able to type two separate words and it’d always takes them as a single word or is it that there is a space which is supposed to be between two words but is not just visible enough), the next moment you see a green planet immerging from the black of the universe and slowly appear its satellites! Noah emerges a star and then slowly appears its planets, yeah! The green star slowly rotates with its planets too slowly revolving around it in different shapes and sizes. You can zoom into the system further and out as well, rotate the system in any direction you want. If N85 is what you want to see images of then go on click the bright star; else click the planets that has elated tags like Nokia, Mobile Phone, Camera, etc. On clicking a related tag i.e. a planet a new galaxy appears with the star being the original plus the planet tag that you clicked e.g. is you had clicked Nokia from the galaxy of N85, then the new system would have s star names ‘Nokia+N85’. The main act begins when finally you are satisfied with the central stars name and you click on it. The crude shining star turns into   globe with visible squares or boxes whatever you’d like to call it.  And slowly images start landing on the surface boxes and soon the globe becomes a globe of images you had searched for. It’s cool in full screen! Further if you click any particular image, it pops up n air only to be enlarged in its full bloom after just another click, with all the details engraved in it in Flickr by its owner.

            Fantastic experience if you see it in a good monitor with a good internet connection!

            There are more but as I told you, shall discuss it later. GO check it out!!!

Hello Duniya,

            Well if anyone remembers I’ve been always been tagging or mentioning the phrase ‘My Favorite Browser’ ‘My favorite Browser’! Well then I guess time has come I discuss it a bit. I take this opportunity to present MY FAVORITE BROWSER the FLOCK!

But why now it’s not a new one!? Yes, and because it’s just been newly upgraded and the new version 2.0 is up for grab! The new page when upgraded automatically for those who already have it says “Tune Up Your FLOCK!” And then it blabbers about how things are cooler than before.

Well frankly I haven’t been able to experience much of a difference; things might be annoying if you’re still using Pentium 4 and a 945 Intel Chipset!!! But yeah I like it as it looks stunning and terrifically standard and professional.

Flock allows you to store search engines from any site you want to. Well then the experts have it that I.E. too has it; shush what I dun want to tangle myself in those XML stuff. So bottom-line is, it’s better. Great looking orange icons allow you to browse media present on any site you’re browsing currently, the search engine adding stuff (which I told you earlier) and the ever so ubiquitous nowadays RSS feeds; and all in a separate bar or dialogue box without interrupting your normal browsing.

Oh ! And I was almost forgetting the amazing feature that flock has now. It can open automatically your mails, social networks and video and image sites at a click!!!!

Now some geek talks! Flock is a web browser built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase that specializes in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface. Flock v2 was released on October 14, 2008. Developed by Flock, Inc. the latest  stable release is 2.0.3 (24 December 2008), has been Written in C++, XUL, XBL, and JavaScript; runs on  OS Windows, Mac OS X and Linux; Available in Catalan, English (US), Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovak and Spanish (Latin American and Spain).It has a MPL License (Mozilla Public License) and more geeky guys can visit Website http://flock.com (was a LOL joke the site is cool too!).

Flock rocks (not for faint computers)!!

KUDOS!

Lots of things happened; the world turned a lot many times in the past few months of which I have not been able to bring some good stuff in this journal.

            Well not to worry guys here I come again, but probably just to disappoint you guys a bit. This time it’s nothing new but an annexure to the might of Mozilla with the upsurge of NET 2.0 and Firefox 3.0.

            Its all about the customizability of Mozilla due to the technological feats achieved and mentioned above. It’s about this cool browser I came across which has been customized from Firefox to be in Hindi!!

            PRAGATI is the name! Pragati has every in built menu in Hindi and also has this cool widget which allows you to scroll, type (obviously in Hindi you mambos!), and a certain feature that allow you to view (in certain ways) the translated (no guarantee) version of a word you hover above.

            I liked the browser for only one reason; because it has this inbuilt Hindi dictionary and spell check. Rest all is same as Firefox; tabbed browser and all (although you have to force open sites in tabbed one coz they open in a separate window by default). But still I must admit the best part is the menu names given!!!

            But lots of dislikes; I mean lots. The widget may irritate you as it never seems to disappear, blocking you text view; the translations also pop up unexpectedly and block the content. It all becomes clumsy and of course it’s strictly for those who know their Hindi well. But I do feel good that at least efforts are been made towards this direction too. Think about the near future when we can get the might Firefox in all of the major and minor languages and even dialects (bhojpuri anyone!). Shining India at last!

Kudos guys keep browsing.

Hi guys long time no see. The ad-sense thing didn’t work on my blog. It said I had to have my own site. Basically it caught on the URL “varunbiswas.bravejournal.com”, I guess had it been just “varunbiswas.com” I could’ve made it.

Actually I wanted to post a blog in between about the tragic week I had, but why bother, its happy times and always the sun has to rise no matter how dark are the nights.

So I’d post this blog to dedicate the email service which I had joined quite a time back just after YAHOO and still have. The ID was dedicated to my then girlfriend and now remains just a unique ID. I actually opened it up to do things anonymously on the net, you know guys and techies stuffs. Suddenly to my greatest surprise when I opened up my secret email ID. It was GOOGLED. I mean first it asked me to confirm some terms and conditions given by Google. Then I came across a homepage similar to many websites which had many portals, which can be added and removed by the user. You know kind of iGoogle, MyLot etc. It was a MASH MAKER right in front of my eyes.

And after all the confirmations and redesigning my home page I found actually it was now being managed by Google. I mean it had ****talk, **** Society, **** Live Videos, News from **** and lots more. Go check it out those of you haven’t discovered yet.

So the NEWS is (MAY NOT BE FOR MANY TOUGH) Sify mail is now subordinated by Google. It has many features which combine both SIFY features, which include News, Sports, Indian Idol and lots of stuffs; and Google products like Gtalk, Orkut and so many. All can be above all added and removed as desired just as in MASH MAKER or iGoogle page.

Difficult times for me now folks. Anyway I am not discussing those here otherwise rarer than a blog it’ll become a diary entry by me for today (or the past few days!). I wanted to discuss…yes discuss (and not introduce something new today) about a favorite pastime or say leisure activity of mine, which I’m  sure many have in common with me. Remember this one of my favorite and not THE favorite. Ahem…excuse my American English Spellings.

Well, people (actually the company guys) decided to call it GRAVITY TILES (perhaps people only named it seems to be ancient game, I shall write about its history sometimes else). The version I have is from HOYLE BOARD GAMES and the categorized it under MAHJONG TILES (…history later). Every since I started playing it I tried hard or the illusive NULL BOARD i.e. board ended with no tiles remaining.  Its not that I haven't done it ever, the thing is I performed a HAT-TRICK of it!!!

For those who are listening about HOYLE or GRAVITY TILES or even BOARD GAMES let me brief you up a bit. BOARD GAMES, first of all are…eh here let me quote WIKIPEDIA: A board game is a game in which counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (a pre-marked surface usually specific to that game). As do other form of entertainment, board games can represent nearly any subject. There are many different types and styles of board games, including those, at the most-basic level, that that have no inherent theme—such as Checkers—as well as more-complicated games with definite subjects, or even narratives, like Clue.

            And now the category that HOYLE places GRAVITY TILES into (I’d prefer it to be in TILES category…whatever) MAHJONG TILES. And WIKI says: Mahjong tiles are tiles of Chinese origin that are used to play many games, most notably Mahjong and Mahjong solitaire. Although they are most commonly tiles, they may also refer to playing cards with similar contents as well (I didn’t very well understand this! Ha-ha).

            Now to the big thing, for all you who want to know (only for hose who want to know) what GRAVITY TILES is, here it is from WIKI: I could not find it in WIKI hurray!!!!!!!!!! So here's a VICKY for you guys (for a change). In this board game (however I can’t imagine how it would be possible to play it on a real board…silly board games). For starters it will be a board full of tiles (aha eureka...that’s why it falls under board games). Your goal is score as many as points as well leading to a board with no remaining tiles. How do you do THAT? Well, simple click on tiles with similar colors stacked together so that they vanish and so on… Check out this link http://www.wiseacre-gardens.com/games/gravity.html, you’ll understand most of it.

         But of course my idea of this post was to tell you guys that I had performed a hat-trick of the NULL board (did I tell already?). Check the pics above.

Adobe air; Wikipedia says:

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application. Adobe made a public preview release of AIR (then called Apollo) along with a software development kit (SDK) and extension for developing Apollo applications with the Flex framework, on March 19, 2007. On June 10, 2007, Apollo was renamed to AIR and a public beta release of the runtime was launched. Public beta 2 of AIR SDK was released on October 1, 2007. Public beta 3 was released on December 12, 2007, and version 1.0 was released on February 25, 2008. A Linux alpha version was released on March 31, 2008.

            Well did I mention that AIR stands for Adobe© Integrated Runtime? Well what the standard definition says is out of my understanding reach (specially the developing application part and the FLASH+FLEX+AJAX part). But what I seem to understand is that you can stay online and connected (just as the URL says, as it starts with CONNECTNOW) much like windows LIVE (hopefully). But due to some bad cookies or some error I couldn’t open it yet (I mean properly), it always suggests to troubleshoot. So some of the features (which I discovered and did not copy from http://connectnow.adobe.com or www.wikipedia.org) are uploading files, online meeting, creating Acrobat files (PDFs), and many more which I havnt been able to discover (Ha! I saw the SCREENSHOTS on http://images.google.com and http://images.info.com, which showed maps!). I think AIR 1.1 is the latest!

            Well I’ll keep on trying and will soon update you guys!

Till then Bye Bye FOLKS (daily the same KUDOS doesn’t feel good)!

I could not help myself writing another blog in single hour! That's because I opened ORKUT and found this new feature “VIEW THIS CONVERSATION”. Here you can view the last few scraps exchanged between two users (WOW! Who thinks of such stiffs?)

I could not uninstall China’s number one alias favourite web browser, though its awfully slow and my PC becomes real slog if I happen to open CHROME also! One more reason is that I kind of wanted to test its FILE SNIFFER which supposedly will catch FLVs for me.

And last but not the least today’s features include my thought of combining Picassa and my Blog (www.Bravejournal.com). I thought I would someday eat up my Blog space if I keep uploading pics for my blog. And then I beautifully thought that I’ll upload all my required pics (for the blog) in Pacasa and then while entering new posts I shall simply give the URLs of the pics, only to find out that I need to download an uploader to upload to my Picasa account and the automatic download wont start; and the mentionable thing is that I was indeed using MAXTHON!!! Well I can do it via ORKUT!! And ya javascripts from ORKUT dont seem to work at all in MAXTHON!

Kudos Folks!!

Why it sucks? It has a great feature which I’ll tell only after I tell its sucking saga. I opened Wikipedia and was surprised to see that suddenly I could see very clear and things on-screen appeared very large. I tried to shrink the page (Ctrl+Scroll Down De-zoom, you know!?) and it came down to 10%n but still I could feel the difference For a guy with specs since the age of 7 its certainly not so painful to tell when a page has shrunk down to 10%. But I wasn’t! Then further I noticed that (from my Wiki instincts) some portion is missing (the portion where the details are given, be it man, machine or microbe; on the left side; top), then I noticed my horizontal scroll bar was actually stretching a mile. I got this déjà vu when I open some images or an audio file by the beloved NOTEPAD.

Rest everything was OK. Latest version available for download under the update scheme is 2.1.4. The best things...OK two features that were cool

Firstly, it can be personalized. On being opened for the first time it asks for your choice of opening a personalized account or a normal one! Now, a personal account is one that would obviously store you online (on Maxthon server). That means your last pages, favorite web pages, passwords and many more fractures that are normally stored by cookies on your computer will be stored online (on Maxthon’s server). In short cookies will not be stored in your computer (wow!).

And, remember by blog about SNAGIT? F man! This browser has an inbuilt SNAGIT! All the features that SNAGIT has! But then why am I not crying? That’s because it can’t capture videos! Lala! And some of the other features which I didn’t find else were ‘CPU CONTROL’ (can turn off JAVASCRIPTs and FLASHs), ‘CONTENT CONTROL’ (gives you option to disable images, scripts, ActiveX Objects, etc) and a ‘FILE SNIFFER.

It’s a EULA product. Maxthon, formerly known as “MyIE2” is a China-based freeware (more specifically donateware) web browser for Windows. From its early MyIE2 roots, Maxthon has developed a growing user base, especially in China, and in 2006 it received commercial backing for Maxthon 2.0. It uses the TRIDENT layout engine, just like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but it can use the Gecko engine used in Mozilla Firefox as well. Maxthon seeks to provide many rich features and a highly customizable interface, without losing any of the compatibility of Internet Explorer.

In January 2006, Maxthon developers partnered with Microsoft in its booth at the “Consumer Electronics Show”. Maxthon is reported to be the second most popular browser in China, and it has been downloaded more than 150 million times worldwide.

If you have liked the features, which I have mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs then forget para 3. But still it sucks. The thought of that Wikipedia page still gives me Goosebumps. I’m going to uninstall it, NOW!!!

Kudos FOLKS!