Archive for August, 2008

Giveaway of the Day – Edraw Max

Edraw Max is a vector-based diagramming software with rich examples and templates. Easy to create flow charts, organizational charts, business charts, Mind map, UML diagrams, workflows, program structures, network diagrams, maps and database diagrams.
Edraw Max enables students, teachers and business professionals to reliably create and publish kinds of diagrams to represent any ideas. It’s an [...]

TRAI okays Internet telephony

Yesterday we wrote about Ways to send free SMS in India and today in India, Telecom regulator TRAI ( Telecom Regulatory Authority of India )on Monday allowed ISPs to offer unrestricted internet telephony services, a move that will further boost competition in the domestic long distance segment and lower STD tariffs.
This if approved and applied [...]

Why you should be avoiding Teflon?

Teflon is the trademarked name for a chemical substance called Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). As part of our daily lives, its known to us as Non-Stick coating usually found on our cooking utensils.
Why is Teflon dangerous?
Within two to five minutes on a stove, cookware coated with Teflon can exceed temperatures at which the coating breaks apart and [...]

Ways to send free SMS in India

If you have any friends and relatives in India and would like to send them free SMS, this post is a must read for you.
Below you will find multiple ways which can help you send free SMS to mobile phone users in India.
1.) 160by2: 160by2 is a trusted and most widely used service when it [...]

Creating Powerful Presentations with Nancy Duarte

In my last post Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, you learnt about how you can go about with achieving your childhood dreams and enabling others to achieve their dreams. Now in this post, i will point you to a powerful method by Nancy Duarte which can help you create powerful presentations.

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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and [...]

4 Natural SuperFoods worth eating

Its a known fact that how we eat is as much important as we eat. This post will talk about Four readily available natural superfoods which can certainly help you boost your immunity, make you look more beautiful and keep you protected from some of the dreaded diseases on this planet Earth.
Pomegranates
Pomegranates are known to [...]

Keeping your COOL helps you heal faster

Yes, the title says it all. You can heal faster if you maintain your cool. As per the scientists as Ohio State University, keeping a control on your anger can help you heal faster. The study was done on around 100 subject and those with higher temper took four times longer to heal.
The research found [...]

Understanding HTTP Response Codes

As part of the HTTP Request Response cycle, When a request is made to your server for a page on your site by the browser or some other client, your server returns an HTTP status code in response to the request.This status code provides information about the status of the request. Some of the most [...]

[How-To] Know if you need glasses

If you are one of those who feels that you don’t need glasses, this quick check below should help you confirm your view. Below are the list of points which can confirm that your eyes are healthy and don’t need glasses for proper functioning.
As a general rule
Everyone should have a comprehensive eye test performed on [...]