Tips for 2010 & HAPPY NEW YEAR

Stay out of trouble

Aim for greater heights 

Stay focused on your job

Excise to maintain good health

Practice team work

Rely on your trusted partner to watch your back. Take your time trusting others

Save for rainy days

Rest and relax

Always take time to smile

Realize that nothing is impossible

The senility prayer: " Grant me the senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway the good fotune to run into the ones I do and eyesight
to tell the difference "

Now you are supposed to share this with a bunch of your friends
and remember this

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old",
"You grow old because you stop laughing"

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Who want Appraisals & Increments

What if Management brings it to your notice that due to the current Global Economic Recession, There will be no appraisal for current year. The following are the perceived reactions of some departments.

Administration

Customer Care & Call Centers

IT Infrastructure

Human Resources

Top Executives

Security Administration

Software Development

Where are the Sales People

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Who need increment this year come one by one 

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Careless Website Updation!

Yesterday I came across one website of a popular Resort in GOA. In the tariff details they have given details of type of rooms and its charges. But when I read that information I found something funny which is highlighted with a circle below. Take a look!

Microsoft Word Banned By Texas Court

Its really shocking but true that a federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court. But people looking to buy Word or Microsoft's Office package in the U.S. won't have to go without the software. Microsoft said Tuesday it expects that new versions of the product, with the computer code in question removed, will be ready for sale when the injunction begins on Jan. 11. Toronto-based i4i Inc. sued Microsoft in 2007, saying it owned the technology behind a tool in the popular word processing program. The technology in question gives Word users an improved way to edit XML, or code that tells the program how to interpret and display a document's contents.
A Texas jury found that Microsoft Word willfully infringed on the patent. Microsoft appealed that decision, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld the lower court's damage award and the injunction against future sales of infringing copies of Word. Michel Vulpe, founder and co-inventor of i4i, said in a statement that the company is pleased with the decision, calling it "an important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors."
Microsoft said it has been preparing for such a judgment since August. Copies of Word and Office sold before Jan. 11 aren't affected by the court's decision. And Microsoft said it has "put the wheels in motion to remove this little-used feature" from versions of Word 2007 and Office 2007 that would be sold after that date.
"Beta" or test versions of Word 2010 and Office 2010, expected to be finalized next year, do not contain the offending code, the Microsoft spokesperson said.

Amazing Art.

Look at how far twisting balloons have come!

Test if a Website is down for you or for all

You might have come across many situations where you will get an error like "The Page Cannot Be Displayed" when you want to access any particular website on internet. You might be wondering if that website is down for everyone or just for you only.
Downforeveryoneorjustme.com will basically perform a quick check to see if the website you are currently seeing down is actually down for everyone else or just for you. This is very useful because sometimes website will appear to be down, but in reality you might be having ISP or DNS problems, and you are the only person not being able to see it. In those cases, obviously, this tool could help you not to freak out.

World's 100 Best Performing CEOs

This week, Harvard Business Review has released the list of top 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World. According to the list, Steve Jobs is the best performing CEO in the world. He is followed by Yun Jong-Yong of Samsung Electronics, Russian energy firm Gazprom’s Alexey Miller and John Chambers of Cisco Systems. Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries chairman, is at fifth position. None of the top three CEOs had MBA degree. Mukesh is the only Indian in this list. Let us see the complete list of 100 Best Performing CEOs in the world, along with the names of their respective companies.

1. Steve Jobs (Apple)
2. Yun Jong-Yong (Samsung)
3. Alexey B. Miller (Gazprom)
4. John T. Chambers (Cisco Systems)
5. Mukesh D. Ambani (Reliance Industries)
6. John C. Martin (Gilead Sciences)
7. Jeffrey P. Bezos (Amazon.com)
8. Margaret C. Whitman (Ebay)
9. Eric E. Schmidt (Google)
10. Hugh Grant (Monsanto)
11. Robert L. Tillman (Lowe’s)
12. William E. Greehey (Valero Energy)
13. Gareth Davis (Imperial Tobacco Group)
14. William J. Doyle (PotashCorp)
15. Benjamin Steinbruch (Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional)
16. Bart Becht (Reckitt Benckiser Group)
17. Masahiro Sakane (Komatsu)
18. Terry Leahy (Tesco)
19. John W. Thompson (Symantec)
20. Graham Mackay (SABMiller)
21. Mikael Lilius (Fortum)
22. Mikhail Prokhorov (Norilsk Nickel)
23. Mark G. Papa (EOG Resources)
24. C. John Wilder (TXU)
25. Frank Chapman (BG Group)
26. Paul Chisholm (Colt Telecom Group)
27. David B. Snow, Jr. (Medco Health Solutions)
28. Tomeo Kanbayashi (NTT Data)
29. Chung Mong-Koo (Hyundai Motor)
30. John C. S. Lau (Husky Energy)
31. Stanley Fink (Man Group)
32. Antoine Zacharias (Vinci)
33. Juan Villalonga Navarro (Telefónica)
34. Harry Roels (RWE)
35. Charles Goodyear (BHP Billiton)
36. Matteo Arpe (Capitalia)
37. Florentino Pérez Rodríguez (Grupo ACS)
38. Fujio Mitarai (Canon)
39. Roy Gardner (Centrica)
40. Thierry Desmarest (Total)
41. Wang Jianzhou (China Mobile)
42. Fu Chengyu (CNOOC Ltd.)
43. Mark C. Pigott (Paccar)
44. William A. Osborn (Northern Trust)
45. Craig S. Donohue (CME Group)
46. David Simon (Simon Property Group)
47. Larry C. Glasscock (WellPoint)
48. A.J. Scheepbouwer (Royal KPN)
49. Fred Kindle (ABB)
50. David E.I. Pyott (Allergan)
51. Roger G. Ackerman (Corning)
52. Michael A. Grandin (Fording Canadian Coal Trust)
53. Peter S. Lowy (Westfield Group)
54. Steven M. Lowy (Westfield Group)
55. Alessandro Profumo (Unicredit)
56. Ronald Alvin Brenneman (Petro-Canada)
57. Lew Frankfort (Coach)
58. Mark Donegan (Precision Castparts)
59. Robert H. Benmosche (MetLife)
60. Timothy Hearn (Imperial Oil)
61. Tim Koogle (Yahoo)
62. Thierry Breton (France Télécom)
63. Manfred Wennemer (Continental)
64. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestle)
65. John McAdam (Imperial Chemical Industries)
66. Mauricio Novis (Botelho Embraer)
67. Kenneth W. Freeman (Quest Diagnostics)
68. Michael Pragnell (Syngenta)
69. Thomas P. (Mac Mahon Laboratory Corporation of America)
70. Frank O’Halloran (QBE)
71. Daniel Hajj Aboumrad (America Móvil)
72. Philippe Varin (Corus Group)
73. Qingping Kong (China Overseas Land and Investment)
74. Roger Corbett (Woolworths)
75. George Paz (Express Scripts)
76. Arthur F. Ryan (Prudential Financial)
77. Matthew K. Rose (Burlington Northern Santa Fe)
78. David C. Novak (Yum Brands)
79. Daniel R. DiMicco (Nucor)
80. Nicholas D. Chabraja (General Dynamics)
81. Jaime Chico Pardo (Telefonos De Mexico)
82. Donald Rudolph Voelte, Jr. (Woodside Petroleum)
83. Jeffrey L. Bleustein (Harley-Davidson)
84. Nobuo Katsumata (Marubeni)
85. Richard D. Kinder (Kinder Morgan)
86. Dennis H. Reilley (Praxair)
87. Grant Alfred King (Origin Energy)
88. Terry L. Shepherd (St. Jude Medical)
89. Gordon M. Nixon (Royal Bank of Canada)
90. Charles R. Schwab (Charles Schwab)
91. Ditlev Engel (Vestas)
92. Nigel Northridge (Gallaher Group)
93. John A. Allison IV (BB&T)
94. Sean Boyd (Agnico-Eagle Mines)
95. Thomas J. Engibous (Texas Instruments)
96. James D. Taiclet, Jr. (American Tower)
97. John McFarlane (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group)
98. Robert L. Long (Transocean)
99. Franck Riboud (Groupe Danone)
100. Gerald W. Grandey (Cameco)

Interesting Facts about INDIA

Interesting Facts about INDIA

• India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
• The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
• Chess was invented in India.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
• The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
• The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
• The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
• India is the largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.
• The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
• India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
• The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
• The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
• The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
• The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
• Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
        (Source: Gemological Institute of America).
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
• Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
• Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
• India exports software to 90 countries.
• The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
• Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
• Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
• The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
• Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively.
• The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.
• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
• Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
• Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
• His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
• Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
• Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
  

The Great wall of China

It is a common mistake which we make to  say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. But the reality says it is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. There are no man made structures that are visible from space or moon. Man made objects start to disappear after 300 miles up from the earth. From that distance you can barely see the outline of the Great China Wall. If we consider that distance from Earth to Moon is around 384,403 kilometers/238,857 miles then we can draw reasonable conclusion that it would be impossible to see any man-made structures from such a distance. Astronaut Alan Bean said: "The only thing you can see from the moon is a beautiful sphere, mostly white (clouds), some blue (ocean), patches of yellow (deserts), and every once in a while some green vegetation. No man-made object is visible on this scale. In fact, when first leaving earth's orbit and only a few thousand miles away, no man-made object is visible at that point either."

How to increase Firefox browser's Speed

Firefox is an internet browser that is preferred by many web designers and internet savvy people because they all know that it is more secure, more friendly, and allows better customizations. Although Firefox is a very fast browser it can be better. In this article I will give you some good tips to make your Firefox preform better and faster and more secure.

Even if you are not familiar with the Firefox configuration you can make these changes very easily. If you want to you can write down the changes you made to make sure that you can revert back to what you had. Here you go!

• Open your browser and type "about:config" in the top address bar, not the search, but the actual address bar. You will be prompted the "be careful", this is just Firefox's warning that you can do something bad to your browser but if you follow the instructions you should not have to worry about this.
• In the filter address bar type the following: "network.dns.disableIPv6". If you have not made any modifications to your browser yet this setting should read "false" in the value column. Double click it to change it to "true".
• In the filter address bar type the following: "network.http.pipelining". If you have not made any modifications to your browser yet this setting should read "false" in the value column. Double click it to change it to "true".
• In the filter address bar type the following: "network.http.proxy.pipelining". If you have not made any modifications to your browser yet this setting should read "false" in the value column. Double click it to change it to "true".
• In the filter address bar type the following: "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests". If you have not made any modifications to your browser yet this setting should read "4" in the value column. Change that value to "8".
• You need to create a new integer now. To do this you need to right click > New > Integer. In the text box that comes up you need to type "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and hit the ok button. Next, enter a value of "0" and click the OK button.
• You need to create a new Boolean now. To do this you need to right click > New > Boolean. In the text box that comes up you need to type "config.trim_on_minimize" and hit the OK button. Next, select "true" and click the OK button.
• In the filter address bar type the following: browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer". Change that value to "0".

Now you are done with all the changes. Just close your browser and restart it. You will see the change in speed. Happy surfing!

Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

Good news! After successful launch of Windows 7, the first public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available as a free download on Microsoft website.
These are what included as part of MS Office 2010 beta download:

•  Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft OneNote
• Microsoft Outlook 
• Microsoft InfoPath
• Microsoft SharePoint Workspace
• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Communicator

The Office installer size is around 700 MB in size but you need around 2.5 GB of free space on your hard drive for the installation. Also note that, the beta version of Office 2010 will expire in October 2010. Initially only Professional Plus edition is available for download but they are giving it with product keys which is needed to activate this product.

Here is the direct link from microsoft.

Microsoft Office 2010 beta Download

Taking inspiration from Google’s brand- in fact taking advantage!

Google has come a long way since its launch in 1996. Google is a big brand now. Taking inspiration from Google’s brand , a local vendor in India is promoting his business in Mumbai. He claims to sell cold golas made from mineral water. For those who does not know what golas are, those are the Indian version of snow cone, typically sweet and sour syrup dipped ice. You wont believe it but this guy even has a website to promote his business. Check out these cool images of Go Gola. Hats off to him!