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CeTly Live Mobile Edition Release

Posted by Niju Mohan On March - 7 - 2010

  Celebrating 150 awesome posts by proudly releasing the mobile edition of CeTly Live. Just point your mobile web browser to www.cetlylive.com, and you can see the mobile edition of the site. Let’s go mobile. You can see some screenshots of the mobile version here…

Celebrating 150 posts in CeTly Live – Its tagline time…

Posted by Niju Mohan On March - 6 - 2010

I’m extremely happy to tell with the previous post Saaga Memories, We  have crossed 150 posts in CeTly L!ve. That was super quick. Awesome work by the people who contributed towards this.
I have putting forward a tagline suggestion for CeTly Live. If this is ok, we can fix it or else you can comment with [...]

BarCamp Kerala 8

Posted by Niju Mohan On March - 5 - 2010

We are holding BarCamp Kerala 8 on March 28th, 2010! Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages – its Barcamp time.
Think barcamp is about lawyers? Or about alcoholics? Think again…
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on [...]

I Wish You Were Here…

Posted by SHAHBAZ Z On March - 4 - 2010

One of my art work!

Open Love Letter Part 2…

Posted by Niju Mohan On March - 3 - 2010

എനിക്ക് എത്രയും പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട ________ക്ക്,

ഞാന്‍ വീണ്ടും വന്നു . ഇതിന്‍റെ ആദ്യത്തെ പാര്‍ട്ട്‌ നീ വായിച്ചില്ലെങ്കില്‍ അത് ആദ്യം വായിക്കുന്നത് നല്ലതായിരിക്കും. http://www.cetlylive.com/open-love-letter/
പരിചയപ്പെടാന്‍ പറ്റിയത് ഭാഗ്യം, കുറച്ചു കഷ്ടപ്പെടേണ്ടി വന്നു എന്നാലും ഇറ്റ്‌ വാസ് വര്‍ത്ത് ഇറ്റ്‌ . മോഹന്‍ ലാല്‍ വൈകിട്ടെന്താ പരിപാടി എന്നു ചോദിക്കുന്നത് പോലെ ഞാനും ചോദിക്കുകയാ , “ഇനി എന്താ പരിപാടി?” . കഴിഞ്ഞ വീഡിയോയില്‍ പറഞ്ഞപോലെ, നമുക്ക് പരസ്പരം അറിയില്ല [...]

“SPYBOT” A 3G Control Based Robot

Posted by SHAHBAZ Z On March - 2 - 2010

First of all this is a mini project done by SHABEER V K,  SHAHBAZ Z,  SHARAFUDHEEN ALTHAF A C, &  SOORAJ KUMAR K N.
Robotics is an interesting field where every engineer can showcase his creative and technical skills. Pleasing aspect of robotics is that a robot can be made indigenously by any one. In this [...]

Saaga ‘10 Day 3 Photos

Posted by Niju Mohan On March - 1 - 2010

This entry is part 17 of 18 in the series SAAGA'10

Saaga Day 1

Posted by Praveesh On February - 26 - 2010

This entry is part 12 of 18 in the series SAAGA'10

Some of the captures from Saaga Day 1

Poor ID Questions Weaken Security

Posted by M!THuN On March - 10 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

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Most of the time, when we fill out those annoying security questions while creating an online account, we really don’t think about what we’re doing. We don’t think about how secure our questions and answers are (or are not) and whether someone else could easily guess them and be able to hack into our accounts.

According to security researchers, this is a bad thing. It is far too easy to guess the answers to security questions such as someone’s mother’s maiden name (this information could easily be found online by a determined and persevering hacker). Research has shown that if hackers get three chances to guess answers, they could hack into one in eighty accounts.

Guessing the answers to security questions can allow a hacker to overwrite a password without knowing what it is. In most cases, it is not difficult to guess answers—a study conducted by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon showed that seventeen percent of the answers to security questions could be guessed by people who knew the owner of the targeted account.

And there is more at stake when email accounts are hacked: access to a person’s email account can give access to other online accounts that require email registration. Because of this vulnerability, some email providers are trying to make their password reset functions more secure. For example, Google can send reset passwords by text message.

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Sony Reader Pocket Edition

Posted by J!thu On March - 10 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Compare the pain of dragging three thickset Booker Prize candidates to the south of France with you with the 220g weight of the Sony Reader Pocket Edition and you’re halfway to understanding the appeal of eBooks.

But with Amazon’s Kindle arriving in the UK imminently, should you burn your bookshelves just yet?

Small, light and very good looking are three ways to accurately describe Sony’s gorgeous device. It’s just one centimetre thick and the screen is a pleasure to behold.

It measures 5 inches diagonally, and despite the low sounding resolution of 800×600, text displays much more crisply than it does on the finest LCD.


Better yet, because the Pocket Edition uses E Ink, it only draws power from the battery when it’s asked to refresh the screen. That means you can leave it on the same page almost indefinitely and the battery won’t die – Sony claims the battery lasts up to “nearly” 6,800 page turns.


The Pocket Reader is easy to use. Ten buttons arranged down the side of the screen allow you to make menu choices.

You also get shortcut buttons to return to the main menu, bookmark a page and, usefully, choose from three levels of zoom.


You can also scroll through the menus using the four-way direction pad at the bottom of the device, but this brings you up against one of the Reader’s inherent problems – the time it takes to redraw the screen.


Flipping to a new page takes a little under a second. This isn’t too bad if you’re simply turning the page. Eventually we found ourselves instinctively pressing the ‘Next’ button before we’d finished reading the last line of the page we were on.

The real drawback comes when you try to flick back a few pages to check something – it’s utterly impractical. You can flip to specific pages by typing in the page number with the menu buttons, but that assumes you know exactly which page you’re after. Overall, navigating a book is tricky. You can’t search your texts either.

That’s not the only problem. Although the E Ink screen is initially spectacular, after a while it becomes clear that it doesn’t have the high contrast of a normal paper page, and you need more ambient light to read it.

SOFTWARE

When you first plug in the Pocket Edition, it installs Sony’s eBook Library software, a kind of iTunes for books. Unfortunately that’s where the parallels end – click on the store and all you get are a set of links out to Borders, WHSmith and Waterstones.


Actually buying a book from Waterstones proved fairly easy in itself, although it’s disappointing that the 304kb download cost only around £1 less than buying the physical book. You can’t take it to a charity shop when you’re done, either.

Bizarrely, once we’d paid for our book, we were prompted to download Adobe’s Digital Editions software and informed that it was the only software that would work with our download.

In fairness, Adobe’s software works well and detected our Pocket Edition straightaway – dragging our new book on there was simple – but it seems odd that the Pocket Reader comes with software that booksellers don’t use themselves.

You don’t have to buy books, though. The Pocket Edition is compatible with PDF, RTF, TXT and Microsoft Word files, and has 512MB of internal memory.

Assuming 400kb per book, you could easily fit a few years’ worth of reading on, and its compatibility with non-DRM formats means it could serve a few other practical purposes, such as being a highly portable reference device.

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Pinky My Friend

Posted by divyacs10 On March - 10 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Pinky- My Friend
She was my best friend, once up on a time. Hey don’t think she studied with me or was my relative. Ya she was a kind of — neighbour. She didn’t have a house or something, she used to sleep in my house one day, neighbours house next day and so on…, ok now you feel weird… Yes carry on.. She was intelligent, lovely, beautiful etc.. She had only one turn off.. She loved milk and used to steal milk. Ok ok now you got it right she was my pet animal…

We were living in a colony that time we had a one storeyed rented house. I was in 6th grade, I am the lone child as you know- & I used to feel lonely always.

It was then that I saw Pinky. I usually don’t care about animals. This cat was born at the backside of my house and gradually grew up eating the food we left over.

I started noticing this cat when one day I was walking around my house, This cat was finely liking the “milma milk’s “ left over cover. Every day when my mother makes tea she used to come from nowhere and settle near the kitchen and sit silently till my mother throws the milk’s left over cover. Then she would take it, walk away to a corner and would slowly start “enjoying her meal” I loved to see this process. As days went by;’ I felt a certain kind of love for this animal.

First she would run away when I went near here. Slowly her fear was gone and finally one day, I took a little of my milk and poured it over to her. She drank it fully. It became a routine and it no time we became friends. A bond of love was formed.

We are vegetarians. As we don’t use fish and all; cats usually would not come to our house; they all would be in neighbours houses where fish meal is always available. Pinky would never go…!! She sacrificed that urge for me. When I was in my house Pinky also would be there.

She was an intelligent thing-There was an incident, once I did not have milk to give her. So I poured her my tea. I found out that she drank tea and continued giving her a little of my tea every day. One day I didn’t have tea left over by the time she came. I looked for more tea but no-finished, then I saw my father’s tea glass had some tea left over. I gave it to pinky. She ‘meowed’ loudly and finished it fast. She wanted more! Again I gave her. She drank a fistful ok next day I gave my tea to her she wouldn’t drink!!! She was meowing in strange manner! She was scolding me, I got surprised. As I stood struck there, She walked to my father and started meowing we all stood puzzled she was not stopping.

I got an idea. I took some tea from father’s glass and gave it to her. She drank it!!! Ok now I got it she wanted fathers tea not mines. Why?? Before she used to drink my tea but once she got fathers tea she wanted only that I thought and thought. At last I found out fathers tea had more milk and my tea had more water!! Pinky wanted MILK!! Not WATER!!.

Yup I had to find out whether what I found out was right. Next day I spied my mother when she was making tea. With no need for clarification I found out that my thesis was true. Mother gave more milk to father. I fought with mother for that. Thus she taught me and showed me my partiality towards father. Hi Hi !!!

Pinky was beautiful. She was a tiny thing and had an average feathered body. White in color with pink patches. So, I called her pinky. She was a darling.

When I had no class I used to get up late. I would never get up before 10. If ever my mother wanted me to get up early she used to call Pinky and she would come and sit beside my bed and meaw… My mom would come there and say “look Pinky is making fun of you to not getting up so late.” I would feel bed and get up fast. Then Pinky started coming everyday beside my bed to wake me up. God!! She really loved me!! That little creature.

I never cleand up her, touched her or caressed her, We had no soo close relation, like many other people and their pets. We used to put her out of our house at 8 o clock night. Morning when we opened front door she would be there waiting to run inside. That was her love towards us. We had some invisible bond between us that was created by God himself, I belive.

She always used to sit beside me when I sat to study, but would never disturb me. She knew that I was doing something serious…

I used to play shuttle with my mother. I would call Pinky, she would sit beside us and belive me she used to bring the cork to us if it fell down. She was a pet cat that had qualities of a pet dog. My parents also never liked the idea of having pets inside the house, but seeing her behaviour, Pinky was always welcome. I also had immense love for her. Whenever mom refuses to give her milk, I used to steal my milk and give it to her. She was never bad to me , she never hurt me. Likewise for one year or so, she was a part of my life.

We were happily living until one vacation time I had to go to my mom’s house with her for a week’s stay. It happened then. When we returned back I heard from my father that Pinky died!!! I was shocked.. no!!! I can never describe my mind at that time in words. I was knowing what kind of loss a death can do to someone. I couldn’t cry,,, I couldn’t laugh. I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t belive.

Father told me that she fell into one of our neighbour’s well. No one gave her any food thus she was soo tired and just fell into the well. Her dead body was taken and buried somewhere. Father did not know where they buried her. What could I do??? I went to a corner and cried for sometime silently. No one saw me crying. I didn’t want any one to see. My silent mourning was a tribute to her. I never talked about her and all were again in their routine life but I use to always remember her in my mind. . After her death, I have never again looked upon a pet animal because I am afraid,,I can’t bear one more loss. I can’t give her place to anyone else…

She was my first love. She taught me that animal can become a man’s best companion. She taught me how to love and share with our fellow beings. Her short life was a bloom to my mind. She came like a blossom to my life, spread the fragrance of love, care and happiness to my life and went away to the unseen world in no time. She was made for me I know. She was God’s gift to me

Today, after 10years I again remember my days with her, with a tear in my eye. Her lifestory here I have written is a tribute to her…. I don’t even remember the people those who were around me 10 years before but I well remember my days with Pinky.That is for sure, some bond…

Many who read this will feel this as something foolish but no!! it is something very real… something from inside the heart… I still rememeber you Pinky..If you see me from the sky..i know you will also have a tear in your eye…always love you dear……

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Google is to give users of Street View the chance to edit the service to make it that little bit more accurate.

An ‘edit marker’ feature has been added, which would allow you to change where businesses are.

So, if you look at Street View and find that the marker for a shop or pub nearby you isn’t quite right, then you can lift it up and change its location.

“Sometimes you may find a place in Google Maps that isn’t quite positioned where it should be,” says the blog.

“Let’s say you know that your favourite pizzeria is near the corner but the marker for it appears further down the block. You want all hungry pizza-cravers to be able to find this great spot, so you want to make sure the marker leads them directly to the storefront.”

Move marker

The blog continues: “You could use our map editing feature (the ‘move marker’ edit) to move it to the right place, but moving the marker to the right location is not always that easy, especially in denser urban areas, if the only reference you have are maps or satellite images because you can only get a view from above.

“So now we have added one more very handy reference for making a map marker edit: Street View images. It makes the edit much easier.”

This wiki approach is something that Google seems to be embracing more for its services like StreetView.

Just last week, Google also announced that you could also edit the information given to businesses flagged up on Street View.

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Technorati – The blog search engine

Posted by Simith On March - 9 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

In the today’s information oriented world , the importance of blogs are not much small. Blogs represents vast range of information from how to refill an ink cartridge to large business oriented concepts. In such a context the easy access of info is very very important. Technorati is a search engine , that provides easy access of contents from posts ( An entry made to a blog is known as a post).

In technorati , searching is done with the help of tags. Tags are keywords that identify the content of a post. Technorati looks at tags that authors have placed on their blogs. These tags help categorize search results, with recent results coming first. It alspo provides articles about various categories and blogs and include the list of top blogs in the blogosphere.

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Kubuntu Lucid Lynx:KDE Fans Will Love It

Posted by M!THuN On March - 9 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Canonical is still fixing the parts of the next major version of Kubuntu: Lucid Lynx. This one is LTS version, which means Long Term Support. I am Gnome fan, but this Kubuntu makes me think for a while and may even force me to leave behind the simplicity that Gnome offers and take a dive into the world of Apple Mac killing KDE 4.

Have a look at the Kubuntu Lucid Lynx. The OS ran from a memory stick(see the screenshot). It’s said it will take only 30 seconds to boot the entire system on the machine. Quite fast for a Live KDE boot.

Looking at the performance review of Lucid Lynx, one can say with full confidence Windows is no more in competition. Now the fight is between Mac and Ubuntu.

Screenshots of Kubuntu Lucid Lynx

Kubuntu running from a  memory stick

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Mobilized CeTly Live

Posted by Niju Mohan On March - 9 - 20102 COMMENTS


Mobile blog post test. Hope things are good…

Trying to edit this post.

Posted from Nokia 6233

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University Exam TT of S1S2

Posted by M!THuN On March - 8 - 20101 COMMENT

 
 
 
 
 

COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
B.TECH DEGREE I & II SEMESTER (Combined) EXAMINATION IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING/ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING/
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING/ELECTRICAL
AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING, JUNE 2010

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Fotobabble-The Speaking Images

Posted by Maneesha K.P On March - 7 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Now we can add a new dimension to our photos, that is voice.
Anyone interested in trying out may visit the site  Fotobabble
Its fun.
First register with the site.Then you can record your voice online and embed it in uploaded images.
This can be shared with friends via e-mail.There are options for sharing it on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace,Orkut.etc.
It can also be made available  publicly on the Fotobabble site for all the viewers to check.Just give it a try :)

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Malayalam Wikimedia Meetup-2010

Posted by Niju Mohan On March - 7 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

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What: Malayalam Wikimedia Meetup 2010
When: Saturday, 17 April, 2010 10:00 PM – 5:00 PM IST
Where: Rajagiri College of Social Sciences,Kalamasserry,Kochi,Kerala
Who: Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from Malayalam laguage.All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians

Please sign up also at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetup-2010_April
Facebook event page : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=346834693918&ref=nf
Please tweet with #WPMM2010 hashtag

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