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Wildest Freshers’ Party 2011 at ZeroG
Are you ready for a fun, frolic, engaging and memorable freshers’ party?
Freshers’ party is all about making a best start to the new academic year! A time of the year to create an everlasting relationship!
To welcome the new kids on the block, world’s leading talent hunt portal Desitara.com is coming up with the rocking “Wildest Freshers’ Party” with great zeal and enthusiasm at ZeroG as online talent partner in association with Noon Rockers. The party will script the beginning of celebrations of a fun filled college life.
Jovial smiles, togetherness and high spirits will mark the welcome party for the students. The party will manifest youth and enthusiasm at its full flow. With pulsating ambience, flashing lights and foot tapping music, it will be a fresher’s party with a difference.
Join us at ZeroG, Residency Road, Bangalore on 31st July from 12 noon onwards for a total masti. The dance floor will wait for some unbridled exuberance. This is the party, the freshers will cherish and preserve forever.
From Desitara.com, we welcome the batch of 2011!!!
Created by, desitaraevents on Juli 28th, 2010
Top Ten Last Known Photographs
Here are some “last known photos” floating around the internet. Brief glances of the last moments of someone’s (or something’s) last moments on Earth.
10. STEVE IRWIN
Like no one saw this one coming. Still Steve (in his own unique way) entertained and educated millions. A fatal “accident” involving a stingray shortly after this photo was taken in 2006 Mr. Irwin was taken from us forever but his legacy is continued through his daughter Bindi.
9. ELVIS PRESLEY
The King’s untimely death in 1977 left a lot of unanswered questions. Found dead from heart problems caused from abuse of prescription drugs, Presley will always be known as the King of Rock ‘n Roll. Below is the last known photo of Elvis… I would like it noted that I did NOT make a joke about there possibly being a bucket of chicken in the front seat.
8. WES MANTOOTH
This is the last known photograph of the last known remaining tiger in Indonesia. Apparently he was killed and eaten by a local villager. We hope that this was NOT the last tiger left in that region- but probably so. Since everyone else in this list had I name, I decided to name this tiger Wes…. Wes Mantooth, the world hardly knew you.
7. ADOLF HITLER
Taken mere hours with the Russian army just a couple of hundred yards away, this is the last known photograph of Hitler (If you discount my claims that my H.S. shop teacher was in fact Der Fuhrer in hiding). Shortly after this photo was taken, Hitler retired to his bunker, watched his new wife- Ava die from a suicide pill and then put a gun to his own head. Most people honeymoon in Niagara.
6. MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)
The American author and humorist was best known for his book Tom Sawyer and his love of the Mississippi river. While there are plenty of accomplished writers in the world, this guy wrote classics on par with Dickens. To know there was any sort of photo made of the man is impressive, to take into account this is the last known is more so. You are welcome.
5.THE RMS TITANIC
One of the most memorable tragedies in history, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 shocked the world. The phrase “Not even God could sink her” just begged for it to happen. (I would like to go on record as saying “Not even God could give me a million dollars”) A little known fact is that out of all the passengers that died that cold night, there were nearly twice as many third class passengers that died than first and second classes combined. The reason? Locked gates to keep third class passengers form getting into the higher (and closer to the lifeboats) second class and third class berthing areas.
4. MICHAEL JACKSON
Yes, the King of Pop is dead as well. I’m sure you’ve heard something about it at some point. This is one of the few remaining “last known” photos. Honestly it’s been doctored and could have been taken after his death even… who knows?
3. HEATH LEDGER
The world lost one of it’s most brilliant actors with the prescription drug overdose of Heath Ledger in 2008. Not many actors can star as a gay cowboy or twisted villain and not be typecast; Ledger could. He will be sorely missed.
2. MARILYN MONROE
When an icon passes the shock wave reverberates through the decades. The loss of cultural icon Marilyn Monroe was a tragedy beyond measure. Who knows what could have been accomplished by the women had she lived? Generally I avoid pictures of Ms. Monroe… falling in love with a dead woman is pretty fruitless, even for me.
1. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
There was some controversy to this photo, as it was thought to NOT be the last picture of the assassinated president. However do some clever investigative stuff that I don’t really get (because I honestly don’t care) this is the last known picture of Abraham Lincoln.
Created by, yasser on Juni 29th, 2010
The New iOS4 Shortcuts, Features, and Settings You Need to Know
The New iOS4 Shortcuts, Features, and Settings You Need to Know
Saw this in Lifehacker and thought I should share it here.Apple just released iOS4 for the iPhone and iPod touch, and now that you’ve downloaded and upgraded to the much-hyped iDevice update, here’s a look at the new shortcuts, settings, and features you’ll need to know—and want to use.
The New Shortcuts
On a little device with just one button and no major forms of interaction beyond tapping a screen, shortcuts can be serious timesavers. Here are the new shortcuts in iOS4 you’ll want to know:
Hold then drag-and-drop to create app folders:You can now create folders to store and organize the apps on your iPhone’s home screen, particularly handy if you’re a bit of an app junkie. To create a folder, tap and hold any icon on the home screen until they all start wiggling. Then drag and drop any application on top of another to create a folder with those apps together.
Double-tap home for quick app switching: The quick app switching shortcut pulls up your most recently opened applications whenever you double-tap the home button. Then just tap on any app you want to quickly switch to it without going back to the home screen. Note: You’ll need at least an iPhone 3GS or later generation iPod touch to use multitasking. - Hold to kill background apps: Currently in iOS4, if an application supports multitasking, it’ll run in the background by default—kind of a strange choice, considering Apple asks you to confirm push notifications for apps. What this means is that as more apps start supporting background processing, you may end up with a ton of apps running in the background that you don’t really need or want running. To remove an application from running in the background, just pull up your quick switch drawer (double-tap the home button), then tap and hold on an app (like you do when you want to delete an app from the home screen until you see a red minus sign (-) on the corner of the app’s icon. Tap it to kill the app.
- Swipe to the left in the app drawer for iPod controls: For some quick app-switching access to simple iPod controls, double-click the home button to bring up the app switcher, then swipe to the left for pared down iPod controls. Note: 3GS and above only.
The New Features You’ll Want to Use
These are the handy new iOS4 in-app features you’ll want to get familiar with:
- Unified inbox: If you access multiple email accounts from your phone but you’d prefer to be able to read through them in one unified stream, Mobile Mail now has a unified “All Inboxes” feature that does just that.
Mail Archives Rather than Deletes Gmail Messages: The whole archive vs. delete problem with Gmail on the iPhone has always been a bit annoying. In iOS4, the swipe-to-delete shortcut and regular old mailbox management defaults to Archive rather than Delete.
Name your new playlists: For years, creating new playlists on an iPod created a default “On-the-Go” playlist that you could later sync to your computer and rename from there. Now you can just create and name a proper playlist each time (rather than “On-the-Go 1″, “On-the-Go 2″, etc.).
Built-in spellchecker: The new spellchecker introduces those oh-so-familiar red underlines for words that your device thinks you’ve misspelled. That’s nice to have, but even better, tapping on a misspelled word will suggest proper spellings.
Smart links for dates: A lot of calendar events start off as email conversations. Now when you get an email with a date and time in it, Mobile Mail turns it into a link that can create a quick event in your Calendar and save the hassle of manually entering in that date that’s right in front of you. It’ll even automatically use the email’s subject as the event title. Handy!- Bluetooth keyboard pairing: One of the things that’s made the iPad extremely handy for writers is that you can pair it with an external Bluetooth keyboard for fast, hardware-keyboard typing. To pair a keyboard, go to Settings -> General -> Bluetooth, make sure it’s turned on, then walk through the normal discovery/pairing process.Note: Bluetooth keyboards are not supported on 3G and earlier devices.
New Settings You Should Know
Now that you’ve learned the need-to-know shortcuts and features, here’s a quick peek at the settings you should know:
Threaded email: Mobile Mail now has a Gmail-like threaded email option to keep related email messages close together. This feature was actually enabled by default when I upgraded, but just in case, you can find it by going to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars and making sure Organize By Thread is toggled to the On position.
Turn off your cell data: Now that AT&T’s moving toward metered data plans, you may have times that you get close enough to your limit where your best course of action will be to turn off your cellular data connection altogether rather than flirt with an extra $15 charge you don’t need. To turn it off, go to Settings -> General -> Network and toggle Cellular Data to the off position.
Change your home screen wallpaper: Okay, this one’s mostly for eye candy, but if you always ached for some personality in your home screen background, fire up Settings -> Wallpaper, pick an image you want to use, and set it as your home screen wallpaper.Note: We can’t really imagine what possible reason there is for this one, but you can’t set a wallpaper for the home screen on 3G or first generation iPhones.Photo via Gizmodo
Strong alphanumeric lock codes: A few months back we showed you how to add an alphanumeric passcode lock to your iPhone. Now to do the same, all you’ve got to do is go to Settings -> General -> Passcode Lock, toggle Simple Passcode to off, and enter your preferred alphanumeric pass.- Tethering: Okay, you’ll have to pay AT&T a whopping $20 a month for the privilege of tethering, but at least it’s finally an option. To turn it on, head to Settings -> General -> Network -> Internet Tethering.
Tweak your keyboard layout: If you prefer a different keyboard layout from the standard QWERTY, head to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> International Keyboards -> English to try out an alternative layout for your software or connected hardware keyboard.
Created by, yasser on Juni 22nd, 2010
Apple iPhone4G : An indepth review
There is no denying for the slightest of bit that Apple iPhone 4 has jumped over everything that has been and is around us at this point in time. But like all good comes followed by suspicion and scrutinizing critical eyes, iPhone 4 too has the tendency treading behind its each little stride. There are critics and there are those competitors who’d have their tails up to keep Jobs’ and Co. thinking still, but that’s their work we’d say. Yet, for all who think it’s important to know of what make iPhone 4 a deal that it is, we’ve highlight some prominent features for your consideration before you lay hands onto one of Apple’s best incarnation to date.
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RETINA DISPLAY:
The critic eye:
Thought everyone may agree that the iPhone 4’s screen is the best mobile display yet, Raymond Soneira, President DisplayMate Technologies, thinks the displays resolution doesn’t really exceed the human retina, as Steve Jobs claims. Raymond explains that it is close to being the perfect display but the iPhone 4’s Retina Display may be a misleading marketing gimmick by Jobs. According to Jobs iPhone 4 has a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch; this resolution exceeds the limit of the human retina, which Jobs said was 300 pixels per inch for a display about a foot away. But explaining why Raymond thinks this account isn’t correct he says:
“It was inaccurate to measure the resolution of the eye in terms of pixels, because the eye actually has an angular resolution of 50 cycles per degree. Therefore, if we were to compare the resolution limit of the eye with pixels on a screen, we must convert angular resolution to linear resolution. After conversions are made, a more accurate “retina display” would have a pixel resolution of 477 pixels per inch at 12 inches, Soneira calculated.”
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FACE TIME:
The critic view
The FaceTime videoconferencing is available on Wi-Fi at the moment, and is only possible from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4. Steve Jobs says Apple would be soon working with carriers to support it on 3G.
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FORM FACTOR ENGINEERING:
The critical take
iPhone’s reception has never always been considered great, a reason the stainless steel band around the phone with two antennas inside address the issue of better reception. But iPhone’s receptions issues continue to bother, right on the release day, Jobs’ wasn’t able to connect to Wi-Fi for demonstration, ‘perhaps because of the wireless network being overloaded.’
To check the solidity of the iPhone 4, repair specialists iFixyouri proceeded to drop (an acquired pre-released iPhone 4) it a few times. On the third trip down from 3.5 feet they heard a loud popping sound and the iPhone 4 was in shatters.
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A4 PROCESSOR:
The critic power out
It’s known that the battery on the previous iPhone’s including the iPhone 3GS actually sucks, so it was really up to Apple to improve on this concern. With the larger battery in the iPhone 4 touting to provide 40 percent more talktime than the 3GS, its hoped the the poor battery life is a thing of the past of the iPhone, and it is up there with the best in competition.
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iOS4
The critic voice
The introduction of the iOS4 would now require developers to submit new and updated apps to be able to multitask. These have to be approved by Apple. Further critic voices claim that Apple’s marketing strategy for the iOS4 could be misleading, because from 200,000 available apps only a few would be able to multitask that too not from the very first day of the iPhone 4 release.
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iAds
The iPhone 4 has introduced a new mobile advertising platform called the iAd that runs on the iOS4. This mobile advertising network that would debut on July 1 would allow developers to earn revenue by serving ads in low cost apps. The main facet of the iAds is the fact that it combines TV advertising with interactive Internet ads allowing Apple to bar Google, Microsoft and other from carrying ads on the iPhone. The iAds would offer a new way to explore ads which would keep the user on the same app he/she’s using without hijacking the user out of the app link in other ads, then weather it’s while the users watching a video, or he’s playing a game or even using in-ad purchase to download an app or buy iTunes content for that matter.
The critic opinion
Rob Master, North American media director in appreciation of the iAds says iAds would revolutionize mobile advertising. Could we agree more to it?
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iMovie app iBook
For video editing Apple has a custom version of the iMovie app, which can be bought from the Apple Store for $4.99, the app lets users assemble and spruce clips and record directly into and iMovie timeline. Users can also add photos from the camera along with title, music and etc to the movies. The iBook app on the other hand would be available as free download from the App Store and would include Apple’s new iBookstore. This to let users browse, buy and read books free on the iPhone 4. iBooks users will also be able to read and store PDFs right in the iBooks. There’ll be about 60,000 books and counting available in the iBookstore.
The critic move
The addition of the ability to download via iBook and iMovie could be a drawback, because not everyone would require this facility and nither do all of us really care for the iBook thing when we can have dedicated e-readers.
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GYROSCOPE
The iPhone 4 has a built-in gyroscope that’ll provide the mobile device with better sensitivity for more motion gestures, offering better gaming experience to the users. The gyroscope coupled with the existing accelerometer and compass, gives the iPhone 4 six-axis motion sensing, which adds to the respective levels of precision. Sans the physical buttons or joystick etc the game developers have managed to get the best gaming experience to the users with the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer, yet the tilt sensing capabilities and the precision addition with the gyroscope would definitely add a new meaning to gaming on the iPhone. Developers should certainly update their tilt controlled games to benefit from the gyroscope sensor of the iPhone 4. Developers will have access to the gyro using CoreMotion API, which would take gaming on the iPhone 4 well beyond what other mobile phone in the market presently offer.
The critical axis
Certainly the gyroscope would take gaming on the iPhone to a whole new level, but for all non-gamers this would hardly matter, they’d wish for a feature more appropriate to their chore. Also, I am not really sure developing gyroscope-supported games particularly for the iPhone 4 would be financially a great idea for the developers at this point in time.
Created by, yasser on Juni 14th, 2010
Microsoft Kinect revealed: Project Natal finally gets a name
•Kinectimals lets you train and play with 20 different virtual cats, including a lion, cheetah and tiger.
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•Joyride, a racing game, lets players use their hands to hold an imaginary steering wheel — pull your hands toward you and push back out for an acceleration boost — and their bodies to execute jumps and tricks.
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•Kinect Sports has six activities including boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, soccer and table tennis. To serve a volleyball, you mimic the real motion; in soccer, you can kick the ball or do a header.
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•Kinect Adventures includes a river-raft time trial and obstacle course, playable by up to four players. On the raft, playing as a duo, you and a partner must lean one way or another to steer. Jumping helps the raft reach special areas for extra points.
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•Dance Central, in development by MTV Games, brings a So You Think You Can Dance experience home.
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•Star Wars characters and iconic Disney favorites will be featured in separate new games being developed at Microsoft in conjunction with LucasArts and Disney.
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“This is (Microsoft’s) attempt to leapfrog the Wii and broaden the appeal of the Xbox,” says Geoff Keighley of Spike’s GameTrailers. “The questions are, ‘Does the controller-free environment make (the Xbox 360) more accessible?’ and ‘Is it fun?”
Created by, yasser on Juni 14th, 2010
Farts caught on Live TV
1.) Hillary Clinton during a 2007 Democratic Debate
Looks like Hillary Clinton couldn’t wait till the debate was over and had to drop a ringo. The stunned audience went silent as did the interviewer.
2.) Canadian (Fart) Idol
“I totally just farted!”– Chelsea, a 19-year old from Sydney, On the Canadian Idol TV show.
3.) Fitness TV Show Fart
Who can avoid a good fart while doing exercises? Not this trainer.
4.) Regis stops fighting and just lets it out
Regis appears to be fighting some gas pains and thinks he can just let one out quietly.
5.) Newsreader farts on live TV!
Female newsreader farts right at the end of a live TV show!
Created by, yasser on Juni 8th, 2010
