Nov 30

With so many great webmail offerings out there, only two are considered the frontrunners. Yahoo, the oldest player, has just revamped with unlimited storage and some drag and drop interface changes, while Google has the threaded simplicity thing going on adding built in Chat, Doc, Calendar, and Spreadsheet applications with a less cluttered appearance.

Security:In Gmail, the images are not displayed, by default. This is primarily because spammers sometimes use images in their emails so as to bypass text-based spam filters. There are also known vulnerabilities with how Windows handles JPG images, which could let malicious code be injected into one’s system. Though I still get the occasional 419 scam email in my Gmail inbox, I have yet to see an image-based spam email there. In my Yahoo account, however, more than five image-based spam emails have found their way into my inbox in this month alone.

Ads:The ads on Yahoo Mail are mostly images, while in Gmail, they are in the form of “Web Clips”, links displayed on the inbox area and AdSense-like text links that are displayed according to the context of the message you are currently reading.

Nov 28

Debutant Director Meera Kathiravan, who had earlier worked under Balumahendra and Thangar Bachchan, says that his ‘Aval Peyar Tamizharasi’ will seek to highlight the almost forgotten folk arts and their relevance in today’s fast-moving world. “This generation has lost so much starting from rare folk arts and peace of mind. My film would be a modest attempt in ‘reclaiming’ what all we have lost in our quest for our survival” adds Kathiravan. ‘Every good man has a few bad qualities in him and vice-versa. The story of ‘Aval…’ is about the hero who redeems himself after committing all kinds of frauds and then gets into soul-searching mode, repenting his past mistakes. He then falls for a girl and then finds out he colourful life can be…’ goes on Kathiravan. Jai fits the role perfectly, avers Kathiravan and says that even when ‘Subramaniapuram’ was under production, he had finalized Jai as his hero for this film. The amount of hard work put in and the pains taken by Jai shows his commitment and passion for acting, which is sure to take him places, he assures us. As far as the search for the heroine went, Kathiravan met more than 600 girls. The Hindi girls look dazzling and the Kerala girls have their own innate beauty. But Kathiravan was not satisfied. He wanted a girl who looked as natural as the breeze around. Finally he chose Nathagi, who looks, laughs, speaks and emotes like a typical Tamilian village girl, says a satisfied Kathiravan. Besides, the director has also signed artist Veera Santhanam and social thinker Theodore Bhaskaran for the film. Veera Santhanam, who earlier did a minor role in ‘Sandhya Ragam’, excels as the protagonist. Vijay Anthony’s music is sure to be one of the major pluses of the film.

Nov 26

Autism is a brain disorder that begins in early childhood, usually within the first three years of life and persists throughout adulthood. It affects crucial areas of development and exhibits following symptoms like:

·learning difficulties i.e. he lacks in ability to learn inductively from surrounding events,
·communication or speech problems,
·difficulty relating to people, marked by a lack of awareness of the feelings of others, indifferent to parents
·lack of social interaction,
·short attention span,
·not exhibiting creative or imaginative play,
·performing actions that are often repetitive and unchanging like twirling objects or rocking,
·reacting extremely to changes in the immediate environment.

Autistic children appear to lack the ability to see things from another person’s perspective, a behavior cited as exclusive to human beings above the age of five and possibly in some primates.

Autistic traits continue into adulthood, but vary in severity. Some adults with autism do well, earning college degrees and living independently. Others never develop the skills of daily living, and may be incorrectly diagnosed with a variety of psychiatric illnesses.

Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder with an unknown origin. It is a bioneurological disorder and not a mental illness, which affects the functioning of the brain. Some theories suggest that it may be caused by genetics, viral and/or chemical exposure during pregnancy. Diagnosis is based on a list of psychiatric criteria as well as a series of standardized clinical tests are also used.

Surprisingly some autistic individuals may be outstandingly good at some kinds of mental manipulations for example, arithmetical calculations, music, drawing etc.

With intense therapy, practice and schooling, some children diagnosed with autism can improve their social and other skills to the point where they can fully participate in mainstream education and social events, but there are no indications that a cure from autism is possible with current technology or advances in medicine.

Asperger’s syndrome and developmental delay syndromes are two of the related categories of Autism. These syndromes exist because of brain circuitry problems.

A key indicator to physicians making a proper assessment for autism would include looking for symptoms found in ‘sensory integration dysfunction’, where children will exhibit problems such as oversensitivity or under-reactivity to touch, movement, sights, or sounds; physical clumsiness; poor body awareness; a tendency to be easily distracted; impulsive physical or verbal behavior; an activity level that is unusually high or low; not unwinding or calming oneself; difficulty learning new movements; difficulty in making transitions from one situation to another. Autistic people may experience difficulty in hearing certain people’s voice while others’ are louder than usual.

Nov 22

If you are a really good Dota player and you have a set of really good players with you, and you are looking for some good competition and prizes. GG-Game or Garena is conducting lots of Dota tournaments among the players of the same country or region, the players are not supposed to appear in a common place and play in LAN, they could participate in this tournaments, just by playing from their Home PC. All you need is a bunch of really good Dota players. There is no specific time for this game to be played. The instruction are given to the players who are qualified for the tournament and the two opposing teams have to play a game with in the dead line which Garena has given, and these games has to be played only viz., Garena for security and the game to be free of hacking. Once the winning team submits the screen shot of the result the decisions will be taken by Garena and the details about the next game will be sent and thus a final winner is choosen from the successive games, and prizes are given.

Nov 16

If you are used to playing in garena, but really sick of being kicked out of the game, because you lag. Then you are probably not choosing the correct host to play in.

The 1st thing to keep in mind before choosing a game host is to go in to a room which is geographically near to you, or quite simply, go to the rooms which has your country name. Once you are inside the room and need to choose a host to play in, check out the number of ping bars he/she has on the right side in the member entries. Less the ping bars, good the host for you to play on, i would insist you not to choose the host which has more than 1 ping bar. The next step is to tunnel the host, just right click the host entry and choose GG Tunnel, you will get the result of whether there was a successful tunnel made to the host in the chat space. If you find a tunnel you could well continue and start the game else choose another host the same way. The game will lag even if you have a slow internet connection(obvious).

Nov 13

Want to go out on a pull tonight? Don a fake wound, for a new study has revealed that women find blokes with facial scars attractive for a one-night fling.

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that women view men with scars as being not only adventurous, but also macho and brave — but only if she is looking for a short-term relationship.

Interestingly, the study has found that once a woman becomes a mother, she is most likely to dump the “bad boy” for a more caring, sharing sort, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.

The researchers have based their findings on an analysis of an experiment which they carried out on a group of people to find out how scars influences the sexes in picking partners for both long-term and short-term relationships.

Nov 11

To become a pro in warcraft Dota not only good playing skills are required. But the knowledge about the items is definitely needed, as the Hero could be enhanced by the items he/she has or the recipes prepared. I will be writing about some of the coolest recipes in Dota in this blog, 1st i am going to start with Sange and yasha, one of the items i really love to make in Dota, it needs totally 7 items to complete this recipe (including sange and yasha scroll). The steps to make sange and yasha is as follows, even though you can get the required items in any of the combinations to make this recipe, i recommend you to follow the steps. We should separately make sange then yasha and then combine it

  • To make yasha , 2 items are required are Blade of Alacrity(1000) and Boots of Elvenskin(450 golds), both of these items could be brought from Sena The Accessorizer. Once you have brought these items yasha recipe scroll(600 gold) could be brought brought from Level 2 Orc recipe shop. Now these 3 items club together to occupy once one slot in your inventory.
  • Yasha gives +16 agility,+5 attack speed,+5 movement speed
  • The next step is to make sange, 2 items required are Ogre Axe(1000 gold) and Belt Of Great Strength(450 gold). both of these items could be brought from Sena The Accessorizer. Once you have brought these items sange recipe scroll(600 gold) could be brought brought from Level 2 Orc recipe shop. Now these 3 items club together to occupy once one slot in your inventory.
  • Sange gives you +16 strength, +5 damage and 5% chance of hit to maim the target, and reduce its speed.
  • Thus that the ingredients for sange and yasha is ready , the scroll of sange and yasha(1000 gold) could be got from Level 3 Night elf recipe shop. Now sange, yasha and the sange and yasha scroll club to form sange and yasha

Nov 10
Death Knight puny in Dota
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When you are ever talking about Warcraft III, who is that one hero , whom you think is mighty of all, Yes, Of course the Lich King’s Death Knight. But have you people ever thought that the Death Knight has been given much importance in Dota, nope! Or have you ever seen someone choosing that character for a serious game of Dota??? nope! So why is that that the coolest hero of Warcraft III is not a great character in Dota, Cos the special abilities of the frostmourne’s owner is all screwed up. The Death Coil is not going to help him, really and only good ability of the hero is Learn Frostmourne. Some lame heroes like forest Trolls have good abilities. I pity you, Mighty Death Knight!!


Nov 7

Around 50 pilots each year in India are being grounded because they had consumed alcohol before taking a flight, the country’s civil aviation authorities.

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), a body controlling airline operations in India, said dozens of pilots are found to have consumed alcohol during routine pre-medical tests every year.

India is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world with dozens of new airlines competing with each other everyday, often resulting in pilots forced to fly at short notices.

The country has about 4,500-5,000 commercial pilots, and another 2,500 are undergoing training. Civil aviation rules specify that pilots and cabin crew cannot consume alcohol 12 hours before taking a flight. A pilot can be grounded for three months and he can lose his license if he repeats the mistake again. Some times flights have to be canceled because of drunken pilots.

Nov 3

When it comes to choosing a place to live, male chimpanzees in the wild don’t stray far from home, according to a new report. The researchers found that adult male chimps out on their own tend to follow in their mother’s footsteps, spending their days in the same familiar haunts where they grew up. Male chimpanzees are generally very social, but how they use space when they are alone might be critical to their survival, the researchers said.

Adult Male Chimpanzees