Innovative Mumbai Rickshawala

I recently got one interesting email and I just want to share with you all. The mail is about an innovative Mumbai rickshawala.

Take a look at picture 1 - Auto rickshaw has got a first aid box on the left and a newspaper box on right (which had all Hindi -English - Marathi - Gujarati newspapers including economic times)



Take a look at picture 2 - which has got a TV on the top with cable and below that is the tissue box, calendar, a notepad and pen along with a blue fan (which is blowing towards the customer who sits)



Take a look at picture 3 - 25% discount for handicap!! Who on this earth can expect something like this from a rickshawala.




The photographer spoke to that person and found him so much interesting and creative. He was telling some new stuff he is going to do more for the customers to be happy.

Shocking video of a man dying in electricity

Two days before I received one email from my friends requesting me not to play with electricity. That email also contained a shocking video which clearly shows what will happen to you if you play with electricity. Just check out that video which I saw.

The following video contains some scenes which might not be suitable for light hearted, heart patients and kids. So if you are one among the list, then please don’t watch it. I also have one more personal request to all the people who are going to watch this video. Thinking what is that? Don’t worry! I am not going to ask money from you. I just want you to pass this video to your friends and relatives requesting them not to play with electricity at any costs.

Are you thinking where this incident happened? According to that email, this incident took place somewhere in India it seems and that man also a mentally retarded fellow. Whatever may be, electricity doesn’t knows who is playing, and it gives everyone the same judgment that is “DEATH”.

Women finds image of jesus on iron box

A Massachusetts woman named Mary Jo Coady accidentally found this image of of Jesus Christ on the bottom of her iron box.

Actually, Mary Jo Coady separated from her husband and she suffered economic hardship, said that this image in her iron box reassured that "life is going to be good.""

What you think about the above picture? Just post your comments now and share your opinion.

Laptop at 100$ for child (4700 Indian Rupees)

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has revealed the design for its latest computer aimed at connecting children in the developing world. This laptop will be available by 2012 and would cost well below $100, OLPC said. This laptop is named as XO-3 and is a slim-line touchscreen tablet PC, according to BBC.

The XO-3 will eventually replace the original XO laptop that first went into production in 2007. The new design replaces the proposed XO-2, a foldable e-book that was first shown off in 2008 but has since been scrapped by the organization. The innovative machines, which have been designed for use in remote and harsh environments, were designed for use by school children and featured a sunlight readable display and open source software.

OLPC originally aimed to sell the low-cost laptops in lots of one million to governments in developing countries for $100 each. However, the non-profit organization had difficulty getting governments to commit to bulk orders. The machines - which are able to run both Linux and Microsoft Windows - are now offered in single units and cost around $200. So far the XO has been distributed to more than 1.4 million children in 35 countries.

The high-price has not however put off all governments. Uruguay has bought a computer for every one of their school children. Walter de Brouwer, CEO of OLPC Europe said that these "saturation projects" were the future of the organisation both in the developed and the developing world. "I'm talking to three four countries in the EU at the moment," he told BBC News. "Once one says yes, the others can't say no." The organisation believes the new design will cost significantly less.

Brouwer said that due to the decreasing prices of electronic equipment, he can imagine the laptop being sold for as less as 50, 60 or 70 euros.

The concept laptop shows a touchscreen, a camera, induction charger, and a carrying ring on one of its corners. The laptop would include a chip from UK firm ARM. The XO 1.75 is set for launch in 2011. The 1.75 will merge elements of the current machines with technologies - such as a touchscreen - intended to be included in the XO-3.

OLPC recently said that the organization would just focus on promoting its concepts and educational aims, rather than manufacturing laptops. "We are not a laptop company," said Brouwer. "Manufacturing a laptop is not such a big deal. The bigger appeal for us is deploying them and integrating them with education systems to transform a society."

Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of the group, said that he hoped that industry would now copy the design for the XO-3.

10 things which you don't know about google

 

The name Google is a spelling error. The founders of the site, Larry page and Sergey Brin, thought they were going for 'Googol.' Googol is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

Initially, Larry and Sergey Brin called their search engine BackRub, named for its analysis of the of the web's "back links." The search for a new name began in 1997, with Larry and his officemates starting a hunt for a number of possible new names for the rapidly improving search technology.

The reason the google page is so bare is because the founder didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.

Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just kept sitting staring at the screen, waiting for the rest to
appear. To solve the particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as an end of page marker.

Google started as a research project by Larry page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 and 23 years respectively. Google's mission statement is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

The company’s first office was in a garage, in Menlo Park, California. Google’s first employee was Craig Silverstein, now Google's director of technology.

The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank that assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that is not why it is called PageRank. It is actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.

Google receives about 20 million search queries each day from every part of the world, including Antarctica and Vatican.

You can have the Google homepage set up in as many as 116 different languages -- including Urdu, Latin, Cambodia, Tonga, and Yoruba. In fact, Google has the largest network of translators in the world.

In the earliest stage of Google, there was no submit button, rather the Enter key needed to be pressed.

Google has banned computer-generated search requests, which can sop up substantial system resources and help unscrupulous marketers manipulate its search rankings.

The Google’s free web mail service Gmail was used internally for nearly two years prior to launch to the public. The researchers found out six types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these six.

The free e-mail service recently changed its name for new UK users. Following a trademark dispute with a London-based Independent International Investment Research, the mail account has been renamed Google Mail.

It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages. The Google software does it in 0.5 seconds.

Google Groups comprises more than 845 million Usenet messages, which is the world's largest collection of messages or the equivalent of
more than a terabyte of human conversation

The logos that appear on the Google homepage during noteworthy days and dates and important events are called Google Doodle. The company has also created an online museum where it has all the logos it has put on various occasions so far.

Dennis Hwang, a Korean computer artist in the United States, is the guy behind these witty Doodles. Hwang has been drawing the face of Google for over two years.

You have heard of Google Earth, but not many know there is a site called Google Moon, which maps the lunar surface.

Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery, enables you to surf the Moon’s surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo astronauts made their landings.

Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004 was funded by CIA.

Keyhole's technology runs Google's popular program Google Earth that allows users to quickly view stored satellite images from all around
the world.