Sana's first hand made gift : bookmark

Aftet sana destroyed my only bookmark I insisted on she making one for me with her mother's help. And see how beautiful and memorable it is.

Chaliya day 3

After a haitus of 5 yrs smriti my wife has finally decided to complete her resolution of chailya (40 days) visit to bangla sahib. I am all help to her to get this done. Posting day3 pic

Google Chrome topples IE in India

According to statcounter google chrome has toppled IE from Rank #1 browser in india. As per latest stats Firefox is #1 followed by chrome as #2 browser in indian market. Check out this chart

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share

Sana , May 2010

Used Picknik in picasa to create this pic...really amazing that i didn't even have to use my desktop to create this pic...cloud computing at its best.

India provides maximum google chrome percentage usage. Are you using Google Chome

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share

How to lose weight - First Stage

This is in continuation to my earlier Post on How to lose weight.

I have reached my first milestone date: 15th March 2010. Also I am pleased that I have achieved my first goal of X + 15 Kilos ( losing 3 kilos in a month). There were various paths to achieve it but nothing was more accurate than "Knowing Myself" which lead to success (by understanding facts about me)

Let me share how I reached the goal. I did following simple things :-

• Counting/measuring amount of food I eat during my meals. Though it sounds childish but it proved out to be really effective. Generally when a person is over-weight he does not realize that he is over-eating. This can be due to various reasons like watching television while eating or gossiping while eating or by doing things which gives one pleasure. So while doing these pleasurable things a person does not realize over-eating. Though, for sure, this realization comes after over-eating : )

I consciously observed how much I eat. Not thinking to control my eating but just making a conscious note on how much I eat. For example if I eat following for my lunch/dinner

* 3 chapatis (rotis) / Plateful of rice

* One sweat dish

* 2 vegetables

* Some fruit

* Others like : pickle

Now what I did was to make an effort to have my eating consistent. (Remember not reducing anything in my diet). So if my standard diet is 3 rotis (chapattis) then I make sure I don’t eat 4th or even a bite extra. This helped me control my over-eating.

• The second important thing I did was to say NO to following things

a. Fried Food

b. Sweets

Again for doing this I have to keep facts in mind. Specially keep in mind environment dependencies. So even if you are able to achieve 80% control; it is great effort.

• Walk where you can avoid luxuries. For example I stay on 4th Floor. And generally everyone is tired after work so I used to take an elevator rather than stairs. After 15/2/2010 for 95% of times I took stairs rather than elevator. After following this strictly I found I was covering at least 10 trips every day.

With following just three above simple things & "knowing myself" i was able to meet my first goal. I hope people who read it can actually feel that reducing weight is achievable.

Now my next target is reducing my weight to X+10 Kilos in next 2 months.

Things to focus on

• Keep following the above mentioned things.
• Don’t be complacent
• Be concentrated on the final goal
• Take step by step approach.

Will write again when I reach next milestone {X+12 kilos or 15/5/X whichever comes sooner :)}

Support : Sonik culture

Very few people in this world follow their dreams and i am a big fan of those who does. Now if one such of dream follower is your friend there is no boundary for happiness. I will request all my followers, friends and buddies to support Sonik culture. and once you will hear out their stuff then you will automatically love them

IPL 2010 Puts Youtube On A Billboard & Train As Well (Pics)

IPL 2010 Puts Youtube On A Billboard & Train As Well (Pics): "

It might be the first case of offline advertising for a google product/brand and it comes through via its unique partnership with IPL to live stream matches on Youtube.

Check the picture below which was taken at Dadar station in Mumbai:

Besides for the above we are told that an entire train is painted with the youtube live streaming ad. This seems to be massive offline marketing for IPL but the beneficiary is definitely youtube.

These are great signs for digital media and the views on youtube should rise phenomenally during the IPL matches. What’s your take on this?

Source of above information is WATBlog.com

Paper Rater Analyzes and Improves Your Writing [Writing]

Paper Rater Analyzes and Improves Your Writing [Writing]: "

If you like to write but lack confidence in your skills, Paper Rater is a a free, web-based service that analyzes your writing and offers feedback on your grammar, spelling, and more.

Paper Rater couldn't be easier to use. Just paste in the text you want analyzed, choose what type of content it is—essay, research paper, speech, etc.—and submit it for review. Within seconds, Paper Rater generates a report that analyzes several aspects of your submission.

Naturally, the app takes a look at grammar and spelling, but it also gives feedback on your writing style and choice of words. To get suggestions on word or phrasing replacement, just right click on the highlighted words.

Paper Rater also detects plagiarism by comparing the content you submit with published online content to see if there are any similarities. This feature can be overridden by simply flagging passages with the proper citations.

Paper Rater is a solid tool for double-checking your work as you prepare your next speech or presentation. What tools do you rely on to hone your writing skills? Share in the comments.

Paper Rater [via Download Squad]

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Webpage Screenshot

Webpage Screenshot is a nice extension for Google Chrome.

Day 1 : Slide Set (Little Princess)

My Angel's first glimpse

16th February 2009 just looks like yesterday and my marriage just seems as recent past. With those beautifual memories still fresh in my mind; i have been blessed with another blissful female in my life. I am so glad and I welcome this little cute angel in my life. She is so calm, serene and charming that I don't even have words to explain her completely. Will write about her soon. Till then adore her first glimpse.

How to reduce weight - Introduction

In last 10 years i have three times successfully increased my weight :-D and was twice able to reduce it. This time when i have kept a resolution to reduce it again, i really want to blog out my complete plan and various stages of execution.

This will help me to keep my weight in check. But as we all know it is a human tendency to incline towards what we like rather what is correct. So these posts of mine will help me in future to get back to proper shape.

First i will like to remind myself to couple of facts :

1. Weight reduction is must for me and i can't be relaxed about it.
2. I can't stress myself for weight reduction otherwise I will loose the charm of losing weight. ( I love such catch22 scenarios)
3. Weight reduction has to be step by step. With achievable steps first so that it gives me encouragement.
4. It is important to understand which task is achievable. Following is definition for achievable tasks : Tasks that can be performed with least effort in given conditions and produces maximum benefits.
5. Understanding environment dependencies. There are various factors which are not in our hands but are dependent on people around us. One can be strong willed and defy all local factors but one should consider cost involved in defying them. For example, I come from an Indian family so if i think of fasting and then reducing my weight then I might not succeed. There will be times when my mother/wife will convince me to eat that they have cooked with efforts. Hence effort involved to reduce weight by solving these complex scenarios will be tooo high. So never get involved in complex scenarios.

With above facts in mind i need to document my realistic (rather than idealistic) goals.

1. My main goal is to get my BMI to 25. (Say X kilos) {don't want to share my current weight as of now}
2. Current Weight is X + 18 Kilos.
3. Time frame to achieve this goal is 1 year. I want to keep it realistic ( I know am lenient with myself) but i think it is fair keeping Point #2 (from facts) in mind :).
4. My first month goal is to get to X + 15 kilos.

Will be writing about how to get to first goal in next post.

Till then keep blogging.

Export Google Sites

Export Google Sites: "Google has released an API for Google Sites that lets you create or edit pages, upload or download attachments, monitor the activity of a site programmatically. The API could be use to create a new interface for Google Sites, to upload files from other sources or to migrate your data.

Google's Data Liberation team built a Java application for importing and exporting Google Sites. The application lets you export the pages from a site and all their attachments to a folder.

'The folder structure of an exported site is meant to mimic the Sites UI as closely as possible. Thus if exporting to a directory 'rootdirectory,' a top-level page normally located at webspace/pagename, would be in a file named index.html, located in rootdirectory/pagename. A subpage of that page, normally located at webspace/pagename/subpage, would be in a file named index.html in rootdirectory/pagename/subpage. Attachments are downloaded to the same directory as the index.html page to which they belong,' mentions the user guide.

You should only enter the domain name if you use Google Apps. 'Webspace' is the name of your site: http://sites.google.com/site/sitename/.


Unfortunately, you can't use this tool to import HTML files to an existing site. The importing option is only useful for the sites exported using the same application.

TEDTalks : Eric Giler demos wireless electricity - Eric Giler (2009)

TEDTalks : Eric Giler demos wireless electricity - Eric Giler (2009): "Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.

Dynamic content on google sites

For long i was struggling to get dynamic content on my google site. I was looking for a solution which can take data from my google spreadsheet and display in a tabular form on my google site. I finally wrote a gadget which exactly does that.

Check out the final product at http://sites.google.com/site/aarcodelhi/products/portable-audio/cd-radio-cassette-player

The data for this page comes from a spreadsheet : http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tFiR1ZmN_ykniquXwjig-LA

This was done using the my Google gadget. : http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/105177211040923965386/two-column-google-spreadsheet.xml

Add google forms in Blogger

since long i had been using google forms to collect information online. In order to get comments on the blog i had been working hard to find out a way. finally i found a way to get it working.

Step 1: Create Google Form

There are multiple sites which provide you this information. You can create a form from the Docs list or from any spreadsheet. check out Google help for best information.
Step 2: Publish the form

Publishing google form is another piece of cake. check out this.
Step 3: Customize the Google form to get notifications

Now customize the form to receive notifications when people submit your form.
Step 4: Add it to blogger

In order to add the form to your side bar of blog. Go to Layout--> Add Gadget. Add html/javascript and then add the html code which Google forms provide you with (Get html code while editing form from embed drop down)

Working example : http://sonycenter-newdelhi.blogspot.com/

Great way to spend a day ... one life

Was being forwarded this mail by someone. The thoughts we amazing and were worth spreading. Go through it and enjoy.

Not sure if this leads to infringement of share rights. If someone feels yes then do let me know, i will remove this.

Free Mail server

My search for using a mail server for my internal purposes finally ended with http://www.hmailserver.com/.

hMailServer is a free e-mail server for Microsoft Windows. It's used by Internet service providers, companies, governments, schools and enthusiasts in all parts of the world.

Let the NEWS flow to me

Every person is unique; in addition to that I assume every person (I know) has access to information. In my case: my interest areas vary depending upon my mood, behavior and my likings and vary almost every month if not every week. For example my current interest area has been Indian stock market (some specific stocks) and UID (Indian government Unique Identification project) .

To satiate my thirst on these topics/interests I spend on an average 14 hours (in a week) on internet.

This calls out for approximately 2 days of every month on internet searching for something which I know I will be interested in reading. This is called as NEWS searching.

Now think something like NEWS flowing to me on a specific topic rather than I go and dig out for NEWS. Google Alerts do exactly this. One just has to do something like:

1. Setting up a search item which I am interested in reading.
2. Ask Google alerts to send me alerts (in case I want mails) (every month/day/moment)
3. Or Ask Google alerts to write it to RSS feeds and have a reader on top of it in one's mail box.

I found this amazing to be in touch with what I want. And actually I have saved almost 1 day of my month... at least I can spend more time doing something more worthy rather than just blindly searching.