How do I whistle with my fingers in my mouth really loudly ?

Don’t know how to whistle really loud with two fingers in mouth ?? Here is the answer for the above question, from Google answers… Follow all the steps below and you would definitely  can whistle in no time.


"Loosely touch the tip of your bent index finger to the tip of your thumb. 

Rest the bottom of your joined fingers (if you're using your right
hand, the thumb is to the right) on your lower teeth with the tips of
your loosely joined fingers pushing against the bottom part of your
tongue (which pushes back).

Your lips should be pressed down against your fingers. The joined
fingers make the "V" into which you blow (you should blow slightly
down).

It definitely makes a shrill sound that gets louder as you blow
harder. Of course, this method works best if your nails are short."

Source : Google Answers

Maximum PC's Browser Battle Article

Maximum PC's in depth review of stable and beta browsers educates well about all the exsisting and upcoming browsers. This is a great article for any one to choose a best browser.

excerpts from the review:


SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark
Celtic Kane JavaScript Benchmark
V8 Benchmark Suite

How They Stack Up

Are we utilizing Gmail and Google Apps Mail to the full extent ?

This is an exhaustive post to bring to notice all the terrific features of Gmail and Google Apps Mail. Though this might not go into detail to all of the existing features, it covers those which i feel should be tried by everyone, if ignored or unknown, to increase their own productivity and management. Here they come

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Entry of Gmail with revolutionary mail storage space has created a ripple effect to its competitors to increase their mail space drastically and some made it unlimited even. I feel this changed the stereo type services provided until then. Apart from mail storage another revolutionary feature was Labels. Many wonder why gmail doesnt provide folders but labels instead, and even i saw many happy without folders nor even using the provided labels. In plain english labels can be termed as tags, With this we can infer that a single mail can be tagged with different tags. In the case of folders, a mail can be moved into only one folder which might not be suitable in many occassions. For instance take my case of a mail from a family member, I can Label it as Family, Folder does the same until here, but if the mail contains photos, i also need to add Photos Label, so that it can be found in both

 

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Family and Photos. But with folders, one mail to one folder. With further addition of color coding to  labels, it becomes dead easy to identify our mails.

 

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Filters :

 

Suppose if you want to mark mail from your boss which has words, immediate and urgent, with star and label it with name Important, you could do this within no time with filters. Go to Settings > Filters > click on Create New Filter

 

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so, if you get a mail with the above criteria, you have no mail management work to do and can immediately concentrate on content.

 

Labs :

 

Labs are experimental features which can be enabled by the user, the user can select any number of such functionalities which suits him best. There are many such additive functionalities like offline access, Tasks, etc., there are also minor tweaks such as quick links, mouse gestures, custom keyboard shortcuts to name as few.

 

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My feeling is that every one should try all the lab features, some are time saving, productive and even funny. Just give it a try in leisure.

 

Tasks :

 

This is a very very simple feature which can be enabled from Labs. (the above feature). Tasks list can be created and tasks can be added into the list. Once done tasks can be strikeout to mark that as complete.

 

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Fetch POP mail:

With all the great features, Its very much beneficial if we could check our mails other than Gmail’s in its interface. Fetch POP mail is a boon for such requirement. I haven’t heard of Fetch POP in any web interface prior to the entry of Gmail. With such rich functionality Fetching other mails and Filtering them  with a label will be deadly. So no need of checking mails with numerous logins in different site.

 

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Send Mail as :

We could receive other mails in POP, fine! What if we need to send mail from the POP received mail. Gmail does address this issue as well. Not necessary to login to different sites to send from another ID. Just a quick authentication to send mail from other id to check your ownership of the ID.

 

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While composing a mail, select a mail id from which you want to mail to. That's it.

Keyboard Shortcuts :

This is inarguably the one of the best features of Gmail. Hit "?” in your mail, here comes all the existing keyboard shortcuts. Pretty simple, cool, rich and whatever, this feature makes the application indifferent to any desktop software. Further custom shortcuts can also me made by enabling a labs feature.

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Spell check :

Spell checking in Gmail is great. But what makes it exemplar is that it could spell check in over 36 languages as of now. Sure that more will be added into this list. After composing mail hit on Check Spelling link and Gmail comes to your rescue and highlight any grammatical blunders you have made. 

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Enlightened ?, wondering ?, excited ?, Yes if you aren’t aware of any of these features, try to use them and you will say that Gmail is awesome. One best thing i found in Gmail, for that matter any of the Google’s product, is that they continuously improvise and innovate. No saturation point for innovation isn’t it ? Thinking from the end user side is what makes Gmail success exceptional from any other webmail's. Rock on Gmail.

Importance of upgrading from IE 6.0 to …

It can also be read as upgrading from Microsoft’s clan of bundled software's in operating system. Back to the my observation, i have come to see that majority of the internet users, in my office at least, stick to using the IE 6.0. Very few, to be precise, a couple of them, tend to upgrade their browser to IE 7 and none to other browsers (Firefox, chrome, opera etc.). The major reason for this could be easily predicted that IE 6 is bundled along with widely used windows versions of OS (other than Vista).

Many might have no knowledge of a better browser that is miles ahead of IE 6 which they are using or might be they were hesitant to upgrade the browser because they are used to it. One well known fact is that unless we explore ourselves to novel software's we cannot be productive at work nor can be swift in our operations in day to day needs. And other point is that IE 6 is not developed for the year 2008-09, there were lot of improvements in technologies that make web a better way as compared to the time when IE 6 was released. Even now a days the web applications are even competing with the standalone installed applications, which could be said as a turning point in web.

If anyone hesitant of using Mozilla Firefox, Google chrome (mentioning only these two other than IE because they were standard browsers having a decent share in market) here are major advantages.

 

  • Faster browsing.
  • Secure browsing.
  • Styles and Look and feel of websites.
  • Inbuilt search with any of your favorite search engine without installing any toolbars.
  • Tabbed browsing (can open multiple sites on a single instance).
  • Can tap all the new features and updates by websites which use latest technology.
  • Web pages have great look and feel (for ex. Gmail themes doesn’t work in IE 6).
  • Use of various Add-on's  that make our surfing much better.

Here are download links for each of these both browsers if enlightened :).

 

Download Firefox 3
Download Google Chrome

Truths on Terrorism and Militancy

LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), known for the well organized militancy in SriLanka and a strong opposition to SriLankan army was in very endangered situation at present. As the Srilankan army was advancing into their occupied territory they were in defence to protect themselves at any cost. The immediate rescue for them as they see was the support from the strongest country in south Asia, none other than India. The base for their intentions were that India has Tamilnadu and also that it is their immediate neighbor for any tactical operations if supported, Tamils being common among both countries, LTTE tends to ignite some kind of political flame in support for them. Not only for LTTE it is modus operandi for any militant organization. A political party with their leader well known for his infamous statements of Lord Rama, is a hard supporter of LTTE’s cause in Srilanka. Threatening Government of India to change their stand on LTTE some political outfits organized some rallies and protests against Srilankan army. Here comes the point. Whom are they supporting Tamils in Srilanka or the LTTE, a terror organization. If it was their support to safety of Tamils(not LTTE)  and peace process in Srilanka it is very much appreciated. But in the mask of supporting Tamils some even tend to portray Prabhakaran (leader of LTTE) as a freedom fighter. Should we feel its the same thing when Pakistan is yelling all over the world that terrorists were Kashmiri freedom fighters for independent statehood. Why a wrong in Kashmir would become a right in Srilanka (at least to bunch of vote centered politicians)?

 

Terrorism in any form and for any cause is unacceptable and should be condemned. Can the same people who talk in support of LTTE support the Kashmiri terrorists(northern terror) ? Can they sync their voice for the support of BODO’s (north-eastern terror)? Can they rally in support for the communal terror? Not only the politicians in Tamilnadu. How about the politicians in Andhra Pradesh(AP) and in whole India for that sake. AP is suffering from internal militancy, the Maoists. But at the time of elections almost every political party is inclined to them and they even go to the extent of saying Maoists and their party share the same goals. When top leaders of Maoist party was surrounded by greyhounds (special force to tackle Maoists) couple of years back, pressure raised from the so called Citizen rights organizations to let them free.

 

Who the hell are they supporting to? The ones who killed a great promising leader of India in a suicide attack, and still deploy suicide attacks on innocent people or the ones who kill normal police constables to sincere working employees and political leaders in the rural spots of AP, and have no respect and belief in democracy in Chhattisgarh and other states ? or the ones who brutally kill innocent people walking on streets? within whomever in these category are supported, its the support for violence and bloodshed, it is the encouragement that is given to cause more damage and further prevent peace in future.

BIGFlix: movie rental service – a review

Being a movie buff i was very much interested in taking some kind of membership plan with any of the DVD store nearby my house. I was initially inclined to the CinemaParadiso a couple of years back it was the numero-uno in Hyderabad city (sorry no challenges for that, i got no statistics :)), I am very much convinced about the service provided by them. More than the service the ambiance of the store and big wigs of the film industry who were regular customers caught me up. They give genuine DVD's, they got great collection in each and every genre. But since the membership charges and rental charges were very high (Rs 3000 for membership and Rs.75 per DVD for 3 days, if it is a just arrival its is for just 1 day) i preferred to look and proceed. bigflix

Later through some surfing on net i found this BigFlix. Its a  Reliance ADA Group wing under the much publicized brand BIG. With subscriptions charges from about Rs.300 per month, It got numerous collection and that seems to improve as well day by day. Further what glued me to this is the free movie delivery and unlimited movies per day though 1,2 or 3 discs at a time. Being skeptical I have subscribed to this 1 DVD plan, though there were initial hiccups in terms of Movie titles availability and others i found it much interesting after some awareness in the movie queue system. The delivery was almost prompt and the title availability is pretty decent. Further it got discounts on certain occasions. There are some cons as well. Like, Customer care works from 10am to 8pm, Title availability at store etc.,
But as a whole I recommend BIGFlix to satisfy their thirst in movies for anyone. Here is the summary of pros and cons at BIGFlix.

Advantages

  • Unlimited number of times to take DVDs per day
  • Almost Prompt service
  • Original DVDs
  • Cheap Subscription charges (Rs. 300 for 30 days, On one movie a day it costs Rs.10 to watch a movie in a genuine way)
  • Title Availability
  • better account management at bigflix.com
  • Occasional plans to make subscription much cheaper
  • Availability of Documentaries and TV shows
  • multilingual titles
Disadvantages
  • Title availability at nearest store
  • many bugs in bigflix.com
  • No round the clock customer care
  • Some of the runner boys carelessness
  • Occasional delivery of corrupted/scratched DVDs

Current situation of countries

Worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was:
"Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"


The survey was a huge failure,  
In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant, 
In India they didn't know what 'honest' meant, 
In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant, 
In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant, 
In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant, 
In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant, 
And in the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant!