Sankaranand Balaradjou

Author: Sankaranand

  • Use Wikepedia to know Expansions…

    It was on thursday when i was in bangalore, i had a fight with my friend sagar regrading an argument on expansion of a brand named KFC which we saw in Bangalore Forum. I am a Peta member and i know KFC is Kentucky Fried Chicken but my friend argued its Kennedy Fried Chicken since he is a Bangalore Native and a regular vistor of the forum.

    He added postive tags to his argument with reasons like native of bangalore and also told me that his friends too said him once that KFC is kennedy fried chicken, but in my inner thought i seem like correct because i remember having a free promotional sticker from peta on KFC. But since the Arguement is favouring him, atlast we decided to find the answer by refering Internet. I navigated to Wikepedia website and entered KFC. The First Result appeared is Kentucky Fried Chicken and i won.. Wikepedia is the best encyclopedia i experienced ever. By using Wikepedia you can find the company logo, founder, expansions easily and clearly.

    below are the some of the Expansions i found using Wikepedia

    • FCUK – French Connection in United Kingdom
    • JVC – Victor Company of Japan
    • BMW – Bayerische Motoren Werke
    • CII – Confederation of Indian Industry
    • HSBC – Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

  • Download Web Designs for Free

    OSWD (Open Source WebDesign) is a website that has collection of web designs submitted by Open Source Designers and the best part is you can download the designs for free. Thier goal is to provide open source community with quality designs and to promote people to build up thier websites. Francis J.Skettino founder of this site is servering people since 5 years. Currently they have 1688 free web-designs that you can use for your website. You can find designs from personal blogs to content management systems.

    Even my main site’s design is one of the best work of Open Source community, if you want to use any of thier designs you can pleasurely use it and in return of thanksgiving you can atleast add a link back to their site. Now you don’t need to pay anymore for your webdesign.

  • Long Queues in ATM Centres….

    Everytime, while withdrawing cash in ATM i need to stand in a long queue which adds another 15 minutes to time. Wonder why ATM has been introduced ? the name says its an Automatic Teller Machine but not a quick withdrawing machine…

    Last night when i was on urgent to withdraw some cash i found the queue continued upto street lane like a free darshan queue to see lord venkateshwara in Tirumala. Man i got no patience to wait until or stand in this long queue, but its urgent and i had no choice then to stand. I came near the queue, opened my pursue to take my card while people starimg at me like an unwanted weight to thier queue but i was standing in the queue for as long as 5 mins and was eager that the queue would move more further although some aged people who cannot operate the ATM easily was bothering me. I cannot persist the queue any more decided that its not good time to do so.. While still waiting for my turn i saw a guy heading over ATM, With a pride of myself thinking that he needs to wait until i withdraw money, i stared at him. All of a sudden he pulled a checkbook from his bag, pulled a leaf out of it, filled something in it. I was gazing at him, he went inside the bank and came back within 5 mins counting cash that he had withdrawn by using his cheque. I was wondering that we are still waiting to withdraw cash in Latest ATM Machines but that wise guy just used this alternative method to withdraw money. Why does this idea struck on to me ? Maybe this is what they call as lateral thinking or something….

  • Unsatisifed Sify Broadband Customers around the Internet

    Are you a Frustrated Sify Broadband Customer ? i am one of them. Sify Broadband is the Worst Internet Service Provider in India. If you have any idea of registering for a sify broadband connection then my best suggestion is just give up that idea and for current sify broadband users is to switch t to any other ISP Providers. There are many disadvantages as a sify user by which i have faced lot of troubles like network problem, unstatic ip address, forcing to install thier own AV etc.

    At First on registering with sify i was quite happy when days passed by i can feel the down in bandwidth speed, regular network problems etc. Sify Broadband handovers all the installations and maintainance to local cable guys who dont have a prior experience or good training in computers. There security is damn like a house without roof and the funniest part is in the middle of feb 2006 i could access all the computers in thier hubs without any restriction to root files of thier computer. Even i could face all this problems but the most annoying thing is i cant internet most of the times in mid of April to July because of thier network problem. I cannot connect to thier gateway and so how could i access the internet and whats the use to buy broadband then ? All the Sify Customers knew that Sify even wins the Award for having worst call center support, i think sify appoints call center employees who doesnt even know what a computer is, maybe due to the reason they can give them a low pay. So the best and good suggetion from me is to switch to another ISP Provider.

    Not only i am the one who yells on this this, there is a blogspot blog called SifyBroadband where users post thier complaints and i could see some traffic to that blog and another undisclosed blogger has even tried filing the case on Sify and still working hard to sue it.

    SifyBroadband logo is the Registred trademark of thier respective companies..

  • Google News Indexes Wrong titles from news source

    Today when i was browsing in the Sci/Tech Category of Google news, i found a wired Title that said “Posted by David Berlind @ 5:41 am”. It was Google’s mistake that it sometimes indexes the poster name instead of the actual title. The actual news page is from ZDnet and title should be “Disappointment over virtualization techs mounts. This time, Oracle takes its shots” but instead google bot has wrongly indexed the poster name. Maybe the problem will be in the Submission page of ZDnet news or with the Google.

    Lets sneakout other new problems with google news but dont forgot that Google News is not in Beta or Labs.

  • Remove ads in Yahoo Messenger 8.0.0.682 Final Version

    Nikol has created an Excellent patch for the Final Version of Yahoo messenger 8.0.0.682. If you have installed the Final Version of Yahoo messenger 8, you will be fed up with the same annoying flash ads at the bottom and also the new Update Dialogs. Don’t Worry about them. Just download this patch created by Nikol. The patch created by him contains a readme file, an exe file that patches the contact list ad, a registry file that patches all other ads in yahoo messenger and a multiyahoo patch that allows multi instance of yahoo messenger.

    Alternatively you can download a bat file created by Alex of Google Operating System which will patch the ads and update dialogs in yahoo messenger. You need to Excute the Batch file.

    Thanks : Nikol and Alex.

    Warning: This use of any patch listed here may or may not have any effects on the performance of the yahoo messenger. Use at your own risk and we dont liable for the damage or crashing of program.

  • WorldSpace Ad Video Featuring A.R Rahman in Hindi..

    The Legend of Music A.R Rahman who has became the Brand Ambassador of Wordspace, has unvelied a superb ad for Wordspace Radio. When i was exploring YouTube this video impressed me and so i posted it here. Not only the reason this video impressed me but i am a greatfan of A.R Rahman and i want to show my users why i like him. check out this cool video

    What A.R Rahman says in this video

    once somebody asked to define music, I didnt really have answer or lets say I had more than one. For me music is unspoken language, its the sound of nature, if you listen carefully there is music in everything,there is only way to understand & enjoy music.You just have to keep listening. & you can with worldspace. There is so much to hear.

    Watch the Same Video in English / Tamil Version.
    Source: YouTube | Video Copyrights: Worldspace | Thanks: ARRahmanFans

  • Gtalk has auto sorting feature of buddy list.

    Google talk has an auto sorting feature of buddy list which we might have not realised or ignored. The main part of it is that google talk automatically sorts the buddy list based on the status of user and thier activity.

    Whenever a buddy list is displayed in gtalk they are sorted based on thier alphabetical order as second category and status as first category. For example check the screenshot on the left.

    In the screenshot the top list of buddies is naveed, since his status is available he is displayed in top and in the second list it is thakur who uses a busy status and so he is sorted next to available status. And the last status is anandh who is simple idle and so he is listed at the last of the buddy list.

    We might have never noticed that google talk has this interesting feature, that automatically sorts the list. Soon more features will be discovered keep updated with my blog if you like my posts…

  • Use your Regional Languages in Unicode Supported Applications

    Srinivasan, one of my friend was researching with unicode supported applications. Many of us were not aware of Unicode (a Encoding technique with 64 bits of Character sets) that are native in some of our OS. Generally most of us are using Windows XP, in which the support for unicode is much wider. According to Srinivasan, one can use thier own languages in any unicode supported applications. Some of Unicode supported applications are Gtalk, Msn Messenger etc.

    He used Tamil a south indian language as default language for instant messaging. We are never aware of this great feature by which we can use Instant messengers like gtalk, msn for communicating in our own language. He has written a detailed tutorial on how to use tamil in unicode supported languages in his blog. His tricks works well for Tamil Language only.

    For other Languages, you can go to Tavultesoft Keyman and select your language keyboard but for installing this keyboards you need keyman console. After installing both of them, you can use your regional languages in any unicode supported applications. I just tried using hindi in gtalk and it works fine………..