Sankaranand Balaradjou

Author: Sankaranand

  • 8 random facts about me

    This tagging game has been highly influenced by bloggers especially personal bloggers as I have been tagged by Shankar Ganesh and RishiRaj who made me reveal some random facts about me.

    I am inspired by technology:

    It all started when I was in sixth grade during 1999 I created my first email address with usa.net which is known to be the turning back of my life thus changing my attention and focus towards computer, internet and technology. I am very much inspired about technology and can’t live up without it. Since i love technology i am doing my engineering in information technology.

    I am basically a gadget freak:

    Whether it’s a personal gadget or any kind I love to have cool gadgets, wanted to try, use and own them whenever something comes new. Gadgets usually make our life easier and flexible. Currently I own nokia 6680, Nikon 6 mp DSC and USB flash drive with mp3 player.

    I love music:

    Never concerning about the genre I love all kind of music especially when it is composed by my legend A.R Rahman. Music keeps my life cool and relieves my stress and mental tension.

    Regular Chat and snack Eater:

    One thing I won’t miss in life is eating all kind of chats and snacks. Some of my favourites are Pani Puri, Masala Puri, Bhel puri, Dabeli, Mushroom Bonda and soup, Onion and Banana Bajji and Bengali sweets. If you want to try these then visit my place.

    Freaking outside:

    It’s usual for boys to freak out and roam and so the syndrome has impacted me to freak out. Generally we don’t know where we are going to or just passing our way and stopping some where.

    No girlfriends!

    Yep, it’s true I don’t have girl friends* (someone special) although I do have friends who are girls but I don’t want to waste money and time for them! What do you say guys?  But I ogle at nice and beautiful girls …lol

    Being open:

    I don’t want to hide anything in my mind or in heart, whether it’s sensitive or not I’d always be frank to tell what I think about them and what I wanted to say.

    I love animals:

    Basically some like animals at zoo some don’t but I love them. I think animals are just like a neighbor if you are kind to them then they do so. I love dogs; I have a cute little doggie called Nancy (named after famous Nancy Drew). Basically I am a PETA member I hate people who are cruel to animals. I am a vegetarian from childhood.

    And my tags for this posting are Srinivasan Paul Joseph, Thilak, Mayank Gupta, Haochi and Ashish Mohta.

  • Make your face as your password

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    Have you ever wondered creating your own facial password like the matrix film or the Lenovo Advertisement? Well it’s time to make your own security system with Banana Security.  Facial recognition is not all about buying a high tech surveillance system but a simple webcam and some blocks of programs would help you build up your own face recognition security system.

    How to setup your face recognition security?

    By downloading Banana Screen software and with a good quality webcam, your security system is not far away. After installation, the program acts as a default authentication system for your computer requiring your facial expression to be your password.

    How does it work?

    BS collects your facial features by a webcam which is used to build a statistical representation of face and does stores it in binary format for execution and detection.  This spyware free program which gives a lot concern for your privacy stores your image in encrypted format meaning no third party programs can access it.

    The backend of this program seems like it can support all webcams launched way back to 2 years but the application is still in beta stage. BS has released its version only for windows platform where Mac users have to wait a bit. I myself tried the program which sits lite in the system and unlocks quickly after showing my face but the cons is it doesn’t allow multi-user support as far now.

    Links: Download BananaScreen | [via ThinkDigit]

  • After 7 wonders, now its time for natural wonders

    Now its time for another vote, after successful strive and publication in India and other parts of the world, the TAJ which is one of the inspiration and a landmark around the young has been selected as one of the 7 wonders of the world. Many factors and sources are responsible like media promotion, mass internet voting and overall the population of India for its success.

    Taj Mahal certainly deserves to be a wonder of world, never mind the architect but the symbol of love made it won. After the new 7 wonders of the world, New open foundation has started another poll called New 7 natural wonders of the world. The nominations are clearly defined only for natural site or natural monument that was NOT created or significantly altered by humans.

    We have our chance of showing up the Great Himalayas which protects our country in every basis. So my kind request is to nominate Himalayas for the natural 7 wonders and make it win.

    How to Nominate ?

    Click this link and in the nomination field enter “Himalayas” and select the category as  Mountain, cliffs, Volcano,Rocks etc and select the country as India.

  • Happy Birthday to my blog!

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    Its celebration time since I crossed one year of blogging successfully. Success is not because of what I posted a whole year but factors that encouraged me to post continuously especially visitors, guests, friends who felt to leave their suggestions and comments in my blog. Actually my addiction towards blogging was from many great bloggers including my inspiration towards technology.

    It all started during the mid of year 2006 when I first established my technology forum called CESWAP which was sold later in the year, then after setting up my own hosted domain I decided to start a blog. During the initial stages of blogging, I used this platform only for my personal blogging like things happening around me and simply about myself but later on I thought of making it more useful then a personal blog without the influence of pro-blogging.Here is the result of what I desired, although I placed some ads which help me motivate towards blogging and the motivation has been working well after I received my first check from Google Adsense.

    My special thanks to Srinivasan Paul Joseph without whom this blog wouldn’t be standing here since he was providing me hosting, domain and all the support regard of technical and moral. He is one of my well wisher encouraging me in all aspects of technology. He is also one of my inspirations which I would like to reveal now.

    Mistakes are reports of your progress towards success if you haven’t done a mistake then it simply shows you ain’t progressing. Over a year of blogging, some of my posts might be useful, hateful or hurtful to someone or something.I feel apologize and thank you for being a source of identifying my mistakes. Last year my first post was on july 07, 2006 and now I am completing my final year of blog post i.e the current post on 7/7/7 which I posted at 7.07 am today IST.

    Thanks everyone for your support especially Srinivasan Paul Joseph, Thilak Raj, Shankar Ganesh, RishiRaj, Haochi, Amit Agarwal, Peter Dawson and others who’s been sharing your suggestion.

  • Find out how much your body is worth

    Have you ever thought of how much you are worth to this society or your family? Well I don’t know how much I am worth but I think I am doing my best part and wanted to be a piece of worth. Ok I forgot about want I wanted to share now. When I was exploring Mingle2 a site offering cool and funny tools to entertain, I just came through this dead body (Cadaver) calculator called Cadaver Calculator. Don’t get weird or look stupid at me!

    What is this dead body worth calculator? Actually dead body calculator is a funny tool designed to calculate the worth of your body which you decided to give for science research. I don’t know how much worth when i live, but I am proud that my body is worth 4850$ when I give it up to science research.

    How is your body’s worth calculated? This short tool has a series of interesting questions based on which the worth is calculated. What’s the worth of your body? Share it and see if yours is more worth than me..lol

    Links: Calculate your body worth | Mingle 2.

  • Microsoft giving free vouchers of café coffee day

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    Microsoft India along with Café Coffee day came forward to gift vouchers worth rupees 100. All you have to do is simply fill out this form and complete a slogan,  the best 1000 would get vouchers worth 100 rupees.

     Don’t be lazy to fill out; I guess your slogan won’t be that bad to throw out of 1000 best slogans. Give it a try and win a gift voucher to sip up your favorite

    Links:   Get the voucher | Microsoft India.

  • Sony Ericsson W960i has 8 GB internal memory – Review

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    One of a rocking member in W series is this W960i which is a Triband phone that comes equipped with powerful 3.5 megapixel camera. This 119g box is a perfect handset to satisfy your multimedia needs. This upcoming phone which supports the usual network of GSM 900, 1800 and 1900 with connectivity options like A2DP and wireless lan (Wifi).

    Update: Checkout the video describing the features of this phone.

     

    Touch screen is the input type used in this phone which has a 2.6-inch LCD display. And the other surprising info to share is that about the phone’s internal memory! Guess what it might be? 60 MB? No! It’s unbelievable God damn 8000 Mb which comes around 7.5 GB. Wondering a phone with 7.5 GB internal memory that doesn’t require any memory cards to be used! It’s time to buy this trendy gadget.

    Other technical information includes the Symbian OS, 9 hours talktime, 370 hours standby time with included accessories like Battery, charger, USB cable, stereo Bluetooth headset, stereo portable handsfree, protective pouch, spare stylus, Media Manager Pro PC program, PC synchronization program, user guide.

    Overview of the phone:

    Pros: 8 GB internal memory, 3.5 mp camera, walkman, wifi and touchscreen

    Cons: No expandable memory (who cares when we got 8GB)

    Please don’t bug me out by asking the price of phone 🙂 it has not yet been launched in market or available in official Sony store. But we expect Sony to release within few months.

  • Do you think you are Genius? – Test it

    geniuspuzzle.gifAre you a genius? If you think this is a silly question and doesn’t deserve to ask for, then let me test how genius you are.

    Actually I am not genius enough to test others but I have three great puzzles that could surely make you understand your capability. I came across these three fantastic puzzle called The Riddles of Sphinx, Enigma and a simple one called Hacker Puzzle that will surely make you insane….lol.

    Ok for a start let me explain from the beginning level of these puzzle.

    Test your level 1 with Hacker Puzzle:
    Hacker puzzle is all about thinking like a hacker. You have to use your common sense to navigate to 23 pages from the first one. The trick is to go to find the way to each page where you will get hints for next page. My say is that you don’t even need to be a hacker to solve this easy puzzle.
    Solved the first one? Ok! But don’t conclude yourself as genius until you finish the other 2 puzzles.

    Level 2 with Enigma:
    Enigma is a puzzle game inspired by the enigma machines used by Nazis before and during World War II to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. So your talent hides in decrypting each page and passing successfully to next level. You should be a geek to win this game. Absolutely ardent knowledge in technology is recommended to touch this game.

    Level3 with the Sphinx:
    Finished the second level? Hmmm. Ok! Take the final test that proves you as genius. The riddle of Sphinx is a puzzle which requires an Extra Terrestrial Intelligence to win. Developed by students of Anna University this game is about breaking codes using the available and hidden resources in the page. My recommendations are to use Google search as your weapon and also source codes of the page to break things well.

    Feel free to share your status and discuss about the puzzle in comments!

    Links: Genius Puzzle | Level 1 | Level 2| Level 3.

  • Rahman’s Anthem for Taj Watch It and vote!

    After the successful Vande mataram, Pray for me Brother and other master bits, A.R Rahman has unveiled this Taj Anthem which is simply superb. Report from the seven wonders officials says that Taj Mahal is currently at the tenth place which strives hard with lacking in votes from the Indians. Only few days to go and I think we badly need to encourage our fellow Indians to vote for Taj Mahal. To contribute the best of his side, Rahman has put up his camp of voting for Taj Mahal to elect as one of the seven wonders of world by composing this awesome music.

    Before watching the video, please make sure you turn your speakers on, so that you can hear the music.

    Rahman’s comment on the video:

    “The Taj has always been a source of inspiration for me, and it is not just about the love between Mumtaz Mahal and Shahjahan but about everybody’s love. I think this monument deserves to be on the list of Seven Wonders of the World and we should all strive for it,”

    My final Verdict:

    Please Spare your little time for the sake of India, I am not asking you to shed your blood for the country but it’s just your time by which we gonna earn fame for the TAJ MAHAL. I have done my job what about you?

    Links: Vote Online | Or send sms as <TAJ> to 4567. | Your vote Values !