Google Fast Flip - A fast n easy way to flip through news articles

Want a fast and easy way to scan through recent news, headlines and popular topics? Then Google's Fast Flip might be the right one for you.

With Google Fast Flip, you can easily flip through various news articles of your interest, within seconds.

Explore this cool feature @ http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/



Source:

-http://fastflip.googlelabs.com
-http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/read-news-fast-with-google-fast-flip.html
-youtube

Travel to Gilroy Hanuman Temple @ Mount Madonna Center, CA

This weekend we went to Gilroy Hanuman Temple. Its a must watch temple surrounded by a peace and serene landscape. Wish everyone who ever gets a chance visit this place and may Lord Hanuman's blessings shower on all of you...

Few tips to travel to the temple:

Dont use GPS or look for directions in yahoo or mapquest, bcoz it takes you to a route which is very hilly and not even a concrete road. You will be traversing along a valley, and you cant imagine such a travel when it rains and 2 cars crossing each other in opposite directions.

Route to be travelled:

http://www.mountmadonna.org/directions/bycar.html

If you are using a GPS, set the intial destination to well known "Gilroy Gardens" and from there put the temple location. This way you will be travelling along Highway 152 and avoid the valley.

Destination A: Gilroy Gardens: 3050 Hecker Pass Hwy, Gilroy, CA 95020 (Gilroy Gardens)

Destination B: Hanuman temple: 445 Summit Rd, Watsonville, CA 95076

Route not to be travelled, to avoid travel along the valley (when travelling from Fremont/San Jose, CA:

# Take the TENNANT AVE exit - go 0.4 mi
# Turn Right on TENNANT AVE - go 0.9 mi
# Turn Left on MONTEREY RD/MONTEREY HWY - go 0.5 mi
# Turn Right on WATSONVILLE RD(CR-G8) - go 6.3 mi
# Turn Right on REDWOOD RETREAT RD - go 3.2 mi

Picture of hanuman: Source: http://www.mountmadonna.org/community/index.html

Bing: Microsoft's web search engine

"Bing" is Microsoft's web search engine, unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009. Bing is a replacement for Live Search, and it came fully online on June 3, 2009.

The name is meant to conjure “the sound of found” (As per nytimes)

In addition to search facility, Bing also provides specific search facility related to following services: Videos, Images, Local, Maps, News, Shopping, Travel, xRank etc.

Why wait? Explore the search functionality of Bing



Source:
http://www.bing.com
http://www.discoverbing.com/tour/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/internet/29bing.html

Robots in Retail Warehouses

Retail Warehouses run by Gap, Zappos and Staples now use robots to "pick" products from their shelves and ship them to you.

The robots are manufactured from a company called Kiva Systems.

One of the main advantage of using the above systems is, it reduces energy costs, since they dont need any lights or climatic control. Also, seems it takes just 12 min from the time a customer places an order to the time order is ready to put on a truck.!!!

Have a look at the following video, which shows the robotic distribution in a warehouse:



Source:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/retailrobots.html

Toyota's Way of Kaizen

Learn about the importance of Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) and have a look at how Toyota keeps it in practice.

Google Latitude

Google launched their newest service Google Latitude, which basically allows you to see where your friends are and what they are doing. So, why waiting? Get back in touch with your friends!!!



Source:
http://www.google.com/mobile/default/latitude.html

The American Presidents

Since George Washington's election in 1789, 43 men have served as President of the United States. Obama is the 44th President.

The following video shows the complete list of US Presidents till date:



Source:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ7w1954uJE