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

List of Top-paying companies & Best companies to work for

Want to know the list of top-paying companies and the list of best companies to work for??

Following is the list:

10 top-paying companies:

1. Bingham McCutchen
2. Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Network
3. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
4. Alston & Bird
5. Perkins Coie
6. Devon Energy
7. Chesapeake Energy
8. Salesforce.com
9. Arnold & Porter
10. Adobe Systems

Top 10 best companies to work for(2009):

1 NetApp
2 Edward Jones
3 Boston Consulting Group
4 Google
5 Wegmans Food Markets
6 Cisco Systems
7 Genentech
8 Methodist Hospital System
9 Goldman Sachs
10 Nugget Market

And the complete lists goes here:
Source:
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0901/gallery.bestcos_toppay.fortune/index.html
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/full_list/

IBM WebSphere MQ

IBM WebSphere MQ is a family of network communication software products launched by IBM in March 1992. It was previously known as MQSeries, a trademark that IBM rebranded in 2002 to join the suite of WebSphere products. WebSphere MQ is IBM's Message Oriented Middleware offering. It allows independent and potentially non-concurrent applications on a distributed system to communicate with each other.







Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSphere_MQ

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/education/crashcourse/#Application_Integration

Windows 7 OS

Windows 7 is the next version of Microsoft Windows and the successor to Windows Vista.

At its Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008), Microsoft Corp. rallied software developers by sharing the first full public demo of Windows 7. Its held at Los Angeles on Oct 28th 2008.





Source:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-28PDCDay2PR.mspx
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7

US Consulate in Hyderabad

The consulate facility will begin processing 100 visa applications a day by the middle of December 2008 and scale it up to 300 by January next.

It would result in avoiding 65,000 to 70,000 trips each year to Chennai by those seeking US visas.

Source: The Hindu

Home page for US Consulate in Hyderabad

US Tax Refund Finder

Find out if IRS owes you money:

http://www.ntu.org/main/components/current_irs/

Source: http://www.ntu.org/main/press.php?PressID=1067&org_name=NTU

Learn about Business Consulting

Want to know about business consulting or want to start your career in this field? Then logon to the following portal which is launched by three students of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM).

http://www.learn2consult.com/

Source: http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20081023/812/tnl-iim-students-launch-portal-to-help-n_1.html
http://www.learn2consult.com/

Hello World program in 400 programming languages

Lets see how to print "Hello World" in 400+ languages:

Java:
// Hello World in Java

class HelloWorld {
static public void main( String args[] ) {
System.out.println( "Hello World!" );
}
}


C#:
// Hello World in Microsoft C# ("C-Sharp").

using System;

class HelloWorld
{
public static int Main(String[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
return 0;
}
}

Ruby:
# Hello World in Ruby
puts "Hello World!"

Want to see the complete list? Following is the link:
http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm

Ruby 1.9

Yukihiro Matsumoto, chief designer of the Ruby programming language(1995), speaks about Ruby 1.9 in a tech talk organised by Google.

The story of Bill Gates

Looking back, Moving ahead...
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/videos/

Mind map

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea.

Mind maps have many applications in personal, family, educational, and business situations, including notetaking, brainstorming, summarizing, revising, and general clarifying of thoughts. One could listen to a lecture, for example, and take down notes using mind maps for the most important points or keywords. One can also use mind maps as a mnemonic technique or to sort out a complicated idea.

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

Panasonic "LifeWall"

LifeWall - The wall that interacts with you.

With powerful life-size images and advanced HD quality, it allows you to operate virtually everything inside and outside of the home.

http://www.panasonic.com/cesshow/

Semantic Web

Humans are capable of using the Web to carry out tasks such as finding the Finnish word for "cat", reserving a library book, and searching for a low price on a DVD. However, a computer cannot accomplish the same tasks without human direction because web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines. The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information on the web.

Currently, the World Wide Web is based mainly on documents written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), a markup convention that is used for coding a body of text interspersed with multimedia objects such as images and interactive forms.The semantic web takes the concept further; it involves publishing the data in a language, Resource Description Framework (RDF), specifically for data, so that it can be categorized as human perception and be "understood" by computers.



References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

Yahoo! Everything

Want to browse all Yahoo products in one place?

Try this link: http://everything.yahoo.com/