I am planning to give away 2 free .com domains for 2 of our readers. If you ask why? the simple answer is “Just to thank my readers “.

On September 15th I will be giving away the domain names(you can choose the domain name). Interested in participating? Just leave a comment on this post and you will get a chance to win. Digg/stumble or bookmark any of my popular posts shown below and you will get an extra chance ;-). Don’t forget to add the link to your account, with the url, as a comment.

1. Change Sonyericsson default menu icons
2. Add background music to your orkut scrapbook
3. Multiple yahoo messenger login…
4. Top 10 mobile apps[java] for your phone
5. 25 useful portable applications
6. Add more themes to ubuntu
7. Firefox : Make it better/faster
8. Ubuntu transformation pack

And finally dont forget to subscribe to my RSS feeds to keep you updated.

I am sure you must have enjoyed watching the mr techo funny video. But there is an important security lesson for us to learn in that video. “Always lock your system when you leave“.

During our college days we used to play tricks with our friends by changing the desktop wallpaper to a screen shot of some message box (usually the display properties window). Its fun to see them click “ok” or “cancel” again and again.

This is not a joke when it comes to professional environment. You are responsible for everything that is done from your PC. Be it changing wall paper or some serious stuff like sending out emails. Dont forget that sending out an email is as serious as signing a contract.

Jeff at coding horror wrote an interesting post about locking your PC before leaving.

Easiest and fastest way to lock your PC is to press the Windows key + L. If you think this is old fashioned? then you can use your USB to lock PC when you step away. Here is a list of more software which makes locking PC more interesting.

Do you have any funny experiences to share?

Anothe important lesson is “Have a very good head hunting/HR team“

Watch this funny video about a techie’s life in Technopark.

Source : http://amvizone.com/

Today I saw a friend of mine struggling to save an image from a website. He took a screen shot of the website, opened paint and pasted the screen shot, croped out the unwanted part and finally saved the required image.

Most of us don’t know that browsers provide us the option to save images from website. One simplest way is to simply drag the image (click and drag) to the desktop or a folder. Have you tried this?

Below are some other ways to do it.

Here is how you do in Internet explorer. Simply right click the image choose Save picture as.

Firefox makes it even more sweeter by giving us the option to view the image (alone) before saving it. Simply right click the image and choose View image then you can decide whether to save it (by right click -> Save image as) or not.

If you are in India, you should have noticed that some of the ATMs do not have securities in front of them. SBI and SBT bank ATMs are good examples. But do you know why they dont employee security officials? Just take a look at the pictures below. This was taken at around 8:00 PM

This is HDFC bank ATM security.

What is kidoo?? infact the question should be who really is a kidoo?

- a person who is very passionate and enthusiastic in his specific field is a kidoo. In simple words, if we must call one as kidoo, he must be a kidoo. Kidoos is a slang Malayalam language.

The motive of Kidoos is to create a network of enthusiastic IT professionals and enable Knowledge Sharing more effectively. This website is dedicated to Information Technology. Currently this website has the following

1. Technology discussion forum
2. Technology blog
3. Technology articles
4. Technology resources

Social networking for IT professionals will be launched soon. Take a tour here .

Yes! you read it right I am going to talk about the new V language. V language is the first programming language to use advanced tools in the algorithms of Artificial Intelligence. Aasis Vinayak is the brain behind this wonderful new programming language which is completely based on algorithms.

Visit http://www.vlanguage.org/ to know more about the language. Currently its not open to public. You can try the web version of the V language by visiting http://grogammer.com/

Tired of by hearting the syntaxes and functions used by different languages ? But still want to write those languages. It could be any language - C, C++, Java, Javascript, Tk, Qt, Python, Perl, PHP, ASP, C#, Shell, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML, UML, J2EE ……………………..!!!!!!!!!!! , here is something for your assistance if you are good in writing algorithms. Just use your brain to find a solution / write an algorithm. The rest will be handled by Grogammer !!

As I said earlier V language works purely based on algorithms and artificial intelligence.Here is a sample program to display a string.

I would like to print crankup. I want to write the program in php.

and here is the output!

<?php

print”crankup”

?>

Check out more at http://grogammer.com/

I recived this email some days back.

We have been notified that domain name curlit.in registered through
your account, are involved in Phishing activities. Such domain names
are strictly against Registrar PublicDomainRegistry.com's AUP.

We have currently Suspended the below mentioned domain name along with
domain forwarding service in violation of our AUP.

Domain Name:- curlit.in

Further, we advise you to, either

1. Request us to Delete this and all such other domain names,

So http://cutlit.in will no longer be available. Sorry for the inconvenience (for genuine users). You can still use http://www.crankup.net/curl which of course is not short

This is not my type. I have even turned off “XP sounds” in my laptop (oh Yeah! I still use windows XP). But for all those who love sound effects here is an addon for firefox. Noise lets you add sounds to firefox tasks.

More informatio can be found here

BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight.

Take a look at this mind blowing video from their site (a must watch) : http://www.bostondynamics.com