Thursday, December 6, 2012
Yahoo gets Mozilla to compete with Google in Search Results.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Your Zodiac Signs with their weaknesses
Taurus: Taurus is rigid, unchanging and lazy. They are bound around their regular routine and makes really slow moves, so they miss out many good opportunities. They also become stubborn and have a tendency to exaggerate.
Gemini: The air bearing twins are very fast and unpredictable; they move in different directions and work in different fields. They don't care about their health so much and are considered to be double faced. They may act differently for personal gain.
Cancer: Cancer is a shy, secretive and moody sign. They do not forget things easily and may seek revenge. They get jealous easily and may speak ill of others. Their money-minded nature may be perceived as a negative trait.
Leo: The son of the sun, lion (the Leo) is the sign of royalty and domination. Their weaknesses are that they have a deep desire to rule over all, they are stubborn in believing themself and excessively use their power. Staying in the limelight is fine, but hogging it all the time is not.
Virgo: Virgo has a problem when it comes to trusting others. They wouldn't even trust their best friends.They are reluctant spenders. They criticize and nag; qualities which many find to be annoying.
Libra: Libra gets confused all the time. Once in a while is fine, but to be indecisive whenever you ask something can be a frustrating thing to experience. They may be critical without paying heed to others' emotions.
Scorpio: They can be very vindictive as an enemy, so try not to bring out the worst in Scorpio. Their inability to make the right decision in love is their biggest weakness. They are stubborn too.
Sagittarius: They get distracted very easily and also change their personality according to the situation. They have this desire to do too many things together, which can lead to problems later. They forget about all the practical things in the world.
Capricorn: Capricorn is too detached from reality and may also appear cold when in love. They are slow learners who take their time before adapting to something new.
Aquarius: Aquarius desires freedom too much and believes in doing things alone. They have a quality of being coolly sarcastic and become highly impatient when they are hungry.
Pisces: They are not very determined and excessively trust others. Pisceans are most difficult to understand. They are extremely sensitive and also very gullible. People may take advantage of Pisces' naivete.
Monday, July 2, 2012
How to Change Default Video Player in Android mobile?
How Can i Change my android mobile default Video Player
Hi All. While writing this solution i am using android mobile. Yesterday my kid were playing with my android mobile and by mistake changed its default video player. After that i were looking for the solution. How to Change Android mobiles default video player with my chosen one.Follow these steps and you can solve the issue. Settings --> Application --> Manage Applications --> select your video player that is default player now, and find the clear default button.
Example if you were using downloaded video player and by mistake it changed into android player then Settings --> Application --> Manage Applications --> select "gallery" and click change default. Hurray you are the winner.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Degree is not much important to earn $50k Jobs
What is More Important to Earn Jobs
By Christine Laue, PayScale.com
Being degreeless doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll wind up in a low-paying job. Online salary database PayScale.com compiled a list of jobs that pay $25 an hour -- or $52,000 a year -- but don’t require a college degree. The list looks at workers with five to eight years of experience.
That pay level -- which is more than three times the minimum wage -- bests the typical college graduate's starting salary of $39,000, says Katie Bardaro, PayScale.com’s lead analyst. “If you work hard and move up to a higher-level job, you have the potential to do better than a recent college grad,” she says.
Oil Pumper
Oil pumper Pat Love of Lincolnville, Kansas, drives a truck through a 10,000-acre pasture in the Flint Hills of Kansas to check oil and gas wells. If they aren’t pumping correctly, he fixes them.
Love, who doesn’t have a college degree, learned everything he needed to know on the job and from a few classes. Many employers send workers to training conducted by heavy-equipment manufacturers.
Love urges anyone considering work as an oil pumper to be aware that the job is labor-intensive and dangerous. “They call me ‘accident Pat,’” he says. “There are plenty of burn scars on my arms.”
Find oil industry jobs.
Retail General Manager
Retail managers oversee day-to-day operations of a retail store. The work includes hiring and supervising employees, coordinating sales promotions, implementing policies and customer relations. Previous sales experience is essential for someone without a degree.
Alex Diimig, 25, landed a retail manager job at Jake’s Cigars and Spirits in Omaha without a degree. He was promoted a year and a half later to general manager, demonstrating that advancing in retail doesn’t always require a degree, “as long as you have tenacity and can work hard,” he says. “I don’t plan to stop where I’m at. I think there is a lot of opportunity for me in this job.”
Find retail manager jobs.
Director of Housekeeping
The director of housekeeping coordinates, schedules and supervises janitors and housekeepers in hotels, restaurants, nursing homes or private residences. The housekeeping director’s responsibilities include assigning tasks, inspecting employees’ work and preparing department expense reports.
While janitors and housekeepers without degrees can work their way into this role, they might be required to take some college courses or in-service training to advance to supervisor.
Find director of housekeeping jobs.
Millwright
Mulling if a millwright job is right for you? A millwright installs, assembles and dismantles machinery, conveyer systems and material-handling equipment in factories, power plants and construction sites.
Most millwrights enter the occupation through apprenticeship programs typically lasting four years and sponsored by local union chapters, employers or state labor departments.
That’s how Shane Harris of Warsaw, Indiana, became a millwright in the mid-1990s. The expanding wind-power industry is fueling demand today, he says. “Although we were slow a couple years ago, we are seeing a huge increase in work,” he says.
Find millwright jobs.
Mobile Crane Operator
Crane operators use equipment to lift and move materials, machinery and other heavy objects at warehouses, storage yards, factories and construction sites.
Little or no formal training is required in most cases. Many employers require workers to be at least 18 and physically able to perform the work. Six cities and 17 states require crane operators to be licensed.
Find crane operator jobs.
Food Service Director
The food service director hires, trains and supervises the staff for restaurants or food service facilities. Responsibilities include ordering supplies and setting work schedules.
Most food service directors have prior experience in the food or hospitality industries and some postsecondary training; however, many experienced workers with less education can be promoted.
Peter Fischbach of Newark, New Jersey, served as director of food services for Gourmet Dining Services at the 9,500-student New Jersey Institute of Technology before being promoted to regional director of culinary development. He now oversees food service at 11 different colleges and universities.
While Fischbach entered the field as an executive chef, he says many food service directors don’t need culinary degrees. Smaller, privately owned companies especially promote from within and are less likely to require formal education, he says.
Find food service director jobs.
Source: Salary data provided by online salary database PayScale.com. Jobs and pay are for full-time workers with five to eight years of experience. Job descriptions are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Indian Car run by Air
In 2007, Tata Motors signed a licensing deal with Motor Development International, a French design firm.
Compressed air engines aren't a new idea. The first models were proposed more than a century ago, and they were used in the mining industry for decades before electric motors became commonplace.
Even now, compressed air powers all kinds of tools, notably the pneumatic impact wrenches in auto body shops.
A compressed air car engine works in a way similar to the internal combustion version - Fuel forces pistons to turn a crankshaft and power the car. The difference is that in a compressed air engine, the pistons are moved by air and not gasoline.
Researchers in Sweden have experimented with single-cylinder engines of this type.
The only problem is power. Air compression alone only gets a car moving to about 30 to 35 miles per hour. So to supplement that, the car could take in more air as it moves faster, using an onboard air compressor.
The air compressor could be electric or, more likely, gasoline-powered. But even that would reduce emissions a lot, since the gasoline engine wouldn't be running at lower speeds.
Range is also an issue. Like all vehicles, an air-powered car can drive only as far as the amount of fuel in its tank. And storing compressed air requires "fuel" tanks that are stronger than steel to contain the thousands of pounds per square inch necessary.
On the bright side, compressing air in such a tank is a lot less dangerous than natural gas or hydrogen. Then there is the issue of filling the car's tank, most air compressors would take at least a couple of hours to do that.
Tata seems to be the only manufacturer that has committed to actually building an air-powered car. Honda unveiled an air-powered concept car in 2010, and a company called Zero Pollution Motors had promised to deliver one to the United States, but that was two years ago.
If Tata is successful, it will go a long way toward reducing emissions in India-and perhaps freeing cars from fossil fuels completely. (ANI)
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Can 9 Years Old Gilr Teach how to sell??
So what have sales professionals done about this? They have worked on "honing the message," developing a "compelling unique advantage" and, of course, the ultimate silver bullet: a surefire elevator pitch.
But here's what you're fighting: A world cluttered with information, schedules, packed with more meetings and work than a person can handle. A decision-making process with more people involved in every choice–many of whom know little about your product or service. No wonder so little is remembered; often your audience doesn't even understand much about what you're offering.
What Kids Want to Know
I have a 9-year-old daughter with spring freckles, long brown hair and blue eyes the size of silver dollars. She asks the kinds of questions that on the surface seem so simple:
- Daddy, what do you do?
- Why do people decide to hire you?
- Why don't they hire somebody else or do it themselves?
What does a procurement specialist know about what you sell–or the IT person, or the finance person? The challenge is this: Can you answer the three questions my 9-year-old asked, for your own business?
Hint: There are right and wrong answers for both.
Daddy, What Do You Do?
- Right answer: "I help companies to grow really fast by teaching them how to sell bigger companies much larger orders."
- Wrong answer: "Our company helps develop inside of our clients a replicable and scalable process for them to land large accounts."
- Right answer: "We have helped lots of companies do this before, so we are really good at it as long as they are the right type of companies."
- Wrong answer: "We have a proven process for implementation that allows organizations to tailor the model to their market, business offering and company's growth goals."
- Right answer: "Just like when you learned to play the piano: Mommy and I could teach a little, but we don't know as much as your teacher, and teaching you ourselves would take a long time and be very frustrating. Daddy is a really good teacher of how to make bigger sales, and people want to learn how to do this as fast as they can."
- Wrong answer: "We are the foremost expert in this field with over $5 billion in business that our clients have closed using this system. Usually our clients have tried a number of things on their own before we work together and have wanted outside help to get better results."
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Google Next Update is Zebra
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Orbis - The Next Play Station
Orbis - The Next Play Station
Kotaku, though, claims to have uncovered some inside information about the system that, on the surface, makes it sound like the next generation console race is going to be a tight one -- and begin next year.
Citing a single anonymous source, Kotaku says it believes the code name for the next PlayStation is "Orbis." And while the next console from Sony is widely expected to be called PlayStation 4 when it hits shelves, the site infers that Orbis might be the system's final name.
Whatever it's called, Kotaku says we can expect to see it released in the holiday period of 2013 -- the same timeframe most expect the next Xbox to arrive. If so, that would eliminate the one year head start Microsoft enjoyed with the Xbox 360, a year that gave it a lead over Sony that thus far has proven insurmountable.
[Related: New Sony CEO to keep charge of troubled TV operations]
Much like the rumored next Xbox system (codenamed Durango), the new Sony system will lock games to a PSN account, which could impact the used game market.
"If you then decide to trade that disc in, the pre-owned customer picking it up will be limited in what they can do," the site said. "While our sources were unclear on how exactly the pre-owned customer side of things would work, it's believed used games will be limited to a trial mode or some other form of content restriction, with consumers having to pay a fee to unlock/register the full game."
If true, that's likely to upset a notable segment of the gaming population, not to mention have a serious impact on retailers like GameStop who make a tidy profit on the used game market. And Sony could ruffle even more feathers if the system ditches backward compatibility with the PlayStation 3, as Kotaku says it will.
In terms of hard specs, Kotaku says the system will use either AMD's x64 CPU or perhaps AMD's Southern Islands GPU, the company's high-end chip. Graphics-wise, Orbis is said to be capable of resolutions up to 4096x2160, commonly called '4K' in TV manufacturer parlance (and one of the technological boosts shown off at this year's CES). It's also said to be able to play 3D games in full 1080p, a leap over the PS3's max 3D resolution of 720.
It's critical to note that these are unconfirmed reports based on a single source, so it's wise to be skeptical. Developers Yahoo! Games has spoken with are unable to confirm anything in Kotaku's report, and note they haven't been contacted yet by Sony to discuss the new system (though they say they have spoken with Microsoft).
Don't expect Sony to officially start talking about the PS4 or Orbis anytime soon, either. In January Sony's Kaz Hirai stated clearly that the company would not announce any new home systems at E3.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Salman Khan, Jackie Chan and Kamal Hasan Coming together?
Jackie Chan, Salman Khan and Kamal Hasan
If this comes through, it will probably be one of the biggest casting coup of this millennium! Kollywood is buzzing with the news that producer Aascar Ravichandran is planning to cast Kamal Haasan, Salman Khan and Jackie Chan in 'Armour of God' sequel.
In an interview with the Deccan Chronicle Ravi confirmed the news saying, “I have been discussing it with Jackie Chan for the last few years. The script has a global theme with an Indian connection. Yes, talks are on with Salman Khan. Read more on Salman Khan Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/BeingSalmanKhan
A report in The Daily Bhaskar says "it should be put to light that when action heavyweight Jackie Chan was shooting in India in 2004 for his movie ‘The Myth’, he had expressed a desire to star in a Bollywood film. And speculations have been rife since then. But now, it seems that the myth might just take form with such reports coming in. "
If it happens this will be definitely a turning point in the history of Indian cinema. Reportedly the film will be made in Hindi, Tamil and English with a whopping budget of Rs. 400 crores.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Things that can Damage your Carrier
2. "I just booked plane tickets for next month." Never book time off without clearing it with your boss. There might be a major project due that week, or she might have approved others to have that time off and therefore need you around. Check with her first before you do anything irreversible.
3. "My bad." There's nothing more frustrating than an employee who has made a mistake and doesn't seem to think it's a big deal. When you make a mistake, take responsibility for it, figure out how you're going to fix it, and make it clear that you understand its seriousness. Responses like "my bad" sound cavalier and signal that you don't take work seriously. Don't use it for anything other than the most minor mistake (like spilling something in the kitchen, which you then promptly clean up).
4. "I can't work with Joe." Refusing to work with a colleague is an unusually extreme statement and may mark you as difficult. Instead, try something like, "I find it hard to work well with Joe because of X and Y. Do you have any advice on how I can make it go more smoothly?"
5. "I don't know what you'd do without me." No one is irreplaceable, even the head of your company. Statements like this mark you as a prima donna who feels entitled to special treatment ... and will make a lot of managers want to show you that you're wrong.
6. "Do this, or I quit." Whether you're asking for a raise or requesting a day off, don't threaten to quit if you don't get your way. If you don't get what you want, you can always think it over and decide to quit, but if you use it as a threat in the negotiation itself, you'll lose your manager's respect and poison the relationship.
7. "I have another offer. Can you match it?" Using another job offer as a bargaining chip to get your current employer to pay you more money may be tempting, but it often ends badly. First, you may be told to take the other offer, even if you don't really want it--and then you'll have to follow through. Second, even if your employer does match the offer, they'll now assume you're looking to leave, and you may be on the top of the lay-off list if the company needs to make cutbacks. If you want a raise, negotiate it on your own merits.
8. "What's the big deal?" Statements like this are dismissive and disrespectful. If your manager is concerned about something, you need to be concerned about it too. If you genuinely don't understand what the big deal is, say something like, "I want to understand where you're coming from so we're on the same page. Can you help me understand how you're seeing this?"
9. "I can't do X because I need to do Y." Don't say that you can't do something your manager is asking of you. Instead, if there's a conflict with another project, explain the conflict and ask your manager which is more important.
10."That's not my job." Protesting that something isn't in your job description is a good way to lose the support of your boss. Job descriptions aren't comprehensive, and most people end up doing work that doesn't fall squarely within that job description. (That's what "and other duties as assigned" means.) You want to make yourself more valuable to your employer, not less.
Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog, where she dispenses advice on career, job search, and management issues. She's also the author of Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Leader's Guide to Getting Results and former chief of staff of a successful nonprofit organization, where she oversaw day-to-day staff management, hiring, firing, and employee development.
6 Reasons Why You Should Never Retire
All well and good, perhaps. But these concerns have obscured the compelling arguments against ever retiring, except for physical reasons. The short list of reasons never to retire include:
1. There is no physical reason to retire.
2. Continued work can support healthy aging, including better physical and mental health.
3. Well-being and happiness are boosted when people are engaged in challenging and meaningful activities. Work is a major place to find such activities in our society.
[Related: The New Retirement Resorts]
4. Older people have rich experience and mentoring skills to help enrich the workplace experiences of younger colleagues.
5. Declining numbers of younger workers, courtesy of lower fertility rates, will raise the need to retain older employees in the workforce.
6. We need and like the money, and shorter retirements sharply cut the risk we will outlive our assets.
There are physically demanding jobs that wear people out by the time they hit their 60s. Other people have suffered disabling injuries and diseases, some related to work, and simply cannot hold demanding jobs any longer. We have safety nets for these folks, although they should be stronger, especially as support rises for raising the official retirement age to 68 or even 70.
For the rest of us, retirement is, quite frankly, often a default choice that we've been brainwashed into accepting. Saying that it's time to retire becomes less and less relevant with each passing year. Not only are we living longer, but the quality of our lives in older age can also improve. Physically taxing jobs are disappearing. Knowledge jobs can be done quite well by older people.
Continuing to work keeps people engaged and requires learning new skills. While the perfect antidote to the hazards of aging has not yet been identified, performing meaningful work is certainly a major part of the answer. For people who have "retired" in a technical sense, there has been a boom in encore careers and other volunteer experiences. Many of these people are working as hard and effectively as they ever have, and reaping big health and wellness benefits (although clearly not earning commensurately large paychecks).
The recession and painfully slow jobs recovery that has followed have occasioned some sniping at older workers. It is time for them to move on, we're told, and to open up slots for deserving younger job candidates. Similar "job stealing" charges have been levied at illegal immigrants. This is an understandable but short-sighted reaction. Labor shortages will be making headlines in a few years, and we'll need workers of all ages and origins.
[Related: Foods That Fight Aging]
The financial argument for staying at work has, of course, been front and center in the past few years. But labor-force participation rates for older people have been rising for 20 years, and financial motivations were important even before the recession. Beyond the money, there have been other benefits as well.
Older employees are ceasing to be oddities in the workplace. Recognition and sensitivity to multigenerational workforces have been growing. Older workers thus are more likely to be accepted by younger colleagues and managers.
Successful people have seldom selected retirement when they turn 65. Warren Buffett may be the poster child for lifetime employment, but he is hardly unique. Changing the "65 and out" mindset is helped by greater social acceptance of an extended working role for older people. This transition becomes even more powerful when the older person not only accepts a different future but embraces it.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Breaking News - Indian call centers stealing / Selling Brits' personal data
Breaking News - Indian call centers stealing / Selling Brits' personal data
Indian call centers are reportedly selling confidential personal data, including credit card details and medical records of more than 500,000 Britons.News daily The Daily Mail reported that data was being sold by "corrupt Indian call center workers" to criminals and marketing firms. It cited an undercover investigation by The Sunday Times--where two Indians, claiming to be IT workers, had met undercover reporters and "boasted" having 45 different sets of personal information.
The data had included names, addresses, phone numbers of credit card holders, start and expiry dates and the three-digit security and verification codes.
The information--most of them from customers of major financial companies such as HSBC and NatWest--are a resource for criminals, enabling fraudsters to steal money from bank accounts within minutes.
Other information that had been hawked by the workers included sensitive data on mortgages, loans, insurance and phone contracts and Sky Television subscriptions. The report noted that the data would enable direct marketing companies to target customers more effectively.
One of the Indians, Naresh Singh, reportedly met the undercover reporters in a hotel room in Gurgaon, near Delhi. He was allegedly carrying a laptop full of stolen data.
"These are the ones that have been sold to somebody already. This is Barclays, this is Halifax, this is Lloyds TSB. We've been dealing so long we can tell the bank by just the card number," Singh reportedly said, adding that most of the data was less than 72 hours old.
Call centers are a US$5 billion industry in India, employing 330,000 people, the report said.
Last month, U.S. federal officers had also accused Indian call centers of being involved in cheating millions of dollars out of Americans. Callers had reportedly used personal data on their victims obtained from payday loan websites.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Advance Magic Tricks , Magic Tricks Exposed! Mind Blowing
"Some Amazing Facts About Learning Magic
...And why you shouldn't even think about learning magic until you read every
word of this letter!"
1. Magic is easy to learn and doesn't take years of practice to master. (It's true, but professional magicians don't want you to know this!)
2. The best magic secrets are closely guarded by the professionals, so they can look better than you when they perform. (Until now that is! :-)
From: Simon Crack
Time: 7:57 AM - Thursday, March 15, 2012 UK.
Subject: Magic Tricks Exposed
Dear Friend,
If you can spare a couple of hours of your time, I'll show you how to quickly and easily amaze even the most skeptical person with some truly stunning professional magic tricks exposed. ...even if you've never done a single magic trick in your entire life.
Because that's how long my top secret 50+ page eBook is likely to take you to read. And when you do, you'll be BLOWN AWAY with how easy it is to learn stunning, professional magic tricks exposed.
Here's just some of what you'll discover...
Levitation techniques that magicians like David Blaine and Criss Angel use everyday to stun their audiences.
Gruesome effects where it "seems like" you saw into your neck with a piece of thread. Another trick sees you push a pen right through your forearm! Disgusting, disturbing but safe and fun!
Perform David Blaine's signature effect and take an empty, crushed soda can and restore it to pristine condition.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
8 Worst ways to make extra money
There are two ways to get ahead financially: Spend less and make more. Unfortunately, you can't give yourself an instant raise. But that doesn't mean you can't turn a quick buck if you want or need to.
- Sell your body. For science, that is. You can sell whole blood or plasma. According to American Red Cross standards, you have to weigh at least 110 pounds, be 18 or older, and be in good health. Plasma can be sold monthly, and it takes about an hour and 15 minutes. Whole blood can be sold only every two months, but it takes just 10 minutes, on average. Check with your local hospital or clinic to see if it pays for donations. Each visit can be worth up to $35.
- Do clinical trials. Provided you qualify, participating in tests of new medicines and procedures can earn you up to a couple thousand dollars. Two sources for finding clinical trials are the National Institutes of Health database and the Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation, which can also help you over the phone.
- Show talent. Fiverr.com helps you make money from your ability to do anything from retouching photos to singing. You can net $4 (the site takes a $1 cut) for a wide variety of small tasks. And if you don't have a special skill, try being clever or weird. Recently on the Fiverr front page, someone was offering to do voiceovers in a Power Ranger costume and another was offering to write messages on her lips. While lots of this stuff is silly, this site can theoretically be used as an entree for those with serious ambitions to showcase more traditional work.
- Sell used goods. If you have stuff you don't use -- and who doesn't? -- there are plenty of places to sell it, from Craigslist to eBay to Amazon. And if you don't want to wait on a buyer, you can trade in used electronics, books, movies and games at Amazon for credit. We have a few more ideas in "5 best websites for turning junk into cash." While this idea isn't particularly weird, if you need money, it's a good place to start.
- Sell crafts. Better than selling used is selling new -- especially if you have something unique to offer. Websites like Etsy.com can help you launch a side business selling your own crafts, from jewelry to painting to custom purses and clothing. Promoting your crafts on a social network like Pinterest can help drum up business.
- Work online. One of our most-asked questions: Is there legitimate work from home? Technically, yes. In fact, you're reading some right now: Every Money Talks News staffer works from home. But finding a legitimate work-at-home job isn't easy, and there are a lot of scams. Still, you can use the Internet to make extra cash. You can provide product research on sites like SurveySavvy.com for anywhere from $1 to $15 per survey, or perform quick menial tasks like tagging images for a few cents each on Mechanical Turk. You can also use the Internet to find offline jobs in your area (like bartending or short-term work as a personal assistant) at Zaarly, where some gigs are worth $100 or more.
- Find missing money. "Finding unclaimed cash" explains how to check with government agencies for cash you didn't know you had, like tax refunds, retirement accounts from old employers, abandoned paychecks, and unclaimed life insurance proceeds.
- Try apps. As smartphones become more popular, some startup businesses are based entirely on apps that get you to use them in certain ways while you're out and about. In "5 smartphone apps that can earn you money," we covered apps that can make you $5 to $10 for something as simple as snapping quick photos to prove a store has a certain product in stock. There are even apps that reward you for trying and reviewing other apps.
Monday, February 27, 2012
People Who Are Definitely Unemployed
Unless you count being a professional human goldfish for a living, I don't think this guy will be employed any time soon.
Will scare my employees.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Opera Killer for Android
Google Debuts Chrome for Android
Google has released a version of its Chrome browser for Android-based smartphones and tablets, bringing a number of new features optimized for use on mobile devices.
Available to download now in select countries, Chrome for Android is officially in a beta release, in keeping with Google's strategy of pushing out products before they are fully ready to see how well they are received.
The mobile version of Chrome runs on smartphones or tablets with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or above.
Although designed from the ground up for mobile devices, Google Chrome for Android has many of the same features of the desktop version.
Tabs are supported, for example, but have been designed to fit naturally on a mobile device screen.
Users can flip or swipe between of tabs using gestures, as if "holding a deck of cards in the palm of your hands," according to Google.
Link Preview is one feature added to improve the mobile browsing experience on a touch-screen, automatically zooming in on links on a web page to make it easier to pick out the required one.
The Sync feature allows users to see the same tabs they left open on their desktop PC, provided they sign in with Google account credentials on both systems.
Bookmarks can also be synchronized between copies of Chrome the same way, so users can access the same bookmarks on any device.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Snoop Dogg arrested on marijuana possession charge
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested over the weekend after border control agents found what they said was a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus.
The singer and record producer, 40, was stopped at the same Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint Saturday where country singer Willie Nelson was arrested for marijuana possession in 2010, customs officials said.
Bill Brooks, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, said agents conducted a routine inspection of the rapper’s tour bus on at the U.S.- Mexico border checkpoint east of El Paso and thought they smelled marijuana.
“When our officers did a further inspection, they discovered a small amount of marijuana and turned him over to the Hudspeth County sheriff,” Brooks said.
Brooks declined to say how much marijuana was involved or where it was found. The rapper was booked and released and given a January 20 court date.
Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, has been arrested and convicted numerous times in the last 10 years for possession of drugs ranging from marijuana to cocaine, and weapons offenses.
In 2008, Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson collaborated on the song and music video “My Medicine,” a thinly veiled homage to marijuana. Both artists have made their appreciation of pot an important part of their public personas.
The rapper’s spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment on his latest arrest.
(Editing by Jill Serjeant and Alex Dobuzinskis)
Friday, January 6, 2012
Women are a Mystery- Stephen Hawking
Women are a Mystery- Stephen Hawking
Event.
When a one of the top magazine publisher New Scientist magazine asked "Brief History of Time" author Stephen Hawking what he thinks about most, the Cambridge University professor renowned for unravelling some of the most complex questions in modern physics answered: "Women. They are a complete mystery."
The wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking, who recently retired from a post once held by Isaac Newton, talked to the magazine in the run-up to celebrations for his 70th birthday about his biggest scientific blunder and his hopes for modern science.
Hawking is due to celebrate his 70th birthday on Sunday with a public symposium entitled "The State of the Universe" at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
Hawking heads a list of speakers including British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter and Kip Thorne, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists.
(Reporting by Paul Casciato, editing by Steve Addison)