Locate yourself on the web

Hey check out this cool app which will locate you on the web. I was really shocked with the accuracy of the algorithm. Click here to find yourself immediately.

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Dil to baccha hai ji

I heard this song from Ishqiya for the first time when I was in US a few weeks back..From that very day I must have heard it at least a 1000 times..I just love this song..One of my few all time favorites.Enjoy the song..I hope you will like it too..


Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji with Lyrics - Enjoy

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Twitter

I always had the curiosity about what twitter's all about and today I have started twitting.
I am already following lot of celebrities. I think it is a kind of a web based SMS broadcasting system. Seems like a really cool idea..

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Why can't jets fly in volcanic ash clouds?

I was wondering why dozens of airports around Europe have been closed and flights canceled because of the volcanic ash spewed from Iceland. Cars and buses are driving around Europe, so why can't jets fly through volcanic ash clouds?

The short answer is that volcanic ash is made up of tiny pieces of glass that can shut down a jet engine.

A jet engine sucks in huge amounts of air that mixes with the fuel, ignites, and releases energy.

When these bits of volcanic glass get drawn into a gas turbine jet engine, they melt and fuse to parts of the engine. The melting point of volcanic ash is about 1,100 Celsius. But a jet engine operates at temperatures about 300 degrees hotter. The bits of glass tend to melt onto the fuel nozzles and turbine blades, rather than simply passing through the engine.

The result: the jet engine (or engines) may quit.

The volcanic ash tends to be concentrated at the high altitudes where commercial airliners fly. But near the ground, it's dispersed, and doesn't have the same effect on cars, trains, or ship engines.

Boeing, one of the world's largest manufacturers of commercial aircraft, says there have been about 90 incidents of aircraft being damaged by volcanic ash over the past three decades. One of the worst was the case of British Airways Flight 9 from London to Auckland, New Zealand. On June 24, 1982, the Boeing 747-200 flew through volcanic ash spewing from Mount Galunggung in Indonesia. All four jet engines quit within one minute. The plane dropped from 36,000 feet to 13,000 feet before the crew was able to restart each of the engines.

Pilots have found that jet engines can often be restarted once the aircraft drops to a lower altitude, as the glass on the engine parts hardens, shatters, and falls away.

The British Airways Flight 9 crew landed the aircraft safely in Jarkarta, Indonesia, but the volcanic ash had sandblasted the windshield of the aircraft, making it almost impossible for the pilots to see the runway. Watch a short Al Jazeera video (at the end of this blog) that includes a brief interview with the now-retired British Airways Capt. Eric Moody who describes piloting of that flight.

Volcanic ash doesn't tend to show up on aircraft weather radar (and it didn't during that British Airways Flight 9), because the radar is designed to detect moisture (thunder clouds) and the ash is too dry - or the particles are too small - to register. Also, the volcanic ash is often not visible at night.

To help aircraft avoid volcanic ash, Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers (VAAC) were set up in the 1990s. The VAACs cover nine regions around the globe. The two that airlines rely on in Europe are in London and Paris, and are part of the national weather services in their respective countries.

The VAAC in the Met Office in Britain is tracking the volcanic ash coming from Iceland, and its site includes updates and a map or chart of the ash in the area. The maps are updated every six hours. The VAAC web sites advise airline passengers to check the airline websites. British Airways, for example, has a section on flights canceled by the volcanic ash.

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Disappointing end to MI team

Firstly there is no way we can doubt Sachins commitment towards the team and the game. The way in which he went to Srilanka took some treatment and came back to play the finals..shows how much crazy and passionate he is about this game. The super queens should how they can be lethal when you continuosly drop catches of key players. Having said all this following could be the key reasons for our loss in the finals.

1. Extremely poor fielding.Dropping catches in final can be painful and we all saw that.
2. Harbhajan getting promoted up the order, that was I think digging your own grave(If he would have scored runs the gamble would have paid off but it was really a risky move)
3. Negative body language during batting by Mumbai Indians.
4. 1st over was maiden and so was the faith of the match was set.
5. Pollards was preserved till the end, which was the most pathetic decisions to make.He can hit the ball hard and he should that in 8 balls in which he was there in the crease.
6. Extreme defensive approach while chasing.

Yesterday night was a huge disappointment but lets hope Mumbai Indians learns from all these mistakes and corrects them in the future. My hatred for the Super Queens captain has increased exponentially now every thing that rises falls and I am waiting for that day..

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Happy Birthday to the Master Blaster...

Just as we are inching towards the climax of the IPL season III IPL itself is facing many allegations from match fixing to corruption, but on a lighter note today is a very special day and the current Orange Cap holder celebrates his 37th birthday..today..My best wishes to the Indian little master Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.I am sure he will do us all Mumbai Indians proud and help crush the Chennai Super Queens.

After two modest seasons in the IPL Mumbai team has finally shown what metal they are made up of and Sachin has lead the side from the front.What a tournament he has had so far around 70+ boundaries, man !! that is awesome..He has certainly silenced his ever growing list of critics once again..and proved a point that even in T20 cricket without hitting sixes one can still be the hugest run scorer.

I hope and pray that his injury heals quickly and he certainly play for MI team in the Finals.

Hey Sachin Happy Birthday and all the best..and complete at least 100 centuries in international cricket before you call it quits..We all are proud of you..

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Reading web content in F-Shape Pattern

Today I came across not so new but interesting funda in web i.e the F-shape pattern. F stands for fast and study suggests that in the quest for Fast scanning the web content the human eye follows the F-shaped pattern.

• Users first read in a horizontal movement, usually across the upper part of the content area. This initial element forms the F's top bar.
• Next, users move down the page a bit and then read across in a second horizontal movement that typically covers a shorter area than the previous movement. This additional element forms the F's lower bar.
• Finally, users scan the content's left side in a vertical movement. Sometimes this is a fairly slow and systematic scan that appears as a solid stripe on an eyetracking heatmap. Other times users move faster, creating a spottier heatmap. This last element forms the F's stem.

Obviously, users' scan patterns are not always comprised of exactly three parts. Sometimes users will read across a third part of the content, making the pattern look more like an E than an F. Other times they'll only read across once, making the pattern look like an inverted L (with the crossbar at the top). Generally, however, reading patterns roughly resemble an F, though the distance between the top and lower bar varies.




















Heatmaps from user eyetracking studies of three websites. The areas where users looked the most are colored red; the yellow areas indicate fewer views, followed by the least-viewed blue areas. Gray areas didn't attract any fixations.

The above heatmaps show how users read three different types of Web pages:

• an article in the "about us" section of a corporate website (far left),
• a product page on an e-commerce site (center), and
• a search engine results page (SERP; far right).

If you squint and focus on the red (most-viewed) areas, all three heatmaps show the expected F pattern. Of course, there are some differences. The F viewing pattern is a rough, general shape rather than a uniform, pixel-perfect behavior.

On the e-commerce page (middle example), the second crossbar of the F is lower than usual because of the intervening product image. Users also allocated significant fixation time to a box in the upper right part of the page where the price and "add to cart" button are found.

On the SERP (right example), the second crossbar of the F is longer than the top crossbar, mainly because the second headline is longer than the first. In this case, both headlines proved equally interesting to users, though users typically read less of the second area they view on a page.

Implications of the F Pattern

The F pattern's implications for Web design are clear and show the importance of following the guidelines for writing for the Web instead of repurposing print content:

• Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won't.
• The first two paragraphs must state the most important information. There's some hope that users will actually read this material, though they'll probably read more of the first paragraph than the second.
• Start subheads, paragraphs, and bullet points with information-carrying words that users will notice when scanning down the left side of your content in the final stem of their F-behavior. They'll read the third word on a line much less often than the first two words.

Detailed Scanning Behaviors

It's fascinating to watch the slow-motion replay of users' eye movements as they read and scan across a page. Every page has reading issues beyond the dominant F pattern I'm discussing here. For example, users scan in a different, more directed way when they're looking for prices or other numbers, and an interesting hot-potato behavior determines how users look at a list of search engine ads. We also have many findings on how people look at website images.

Many of the detailed findings are presented in our 2 full days of seminars on Writing for the Web at the annual Usability Week conference. (Including newer eyetracking research and other studies of how users approach online content.)

The biggest determinant for content usability is how users read online — and because people read differently, you have to write differently.

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