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Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

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The world will end in 2012, say experts

Several experts from across the globe are predicting that the earth is likely to end by the year 2012. The reason could be a human effect or natural disaster. From Chinese theories to scientific predictions the most likely date is the year 2012

SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS from around the world are predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well come to an end. Some are saying it’ll be humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it’ll be God himself who would press the stop button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012.

Reason one: Mayan calendar

The first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things — building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and sacrificing virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it’s likely they’ve got the end of the world right as well.

Reason two: Sun storms

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery. Our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic and it’s supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It’s been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse and calculations suggest it’ll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012.

Reason three: The atom smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world’s largest particle accelerator. Basically, its a 27 km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it’s properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They’re predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

Reason four: The Bible says it

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn’t bad enough, religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between good an evil, has been set for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese Book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

Reason five: Super volcano

Yellowstone National Park in United States is famous for its thermal springs and old faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple — it’s sitting on top of the world’s biggest volcano and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we’re many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

Reason six: The physicists

This one’s case of bog — simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berkely University have been crunching the numbers. They’ve determined that the earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they’re claiming that their calculations prove that we’re all going to die, very soon. They are also saying that their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 per cent; and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

Reason seven: Earth’s magnetic field

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun’s radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call North and South have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so — and right now we’re about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30 kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is under way, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.

Review – Aadhavan

Star-casts: Surya, Nayanthara, Murali, Rahul Dev, Saroja Devi, Vadivelu, Shiyaji Shinde and others.
Banner: Red Giant Movies
Production: Udayanidhi Stalin
Direction: K.S. Ravikumar
Music: Harris Jayaraj

Can you label ‘Aadhavan’ as ‘Red Signal’ in Surya’s career? Not definitely, but towards some extent. The actor kept us intact with his exceptional endeavors all throughout his career by working with great directors. But this time, he fails to deliver a right film from his favorite filmmaker K.S. Ravikumar.

A very old story, which we would’ve seen more than 100 times over the screens – A contract killer assigned to bump off a magistrate yet to reveal the list of baddies involved in conniving acts of illegally transplanting the organs of poor and underprivileged children. But does he actually carry on the task or turn against the baddies? For sure, you’ll have the right guesses if you are an ardent buff of Tamil Cinema.

What would our hero do now? Instantaneously, jump into the right conclusion of devastating the plans of baddies and put them into death.

But then, this is not something we expect from Surya. The actor had enthralled us with a big note in ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’ and ‘Ayan’. But with an attempt of reaching towards B and C audiences, the actor fails to capture our interests

Let’s start off with the film’s synopsis first and later analyze it in simple terms.

Aadhavan (Surya), a stunning sharpshooter is assigned by Dr. Abdullah (Rahul Dev) to kill a magistrate (Murali) as he would soon reveal the group of fraudulent groups involved in illegal organ racketeers, who’ve killed numerous children from hill side communities. Aadhavan gets into the house of Judge and manages to become cordial with family members. The only person who knows about his cloak and dagger mission is the house cook (Vadivelu).

But at a certain point, mysteries get unraveled about family’s past and unforgotten relationships.

Surya does his job well being a director’s actor. That’s fine and how an actor should be actually. But K.S. Ravikumar has exploited him very badly by offering unapt aspects on him. The opening stunt sequences remind us much off Surya’s previous film ‘Ayan’ as well traveling across the countries to assassinate the victims. Nayanthara doesn’t expose her skin much and tries to make a decent attempt from saving her life in Kollywood. Unfortunately, her aged looks stops the young lads from admiring her. Vadivelu is the one and only consolation to all audiences. For sure, if he wasn’t there, the audiences would run out of theatres merely in the intermission. Murali’s last film goes much memorable while Rahul Dev’s goes unutilized as in his previous films. Why use him in stereotypical roles is a big question. Much evidently, Shayaji Shinde performs the same role and sleepwalks through it.

Harris Jayaraj’s musical score doesn’t entertain us grandly. Spare him for couple of songs ‘Dhamaku’ and ‘Hasili’. Surya puts his earnest efforts on choosing best costumes, but delivers the same dance steps for almost all the songs. He has to work a lot on it for being more perfect.

Cinematography with Digital Intermediate(DI) is quite moderate with songs, but most of the talkie portions are shot with Blue matte graphics which looks odd.

K.S. Ravikumar fails to entertain us as we could hear the audiences howling the front seats – Dae Enna Da Nadakudhu… Vetthu Padam idhu’ & Govinda Govinda Govinda yells the elite group towards the second half of the film.

With more special shows screens all over the globe, the film will get more collections in box office much prior to newspapers would publish the reviews and so with the TV channels.

Botton – Line: Unapt film for Surya

Verdict: Below Average

Happy Diwali Wishes…!

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Diwali or Dīpāvali is a significant festival in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and an official holiday in India. Adherents of these religions celebrate Diwali as the Festival of Lights. They light diyas—cotton string wicks inserted in small clay pots filled with oil—to signify victory of good over the evil within an individual.

May the Divine Light of Diwali Spread into your Life Peace, Prosperity, Happiness & Good Health….Wish u all a Happy and Lightful Diwali…!

How to Tweet Your WordPress.com Posts Automatically

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Today, WordPress announced the ability to post new blog posts to Twitter.

If you’re a WordPress.com user, you probably already know about how the service automatically sends your posts to Ping-o-Matic! to help promote them for you.

Today the Publicize feature gets a major addition: the ability to send your posts to Twitter. You can go with the default tweet or customize the message, and override the automatic settings on a per post basis as well.

To enable the new feature, head over to your Dashboard: My Blogs admin page. In the Publicize column, check the Twitter column for each of the blogs you’d like to enable to auto-tweet. You’ll be asked to authenticate each blog via OAuth, after which you’ll see a “Publicize” section at the bottom of the Publish box each time you write a new post.

To override any of the settings for an individual post, just click the Edit link in the Publicize section. You can edit the text of the tweet or turn it off altogether for that post. Note also that the connection settings are per blog and per user, so if you run a multi-author blog each individual writer will have to authenticate to their own Twitter account (or to whatever account is preferred).

Translate Your Website With Google Gadget!

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How long would it take to translate all the world’s Web content into 50 languages? Even if all of the translators in the world worked around the clock, it would take hundreds of years to make even a small dent.

Internet giant Google has announced a new website translator gadget powered by Google Translate that enables you to make your site’s content available in 51 languages. Now, when people visit your page, if their language (as determined by their browser settings) is different than the language of your page, they’ll be prompted to automatically translate the page into their own language.

If the visitor’s language is the same as the language of your page, no translation banner will appear, explains Jeff Chin, product manager, Google. The translator gadget is easy to install — all you have to do is cut and paste a short snippet into your webpage to increase the global reach of your blog or website.

Automatic translation is convenient and helps people get a quick gist of the page. However, it’s not a perfect substitute for the art of professional translation, according to Google.

In August this year, Google launched a feature in Google Docs (a useful application for sharing documents) that automatically translates documents into 42 different languages.

Force Microsoft Internet Explorer to Always Use Google Chrome Frame to Open URLs

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Recently Google released a plug-in for Internet Explorer which allows users to enjoy Google Chrome’s rendering engine inside IE. That means you can enjoy Google Chrome’s faster browsing speed, open web technologies like HTML5, etc in Internet Explorer.

This plug-in is called “Google Chrome Frame” and can be downloaded using following link:

Download Google Chrome Frame for IE

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ecently Google released a plug-in for Internet Explorer which allows users to enjoy Google Chrome’s rendering engine inside IE. That means you can enjoy Google Chrome’s faster browsing speed, open web technologies like HTML5, etc in Internet Explorer.

This plug-in is called “Google Chrome Frame” and can be downloaded using following link:

Download Google Chrome Frame for IE

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Blogging On Live Television!

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Blog.telly is a new application that will enable consumers to interact with one another on relevant discussion topics and also express on the content shown on TV.

Blogging on live television is going to be a reality now. Indian cable television company DEN Networks Limited (DEN) has launched a social networking application on its digital TV platform Digitelly. Blog.telly — the application will enable consumers to interact with one another on relevant discussion topics and also express on the content shown on TV. Subscribers can blog and comment on TV through SMS or on the Digitelly website. All comments will be broadcasted on TV.
The company explained blog.telly offers various discussion forums revolving around current affairs, socio-economic issues, movies, sports and TV gossip. The initial categories segmented are news view, movie masala, GupShup and sports mania. Best comments from bloggers would also be selected under the category ‘Blogs of the Day’.

Speaking on the occasion, Vikas Bali, president, digital initiatives and corporate strategy, DEN, said, “We live in times of networked economy, wherein communication barriers are rapidly coming down. In order to empower our subscribers to express their individuality we are providing a micro blogging TV platform.”

“Blog.telly will help us further solidify our relationships with content partners and provide them with qualitative consumer feedback on their shows,” added Neeta Thakre, vice president, content innovation, DEN.

Twitter Gets Vocal: Free Two Minute Calls

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In a very Skype-like move, Twitter has announced that it will provide users with the ability to Tweet vocally with free two minute calls between Tweeters.

This will allow users (or addicts) of the micro-blogging site to speak to each other without needing to know specific phone numbers.

The service is being launched by online telephony site Jajah, which requires you to register with your phone number and Twitter name.

To make a call you’ll just need to tweet “@call @twittername”, which will ring both your phone and your Tweeting partner’s handset. After your Tweeting two minutes is up, the line will automatically cut out.

While this provides a great way to get in contact with someone on Twitter, it also looks like a new means for spammers to get on your nerves. Neither Jajah nor Twitter have outlined how you can avoid calls from someone wanting to offer you a lost inheritance in Nigeria.

The service is currently being trialed in the US, but we’ll be sure to see it on this side of the Atlantic before long.