Vijay For Victory

Google releases logos to celebrate few important events/days.

This year, for Halloween Day celebration, October 31, Google released more than one Google logo.

Google doodles for Halloween day.

Flickr, the famous photo sharing website, now have more than 4,000,000,000 photos in their servers.

On October 10, the 4 billionth photo was uploaded by punimoe.

Here are the Flickr milestones.

4 Billionth Photo

Photo credit : punimoe

3 Billionth Photo

Photo credit : garrett_ryan_smith

2 Billionth Photo

The car chase scene in the James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, is  unforgettable. In this movie, 007 controls a brand new BMW car with a small remote device. Below is the car chase scene clipping.

Today, even you can control the car remotely like 007. Yes, it is not a joke.

iDrive, a new iPhone app by Appirion, made this possible.

The iDriver app converts the iPhone into a the real-life equivalent of a video game controller, capable of directing the progress of a two ton minivan.

The app has separate buttons for accelerate and brake, along with a steering wheel that exploits the iPhone’s motion-sensitive capabilities.

This iPhone app is yet to be released to commercial market.

Checkout the below video captured during the test drive.

India is one of the strong Twitter base where we have more than 5 million Twitter users send/receive tweets (Times of India reports).

Recently Twitter reached a landmark deal with Bharti Airtel, to enable SMS tweets through a service called TweetSMS.

To promote this deal, Airtel recently released a video campaign for Twitter.

Related post : Twitter in Plain English

When I was going through my mail box, I found this forward mail which I received long back.

This mail is about the programmer’s reaction when something is not working. The list gave me a smile.

20. That’s weird.
19. It’s never done that before.
18. It worked yesterday.
17. How is that possible?
16. It must be a hardware problem.
15. What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?
14. There is something funky in your data. OR It’s a data problem, not a program problem.
13. I haven’t touched that module in weeks!
12. You must have the wrong version.
11. It’s just some unlucky coincidence.
10. I can’t test everything!
9. THIS can’t be the source of THAT.
8. It works, but it hasn’t been tested.
7. Somebody must have changed my code.
6. Did you check for a virus on your system?
5. Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
4. You can’t use that version on your system.
3. Why do you want to do it that way?
2. Where were you when the program blew up?

And the number one thing all Programmers say when their programs don’t work:

1. It works on my machine.

I too made a few comments that are in the above list

How about you?

I dreamed I had an INTERVIEW WITH GOD.

“So, you would like to interview me?” GOD asked.

“If you have time,” I said.

GOD smiled. “My time is eternity, what questions do you have in mind for me?”

“What surprises you the most about humankind?”

GOD answered…

“That they get bored with childhood that they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money; and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

“That they live as if they would never die, and die as though they had never lived.”

I just woke up and opened my eyes…..

Most of you normally login to your Facebook account by typing your email id that was used while registration.

Everyone like to use a username instead of their email addresses.

Sometime in June 2009, Facebook introduced Vanity URLs to all users.

Vanity URL is one of the nice to have feature for every user. Vanity URL allows you to set a nice username (facebook.com/iamunique) in the URL instead of having a alphanumeric characters (facebook.com/?profile=abc123).

You can create your own username using this link – www.facebook.com/username

Take time and create a suitable username for your account. This is a one-off task and it can’t be changed forever.

Once you create the Facebook username, you can use the username to login to facebook instead of your email id.

However you are still will be able to login to Facebook using your email address.