Vijay For Victory

FIFA World Cup 2010 is on it’s peak now. Design and the specifications of the Match Ball of the world cup have always been special factors for any world cup.

This world cup’s match ball is named as Jabulani and it is the production from Adidas.

Jabulani means ‘rejoice in Zulu. If you translate literally, it means to celebrate.

Jabulani ball has 11 colours on it to represent 11 players in the team, 11 official languages of South Africa, 11 communities in South Africa. And of course the final will be held on 11th of July.

These balls are produced in China and the raw materials are imported from Kerala-India and Taiwan.

Jabulani is the first official  match ball that is moulded by to keep the complete spherical shape.

Here is a cool video clip that details about the production process of match ball for World Cup 2010.

Many of us are Facebook users. Updating Facebook status is almost like a daily/weekly routine for us. There are few who updates Facebook from Twitter.

How to merge Twitter with Facebook?

Updating the status with flip text will be more fun than the normal updates. How to get this?

Flip Facebook Status is a simple web app that flips your text. You can copy the flip text and update your Facebook status.

Flip text will look like this.

Vijay For Victory => ʎɹoʇɔıʌ ɹoɟ ʎɐɾıʌ

Flip web app URL : Flip Facebook Status

Update: www.upsidedowntext.com is another website which retains the upper case letters in flip format. Thanks to Jacob

Have fun!!!

There are many twitter apps available to analyse the tweets, find the followers etc.,

Here is an interesting and innovative web app developed by Amit, that reveals the sleeping habits of any twitter user.

The results are amazing and many are agreeing that the web app gives accurate (almost) timings. I do agree with the result.

If you want your or your friends sleeping timings, then please login to www.sleepingtime.org and just enter the twitter id.

This is one of the most innovative web app I have ever seen in the recent past.

Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer.

This is a quick tip to display all the environment variables defined in the computer.

Windows: Open command prompt (DOS Prompt) and just type set to display all the variables

Unix: Type env to display all the environment variables in the console.

StumbleUpon is a great way to share the web links with your friends. This offers a tool bar to instantly share, like and dislike web pages you come across.

StumbleUpon toolbar can hold a maximum of 500 links. If you don’t clear the shares and reaches the limit, your friends will not be able to share the new content with you. You may loose some interesting stuff.

How quickly you can clear the stumbles? If you are familiar with StumbleUpon toolbar then, this tip would help you to give better stumble experience.

Click the Stumble Button by holding Ctrl key will open the page in new tab. Or you can use the mouse scroll button to open the content in new tab.

This will allow you stumble faster and help you to clear the shares.

You can follow my stumbles at http://vijayforvictory.stumbleupon.com

Extensions are one of the key factors which you always missed in Google Chrome.

Google Chrome 4.0 is the stable release that support extensions. Here is the three minutes video about “How to install extensions in Chrome?”.

Google Suggest is a cool feature which offers similar to the one you are typing. It works as follows,

If you’re signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, suggestions are drawn from searches you’ve done, searches done by users all over the world, sites in our search index, and ads in our advertising network. If you’re not signed in to your Google Account, no history-based suggestions are displayed.

But some times it displays some irrelevant topics and put you in embarrassing situation. Checkout this blog, googlelolz.com, for more  such weird suggestions

Here is the tip to turn off Google Suggestions permanently.

1. Visit Google Preferences page.
2. In the Query suggestions section, select Do not provide query suggestions

3. Save your settings

Now you are freed from Google Suggest.