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The article you are about to read may contain things that can hurt you mentally, if you are an over-sensitive guy/gal and especially if you are an OSS Maniac! So think before reading.

When it comes to the world of Software development, the field is blooming on one side and fading on the other side. The software industry has become a integral part of our life in this modern world. So we require most kinds of softwares for our personal usage as well as business purposes, like Operating Systems to Instant Messengers and basic image editors to fully loaded 3D Designing software.

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Phew! One of the coolest news I’ve ever read!

I found this news from VOA News. And here’s an excerpt:

India is getting into the business of launching satellites, giving rise to a new space race. The country’s space program recently put 10 small satellites in orbit, all in one go, an achievement topped only by Russia. The launch signaled India’s desire to capture a larger share of the global commercial satellite launch market - a $90-billion-a-year industry that, so far, has been dominated by the U.S. and Russia. Raymond Thibodeaux reports from Bangalore, India’s space agency headquarters.

Read on…

Now, this is a new rocket launching business for Indian Govt

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I started to feel a strange kinda pain at the back of my head from yesterday night. A soft pain at the right side of my back head. Just beside my right ear. Yesterday night, I thought it could be some small problem and will be alright when I wake up in the morning. And it was kinda okay in the morning. But after sometime, the pain appeared once again. The pain isn’t hurting me too much, but it makes me not to do anything for a long time in a same gesture. It keeps paining.. Softly.. Weird.

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Err.. I had a bad Sunday today. Everyday, as soon as I wake up, I check for new mails on the bed from my Opera Mini. I did the same today and was excited to see a new mail regarding the release of myBB 1.4 Bulletin Board Software. I was waiting for the release from past 8 months. Well yes it’s the major release. And was also excited to upgrade my BSNL EVDO CLUB Forum.

As soon as I completed all my daily morning rituals, I started the FileZilla FTP Client and connected to the server. All set… Read the documents…. And finally started the upload process. It was 750+ Files and 6 MB upload. Just after few minutes, my ISP went down. Almost 2 MB (150+) files were uploaded. After 30 minutes, ISP was up, and resumed the upload process. My net connection was really bad at that moment, yet it was pretty good. Have a look at the below screenshot. My ZTE EVDO app is highlighted in the screenshot, notice: it has no signal bars!

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No, its not a joke. Its a program called “Name in Space”. Your name will be stored on DVD and will be sent along with the Kepler to the space!

Kepler mission is NASA’s first mission to find the planets that are Earth-Sized. And also it orbits around other stars in our galaxy.

Or you can read the excerpt from the official site:

Kepler is NASA’s first mission capable of detecting Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The spacecraft is planned to be launched from Kennedy Space Center in February 2009. The spacecraft will be launched into orbit around the Sun, not the Earth, with an orbital period of 372 days. The spacecraft will slowly drift away from the Earth, such that in about 25 years it will be half an Earth orbit away, 300 million kilometers distant from the Earth, passing behind the Sun as viewed from Earth.

This mission is an attempt to find life on some planet, just like the UFOs visiting us, now we are visiting them :p

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Yes, AdSense is like a money plant. But it does require your hardwork to plant it and cultivate it. You need to take care of the plant so that it never dries and dies off.

I do not want to brag about how to increase your earnings and all. There are thousands of such guides available in the net. All you need to do it is google for it.

This article will tell about few things that you will have to consider about your AdSense account. And most things are for new users:

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Last night, I was working on a template for a new bulletin board software. Well the bulletin board is being developed by my friend. And am taking designing part of it. Let the software and person be forbidden. While designing the homepage, we noticed horizontal scrollbar in IE 6 & 7 @ low resolutions. So he informed me regarding that.

And I thought of using javascript in the beginning, but he argued not to do that, because the reason is simple. Not everyone’s browser will have javascript installed/enabled. So I remembered a small CSS code, which can do the job. Then, we solved the problem.

So, I thought of writing a small tutorial which teaches about disable or removing unwanted horizontal scrollbar in IE6 / IE7 without using any javascripts.

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I’ll begin with a short intro for those who don’t know what gravatar is. If you already know what gravatar is, skip to Process.

Gravatar is a small image or a picture that is used for your identification whenever you comment on others or in your blog which you have uploaded at Gravatar.com for a particular email.

Gravatars is a inbuilt feature of wordpress 2.5.1 and it works out-of-the-box. i.e without any plugins. But theme which you are using for your blog must be gravatar ready. Most of latest sports gravatars, but there are still designers who are neglecting to do add the feature. And if you are using a old theme, then you will have to work on it in order to make gravatar ready. I’ll tell you how to do it here in this tutorial. Please keep in your mind that your wordpress should be 2.5 and above otherwise you may require gravatar plugin.

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No, i’m not talking about the slang word “Flick”, but just using that word because flickr did something bad to me thinking that I’ve done bad to it :p

I used to upload all my screenshots, images, photos and whatever to share it online with friends and to use it on my websites, blogs in tutorials and reviews etc. But flickr says it is against the terms & conditions to upload images or photos that doesn’t belong to me

Now I wonder why my screenshots doesn’t belong to me.

Anyway as a result all the images I published in my sites and blogs went blank which says “The current photo is not available”!! And when I try to login to my flickr account it says my account is no longer active!!

I’m still in process of updating all my tutorials, reviews and photos where ever I posted it. Well not again with another flickr account, now I’ve switched to photobucket or imageshack :p

So the moral of the story is, if you are doing the same, then stop it and switch some other image hosting sites before all your images goes white.

This thing happened to me about a month ago, but posting it now coz of some busy life. So please apologize me if any inconvenience is caused if any images are not appearing in any tutorials or wherever. I will try to fix it ASAP.

Later..

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Yes, as I mentioned earlier when I bought the 7300 GT graphic card, I bought the new Samsung NWX 2243 Widescreen Monitor yesterday. Since I don’t have much time to spare, I can’t write a review, sorry. But will tell you few things about the monitor if you are really interested in this model.

Some Specifications & Features:

• 22” wide viewable area. (55 cm)
• 1680 x 1050 max resolution.
• 5 ms response time.
• Magic Color Chip
• Magic Brightness
• Flat TFT-LCD
• Pitch Black Screen (when its turned off :p)
• D-Sub Connectivity.
• VESA Wall Mount
• Black Glossy and Rounded Corners Bezel.
• Feather Touch Buttons.
• And more….

Package Contents:

• TFT-LCD Panel
• Stand
• D-Sub to D-Sub Cable
• Power Cord
• Clamp for stand.

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