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Monday, July 12, 2010

World Cup 2010: World Cup Final Image














World Cup 2010: Spain vs Nederlands [1 - 0] All Goals and Highlights- WC Final

Spain vs Nederlands [1 - 0] All Goals and Highlights- WC Final



Sunday, July 11, 2010

Vuvuzela fatwa: Is Vuvuzela haram!

The World Cup matches in South Africa make unholy noises by the horns of Vuvuzela — according to a religious announcement in the United Arab Emirates.

A fatwa by the UAE's General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments declares that the now-famous explosion from the plastic vuvuzela is not allowed (this is haram) in the Gulf country if it go above 100 decibels — about the sound of a passing train.

It says the characteristic of vuvuzela flash is up to 127 decibels.

The fatwa is based on the judgment that fans’ hearing can damage the din.

World Cup 2010: Germany vs Uruguay [3 - 2] All Goals and Highlights

Germany vs Uruguay [3 - 2] All Goals and Highlights

What is iPod touch?

A brilliant 3.5-inch display, now you can watch your favourite TV shows and movies. Use the revolutionary Multi-Touch interface to flick through your music in Cover Flow. And anytime you’re tickling for more entertainment, just tap iTunes to browse.
In a single word you’ll get every thing whatever you want to enjoy on iPod touch.
iPod touch gives you nonstop musical entertainment with up to 30 hours of audio playback time and up to 14,000 songs. And to experience your music new Genius Mixes and Voice Control features add even more ways for you.
iPod introducing Genius Mixes. Now the Genius feature is even more powerful. It creates multiple mixes you’ll love. These mixes are like channels programmed entirely with your music.

The new 32GB and 64GB iPod touch models feature Voice Control. Now speak simple commands such as “pause,” “shuffle,” and “next song.” You can even ask for the name of the track that’s currently playing (and iPod touch will answer you, here it).
You can store up to 80 hours of video and get up to 6 hours of video playback time on the new iPod touch.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Nokia N900, a multitasking smartphone


Nokia N900 is different from other smartphone. Most disturbing feature of a smartphone is that most of them are not supporting multitasking, which means, if you want to browse more then one task simultaneously you can’t, but Nokia N900 is supporting multitasking. Nokia N900 is just like a computer. The N900 comes with a large WVGA touchscreen with a slider and a landscape-oriented keyboard.

It’s high-resolution of 800x480 pixels way more than the iPhone's same-sized screen. N900's spec sheet has the same highlights as the N97, including a 5MP camera and 32GB storage, a new Linux-based Maemo 5 operating system.

Adobe Flash 3D version coming up

Adobe is scheduling to release a 3D version of its well-liked Flash software, allowing videos and games to be played in 3D online.

The Adobe Max conference is coming up in October. The main agenda for the conference take account of a presentation titled "Flash Player 3D future".

The Adobe product manager, Thibault Imbert, has confirmed in a blog post that it there will be support for 3D applications in a future Flash version.

His post in full said, "If you are into 3D enlargement for games, increased reality or just interactive stuff like websites, you just can’t miss the session entitled Flash Player 3D future planned for Max 2010 scheduled on October 27 at 11:00AM in room 503. Flash Player engineer, Sebastian Marketsmueller, will deep dive into the next generation 3D API coming Flash Player in a future version.

"Now you may wonder, what do this means, what kind of 3D are we talking about? What kind of API? True textured z-buffered triangles? GPU acceleration? Even better? We’ll share after the launch.

Electricity demonstrated in potato


Alex Golberg student of Bioengineering demonstrates a potato could power by a battery in a lab at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on July 6. The electric battery based on boiled potatoes could give an inexpensive foundation of electricity in the developing world, according to the technology transfer company of the university. Photo: AFP

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Bhapa Doi Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Bhapa Doi is a tasty Bengali sweet. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Bhapa Doi.


Preparation time : 15 minutes

Cooking time : 2 hour

Difficulty : easy

Recipe type : veg.

Serve : 5


Ingredients:

  • 400 g Condensed Milk
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 10 Almonds (peeled and blanched)
  • 15 Pistachios (peeled and blanched)
  • 15 Raisins
  • 1 cup Thick Yogurt (whisked)


Let’s prepare/make Bhapa Doi:

  • Take adequate water in a pressure cooker and heat it.
  • In a thin steel pan, take the condensed milk, milk and yogurt to it and mix well.
  • Add raisins, almonds and pistachios to the milk and mix well.
  • Cover the pan with cling wrap and seal it all around leaving a few slashes on top.
  • Put the pan in the cooker and vapour cook it with the cover on for 45 to 50 minutes.
  • Leave it from the cooker and let it cool down.
  • Better to refrigerate it till set and then cut into pieces and dish up.