بجلی چوروں کو آخری وارننگ!

بجلی چوروں کو آخری وارننگ!

وفاقی حکومت نے کراچی میں بجلی چوروں کو آخری وارننگ دی ہے ۔کراچی میں بجلی کے بحران پر قابو پانے کے اقدامات کا جائزہ لینے کے لئے گورنر ہاؤس میں اجلاس کے بعدوفاقی وزراء راجہ پرویز اشرف،سید نوید قمراور خورشید شاہ کے ہمراہ میڈیاسے گفتگو کرتے ہوئے وزیر اطلاعات قمر الزمان کائرہ نے کہا ہے کہ کے ای ایس سی کو اپنا نظام بہتر بنانے کیلئے شہری یا صوبائی حکومت کی جو مدد چاہئے ہوگی وہ فراہم کی جائے گی۔انہوں نے بتایا کہ اجلاس میں کی ای ایس سی حکام کو ہدایت کی ہے کہ گلشن اقبال، گلبرک اور شاہ فیصل ٹاؤن کو رول ماڈل بناکر کام کیا جائے اور وہاں 31اگست تک بجلی کا نظام درست بنایا جائے۔ان کا کہنا تھا کہ انہیں توقع ہے کہ دسمبر سے کراچی میں لوڈ شیڈنگ کا مسئلہ حل ہوجائیگا۔ ان کا کہنا تھا کہ کے ای ایس سی کو یہ ہدایت کی گئی ہے کہ شکایتی مراکز کو اپ ڈیٹ کرکے بہتر بنایا جائے،جس کے لئے کے ای ایس سی کے شکایتی مراکز پر آپریٹرز کی تعداد پندرہ سے نوے کی گئی ہے ۔ کنڈا سسٹم اوربجلی چوروں کے خلاف کارروائی ممکن ہوسکے گی؟ آپ کے خیال میں بجلی کے بحران پر کس طرح قابو پایا جاسکتا ہے؟ اپنی رائے سے آگاہ کریں۔

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US drones to target Taliban in Afghan war

WASHINGTON: The US military plans to use more drone aircraft to target Taliban militants in Afghanistan while focusing less on hunting down Al-Qaeda figures, report said on Thursday. Although defeating the Al-Qaeda terror network remains an overriding goal for Washington, officials now believe the best way to pursue that objective is to ensure stability in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan instead of Al-Qaeda manhunts, the paper said, citing US government and Defense Department officials. It was more important to prevent a slide towards violence and anarchy that could be exploited by Al-Qaeda, which used Afghanistan to stage its attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the officials said. "We might still be too focused on Bin Laden," an official said. "We should probably reassess our priorities." The shift in priorities for the drone fleet comes despite President Barack Obama's declaration that defeating and dismantling Al-Qaeda is the primary goal of his strategy for the Afghan war. Eight drones that have been devoted to tracking Al-Qaeda in remote Afghan mountains will be transferred to the fight against insurgents, the paper said. And the US Central Command plans to send about 12 more drones to the Afghan front, including some aircraft that have been assigned to Iraq -- a move resisted by US commanders there. The drones are in high demand and the military faces difficult choices in deciding how best to deploy the aircraft which are in short supply. The armed Predators and Reapers can loiter over targets for hours and are viewed as an invaluable resource for both intelligence and military operations. The drones are also used to target Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in neighboring Pakistan though the US government does not publicly discuss those operations. The new commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has ordered an elaborate review of how the mission uses surveillance aircraft. McChrystal favors using the drones in a more concentrated way instead of spreading the aircraft across the country so regional commands can use the plans for short periods each day. The military also plans to increase the number of flights of U2 spy planes in Afghanistan and all of the Air Force's unmanned Global Hawks -- a much larger plane designed for surveillance -- will be shifted to Afghanistan, officials said.

US drones to target Taliban in Afghan war

WASHINGTON: The US military plans to use more drone aircraft to target Taliban militants in Afghanistan while focusing less on hunting down Al-Qaeda figures, report said on Thursday. Although defeating the Al-Qaeda terror network remains an overriding goal for Washington, officials now believe the best way to pursue that objective is to ensure stability in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan instead of Al-Qaeda manhunts, the paper said, citing US government and Defense Department officials. It was more important to prevent a slide towards violence and anarchy that could be exploited by Al-Qaeda, which used Afghanistan to stage its attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the officials said. "We might still be too focused on Bin Laden," an official said. "We should probably reassess our priorities." The shift in priorities for the drone fleet comes despite President Barack Obama's declaration that defeating and dismantling Al-Qaeda is the primary goal of his strategy for the Afghan war. Eight drones that have been devoted to tracking Al-Qaeda in remote Afghan mountains will be transferred to the fight against insurgents, the paper said. And the US Central Command plans to send about 12 more drones to the Afghan front, including some aircraft that have been assigned to Iraq -- a move resisted by US commanders there. The drones are in high demand and the military faces difficult choices in deciding how best to deploy the aircraft which are in short supply. The armed Predators and Reapers can loiter over targets for hours and are viewed as an invaluable resource for both intelligence and military operations. The drones are also used to target Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in neighboring Pakistan though the US government does not publicly discuss those operations. The new commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has ordered an elaborate review of how the mission uses surveillance aircraft. McChrystal favors using the drones in a more concentrated way instead of spreading the aircraft across the country so regional commands can use the plans for short periods each day. The military also plans to increase the number of flights of U2 spy planes in Afghanistan and all of the Air Force's unmanned Global Hawks -- a much larger plane designed for surveillance -- will be shifted to Afghanistan, officials said.

Pakistan beaten by SL in 1st ODI

DAMBULLA: Pakistan lost the first One-day International of the five-match series against Sri Lanka by 36 runs here at the Rangiri Dambulla Interntional Stadium on Thursday. Chasing 233, Pakistan were all out for 196 runs in 44.4 overs. However, tail-enders Umar Gul and Mohammad Aamer saved their team from embarrassment as they added 62 runs for the ninth wicket partnership as the chase was looking in control. Umar Gul, last man out for 33, was the top-scorer followed by Fawad Alam (31) and Shahid Afridi (27). Mohammad Aamer was run out after making 23 useful runs. Earlier, Sri Lanka made 232-9 in the allotted 50 overs against after Pakistan captain Younis Khan, winning the toss, sent Sri Lanka into bat. No Sri Lankan batsman could reach fifty as the highest individual score was 43, made by late-order batsman Angelo Mathews, followed by captain Kumar Sangakkara (36), Mahela Jayawardene (33) and tail-ender Muttiah Muralitharan (32 from only 15 balls with four boundaries and one six). For Pakistan, pace-bowler Mohammad Aamer captured three for 45 on his international debut and Abdul Razzaq claimed two for 33 runs, respectively while Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal and Shahid Afridi took one wicket each. Teams: Pakistan: Younus Khan (captain), Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul Haq, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal(wk), Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Aamer, Abdul Razzaq, Fawad Alam. Sri Lanka: Kumar Sangakkara (captain & wk), Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul Tharanga, Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan, Thilan Thushara.

Mobile Money Order

Yet again, Mobilink introduces first-of-its-kind product that will provide unparalleled convenience to thousands of Pakistanis who send and receive money orders through the Pakistan Post Office. All those people who had to wait for days for transaction completion can finally avail instant money transfer via Mobile Money Order (MMO) service by Mobilink.

So now all one needs is a Mobilink connection and a Mobile Money Account to send and receive money orders conveniently and immediately.

Service Features

MMO allows you to perform the following basic functions

1. Cash Deposit: Depositing money in Mobile account
2. Cash Withdrawal : Taking out money from Mobile account
3. Transfer Money: Sending money to someone
4. Balance Check: Checking available amount in Mobile account

In order to be able to use this service you need to register first. However, you may receive money sent by other registered customers to you even without registering. To view details for each of these functions check FAQ section.

Fortune Avenue 2,063,100 AED

Fortune Avenue 2,063,100 AED Office Ref.ID# 04 Type Size 1725 Sq.Ft Orignial Price 1,949,250 AED Agency Fee 39,675 AED Premium 34,500 AED Transfer Fee 39,675 AED Maintenence Fee AED Other Fee 0 AED Parking Fees AED Total 2,063,100 AED Property Information Developer Fortune Group Unit No. Bedroom Location Business Bay Plot No. Bathroom 1 Build up Area Sq/Fts. Price Sq/Fts. 1,130 AED Kitchen Furnish NO Parking Yes Garden No Completion Views

Summary for cut in PoL prices sent to ministry

Updated at: 0223 PST,  Friday, July 31, 2009  ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has dispatched to ministry for petroleum and natural resources a summary recommending Rs.2.37 per liter cut in petroleum prices here on Thursday, Geo news has learnt. OGRA sources told Geo news the summary proposed Rs.2.37 per liter slash in petroleum prices meanwhile, another summary recommending Rs.2 per liter cut in Kerosene oil and Rs.0.14 per liter slash in Light diesel has be   ... Full Story

Yahoo Gives Serious Searchers a Bag of Note-Taking Tricks

Yahoo has rolled out a beta for a feature designed to meet an unfilled need in online search: automated note-taking. The new Search Pad feature in Yahoo Search automates note taking through a number of functions, such as saving recently visited links. It does not target the search engine user who's looking for a quick answer and is satisfied with the first or second link returned, said Yahoo's Tom Chi. Rather, it is aimed at people who are researching complex issues -- from a car purchase to a course of medical treatment.

Microsoft Puts C#, CLI Under No-Lawsuit Umbrella

Microsoft made good Tuesday on a promise it made months ago to the open source community that it would not sue software developers who use its EMCA C# programming language and Common Language Infrastructure, or CLI. This announcement aims to calm growing fears that Microsoft might restrict open source projects by going after program developers for patent or other intellectual property infringements related to to these two standards. Microsoft made the announcement on its community blog through comments by Peter Galli.
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Call Ufone to Any Network, Any Time Just for Re. 60 Per 30

Although Ufone is apparently failed to save its credibility because of its poor quality service and old equipment but they must be appreciated for the humorous Television ads. Well…More specifically their Ad Agency. Ufone now presents a new offer to its subscribers and they can now call Ufone to Ufone or any other network in Pakistan for as low as Re. 60 per 30 seconds.


To subscribe, just write code ’sub’ and send it to 717.

19.5% FED and 10% withholding tax applies on recharge. So, customer pays a total of Re. 71.7/- per 30 seconds or Rs. 1.43.4 per 60 seconds.

For more details, please visit: http://www.ufone.com/prepay_60PaisaOffer.aspx
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Ufone New SMS Bundle Offer – Weekly SMS Bundle Package Introduced!

MS Bundle offers led to NO DELIVERY CONFIRMATION messages anymore and load on network but Telecom companies keep on presenting such offers. Now Ufone offers new SMS bundle offers. As for as the Daily SMS package is concerned, customer used to activate it manually initially but now Ufone has automated the system. Thank God, one good news. A new SMS bundle package has been introduced by Ufone, named as Weekly Package.

Subscribers can enjoy 700 SMS to any network in Pakistan for as low as Rs. 0.01/SMS. Means customer has to pay 6.99+ Tax or Rs. 8.36 included Taxes to avail this offer. Weekly Package is only available on all Ufone Life Packages which include; Life Value, Life Plus, U Circle Life & U Circle Life Plus, Life Standard.

How to Subscribe:
Please see the following picture which will guide you properly for each SMS Bundle Package activation process.

Omg! How Yahoo's Chirpy Celeb Site Ropes In Traffic

Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People. Consider the most successful celebrity news destinations online, and something else jumps to the top. For more than a year, one site has attracted more eyeballs than any other in the realm of celebrity gossip: Yahoo's Omg. With a dedicated staff of just five people, and more than a dozen shared with other Yahoo sites, the company has settled on a "highly profitable" formula.

Yahoo Messenger 10 PreAlpha - PC Software

We wouldn't elaborate for you more about this new. If you want to use Pre-Alpha Version of Yahoo Messenger, it also known as Yahoo Messenger 10 Pre Alpha Version (10.0.0.331), Just follow the links below to download it. It supports Windows Vista and XP.

Features on Yahoo Messenger 10 Pre Alpha: Multi Language Supported, Y!updates, Pingbox, Emoticons, and many more (just commonly had in other version of ym).

Download Yahoo Messenger 10 10.0.0.331 PreAlpha Version

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Sri Lanka vs Pakistan

2nd Innings
PAK: 117/10 (44.3) RR: 2.63
2nd Innings
SL: 217/10 (56.2) RR: 3.85
1st Innings
PAK: 342/10 (94) RR: 3.64
1st Innings
SL: 292/10 (80.2) RR: 3.63
SRI LANKA: 292/10 (80.2) RR: 3.63 1st Innings
PAKISTAN: 342/10 (94) RR: 3.64 1st Innings
SRI LANKA: 217/10 (56.2) RR: 3.85 2nd Innings
PAKISTAN: 117/10 (44.3) RR: 2.63 2nd Innings
BattingRB4s6sS/R
Khurram Manzoor c Mahela Jayawardena b Ajantha Mendis 15421035.71
Salman Butt c Tharanga Paranavitana b Rangana Herath 28534052.83
Younus Khan lbw b Angelo Mathews 3200150.00
Mohammad Yousuf lbw b Rangana Herath 12251048.00
Misbah-ul-Haq run out (Tillakaratne Dilshan) 7240029.17
Shoaib Malik c Tillakaratne Dilshan b Thilan Thushara 03000.00
Kamran Akmal lbw b Thilan Thushara 6121050.00
Abdur Rauf c Mahela Jayawardena b Rangana Herath 13540024.07
Umar Gul b Ajantha Mendis 9280032.14
Mohammad Aamer c Tillakaratne Dilshan b Rangana Herath 6160037.50
Saeed Ajmal not out 180012.50
Extras (b 13, lb 3, w 1, nb 0)17
Total Score:117/10(44.3 Over) RR:2.63
Fall of Wickets: 1-36 (Khurram Manzoor, 11.1 Over) 2-39 (Younus Khan, 12.1 Over) 3-71 (Mohammad Yousuf, 20.1 Over) 4-72 (Salman Butt, 20.4 Over) 5-72 (Shoaib Malik, 21.3 Over) 6-80 (Kamran Akmal, 25.1 Over) 7-85 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 27.5 Over) 8-95 (Umar Gul, 35.1 Over) 9-110 (Mohammad Aamer, 40.2 Over) 10-117 (Abdur Rauf, 44.3 Over)
Bowling
O
M
R
W
NB
WD
Eco
Nuwan Kulasekara
7
1
25
0
0
0
3.57
Thilan Thushara
12
4
21
2
0
1
1.75
Angelo Mathews
4
0
13
1
0
0
3.25
Ajantha Mendis
10
0
27
2
0
0
2.7
Rangana Herath
11.3
5
15
4
0
0
1.3

Sri Lanka won by 50 runs

2nd Innings
PAK: 117/10 (44.3) RR: 2.63
2nd Innings
SL: 217/10 (56.2) RR: 3.85
1st Innings
PAK: 342/10 (94) RR: 3.64
1st Innings
SL: 292/10 (80.2) RR: 3.63
SRI LANKA: 292/10 (80.2) RR: 3.63 1st Innings
PAKISTAN: 342/10 (94) RR: 3.64 1st Innings
SRI LANKA: 217/10 (56.2) RR: 3.85 2nd Innings
PAKISTAN: 117/10 (44.3) RR: 2.63 2nd Innings
BattingRB4s6sS/R
Khurram Manzoor c Mahela Jayawardena b Ajantha Mendis 15421035.71
Salman Butt c Tharanga Paranavitana b Rangana Herath 28534052.83
Younus Khan lbw b Angelo Mathews 3200150.00
Mohammad Yousuf lbw b Rangana Herath 12251048.00
Misbah-ul-Haq run out (Tillakaratne Dilshan) 7240029.17
Shoaib Malik c Tillakaratne Dilshan b Thilan Thushara 03000.00
Kamran Akmal lbw b Thilan Thushara 6121050.00
Abdur Rauf c Mahela Jayawardena b Rangana Herath 13540024.07
Umar Gul b Ajantha Mendis 9280032.14
Mohammad Aamer c Tillakaratne Dilshan b Rangana Herath 6160037.50
Saeed Ajmal not out 180012.50
Extras (b 13, lb 3, w 1, nb 0)17
Total Score:117/10(44.3 Over) RR:2.63
Fall of Wickets: 1-36 (Khurram Manzoor, 11.1 Over) 2-39 (Younus Khan, 12.1 Over) 3-71 (Mohammad Yousuf, 20.1 Over) 4-72 (Salman Butt, 20.4 Over) 5-72 (Shoaib Malik, 21.3 Over) 6-80 (Kamran Akmal, 25.1 Over) 7-85 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 27.5 Over) 8-95 (Umar Gul, 35.1 Over) 9-110 (Mohammad Aamer, 40.2 Over) 10-117 (Abdur Rauf, 44.3 Over)
Bowling
O
M
R
W
NB
WD
Eco
Nuwan Kulasekara
7
1
25
0
0
0
3.57
Thilan Thushara
12
4
21
2
0
1
1.75
Angelo Mathews
4
0
13
1
0
0
3.25
Ajantha Mendis
10
0
27
2
0
0
2.7
Rangana Herath
11.3
5
15
4
0
0
1.3

VLC 1.0 for Linux Released, Now with New HD Codecs

"Dubbed Goldeneye, VLC 1.0.0 brings some of the highly anticipated features, lots of bug fixes and many improvements. Among the new features we can notice support for some HD streams. Without further introduction, here are the highlights of VLC 1.0.0:

· Added new HD (High-Definition) codecs, such as:
· Blu-Ray Linear PCM
· Dolby Digital Plus
· AES3, TrueHD
· Real Video 3.0 and 4.0
· Added support for M2TS and Raw Dirac;
· Greatly improved the support for video playback;"

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Latest game Pirate Chains

Create chains of jewels to make them disappear. Get the key to the treasure chest before the time runs out to unlock the adventure.
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More Phones Than Radios In Pakistan

For low income households (aka bottom of the pyramid, BOP) in Pakistan,

phones are more popular than radios but haven’t taken over TVs yet. This is from research conducted by LIRNEasia, a Sri Lanka-based Asia-Pacific information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation capacity-building organisation. The study said that in Pakistan, a hundred bottom of the pyramid (BOP) households now had 68 TVs, 39 phones, 24 radios and 3 computers. As comparison, for a hundred bottom of the pyramid (BOP) households in India, there were 50 TVs, 38 phones, 28 radios and one computer.

This goes against the common held belief that radios were more important for low income households. It also shows that phones can be a great way to educate and help these low income population. The LIRNE Asia blog quotes Richard Heek’s paper (ICT4D 2.0: The Next Phase of Applying ICT for International Development) and I re-quote from the pdf document below.


Finally, some have asked if the Internet should be the focus or if developers should look at where the poor have already “voted with their wallets” and see whether the simpler, cheaper technologies already in use can deliver sufficient ICT functionality to make a difference. Rather than wait for handset and bandwidth upgrades to allow mobile Internet access, we must determine what can be achieved for development through calls and SMS and, possibly, older technologies. Access figures are hard to come by, but we can estimate that something like 80 percent of the population in developing countries has access to a radio, 50 percent to a television.2,3 Early in ICT4D’s history, these statistics prompted the swift reinterpretation of ICT to incorporate radio and television, and foreshadowed the role convergence would play in ICT4D 2.0. Looking at the technologies that already penetrate—mobiles, radios, televisions—developers must now seek ways to add computing and Internet functionality.

Axiotron: Living Comfortably in Apple's Neutral Zone

The deafening buzz over the prospects of an Apple netbook often drowns out the fact that a Mac tablet computer does exist -- although it isn't exactly made by the Infinite Loop crowd. Axiotron, of El Segundo, Calif., has had a tablet notebook based on the Mac platform in the market for two years. As Apple watchers know, the company guards its hardware position with the ferocity of a leopardess protecting a litter, but Axiotron has managed to avoid Apple's wrath by adopting a creative business model.
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Has Nokia Been Bitten by the Android Bug?

Nokia is denying rumors that it is about to unveil a smartphone running on Google's Android operating system. "There is no truth to this rumor whatsoever," spokesperson Joseph Gallo told LinuxInsider on Monday. "It is a well-known fact that Symbian is our platform of choice for smartphones." The Guardian newspaper in England reported Monday that the company plans to unveil an Android-based mobile phone in September. If it did, it would join a growing parade of manufacturers rolling out models based on the OS.

They Tweet, You Decide

Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where Michael Jackson was brought and later pronounced dead. How had Hayes, 25, and Coleman, 21, heard the news so quickly? Twitter. The two young women had learned about Jackson's health like so many who get their news nowadays: by reading the ever-flowing feed of real-time information on the microblogging service. Jackson's unexpected death at 50 was just the latest major news event where Twitter played a central
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Pakistan Win Hockey Series Vs England

LONDON: Pakistan hockey team edged out England 3-2 in the second international at the West Midlands town of Cannock to take unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series on Thursday evening.

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Why does adbrite show adult ads - Other

There are many companies in the world who do many promises with their customers/dealers, but some also go against their promises, and If it is big company who do against their promise that is a shame for all and for those who are using the products of that company.

Here I found same case, A popular Internet Ad service provider company, Adbrite.com
I took adbrite as alternate to Google adsense for my Blog to earn revenue from their ads. And I found adbrite pretty good for my new non popular blog. Then I also introduced Adbrite to my class fellow who were also new to blogging world. They all liked adbrite and they also preferred adbrite for their blogs instead of google adsense.

Time passed, I never noticed much what adbrite is showing in my blog in their Ads, but one of my friend started telling me that adbrite is providing adult ads too on his friend and family blog, where it was given on adbrite site and their policy they do not provide adult ads. First I ignored my friend, but later after few days I also started noticing that adbrite has really started increasing their number of adult ads or semi nude photo ads with photos kissing guys girls etc. Which was a bad thing for me because my blog was being viewed by my family friends and teachers. I complained to adbrite team but got no response which assured that they do agree to provide adult ads even with providing their big bold lines on their site that they will never provide adult ads.

After that I and my all class fellows changed our minds and we are going to remove adbrite sooner from our blogs, We will try another alternate service provider.

Here below I am attaching some screenshots which are showing promises of adbrite.com

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Record screen activity in Windows with BB Flash express - PC Software

BB Flashback Express is a free screen recording software which can record screen activity in real time. It is great for creating demos or tutorials with step by step instructions. It offers a lot of features and you can even add your own voice via microphone or you can also have picture in picture via Webcam. It also includes easy publishing options so that you can easily share your creation with others.





After installing the software, you can begin recording in just a few steps. Click the record button and the recording will start. You can choose to capture the entire desktop, a specific window or a framed region. After the recording is complete, you can review it and make changes. To make your demos more personal, you can also add stuff from your webcam while recording the desktop activity. The Picture in Picture mode is quiet unique. It can record sound from microphone, speakers or from other sources. It can also capture Vista's Aero effects at a high frame rate. After you have recorded and reviewed the movie, you can export it as AVI or Flash formats or you can publish it to video sharing sites with just a single click. You can upload videos to YouTube, Blip.tv, Viddler or Revver. The URL can then be shared with friend or embedded in any web page.

The program gives you choices when it comes to balancing between quality and size. It is a good screen recording application with some nice features which can make your work easier. It is a freeware and works on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.

The Troublesome Task of Rejiggering the Keyboard

Lenovo put nearly a year of research into two design changes that debuted on an updated ThinkPad laptop this week. No, not the thinner, lighter form or the textured touchpad -- rather, the extra-large "Delete" and "Escape" keys. It may seem like a small change, but David Hill, vice president of corporate identity and design at Lenovo, points out, "Any time you start messing around with the keyboard, people get nervous." Computers get smaller and faster every year, but keyboard design remains largely stuck in the 19th century.

Telematics In Pakistan

This is an introductory post on the topic of Telematics and how it could be used in Pakistan. Telematics refers to the convergence of telecommunications and information processing in the context of automobiles. Services which are enabled by telematics include safety and security (get help after a crash, ask for help with a dead battery, stolen car alert), convenience (traffic alerts, find an address, remotely unlock a door) and other (download content to car, book a hotel room). Telematics used to be offered by expensive car makers but it is now becoming mainstream rapidly.



Lets take a look at what components and technologies are involved in building a telematics solution.

Hardware - TCU (Telematics Control Unit) - a box which is placed in the car and has GPS
Connectivity for voice (call center) and data (GSM or CDMA for sms and TCP/IP data)
Software (server-side platform which manages the entire solution)
Services and applications (e.g. speech recognition, POI data, call center)
Overall building a telematics solution is very much like a systems integration work. From connecting the hardware to data centers, managing the wireless data and voice, providing the information to a specialized call center and coordinating the response with different types of providers (emergency, police, roadside assistance, insurance etc). Protocols are defined to communicate between different components and to handle messages in SMS format or to handle packet data.

Most common scenario of telematics is when a car is in accident. Modern TCUs can sense the crash and send the data automatically to the system, alerting a call center about the crash severity and the location. Emergency help can thus be sent. Other scenario is when a person gets stranded on a road and needs help, then the SOS button in the car is pushed and a call is initiated to the call center from the car. Of course a wireless signal is needed for the TCU to dial out. Similarly a call center can call back the car.

Fleet tracking (commercial vehicles - taxis, buses, company vans, trucks etc) is another big area where the cost of telematics is justified because of business advantages.

In developing countries, services such as stolen vehicle alert and location could be useful. Since a vast majority of the cars do not come with the hardware, retrofitting of cars with TCU/GPS units will be most common. Once there is connectivity and a way to send data over the air, many different solutions can be built. You can have a geo-fence application which can alert you if your car moves out of a certain radius. Parents can track the movement of the car when their kids are driving. Of course the modern cars have many sensor built into the car so one can imagine all kinds of automobile data being sent over the air. Vehicle data can be used for troubleshooting, diagnostics and maintenance alerts.

In Pakistan there are a few companies and groups working on telematics (perhaps as distributors of foreign hardware makers) but the market is not ready for massive adoption - most probably due to hardware cost, complexity of building solutions and the limited number of people who are willing to pay for such service. It usually takes the car makers a few years to plan out a complete telematics solution so we might see something in the next 2-3 years in limited models. At least a good and affrodable telecom and wirless infrastructure is in place in Pakistan to support the telematics services. There is plenty of activity in this area in India.

Will PlayStation Play the Cellphone Game?

If you're working your thumbs into a carpal-tunnel frenzy on your Sony PlayStation Portable, navigating the blood and gore of the company's successful gaming franchise "God of War," do you really want to interrupt the mayhem to take a phone call from Mom? Sony may soon get an answer to that question, according to a weekend report that says the Japanese consumer electronics giant is looking into the prospect of developing a hybrid mobile phone/gaming device.
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Nokia E51 software version 400.34.011 released

This software release brings improvements and increased stability in Mail for Exchange, SMS reception improvements and stability and usability improvements for VoIP and WLAN. The release also includes robustness improvements when pressing the Home key. This software release is available through the Nokia Software Updater: www.nokia.com/softwareupdates.

Wi-Tribe Pakistan wireless broadband packages details

How to connect your Laptop/PC/Computer to your TV

I’m writing this post on how to connect your PC or computer to a TV because last week I returned from a trip in India and wanted to show all of my pictures and videos to my family from my laptop onto our HDTV, but unfortunately I did not have the correct cords and so after fumbling around for 30 minutes trying to connect my computer to the TV, I had to tell everyone that they would have to wait till the next weekend! Pretty annoying considering the times we live in, it should be quite easy to connect the two together!
So here’s a quick walk-through of all the methods that I know (if you know any more, please comment) to connect a laptop or PC to your TV:
1. S-Video - This is probably the most common method out there currently because an S-Video cable is cheap as heck and just about every TV under the sun has a S-Video port. You’ll have to make sure you laptop is equipped with this port. Remember, there are two types of S-Video cables: 4-pin and 7-pin. Most laptops and PC’s are equipped with a 7-pin port, so if your TV only has a 4-pin S-Video port, then this method will not work.
2. VGA - If you have a HDTV, then you will be better off connecting using a VGA cable. It gives much better quality than S-Video and as with S-Video, the cable is very cheap. You usually won’t find a VGA port on regular TV’s though, so this option is if you have an HDTV.
3. DVI - DVI stands for Digital Visual Interface with “digital” being the key word there. The digital signal will give a higher quality picture than either S-Video or VGA. Of course, your computer will need to have a DVI connection and your TV will need to be an HDTV. This cord is definitely not cheap, it ranges anywhere from $40 to $80.
4. HDMI - Using HDMI will give you the best quality by far. No computers that I know of yet have HDMI ports, but you can get a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to your HDTV. HDMI is compatible with DVI.
5. Scan Converter Box - This is the last method that I could think of and it involves using a scan converter box, which takes a VGA signal and converts it into S-Video or component video.
Here’s a graphic I created with some pictures of the various cables:

How to connect your Laptop/PC/Computer to your TV

I’m writing this post on how to connect your PC or computer to a TV because last week I returned from a trip in India and wanted to show all of my pictures and videos to my family from my laptop onto our HDTV, but unfortunately I did not have the correct cords and so after fumbling around for 30 minutes trying to connect my computer to the TV, I had to tell everyone that they would have to wait till the next weekend! Pretty annoying considering the times we live in, it should be quite easy to connect the two together!
So here’s a quick walk-through of all the methods that I know (if you know any more, please comment) to connect a laptop or PC to your TV:
1. S-Video - This is probably the most common method out there currently because an S-Video cable is cheap as heck and just about every TV under the sun has a S-Video port. You’ll have to make sure you laptop is equipped with this port. Remember, there are two types of S-Video cables: 4-pin and 7-pin. Most laptops and PC’s are equipped with a 7-pin port, so if your TV only has a 4-pin S-Video port, then this method will not work.
2. VGA - If you have a HDTV, then you will be better off connecting using a VGA cable. It gives much better quality than S-Video and as with S-Video, the cable is very cheap. You usually won’t find a VGA port on regular TV’s though, so this option is if you have an HDTV.
3. DVI - DVI stands for Digital Visual Interface with “digital” being the key word there. The digital signal will give a higher quality picture than either S-Video or VGA. Of course, your computer will need to have a DVI connection and your TV will need to be an HDTV. This cord is definitely not cheap, it ranges anywhere from $40 to $80.
4. HDMI - Using HDMI will give you the best quality by far. No computers that I know of yet have HDMI ports, but you can get a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to your HDTV. HDMI is compatible with DVI.
5. Scan Converter Box - This is the last method that I could think of and it involves using a scan converter box, which takes a VGA signal and converts it into S-Video or component video.
Here’s a graphic I created with some pictures of the various cables:

ZTE to supply USB modems to Telenor operators worldwise - Telenor

ZTE has been awarded a contract by Telenor Group, under which it will supply UMTS/HSPA and Edge USB data modems. The agreement, which is for an initial 12 months, is expected to involve delivery of up to two million units to Telenor's 13 operating companies in countries including Denmark, Hungary, Malaysia, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine. ZTE sold over 10 million data cards in 2008, a 426 percent increase over 2007 sales. Shipments in Q2 are expected to be over 5 million.

Source telecompaper.com

Is Software Installation on Linux 'Broken'?

You know a controversy is a big one when none other than RMS weighs in with his opinion, and sure enough, that's what happened in the Mono debate late last week. "Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction," RMS wrote on the Free Software Foundation's site. Of course, rather than settling the debate, Stallman's proclamation only fanned the flames higher, resulting in a raging inferno.
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Variables - Python

Variables. Variables are only names or you can say boxes having value in them, for example X = 1, where X is a variable having the value 1, X = 10, X is a variable having value 10, another thing variables do not change but their value can change, for example X = 1+2 will change the value of X to 3 and X will become X = 3.

So here we will learn how to work with variables in miss Python programming.

How to make a variable and assign them value, for example I want to make X with value 10, then I will do the following work in python shell.(python shell, where we type commands and get output instantly after typing commands)
command is X a space then equal to symbol then a space and the value.

>>> x = 10 <-- press enter after typing this, and It will save 10 into variable X. Then you can use X anywhere in maths programming.
Now our X has the value of 10 then we can use the X by following ways
>>> X + 5 <-- Our input (input is our/user instruction given to the computer), will add X into 5, actually will do nothing with X but with the value of X.
15 <-- output

Lets use power(exponent) thing here, X exponent 3 give us output of 10 exponent 3, because the value of our X was 10.
>>> X*3
30

Remember that our variables are case sensitive, I mean capital X and small x are different and can be used at a same time in same program.
>>> x = 5

>>> x + X <-- it will do addition with the stored values of small x which was 5 and with capital X which was 10.
15

We can store more than one variable same time.
>>> y = 50

>>> y + x
55

We can also take the values of variables from the user using input function,

>>> a = input ("Enter the value of a: ")
Enter the value of a:
>>> b = input ("type the value of b: ")
type the value of b:

We can also get value of variable from user without any message
>>> c = input ()
<-- this empty space as output will come, it is because we did not include any message like Enter your number, Type the value of c etc. but it will also save value of c even without message.
>>> c = input ("Type the value of c: ")
Type the value of c:

Practice makes a man perfect :) try more different variables play with variables in your python now for your practice.
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Operating System Functions

What is an Operating System

The operating system is the core software component of your computer. It performs many functions and is, in very basic terms, an interface between your computer and the outside world. In the section about hardware, a computer is described as consisting of several component parts including your monitor, keyboard, mouse, and other parts. The operating system provides an interface to these parts using what is referred to as "drivers". This is why sometimes when you install a new printer or other piece of hardware, your system will ask you to install more software called a driver.

What does a driver do?

A driver is a specially written program which understands the operation of the device it interfaces to, such as a printer, video card, sound card or CD ROM drive. It translates commands from the operating system or user into commands understood by the the component computer part it interfaces with. It also translates responses from the component computer part back to responses that can be understood by the operating system, application program, or user. The below diagram gives a graphical depiction of the interfaces between the operating system and the computer component.