Dandiya - the ultimate ball room dance

An interesting Blog on Dandia relevance to the common men's life!

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Dandiya – the ultimate ball room dance!

Posted on October 18, 2010 by bindaasdelete

The Navratri are over and so is Durga Puja – while loyalty towards Durga Puja is inherited, affinity for Dandiya was acquired much later – after coming to Mumbai.
Somehow always believed in participative entertainment – be it sports, any outdoor activity or other entertainment. Found it more interesting to pick up my own racquet and hit a ball on the tennis court rather than watch someone else do the same thing on TV and so was the case with dancing.

Push Google Buzz buzz onto Twitter and Facebook

Until Google Buzz supports pushing updates natively here is a quick guide how to push your buzzes to social networking websites.

1. Click 'buzz' in your GMail account
2. Click on your name
3. Click “Google Profile”
4. Click on rss button in your browser to get the feed (http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/NNNNN/public/posted where NNNNN long string of numbers from your Google Profile URL)
5. Go to twitterfeed.com to set up pushing your buzz feed to Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook or pretty much to any social site using Ping.fm 

(from http://bit.ly/ahGKla)

The Best Twitter Applications

Bored with just tweeting? Is the Twitter bug waning? (check all about Twitter here) Though I admit I am not much of a 'tweeting type twitter', I am rather a 'reading type twitter' and spend good part of my time reading other peoples tweets (does that make a peek-a-booer??). I have my own interesting tweet to-follow list (will post it sometime!) which I religiously follow for the sake of information and awareness.

Over the weekend I was wondering what all can be done on 'twitter' to make the Tweet-life a little bit easier. With the Open-Source Twitter API (check this web site), it is now easier to integrate ones favourite apps with Twitter.

Though there are hundreds of twitter apps out there, these are some of my favourites. Thought would name it top-ten-twitter apps, but put in just two extra to make it 12. Try them out and enjoy twitting. Catch me at : http://twitter.com/gantayet

Twitter Grade. A pretty interesting site that grades your twitter account. I was ranked 2,280,381out of 5,792,569 which is just about average :-/ Agree whole heartedly with the grading :-) from their web site:

"Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile. It looks at a variety of factors including the number of followers, power of those followers and the level to which you are engaging the community. It takes just a few seconds to generate your free report"

Twitter Ratio. This site calculates the Twitter 'Follower-to-Friend' Ratio - the TFF Ratio. (never thought of that!!). The results are pretty interesting. It also provides you a web-badge code which can be embedded in your web-site, blog etc. to proudly show off your TFF ratio.


Twitter Value. Another ego bursting site. It puts a value on your Twitter!! Well, if you feel bad post the 'valuation', try out your friends Tweet value too. I was valued at $3 - my web-worth!! Whereas Shashi Tharoor twitter was valued at an obscene $18157.00!!!

TweetCube. TweetCube allows you to share files on Twitter. TweetCube is 100% free to use, but the maximum file size you can upload is currently 10mb. You can upload as many files as you want. Files are deleted after 30 days.

Twixxer. Twixxer is a photo and video sharing component for Twitter.com users who are normally restricted to text-only updates that contain links to media. It is comprised of a browser add-on and a web service.

Twitpic. You guessed it. One more site to share your tweet pictures from the mobile or API.

Twitter Business Card.  Now you can send customised 'Business Cards' with your Tweets! Pretty simple to use and work with.

Tweet to Follow.  A nice site that helps you find like minded twitter whom you may follow!! just giver your twitter name, and you would see twitter-to-follow list!!


GeoChirp. As the name suggests, this site helps you for find twitter-users in a particular geographical area!! A very Twitter-GoogleMap mashup,  this has a very nice interface! Go get them - the twitters near your area :-)

Twitter Search. Find what's happening in twitter right now with this  Google-like web interface!!

Twitter Desktop. So by now if you have become a frenzied Twitter, the web interface would be a big pain. you would need a dedicated twitter client to organise and manage your Tweetings. This is your answer!! :-)

Twitter Screencast. You can easily create screencast and tweet them using 'Screenr'. Very easy to use and share!

For more and much more on 'Twitter' do visit http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/ and get that tweet back in your life :-) !! 

Enjoy!!

The Indian Spider Man

The Indian Spider Man - in real life!! Some one forgot to tell him that Spider Man is fiction!!

Jyothi Rai from Karnataka, India earns his living by acting the Spider Man for tourists at the Chitradurga Fort, Karnataka. His death defying stunts, done day in and day out for entertainment of tourists and school children visiting the fort is done without any safety harness (highly not recommended!!). Check out this web site and video!!

But for crazier death defying Spider Man - this had me gulping!!!

Facebook fun hacks

Earlier I had posted on the aspect of security on Social Networking Site. There is no reiterating the fact that 'the Web' has many risks which a normal net user may not be aware off. Luckily for us, most of the popular sites are pretty security conscious and make the extra effort to be 100% sure of their site and their users security. But its also easy to change a web page from what the original developer intended to do and maybe look like!!! And that's what the Cyber terrorists exploit!!!

Just to show you all how easy it is to change the default ways of some of the popular sites, lets have some fun on the Facebook site (your login of course!!). Mind you - this is not a SECURITY issue or concern - just a fun hack!! 

The below 'fun hacks' will not cause any harm to the web site - and the site will be restored to its  original form when you refresh the web page!!! So have no worry - just try these out for an experience (trust me???) !!!!

And ofcourse I got these tit-bits browsing online and Googling!!! The credit goes to the annonymous coders (certainly not me!!! I am just one more impressed bloke!!)

Ok, go ahead and login to your Facebook account.

Once the home page opens, on the address bar (the one where you type http://www.facebook.com :-) copy paste this line of code, and hit enter:

 javascript:void(document.getElementById('fb_menubar').style.background='red');

Hmmm..... impressed??? (the above will change your top menu background colour to 'Red'!!)

Try this too...

    javascript:buddyList.toggleTab();

The above will bring up list of your online friends!!!!

Easy, yeah????

(there are quite a few such 'javascript' hacks available!!! Stopped here so as to keep this post brief!!!)

Let the fun continue.....

Ok, now go to you status update box (where you type in your status message), and using your UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT keys, type out the following sequence of keys :

    [up] [up] [down] [down] [left] [right] [left] [right] b a [enter]


pictorially:

(hmmm.... of course, you will not see any letters there except 'ba')

Then click anywhere on the page!!!! And tell me what you see!!! :-)

The above is an 'easter egg' in Facebook famously called 'the konami code ' (check out what is 'konami code' here )

"For the uninitiated or nongamers out there, the Konami Code (UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A) is arguably the most famous cheat code in video games. It has been used in countless games and lately, some sites have taken to using the code to trigger amusing events on the page."