Orkut Proxies !!

Hey.. well as the college server’s some intelligent mechanism is blocking all proxies we keep using to access orkut.. I declare war against the server.. here’s a new list of working proxies for everybody to use for orkut .. ( u can also use it to download restricted stuff ) ..

#HTTPS Proxy List (more secure)

* https://www.spiceflame.com/
* https://www.headcross.com/
* https://www.fancysportscar.com/
* https://www.goldpuddle.com/
* https://www.smokeflower.com/
* https://www.frogtunnel.com/
* https://www.turtlejar.com/
* https://www.jokebottle.com
* https://www.hairchip.com
* https://spacepiano.com
* https://cakebird.com/
* https://iceknock.com/
* https://junkblender.com/
* https://cheeseglobe.com
* https://kitebroth.com
* https://www.technotapes.com/

#HTTP Proxy List (less secure)

* http://www.jumboproxy.net
* http://www.orkuch.com
* http://www.orkutpass.com
* http://www.orkut.pk
* http://pmoder.info/
* http://smex.in/
* http://bowsnap.com/
* http://pagemod.com/
* http://backfox.com
* http://atunnel.com
* http://calculatepie.com
* http://bravebadger.com
* http://kproxy.com
* http://www.stupidcensorship.com
* http://www.vmathpie.com
* http://www.ipfaker.com
* http://www.orkutproxy.in/
* http://62.193.235.46
* http://www.ipfaker.com
* http://www.backfox.com
* http://www.newbackdoor.com
* http://www.proxut.com

There are more… and if u r using any proxy successfully… please take pain to post about it in comments! So the list can be updated continuously!

Russell Peters ! – He’s too good

Hey this is for all those who have not heard about this maybe perhaps the best Stand-up Comedian of Indian Origin.. Get to know Russell Peters, hey don’t go by his name, not his fault as he says ask his parents, Eric and Maureen..! Well basically he’s a canadian born of indian origin and travels around the world making people rolling with laughter wherever he goes !

Well, to me he’s simply too good, the way he contrasts and compares people of different origin and ethnicity, takes stand-up comedy to a totally new level..

  

Get to know about Russell Peters at  http://www.russellpeters.com/

Some More Quotes !

 

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
- Allan Goldfein

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
- Robert Orben

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Samuel Butler

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.
- Margaret Halsey

 

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

-William Ellery Channing

It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.

-Sir Winston Churchill

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

-William Faulkner

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it – what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

-Carlos Castaneda

Chicken in Chennai

All credit to Joe for discovering it.. This tiny shop(Arabian Delights) sandwitched among many on the main road leading to Roundtana, in Annanagar.. serves maybe perhaps the best halal cut kebabs in Chennai .. I can’t wait to be visit it when i go over to my friends’ place ther..

  

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Nokia N95 vs Apple iPhone

Don’t Think i’m biased.. but facts are facts .. N95 beats iPhone by a mile !

Instead of making a comparison, here is a list of differences between the iPhone and the N95

Bluetooth
iPhone – May work, but is a very limited and closed system with few practical uses.
Nokia N95 – Has A2DP and AVRCP. This means you can
Use it as a wireless music storage device in your car to transmit your music in excellent quality to your car stereo to play back the music.
Control the phone’s playback of your music collection from your car radio.
Use both cameras of the phone as an excellent wireless webcam for your PC with Mobiola Webcam.
Use microphone of the phone as a wireless microphone for your PC with Mobiola Microphone Remote.
Use a wireless keyboard such as space saver Think Outside keyboard or any typical BT wireless keyboard.
Use high quality wireless headphones (Sony, Bose, Motorola, etc.) that allow control of the music playback on the phone.
Use your PC wirelessly to move, copy, delete, and edit files directly on the phone.
Use your PC to wirelessly control all the features of the phone and at the same time display the phones screen on your PC, recording it if your wish, with Mobiola Remote Phone Control.
Access and utilize external Bluetooth GPS positioning devices.

Computer access
iPhone – Very limited closed system with no direct access to the data for repair if it were corrupted.
Nokia N95 – With cable, WiFi, and Bluetooth you can
Drag and drop, synchronize, share, and stream files, (music, pictures, video, documents, files, and folders) to or from any PC on your network, to any uPnP device.
Map network drives on your phone for access from PC’s, access mapped network drives on your PC’s from your phone with SymSMB.
Access and download all the data on your PC’s and listen to and watch your entire PC media collection of streamable media (music and movies) from anywhere in the world with Orb.

WIFI
iPhone – Works
Nokia N95 – Works and is reported to stream data at a faster rate than the iPhone.

Bar-code reader
iPhone – None
Nokia N95 – Get contact information instantly at trade shows from the other members cards.

Record sounds and voice
iPhone – None
Nokia N95 – Excellent microphone with which you can
Record anything you want, including calls. No limit in length.
Remove the required 5-second beep with Ultimate Voice Recorder.

GPS
iPhone – Cell tower emulated triangulation. Voice instructions.
Nokia N95 – Built in real GPS hardware, cell tower emulated triangulation, External Bluetooth hardware capable, Assisted GPS or any combination of all three. You always have some kind of fix. With the GPS you can
Find your current location in a foreign city at night and find and get direction from where you are to where you want to go.
Get directions to services of all kinds.
Use third party add-ons such as Tomtom.
Use the Nokia Sport Tracker for walking, riding bikes, hiking, etc. This provides several different statistical analyzes of distance, elevation, time and distance, including laps and the actual path taken with the ability to save and compare your results with other results.

Camera
iPhone – 2 mega pixel. A common place phone camera that will not produce images that most people would want if they went to a concert or show.
Nokia N95 – 2 cameras. 5 mega pixel and VGA for video conferencing on EU networks. The 5 meg camera takes stunning pictures day and night. Carl Zeiss optics. Comes with editing software right on the phone. With third party applications your can take pictures of pages and email them or fax them.

Video capture
iPhone – None
Nokia N95 – 640 x 480 @ 30 fps. Stunning quality, even at night, with audio. Includes digital stabilization.

Activation
iPhone – 2 year contract that adds up to quite a bit.
Nokia N95 – Buy it unlocked from Nokia or Dell directly and have a warranty and no contract to take it where ever you want.

Infrared
iPhone – None
Nokia N95 – Works great. With it you can
Transfer data.
Control all the Infrared devices in your house and office.
Connect to your PC and use the phone as a modem.

Screen
iPhone – Very nice large touch screen. (finger print prone). Requires 2 hands to operate easily.
Nokia N95 – Smaller screen than the IPhone. A larger screen would have been nice. Easy one handed operation.

TV Out
iPhone – None
Nokia N95 – Works great with the supplied cable. Use it in a hotel room with a BT keyboard to read email and edit office documents, Use it on your TV to play video games, movies, and share pictures.

Cable Interface
iPhone – proprietary iPod type connection.
Nokia N95 – Mini USB and a standard mini plug that all ear buds use. (same plug for TV Out)

Speakerphone
iPhone – ?
Nokia N95 – People do not even know I am on it.

Speakers
iPhone – Mono sound
Nokia N95 – Probably the best set of stereo speakers every installed in a cell phone.

Ring tones
iPhone – Is it even worth mentioning?
Nokia N95 – Use pretty much anything you want. Any audio track on the phone can be used. Create your own mix right on the phone itself and save it as a new mp3 or ring tone.

Traveling
iPhone – You are locked to ATT, period.
Nokia N95 – Unlocked and support for various networks across the globe. If you are traveler, the iPhone is not even a consideration if you do your research.

Sexiness (I am putting this here because CNET mentioned this)
iPhone – Sleek and cool looking, but viewed as a toy in the workplace.
N95 – Viewed as THE phone of a technologically competent professional.

Battery
IPhone – Longer lasting than the N95, but not removable
Nokia N95 – Replaceable battery. If you find yourself in the EMERGENCY situation where you need to make a call and do not have access to a charger and your battery is dead, you can just replace the battery with a spare. With the iPhone you could be stuck off the side of a cliff in a car with no power and trapped. Unfortunately, Apple seemed to overlook this MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF HAVING A CELL PHONE IN THE FIRST PLACE. EMERGENCYS!!! I would actually be willing to get my wife this phone if it were not for this issue.

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
IPhone – None
Nokia N95 – Excellent on board chip for hardware decoding of video and 3D games. Supports DirectX and OpenGL. Stunning game playback on the phone or your TV that the most hard core XBOX/PS# games are impressed with.

Additional third party applications
IPhone – None at this time.
Nokia N95 – Several different office applications, programming, game emulators such as MAME (allowing playing pf 1000’s of known arcade game classics), Synch applications, Tune musical instruments, Gmaps, Google maps, Phone Guardian, GSM Tracker, ybroswer, FExplorer, SysExplorer, studio nokia, mobile web server, cCam, Carbide ui, SymSMB, Instant Messaging, VoIP,, SSH/Telnet, rar files with Mobilerar, stream with Orb or TVersity, Mobiola Webcam, Mobiola Microphone Remote, Mobiola Remote Phone Control, Tomtom, NavXS and others, Aspicore GSM Tracker, ultimat voice recorder, really nice 3D games by the hundreds, HourPower, Digital Clock, Mobisophy InteractiveVoice Call Master, Webgates Advanced Call Manager, MobieGenie, Divx player, CORE Player, Flash 5 player, PeerBox, TextQuick, Mobile Weather, eBuddy, MSN, Mig33, ScanR, Palringo, Adobe PDF support preinstalled, MS Excel and Word support pre installed, S60 Internet Radio, VCEL, ShoZu, TypePad Mobile, OperaMini, The Kaywa Reader, Jaiku, Nokia Sensor, Nokia Team Suite, Gmail Mobile, Symella, SymTorrent, Python for S60, PuTTy, QReader, ReadM, Chords for S60, S-Tris 2, Nokia – Wellness Diary, Acala 3GP Movies, studio_nokia, MyStrands, OggPlay, JabpLite, Calcium, GCalSync, Autolock, MobileRar, Nokia Local Search, Scenetone, Tasky, Nokia DJ Mixer, Fring, WorldMate, CellTrack, Loc Bluepulse, Spodtronic, Mobixie, Hibaru, DJMixerNSeries, SafeTxt, GamesFlash, Market Simplified for Mobiles, myNumbers, Qibla Compass for Mobiles, Handylearn Counter, Weight and Measures Quick Study Guide, mShell, Virgin Radio & Podcast Player….

I could add to this list for hours. Many of these applications are free. Most of these programs are well written and feature rich. These are not trivial little tidy bits. If you really want a smart phone, it has to be smart enough to know that it will not do everything out of the box and some things should be left to outside programmers to develop. The iPhone ’s application list is not even a bad joke compared to the N95. The problem with comparing the two is that it takes months just to get a handle on the capabilities of an N95. Most N95 users do not take the time to respond to such comparisons, as the comparison is not only foolish, but requires quite a bit of time to accurately list the N95’s capabilities.

Finally .. the Last word is best described below

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My new Phone !

I got it !! Finally.. it drops down onto my hands as a surprise !

True.. if u dream of something n don’t get it .. u get something better ..
BEHOLD MY NEW FRIEND n FOLLOWER, My new Phone .. NOKIA N 95 !

Some Interesting Quotes

The Real Voyage of Discovery consists not in making new landscapes, but in having new eyes
- Anonymous

Only in Quiet Waters do Things Mirror themselves Undistorted
Only in a Quiet Mind is the Adequate Perception of the World
~Hans Margolius

“Every achiever I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.’”
- Robert Schuller

“Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.”
- Stephen Covey

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
- Bertrand Russell

“I don’t have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.”
- Muhammad Ali

Search Engines n More

The Web is filled with more data than there are Stars in the Universe. About 5 new websites and innumerous blogs are launched every second, and the only single way for extracting relavent data in this overly convoluted web is through a Search Engine, which has become a part and parcel of everybody’s lives. Its tough to imagine a day without Google. So when it is so important to us, why not ponder in as to how this works.

The term “search engine” is often used generically to describe both crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories. These two types of search engines gather their listings in radically different ways.

Crawler-Based Search Engines

Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They “crawl” or “spider” the web, then people search through what they have found.

If you change your web pages, crawler-based search engines eventually find these changes, and that can affect how you are listed. Page titles, body copy and other elements all play a role.

For a animated explanation of a Crawler Based Serch Engine Click Here.

Human-Powered Directories

A human-powered directory, such as the Open Directory, depends on humans for its listings. You submit a short description to the directory for your entire site, or editors write one for sites they review. A search looks for matches only in the descriptions submitted.

Changing your web pages has no effect on your listing. Things that are useful for improving a listing with a search engine have nothing to do with improving a listing in a directory. The only exception is that a good site, with good content, might be more likely to get reviewed for free than a poor site.

“Hybrid Search Engines” Or Mixed Results

In the web’s early days, it used to be that a search engine either presented crawler-based results or human-powered listings. Today, it extremely common for both types of results to be presented. Usually, a hybrid search engine will favor one type of listings over another. For example, MSN Search is more likely to present human-powered listings from LookSmart. However, it does also present crawler-based results (as provided by Inktomi), especially for more obscure queries.

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Google goes a step ahead with its Page Rank System.

Also Check out its PigeonRank System check out more here.

To Check more on How Search Engines Rank Web Pages and other Search Engine Features.

An important related area is Search Engine Optimization, which is basically improving quality and traffic to a website by listing it early on Search Pages using proper ranking.. Check it out here on wiki.

Music Information Retrieval

I have recently come across this field ( about a month ago ) and it doesn’t stop to interest me.. The Beat Count Estimator is also a part of Music Information Retrieval, but unfortunately i haven’t found much text on it over the net..

This is what Wikipedia says :

Music information retrieval or MIR is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music.

This includes:

• Computational methods for classification, clustering, and modelling — Musical feature extraction for mono- and polyphonic music, similarity and pattern matching, retrieval
• Formal methods and databases — Applications of automated music identification and recognition, such as score following, automatic accompaniment, Routing and filtering for music and music queries, Query languages, Standards and other metadata or protocols for music information handling and retrieval, Multi-agent systems, distributed search)
• Software for music information retrieval — Semantic Web and musical digital objects, Intelligent agents, Collaborative software, Web-based search and semantic retrieval, query by humming, acoustic fingerprinting
• Human-computer interaction and interfaces — Multi-modal interfaces, User interfaces and usability, Mobile applications, User behaviour
• Music perception, cognition, affect, and emotions — Music similarity metrics, Syntactical parameters, Semantic parameters, Musical forms, structures, styles and genres, Music annotation methodologies
• Music analysis and knowledge representation — Automatic summarization, citing, excerpting, downgrading, transformation, Formal models of music, digital scores and representations, Music indexing and metadata
• Music archives, libraries, and digital collections — Music digital libraries, Public access to musical archives, Benchmarks and research databases
• Intellectual property rights and music — National and international intellectual property right issues, Digital rights management, Identification and traceability
• Sociology and Economy of music — Music industry and use of MIR in the production, distribution, consumption chain, User profiling, Validation, User needs and expectations, evaluation of music IR systems, building test collections, experimental design and metrics

Apart from the above information, it is exciting to know that there is a annual event called ISMIR (International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval) held in various parts of the world where several papers and presented on this field. ISMIR 2008 is going to be held in Philadelphia ,U.S.A. somewhere around September.

I have come to note that there is negligible participation of India in MIR when Indian Music Industry is so popular. I have several ideas where MIR can be used with Indian Music to give phenomenal results. Anyone working on this field or interested to share ideas, can drop in a mail as learning from each other would be mutually beneficial.

Web Development for Rookies

Any of you still feel left behind in the Web Revolution, feel the need to reveal yourself or your organization to the world, but don’t know how to proceed, here are few tips.

Any living person in the world should now have an online identity, it’s a new world out here, distances slashed and the chance to reach out to the whole world with click of a button.

The Web is basically made of pages which are linked to each other, forming a big network. These pages are nothing but written code, understood by your browser and displayed accordingly to you. This final output has changed over the years from basic text, to multimedia, to dynamic hi-definition content.

· The Basic Structure of any normal website is based on some variant of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), such as XHTML, XML,DHTML , etc. These Languages are nothing but a set of tags which signify something.

· Then the pages are given some nice styling and organization by using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for HTML and XSL for XML.

· Till now the website structure is static, i.e. there is no interaction with the user. Dynamism is brought about by using Scripting Languages

o Scripting Languages are of two kinds, Client Side Scripting and Server Side Scripting. Client Side is the script which works on the user end, it is fast as it needs no server interaction. e.g. JavaScript

o Server Side Scripts are much complicated and are used for Database Access and performing actions and storing Client information on server. E.g. ASP, ASP.net, PHP, JSP

· So Introducing Just the Dynamism is not enough, data being used in the site needs a backbone where it is stored in an organized fashion. Thus comes in a Database.

Everybody need not learn everything the hard way; there are several softwares which make web development quite easy. But it is good for the beginner to familiarize with everything and then use these tools for faster output.