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Beutiful Goa

Last weekend I visited Goa with my friends. Below are the beutiful pics I took in Goa.

Monsoon in Pune, Mumbai and Khandala Ghat

Khandala Ghat with clouds touching down to the hills.

Took this picture just before it started raining. You can see lots of clouds just ready to rain down.

This tree virtually had more mangoes than the leaves, as the monsoon season arrives mangoes on these start to disappear.

Pre-monsoon clouds arrives in the outskirts of Pune city.

After few days from monsoon's arrival, brown won't be dominating this landscape.

A huge cloud stopped by the mountain.
Seasonal crops waiting to be harvested at the base of the mountain.
This bridge is built on a dry river, which wont be dry once monsoon is in its best.

Clouds coming down on Khandala ghat. Took this picture from a train. You can clearly see the overhead power cables of the railways.
Ghat area with lots of fog.
Clouds in the ghats.
Railways running through Khandala ghat.
Khandala Power Station.

Harry Potter-based diary in Ajax

You must have seen a magical diary in one of the Harry Potters movies. Harry Potter finds this diary with nothing written in it. But when he starts writting in it, the diary erases what he just wrote and then just writes a reply back on the same page. Well, there are few clever people around who have tried to bring this diary in life with the help of Ajax. Click on this link to experience the magic, try typing "Hello" in the diary,
http://pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=c96f911b3e35f9e1
Now, you must be wondering what Ajax is. Well, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of inter-related web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications. A primary characteristic is the increased responsiveness and interactivity of web pages achieved by exchanging small amounts of data with the server "behind the scenes" so that entire web pages do not have to be reloaded each time there is a need to fetch data from the server. This is intended to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, functionality and usability.
To know more about Ajax visit the link below,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

Tata Nano

From Wikipedia.org

The Tata Nano is a city car launched by India's Tata Motors at the 9th annual Auto Expo on January 10, 2008 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India. Called the people’s car in Tata's promotional material, it is projected to be the least expensive production car in the world. The standard version of the Nano is projected to cost Rs 100,000 (not including levies or delivery charges) (US$2500, GBP 1277, €1700), It may happen that Nano may not remain the cheapest car for long, if a competitor green-car called Tara Tiny EV is launched in India with a price tag of Rs. 99,999, 1 rupee less than the price of Nano. Because of its target price, the Nano is sometimes referred to as "one lakh car" (after the Indian numbering term, meaning '100,000'). The car's formal name derives from the extremely small unit of measure, the nanometre.

iPhone - Features

iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply tapping a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a Windows PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email. iPhone is available in an 8GB model for $399 and a new 16GB model for $499.
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently called numbers and quickly merge calls to create conference calls.
iPhone includes an SMS application with an intelligent QWERTY soft keyboard that prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones. iPhone also displays SMS messages as an ongoing chat, and lets you send a text message to multiple people at the same time. An industry first, Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you. With a 2-megapixel camera and an advanced photo management application, iPhone goes beyond anything on a phone today. It automatically syncs photos with your PC or Mac when you dock. Displays albums with a flick of a finger. And can post your pictures directly to a Mac Web Gallery. You can create iPhone ringtones from over 500,000 songs on the iTunes Store. You can even pick the section of the song you want. Just choose a track with a ringtone symbol, then get creative. You can edit, loop, fade in and out, preview, and play around until your ringtone is just the way you want it. And each ringtone is only 99¢ plus the cost of the song. With iPhone, you see music in a whole new way. You can scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Browse your music library by album artwork using Cover Flow. And even view song lyrics that you’ve added to your library in iTunes.

The stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display is the ultimate way to watch TV shows, movies, and rentals from the iTunes Store on a pocketable device. Just tap the touch controls to play, pause, view by chapter, or adjust the volume. The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPhone puts a music superstore in your pocket. Just find a Wi-Fi hot spot, tap the iTunes button, and you can browse, preview, buy, and download music on the go. All the music you get while you’re out syncs back to the iTunes library on your computer when you dock your iPhone. With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see web pages the way they were designed to be seen. Zoom in on a page by tapping the Multi-Touch touchscreen display with your finger. Create a Web Clip that appears on your Home screen for one-tap access to your favorite websites and web apps. And customize up to nine Home screen pages to organize your Web Clips.
iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.
iPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more.
With its large Multi-Touch touchscreen display and innovative new software, iPhone lets you control everything using only your fingers. You can type using the predictive keyboard, glide through albums with Cover Flow, scroll through photos with a flick, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all with the iPhone Multi-Touch display.
iPhone uses OS X, the world’s most advanced operating system. Which means you have access to the best-ever software on a handheld device, including rich HTML email, full-featured web browsing, and favorite applications including Address Book and Calendar. iPhone is also fully multitasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background. This software completely redefines what you can do with a mobile phone.
iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports AT&T’s EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple’s compact Bluetooth headset. When you move around, iPhone automatically switches between EDGE and Wi-Fi to provide the fastest data connection possible. To set up your own Wi-Fi network, check out the AirPort Extreme Base Station.
The accelerometer detects when you rotate iPhone from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
When you lift iPhone to your ear, the proximity sensor immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away. Another power-saving feature is the ambient light sensor. This intelligent sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light.