Computer Gender!!!

Have you ever wondered whether your Computer is male or female?

Now here's a simple trick to find out just that!
Don't believe me?
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....Still skeptical?

Come on... Now here's the trick to check whether your computer is "male" or "female" :

1. Open your computer's NOTEPAD.
2. Type the following line in the NOTEPAD
• CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak"I love you"
3. Save file as computer_gender.vbs
4. Run the file
• If you hear a male voice, your computer is a "Boy"
• If you hear a female voice, your computer is a "Girl"

NOTE : Don't forget to turn ON your SPEAKERS before running the file.

Well, Good Luck!!!  Comment below and share your results :) 

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The Social Network [Khatti]

The Social Network [Khatti]

The latest social networking site on the block is www.khatti.co.tv

Well,”Khatti ”, in Oriya, means gossip but, actually, this site provides room for more than just gossiping.

Share, Show and Socialize is the mantra for this social networking website. The features provided on this site dwell on these three keywords.

Let’s have a look at some of its features:

• “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” This website has a simple and user-friendly interface. Basically, user interface describes the way people interact with a site and the way users can access its functions. In fact, usability is a byproduct of a good user interface and it determines how easily a user can perform all of the functions provided by the site. Usability is a crucial part of every design, especially on websites with a large amount of functions and users. And this website provides it all.

• Signing up on Khatti is easy and it takes less than 60 seconds to sign up.

• You can create and customize a profile with certain content such as name, location, interests, website links, and more.

• Share your views, opinions, story, and success with the Khatti community.

• You can upload you own personal image or any other “avatar” to represent you on Khatti .

• Socializing is easy on Khatti . You can communicate with text-based comments. Khatti allows you to communicate with friends either by private message correspondence as well as public message board-like posts.

• You can stay in touch with contacts, reach out to new people, and show theKhatti community what you really are!

• You can browse and search for people with similar interests and add them as friends.

• Khatti provides you with a secure social networking experience. You can restrict the access of your personal content through the privacy setting options. Moreover, there is no problem of infringement of security due to third part apps like that on Facebook. Recently, there have been reports of extraction of user information by third party apps on Facebook for their commercial interests.

• Real-Time Updates delivers updates as soon as they are submitted within the application.

• Inviting friends on Khatti is easy. Just enter your friends’ email ids and submit the invitation along with a personal note (which is, of course, optional).

• Khatti has a good and functional search feature as well.

• Khatti has a subtle visual separation of elements that makes the layout more scannable thereby making it more user- friendly.

• TinyMCE™ editor allows you to edit your blog posts with ease.

• You can also upload your own music on Khatti .

• Facebook type chat feature is also available.

Khatti is designed to allow members to connect and communicate with one another and therefore, its features foster interaction, activity, and of course, community.

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Solar Eclipse And Superstitions

There's always something magical, divine, extra-ordinary when you get to watch such a rare celestial spectacle as a Solar Eclipse, an event when the moon steps in between the sun and the earth.The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 is an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the sun to look like a ring, blocking most of the Sun's light. It is visible as a partial eclipse in much of Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia. It is seen as annular within a narrow stretch of 300 km (190 mi) width across Central Africa, Maldives, South Kerala (India), South Tamil Nadu (India), North Sri Lanka, parts of Burma and parts of China.

While the scientific community is gearing up for the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium, the people too are preparing themselves for the rare event in their own way. And irrespective of their educational background, a cross section of the people are still firm in their superstitious beliefs related to eclipses.

Let's have a look at superstitions related to solar eclipse all over the world

• During eclipses, expectant mothers from Mexico and some other parts of Latin America frequently wear bright red panties with a safety pin tucked through them, the result of a tradition dating back to Aztec and Mayan days. It seems those tribes belived that the eclipse released energy that could cause birth defects and to ward off its power, pregnant women would step outside only if they tied a red string around their waists with an arrowhead attached to it.

• The ancient Chinese believed that a dragon is trying to swallow the Sun.The Chinese would shoot fireworks and bang gongs to scare the dragon away if they know a solar eclipse is coming it seems.

• In India, people believe when the sun rays are covered by the moon, the atmosphere becomes polluted. Therefore, for the whole day -- about 12 hours of the day time -- people observe fast and do not eat any food in the polluted atmosphere. People pray during the eclipse period so that they did not indulge in any evil activity. The same is done during Lunar Eclipse but the period of fast is only nine hours.

• Javanese people remain inside their homes and don't venture outside.

• Even in ancient Greece, people were superstitious about Solar Eclipse. In the Odyssey, Homer states that, “the Sun vanished out of heaven and an evil gloom covered all things about the hour of the midday meal.”

Even though superstitions persists among a huge majority of people, still science and its advocates have a few listeners, at least I have no faith in superstitions. What about you?

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