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You Tube Looks To Offer Videos In High-Res: With an eye on improving the viewing experience of its users, YouTube from next week will start to support 1080p high resolution videos. The move from YouTube is seen by many as a very significant move given the fact that it currently supports videos to the maximum of 780p only. Commenting on the subject, Hunter Walk, Director of Product Management at You Tube, mentioned that more than half of the videos have already been re-encoded according to the new video format. Although, there is still a limit of 10 minute maximum for a video being uploaded, the size limit will have to be increased from the existing 2GB. Walk also said the high-resolution video had been tested with success and despite the cost of supporting huge files, the company was not worried. Most analysts believe that YouTube which is owned by Google has the capacity to foot the increased costs associated with displaying videos in full HD and it will allow YouTube to tie-up with e

Final result will be: This tutorial will test your photo-retouching skills. For the first picture, i will link you to the large image that I will be using for this tutorial, however, the other images will be scaled down for page loading time purposes. Image you can take by clciking on the below image: Now, eventually we are going to want to join the two sides together, to create a seemless edge. How do we do this? Have any ideas? Well, now that you have the picture open in Photoshop, we will offset the edges. Filter > Other > Offset (650 Pixels to the right, Wrap around) Now, what offset will do.. is sort of, shift the whole image (in this case, over to the right) but instead of deleting the parts that go off the canvas it just wrapps it round onto the left hand side instead. This now means, that we have the origional two edges of the ima ge.. meeting in the middle, which makes it allot easier to work with. How does this help? Well, i

There's no shortage of ways to irritate friends on Facebook. I'll help you avoid the biggest etiquette pitfalls with these expert tips. What's OK on Facebook? On sites like MySpace, anything goes (or seems to), but the rules of etiquette on Facebook seem to be a little more refined -- not a lot, mind you, but a little. Keep these tips in mind, whether you're making your first friend or your 1,000th. Who should you friend? Some people adopt an everyone-welcome policy on Facebook and accept all friend requests; some want only real-world contacts in their friends list. In deciding on the right approach for you, bear in mind that the bigger your friend network is, the more application, event, chat session and cause invitations you'll receive -- and that can lead to some uncomfortable moments and the occasional friend purge. Easy on the updates. As on Twitter, oversharing on Facebook can be a problem. Every meal eaten, every TV show experienced and every weather c

This came forward more than astonishment on the internet giant Google ’s part. Tuesday morning (Pacific Time), Google’s web mailing service – Gmail crashed for duration of around 100 minutes globally resulting in widespread panic among the people who rely on Gmail for all their personal and professional communications. At the same time it caused a great deal of confusion among the Google Engineers to figure out the cause of the outage. The affect: The crash affected around millions of trusted Gmail users who depend on the web interface and its Apps to do most of their professional tasks. The result: we saw people tweeting each other expressing their concern and anger. Users from some states of US, Italy, Germany, France and Taiwan reported being unable to access Gmail in the Google forum. Earlier outages Well, this isn’t the first time Google ’s Gmail has went offline. Earlier the mailing service has suffered outages in February and previously in April, August and October 2008.

Ever since Google’s YouTube video sharing unit started trying to make some serious money in late 2007, it has mainly tried to place ads on videos produced by people who regularly create popular videos. (It doesn’t place ads on videos unless their creators specifically allow it.) Now that two-year-old YouTube Partner Program is being expanded to individual videos that suddenly become very popular—that go viral, as they say—whether it’s the African safari animal faceoff in “Battle at Kruger” (with 45 million views to date) or cutesy videos like “Otters holding hands.” The move will open up YouTube monetization to tens of thousands of potential partners, up from thousands today, according to Tom Pickett, YouTube’s director of online sales and operations. It’s one more way Google hopes to make some money off its $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube, which hasn’t produced significant revenue as quickly as Google and its investors have hoped. “This really opens up the door for more people to p

iPhone users you now have even a much wider variety of navigation apps to choose from. Tom Tom , the digital mapping and routing company has released it all new turn-by-turn application for the Apple’s iPhone. This new Apple app is on sale at the iTunes stores . The new sat-nav app uses iPhone’s built-in GPS chip to provide the users with the directions. Tom Tom iPhone software is compatible with the iPhone 3G & 3GS and smartphones running on iPhone 3.0 operating software or later. While remarking on the release of the app, Corinne Vigreux, Managing Director of TomTom said , “With TomTom for iPhone, millions of iPhone users can now benefit from the same easy-to-use and intuitive interface, turn-by-turn spoken navigation and unique routing technology that our 30 million portable navigation device users rely on every day.” The app brings many of TomTom's tools, including IQ Routes and safety camera position . Also, the iPhone app features landscape and portrait views, points o

It is essential to remember that all kinds of viruses and bacteria can attack you when your immune system is weak, or they can weaken it easily. Hence, building your own defences would be a better, more practical, long-lasting and much more economical idea. Here are some easy steps you can take to tackle a flu virus of any kind, including swine flu. It is not necessary to follow all the steps at once. You can pick and choose a combination of remedies that suit you best. However, if you are already suffering from flu, these measures can help only up to an extent. And, if you have been infected by H1N1, visiting a hospital and staying in solitary confinement is a must. 1. Have five duly washed leaves of Tulsi (known as Basil in English; medicinal name Ocimum sanctum) everyday in the morning. Tulsi has a large number of therapeutic properties. It keeps throat and lungs clear and helps in infections by way of strengthening your immunity. 2. Giloi (medicinal name Tinospora cordifolia) is a

The word Social Media is everywhere. You read about it on the internet. You hear it from your friends. You might even get to read about it in the newspaper these days. And since it’s so commonly available everyone considers self as an expert. social-media-bandwagon Look at Twitter. Every second Twitter follower I get calls himself a “Social Media Evangelist”; whatever that means. But the truth is, this medium is still evolving. A very funny tweet recently from Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Expert sums it up: “Social Media is like teen sex. Everyone wants to do it, but no one actually knows how. And when finally done there is surprise it’s not better” Marta Kagan also has some interesting thoughts on Social Media in her new presentation over at Mashable. Let’s look in deeper. So what exactly is this Social Media? In the simplest of terms that I can think of, “Social Media is an online conversation” When you tell your Facebook buddy about how hot Kareena is looking in the new movie,

Toll Free Nos: All India Level Toll free number 1075(toll free) or 1800-11-4377 Punjab: 1075 Andhra Pradesh: 12506 Symptoms: * If you have fever, throat infection, body ache, consult doctor. * Must go to a doctor at any government facility meant for swine flu. * Swine flu testing is done only at government hospitals. * Nose and throat swabs will be taken and tested. * Child will not be quarantined if there are no symptoms. * If clinical symptoms exist, child will be hospitalised, and tamiflu will be given only if the tests are positive. * Act early to ensure quick recovery. * Rapid screening advised by private hospitals not legal. * Do not go for rapid screening as it's not 100 per cent accurate. In times of crisis the worst thing is to panic so if you or your family member is having flu-like symptoms without wasting time go to the nearest designated hospital or doctor and get tested if he advises. If you have any queries don't listen to rum

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Microsoft and Yahoo! joined the forces to create a stronger stand to compete against their common contender Google . They announced the ad-search deal that has the entire world go talking about it, from industry experts to investors, from advertisers to users. But the big question remains that would they be able to gain over the King who rules the virtual space. According to the recent data by the industry analyst comScore, Google holds a total share of 65% of the global market, Yahoo! 16.3% and Bing a mere 9.9%. Microsoft has long being trying to win over Yahoo! and Google in the search market with investing millions to bring an innovative system that would create a distinct picture, but, never managed to do so. Post the deal the situation changes drastically, Bing would simply jump to the second position with adding Yahoo!’s users to its share. Though, even combined share for Bing, post the deal, accounts to be less than that of Google, just 26% which is a big gap for the two g

Google Fun Facts Google sorts billions of bits of information for its users. Here are some little-known bits of information about Google: Google's name is a play on the word googol , which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old). Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second. Google receives daily search requests f

Read it ... its Fun Its funny to hear egg-consuming vegetarians proclaiming that they are vegetarians. I have met loads of such people. They eat eggs on a Monday, but will remain light years away from an egg on a Tuesday (because they are vegetarians, do you hear? They are not non-vegetarians). You must ask them this: Can you eat a cabbage on a Monday? Answer: Yes, its veg. Can you eat an egg on a Monday? Answer: Yes, its veg. Can you eat cabbage on a Tuesday? Answer: Yes, its veg. Can you eat an egg on a Tuesday? Answer: No….I mean..You know…its like…..aa..uu..ummm…. The bottomline: Egg is a veg food on a Monday, but turns non-veg on a Tuesday, returns to its veg classification on Wednesday, again turns non-veg on a Saturday. Therefore, if they can have something which is both a veg and a non-veg food at the same time (let me remind you its the same egg which turns non-veg immediately the next day), can you call them vegetarians any more? Doesn’t this make them non-vegetarians? I thin

i was thinking how i can appear to be busy while not actually working and came up with these: 1- walk really fast when you are going anywhere as to appear something important is going to happen 2- carry a notebook with you at all times. seems like you are suppose to be somewhere taking notes. if at your desk keep it open with a pen on it 3- keep your headset on if you are in your cubicle 4- actually do work but that defeats the purpose. okay more later. any suggestions? 5- shuffle papers 6- look pissed off 7- put up a do not disturb sign when you are browsing the web 8- continually click on a pen 9- walk around with your laptop open, side note: take your laptop home and say you are WFH (working from home) 10- open up Microsoft Word and write blog entries to post later