If you are an active RTI activist or believe in getting things changed by filing an RTI but seeing the recent brutal killing / harassment of people involved in fetching information from officials, we are somewhat afraid of RTI.

RTI Anonymous comes to our rescue.

RTI Act, Right To Information, as you all know is an act of the Parliament of India “to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens.” Under the provisions of the Act, any citizen may request information from a “public authority” (a body of Government or “instrumentality of State”) which is required to reply expeditiously or within thirty days.

People are actively using this act to unearth the wrongdoings of many government offices and know the information which has been behind curtains so far. But certain bad elements of society who were benefiting earlier because of their good relations with the offices like civil mafias, mechanical mafias etc are now endangered and loosing control as offices now are not preferring to favor anyone as the system is open now.

Due to this, these bad elements are threatening people to stay away from filing RTIs. Recent killings of some RTI activists has somewhat succeeded to put us on life-fear stage.

RTI Anonymous is an initiative by a bunch of technologists group Get Up for Change which gets you the information that you seek without having to fear of your life.

It is an online service, through which, any Indian citizen can File Right to Information (RTI) Applications Anonymously through RTI Anonymous (RTIA). They DO NOT HAVE TO REVEAL THEIR IDENTITY. Get Up for Change group will file those RTI Applications in their names and upload the documents obtained from the govt. on their website. People just need to draft the RTI Application or just give them details of which department the RTI has to be filed and why?

You can connect to them on their website or on their Facebook page.

They are doing a damn good job as can be seen from their recent revelations. Keep it up guys. We need many more people/groups like you.

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Wake up today morning and saw an email from Google Wave informing about its closure early next year, Jan 2012.

Although I was one of the initial users of Google Wave, I never understood what it is for and why Google released such a stupid product. Google+ looks logical though.

Dear Wavers,

More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.

If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.

For more details, please see our help center.

Yours sincerely,

The Wave Team

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Yes, you can set email delegations in Gmail quite easily.

Delegation is actually giving access to your Gmail to another person so they can read, send, and delete messages on your behalf. For example, you can delegate e-mail rights to an admin in your organization, or you could delegate your personal email access to your spouse. The delegate can also access the other person’s contacts by clicking the Contacts link. Clicking the To, Cc, or Bcc links in the mail compose window will also bring up your contacts.

Here’s how you can do it:

1. Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Mail settings, and select the Accounts and Import tab.
2. Under ‘Grant access to your account,’ click the Add another account link.
3. Enter the email address of the person you’d like to access your account and click Next Step. Remember you can only enter a Google Mail address.
4. You’ll see a confirmation message. Click Send email to grant access if you’re sure.
5. The delegate will receive a verification email explaining that you’ve granted access to them.
6. After the delegate confirms this request, it may take up to 30 minutes for the verification process to be completed. To see if the delegate has confirmed access to your account, look at the Accounts tab in Settings

Here’s the video explaining delegation:

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After we told you ways to pay HSBC credit card and Standard Chartered credit card bills online, here is another tip using which you can pay your SBI credit card bills online without any limitation or hassles.

You can pay the SBI card dues either login to registering your card online at www.sbicard.com or at the comfort of your bank using NEFT.

• You will have to add your SBI Card as a beneficiary under third party transfer.
• Use IFSC code SBIN00CARDS for making SBI Card payment.
• Enter your 16 digit SBI Card number in place of Account number on the banking page.
• Fill Bank name – SBI CREDIT CARD – NEFT and Bank Address -PAYMENT SYSTEMS GROUP, STATE BANK GITC, CBD BELAPUR, NAVI MUMBAI
• After completing the registration make your SBI Card payment through this payment mode.
• Payment will reflect within 2 working days in your SBI Credit Card account.

That’s all you need to do. Now just make SBI card payments directly from your bank at your convenience.

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If you ever wondered what happens or what could happen in 1 minute, here is an awesome infographic explaining what happens in 60 seconds around the world.

Some of the best ones:

• 98,000+ tweets on Twitter
• 320+ new Twitter accounts
• 50+ wordpress downloads
• 70+ new domains registered
• 605,000 Facebook status updates.

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A dream project of India, Aakash, a $35 ($50 actually) tablet for students and for common man has finally become reality. When the project was announced, everyone thought it would die before it comes to reality but they all are proved wrong.

Aakash tablet is actually named UbiSlate 7 in the open market and it is a Andorid powered 7 inch touch screen tablet developed by Datawind.

Here’s the specification of the tablet:

Hardware:

• Processor: Connexant with Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor
• Memory (RAM): 256MB RAM / Storage (Internal): 2GB Flash
• Storage (External): 2GB to 32GB Supported
• Peripherals (USB2.0 ports, number): 2 Standard USB port
• Audio out: 3.5mm jack / Audio in: 3.5mm jack
• Display and Resolution: 7” display with 800×480 pixel resolution
• Input Devices: Resistive touch screen
• Connectivity and Networking: GPRS and WiFi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g
• Power and Battery: Up to 180 minutes on battery. AC adapter 200-240 volt range.

Software:

• OS: Android 2.2
• Document Rendering
  • Supported Document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP
  • PDF viewer, Text editor
• Multimedia and Image Display
  • Image viewer supported formats: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF
  • Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA
  • Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV
• Communication and Internet
  • Web browser – Standards Compliance: xHTML 1.1 compliant, JavaScript 1.8 compliant
  • Separate application for online YouTube video

Here are the first pics of the prominent tablet, Aakash.

[via NDTV and Aakash]

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Google has now rolled out new updated look of their Gmail’s interface to everyone.

They rolled it out as a theme to users previously but they improved it a lot and now rolled it out to everyone. Users can update the new look now or can remain to the existing UI for some more time before it becomes default for everyone.

You will be automatically get upgraded to the new look soon. If you don’t want to wait, you can switch to it today by logging into Gmail and clicking Switch to the new look on the right side at the bottom.

Few important points about the new look:

• From improved conversations to more customization and updated themes, Gmail is now cleaner and more modern.
• Explore the brand new themes and customize the look of Gmail.
• Conversations have been redesigned to bring the content of your messages to the forefront, and profile pictures make it easier to see who you’re talking with at a glance.
• And you also have more control over the size of your chat window. Just drag it to the desired size.

Best part is that this new look is available for Google App users also.

Watch the following video to get an overview of the improvements.

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IRCTC Vigilance has started a new campaign “Jago Yatri Jago“, a passenger education drive, for all their users to be aware of few important points while booking tickets or having agents to book tickets on their behalf. This is the most important information that everyone of us should be aware of, specially those who travel by trains in India and use irctc.co.in to book tickets.

Here’s the important information:

Book Your E-Tickets Sitting At Home

• You can either take a print out of your e-ticket or Save Paper by carrying just a screen shot of the e-ticket which you can display in your laptop, tabs or mobile phones.
• Carry your proof of identity during the journey. ((Voter Identity Card / Passport / PAN Card / Driving License / Photo ID card issued by Central / State Govt /Student Identity Card with photograph issued by recognized School or College for their students /Nationalised Bank Passbook with photograph /Credit Cards issued by Banks with laminated photograph)

Book Your E-Tickets Through Your Agent Outlet

• While visiting an IRCTC agent make sure that: -
• You visit a genuine IRCTC authorized agent outlet – IRCTC authorization letter should be prominently displayed. Details of authorized agent outlets are available on the IRCTC website www.irctc.co.in
• Demand for a requisition form to fill up the details and always ask for a receipt for all your bookings / cancellations.
• Check that the service charges levied by IRCTC are displayed. If not, you may ask for the same.

While Collecting Your E-ticket, Please Check

• Check whether you mobile number is printed on the e-ticket. Mobile number is mandatory for all passengers. All agents are required to enter the passengers mobile number.
• Soon after booking the e-ticket, you will receive a SMS from IRCTC on this number with details of your bookings including the fare and service charge. Cross check your e-ticket charges with the SMS received from IRCTC.
• Services Charges per e-ticket (Charges are per ticket irrespective of number of passengers on the ticket)

• There are no additional charges for printing of tickets or stationery charges.
• If the agent demands more than the prescribed service charge, you may lodge a complaint in the e-mail ids of agentcomplaint@irctc.co.in or care@irctc.co.in or call us at 011-39340000 / 23344787.
• All e-tickets should have the name of the agent outlet booking the ticket along with address, contact number and name of the Principal Agent.
• E-tickets can be cancelled through the same agent outlet without any additional service charges for cancellation.

Never Buy Tatkal E-tickets from Agents between 8 AM To 9 AM

• The Tatkal tickets are made available to the passengers through the IRCTC website www.irctc.co.in and the railway reservation counter on first come first serve basis.
• Between 8AM To 9AM, the website is open exclusively for individual users who wish to buy Tatkal e-tickets on line as the agents are barred from booking Tatkal tickets during that time.
• If it is found that you are traveling with Tatkal tickets booked by agents between 8AM to 9AM, your ticket is liable to be cancelled.

Never Book Tickets With Fictitious Names

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Google recently announced that they are shutting down Google Buzz (Twitter copy) along with Google Labs (a house of new inventions) in a few weeks time. Although people would be able to export their content using Google Takeout.

This is in endeavor to keep their focus on the new social platform Google+.

They wrote:

We aspire to build great products that really change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don’t work on. It’s why we recently decided to shut down some products, and turn others into features of existing products.

• In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won’t be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.

Google is going to reduce the number of apps that they run and integrate many into one for people to not only remember them easily but also reduce cost of Google in managing them.

They further added:

Changing the world takes focus on the future, and honesty about the past. We learned a lot from products like Buzz, and are putting that learning to work every day in our vision for products like Google+. Our users expect great things from us; today’s announcements let us focus even more on giving them something truly awesome.

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If you are status conscious and let the world know about your how being, where being etc and sometimes feel confused where to update your status then following infographic will help you take a decision quickly.

Notice Google plus is still the least preferred social platform.

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Recently, India’s biggest Life insurer LIC (Life Insurance Corporation) mandated the policy payments via NEFT. Informing all policyholders/ claimants, LIC confirmed that from. 1^st October 2011, all policy payments will be directly credited to the Bank account of the policyholder. Kindly note that LIC will NOT settle the policy payment in any other mode of payments like cheque. Going forward only NEFT is to be used.

For LIC to know your bank details and seeking your permissions for NEFT, you will have to fill a mandate form and submit it to any LIC branch near to you.

You will also need to submit either a cancelled blank cheque leaf or the photo copy of the page of the passbook / cheque book where details of the Bank account are mentioned.

After submission of NEFT details, if there is any change in bank details then fresh mandate form will have to be submitted.

Please be also informed that bank details should match the policy holder / claimant details like name, address etc.

Download the NEFT mandate form, fill it up and hand it over along with respective enclosures, to the LIC branch servicing any of your policy for updating the Bank details.

Don’t miss it.

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The BITS2Marathon group is a group for fellow BITSians (Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani) and alumni to help budding runners achieve their dream of running a Marathon (42.195km). The initiative was started by BITSians, who are also recreational runners, with the main aim of promoting running within the BITSian community and to use it as a means to network and stay connected with friends. Read more about the group at www.bits2marathon.com

The main goal of this run is to motivate BITSians all around the world to bring running into everyone’s life and thereby a healthy lifestyle. Last year we had more than 600 runners registered across different batches running in different parts of the world and this year we expect more hitting the road on the day. You can run the route of your choice by running in your neighborhood or pairing up with your running buddies from the same or nearby cities. The run is completely virtual and so you are your own judge!

All runners who register on the BITSAA website will get a participation certificate on completing the run. Your local group co-ordinator’s details will be emailed to you, on registration incase you want to run along with other BITSian runners in your city. Please feel free to spread the word of the run and invite as many BITSians possible, and get them registered for the run. If you have Non-BITSian runner pals, feel free to invite them to jog along.

The 3rd edition of BITS world 5K run on 6th November, Sunday there will be a mix of seasoned runners running for their personal best along-side enthusiastic first timers who want to rid their couch, all aiming at the finish line and latcha sessions with BITSians.

Here are the details:

Date: November 6th, Sunday
Distance: 5km
Registration: http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=bits5krun_2011

This year the cause of the run is supporting the “BITS Connect 2.0” program and there will be a nominal registration fee to support this cause.

So all BITSians, get connected and run healthy.

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Can you imagine, even astronauts after coming back from Moon in Apollo II had to declare to US customs that they have not brought anything from moon but Moon dust and moon rock samples.

Yes, the matter goes back to 1969 when NASA had a successful and first lever landing on Moon and 3 of their scientists Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their return from moon to Earth on 24th July 1969 went through US customs.

NASA has also confirmed it. Here’s the declaration form that they filled in and signed:

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In an interactive doodle today, Google pays tribute to the pioneer in the art of stop motion clay animation, Arthur ‘Art’ Clokey.

Today (October 12th, 2011) is Clokey’s 90th birth anniversary. He was born on October 12, 1921 Clokey’s birth name was Arthur C Farrington.

Clokey and his wife, Ruth, invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art had finished film school at USC.

After a successful debut on “The Howdy Doody Show” Gumby soon became the star of its own hit television show, “The Adventures of Gumby” the first to use clay animation on television.

Today’s Google Doodle features some of Art Clokey’s most famous characters including Gumby (the original clayboy), Pokey (Gumby’s best friend and sidekick), the Blockheads (‘J’ and ‘G’ – the mischievous troublemakers), Tara (Gumby’s girlfriend) and Prickle (Gumby’s good friend).

Here’s a video from the 1960s version of Gumby:

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It is most of the times true when you are working in an organization and using their resources like desktop or laptop then the company would want not to allow you to copy data out of the system via USB external devices.

They most of the times disable USB ports completely (except for needed devices like mouse, keyboard etc) so that user is unable to view the device when they plug-in their storage USB device and thus unable to do anything. We have already provided a solution to make it available by tweaking a registry setting.

But some organizations are generous enough to just write protect the port such that you are able to view the content of your external device but unable to write to them.

You will see following error:

“The disk is write-protected.  Remove the write-protection or use another disk.”

Solution to that is quick too by changing a registry setting in Windows 7. Just follow the following steps:

To make the USB devices writable in Windows7 follow the steps below

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Navigate to following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

4. In the right pane, double-click “WriteProtect”.
5. In the Value data box, enter 0, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
6. Quit Registry Editor.

To write protect, follow these steps below

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate, and then click the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

4. In the right pane, double-click “WriteProtect”.
5. In the Value data box, enter 1, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
6. Quit Registry Editor.

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If you plan to learn office etiquette then you must see how Mr. Barack Obama, president of United States behave while he is in the office.

It’s not praising or condemning the behavior of Mr. Obama but people you yourself have to see and guess how office staff might be treated which is quite strange.

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If you are a University student, faculty, a blog writer, news journalist or a book writer, you may often make common grammatical mistakes in your writing which is such a simple mistake that you yourself might not notice it even after re-reading it multiple time. Your colleague, friend might not notice it too.

But there is a new amazing tool in the town which not only corrects grammatical errors but also proof reads your content and comes up with suggestions, if needed.

This tool is Grammarly.com

Just copy your content, go to Grammarly editor, paste your content and run the checker. That’s it. You will get suggestions on any grammatical, spelling, plagiarism errors, if any.

I tried checking the following and was correctly presented with right errors:

This is to inform you that, I have successfully implement a component and also I have tested this new implemented component in windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit OS  on systems and it works like a charm.

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Grammarly’s online grammar, spelling checker seems to be the most accurate tool for grammar correction. The only important thing to note is that the service is chargeable for detailed analysis report. You can buy their annual subscription at the rate of 7.95$/month.

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This is an awesome infographic tracking the evolution of various versions and releases of Apple’s iPhone. First iPhone was released on 9th Jan 2007 and latest iPhone 5 is set to release in Oct 2011. Lots of things have changed from processors to camera megapixels to display size and more.

Have a look.

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I came across two videos today and they were somewhat related to each other. They both talked about people count and time to count them.

Let’s see the first video from National Geographic which says it would take 200 years to count the world population which is 7 billion (1000 millions) at the moment.

Another video that I watched just after this said 500 people in 100 seconds. See this video:

I did a quick calculation:

If 500 people in 100 seconds, then in 1 second we can count 5 people.

So, effectively we can count 7 billion people only in 2663.63 years. Isn’t that a right calculation.

I know they may be unrelated but I tried to co-relate them to find out the exact number. May be National Geographic has some very efficient tools or people to do this stuff in 200 years.

You can laugh now

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I saw mails about Apple iTime a year ago and they are in circulation again. Many are wondering is this just a hoax again or Apple is looking forward to release a grand product like this, as it seems.

It will definitely add new stars to the already flooded clouds of Apple but somebody needs to confirm these rumors.

According to the rumor the product is to be called iTime which will come in variety of colors and a time based operating system or a mini-iPhone with Bluetooth and WiFi capabilities. It is also said to work as a projector in need.

It basically look to be replacing iPods if they at all come, which is very likely and unlikely too. Only time (or iTime ) will tell.

Enjoy some of the pics of so called iTime.

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Who can forget the brutality happened in New York on September 11, 2001. The worst day in the history of not only United States but the whole world. Casualty may not be that high in terms of numbers (comparing to other incidents happened so far around the world), but this was surely the biggest terrorist attack ever with huge personal and financial loss.

It has been ten years to the incident but it is still very much clear in everyone’s mind. United States have moved. Couple of wars happened during this decade and mission of killing Osama is also accomplished. But who lost would never come back. That’s where the pain actually is.

Here’s a beautiful infographic telling the story of 9/11 and 10 years which have gone by. Have a look.

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Stop killing me is what this video tries to tell the world.

WeCare created this video in their endeavor to abolish fetus killing from the world. Although we are in the 21st century where some countries are very rich and some are still looking for one meal but this is one thing where we all are same. Fetus killing is extremely common around the world, especially when we have technologies to know the sex and physical fitness of the child inside the body.

This is trying to teach everyone to stop killing as you might not be in this world if your parents would have done the same. It shows 4 gruesome ways how the fetus is killed

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Here’s an infographic previewing the search stars from the tech world. They have put together a very good information about people who are deep into the search marketing for a long time.

The list includes David Mihm from bracketography.com who has been one of the brilliant minds in SEO industry. Avinash Kaushik, who has been with Google, has written a lot about marketing research.

The list could not leave Matt Cutts for sure who is one of the inventor of Google’s patent related to search engines and web scams.

It also gives a very good info on the future of search. Read more about different Search stars.

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Irene Hurricane in United States on the eastern coast is about to be ending by, but it was and is traceable by Google too.

Google has started a new project some time ago namely Crisis Response. The full path of the Irene hurricane or any other natural calamity which might come in future is traceable on Google maps.

The map can display the whole hurricane season for the current year 2011 with their intensities classified.

In addition to this, you may also want to see Google’s effort for natural calamities around the world. Like Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Australia Floods or Haiti Earthquake.

Their another tool that is really helpful during these calamities is the People finder tool where affected persons can look for their relatives/friends know-about during the most dangerous disaster.

Google is helping people with technology advancements.

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SEO is always the most important thing after you register your domain and host your web with a reliable host like Dreamhost.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is basically a way of making your site rank top in the search results of search engines. It is a process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via organic search results. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

They are not as easy to do as they seem to be. Not everyone can optimize his websites for search engines like google, yahoo. We need an expert. And there is an expert, rankpay seo services.

RankPay offers performance based services. You can immediately analyze your website and discover relevant SEO opportunities.

Their performance based service offers pricing for relevant keywords upfront and the best part is, you are charged only when rank of your website has increased in the specific keyword search.

Their SEO opportunity tool helps in providing pricing for each search engine based upon the ranking achieved. You can yourself use it to find relevant keywords and current rank.

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