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What’s the world is getting busy with since last week ?

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pie chart

Have you ever wanted to know, what’s the earth’s people are getting busy lately? Hmm, according to a report from Google Inc, in the past 7 days, the following terms are increasingly searched in Google.

Top ten
1. masters leaderboard 
2. yuri gagarin
3. grand national 2011
4. grand national
5. government shutdown 2011
6. government shutdown
7. masters
8. ipl
9. onpe
10. 地震

As you see, most of the world is wasting time on sport, while some others interested in the past and the space history (Yuri Gagarin), and the remaining part is interested in government businesses. Lastly, I’m too lazy to use Google translate to learn the meaning of the 10th search and comment on it. so if you give a damn, just use google translate.

Does EFX Bracelet really work ?

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efx bracelet

Does EFX Bracelet really work ?

It has been 2 days since I bought it. If you ask me Do I feel any different? Like I’m charged with super powers, super flexible, like one of the fantastic four, or I am in perfect balance as Kung Fu Panda ? Unfortunately, not. I don’t feel any different apart from I feel like I paid through the nose. I paid nearly 40 bucks for a silicon piece.

EFX Chronicles

D
ay 1;

Slept at 1:00 am and woke up at 6:00 am in the morning, I felt a bit tired which is contrast to what seller told me, “you’ll wake up completely refreshed”. Throughout the day I felt normal, not much energetic. At the end of the day I slept at 11:30 pm.

Day 2;

Today I woke up at 9:00 am in the morning, so I was late to work. Couldn’t wake up at 6:00 am. I feel totally worn out, exhausted, man! I feel like a hammered sh*t. This thing is like draining my life energy since I’ve worn it. It gathered lots of dust around itself and sticked to my wrist, can’t take it out, I am doomed like the scorpion king but without the super powers. In the gym workout I lifted half of the normal weight I usually lift, It’s like I’m weakening. I started to worry, seriously. The thing was suppose to increase physical abilities, in contrast it’s turning me into a bag of potato. Fortunately I was able to take it off before the end of the day. Believe me, I feel much more better, the thing didn’t even cause to a placebo effect, I’m not mentioning that it’s not working, in contrary It is working but in the reverse direction, it had some serious negative effects on me, and I barely found the strength to remove it from my wrist before it completely fused itself to my arm. Lucky me.

 

Don’t expect a silicon piece to turn you into a super human, if it would really works, why do they sell it to you for a cost of a dinner ? Or Why do you buy it, even if you know it’s not going to work for you? (just like me).

The answer is blowing in the wind : curiosity.

iPhone 5 is a renamed iPhone 4S (white) !

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iphone 5

Hi! Dear visitors, unfortunately we have just learned that Apple will not release any device in WWDC this June. So there will not be iPhone 5 or iPad 3, we do not know that what exactly Apple is planning. Apple will only demonstrate some future plans for iOS and Max OS X, so the conference will only present some software features.The main audience for this conference is most likely the developers, and all the seats are sold out.

As we know that, Verizon users just said hello to iPhone 4 in this February. Is apple afraid to frustrate Verizon users by announcing a new iPhone just after 5 months ? Usually Apple announces a new iPhone at WWDC in June since 2007, what can be a reason to break this habit ? May be not to make Verizon user angry, may be not. But all we know is that this elevated the expectations for iPhone 5. Like in the iPhone 3GS case, angry crowd can not tolerate minor changes and features.

Nowadays, dozens of rumors points out some real interesting clues. According to rumors, iPhone 5 will have a bigger screen, A5 processor (dual core), new cloud services, may be an 8 mega-pixel camera and iOS 5. Also it is probable that the existing chassis of iPhone 4 will be used without no change. As a result we will just have an improved iPhone 4 or namely iPhone 4S. By the way, with all the rumors going on NFC, it is a long long long story, we don’t expect NFC support in iPhone 5. For these reasons, we can be sure that there are no logical reasons to switch iPhone 5 from iPhone 4, and iPhone 4 users will probably not buy iPhone 5. I don’t usually prefer middle models, I generally look for a big reason to switch to a new model, since paying lots of money to a device that doesn’t meet my expectations makes me feel like a fool.

How to use Google webmaster tools to increase your traffic?

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Google webmaster tools

Google webmaster tools was first announced in the year of 2005 (summer). Beginning from that date, it has been 6 years now, and maybe millions of web sites has been utilizing this service, and most them has started using it from the very beginning. But why do people care about this? The answer is quite simple, if you want to be indexed in a higher rank in Google, you have to care about what Google thinks about your site. Google webmaster tools is the Google way of telling the site owners about how they are doing. Webmaster tools offers some quite valuable information that no one else can do. Sitemap status, Search queries, Keywords, Internal links, External links,  Crawl errors, HTML suggestions and many more. If you are still not registered your site with Google webmaster tools, now go and do it. The rest of this article will help to readers who has been already using Google webmaster tools (at least for 2 months and more.)

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The threat behind the Facebook Sponspored Stories

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facebook sponsored story

So recently did you notice something new in Facebook? In January 2011, Facebook announced the  “Sponsored Stories”. Apparently it is now being running. If one of your friend likes some product, Facebook will show the advertisement along with your friend’s name. Do you see the danger ? If your answer is NO, let me explain.

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Which one is suitable for you; Shared Hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server ?

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Welcome !

I wanted to share my experience about Hosting in this article, which may give you some idea and decide which option is suitable for you. I just tried to keep it clear and simple, but the subject is a big one, so I ended up having the following. I hope it provides you a basic insight. Grab some beverage and go on reading.

If you are a new into the world of Web, you start with a free host which provides limited amount of space and a simple interface to manage your site, and they put ads on your site/blog in return as a cost for this free service. It is a perfect way to discover the world. However, as your site grows bigger and get some attention from people, you start to need a paid hosting, which offers considerable amount of space, no ads, increased service quality such as access speed, server availability and service up-time.

Paid hosting services can be divided into 3 different groups:

  • Shared Hosting
  • Virtual Private Server
  • Dedicated Server

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Pattern ( Digit & Alphabet ) Recognition using Matlab’s Neural Network Toolbox

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pattern recognition

Here is a complete project, which does primitive pattern recognition, it contains pretty enough information to make you grasp the subject. The network is based on the ‘network’ object, so it is a network build from bottom to top, we assign each significant property by hand.

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Kinect from DarkSide !

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AND / OR Gate Implementation using Matlab Neural Network Toolbox

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After years :) I dare to make a new post without any unnecessary introduction, there happened a lot (Master of Science Degree, Marriage and etc..) and didn’t find time to get busy with blogging, so these are what I’m currently tackling with..

MATLAB

 

 

AND Gate
========
x=[0 0 1 1; 0 1 0 1];
t=[0 0 0 1];
net = newp(x,t);
net = train(net,x,t);
sim(net,[0;0]);
sim(net,[1;0]);
sim(net,[1;1]);
sim(net,[0;1]);

OR Gate
=======
x=[0 0 1 1; 0 1 0 1];
t=[0 0 0 1];
net = newp(x,t);
net = train(net,x,t);
sim(net,[0;0]);
sim(net,[1;0]);
sim(net,[1;1]);
sim(net,[0;1]);

Google Homepage Fade Effect

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Google has added a fade in effect to its homepage. But it would better if we can hide links manually and other stuff other than the search box, so it would be a lot cleaner.

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