Friday, 17 February 2012

election

Election results: Mumbai heading towards hung House; MNS leads in 25 seats



MUMBAI: The country's richest civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, appeared headed towards a hung House, going by early trends and results.

Counting for 10 municipal corporation polls held yesterday and elections to 27 zilla parishads and 309 Panchayat Samitis held on February 7 began this morning.

In Mumbai, the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP combine was ahead in 75 seats, while the Congress-NCP combine was ahead in 50 seats.

Raj Thackeray-led MNS was leading in about 25 seats. The Sena has bagged 8 seats, BJP 3, Congress 3, NCP 1 and MNS 1 as per the results declared so far.

In Thane, the Sena-BJP combine was leading in 45 seats while the Congress-NCP front was leading in 36 seats.

In Pimpri-Chinchwad, NCP was leading in 30 seats. Altogether 2,232 candidates were in the fray for 227 electoral wards in Mumbai.

Elections were also held yesterday for Thane, Pune, Ulhasnagar, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Nashik, Akola, Amravati and Nagpur municipal corporations. The Shiv Sena-BJP combine rules Mumbai, besides the neighbouring Thane (total seats 130), Ulhasnagar (78), Nashik (122) and Nagpur (145).

Congress controls Amravati (87), the Congress-NCP combine rules in Pune (152) and Solapur (102). NCP alone holds Pimpri-Chinchwad civic body (126) while Congress alone rules in Amravati (87).

Akola municipal corporation has 73 seats and was under Congress-NCP rule but was dissolved by state government last year over financial irregularities.

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Akash Tablet-The Whole Info About Akash Tablet


Indian Govt. Has Launched its amazing product Akash tablet
akash tabletfor its students. I am writing this article to Clarify your all doubts and issue on akash tablet With Answering about each and every query of akash laptop.

About The Developer Company

Akash tablet is also known as Ubislate and it has been developed by a leading company Datawind famous for wireless web access products and services.

Brief Description About Akash Tablet

  • Powerful 7.7 inches touchscreen tablet with with supportive android 2.2
  • Perfect for accessing the web at anytime or for android games and multimedia items and apps

Features and Configuration of Akash Laptop

With Many Features and A Compact configuration akash is able to attract everyone’s attention.
  • Unbelievable Price
Available at only 2999/- INR ($60 only)
Access Internet for each month at  a very low cost of $2/2GB or 98 Rupees/2Gb Data Access
  • High Quality Web And Data Access
Wi-Fi and GPRS Enabled
Web,email,twitter facebook and any website using DataWind’s patented acceleration technology
  • Multimedia and Applications With Android in Akash Tablet
HD Quality Videos and Watching Movies on a 7 inches palmtopakash tablet for students
Android Supported high Definition Games
More than 150,000 applications
Educational Software
USB Port and Micro SD Slot Support
Expandable Memory upto 32 GB
You Can Use Any Type of Pen drive,it supports all
you can even Even plug-in a 3G dongle

Configuration Of Akash Tablet

  • Software Details
Operating system of Android 2.2
Document Rendering
PDF viewer, Text editor
Supports many Document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP
  • Multimedia and Image Display Support
Supports Image of this Type:PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF
Audio Support of MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA
Video Support of MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV Formars
Separate application for online YouTube video
  • Hardware Details about “Aakash”
Connexant  processor with HD video processor and graphic accelerator
Memory (RAM): 256MB RAM / Storage (Internal): 2GB Flash
Resolution and Display:800×480 pixel resolution with  7” display
Resistive touch screen with 2GB to 32 GB external Memory support
  • Accessories
External Antena
car charger
keyboard case

Who Can Get Akash Tablet?

Many students are getting confused that if they can get it or not, some of them are  pursuing B.Tech, BBA and BCA type technical courses but some of them are from other streams and some fellows are even from 12th and even from 8th class.
Let me clear that who can get akash tablet. First thing is that government is providing the tablet to students of Govt.  technical institutes. so if you are studying in a private school then it might not be possible to get the tablet. The second thing is that the tablet will be given to those who are pursuing any technical course, they will be preferred first and after them other will be given and if  you are in 12th or in lower grade, you have to keep patience till the notification comes from the govt.

Cost and How To Book/Buy Akash Tablet?

You Can Buy this Tablet in Two ways,first one is to directly contact the comany or buy this one commercially and other option is for students of india, govt of india is providing these laptops at 50% subsidy.
You Can Book you Laptop by going on this link http://www.akashtablet.com/ and you can also check the availability of akash tablet here, but here you will be charged 2999/- rupees for purchasing akash laptop
and the second way to get akash laptop is only for students, indian government is providing this tablet to students of higher classes of india, it may take time but it will be given at a very low cost of 1750 rupees only.
Apart of that you can call this toll free number to buy your akash laptop-1800.180.2180
but before you buy this pc just clarify your doubt about the Defects in this tablet

Special Information-Read this before You Buy Akash Tablet


You can get  akash tablet in two ways, first way is to grab when it is given by indian govt, indian govt is providing the same  tablet at a low cost of 1750/-INR only and it is having a one year replacement warranty but you have to wait till this december in order to get your tablet because govt is distributing akash tablets in a step wise process and it may take time but the other way is to buy this from the datawind  company, they are selling this tablet commercially but if you are booking you tablet there then you have to pay 2999/-INR as no subsidy will be given to you there and one more important thing that the Datawind Company is giving only one weak replacement warranty for its akash tablets.Now decision is completely is yours that which one is better.
I think first option is much more better than the second one, what do you think?

Update:Know How to Book Your Akash Tablet

Follow This Link to know more about akash tablet and Book it Now http://www.akashtablet.com/


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Skip Aakash and buy the Aakash 2 tablet for Rs. 500 more


The  Aakash tablet has finally gone on sale online. The ultra low-cost tablet is priced at Rs. 2,500, and comes with a delivery time of seven days. The Aakash tablet, previously nicknamed as Sakshat and touted as world’s cheapest tablet, is aimed at students and can be used for various functions. The 7-inch tablet however, has already been criticised for its slower processor and minimal features, especially when compared to the better-specced Aakash 2, which is due to be launched in January.
Perhaps DataWind, the maker of Aakash, aims to address its limitations with the launch of the Aakash 2, which for now is officially being called the UbiSlate 7 tablet, and has been priced at Rs. 2,999. DataWind has already started accepting pre-orders for the UbiSlate 7. 
Both devices are expected to change current market dynamics, as they are already being pitted against other budget tablets in the market such as Reliance 3G Tab and Beetel Magiq.
The UbiSlate 7, or Aakash 2 as it might end up being called, costs marginally more than the Aakash, and offers better specs. Most importantly, you will not have to wait for long to lay hands on this. Therefore, will be much wiser to wait for another few weeks, and then lay hands on a better tablet. Let us compare the two tablets to understand just why the Ubislate 7 is a better choice:
Aakash Tablet
The Aakash tablet runs on Android 2.2 Froyo operating system and is powered by a ARM11 – 366MHz processor. The tablet has a seven-inch resistive touch display with 800x480 pixels resolution. It has 256MB of RAM. The device supports the following document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP, and can also run a PDF viewer and text editor. It has a 2,100 mAh battery which is rated to deliver up to 3 hours of backup, depending upon usage.
Price: Rs. 2,500
UbiSlate 7
DataWind has not given detailed information about the UbiSlate 7 apart from the features that have been upgraded. The UbiSlate 7 runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system and is powered by a Cortex A8 – 700 MHz processor. The tablet has a 3,200 mAh battery, which is likely to give a better backup than the Aakash. While the Aakash was restricted to the Wi-Fi network, the UbiSlate 7 supports Wi-Fi and 3G, with its SIM functionality also extending to voice calls. “This tab is made for the requirement of the users and especially for student needs,” DataWind quotes on its website.
Price: Rs. 2,999
Considering the better specs, the UbiSlate 7 stands out as a better deal. No one should mind shelling out extra Rs. 499 for a better low-cost tablet. Do you also agree that the UbiSlate 7 would be a smarter choice?

Friday, 16 December 2011

How to Use Facebook’s New Timeline Feature

How to Use Facebook’s New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts)

Facebook finally rolled out its much-anticipated Timeline feature today, which brings a snazzy new interface to your profile, not to mention the ability to see every post anyone's ever made back to their first day on Facebook. Here are the things you need to know about using it.
You can get the Timeline feature right now, but Facebook gives you seven days to adjust the look of your timeline before it goes public. Chances are, you'll want to tweak a few things before you publish it, so here are the things you'll want to look at during the next week before it goes live.

How to Browse the Timeline

How to Use Facebook's New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts)When you first visit the new interface, you'll see that it is, in fact, a timeline of all your posts on Facebook, going from newest at the top to oldest at the bottom. By default, it shows all your posts from this month. If you scroll down to the bottom, it will automatically load all of your posts from last month. If you scroll to the bottom of that, it'll show the "highlights" from the rest of that year.
You'll also see on the right that you have a sidebar, from which you can jump to specific time periods. Click on a year and it'll jump to the Highlights view for that year, and expand the sidebar to show every month from that year. Click on a month, and it'll show you all the posts from that month. You can go to any time period you want, from now all the way back to your first day on Facebook.
How to Use Facebook's New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts)Also note that you can jump to a specific time period using the dropdown menus at the top of the page, if you don't like the sidebar tree. If at any point, you want to see all posts instead of just Facebook's Highlights, you can choose "All Posts" from the dropdown menu as well.
You might also want to check out the top of your profile, from which you can access a list of your friends, a new view of all your photos (which is actually pretty great), your Likes, and so on. You can also click the tiny "About" link under your profile picture to view your basic info, About Me, work and education, and so on.

How to Add New Events to Your Timeline

How to Use Facebook's New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts)While you can add a status or photo to the top of your timeline as normal, the new view also allows you to add blocks on earlier sections of the timeline as well. Say you have a baby picture you want to upload to Facebook. You could go back to the year you were born and add it there, so it appears in chronological order, rather than putting it at the top. To do this, just find the desired spot on the timeline, and hover over the blue line in the middle. Your cursor will turn into a plus sign. You can then click there to add any kind of post you want, be it a new status, photo, place, or other life event (such as a change in relationship status, change in city, or others).
If you want to move a post that already exists—whether you posted it at the top or whether someone else posted an old picture of you—you can move it to a different spot on the timeline as well. Just hover over the post and click the pencil icon that shows up. Hit "Change Date" to move it anywhere you want on your timeline, and it'll show up there from now on.

How to Change the Look of Your Timeline

You'll notice that while the interface is very different, Facebook doesn't work all that differently from the way it used to. At the top of your timeline, you can add a new status update, photo, or place, and you can read all your wall posts just by scrolling down the timeline. The only new features you really need to learn about are those that directly relate to how your timeline looks.
How to Use Facebook's New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts)The first thing you'll want to check out is the cover. Essentially, you have two main photos on the front of your profile—one is your profile picture, which you should already see. The other is a "cover", a large, high-res photo that will appear behind your profile picture, and you can make this whatever you want. To add one, click the "Add a Cover" button on the right side or your profile. You can choose one of your existing photos or upload one from your hard drive. You can change your cover photo at any time just by hovering over it and clicking the "Change Cover" button that appears.
How to Use Facebook's New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts)The other new feature you'll want to try is starring a post. If there's a post you or someone else has made that you want to draw more attention to on your timeline, just hover over it and click the star button. This will make it wider, stretching across both columns of your timeline, to make it more noticeable. It'll also help break up the two-column view and keep the whole thing more interesting, which is nice. To delete a post or hide it from your timeline, click the pencil icon next to the star.

How to Make Old Posts More Private

The one big downside to the Timeline layout is that you can easily see every post you've ever made or received on Facebook. All anyone needs to do is go to a certain year on your profile and click the "All Posts" button. For a lot of us, that means posts you made when you were in high school—and I don't need to tell you how embarrassing it can be to look at some of the things you used to say in high school.
How to Use Facebook's New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts)You have a few choices here, and unfortunately neither is very ideal. You can go through your timeline and hide or delete individual posts by clicking the pencil icon, but depending on how long you've been on Facebook and how active you are, this could take forever.
Alternatively, if you have any old posts that are public or shared with friends of friends, you can change the privacy of all those posts to "Friends Only" with one click. It won't hide those posts from your friends, but it will at least keep everyone else on Facebook from being able to browse every post you've ever made public. Click the arrow next to the "Home" button in the upper right hand corner of Facebook. Head to Privacy Settings, then scroll down to "Limit the Audience for Past Posts". Click "Manage Past Post Visibility" and click the "Limit Old Posts" button. This will make all your past posts visible to Friends Only.
How to Use Facebook's New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts)Going forward, all posts you make will be subject to the same privacy settings you had before—so if it was set to Public, every post you make after hitting "Limit Old Posts" will still be public. Check out our guide to managing your Facebook privacy for more info.
Again, this feature isn't perfect, since those posts will still be visible to all your friends, but it's up to you how deeply you want to cultivate those old posts that everyone now has easy access to. Remember, though, you have 7 days before the Timeline goes public, so if you did want to dig in and go through every year, you could at least spread the work over a few days.

The new timeline feature is much more of a cosmetic update than a functional one, though it can be cool to go back and see all your old posts (as long as they aren't embarrassing), and being able to add posts anywhere on the timeline is a neat twist. If you haven't enabled it yet, head to Facebook's Timeline page to check it out, and let us know what you think of the new design in the comments.

The 2012 Golden Globes Nominations

The 2012 Golden Globes Nominations Announced

French flick The Artist leads the pack with six nods. See the full list here...

09:03, Friday, 16 December 2011
The nominations for the 2012 Golden Globes have been announced, with French silent film The Artist leading the pack with six nods.
The low-budget flick, which stars relatively unknown actors Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo, has beaten a number of Hollywood blockbusters to secure the most nominations, ranging from the best acting accolades to Best Comedy or Musical.
George Clooney's The Desecendants and 1960's civil rights drama The Help are tied in second place with five nominations, as both films will do battle for the coveted Best Drama award.
As with all award shows, there was bound to be some controversy as movies Tinker Tailor Solider Spy and The Tree Of Life - starring Brad Pitt - were notably absent from the shortlist.
Despite not receiving a nod for his role in The Tree Of Life, Pitt was named in the Best Drama Actor category for Moneyball, where he will take on the likes of Ryan Gosling and Clooney for their part in The Ides Of March.
The Best Motion Picture Drama category is shaping up to be the most interesting, with The Descendants, Moneyball, The Help, Hugo, The Ides of March and War Horse all battling it out for the coveted award.
The nominations were announced by Sofia Vergara, Woody Harrelson, Rashida Jones and Gerard Butler at the Beverly Hilton Hotel - with the Globes thought to be a good indication who may receive nods at The Oscars next year.
The Golden Globes are set to take place on 15th January and will once again be hosted by the UK's very own Ricky Gervais.
Full list of Golden Globe 2012 nominations:

Best Motion Picture - Drama

The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse
Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
50/50
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
George Clooney, The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender, Shame
Ryan Gosling, The Ides of March
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Jodi Foster, Carnage
Charlize Theron, Young Adult
Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids
Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
Kate Winslet, Carnage
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Joseph Gordon Levitt, 50/50
Ryan Gosling, Crazy Stupid Love
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Berenice Bejo,  The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Albert Brooks, Drive
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Director - Motion Picture
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
George Clooney, The Ides of March
Michael H, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Midnight in Paris
The Ides of March
The Artist
The Descendants
Moneyball
Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Berenice Bejo,  The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Albert Brooks, Drive
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Director - Motion Picture
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
George Clooney, The Ides of March
Michael H, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Midnight in Paris
The Ides of March
The Artist
The Descendants
Moneyball

Best Animated Feature Film
The Adventures of Tintin
Arthur Christmas
Cars 2
Puss in Boots
Rango

Best Foreign Language Film
Flowers of War
The Land of Blood and Honey
The Kid with A Bike
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
The Artist
W.E
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
War Horse
Hugo

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Gnomeo and Juliet
Machine Gun Preacher
Albert Nobbs
The Help
Masterpiece, W.E

Best Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Enlightened
Episodes
Glee
Modern Family
New Girl

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Kelsey Grammar, Boss
Jeremy Irons, The Borgias
Damian Lewis Homeland

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Claire Danes, Homeland
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Madeline Stowe, Revenge
Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness
Best Television Series - comedy or musical
Enlightened
Episodes
Glee
Modern Family
New Girl
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Laura Dern, Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel, The New Girl
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Laura Linney, The Big C
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
David Duchovny, Californication
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Cinema Verite
Downton Abbey
The Hour
Mildred Pierce
Too Big to Fail

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Romola Garai, The Hour
Diane Lane, Cinema Verite
Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey
Emily Watson, Appropriate Adult
Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hugh Bonneville, Downton Abbey
Idris Elba, Luther
William Hurt, Too Big To Fail
Bill Nighy, Page Eight
Dominic West, The Hour

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Kelly MacDonald, Boardwalk Empire
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Evan Rachel Wood
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Paul Giamatti, Too Big to Fail
Guy Pearce, Mildred Pierce
Tim Robbins, Cinema Verite
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family