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Electronic Waste often called as e-waste is the totality of all the surplus, obsolete, broken or discarded electrical or electronic devices. According to a March 2007 article in Computerworld, an estimated 500 million computers are sitting idly in storage contributing to e-waste. In India alone this e-waste is estimated to be accumulating around 146000 tons each year. Without proper recycling this e-waste causes serious health and pollution problems coz CRT devices like monitors n stuff contains harmful metals like mercury and barium which when released into atmospheres is a threat to all. By recycling your old e-waste you not only save your valuable space but also save the environment. Isn't that good for all??


EarthSense is India’s first scientific electronic waste recycling unit that recycles your e-waste in Eco-Friendly manner.

According to earth sense, the below are some of the benefits of recycling

Every ton of steel recycled makes the following savings:
40% of the Water required in production
75% of the Energy needed to make steel from virgin material
1.28 tons of Solid Waste
Reduction of Air emissions by 86%
Reduction of Water pollution by 76%
&
Every ton of Aluminium recycled makes the following savings:
6 tons of Bauxite
4 tons of Chemical Product
14MWh of Electricity
It takes 70% less Energy to recycle Plastics
It takes 40% less Energy to recycle Glass

As of now Earth Sense Recycle Pvt. Ltd., is running its units successfully in Delhi, Bombay, Hyderabad, Bangalore and are motivated to setup their branches in Kerala and Chennai soon.

How they do it:
They buy this e-waste from companies to common users depending upon the quantity and then they remove all the working pieces sending them to market for sale and safely recycle all the leftover unusable broken pieces in a special recycling unit which separates plastic and metals. This outcome is then sent to respective markets and sold.

"So, do you have e-waste at your home occupying your valuable space?? Then don't throw it elsewhere but safely recycle with Eco-Friendly Earth Sense."

Here is the contact list of their units in India. You can either call or email them
for information on scheduling a pick up

Delhi
Factory Address: No. 225, Sector – VI, Manesar District, Guano
Email: earthsensedelhi@gmail.com

Mumbai
Factory Address: No A7, Gala No. 213, Ground Floor Prerana Complex,
Anjurbhata, Dapada Road, Val Village, Thane, Mumbai
Email: earthsenserecycle@yahoo.com

Hyderabad
Factory Address: NO: 37,APIIC Industrial Park, Mankhal, Maheshwaram Mandal, Rangareddy, Dist. Hyderabad
Email: earthsenserecycle@yahoo.com

Bangalore (Our Joint Venture Partner)
Factory Address: Plot No. 30 – P3, KIADB, Dobaspet Industrial Area, Bangalore Rural District
Email: recycle@ewasteindia.com

Continue Reading >>Recycle your e-waste @ Earth Sense

Mini-mode feature of Windows Media player helps you to quickly and easily access the player even when it is minimized.

Mini-mode of Windows Media Player

In the mini-mode you can go to Quick Access Panel, Play/Pause, Stop, Switch to Previous & Next in the now playing list, Mute or adjust the volume, Show/Hide Video and Visualization window and you also have the option to restore to the maximized state.

To enable this mini-mode feature of Windows Media player,

--> Right-click on an empty area of the taskbar, point to Toolbars, and then select Windows Media Player.

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For all the netizens out there password is just as important as passport. But are you using that password securely? These are the few tips to protect your password and making it far secure from being hacked.

Keep Away from Guessing

A password should be easily memorable to you, at the same time should be like a sudoku puzzle for others. Using a weak password makes it easily guessed by a hacker. Now, this discussion leads us to the question of what exactly is like a weak password.

Foremost thing is, a password is not a password at all when it is like a name.
Whether it may be pet names, names of family members, first names etc., all come under weak passwords.

"password" is a bad password

The extremely common and the weakest password of all is "password" itself.
So never try to use password as your password and be susceptible to attack.

Here is the exhaustive list of Most Common Passwords used. If your password happened to be in this list, go change it right now...

1) password
2) 12345
3) qwerty, asdf and other keyboard rolls
4) abc123
5) letmein
6) monkey
7) admin
8) sex
9) love
10) god
11) myspace1
12) password1
13) money
14) blink182
15) country/city of origin

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A good/secure password should include alphanumeric and symbols and is more than 8 letters long. Its even better if you use lowercase and uppercase alphabets.

Now lets consider the Do's & Dont's for keeping your password safe

Dont's

1) Do not send passwords via email , if its that imp. you can use privnote.

2) Do not type your password in presence of others and better don't talk about it either.

3) Never use login id as your password

4) Do not select Remember Password/Save my Password options popping in the browser window while giving login id and password

5) Better don't use the same password for everything.

Do's

1) Change your password once in while

2) Practice your password to be easily typed, with the lack of which leads the guy watching you to know your password easily when you are typing it searching for keys.

3) As said earlier make sure you password is more than 8 letters long containing alpha numeric, symbols and upper/lower case alphabet.


Hope this Helps....

Continue Reading >>Is Your Password Secure??

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Blind people or those having poor eye sight cannot learn alphabet as easily as others do by copy writing. For those guys someone has to make them write and with the movement of the hand they can learn. This herculean task is now made easy by a RoboPen named PHANTOM OMNI.

Its a Haptic device which simulates a pen in 3D free space with the help of a software called VTK Designer.It is developed by SensAble Technologies which is a company evolved from undergraduate research done at MIT in the 1990s by industry pioneers Thomas Massie and Dr. Kenneth Salisbury, and is headquartered in Woburn, MA. It can be well used to guide the hands of the blind to make them learn not only alphabet but any piece of drawing. When tested on 8 blind students, within 20min of practice they could easily write.

In the real world the user holds in his/her hand a pen attached to a mechanical arm placed on the top of the desk. The arm design enables the user to maneuver without being disturbed by the equipment weight.The physical pen being held by the user is translated into its virtual counterpart rendered on the screen.The virtual pen follows the movements of the physical one and when the virtual pen collides with virtual objects appropriate forces are sent to the physical pen and its guides the user accordingly. It can also alarm the user by sending audio signals on how and where to steer the pen.

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Due to it's unique feature Optoma Pico PK-101 Pocket Projector can be considered as the coolest gadget of the year 2008.






This 4.1 inch gizmo is capable of projecting your favorite images or media files sharply on the wall or on any plane surface as close as 8 inches and as distant as 8 feet away, even in daylight. All you have to do is just plug it into your iPod or iPhone.

It weighs 4 ounces including the battery and is smaller and lighter than many cell phone. It is equipped with a rechargeable battery that lasts for 1.5 hours. According to some user reviews the sound output is somewhat dinky but it is not a problem when you are using it with headphones or Bluetooth Speakers.

Moreover it not that expensive either.
You can buy it from Amazon.com for just $399.


Just Go for it!! You will be glad you did.

Continue Reading >>Gadget that James Bond is Most Likely To Carry

Spam mail is well known to all email users. Targeting this spam on a large scale on a network and making it to halt is nothing but Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS). The name distributed is give coz the attack is done from different computers. This attack can be performed on a Routing web, E-mail, Domain name system servers etc.,

A DDoS attack causes different types of loses to the network. The foremost effect is the denial of any further traffic to the network because of the overload.Unable to cope with the huge incoming traffic which is much more than the victim's handling capacity, the servers usually give up their service and get to an halt and won't let any more traffic or request to that network.


This attack can also be done targeting on some particular sites making it inaccessible for some users under a network. DDoS attack was first traced in 1998 and now a days its a common thing happening on internet. Especially hackers and political hatred people perform this attack intending to destroy a company's site or organization. If done on a large scale with careful and precise coordination it can swipe away entire internet facility of a country.

Once DDoS attack has happened its very difficult to overcome it. So its better to fight it easy way before its started. As prevention is better than cure, its easy to prevent DDoS attack from happening by having a close check on the heavy traffic. Its better to stop the heavy spam traffic coming to the network before it overloads the network and destroys its stability and thus cause DDoS. Internet service providers are of a great help to overcome this DDoS attack.

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Internet users are well familiar with this Smiley.Its used as a greeting in most of the net friendships and especially in chatting. This emoticon of a smiling face is more than 25 years old.


The original smiley and frowney emoticons which are most commonly used to signify a facial expression or emotions were invented by Scott Fahlman at CMU in 1982.
(Hey! This is 3 years older than me!)

Over the years this Smiley has gone through many incarnations but it consistently retained the same features like eyes, a mouth and occasionally a nose.

Although the first emoticons were limited to Smiley and few others, now hundreds of emoticons have been introduced for conveying almost all the emotions and facial expressions possible.

From the proposed hundreds of emotions, only few are in common use by most people. These include:

:-) ‘smiley face’ or 'happy face'
(for humor, laughter, friendliness, occasionally sarcasm)

:-( ‘frowney face’ (for sadness, anger, or upset)

;-) ‘half-smiley’ ; also known as semi-smiley or winkey face.


:-/ ‘wry face’ or 'confused'

Having the specialty of conveying emotions that cannot be easily expressed in words these emoticons have won the hearts of millions all over the world.

Yahoo survey
Few years back Yahoo conducted a survey among 40000 yahoo-messenger users which gave path to the following interesting facts on emoticons.

1) 85% of people daily use emoticons in their messages.

2) 83% of messenger users use ‘smiley face’ or 'happy face' closely followed by flirting to express happiness.

3) Survey says that 50% are interested in using emoticons to express Love.

4) 57% use emoticons to express anger.

5) Even for marriage proposals these emoticons are being used by 10% of netizens.

6) Emoticons are the favorites to the youngsters of age group 18-25. This doesn't mean elderly people are not preferring them coz the survey also reveals that 48% of netizens aged above 50years are fans of emotions.

But its often said that overuse of the smiley or other emoticons is a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that you've gone over the line.
So use them wisely.

Continue Reading >>Emoticon of a Smiling Face | Smiley :-)