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Print this articleOne of the many wonders of the world wide web is Picasa Web Album, and I think everyone should have an account. It is both an online-tool and a FREE downloadable, client-side tool made by Google, allowing you to easily upload photos. I for one find it really easy to use, I think Google tools are built that way. One can quickly use those photos for other online websites like blogs and the like. I use it to store my personal private photo library too. 1. 10GB for $20/year  2. At the upper left corner you'd see My Photos, My Favorites, & My Public Gallery. You can click any of these links when you've got photos uploaded into your account.
3. To begin uploading your first sets of photos, click the upload button on the upper-right side of the website.  4. You then must first choose to create a new album and/or to upload your photo into an existing album.  5. And the fifth step is to choose the actual photos and clickOK/Upload. Courtesy: pcpandit.com |
By Claudine Beaumont
It was only meant to be a prototype. But 40 years after the computer mouse first scrolled its way into the public consciousness, new touch-screen technology could be about to consign the mouse to the annals of history.
The computer mouse was the creation of Doug Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute in California, who needed a simple way of controlling their computers. The result was a carved wooden block mounted on wheels, with a long cable trailing out the back. One researcher nicknamed it a mouse, and the moniker stuck.
"We thought that when it had escaped out to the world it would have a more dignified name," said Mr Engelbart. "But it didn't."
The mouse made its debut at a presentation in San Francisco in 1968 to show off a working network computer system. Before the invention of the mouse, people working on computers used a light pen, similar to those wielded by radar operators during the war, to navigate around on screen. The research team at the Institute set about finding an alternative, and went through a range of designs before finally settling on the mouse.
"We set up our experiments and the mouse won in every category, even though it had never been used before," said Mr Engelbart. "It was faster, and with it people made fewer mistakes. Five or six of us were involved in these tests, but no one can remember who started calling it a mouse. I'm surprised the name stuck."
The mouse was developed by Xerox during the 1970s, and the first commercial product was released in 1981 with the launch of the Xerox Star computer system. But it wasn't until Apple acquired the license for the mouse for $40,000 from the Standford Institute that the technology really took off. The Apple Macintosh, launched in 1984, used the mouse to good effect, and is the machine widely credited with kick-starting the home computer revolution. The mouse became the default input method on most computers for the next two decades.
However, it faces stiff competition from new technology such as gesture control and touch-screen interfaces. Apple's iPhone mobile phone has shown people the power and potential of touch-screens, and the Nintendo Wii demonstrates the simplicity of natural gestures. Companies such as HP have already started building computers that rely on touch-sensitive monitors rather than a mouse, and Microsoft, too, is experimenting with new user interfaces. Its Surface computer is a touch-screen tablet which responds to natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects.
"I very much doubt we'll be using a mouse in 40 years' time," Steve Prentice, an analyst at Gartner Research, told the Observer.
Mr Engelbart, 83, did not make a fortune from his creation, however. The patent he had on the device ran out shortly before Apple launched it to a wider audience, meaning he received no royalties for his invention. However, in 1998 he finally received recognition for his innovative design when the then president, Bill Clinton, awarded him the National Medal of Technology for creating the foundations of modern computing.
Courtesy: telegraph.co.uk
By Jenny Huntington
After a mission that spread over 15 days on NASA’s International Space Station (ISS), space shuttle Endeavour landed safely in California on Sunday.
Although it had been previously scheduled to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:18 p.m. EST, due to stormy weather Endeavour had to reroute and thus landed at Edwards Air Force Base at 4:25 p.m. EST.
The shuttle’s crew comprising seven astronauts led by commander Christopher Ferguson performed repairs on the ISS and upgraded its living quarters so that it would be capable of hosting a number of six residents instead of three. Consequently, Endeavour delivered to the space station a new bathroom, a kitchenette, an exercise machine, two sleeping quarters, a refrigerator and a recycling system that turns astronauts’ urine and sweat intro drinking water.
Moreover, last Monday, astronauts Stephen Bowen and Robert "Shane" Kimbrough performed Endeavour’s forth and final spacewalk, aimed at unjamming a massive joint that was supposed to render the power-generating solar wings on the space station's right side to face the sun. The faulty joint had resulted in limiting the amount of energy the wings produced, since it prevented them from rotating towards the sun.
Astronauts also fixed and lubricated a similar joint on the ISS’s left solar wings.
Unjamming the joint on the right solar wings had been attempted by astronauts during the third spacewalk, but the lube job was left unfinished at that time, because after lead spacewalker Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper dropped a $100,000 tool kit, the astronauts had to work with only one pair of grease guns.
The Endeavour crew also installed a video camera, a spacewalk handrail and a GPS antenna during the last mission on the ISS this year.
In addition, the space shuttle brought a new resident to the ISS to replace crew member Greg Chamitoff, a 46-year-old aeronautical engineer who spent six months on the ISS.
Sandra Magnus, a 44-year-old expert in material science and engineering, experienced her first flight into the outer space and joined station commander Mike Finke and Russian flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov on the space station.
Endeavour left its docking port on the ISS at 9:48 a.m. EST on Friday and two days later, it landed smoothly on the temporary runway at Edwards Air Force Base, since the permanent one was undergoing renovations.
The temporary runway is 12,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, which makes it approximately 3,000 feet shorter and 100 feet narrower than the permanent strip.
The rerouting delayed both reunions between astronauts and their families and the return of Endeavour to its home base. The crew is set to meet with their families Monday afternoon in Houston, while the space shuttle is set to be transported to Florida on a jumbo jet within a week, which will cost $1.8 million.
Courtesy: efluxmedia.com
After a mission that spread over 15 days on NASA’s International Space Station (ISS), space shuttle Endeavour landed safely in California on Sunday.
Although it had been previously scheduled to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:18 p.m. EST, due to stormy weather Endeavour had to reroute and thus landed at Edwards Air Force Base at 4:25 p.m. EST.The shuttle’s crew comprising seven astronauts led by commander Christopher Ferguson performed repairs on the ISS and upgraded its living quarters so that it would be capable of hosting a number of six residents instead of three. Consequently, Endeavour delivered to the space station a new bathroom, a kitchenette, an exercise machine, two sleeping quarters, a refrigerator and a recycling system that turns astronauts’ urine and sweat intro drinking water.
Moreover, last Monday, astronauts Stephen Bowen and Robert "Shane" Kimbrough performed Endeavour’s forth and final spacewalk, aimed at unjamming a massive joint that was supposed to render the power-generating solar wings on the space station's right side to face the sun. The faulty joint had resulted in limiting the amount of energy the wings produced, since it prevented them from rotating towards the sun.
Astronauts also fixed and lubricated a similar joint on the ISS’s left solar wings.
Unjamming the joint on the right solar wings had been attempted by astronauts during the third spacewalk, but the lube job was left unfinished at that time, because after lead spacewalker Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper dropped a $100,000 tool kit, the astronauts had to work with only one pair of grease guns.
The Endeavour crew also installed a video camera, a spacewalk handrail and a GPS antenna during the last mission on the ISS this year.
In addition, the space shuttle brought a new resident to the ISS to replace crew member Greg Chamitoff, a 46-year-old aeronautical engineer who spent six months on the ISS.
Sandra Magnus, a 44-year-old expert in material science and engineering, experienced her first flight into the outer space and joined station commander Mike Finke and Russian flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov on the space station.
Endeavour left its docking port on the ISS at 9:48 a.m. EST on Friday and two days later, it landed smoothly on the temporary runway at Edwards Air Force Base, since the permanent one was undergoing renovations.
The temporary runway is 12,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, which makes it approximately 3,000 feet shorter and 100 feet narrower than the permanent strip.
The rerouting delayed both reunions between astronauts and their families and the return of Endeavour to its home base. The crew is set to meet with their families Monday afternoon in Houston, while the space shuttle is set to be transported to Florida on a jumbo jet within a week, which will cost $1.8 million.
Courtesy: efluxmedia.com
London: Terror attack in Mumbai has severely dented the country's image as a safest heaven for tourists.
A British report says that following the attack, India has slipped to a list of the 20 most dangerous places to visit on Earth.
UK daily The Telegraph, which prepared the list, said in an online report that the British government was currently advising against all, but essential, travel to Mumbai.
India has been listed along side countries like Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Mexico, Thailand and South Africa in this list.
Chechnya, Jamaica, Sudan, Colombia, Haiti, Eritrea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Burundi, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Lebanon have also been named among the 20 most dangerous places to visit on Earth.
Although the Foreign Office is currently advising against all, but essential, travel to Mumbai, most of the rest of India is considered safe, according to the report.
Courtesy: siliconindia.com
A British report says that following the attack, India has slipped to a list of the 20 most dangerous places to visit on Earth.
UK daily The Telegraph, which prepared the list, said in an online report that the British government was currently advising against all, but essential, travel to Mumbai.
India has been listed along side countries like Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Mexico, Thailand and South Africa in this list.
Chechnya, Jamaica, Sudan, Colombia, Haiti, Eritrea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Burundi, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Lebanon have also been named among the 20 most dangerous places to visit on Earth.
Although the Foreign Office is currently advising against all, but essential, travel to Mumbai, most of the rest of India is considered safe, according to the report.
Courtesy: siliconindia.com
By : UNI
In one of the rare programmes to be shown throughout the world, major artistes from across the globe, including Roger Waters, Bon Jovi , the Bachchans and a host of others will be seen in action in 'Live Earth' concert, aimed to raise funds for lighting over 1.6 billion unlit homes across the globe.
Organised by Wizcraft International, an event management company, the show, to be held at the Andheri Sports center here, would be open to 25,000 fans besides hundreds and thousands across the world.
Inspired by the earlier Live Earth show in 2007, the event would be hosted by former US Vice President Al Gore and TERI Chairperson R K Pachauri to highlight to the world the problems in climate change and to underscore the fact that the people of the world live under one climate, Sabbas Joseph, Director of Wizcraft, told UNI here.
Starting from 1600 hrs, the event is likely to go on till 2200 hrs on that day with Iconic star Amitabh Bachchan joined by the team that was with him in the recent Unforgettable Tour to the US, Bipasha Basu, John Abraham, singers Shan, Shankar Mahadevan and an array of over 100 artistes.
Courtesy: living.oneindia.in
Search engine giant Google has launched their SMS search service in the Indian market.
The service is free though the user would have to pay for the SMS sent from their mobile devices.
They can conduct searches without requiring an internet package on their mobile devices.
They just have to send the query on 9773300000 mobile number and they get the answer through an SMS message itself.
This search service is not useful to conduct web searches. Instead, it can be used to find out information like movies and eating joints in the locality you are in.
For example, you can send an SMS to the number with the message ‘movie name location’. The service would respond back with the show times in theaters in that area.
It can be used with various parameters including weather information, restaurants, train schedules, currency conversions and calculations.
The service is free though the user would have to pay for the SMS sent from their mobile devices.
They can conduct searches without requiring an internet package on their mobile devices.
They just have to send the query on 9773300000 mobile number and they get the answer through an SMS message itself.
This search service is not useful to conduct web searches. Instead, it can be used to find out information like movies and eating joints in the locality you are in.
For example, you can send an SMS to the number with the message ‘movie name location’. The service would respond back with the show times in theaters in that area.
It can be used with various parameters including weather information, restaurants, train schedules, currency conversions and calculations.
Courtesy: news.techwhack.com
Online retailer Infibeam.com is rumoured to be in talks with a Bangalore based photo printing company regarding a potential buyout. The photo printing company is a market leader in online customized / personalized gifts space. Infibeam.com is yet to disclose the terms of deal.
Within a year Infibeam.com has grown immensely from an auto portal into a full fledged online shopping site. Infibeam.com will have several reasons to celebrate if the proposed buyout goes through. Adding customized goods to their retail selection would be a significant step towards becoming an online giant in India.
Infibeam's already large selection of books, mobiles, electronics, beauty, jewellery, watches, home appliances & decor with the added option of personalization would mean infinite selection for their customers. In addition, customized gifts like photos, greeting cards, photo books, printed t-shirts will perfectly complement their Apparel, Camera & Gift stores.
Within a year Infibeam.com has grown immensely from an auto portal into a full fledged online shopping site. Infibeam.com will have several reasons to celebrate if the proposed buyout goes through. Adding customized goods to their retail selection would be a significant step towards becoming an online giant in India.
Infibeam's already large selection of books, mobiles, electronics, beauty, jewellery, watches, home appliances & decor with the added option of personalization would mean infinite selection for their customers. In addition, customized gifts like photos, greeting cards, photo books, printed t-shirts will perfectly complement their Apparel, Camera & Gift stores.
Celebrity Birthdays
January :
01 January : Asrani , Nana Patekar, Sonali Bendre, Vidya Balan, Minissha Lamba
03 January : Sanjay Khan
05 January : A R Rehman, Deepika Padukone
07 January : Bipasha Basu, Koena Mitra
10 January : Hrithik Roshan
27 January : Bobby Deol
February :
01 February : Jackie Shroff
03 February : Deepti Naval, Waheeda Rehman
04 February : Urmila Matondkar
05 February : Abhishek Bachchan
08 February : Jagjit Singh
09 February : Rahul Roy, Amrita Singh
March :
07 March : Anupam Kher
14 March : Aamir Khan
18 March : Shashi Kapoor, Alisha Chinai
20 March : Alka Yagnik, Akshay Khanna
21 March : Rani Mukherjee
23 March : Kangana Ranaut
April :
02 April : Ajay Devgan
09 April : Jaya Bachhan
10 April : Ayesha Takia
11 April : Rohini Hattangadi
13 April : Satish Kaushik
19 April : Arshad Warsi
May :
11 May : Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Pooja Bedi
15 May : Shiney Ahuja, Madhuri Dixit
17 May : Pankaj Udhas
24 May : Rajesh Roshan
29 May : Pankaj Kapoor
30 May : Paresh Rawal
June :
04 June : Neena Gupta
05 June : Mukesh Bhatt, Viju Shah
06 June : Sunil Dutt
07 June : Ekta Kapoor
08 June : Dimple Kapadia, Shilpa Shetty
09 June : Sonam Kapoor, Celina Jaitley
16 June : Harry Baweja, Mithun Chakarborty
20 June : Neetu Chandra
22 June : Amrish Puri
23 June : Raj Babbar
25 June : Karishma Kapoor
27 June : Kunal Kapoor
July :
10 July : Aloknath
11 July : Kumar Gaurav
13 July : Madhu Sapre
16 July : Katrina Kaif
20 July : Rajendra Kumar, Naseeruddin Shah
24 July : Manoj Kumar
25 July : Rajeshwari
26 July : Jugal Hansraj, Kalpana lyer
27 July : Rahul Bose
28 July : Ayesha Jhulka
29 July : Anup Jalota, Sanjay Dutt
31 July : Sonu Nigam, Mohan Bandari
August :
02 August : Vinod Chopra
05 August : Kajol
07 August : Suresh Wadkar
10 August : Ajit Vachani
11 August : Sunil Shetty
13 August : Sridevi, Vyajantimala
14 August : Mohnish Behl, Johnny Lever
16 August : Manisha Koirala , David Dhawan, Saif Ali Khan
18 August : Aruna Irani, Gulzar
23 August : Saira Banoo
28 August : Deepak Tijori
September :
03 September : Shakti Kapoor
04 September : Adesh Srivastava, Rishi kapoor
06 September : Rakesh Roshan
08 September : Asha Bhosle
09 September : Akshay Kumar
11 September : Aditya Pancholi
12 September : Ranjeet, Vinod Rathod
13 September : Mahima Chaudhary
17 September : Shabana Azmi
20 September : Mahesh Bhatt
21 September : Gulshan Grover, Sudha Chandran
22 September : Kumar Sanu
23 September : Prem Chopra
25 September : Divya Dutta, Feroz Khan
26 September : Dev Anand, Chunky Pandey, Archana Puran Singh
28 September : Ranbir Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar
October :
02 October : Asha Parekh
06 October : Vinod Khanna
07 October : Renuka Shahane
10 October : Rekha
11 October : Amitabh Bachchan, Ronit Roy
13 October : Ashok Kumar
16 October : Hema Malani
17 October : Sanjay Kapoor, Simi Garewal
18 October : Om Puri
19 October : Sunny Deol
21 October : kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shammi Kapoor
22 October : Kader Khan
24 October : Mallika Sherawat
26 October : Raveena Tandon
30 October : Vikram Gokhale, Dilip Tahil
November :
01 November : Padmini Kolhapure, Aishwarya Rai
02 November : Shah Rukh Khan, Anu Malik
03 November : Laxmikant Berde, Swaroop Sampat
04 November : Tabu
13 November : Juhi Chawla
19 November : Dara Singh, Zeenat Aman
20 November : Shilpa Shirodkar
21 November : Helen
22 November : Saroj Khan
December :
01 December : Udit Narayan
03 December : Konkona Sen Sharma
04 December : Javed Jaffri
06 December : Shekar Kapoor
07 December : Shekhar Suman
08 December : Dharmendra
09 December : Shatrughan Sinha
10 December : Rati Agnihotri
11 December : Dilip Kumar
12 December : Rajnikant
17 December : John Abraham, Suresh Oberoi
21 December : Govinda
24 December : Anil Kapoor
1. Rule 1. - The Boss is always right.
2. If the Boss is wrong, see rule 1.
3. Those who work get more work. Others get pay, perks, and promotions.
4. Ph.D. stands for "Pull Him Down". The more intelligent a person, the more hardworking a person, the more committed a person; the more number of persons are engaged in pulling that person down.
5. If you are good, you will get all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
6.. When the Bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
7. It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've done and what you are going to do.
8. A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
9. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
10. The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
11. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it...
12. When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
13.. Following the rules will not get the job done.
14. If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
15. Everything can be filed under "Miscellaneous" .
16. No matter how much you do, you never do enough.
17. You can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work you are supposed to be doing.
18. In order to get a promotion, you need not necessarily know your job.
19. In order to get a promotion, you only need to pretend that you know your job.
20. The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.
2. If the Boss is wrong, see rule 1.
3. Those who work get more work. Others get pay, perks, and promotions.
4. Ph.D. stands for "Pull Him Down". The more intelligent a person, the more hardworking a person, the more committed a person; the more number of persons are engaged in pulling that person down.
5. If you are good, you will get all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
6.. When the Bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
7. It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've done and what you are going to do.
8. A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
9. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
10. The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
11. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it...
12. When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
13.. Following the rules will not get the job done.
14. If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
15. Everything can be filed under "Miscellaneous" .
16. No matter how much you do, you never do enough.
17. You can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work you are supposed to be doing.
18. In order to get a promotion, you need not necessarily know your job.
19. In order to get a promotion, you only need to pretend that you know your job.
20. The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.
1. Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
2. In Tokyo , a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
3. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
4. Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
5. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
6. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
7. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
8. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
9. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
10. Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
11. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
12. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
13. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
14. One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
15. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
16. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia !
17. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
18. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
19. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
20. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
21. The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
22. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
23. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
24. It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States !
25. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
26. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
27. Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada !
28. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
29. Most lipstick contains fish scales!
30. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
31. One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
32. It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis !
33. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
34. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
35. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
36. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
37. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building !
38. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
39. Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
40. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
41. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
42. Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
43. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
44. Porcupines float in water!
45. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
46. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
47. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
48. The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
49. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable" !
50. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
51. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
52. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
53. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
54. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
55. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
56. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
57. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
58. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
59. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe !
a. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons! 60. Slugs have 4 noses!
61. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
62. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
63. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
64. The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
65. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland !
66. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
67. Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
68. There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
69. Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
70. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
71. Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
72. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter. "!
73. Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate!
74. A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
75. The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!
76. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
77. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
78. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
79. Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
80. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
81. More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
82. In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
83. Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
84. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
85. In England , in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
86. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
87. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
88. The average person laughs 13 times a day!
89. Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
90. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
91. It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
92. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
93. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
94. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
95. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States !
96. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
97. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
98. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
99. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
100. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
101. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
102. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
103. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
104. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
105. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
106. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
107. The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
108. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
The Indian batsman, making his 152nd Test appearance, guided the first ball after tea down to third-man for three to move beyond Lara’s total of 11,953 runs.
Tendulkar had arrived at the crease in mid-afternoon with India well set on 146-2.
He needed just 15 to surpass Lara - his great West Indian contemporary - but quickly lost two partners, Gautam Gambhir and VVS Laxman, at the other end.
That prompted a period of rebuilding in the company of Sourav Ganguly with Tendulkar agonisingly two runs shy of the record on 13 not out at tea.
But he wasted no time after the break, easing Peter Siddle’s first delivery for three to spark jubilant scenes and a firework display.
Tendulkar went on to contribute 88 off 111 balls before edging Australia’s debutant seamer Siddle to slip late in the day to leave his overall tally at 12,027.
“It has taken me 19 years to get the record,” said Tendulkar, who made his debut in 1989 as a 16-year-old.
“It can’t happen overnight.
“It has been a fantastic journey. There have been ups and downs in the process of success.”
Country-wise break-up of Tendulkar’s runs:Tendulkar had arrived at the crease in mid-afternoon with India well set on 146-2.
He needed just 15 to surpass Lara - his great West Indian contemporary - but quickly lost two partners, Gautam Gambhir and VVS Laxman, at the other end.
That prompted a period of rebuilding in the company of Sourav Ganguly with Tendulkar agonisingly two runs shy of the record on 13 not out at tea.
But he wasted no time after the break, easing Peter Siddle’s first delivery for three to spark jubilant scenes and a firework display.
Tendulkar went on to contribute 88 off 111 balls before edging Australia’s debutant seamer Siddle to slip late in the day to leave his overall tally at 12,027.
“It has taken me 19 years to get the record,” said Tendulkar, who made his debut in 1989 as a 16-year-old.
“It can’t happen overnight.
“It has been a fantastic journey. There have been ups and downs in the process of success.”
| Opponents | T | I | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | 100 | 50 | 0 |
| New Zealand | 16 | 27 | 5 | 1062 | 217 | 48.27 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| Sri Lanka | 19 | 27 | 2 | 1408 | 148 | 56.32 | 7 | 3 | - |
| West Indies | 16 | 25 | 2 | 1328 | 179 | 57.73 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 14 | 2 | 918 | 201 | 76.50 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Pakistan | 18 | 27 | 2 | 1057 | 194* | 42.28 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| South Africa | 20 | 36 | 2 | 1202 | 169 | 35.35 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| Australia | 27 | 50 | 5 | 2502 | 241* | 55.60 | 9 | 10 | 4 |
| Bangladesh | 5 | 6 | 2 | 556 | 248* | 139.00 | 3 | - | - |
| England | 22 | 35 | 3 | 1994 | 193 | 62.31 | 6 | 10 | - |
| Total: | 152 | 247 | 25 | 12027 | 248* | 54.17 | 39 | 50 | 14 |
| Home: | 65 | 106 | 11 | 5206 | 217 | 54.80 | 16 | 22 | 4 |
| Away: | 87 | 141 | 14 | 6821 | 248* | 53.70 | 23 | 28 | 10 |
Guinness World Records Book Launches 2009 edition the global Best Seller Returns with Remarkable New Records, All Exclusive Photography and a 3D Perspective!
On 17th September 2008, Guinness World Records releases the 2009 edition of the internationally revered bestseller in the first-ever worldwide launch.
54 years and counting, the globally acclaimed book surpassed Jamie Oliver and Russell Brand during nine consecutive weeks at # 1 on the UK best-seller list in 2007. This year, Guinness World Records 2009 hits the scene even bigger and better than its predecessor with thousands of new and updated records, unique photogra
phy and - for the first time ever - 3D special features. In an eclectic mix of content, the upcoming edition remains loyal to old favourites Tallest Living Man, epic journeys such as Fastest Round the World Cycle and record-breaking athleticism The Men’s 100 m, while introducing eye-catching new features such as life-size gatefolds of the new Shortest Man, 3D dinosaurs and pictures, and record sections devoted solely to Harry Potter and celebrities in the “Hollywood Hall of Fame”.
Among pages of brand new achievements, Guinness World Records presents updates on many of its classic records. The 2009 edition reveals Edna Parker (US) as the Oldest Living Person (114 years and 115 days); 105-year old Edith Gulliford (UK) as the Oldest Bridesmaid; and for canine lovers, the Longest Dog, Irish Wolfhound Mon Ami von der Oelmühle, with an impressive nose-to-tail-tip length of 232 cm (91.3 in).
In the cinematic arena, a number of high calibre stars achieved amazing feats. Samuel L Jackson set the record for the Highest Grossing Actor with a whopping 68 movies at a total gross of $7.42 billion (£3.94 billion). Fans of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp (both
Meanwhile, Jolie’s husband (and Aniston’s ex) Brad Pitt topples Tom Cruise as Most Powerful Actor, clearly crowning “Brangelina”
From the world of television, the new edition recognizes Lost (ABC) as the Most Downloaded Show of all time, however, in a bizarre record twist it loses its title for Most Popular TV Show to hospital drama House (Fox), starring Hugh Laurie (UK) as the unconventional maverick Dr Gregory.
In the world of music, fallen pop princess Britney Spears once again creates headlines as she beats party pal Paris Hilton as the Most Searched Person on the Internet. The
The Sugababes’ single ‘About You Now’ became the First Track by a British Pop Act to Top the Singles Chart solely on the strength of download sales and broke long standing record Biggest Chart Mover to the No.1 Position in the UK jumping from No. 35 to top spot beating previous record Captian Sensible’s ‘Happy Talk’ from 1982. X Factor winner Leona Lewis seized the spot for Best Selling Debut Album in the UK in One Week by a Female with her debut album Spirit, also creating another new record for Fastest Selling Album to Reach 1 Million Copies in the UK by a Female Artist.
Singer and tabloid favourite Amy Wine house made it into Guinness World Records 2009 through her achievement for the Most Grammy Awards Won by a British female Act as she took home five of the six awards that she was nominated for at the annual LA Grammy Awards show in 2008. However, it’s not just the rising stars of the
Sir Paul McCartney became the Most Successful Songwriter who has written/co written 188 charted records, of which 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to No.1 totalling 1,662 weeks on the chart (up to the beginning of 2008)
Those who count on Guinness World Records to deliver the wacky, weird and bizarre will not be disappointed! This year’s edition includes the world record for the Youngest Club DJ(7 years and 98 days) the Most Breast Milk Donated by 1 Person (135.5 litres), the Largest Underwater Press Conference (61 journalists) and the Most Dangerous Cheese to human health, Casu Marzu (''rotten cheese'').
The 2009 Edition also presents a special feature devoted solely to the international phenomenon known as Guinness World Records Day. This day celebrates the anniversary of Guinness World Records officially becoming the biggest best selling copyright book of all time. Last year more than 100,000 people united across the globe to break records and make their mark in Guinness World Records history. This section of the book highlights all of the new achievements recorded on this day in 2007 and provides information on how to get involved with Guinness World Records Day 2008 on 13th November.
Source: Guinness World Records,
1954 - Tata launched its first Mercedes Benz diesel truck, Telco.
1958 - India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, walks through the apprentice shop at Jamshedpur.
1965 - The owner of the first Mercedes Benz diesel truck, Sardar Kartar singh is presented with the key of the 1,00,000th truck.
1969 - Employees cheer as the first Tata branded truck rolls out, ending the collaboration with D aimler Benz, Germany.
1977 - Tata manufactures its first commercial vehicle at its plant in Pune.
1986 - Tata launches its first light commercial vehicle from Telco, the Tata 407.
1992 - Tata Estate, Telco's second passenger vehicle launched by JR D Tata and Ratan Tata.
1994 - Tata Motors released its multi-utility car, Tata Sumo in the year 1994. After that, there was no stopping the car manufacturing unit.
1998 - Ratan Tata drives the first Tata Indica off the assembly line.
1998 - Tata Motors produced an SUV, Tata Safari. It was the first SUV to be designed, developed and manufactured entirely in India .
2002 - Tata introduced India 's most competitive indigenous sedan, the Indigo.
2004 - Tata Motors acquires D aewoo Commercial Vehicle Company, South Korea . The first range of Tata Novus vehicles from Tata D aewoo is launched soon after.
2004 - Tata Motors starts its globalisation drive and launches the Tata Indica in South Africa.
2008 - Tata Motors launched the most-awaited car of the year, its one-lakh car called Nano, at the 9th Auto Expo.
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(1) The Woman Who has 200 Orgasms every day
UK's Sarah Carmen, 24, is a 200-a-day orgasm girl who gets good, good, GOOD vibrations from almost anything. She suffers from Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS), which increases blood flow to the sex organs. "Sometimes I have so much sex to try to calm myself down I get bored of it. And men I sleep with don't seem to make as much effort because I climax so easily."
She believes her condition was brought on by the pills. "Within a few weeks I just began to get more and more aroused more and more of the time and I just kept having endless orgasms. It started off in bed where sex sessions would last for hours and my boyfriend would be stunned at how many times I would orgasm. Then it would happen after sex. I'd be thinking about what we'd done in bed and I'd start feeling a bit flushed, then I'd become aroused and climax. In six months I was having 150 orgasms a day—and it has been as many as 200."
She and her boyfriend split— and new partners struggle to keep up with her sex demands. "Often, I'll want to wear myself out by having as many orgasms as I can so they stop and I can get some peace," she said.
(2) The Man Who Can't Get Fat
Mr Perry, 59, can eat whatever he likes - including unlimited pies, burgers and desserts - and never get fat. He cannot put on weight because of a condition called lipodystrophy that makes his body rapidly burn fat.
He used to be a chubby child, but at age 12 the fat dropped off "almost over night". He initially tried to eat more to gain weight, but it had no effect. Mr Perry, of Ilford in Essex, endured a decade of tests before the illness was diagnosed. It finally emerged that his body produces six times the normal level of insulin. Doctors have admitted that the condition would be a "slimmer's dream".
(3) The Man Who Doesn't Feel Cold
Dutchman Wim Hof, also known as the Iceman, is the man that swam under ice, and stood in bins filled with ice. He climbed the Mt. Blanc in shorts in the icy cold, harvested world records and always stands for new challenges.
Scientists can't really explain it, but the 48-year-old Dutchman is able to withstand, and even thrive, in temperatures that could be fatal to the average person.
(4) The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep: stayed awake 24 hours a day for years
Rhett Lamb is often cranky like any other 3-year-old toddler, but there's one thing that makes him completely different: he has a rare medical condition in which he can't sleep a wink.
Rhett is awake nearly 24 hours a day, and his condition has baffled his parents and doctors for years. They took clock shifts watching his every sleep-deprived mood to determine what ailed the young boy.
After a number of conflicting opinions, Shannon and David Lamb finally learned what was wrong with their child: Doctors diagnosed Rhett with an extremely rare condition called chiari malformation.
"The brain literally is squeezed into the spinal column. What happens is you get compression, squeezing, strangulating of the brain stem, which has all the vital functions that control sleep, speech, our cranial nerves, our circulatory system, even our breathing system," Savard said.
(5) The Girl Who is Allergic to Water
Teenager Ashleigh Morris can't go swimming, soak in a hot bath or enjoy a shower after a stressful day's work - she's allergic to water. Even sweating brings the 19-year-old out in a painful rash.
Ashleigh, from Melbourne, Australia, is allergic to water of any temperature, a condition she's lived with since she was 14. She suffers from an extremely rare skin disorder called Aquagenic Urticaria - so unusual that only a handful of cases are documented worldwide.
(6) The Woman Who Can't Forget
That's the story of AJ, an extraordinary 40-year-old married woman who remembers everything.
McGaugh and fellow UCI researchers Larry Cahill and Elizabeth Parker have been studying the extraordinary case of a person who has "nonstop, uncontrollable and automatic" memory of her personal history and countless public events. If you randomly pick a date from the past 25 years and ask her about it, she'll usually provide elaborate, verifiable details about what happened to her that day and if there were any significant news events on topics that interested her. She usually also recalls what day of the week it was and what the weather was like.
The 40-year-old woman, who was given the code name AJ to protect her privacy, is so unusual that UCI coined a name for her condition in a recent issue of the journal Neurocase: hyperthymestic syndrome.
(7) The Girl Who Eats Only Tic Tacs
Meet Natalie Cooper, a 17-year-old teenager who has a mystery illness that makes her sick every time she eats anything. Well, almost anything. She can eat one thing that doesn't make her sick: Tic tac mint!
For reasons that doctors are unable to explain, Tic tacs are the only thing she can stomach, meaning she has to get the rest of her sustenance from a specially formulated feed through a tube.
(8) The Musician Who Can't Stop Hiccupping
Chris Sands, 24, from Lincoln, hiccups as often as every two seconds - and sometimes even when he is asleep. He has tried a variety of cures, including hypnosis and yoga, but nothing has worked. Mr Sands thinks his problem stems from an acid reflux condition caused by a damaged valve in his stomach. "If the acid levels are severe enough they are going to do keyhole surgery and grab part of my stomach and wrap it around the valve to tighten it," he said.
Mr Sands, who is a backing singer in the group Ebullient, said the condition has hampered his career as he has only been able to perform four times. In the next couple of weeks --as of the day of the report--, doctors at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre will put a tube into his stomach to monitor acid levels and decide if keyhole surgery is possible.
(9) The Girl That Collapses Every Time She Laughs
Kay Underwood, 20, has cataplexy, which means that almost any sort of strong emotion triggers a dramatic weakening of her muscles.
UK's Sarah Carmen, 24, is a 200-a-day orgasm girl who gets good, good, GOOD vibrations from almost anything. She suffers from Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS), which increases blood flow to the sex organs. "Sometimes I have so much sex to try to calm myself down I get bored of it. And men I sleep with don't seem to make as much effort because I climax so easily."
She believes her condition was brought on by the pills. "Within a few weeks I just began to get more and more aroused more and more of the time and I just kept having endless orgasms. It started off in bed where sex sessions would last for hours and my boyfriend would be stunned at how many times I would orgasm. Then it would happen after sex. I'd be thinking about what we'd done in bed and I'd start feeling a bit flushed, then I'd become aroused and climax. In six months I was having 150 orgasms a day—and it has been as many as 200."
She and her boyfriend split— and new partners struggle to keep up with her sex demands. "Often, I'll want to wear myself out by having as many orgasms as I can so they stop and I can get some peace," she said.
(2) The Man Who Can't Get Fat
Mr Perry, 59, can eat whatever he likes - including unlimited pies, burgers and desserts - and never get fat. He cannot put on weight because of a condition called lipodystrophy that makes his body rapidly burn fat.
He used to be a chubby child, but at age 12 the fat dropped off "almost over night". He initially tried to eat more to gain weight, but it had no effect. Mr Perry, of Ilford in Essex, endured a decade of tests before the illness was diagnosed. It finally emerged that his body produces six times the normal level of insulin. Doctors have admitted that the condition would be a "slimmer's dream".
(3) The Man Who Doesn't Feel Cold
Dutchman Wim Hof, also known as the Iceman, is the man that swam under ice, and stood in bins filled with ice. He climbed the Mt. Blanc in shorts in the icy cold, harvested world records and always stands for new challenges.
Scientists can't really explain it, but the 48-year-old Dutchman is able to withstand, and even thrive, in temperatures that could be fatal to the average person.
(4) The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep: stayed awake 24 hours a day for years
Rhett Lamb is often cranky like any other 3-year-old toddler, but there's one thing that makes him completely different: he has a rare medical condition in which he can't sleep a wink.
Rhett is awake nearly 24 hours a day, and his condition has baffled his parents and doctors for years. They took clock shifts watching his every sleep-deprived mood to determine what ailed the young boy.
After a number of conflicting opinions, Shannon and David Lamb finally learned what was wrong with their child: Doctors diagnosed Rhett with an extremely rare condition called chiari malformation.
"The brain literally is squeezed into the spinal column. What happens is you get compression, squeezing, strangulating of the brain stem, which has all the vital functions that control sleep, speech, our cranial nerves, our circulatory system, even our breathing system," Savard said.
(5) The Girl Who is Allergic to Water
Teenager Ashleigh Morris can't go swimming, soak in a hot bath or enjoy a shower after a stressful day's work - she's allergic to water. Even sweating brings the 19-year-old out in a painful rash.
Ashleigh, from Melbourne, Australia, is allergic to water of any temperature, a condition she's lived with since she was 14. She suffers from an extremely rare skin disorder called Aquagenic Urticaria - so unusual that only a handful of cases are documented worldwide.
(6) The Woman Who Can't Forget
That's the story of AJ, an extraordinary 40-year-old married woman who remembers everything.
McGaugh and fellow UCI researchers Larry Cahill and Elizabeth Parker have been studying the extraordinary case of a person who has "nonstop, uncontrollable and automatic" memory of her personal history and countless public events. If you randomly pick a date from the past 25 years and ask her about it, she'll usually provide elaborate, verifiable details about what happened to her that day and if there were any significant news events on topics that interested her. She usually also recalls what day of the week it was and what the weather was like.
The 40-year-old woman, who was given the code name AJ to protect her privacy, is so unusual that UCI coined a name for her condition in a recent issue of the journal Neurocase: hyperthymestic syndrome.
(7) The Girl Who Eats Only Tic Tacs
Meet Natalie Cooper, a 17-year-old teenager who has a mystery illness that makes her sick every time she eats anything. Well, almost anything. She can eat one thing that doesn't make her sick: Tic tac mint!
For reasons that doctors are unable to explain, Tic tacs are the only thing she can stomach, meaning she has to get the rest of her sustenance from a specially formulated feed through a tube.
(8) The Musician Who Can't Stop Hiccupping
Chris Sands, 24, from Lincoln, hiccups as often as every two seconds - and sometimes even when he is asleep. He has tried a variety of cures, including hypnosis and yoga, but nothing has worked. Mr Sands thinks his problem stems from an acid reflux condition caused by a damaged valve in his stomach. "If the acid levels are severe enough they are going to do keyhole surgery and grab part of my stomach and wrap it around the valve to tighten it," he said.
Mr Sands, who is a backing singer in the group Ebullient, said the condition has hampered his career as he has only been able to perform four times. In the next couple of weeks --as of the day of the report--, doctors at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre will put a tube into his stomach to monitor acid levels and decide if keyhole surgery is possible.
(9) The Girl That Collapses Every Time She Laughs
Kay Underwood, 20, has cataplexy, which means that almost any sort of strong emotion triggers a dramatic weakening of her muscles.