Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Change the background picture of your google search












Saw the background image feature of google search? if not try that.

Yes, the google web back ground can be changed.. I've done that..

If you are wondering hoew to change the web search background use the link on the left bottom.

Monday, June 28, 2010

New building for Infopark; Athulya opened by Chief Minister

Infopark's new building, Athulya was inaugarated by Mr. V. S. Achuthanandan, the cheif minister of Kerala, India on last day. This Information Technology Park(Info Park) is the second initiative of Kerala Government in the field of Information Technology after technopark, Trivandrum, and already houses some of the big names in the industry. The chief minister also opened the 2.4 KM infopark express high way, that links the technology park to the sea port airport road.

Situated on 7.1 acres of land in Infopark SEZ, Athulya has a total built-up area of 5.5 lakh square feet and can house a software development block (with an area of 3.5 lakh square feet), a cafeteria building (with an area of 0.50 lakh square feet), and multi-level car parking facility (300 cars). With a total seating capacity of 4000, Athulya will have a total of 10 elevators (8 for the software development blocks and 2 for the cafeteria). With an average floor plate size of 50000 sq. ft. Athulya also boasts of facilities such as incubation centers; training rooms; direct four-lane connectivity road ...etc.
More info on the facility of athulya in infopark can be found out in Kerala Information technology's blog.. in the function a mention on the smartcity issue also came up.

image courtesy : The Hindu

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Technology updates

Here are some quick technology updates in this technical blog..

1. Google updated google interface.. But wait, its for the ipad. - and the change - full view of the compose window with no distraction with messages in the side showing the inbox

- Source: craig wilkinson(he is an SE with google mobile) in his post in google mobile blog

2. Mobile devices will be spotted with adobes latest release on Flash player (version 10.1 for mobile)

3. A couple of months back IRCTC released a beta version of their portal irctc.co.in. make sure that you try it (A little buggy for me though) the search is easy with all the available classes showing and even the print out of the ticket is neat. - wish to try? use the flashing beta banner on the top left of the site.

4. Black berry have a small set back with standard chartered bank replacing it's black berry devices with (so called) more advanced tools called iphone.


Off beat: Processor/ Chip giant AMD have started marketing its 12 core processors widely. A cute little ad appeared in Economic times with a kid holding weight and asking what is overloading!
An attractive and full page one!



Update: How did I missed the wordpress 3.0 ?


Wednesday, June 16, 2010

CAP Flying Scholorship details.

$2500 worth Aerospace Leadership Scholarship(For CAP[Civil Air patrol] - 2011) to be awarded to make sure that dreams take a flight. Spaatz Association have started to invite applications and the dead line is Sep 30th. Details can be found in http://www.natcapwg.cap.gov. The flyer is also available there to download.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Blogger Design : Template designer

Blogger design template designer have been migrated from blogger in draft to public. Its something nifty to work with and you can find the announcement in blogger buzz on the announcement of new features.