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Introducing abhisays Music edition

August 31st, 2008 at 12:39 pm » Comments (2)

On the grand occasion of completing 18 months on internet, I am introducing Music edition of abhisays.com. Being from India, I love Bollywood songs. Bollywood songs, also known as Hindi Film Songs are heard far beyond the borders of India. The lines of Bollywood songs are some of the most memorized and repeated expressions in [...]



How to read all the latest news on your PC?

August 31st, 2008 at 11:55 am » Comments (0)

Recently Amit Agarwal, the author of one of the most popular technology blogs of India, has changed the theme of his WordPress powered blog. Along with the new theme, he has added several new features in his blog. He has published a new list of favorite blogs and websites. So from these websites he gets [...]



One and half year as a blogger

August 30th, 2008 at 5:50 pm » Comments (3)

This week I am completing one and half year as a professional blogger. In Aug 2006, I first heard the blog keyword. There was a blog called tech-tonic. It was developed and maintained by my friend Vibash. From there I got the inspiration to start a blog website. I started abhisays.com in March 2007. In [...]



Firefox is better than IE

August 30th, 2008 at 4:38 am » Comments (2)

With Microsoft loosing shares to Firefox, but yet having close to 67% of overall market shares, a question quickly comes up.Which is better? Firefox or IE? Microsoft has been dominant in Web browser space for years, justifying the 67% market share. But since the introduction of Firefox 1.5, Firefox is slowly eating away this margin. [...]



Some nice Hindi songs on Mumbai

August 29th, 2008 at 3:21 am » Comments (0)

Mumbai is the main center of film industry in India as Bollywood, the Hindi film industry that is the largest film producer in the world, is based in Mumbai. Bollywood produces more than 800 films a year, twice as many as Hollywood. Mumbai has played a pivotal role in the development of Indian Cinema. The [...]



What is Singleton design pattern?

August 28th, 2008 at 5:46 pm » Comments (2)

Whenever we need to restrict instantiation of a class to one object, then we use Singleton design Pattern. The Singleton is intended to provide a way to ensure that a class provides one instance of itself, and to provide a global point of access. The Singleton class is responsible for instantiating itself and passing that [...]



Who is hosting this blog?

August 28th, 2008 at 2:58 am » Comments (1)

New bloggers always ask a question, who is hosting the blogs like TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Lifehacker, Mashable etc.? There is a tool on internet through which we can find the hosting provider of any website or blog. It is called whoishostingthis.com, this tool will help you to find out who is hosting any web [...]



Highlights of the 6th Pay Commission Report

August 27th, 2008 at 7:44 pm » Comments (0)

The panel of 6th Central Pay commission was setup by Indian Government on October 5, 2006 for increasing the salaries of government employees of Indian Republic. This commission has been setup under Justice B.N.Srikrishna for a time period of 18 months. Other members were Prof. Ravindra Dholakia, Mr. J.S.Mathur and Secretary Smt. Sushama Nath. Report [...]



Design Patterns in Software Development

August 27th, 2008 at 6:32 pm » Comments (0)

If you are from computer science or any other engineering background then you must be familiar of programming languages. C is first powerful language in computer programming . It was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Labs. Since then in 36 years dozens of programming languages come into picture. One powerful concept [...]



WordPress App for iPhone users

August 27th, 2008 at 2:55 am » Comments (1)

WordPress has released a new iPhone App for bloggers so that they can use their iPhone for blogging. This iPhone App will support WordPress.com blogs and all the self-hosted WordPress blogs(2.5.1+). It will let you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. It is an open source [...]



Another century for Sir Don Bradman

August 26th, 2008 at 5:32 pm » Comments (0)

Sir Don Bradman is the greatest batsman in the history of world cricket. His Test batting average of 99.94 is said to be statistically the greatest record in any popular sport. His Test batting average established over a Test career of twenty years and 52 Tests. This has become a world record unlikely to ever be surpassed. Tomorrow [...]



How to do nothing at office and still get paid?

August 26th, 2008 at 4:56 pm » Comments (1)

Do you want to be the laziest person in your office? There are many ways to achieve this. You need not to do anything but you can always manage to get good hikes, appraisal and promotion. Today I am sharing a video which gives you excuses and nice tips on being lazy and how to [...]



IIMA alumni is selling vegetables in Bihar

August 25th, 2008 at 2:41 am » Comments (5)

This news completely amazed the big community of B school graduates in India. Kaushalendra is a 27 years old MBA graduate from IIM Ahmedabad. It is one of the prestigious B schools of world. He got exciting job offers after completing the MBA degree but he decided to hawk vegetables on the streets of Patna, [...]



Beijing 2008 Olympic Games :: The End

August 24th, 2008 at 2:36 pm » Comments (0)

Today the Olympic games has came to an end in Beijing. Google has also changed its logo on the home page. The logo represents the celebration after grand success in Olympic Games. It was an exceptional Olympic where US swimmer Michael Phelps and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt created history. Beijing said goodbye to the world [...]



Biharis are beggars?

August 24th, 2008 at 12:53 pm » Comments (6)

Are you from Bihar? Oh! You are Bihari. Then you must be expert in corruption, have all the bad habits like smoking, drinking etc. You may have police record. So this is India’s opinion about Bihar. Actually this word ‘Bihar’ has become synonym of poverty, corruption, backwardness, violence and failed governance. Both print and Media [...]