Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Art of Logo Designing

Logos are an important part for any organization. We can think logo as a section of art with a actual authentic purpose and which can make first impression about your company to visitors mind.

Despite of their style, all logos are absolute by the aforementioned basal assumption and they all accept a categorical bartering purpose. Their role is to aid and advance burning accessible recognition.

The basic and foremost objective of a logo creator is to mark the first impression of an organization or alignment and a brand in the market and it can attain this objective only if it reflects the corporate vision of that organization.

The one that doesn't require an exercise of mind at viewer's end in order to manipulate its meaning is termed as a simple logo. It can just have a name of the company, symbol, any alphabet or a picture that is easy for the customers to relate it with the brand or the organization. They doesn't require a longer time period neither for their designing nor for their understanding by the viewer.

Being altered doesn't beggarly at all to amount your logo with circuitous affectionate of cartoon that are far above the adeptness of a accepted man to understand. A design with an easy graphical illustration is enough to be put under this category. There are certain designs which comprise of some graphic illustrations that have embedded in them a certain meaning connected either to the products, services or business vision of the organization.

Many logos becoming their acceptance through massive business efforts via accepted media. his doesn't beggarly that all these logos aren't good. Most of them are good enough to do whatever logos are supposed to do. here is so abundant fuss about logos like the Coke logo or a Nike logo but if you attending at them afterpiece and anticipate for a while, it absolutely is harder to acquisition any added acumen for their acceptance again their repetition. Yes, we all know the Nike swoosh or the rounded script of Coke, but if it wasn't for the millions of times we were bombarded with these logos, there wouldn't have been a real reason to remember them in the first place.

We all know well about the logo of Apple. We know that the bite of apple logo refers to the great story of the Bible which is the story of "Adam and Eve", in which apple is the fruit tree and and that bite is apple. If you know about this story very well, you will have to change your mind about that logo. And this extra level of meaning is what makes logos like Apple true pieces of art. From now on every time when you see an Apple logo you will automatically associate with it. This is the power of logo.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

What is mobile number portability?

The long-awaited mobile number portability finally became reality on Wednesday, empowering consumers to change providers conveniently.

What is mobile number portability:
Allows subscriber to opt for service provider of his choice but retain his mobile number. The number gets ported to the new provider

Does it allow a technology switch?
Subscriber can stay with same technology, GSM/CDMA. Also change to CDMA or vice versa. Both post-paid & prepaid subscribers can use it

How long will it take to port a number?
Seven working days. Fifteen days in J&K , North-east

How expensive?
Will cost Rs19, to be collected by new service provider

Can you retain your number in another city?
No. You can't change circles

How frequently can you switch service providers?
A subscriber must be with a provider for at least three months.
To switch, send the following text PORT mobile number to 1900.
You'll get an eight-digit alphanumeric code and expiry date for it. This is the unique porting code.
Approach service provider you have opted for with unique code. Carry address & ID proof/ photograph/ application form with unique code & mobile number. Complete this process within the expiry date that came with unique code.
Operator will take request to mobile portability clearing house. Clearing house will get your number deactivated from existing provider and activate new one.
You'll then get text from new provider mentioning date & time when phone will go through a no-service period.
This is when switching of service providers will happen. Phone will be out of use for couple of hours — between 12pm and 5am.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

WISE telescope of NASA has revealed a beautiful space photo of two different galaxies in a single shot marvelous image.


image of two galaxies in one shot. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

The WISE telescope of NASA has revealed a beautiful space photo of two different galaxies in a single shot. Now that is what I call marvelous.

Though both are spiral galaxies, one beams a bright yellow light from the host of baby stars it is forming at a tremendous rate. The other calmer galaxy is stately blue.

The pair called Messier 81 and Messier 82 was swept by each other in a near collision a few million years ago. They are still close enough to feel a mutual gravitational attraction and scientists expect that they will eventually merge and become a single galaxy.

According to Ned Wright principal investigator of WISE “What’s unique about the WISE view is that we can see both galaxies in one shot and we can really see their differences because the Cigar galaxy (Messier 82) is really bright in infrared and looks dramatically different from its less active companion.” (The Messier 81 also known as the Bode’s galaxy).

Because of the messier 82’s furious star formation it is also called star-burst galaxy. ( I have repeated WISE a hundred times and so what does it stands for) WISE- Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer was launched in December 2009 to survey the entire sky in infrared light.

Australian for cricket team World Cup 2011- Australia announced 15 member squad for World Cup 2011

Australian for cricket team World Cup 2011- Australia announced 15 member squad for World Cup 2011

Sydney : Australia announced 15 member squad for World Cup 2011 on Monday.

Squad Includes- R. Ponting (C), M Clarke(VC), M. Hussey, D. Bollinger, N.Hauritz, D Hussey, Mich.l Johnson, Lee, T. Paine, S. Tait, Sh.Watson, C. White, B Haddin (WC), J. Hastings and St. Smith

Wikileaks Assange has now sent shock waves across India By list of Indians with black money in the Swiss banks

Assange has now sent shock waves across India

New Delhi: Indian multi-millionaires are spending sleepless nights as reports said that Wikileaks would be exposing 2000 wealthy people having their unaccounted black money in Swiss Banks. The reports said some 40 Indians are on the list of Julian Assange.

BJP which has been demanding the government to talk to the Swiss government and have the list of Indians with black money in the Swiss banks has reiterated its demand of seizing the black money of Indians and spending it for public use.

Latest reports said that Wikileaks got the details of 2000 from a senior Swiss Bank retired executives. The reports said these 2000 persons could have evaded tax and were also possibly involved in criminal activity.

According to The New York TimesThe New York Times, Rudolf M. Elmer who ran the Caribbean operations of Swiss bank Julius Baer for eight years until he was dismissed in 2002, told the media at a news conference that about 40 companies and ‘Pillars of society’ were among the millionaires being exposed. He however refused to identify any of the individuals or companies. He told the Observer newspaper that those named in the documents come from the US, Britain, Germany, Austria and Asia and from all over. Reports said that Mr. Elmer handed two computer disks to Mr. Assange at the news confirence.

Assange however said it would take some more time for him to process the information and make it public.

Friday, January 14, 2011

How to Export Email Addresses of all your Facebook Friends

Search the Facebook Apps directory for something like “export contacts” and you’ll come across quite a few applications that sound as if they can transfer your friends contact information out of Facebook.

There’s an app called “Export Friends” that will save you friends names, city, birthday and their current location in a CSV (text) file that you then import into Excel, Gmail or any other web email program.

Then there are social plug-ins that can sync photos and status updates of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Outlook.

The problem is that none of these apps can download what you are looking – the phone numbers and email addresses of your Facebook friends. There are Greasemonkey scripts and other hacks that can pull this information from Facebook through “web scraping” but don’t ever take that route as Zuckerberg’s army might ban your account forever.
Export Email Addresses of your Facebook Contacts

Facebook APIs don’t expose email addresses of users and hence none of the Facebook apps can provide you with the actual contact data of your friends. There’s however a simple (and perfectly legal) workaround that can help you easily download all your friends email addresses from Facebook’s walled garden.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Lara, Ganguly, Gayle go unsold at IPL-4 auction

Brian Lara, Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, Jesse Ryder and Herschelle Gibbs were the four players to go unsold in Indian Premier League-4 auction in Bangalore on Saturday. Both Ganguly and Gayle, former West Indies skipper and a big hitter, were part of Knight Riders in the first three editions and had the base price $400,000, reserved for marquee players.

Ganguly failed to attract any buyer at the auction being held at the ITC Royal Gardenia. Ganguly was earlier placed in the $200,000 price bracket, but he later increased his base price to $400,000, which is the highest bracket for marquee players in the league.

Ganguly, who was the oldest Indian player up for auction at 38 years and six months, had a tough time with Knight Riders and was also removed from captaincy in the second edition in South Africa. Ganguly, however, came back to lead the side after Dave Whatmore took over the coaching from John Buchanan last year.

But Knight Riders were not interested in Ganguly and released him for the fourth edition.

During Ganguly's auction, the spotlight was on the Knight Riders' table, but the team's think tank looked down as his name was repeatedly called before he went to the unsold basket.

There were also reports that Sahara-owned Pune Warriors may buy him at a base price, but they may have changed their mind after Ganguly hiked the price.