Europe's Top 10 Best Places to Live

The Swiss city of Zurich has come top of a list of the best places to live in Europe, with no British cities making the list that was compiled by Forbes.com.

Forbes.com said the list was based on an annual survey of worldwide quality of living by Mercer Consulting.

1. Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich's tiny population -- 376,815 at the end of 2007 -- is spoiled with over 2,000 bars and restaurants and a breathtaking view of the Alps and Lake Zurich. Taxes are among the lowest in Switzerland, and residents pay no inheritance tax though its gloomy weather and traffic bring it down.

2. Vienna, Austria

The entire city centre of Austria's political, cultural and economic capital has been designated a U.N. World Heritage site. It has excellent education and infrastructure.

2. Geneva, Switzerland

Over 50 percent of Geneva's population has a foreign passport, according to the region's statistics office -- not surprising given the heavy presence of U.N. agencies and organisations such as the Red Cross. As a result, the city is geared to be global, with private banking facilities, private hospitals and international schools.

4. Dusseldorf, Germany

Dusseldorf has built up its infrastructure and international transport connections. The city, on the banks of the Rhine, has a plethora of consumer goods and is considered the fashion and shopping capital of Germany. Dusseldorf has a thriving economy, with some of Germany's largest companies.

5. Munich, Germany

With a population of 1.3 million, Munich is the largest city in Europe's top 10. Best known for its annual beer festival, the city also enjoys a thriving economy, driven by the information technology, biotechnology and publishing sectors. However, the city has a dearth of international schools and its air is polluted.

6. Frankfurt, Germany

The financial capital of Germany has some spectacular architecture, including the opera house and cathedral, and a vibrant cultural scene. The city has excellent hospitals, shops and a thriving economy. The poor availability of housing in the city centre and heavy traffic, however, drag Frankfurt down.

7. Bern, Switzerland

Bern, in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, is the world's second-safest city, according to Mercer, with 6 kms (4 miles) of shopping arcades. The city may not have a buzzing nightlife, but it does have excellent medical facilities.

8. Copenhagen, Denmark

Living in Copenhagen is pricey but the city boasts 11 Michelin-star restaurants and, according to Mercer, is among the best-served cities in terms of international schools and private medical facilities. However the city's love of bikes means that congestion drags it down the overall rankings.

9. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Amsterdam's red light district and liberal policy on drug use don't do much for its family-friendly reputation. What does? The city's canals, parks and museums, and the best selection of international schools in Europe. Its ranking is dragged down by a lack of city centre housing and air pollution.

10. Brussels, Belgium

The administrative centre of the European Union is among the best connected cities in Europe and has a large number of schools serving the expatriate community. It does, however, have a large amount of traffic congestion in the city and air pollution.

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By Rosie Thomas

10 Tips to Improve Your Speaking Voice

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.” - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

One of the most important components of public speaking is the sound of your voice. It influences the impact of your message, and might even make or break the success of your speech. Fortunately, for many people, good voice quality can be learned.

Instructions :

1. Breathe from your diaphragm - Practice long and controlled exhales. When you speak, use breath to punctuate your point. For example, take a breath at the end of each phrase whether you need to or not. Use that opportunity to pause and let the listeners absorb what you say.
2. Use pitch - Lower pitches generally are more soothing to hear. However, modulating your pitch for emphasis will keep your listeners engaged. Develop your pitch by practicing humming.
3. Moderate your volume - Find out if you speak too loudly or too softly. When you begin speaking, ask your audience how your volume is (each situation is different). Try to stay at the appropriate volume throughout your speech.
4. Moderate your pace - This one is also closely related to breath. If you speak too quickly, people can’t keep up. If you speak too slowly, people will lose interest. Record your speech to determine if you need to change your pace. Get feedback from others.
5. Articulate - Try exaggerating your lip movement to reduce mumbling. Practice articulating tongue twisters and extending and exaggerating vowel sounds. Become an expert at articulating tongue twisters as quickly and crisply as possible. Focus on the ones you find difficult.
6. Practice your speech in advance and determine where you want to pause for a breath. For more emphasis, pause for more than one breath. Mark your breathing points in your notes.
7. Loosen up before you begin. Look side to side. Roll your head in half-circles and roll your shoulders back. Shift your rib cage from side to side. Yawn. Stretch. Touch your toes while completely relaxing your upper body, then slowly stand up, one vertebra at a time, raising your head last. Repeat as needed.
8. Posture - Stand up straight and tall to allow full lung capacity and airflow.
9. Record your voice repeatedly using different ways of speaking. Determine which one is most pleasing.
10. Practice breath control - Take a deep breath, and while you exhale, count to 10 (or recite the months or days of the week). Try gradually increasing your volume as you count, using your abdominal muscles—not your throat—for volume. Don’t let your larynx tense up.

How to Speak Well and Confidently

Are you very shy when it comes to new surroundings, such as starting a new class or moving to a new area? Sometimes, it is necessary to overcome your shyness and speak confidently. By doing this, it can help you not only to share your ideas properly to others, but also to learn communicating with others. Here are a few steps to consider when speaking with confidence.

Steps

1. Learn how to have conversations with people. Your ideas or opinions may not always be accepted by others, but this is nothing unusual. Open your mouth, express your beliefs! This will improve your courage.
2. Don’t be afraid and speak loudly. If you speak in a low voice, not only will others not be able to hear what you say, but you will also portray a submissive demeanor, which suggests the opposite of a confident one.
3. Make eye contact when you speak. For one thing, it is polite for others. Also, eye contact will help others to listen to your thinking carefully.
4. Praise yourself everyday! This will promote your own confidence, which is important when you speak. With more confidence, people will take your thinking more seriously.

Tips

• Don’t be nervous when you make mistakes. Human error is far from being a new concept — nobody is perfect! It is normal for everyone to make mistakes. Just calm down and keep speaking bravely.
• Try and try again! This may be difficult for a shy person at first, but you need to force yourself to speak, and not seclude your thoughts. If you have some ideas, then try to speak out! Don’t just keep them in your head.
• If you have self confidence issues, try to think that you are the only one who has sound knowledge about the topic. Then go ahead and impart your knowledge to the audience in an effective way.
• Remember that there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Don’t portray an exaggerated amount of confidence, or you will come off as arrogant, believing that your ideas are better than the ideas of everyone else.

Secrets For a Flat Stomach

Developing a lean, flat stomach takes time and patience, especially when it comes to those last few kilograms in those hard to lose places. There is only one way to lose fat in the so-called ’stubborn areas,’ and that is with the correct combination strength training (with a extra focus on mid-section), cardiovascular exercise (short, hard workouts), and stable blood sugar (keeps you from adding additional fat and makes it easier for the body to use body fat for fuel).

Spot Reduction is a Myth - The first thing you need to realize is that it is impossible to ’spot reduce’ fat from one specific part of the body. Fat loss occurs systemically, meaning that you can’t control where the fat comes from. When you burn fat for energy, you will draw it from all areas of the body, and the first place you tend to put it on will be the last place it comes off.

Cardio, cardio, cardio - Doing all the abs exercises in the world will do nothing if you have a layer of fat covering it. Doing strength training, or lifting weights, would help, but not as much as aerobic exercise. If you want to add some ab exercises in after the cardio, that’s great, but be sure to work your whole torso, not just the upper abs — that includes the lower abs, lower back and the muscles that wrap around your sides.

For example, Walking, jogging, bicycling, elliptical exercise and stair climbing are all great fat burners. Most give up early in the workout. During the first 10 minutes of aerobic activity, glycogen (stored carbohydrates) is the primary fuel source. Because you don’t burn significant amounts of fat until glycogen stores are depleted, the key to maximum fat loss is to work out aerobically for 30-60 minutes continuously per session.

Diet - Its best to stay away from fried food and too many sugary desserts. Abdominal fat loss is a 50% exercise, 50% nutrition combination. Regardless of how much you workout, if the number of calories you take in is greater than the amount you burn, you’ll still put on abdominal fat.

Eat Small Meals Regularly - You should try and spread your calories out into five small meals a day instead of 2 or 3 big ones so that you don’t overeat in one feeding.

Give it Time - If you want to have a flat stomach in 3 weeks, forget it. Losing fat takes time, and it’s unhealthy to lose too much weight too fast. Gradual weight loss is healthier, and more likely to be sustained over time. Go for a lifestyle change, something you can live with for the rest of your life, or you will just yo-yo. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

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10 Reasons you should become a Web Designer

10 Reasons you should become a Web Designer.

You've dabbled with Photoshop, and toyed with Dreamweaver, but you're not totally sure if you've got what it takes, or even if you'll like the lifestyle of being a web designer? This article outlines my top 10 reasons why someone who is artistic, and loves computers should try their hand at becoming a web professional. If you're already a web designer, then this article might help you remember the positive aspects of the job.

1. You always have something to show for your hard work.

My number one reason that anyone should become a web designer is that at the end of each project, you get something that you can show for all your hard work. If it came out worse than you expected you can learn from it. If it came out superbly you can sit back and revel in it. But only for a second as its onto the next project! Seriously though, the best part of the job for me is seeing everything come together to create a fantastic looking, fully functioning website.

2. You get warm & fuzzy when your sites gone live.

Very few things beat the feeling of sitting back in your chair and admiring a completed website that you've taken from an initial idea on a piece of paper, to a fully functional website. You can sit back, relax and enjoy your rollovers feeling like you've really got something to show for your efforts. If you get this feeling then you're among almost every single web designer who has a passion for the job.

3. Its a technical job. People respect that.

It doesn't happen all that often, but when a client really shows they value you as their designer, that they take on board your suggestions, and appreciate what you've done for them. it personally makes me feel really great. As the majority of people don't understand our profession you get to influence a lot of people and make decisions. As long as you can clearly explain in layman's terms your reasoning most people will trust your advice.

4. You get to be creative for a living.

When you think about it most people have to do pretty boring jobs for a living. They deal with figures, they write letters or important documents. I always try to remember this if Ive had a particularly bad day at the office. You're lucky to be able to create for 8 hours a day.

5. The job is rarely dull.

If you like computers, then being a website designer isn't a dull job. It might seem that way to people who hate computing, but a lot of the problems you will come to face each day are new, and can be very challenging. As Ive mentioned before about the industry being young, its moving rapidly, meaning that you'll have to keep you finger on the pulse to keep your skill set current. Although most of the job is office based, you do get to go out and meet some interesting people too.

6. You don't need a degree.

Now easy guys, Im aware this one could sturr up some serious debate! Compared with professions such as medicine, law and other industries along those lines, as a website designer you don't need to have a degree to get a job. With this comes the huge benefit of not incurring about £15,000 of debt from a three year university course. Im not saying you shouldn't get a degree, just that you don't necessarily need to have one to get a good job. As being a design is a creative job, having a strong portfolio will go a really long way.

7. You don't have to wear a suit.

Most days you don't have to wear a suit to work. Yay! If you've got a meeting with a really important client then you might want to dress to impress, but most of the time you can wear anything thats smart / casual.

8. You can talk about CSS with fellow web designers.

Its awesome when you can have a full on geeky chat with a fellow website designer without the person not actually having any idea what you're talking about. Sometimes you just need to vend your frustration about how Internet Explorer just isn't standards compliant.

9. Its more interesting than saying ‘Im an accountant'.

When someone asks you what you do for a living and you reply with ‘Im a designer' or website designer its much easier for them to ask you questions about your job than for example if you were an accountant. Nothing against accountants, but whenever someone replies with ‘Im an accountant', the best I can muster is usually, ‘Oh right, how long have you been doing that for?'.

10. Its one of those ‘new age' cool jobs…

Its 2007, get with the programme! Everything's moving over to computers and the internet. Web Design is a very new industry which is still growing and establishing itself so the chances are you're going to have a job for life. Theres definitely no immediate danger of the web dying out.

A closing thought…

Web designing for a living is a great job, I recommend it to anyone who loves to create and build things. If you're a fellow designer and have some other suggestions then feel free to add them in the comments below.

7 Essential CSS Code Snippets

7 Essential CSS Code Snippets

Just a quick little post this week to get back into the swing of things. I'm not sure whether all of you will find this useful, but I hope you might do. This week at work I noticed that quite often when I'm building a site I'll take little snippets of code from an array of previous sites that I have built. After racking my brains for 10 minutes as to the last website I used the ‘PNG Hack' on, I thought I'd create a place on Evoart with all these useful bits of code stored!

Basic Link Styling

We all know how to write the code for this, but its often handy to just paste it straight into your CSS file at the beginning of a project. If you didn't know, the code below will style ALL of the links on your website, unless you otherwise specify styles for them.

a:link, a:visited, a:active {

color:#EAA423;

text-decoration:none;

}

a:hover {

color:#83CAF0;

text-decoration:underline;

}

Firefox Image Outline Fix

This little beauty does exactly what it says it does. If you weren't aware, Firefox has a nasty little habit of adding ‘outlines' to images that are links. This really bugs me on items in the main navigation of a website, but thanks to this handy piece of code you can say goodbye to these outlines forever!

A:focus, A:hover, A:active /* Firefox image outline fix */

{

outline: none}

IE6 Background Flicker Fix

You've probably noticed that in IE6 when you hover an image that has a linked background you get a very noticeable flicker as it jumps to the hovered background image. Well not any more! This is another really handy fix that I always implement these days. You can read more about it here.

html {

filter: expression(document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true));

}

Header Tags

Another pretty basic one, but a real time saver to quickly paste into your code is the header tag. These bad boys should be a part of every web designers code toolkit. Headings are essential for search engine optimisation, and they also help keep you code semantic - meaningful and structured in other words.



h3 {

color:#fff;

font-size:18px;

font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

font-weight:normal;

margin-top: 0px;

margin-left: 0;

margin-right: 0;

margin-bottom: 0;

line-height:140%;

padding-bottom:0px;

}

Absolutely Positioned Images

Its not a good idea to get into the habit of using this technique, but in some instances it can be particularly useful. One such instance happened to me a few weeks ago. Basically after a design had been built, the client wanted a badge to be added in a really awkward position overlapping the main banner and the edge of the actual website itself. The image wouldn't have fitted nicely into the flow of the code, so I chose to absolutely position it using the code below.

All you need to do is change the ‘top' and ‘left' values and add the <div> below to your HTML

< div id=”namehere”></div>

#namehere{

background: url(../images/yourimagehere.jpg) no-repeat left top;

width: 26px;

height: 697px;

display: block;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

top: 0px;

left: 184px;

}

Headers & Paragraphs Margin Reset

At the beginning of the development process its often a good idea to do a global reset of the margins on your header and paragraph tags, just to eliminate the possibility of any stray padding or margins creeping in when you progress further in the development.

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p {

margin:0;

padding:0;

font-weight:normal;

}

Sliding Doors Navigation

This has to be the piece of code that gets re-used the most on any website.

The ‘Sliding Doors' technique enables you to have all the images your planning to use for each section of your navigation in one image. You then use CSS to reposition that image to show the hovered state, and the ON state.

However, just to make things interesting, I use this technique a slightly different way. I do this by only including the first and second image together as one image, and then have the ON state as a completely seperate image. You can see the two seperate images below.

I then use the following CSS code below. The ‘ul' section eliminates the padding and margins and the ‘#navigation' part displays the items horizontally, rather than vertically. Ive also included some comments in the code below which help to explain whats going on.

ul {

margin:0;

padding:0;

}

#navigation li {

display:inline;

padding: 0px;

}



li#articles a {

text-indent: -1000em;

background:url(../images/articles.jpg) no-repeat left top;

width: 117px;

height: 68px; /* 68px is the height of the single button image */

display: block;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

left: 15px;

top:169px;

}

li#articles a:hover {

background-position: 0px -68px; /* This adjusts background positioning so that only the bottom half of the image can be seen */

}

li#articlesON a {

text-indent: -1000em;

background:url(../images/articles_on.jpg) no-repeat left top;

width: 117px;

height: 68px;

display: block;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

left: 15px;

top:169px;

}

To get this working on your site we need to add some HTML:

< ul id = “navigation” > < li id = “articles” >< a href = “articles.html” accesskey = “1″ title = “Articles” >Articles</ a ></ li > </ ul >

CSS Reset

There’s plenty of different reset methods already available and I’ve been using Eric Meyer’s method for some time now but have started to realize that in most projects, I only use a fraction of the styles specified and much more often find myself rewriting a whole different set of styles that I use in all my projects.

Therefore, I’ve decided that it’s going to be more worthwhile using Meyer’s CSS as a starting point but putting together my own starter template which I can use for all my projects which I’d like to give you an insight into.

The CSS Reset

The first part of my stylesheet is very similar to Eric’s but is a little simpler. Within my version, all I want to do is remove the margin and padding’s from all elements but I’ve also included the legend and fieldset within the reset (I’ll cover the reasons why, later in this article).

I also like to remove the border from both images and fieldsets so I declare a border of zero for both of these elements.

html, body, address, blockquote, div, dl, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, ol, p, pre, table, ul,
dd, dt, li, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, button, del, ins, map, object,
a, abbr, acronym, b, bdo, big, br, cite, code, dfn, em, i, img, kbd, q, samp, small, span,
strong, sub, sup, tt, var, legend, fieldset {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
img, fieldset {
border: 0;
}

Formatting

The next thing that I want to tackle is the font formatting. Now, this is fundamentally different from Meyer’s reset as this is actually dealing with the format of the content whereas Meyer’s method deliberately only deals with creating a baseline to start a page from.

Within this rule, I always specify the font-size and line-height as 100%/1.2 as this gives all browsers consistency. You may want to change the line-height depending on the layout but I find that this gives adequate spacing for all fonts.

In most recent projects, I’ve started using lucida sans but you can obviously change this for the font that is suitable for your project. I also include the form elements within this style so that they don’t need to be explicitly set separately.

body, select, input, textarea {
font: 100%/1.2 "lucida sans", verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

The Container

I always use a container div immediately after my opening body tag and therefore I use the container to control the width of the content and to also adjust the font-size if required.

Again, this may vary from project to project but I always use it and therefore I think it’s worthwhile including within my CSS.

#container {
font-size: 0.8em;
width: 760px;
margin: 0 auto;
}

Headings

Headings are one of the elements that really have no consistency by default and therefore I like to include some settings to start with, even if I plan on changing these later in development.

The first thing I like to do, is to specify some padding on the bottom of all the headings. I use 0.8em as this coupled with the line-height we specified on the body gives us a nice gap underneath the heading which is exactly the same size as the heading text itself.

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
padding-bottom: 0.8em;
}

Next, I’ll give each heading it’s own font-size relative to the base font-size of the body. I start by giving heading6 a font-size of 1em and give each larger heading an increase of 0.2em.

h1 {
font-size: 2em;
}
h2 {
font-size: 1.8em;
}
h3 {
font-size: 1.6em;
}
h4 {
font-size: 1.4em;
}
h5 {
font-size: 1.2em;
}
h6 {
font-size: 1em;
}

Paragraphs

Most of the styles that we need for paragraphs have already been created due to the way that they’ll inherit the font-size, font-family and line-height from their parents but the one thing we do want to setup is some padding on the bottom to create some nice spacing between paragraphs.

I find that 1.2em tends to work well as this is slightly larger than the height of the text contained within the paragraph.

p {
padding-bottom: 1.2em;
}

Reusable CSS classes

I like to include reusable classes within my CSS so that I can easily reference styles that I tend to use across multiple projects.

I’ve included error and confirmation at the moment but this may grow with time. Please note though that this is generic and therefore shouldn’t include site specific classes but instead styles that you’re likely to use across different projects.

.error {
color: #C00;
font-weight: bold;
}
.confirmation {
color: #080;
font-weight: bold;
}

Fieldset and Legend

You might remember earlier in the article that I touched on the subject of fieldsets and legends being something that I like to deal with slightly differently. Currently they’re practically impossible to style consistently across multiple browsers so I like to use John Faulds method which you can read more about on his website in the article Legends of Style.

Just in case you haven’t read John’s article, the HTML that I’d use for the fieldset and legend would look something like this…

Legend

And therefore the CSS that I include within my reset css file is as follows.

div.fieldset {
border: solid 1px #999;
padding: 1em;
margin: 1em 0;
}
legend span {
display: block;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1.4em;
color: #000;
}

Summary

Here’s the complete CSS file that you may download and use within your projects.

• Reset.css

This CSS is by no means meant to be a finished version but is something that I’ve started using as a step on from Eric Meyer’s version of the reset css file. It may not be suitable to everyone and I’m sure that you may want to change a few parts so that it’s tailored for your own individual project.

What it is meant for though is to be used as a starting point to reset styles to provide a consistent starting point for all browsers along with some basic formatting which can then be built upon to create much more complex and complicated layouts.

Please feel free to comment if there’s anything you think I may have overlooked or any extra styles that this reset css file could benefit from.

Thanks: http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/

Tips on Public Speaking

“If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.” - Dianna Booher

Here are some important public speaking tips to help you develop your skills and become far more effective as a public speaker.

• Ensure your speech will be captivating to your audience as well as worth their time and attention. Videotape your presentation and analyze it. Emphasize your strong points during your presentation.
• Present the desired image to your audience. Be solemn if your topic is serious. Appear relaxed, even if you feel nervous. Remember, you don’t look as nervous as you feel.
• Establish rapport with your audience. If a microphone is available, adjust and adapt your voice accordingly.
• Maintain sincere eye contact with your audience. If what you have prepared is obviously not getting across to your audience, change your strategy mid-stream if you are well prepared to do so.
• Allow yourself and your audience a little time to reflect and think.
• Check out the location ahead of time to ensure seating arrangements for audience, whiteboard, blackboard, lighting, location of projection screen, sound system, etc. are suitable for your presentation.
• Tell audience ahead of time that you will be giving out an outline of your presentation so that they will not waste time taking unnecessary notes during your presentation.
• Humour : Tell jokes if you’re good at telling jokes. If you aren’t good, it is best to leave the jokes behind. There’s nothing worse than a punch line that has no punch.
• Tell stories : Stories make you a real person not just a deliverer of information. Use personal experiences to bring your material to life. No matter how dry your material is, you can always find a way to humanise it. Keep audience interested throughout your entire presentation. Remember that an interesting speech makes time fly, but a boring speech is always too long to endure even if the presentation time is the same.
• Using Public Speaking Environment - Try not to get stuck in one place. Use all the space that’s available to you. If your space is confined (say a meeting room or even presenting at a table) use stronger body language to convey your message.
• Mistakes - Mistakes are all right. Recovering from mistakes makes you appear more human. Good recovery puts your audience at ease - they identify with you more.

Benefits of Public Speaking

“As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.” - William Jennings Bryan

The Personal and Practical benefits of using a few simple concepts to overcome your public speaking fears to easily deliver effective presentations include -

Personal Benefits -

• Increased Self Confidence
• The Ability to communicate and articulate your thoughts and ideas
• Effectively Persuade Others
• Words can hurt, heal, create, build, transform
• New Opportunities
• Ability to Lead
• Have a Rare and Valued Skill
• Have Fun
• Improve Your Quality of Life

Practical Benefits -

• Career Advancement
• Receive Recognition
• Get the Credit that You Deserve
• Entertain Your Audience
• Captivate Your Audience
• Learn to speak Concisely, Clearly and Confidently
• Speaking out in important situations, as Parent, Citizen, Customer

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Thiruvanthoram Dictionary - thalley ... idivettu...

This is too funny !!! This is all about the language and words spoken
by Trivandrum Mallus !!!!!

I am sure you will enjoy it !!!!!

To translate this in English.. it would read as "thiruvanathapuram dictionary" .....

Thiruvanthoram Dictionary - thalley .... idivettu ...

A

Adi : Sporty __Expression

Adii Sekkkae : Expressive Comment for a Beautiful Gal

Aiyyam : Not Good

Akkan : Elder Sister

Alambu Payalu : Mischievous Guy

Alavalaathi : Useless

Alimpu, Alumpu : Mess Up

Aliyan : Buddy

Alli : Pidichu

Ammachiyaane : Mother Promise

Annack Vare : Deep in Throat

Annan Konni : Real Useless

Appi : Small Baby, Faeces

Arumbaatham : Finish, Samadhaanam

Asokan : Gay

Azhukka : Bad

B

Baiju : Old Man

Baalraaram : Balaramapuram

Bonji Vellam : Lime Juice

Borotta : Porotta

Braal : Cat Fish

C

Chaala : Maththi

Charakakukalu : Beautiful Gals

Cheelu : Silly

Chella : Dear, A Nice Boy or a Girl

Chemala : Red

Cherayuka : Staring

Chevala : Red

Cheythu Kidathukka : Revenge Completed

Chorri : Irritating

Chwaaru : Rice

Chwara : Blood

D

Daavu : Pretending

Dappi : Small Pot

De Pode Pode : Go Away

E

Entheru : What

Entoodi : With Me, To Me

F

Faagyam : Luck

Faaratham : India

Faarya : Wife

Footham : Ghost

G

Ganja Payalu : Sleepy Guy

Gavanam : Be Concerned

H

I

Idichu Pirithu : Strong Punch

Illoolam : In Small Quantity

Inippu : Sweet

Ithippooram : Little

J

Jaada : Self-Importance

Jellashuthri : General Hospital

K

Kaa Parakki : Lazy Guy

Kadassi, Kadaseelu : Last, The End

Kailanchi : Knife

Kalippu : Riot

Kanji : Weird

Kannamthiruvukalu : Mischief

Karuvaadu : Dried Fish

Kinnam : Fantastic, Small Plate

Konayadi : Making Fun

Koora : Waste

Koothara : Bad

Koothara Payalu : Ugly Boy

Kundaankadavu : Kundamon Kadavu

Kundani : Mischievous

Kuzhithurumbu : Cunny

Kesasram : Kesavadasapuram

L

Levan : He

Londe Lavide : Its Over There

M

Maakri : Frog

Machaa : Dear Friend

Madakku : Meals Parcel

Manja pranthu : Mad

Mini Mol : Old Lady

Moda : Self-Importance

Moonchi : Face, Fooled

Mudukku : Narrow Road (Path), Lane

Muttam, Muttan : Gigantic

N

Niroovichu : Thought

Njerippu : Awesome

Noorey : Straight

O

Odakku : To Quarrel, Block

Orakkam : Sleep

Oyfe : Wife

Oyyirae : On Top

P

Paazhu : Useless, Waste

Pallu Vili : Scolding Using Ugly Words

Panna : Bad

Payalukal : Boys

Payya Thanna : Never

Payye : Slowly

Pazham : Fool

Pele : Police

Pesha : Lungi

Peyyaa : Whether Gone?

Peyyoodaam : Lets Go

Polappu : Amazing

Pukilukalu : Problems

Pushpan : Gay

Puttu : Lies

Q

R

S

Swalpam : Little

Sasthangalam : Shasthamangalam

T

Thalleay : Expressing Surprise, My God

Thallu : To Give

Thammassikkoola : Won't Allow

Thoottal : Diarrhea

Thorappa : Broom

Thirontharam : Thiruvananthapuram

Thwana : Lots Of

Thyaeri : Uphill

U

Ullasangalu : Happiness

Umba : Cow

V

Valichuu : Cheated

Valipeeru : Cheating

Varuthan : Outsider

Vellangalu : Water

Vesarppu : Sweat

Vetti Veethi : Slaughter to Death

Vyali : Veli

W

Woa..Woa : Ok, Done

X

Y

Yaaku : Puke

Yelavu : Weird

Yemandan : Big

Yetthu Vaali Payalu : Parasite in Nature, a person doesn't have
much importance

Nokia Morph Concept

Launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom) – nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices that open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities.

Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:

• Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live
• Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving
• Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension
• Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge
• Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices

In addition to the advances above, the integrated electronics shown in the Morph concept could cost less and include more functionality in a much smaller space, even as interfaces are simplified and usability is enhanced. All of these new capabilities will unleash new applications and services that will allow us to communicate and interact in unprecedented ways.

Flexible & Changing Design

Nanotechnology enables materials and components that are flexible, stretchable, transparent and remarkably strong. Fibril proteins are woven into a three dimensional mesh that reinforces thin elastic structures. Using the same principle behind spider silk, this elasticity enables the device to literally change shapes and configure itself to adapt to the task at hand.

A folded design would fit easily in a pocket and could lend itself ergonomically to being used as a traditional handset. An unfolded larger design could display more detailed information, and incorporate input devices such as keyboards and touch pads.

Even integrated electronics, from interconnects to sensors, could share these flexible properties. Further, utilization of biodegradable materials might make production and recycling of devices easier and ecologically friendly.

Self-Cleaning

Nanotechnology also can be leveraged to create self-cleaning surfaces on mobile devices, ultimately reducing corrosion, wear and improving longevity. Nanostructured surfaces, such as “Nanoflowers” naturally repel water, dirt, and even fingerprints utilizing effects also seen in natural systems.

Advanced Power Sources

Nanotechnology holds out the possibility that the surface of a device will become a natural source of energy via a covering of “Nanograss” structures that harvest solar power. At the same time new high energy density storage materials allow batteries to become smaller and thinner, while also quicker to recharge and able to endure more charging cycles.

Sensing The Environment

Nanosensors would empower users to examine the environment around them in completely new ways, from analyzing air pollution, to gaining insight into bio-chemical traces and processes. New capabilities might be as complex as helping us monitor evolving conditions in the quality of our surroundings, or as simple as knowing if the fruit we are about to enjoy should be washed before we eat it. Our ability to tune into our environment in these ways can help us make key decisions that guide our daily actions and ultimately can enhance our health.

Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting and self cleaning .Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.It is also featured in the MoMA online exhibition "Design and the Elastic Mind". It has been a collaboration project of Nokia Research Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center.

Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons

Here's how you can remove those shortcut arrows from your desktop icons in Windows XP.

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile
3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

You may need to restart Windows XP.

IPL line up Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen

England players are on a collision course with the England and Wales Cricket Board over new central contracts after teams from the Indian Premier League raised the stakes by lining up six-figure offers for Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff.
It is believed that Pietersen is the subject of bids from all eight IPL franchises, while reports in India suggest Flintoff is close to a deal with the Kolkata Knight iders, the glamorous team owned by Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. Flintoff's agent, Neil Fairbrother, last night denied a deal was imminent.

Both would command fees of more than $1.5 million (£750,000) per year and are set to lead an English invasion of the IPL. England one-day captain Paul Collingwood is expected to sign an IPL deal, too, with Owais Shah, Stuart Broad and Ravi Bopara also the subjects of lucrative bids believed to be in the region of $300,000.
The IPL bids are on the table at a time when the ECB are thrashing out new central contracts with the England players. It had been hoped they would be signed by Monday but the players union, the Professional Cricketers' Association, failed yesterday to agree terms with the ECB.
Until the new central contracts are signed, the ECB will not issue the non-objection certificate a player needs before joining an IPL team. It is a stance that has led to fears in the England dressing room that the IPL franchises will lose patience and take their offers elsewhere. "It is a stumbling block," one IPL source said.
The ECB this week agreed to hold a Test series against Sri Lanka next May, which leaves a window of only 10-12 days for England players to play the IPL.
IPL contracts are paid on a pro-rata basis and returning early from the tournament would cost a player up to $300,000 per week. It is on this basis that the players will demand a pay rise when the new central contracts kick in this September.

Apple iPhone India launch likely in Sept

Indians will no longer need to illegally buy, unlock and then use the most-desired item on gadget lovers' lists -- the Apple iPhone. Its much-awaited and delayed India launch is expected with telecom operator Vodafone in the first week of September.

The Cupertino, California-based company, according to Apple retail sources, said initially the 8 GB version of the much-hyped touchscreen device -- which combines Wi-Fi capabilities with a powerful email client, TV feeds, online music store and map-based location guide -- will be launched at a price ranging between Rs 27,200 and Rs 28,000.

Based on buyer response, the launch of the 16 GB version will be staggered to the middle of 2009.

Apple sources in Singapore, when contacted last month, had maintained that the India launch would happen in 2008, but were tight-lipped on the exact date.

Apple reportedly claims to have shipped four million iPhones this January since its US launch on June 29 last year, and its chief Steve Jobs has targeted sales of 10 million units by December 2008.

The tie-up is an exclusive arrangement with AT&T. Initial sales targets for the iPhone in India or unit numbers at the time of launch are as yet unavailable, with Apple wary of grey market sales in India.

"The carrier deal for India is being worked out with Vodafone," said an Apple source, adding: "Vodafone could also become the carrier for the Australian market once iPhone is launched there, though more than one carrier is likely for Australia."

When contacted, a Vodafone spokesperson denied any knowledge of the deal. However, company sources confirmed the iPhone carrier deal with Apple, though the exact commercial terms were not disclosed. Mobile carriers that offer the iPhone share a percentage of their sales with Apple.

The Apple retail sources also did not rule out Apple extending universal access for iPhone users to all major telecom carriers in India.

"Post launch in India, the iPhone can be 'unlocked' (or configured to use SIM cards from all telecom carriers), though the company is not fully open to such a possibility," the source said.

The real signs of 'iFatigue' in India over the long wait for the iPhone are evident on Internet chat forums where users debate thorny issues like how to unlock the iPhone without losing call quality, free open source hacker kits like AppTapp, the best unlock deals at the right price, and quick bargains in the grey market.

Meanwhile, Apple India's tentative expansion plans in the coming year include opening a second branch of its exclusive product station, the iStore, in Bangalore's southern suburb of Jayanagar to tap growing demand for the iPod series and the Mac Book Air workstation launched early this year. A third iStore is planned to be launched in Chennai this August.

As the Indian mobile subscriber base gets set to almost double to 500 million by 2010, brand positioning and pricing schemes will be crucial. Customer churn has increased across telecom circles from 18 per cent in 2006 to 20 per cent in 2007, according to IDC India figures. The iPhone's entry could tilt the balance further, say industry watchers.

Further, the introduction of number portability could prompt customers to jump to competing networks or go in for superior handsets with better offerings.

No matter how much of the iPhone's feature basket will be available to the user initially, those awaiting the launch agree that it's better to have the ecosystem in place before buying the phone.

The rewards of buying the kosher version far outstrip the risks of stalking it down the murky alleys of the grey market, and hacking and re-hacking the device every time Apple releases a software upgrade. Till September, then.

shows me the way

Lyrics

turn away my face from him
lost & lonly desert
own desire rules mu world
never ever cared for
chasin every dark & deep
tears rollin down my way
i never know where i've to go
to wash my sins away

he holds my hand, shows me the way
where i've to go, holds my soul in tight
dreams of life, dreams of love
turns my breath again

life is when i turn'd my steps
into the holy heaven
i heard his voice in every move
like a shadow beside me
face of darkness moved away
when the fire lights my way
destination clear & sharp,
word of God within me.