Monday, December 15, 2008

IPod in Park Avenue Blazer

Now Park Avenue and QIO Systems has launched a blazer with iPod controls, wherein you can put your iPod and control it. Available in ParkAvenue showrooms.

Paper Bottle

Brandimage (Desgrippes and Laga), a brand and design company, has created the 360 Bottle made of paper, which is 100% renewable. These paper bottles are good for just about any liquid - not just water.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

No TeleMarketing

You can register your telephone or mobile number in the site https://donotcall.gov/default.aspx, to avoid telemarketing receiving in your phone.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Wire Transfer

(Source: Wikipedia)
Wire transfer
is a method of transferring money from one entity to another. A wire transfer can be made from one entity's bank account to the other entity's bank account, and by a transfer of cash at a cash office.

A bank wire transfer is effected as follows:
  • The sending bank transmits a message, via a secure system (such as SWIFT or Fedwire), to the receiving bank, requesting that it effect payment according to the instructions given.
  • The message also includes settlement instructions. The actual transfer is not instantaneous: funds may take several hours or even days to move from the sender's account to the receiver's account.
  • Either the banks involved must hold a reciprocal account with each other, or the payment must be sent to a bank with such an account, a correspondent bank, for further benefit to the ultimate recipient.

Bank-to-bank wire transfer is considered the safest international payment method. Each account holder must have a proven identity. Chargeback is unlikely, although wires can be recalled. Information contained in wires is transmitted securely through encrypted communications methods. The price of bank wire transfers varies greatly, depending on the bank and its location; in some countries, the fee associated with the service can be costly.

Wire transfers done through cash offices are essentially anonymous and are designed for transfer between persons who trust each other. It is unsafe to send money by wire to an unknown person to collect at a cash office.

Transfer Methods:

1. Western Union

One of the largest companies that offers wire transfer is Western Union, which allows individuals to transfer or receive money without an account with Western Union or any financial institution.

2. SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)

Most international transfers are executed through SWIFT, a co-operative society, founded in 1974 by seven international banks, which operates a global network to facilitate the transfer of financial messages. Using these messages, banks can exchange data for funds transfer between financial institutions. The society also acts as a United Nations–sanctioned international-standards body, for the creation and maintenance of financial-messaging standards.

Each financial institution is provided an ISO 9362 code, also called a Bank Identifier Code (BIC) or SWIFT Code. These codes generally are eight characters long.[7] For example: Deutsche Bank is an international bank, with its head office in Frankfurt, Germany, the SWIFT Code for which is DEUTDEFF:

  • DEUT identifies Deutsche Bank.
  • DE is the country code for Germany.
  • FF is the code for Frankfurt.

Using an extended code of 11 digits (if the receiving bank has assigned extended codes to branches or to processing areas) allows the payment to be directed to a specific office. For example: DEUTDEFF500 would direct the payment to an office of Deutsche Bank in Bad Homburg.

European banks making transfers within the European Union also use the International Bank Account Number, or IBAN.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Recipe: Chocolate

Its pretty good site for finding recipes for preparing various categories of Chocolate.

http://www.chocolatemonthclub.com/recipes.htm

Music Search Engine

I found a new site http://songza.com/ which can search the world music servers and display the list of results. If you click on the search result link,you have the options, SHARE, PLAY, RATE.

Its really great.

To visit http://songza.com/

Monday, July 21, 2008

Microsoft Dancer - Scooby Doo



Microsoft Dancer - experience the fun of entertaining dancers that groove to beats of the music that's playing on your desktop Plus! Dancer LE is a free trial version of Plus! Dancer that will enable you to experience the fun of entertaining dancers that groove to beats of the music that's playing on your desktop. Microsoft Windows dancer works best with Windows Media Player. But you can also use it with Winamp, RealPlayer, iTunes and etc.

Unlocker Assistant 1.8.7



Unlocker Assistant 1.8.7: Software




How often have you tried to delete or rename a file or folder and got "Cannot delete xxx: It is being used by another person or program." ? Unlocker is a tool which will help you overcoming this scandalous Windows bug.
Simply right click the file or folder and select Unlocker. If the fileor folder is locked then a window will appear with a list of processeslocking the file or folder. Select the locks and click Unlock and you
are done.
It is recommended to Unlock wisely and to close open processes locking files or folder if any, but if only Explorer.exe is the culprit, do not hesitate!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

FormatFactory - Multifunctional media converter

FormatFactory - multifunctional media converter

You can download from www.formatoz.com

Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/OGG/WMA/M4A/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/....
Rip DVD to video file.
MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP format.
Source files support RMVB.

FormatFactory's Feature:
1 support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
2 Repair damaged video and audio file.
3 Reducing Multimedia file size.
4 Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
5 Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
6 DVD Ripper.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Weekend Purchase

போன வாரம் சென்னை பெரியமேட்டில், இரண்டு சூ வாங்கினேன். மொத்தம் ருபாய் 2000. ஒன்று வார நாட்களில் உபயோக படுத்த, மற்றொன்று, வார கடைசியில் உபயோக படுத்துவதற்கு.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Valuable Sites

Visitors,

Some of the sites, I found valuable are listed below.

www.photoseek.com - for world photo search
www.imagesbazaar.com - for biz photos to be added to company site
www.allposters.com - for all type of photos that can be framed and imported
www.reshade.com - for enlarging the small photos without losing the quality
www.ebooksbay.org - for e-books
www.openoffice.org - for free Office documents editing software
www.sendspace.com - for easy, free upload of files to share with friends
www.mailutilities.com - for mail related tools
www.findsounds.com - for searching sound files of type WAV, MP3, AU, AIFF etc of any size

More to come...

WinXP SP3 Tested / Released

I have downloaded the WinXP SP3 and installed to my new machine. It have pretty good updates. For more information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=68C48DAD-BC34-40BE-8D85-6BB4F56F5110&displaylang=en