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August 26, 2011 Missing those days badly. “Very few people have ever said anything nice about Calcutta, unless they were Bengali.” (Geoffrey Moorhouse) Kolkata , The City of joy   She is very beautiful and will create a strong bond with you for a lifetime. If you had lived with her for some time, she would gift warm memories you will never forget in all your life!  I was with her for 4 years and imagine the deep affection I’ve had for her. I always enjoyed the weekends with her, strolling in the old streets or in the high-tech Salt Lake City where air-conditioned cars silently traversed alongside cycle rickshaws and auto-rickshaws. The tuk-tuk drivers in Kolkata never cease to  amaze you with their impressive driving skills and to enjoy the true roller-coaster tuk-tuk ride, I suggest taking a ride in Salt Lake on the morning of any weekday, a tuk-tuk fast and furious? a gripping experience. Shot from Kolkata taxi in a rainy seaso...

You may have came across scenarios like you have a image file in your local computer, but you don't know the origin of the image. Using this image, you may like to explore story behind the image or you may like to explore similar images. So How will do it just using the image file. Here comes the technology of reverse image search, the famous Tineye , which is an image search engine in reverse, as to enter a particular image, for their clones and modifications throughout the Internet, making it easier the task of finding places far has a picture of yourself or have had any changes. Today has been a little affected by the Google version of this service , but still fighting back. Still, the biggest problem with these services is that they are in the cloud and all images on your disk automatically excluded from the search. To resolve this problem exists imgSeek, which is a desktop version, with large differences, TinEye service. imgSeek initially works by creating a catalog of all th...

Before going into the heart of post, I would like to tell something here. I mentioned temple as a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities referring to all religions. Temple is not constrained to Hinduism. I spent my childhood with my ammoomma [Grandmother] in a village called, kanderi in Northern Kerala. Northern Kerala is blessed with lot of Theyyams. Ammoomma used to take me to watch Theyyam and tell lot of stories about Theyyams, Purana and lot of other stories about mantra. I have been running behind our mantras and different rituals from those days when my brain started embedding memories. Initially when I heard that there is mystic power behind mantras, I also couldn't believe it. I read some books and they led some light into my exploration behind the mysteries of mantra. Half of the knowledge I got from the readings and other half I myself developed from the base of these readings and others. I just wanted to tell some basic concepts behind mantras...

I felt like working as software engineer in software industry kills your passion in coding. Is it ? I think so. I have been working as a software engineer for past 4 years. I got placed through campus selection in a MNC. So what is the outcome after last 4 years. I became a baby in software industry. I neither got exposure to any new technologies nor any challenging job. We cannot blame the company too some extend. Because to some extend, the technology company uses depends on the client. I had a hardcore passion for coding in my college days. These days I hate coding to the worst extend it can go. Almost all coders will go through these kind of scenarios. So How to get rid of this. Being a freelancer is a good idea. You are boss for your business. You are defining the architecture, you are implementing your ideas and the outcome is you are enjoying your work. Of course, the financial security of leaving a 9 to 5 job to be your own boss is the first drawback that would come to mind. ...

I was doing a project in that i want to create PDF reports on the fly. I goggled a lot and i went through lot of tools over internet.But i went back on seeing the 200$ + license.I cannot buy licence becoz i 'm doing project as a self service towards a charity association.Then i came across a open source project called iTextSharp. iTextSharp is a library entirely written ic C# on .Net platform that allows u to create PDF dynamically. So lets code to create a simple PDF in VB.Net Imports iTextSharp.text Imports iTextSharp.text.pdf Imports iTextSharp.text.html Public Sub GenerateReport() Dim Doc As New Document(PageSize.A4, 80, 50, 30, 65) Dim FileName As String = Guid.NewGuid.ToString Dim Par As New Paragraph() Dim oLabResults As New LabResult Dim iTextTable As iTextSharp.text.Table Dim imgLogo As iTextSharp.text.Image Dim strLogoPath As String Dim oDirInfo As New DirectoryInfo(HttpContext.Current.Request.PhysicalApplic...

Shortcuts are very handy for us in this tech world.. I m putting here some shortcuts that can be handy.. Special thanks to http://www.makeuseof.com/