EVERYTHING 4 U

MONA LISA Now it’s official: MONA LISA was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and two percent angry. That’s the conclusion of a university of Amsterdam computer that applied “emotion-recognition software” to Leonardo da Vinci’s work. The algorithm, developed in conjunction with the University of Illinois, tries to access the human mood by examining key features such as the curvature of the lips and the crinkles around the eyes, then makes a score with to six basic emotions. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa on a piece of pine wood in the year 1506. Never in the history of art has one painting been so admired. This is due largely to the enigmatic smile, which has caused much speculation. He recorded in his notebooks the records of model settings; but nowhere can be found any records of the Mona Lisa model setting. Why is that? Who posed for him? A researcher of BELL LABS suggested that Leonardo painted himself, and was able to support his theory by analyzing the facial features Leonardo’s face and that of the famous painting. She digitized both the self-portrait of the Mona Lisa. She flipped the self portrait and merged the two things together using a computer. She noticed the features of the famous aligned perfectly. MBA OR AN M.TECH This might not be a big question for most of the students in the world but for an Indian engineering graduate it might be. Here many students doing there UG says that they will rather go in for an MBA than M.TECH, most of the students do not even know that what an MBA is all about. Most of the students generally answer that they will get a large amount of money after doing an MBA. Is this the only reason to do an MBA? This general perception of getting large amount of money sometimes diverges a student in the R&D to the COMMERCIAL WORLD. That’s why there is large number of students in India try to get admission in MBA as compared to an M.TECH. NOTE: All this is not official, these are my own personal views from what I see around myself. THE TOP TEN MOTORCYCLE ROUTES Riding a bike is fun in itself. But if the landscape along the route is breathtaking, the trip becomes truly memorable. 1. The western Alps 2. Christchurch to Auckland 3. Southern Norway 4. Australia’s East Coast 5. Cape Town to Johannesburg 6. Rome to Istanbul via Greece 7. Cote d’Azur’s and Provence 8. Soa Poalo to Rio de Janeiro 9. Chile and Argentina 10. The Italian Dolomites N R NARAYANA MURTHY A staunch Marxist, he hopped through France to India back in 1970’s, visiting every Communist country by road just to get a feel of it, returning India to become the biggest champion of the free market, and building Infosys into a global icon. He went on to be known as the sage of Bangalore. The economist named him among the world’s 15 most admired global leaders. He scores above GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt at the number 8 slot in the list released by THE ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE UNIT AND BURSON-MARSTELLER: the global public affairs firm. The global survey named Microsoft chairman and chief architect Bill Gates as the world’s most admired leaders. The other Indian to figure in the list is Lakshmi N Mittal, at No.15. The survey polled more than 600 global business influential’s in the 65 countries. “Business decision-makers voted for long-term performance and proven track records over fleeting success,” said Patrick ford, Burson-Marsteller’s Global corporate\financial practice chair. “The tenures of these top ranking CEO’s are not short-lived. They had an average tenure of 21 years.” Despite the predominance of American companies among the top most admired leaders, more than half represent other region. NOKIA UNVEILS 9300i One of world’s top mobile maker Nokia launched an updated version of its 9300 series enterprise Smartphone, the 9300i, which supports wireless internet access, the firm said, the photo is due out in the first quarter of the next year; Nokia

TRILLIAN

Each of has our favourite chat proggie. But we use other programmes because our family/friends/colleagues have there fav ones. So we end up in cluttering our pc’s with multiple instant messengers. Actually all you need is Trillion. This standalone, single window chat clients supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, YAHOO messenger and IRC. Standard features include audio chat, file transfers, groups chat, chat room, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, and privacy settings etc. No pop-ups or spyware. And there is contact message history, skins, tabbed messaging, automatic wikipedia integration, docking, emoticons, emotisounds… now I’ am outta breath. Requirement OS: Windows XP, 2000, Me, 98 Size: 8.58MB www.ceruleanstudious.com/learn

THAT SHRINKING FEELING

Within seconds, they could actually feel their waists begin to shrink. It would have been a good advance in the world of wait loss ---if only it had been real. But the shrinking feeling was just an illusion, created by a scientist who wanted to study how the brain creates body impression, people’s perceptions of their own size and the shape. The researchers, led by Dr.H.Henrik Ehrsson of university college London, fooled 17 people into feeling as if they were getting skinner by outfitting them with gadgets that stimulated a tendon in the wrist to create the false sensation that both hands were moving

CCLEANER

Believe it or not, its full name is crap cleaner! And it does exactly that: cleans your PC of toxic substances. Well, it is a system optimization tool that scrubs your web-surfing footprints, erases unwanted files, flushes, the registry, and wipes third party app litter. Specially speaking, in browsers it slays temporary files, URL history, cookies, auto complete, form history, and index.dat. In windows, it cleanses the recycle bin, recent documents, temporary files and log files. And to purify your registry, it can remove unused and old entries , including file extensions, activeX controls, classID’s , progIDs, uninstallers, shared DLLs , fonts , help files , application paths , icons, invalid shortcuts etc. a backup feature here safeguards against mishaps. OS: windows XP, 2003 Server, 2000, NT, Me, 98, 95 Size: 528.59k www.ccleaner.com

DID YOU KNOW THAT?

1. Brush up your GK with these nuggets of info. 2. Mickey Mouse is known as “Topolino” in Italy. 3. South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein. 4. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away. 5. The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hours, set by Violet Gibson Burns. 6. The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelt 225 different ways. 7. There was once a town named “6” in the west Virginia. 8. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 9. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 10. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain. 11. The oldest word in English is ‘town’. 12. The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man. 13. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.