Wednesday, July 27, 2011

A nice way to Manage all your Mails and Social Networks

Looking for a place where you can manage all your mails and social networks ?

Here I am with a small application for windows users, where in they can manage all their emails, like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc and social networking sites like Linked in, Facebook, Twitter.

well! before getting into the details of the app, let me tell you that this application is going to cost you, 8 MB of space on your Hard disk and nothing more :). Yes! its free!

Inbox2, is a free app that can be downloaded from here. It allows you to read and reply messages and mails from all your email accounts and social networking sites. without you having to login to the site on your browser.

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its really a nice way to manage all your mail boxes and social networks without having to open many browser windows.

Try it and leave your response in comments

Use your Webcam as a Credit Card Reader

Which Laptop doesn’t come with a decent webcam these days?

I am sure 99% of us would say “none”. so to help you make your online shopping and payments easy, and to make the best use of functionality of your webcam, US based  payment startup Jumio had come up with a new technology that enables you to use your webcam as a credit card reader.

1The patented technology called as ‘NetSwipe’ uses secure video streaming to recognize and verify credit card information. Hold a credit card up to the camera, wait for it to initialize and then enter the 3-digit CVN number. that’s it! you are done with your shopping and secure payment.

With the failure of the keyboards that are fitted with credit card reader, we will have to just wait for a while to see how much this new technology will get into the day to day life.

Fair chances that it will succeed as it doesn’t require users to buy any new hardware and the entire process is totally secure. ( I don’t think I will need to explain about the key loggers and cookie tracking tools that are being used to capture users  information, when they key-in the information like credit card numbers etc. )

Jumio introduces Netswipe from Jumio Inc.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Lessons Learned - PMI Certification with love

Inception: Came across PMI when I was in my PGDM. Always loved the concepts and in depth scrutinizing PMI does about project management.
 
Business Case: Market Demand for the Certified People, Need to enhance my knowledge
 
Scope Baseline: Get the Project management Certification which is renewed around the world and across the industries.
 
Project Charter: My application got accepted on July 23rd 2010 after going through PMI’s Audit Process
 
Schedule Baseline: Three Months (this got changed due to various approved change requests like Job Change, personal reasons, once I messed up my exam appointment on my Birthday, Settling in new job, got busy with other stuff in life, etc.)
 
Schedule Updates after Approved Changes :) :- My final preparation was for exactly 7 days, started on 15th July and exam was on 22nd July. I don’t mean to mislead people by saying that 7 days prep is enough to pass the exam, all that I intend is to “motivate”, “capm is not an impossible thing to crack”.
Due to my Job Constraints and as there was a Business partner visit from Canada, I couldn’t afford to take leave for more than 2 days (exam day and the day before), So I had to allow buffers in those 7 days, to accommodate my preparation hours and job activities
I made a excel sheet schedule for every hour in those 7 days, regarding what should I do so that I cover whole PMBOK.
 
Cost baseline: Only Exam fee, no other training programs which is going to cost me :)
 
Known Negative Risks: I am very bad at sitting with books and studying loads of pages, waking up in early hours to study.
 
Unknown negative Risks: Appointments with girlfriends and others which just come out of blues
 
Risk Management Plan: Use Multiple Alarm Application on my Blackberry and keep alarms for every 15 min starting from 4.30 to 5.30 so that I can at-least wake up by 6 every morning for those 7 days and study till 8.30. Don’t spend much time with friends and girlfriends in the evening :)
 
Positive Risks: Exploit my knowledge on PM as I work day in and day out in the line of project management (had come across considerable no. of concepts in PMBOK, before I touched PMBOK, with job experience and by reading articles on Project Management on net, had attended a Seminar by Mr.To, EVMS professional, as a part of ERP Implementation in my company)
 
Quality management Plan: make sure that I go through all the processes described in PMBOK
 
Risk Response: Risk Sharing ( I mean to say I took help of my Babhi, who had spent Considerable time and had wrote a nice 10 page material on all processes, And my girlfriend who helped in at the last moments by preparing good notes on two of the KA’s)
 
Tools and Techniques: Study and write down own notes. ITTOS are heart and soul. Try to answer more situational questions and do “How-Why” for every answer. Do problems on EVMS.
 
Execution: Finally Schedule my date 22nd July, one day before my eligibility period expires and gave exam.
 
Work Performance Information: Exam wasn’t too tough to handle.
 
Work Performance Measurements: I finally passed.
  
Validate Deliverables: Got Certified :)
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Sorry for the bad picture, my BB couldn’t do any better :)

A note: I came across few people getting excited about this picture. THIS IS NOT A PICTURE OF THE COMPUTER SCREEN! FOR HOLY HEAVENS SAKE THIS IS THE PHOTO OF THE PRINT OUT OF THE PAPER COPY OF EXAM RESULT!  DON'T GET EXCITED AND LEAVE COMMENTS WITHOUT KNOWING THE REALITY!! I STILL HAVE THAT PAPER WITH ME! taking photo of my exam results after getting out of the exam center and uploading it onto my personal blog isn't any offence and there is no question of someone showing mercy about it. uff!! Wonder if people cant make out the difference between a computer screen and a paper !! god!

People I would like to show my gratitude:
My Loving Babhi (bro’s wife), who got certified even before I knew this certification existed, for pulling out time from her busy schedule and making a nice 10 page material from all the processes
My Bosses at job, who gave me an opportunity to be a lead for functional aspects of ERP Implementation, which aligned my job with my preparation
Mr. Tom, EVMS professional, who gave a one hour Webex seminar on EVMS, which sort of acted like a review for Cost management Concepts. This saved me time of reviewing cost management chapter from PMBOK.
My Girlfriend, for making a cut short notes for last minute review , about quality and HR management KA’s
My roommate and old friend Vinay for pushing me to study,who constantly used to
remind the value of fee that I had paid
 
Observations:-
There are Humans and there are Project Managers according to PMBOK . No offence. I mean to say when writing exam, you should be really serious about Org. process assets, Policies, Ethics, behavior, decision making. Choose what you should do according to PMBOK processes, rules and regulations. Don’t act like a human being with kind heart
PMBOK and its terminology is so pretty much important for giving exam, than your practical knowledge and terminology and situation handling in Project Management
 Surprised smile
 
While giving exam, you should be very serious about project management, take it serious than anything else in your life
Smile with tongue out

Edit to the Original Post: As asked by many aspirants, I had uploaded my preparation notes on web.. you are free to download it from here

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

What if history had MS Office..

imagesWhat if we had MS Office decades ago, when history was still in making, when Bulb was still in the process of invention, when man was fighting with myths to cross the surface of earth and leave his foot print on moon.

Microsoft came up with a promotional website, www.documentsinhistory.com  where it hosts a set of creative videos about using its products, and how would it be if MS office existed when history was still in making ;)

Check out this sample video,

Wright Brothers using Power Point

visit this Microsoft site for more…

Monday, July 11, 2011

Google Plus, a flop in making ?

 

With Google claiming to release “the best ever” social networking site, a few weeks ago, all of us were waiting for and few of us were actually wanting to buy Google plus invitations.

But today, after actually joining Google Plus and having a look at it, I felt “its just another flop in Google’s flop bucket”, others include Google Wave, Google Search Wiki, Google Audio ads, Google Video, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Google Notebook, Google Catalogs, Google Print ads, Google Page creator, Google Answers,  Orkut, Google Buzz, Google Knol.

So what could be next?

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The moment I logged in to Google+, I actually felt the same “half loaded orkut page”

Interface is not so pleasing and catchy

Google was beating its chest like gorilla, claiming that it has a unique feature called circles which is going to be their success platform. But is it not there on Facebook? yes it does and we already are using it.

when sharing a photo album or status message, we can choose whom should we share it with, and it gives you list of friends groups that you have created or categorized. Google circles is no different from this.

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and the idea of sharing your Picasa album on your social networking site, for me it seemed like (beepp) (beepp) (beep), it was a (s)censor cut ;) in Google style

People might join Google Plus, just to update them selves with what’s happening lately, but wont be using it as much as they use Facebook.

cheers

just another internet user

 

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Friday, July 8, 2011

Now you can Open facebook on spread sheet

Now, you can easily check your Facebook account at your work place without the fear of being caught by your boss.

Users can instantly see what their friends are up to on Facebook with updates appearing as new spreadsheet rows.

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By clicking on the shared video, you can also download  it to your Local Disk

To use it, just go to www.hardlywork.in and grant facebook access to the app by clicking “Gmme dem spreadsheets!” button

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

How to do Video Chat on FaceBook

Well, let me get straight to the point

you will have to go to https://www.facebook.com/videocalling

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Click on “ Get Started” Button

A window should pop up asking you “ Whom do you want to call '? “

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Select one of your Facebook friends, who are online at the moment, Click on “ok” when it asks you for confirmation.

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If you are using it for fist time, Facebook would ask you for setup

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A small executable file pops up, save it and install it on your machine

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Its just a plugin, similar to Google Talk Plugin’s that we have been using since years ;)

That’s all you will need to do, Get ready, make your self look smart for a video chat with your FaceBook Friends Winking smile

 

Cheers

Sr1K

Friday, July 1, 2011

Are you stupid or trying to commit slow suicide? ??

My Dear Friends,

Today I am here to introduce a very good friend of many of us:

He is a friend, whom you want to keep all the time.

He controls you totally

Whenever you are in movie or a closed hall, he asks you to take him out so that he can enjoy the surrounding.

Irrespective of place and time he asks you to pick him up.

He has a peculiar odor.

He has 81 Cancer Causing Chemicals Plus 4,000 Extra Chemicals

He sits on your chest and makes your breath difficult

He helps colds and flu catch you easily.

He is expected to kill up to 2.5 million middle-aged humans.

He causes cancers, Heart disease , Stained teeth, fingers, and hair, Asthma , Gastrointestinal difficulties, Headaches, Leukoflakia (smoker's patch), Insomnia , Heart murmur Buerger's disease (inflammation of blood vessel linings) , Shortness of breath, Arthritis , Smoker's hack, Nervousness Wrinkles and premature aging. 

When he no longer wishes to have your company Instead of letting you go your separate ways, he decides to kill you.

Well, this is the story of your "friend," your cigarette. No real friend would do all this to you. Cigarettes are the worst possible enemies you ever had. They are expensive, addictive, socially unacceptable, and deadly.consider all these and Never take another Puff

Breathe deep, hug hard, and live long!


If you are a smoker, quit ! If you are a not a smoker, get people to quit! Talk to a friend, your spouse, a smoker! Help Them


Its never late make you choice and  choose..


Which Battle Is Easier?

The battle to quit smoking today
or the battle to save a diseased
or dying body tomorrow?


Still you want to smoke? Here is the badge for you from me


With Love
Bharathi

P.S: Compiled from http://whyquit.com

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