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Clash of the Titans, no it’s not a movie or a celebrity fight.

It’s much bigger, its real and its here.

The two OS biggies Mac and Windows fight it out again as they make an almost simultaneous launch all across.

That’s right they are both up for the grabs: MAC OS Snow Leopard and the more eagerly awaited Windows 7.

But are they worth the wait?

Before we get to that, let’s ask ourselves, were they really needed?

Well, the Mac OS Snow leopard is not, whereas the vista was messed up enough for it to recall on a savior.

Mac Snow Leopard

It seems like the Mac has been pushed in by Apple just to ‘be there’ during the mighty Windows launch.

WIN7

Now, are they worth it?

Let’s find out.

Well, this time, the look, features and price seem to be bending positively towards the surprisingly splendid OS from Microsoft and it looks it might be a little chilly for the other snowing side.

That’s right, the Windows  launch was superb, loads of freebies right from tee’s to Win7 cd’s were spawned across the mega event.

Features, Hardware support, Price, Whats really new & the final take

As for features & hardware support the Windows 7 takes the cake without doubt as it promises and showcases a  smooth run for a 64 bit & more surprisingly even a 32 bit Win user with even a P4 today whereas the Mac, well, it’s made for the Mac after all.

The new Windows media player is fantastic as it is coupled with the amazing new features. The all new pin up your task windows, play all your mp3 files without even opening the media player, the Win 7 seems to have gone all the way for the user.

Pricing of Win7 is to be more affordable compared to the Mac OS Snow leopard and as we quoted earlier, the 7 supports a decent system to run it.

Another really good feature is the one where one can hide all the other task windows whilst using the current only. Its other apps and tools like pin and snap which lets the user skillfully jump tools, use preview panes and taskbar menus are something that every user would love working with.

Superb graphics, backgrounds, themes, sleek interface, desktop utilities with highly improvised HomeGroup & library options will let every windows user take a deep breath of relief.

To top it all, it has introduced the touch screen support features too.

On the other hand, the Mac OS X being awesome on its own, the new Snow leopard offers only a few tweaks with some added built in video functionalities etc.
To sum up, even though a Mac user would always be only a Mac user, the new snow doesn’t seem to be additional or loaded with extras to qualify for a real time new OS but just a patch upgrade and a brand that tops the charts even today.

On a comparison note to conclude, Windows 7 takes the lead this time with so much to bag and so much to brag.

I guess they wanted a WIN-WIN situation & this time they just seem to have got the lucky number 7.

Happy Window shopping!

Chao!

Blessedart

BLINKX : Video Indexing

Blinkx!

Thats’s right, now search and tag your videos too. Its not just text anymore, it’s pure technology and innovation speaking.

The world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. Tag them , search them, detect them now, yes, videos, sounds and images running across the website.

Blinkx was founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake with a hugely successful IPO in London in 2007 and currently has a market capitalization of approximately US $ 350 Mn, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA and UK.

Blinkx launched its Video search engine technology innovation in 2005. It boasts over 35 Million hours of video indexed, ready and fully searchable.

Today, it  Powers video search for 3 of the top 5 search providers. And how does a user submit his / her content here.

Step up:

• Go to www.blinkx.com/rssupl
• Load or located at the bottom of the blinkx home page, click on “Submit RSS”.
• When you are there, enter in the URL of your RSS feed and a valid email address. Click “upload and verify feed”.
• It’s as simple as that.

What else is cool: Something small and really cool: The Blinkx Pico:

Blinkx Pico, which is the world’s smallest search engine. Pico is a toolbar that sits at the top of your page and as you work, automatically brings back relevant information to what you are doing from the Web, news, TV and in the full version, your desktop. 

Pure Innovation raw technology:

The 35 million hours of video is searchable to a much deeper degree than the weak, manually-created, metadata-based approaches to video search of the past enabling pure indexing through moving images.

Videos in 3d Without the Glass!

BLINKX 3D

Blinkx goes a step further and blinkx and ExitReality have developed a unique space for viewing and interacting with online video.

Users will be able to:

• Search for, watch and chat about online video in social environments.
• Collect virtual products such as the blinkx Video Wall, which can be customized with videos related to news, sports, entertainment, weather and more.
• The blinkx Video Wall can be used to decorate any 3D space, or given to friends as virtual gifts.
• Take blinkx products, such as flat screen televisions, to decorate their own 3D ExitReality spaces, such as the ExitReality apartments available on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.
• Invite friends over to watch videos available in blinkx’s index of more than 35 million hours of content.

So blink no more!

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NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST FOR SCHOOLS

 National Creative Writing Contest for Schools across INDIA

The very first National Creative Writing Contest for School Students across India

 Techdivine Creative Services celebrates its First year anniversary of its publication of Expressions, the unique coffee table poetry book & with that the launch of its successfully roaring ‘Creative Writing Community’  & ‘Intellectual Discussion Forum’ that have already crossed a hit subscription of over 20,000 reader hits & with over 1800 registered members across the globe in just the last three months…

As we celebrate, we would like to share this opportunity of blending both the worlds of Creative writing skills with the latest in technology trends of blogging, connecting and reaching across the globe.

‘Who better to share it with than the youth of today!’

We are proud to announce the Launch of our first National Creative writing contest ONLY for school students!

The National “Write-tech-know” Contest

The contest is open only for the top 20 students from each school, registered with us from across India.

For complete info on CONTEST DETAILS / SUBMISSION GUIDELINES / WINNERS / Registration details & on HOW TO add your school and Your school students for this amazing National Creative contest: write to us at our email ids given below

So, If you would want your school to be a part of this revolutionary contest of bringing both worlds together (Creativity & technology), write back to us at these email ids:

admin@techdivine.com  with a cc: to: techdivine@gmail.com

Please remember, Registration is restricted only to School Students: “Schools have to directly register with us with the names of their top 20 students”

Complete contest Info: GUIDELINES

It’s a great opportunity for your students to learn something new and explore into the vast potential of creative thinking! So, don’t wait, contact us today at this mail id admin@techdivine.com with cc: to techdivine@gmail.com

For complete deatiled info: write to us at the mail ids given above!

Animoto: Now Create YOUR OWN!

The next level in Video – Audio – Imaging Technology!

That’s right, Animoto which is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco has brains that have worked and produced shows for MTV, Comedy Central, & ABC and so much more.

What is it about:

This amazing web application, turns your images and soundtrack into stunning music videos in minutes. It analyzes the pictures, music etc provided and automatically generates a trailer like video.

How does it do it:

It’s engine analyzes users’ photos and music and takes into consideration music’s genre, rhythm, and tempo to generate a video that takes into the song’s nuances.

Wow! A thinking web application.

What’s more amazing is that the site claims no two videos are ever the same.

How did the idea originate:

The masterminds when were working in the film/TV industry, felt that there’s just a big gap between the quality of content you see on the web and the type of stuff that one sees on TV and in film.  So the founders of this unique innovation thought, why not narrate one’s pictures with text to tell a story. May be send a message to a loved one and create event invitations and so much of unlimited possibilities.

The Heart of Animoto today:

The heart of Animoto is its newly developed Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills and techniques that are used in television & film.

As of August 2008, 250,000 users in over 200 countries have registered with Animoto.com with 4 million videos and 50 million views

It also have exclusive services for teachers who use it to bring presentations and lesson plans to life in a whole new way for their students.

So what are you waiting for, go and gear up! Create your own!

CREATE YOUR OWN VIDEOS

Let the rhythm take the web over!

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Some of the best Innovations are the simplest & most user friendly.

Here is another fun filled action packed such offering from Nintendo Wii

wii o mania around the globe

Wrap up your sleeve and you are ready for a pulsating action packed ride. Literally!

Very easy to use and extremely addictive.

Amazing channel and media with online capabilities with unique features such as a Weather forecast channel, news channel, photo gallery channel, the amazing Mii for Create your own avatars, messages channel , it is a complete thriller.

Some amazing features of Mii from Wii:

wii mii

Users can create, modify their own personal 3D Miis, right from face, to accessories to handedness of the individual.  These Miis are cute characters with amazing feature and characteristic capabilities to create Miis that look like him / her your friends or anyone you know.

Downside: Sadly, Wii does not play audio CDs or video DVDs, which is something of a disappointment.

Some cool Wii Accessories

The Wii Remote

wii remote

 One Wii Remote comes with the console for any more, You can get them for approx $40. Or better get a Wii Play that already has an extra remote.

The Wii MotionPlus

 This gadget plugs into the bottom of the Wii Remote and provides extra movement information to improve controller tracking.

WOW! The Wii Speak

wii speak

 USB microphone designed that will let users talk to each other online.

The Wii Nunchuk

wii nunchuk

 Few games require these and again, check with the Wii Sports bundle, you should get the Nunchucks.

Whats the Wii Zapper

wii zapper

A plastic that is gun-shaped housing for the Nunchuk and Wii Remote. The Zapper is handy for first-person shooters or games that involve some kind of Wii Remote aiming mechanic. The Zapper is available for about $20 comes with a minigame called Link’s Crossbow Training

The Wii Classic Controller

 The Wii Classic Controller is a traditional gamepad designed for legacy Virtual Console games.

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Approx Wii Cost : $249.99.

Wii games Cost: From the cool Wii games, Virtual console games to Wiiware game: range is $5 to $50

Its a Pulsating go – getter that would make you go wiiiiiiiii (I did not wanna say that!)

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Career proofing: Flying High! on clouded skies

An amazing 4 hour midnight telephonic conversation and I conclude, I am not made up for phone talk!

I then realized, I did it anyway so may be change IS in the air.

Not trying to jump hoops here. Just getting and catching up with the current market scenario.

Had a wonderful conversation with two very different individuals yesterday which made me blog into ‘The blog is personal again’ section. Both were frustrated & discouraged with their jobs, one had resigned and one was dying to resign. Both had remarkably unique points of view to share on the current scenario.

The one who was free from both income and ‘immediate-earlier’ stress spoke with sheer self-belief of the current industry trend of no / poor job & career opportunities.

I asked him, “How did you take this step then, if the industry is so bad?” He said “I resigned ‘coz the industry is awful anyways, so there is no immediate scale for professional growth in our organization. Whatever be your performance, you would be tagged in with the millions as far as recession in industry goes. So when you know the industry is bad, even the sector that’s doing well refuses to grow or accept growth, so why not resign and start a venture of my dream?”

My long silence, made the optimistically high and free being to continue and add, “When I know what I do for others is not going to get me anywhere, I might as well try to do it for me. If it does not work, I anyway have the industry to blame, its recession everywhere and so if not now, then when?”

I smiled, wished him the best of success and loads of positive morale which he would need whether or not his ‘venture’ clicks.

The other individual still bound by rules, corporate policies and frustrations from one’s superior was very clear, “it’s not a good time to leave. Let’s think about changing careers when the industry does well. I can’t sleep with peace, but can at least pay my daily bills without having to plan or think. What say?”

I had nothing to say, I just nodded.

I realized I have become too patient listening to people. Well, at least one good personal skill I added this year I guessed. But, then I just put forth both queries and pointers together:

1. The industry is anyways bad; why not venture into something new. One can change careers when the industry is good or doing great, we would have better professional career opportunities.
2. The industry is bad. Now, it’s time to just stay putt and follow with the crowd. When nothing works, at least your bills are still getting paid!

Then I felt, I would ask all of you…. What say? What would you choose? What is your take on this?

Give me your views on the same.

Blessedart!

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Michael Jackson

The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, undoubtedly one of the most popular and loved entertainer left all of us today, but has gone with a permanent impact and imprint on popular music and culture.

An amazingly gifted individual of this generation, his style and music stands distinct as the epitome of passion in his field of genius. He has showered magic through some of the biggest hits in the history of Music like Dangerous, Criminal, Black & White and his superbly perfected MoonWalk.

TD Creative services team express the loss of an amazing artist with deepest condolences.

Hats off to this legend of an entertainer with billions of fans all across the globe, he will be always remembered in our hearts for his creative genius.

 God Bless MJ

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