Awesome Pic: Monkey Helping Blind Person

Two blind persons wanted to drink water at the RagiGudda temple, Bangalore.

When they were unable to operate the tap, this mother monkey opened the tap for them, allowed them to drink water, drank some water herself and then closed the tap before leaving the scene.

Do share this pic with your friends. It is proof that humanity does exist - even if we humans have forgotten it ourselves...

Iceland - the Cleanest country in the World

Iceland is the cleanest country in the world. This may be hard to believe right now, what with the clouds of volcanic ash grounding flights across northern Europe, but according to researchers at Yale and Columbia universities, the Nordic island ranks first out of 163 countries on their Environmental Performance Index.
Researchers ranked countries based on 25 indicators, including water and air quality, greenhouse gas emissions and the impact of the environment on the health of the population. A score of 100 is excellent. Sierra Leone ranks at the bottom of the list with a score of 32. The U.S. ranks in the middle of the pack with 63.5. Iceland took top honors with a score of 93.5 thanks to ample clean water, lots of protected nature areas, good national health care and a plenitude of usually clean geothermal power.

Risky and Amazing Adventure Photography

If lava bombs start falling out of the sky above you, don’t drop your camera and run. “Running is the most stupid thing you can do,” says Carsten Peter. Photographers had gotten far closer to active volcanoes, sharks, edge of giant rocks and many magnificent places across the world. Today we would like to showcase pure adventure photography, you won’t even wish you were there.

New Generation Word Pad:MI-PAD'S Alpha Version Released

The Most Awaiting Next Generation Wordpad named mI-PAD's Alpha Version has been released today.mI-PAD is word editing tool which includes a nice Graphical User Interface. It is a Word Pad that has incorporated the USPs of both a high end Word Processor as well as a light and simple Plain Text Editor.It provides users across all environments an interface which is easy to learn and use as all required features have been highlighted in the foreground so that users need not waste time searching for one.

The major Objectives of this mI-PAD are:

• To provide an attractive Graphical User Interface for the users.
• To provide a User Interface which is easy to understand and use.
• To save time of the users by displaying all the required tools and features in the foreground which they would have otherwise devoted in frantically searching for  the required feature amongst the seemingly endless mass of cascading menus and toolbars.
• To help the users create plain text files.
• To provide the users with the ability to create documents containing basic text formatting and manipulations.
• To provide the user with ability to edit the layout of the interface according to his/her needs and liking; i.e. Customization ability and hence, its title- mI-PAD
• To provide the users an option of using a new and an exciting tool that will take care of their most basic needs easily.
• It also provides a Scribble feature just to while away time when users have nothing else to do.

mI-PAD has been designed for:

Young Students- it is a great tool for young kids in the age group of 5-8 to get a hang of what a word/text editor looks and feels like before they progress onto bigger ones like MS WORD, OpenOffice and the likes.

Part-time Writers-it is also a great tool for people who write short stories or poem as a hobby because they require only a writing area and handful of formatting tools.

Small business people who need a word editor just to write email messages or to create a bill, purchase order, etc.

Home users – it is a great tool for people who are new to computers as it will easily help them to get accustomed to the working of a word processor, thereby eliminating the need for a formal learning process.  

Some of the Snapshots of mI-PAD are shown below.

Salient Features of mI-PAD are:

    1. Basic editing such as:   

• Insert
• Edit
• Copy
• Paste
• Undo,Redo  and other functionalities which are accessible both from toolbar, right click menu and from standard key combination.

2. Character formatting such as Rich character formatting:

• Font
• Size
• Colour and Background Colour choice
• Bold,Italics

3. Find - find the occurrences of the desired word, one by one both forward and backward in the text; possibility of finding all the occurrences contemporarily involving case sensitive or insensitive search.

4. Print- Print Capabilities with Print Preview.

5. Skin changing- The application skin can be customized through resource files (xaml) containing the component definition. 

6. Spell Checking-Spell checking is enabled for English, French, German, Spanish. 

7. Localization- The application can be easily localized simply through resource files containing the list of label and messages. Application already supports English language. 

8. Images- Insertion, edit, removal of images in format: .bmp, .tif, .png, .jpg and .jpeg, .gif. Image resize with the possibility to: setting the image height and width, height and width percentage proportion; block proportion feature. Image resize through borders drag and drop 

9. Hypertext links-Insertion, edit, copy, and removal of hypertext links (to web pages). Possibility of opening links in browser through standard key combination.

APPLICABILITY

As far as this mI-PAD is concerned, it is widely applicable in today’s world because mI-PAD has been designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.

The Beta Version of mI-PAD is likely to hit the market in july 2010..