iReboot Photo walk - Thanks Pee Vee & Team !

iReboot Photo walk - Thanks Pee Vee & Team !

Thanks to iReboot & team for a great Photowalk !

Top tips for talking with your boss

One of the most challenging areas of the workplace is communication. It can often literally make or break your career. What you say to your superiors shapes their impressions of you, and in turn can mean the difference between being promoted – or being overlooked. While not all bosses are the same when it comes to communication, there are some general dos and don’ts to keep in mind. Here are five of them.

1. Do share your ideas
If you have a suggestion for a process change or potential improvement, don’t be afraid to share it. Bosses appreciate employees with initiative and imagination, and they are almost always open to ways to help the business run better. You’ll stand out from the crowd as someone who’s innovative and committed to the company’s success, two qualities that can significantly boost your career and your professional reputation.

2. Don’t wait until the last minute
In business, surprises are generally not appreciated. So when you have important news to share, whether it’s good or bad, don’t delay – let your boss know as soon as possible. Although it can be difficult to share unpleasant news, you can bet your boss would rather hear it sooner rather than later.

Alerting your boss to potential problems gives them a chance to react and hopefully defuse a situation before it escalates.

3. Do ask for what you want
It’s easy to grumble and complain about things you’re unhappy about without taking any action. But rather than suffer in silence, speak up! Bosses are people too, and they generally want to have happy and satisfied employees – because happy, satisfied employees are more productive. If you’re interested in taking on a different assignment, or changing your work schedule to better meet deadlines, you have everything to gain by simply asking. Of course, to increase your chances of getting what you want, try to frame your request in terms that relate to the business – “I think changing my schedule would allow me better to coordinate my work with our Chicago office – would that be possible?”

4. Don’t say yes to every request
Employees often feel pressured to go along with everything their superiors suggest. It takes courage to tell your boss you don’t agree – but sometimes, it’s the best course of action. If you truly don’t feel that a proposed project or timeline is realistic or beneficial, it’s better to voice your dissenting opinion rationally and openly. And if you’re already overburdened with work, saying “yes” to taking on a new project is only going to further strain you and potentially even negatively impact the quality of your work. So don’t be afraid to say “no” – but try to provide alternatives and compromises.

5. Don’t talk badly about your co-workers
Rivalry and bad feelings occasionally happen within an office, but pointing fingers and laying blame on colleagues just makes a bad situation worse. Office politics can be difficult to navigate, but bringing your boss into it can often make a bad situation worse. If you’re having problems with a co-worker, try to address the situation yourself before escalating it to your superior. And if you simply must speak to your boss about it, describe the situation as objectively and dispassionately as possible, and avoid an emotionally charged discussion.

Knowing just the right thing to say in every situation is almost impossible. But following these general guidelines will hopefully help you feel more confident when communicating with your boss. Just remember: bosses are people too, and almost everyone appreciates being dealt with in an honest, direct, thoughtful way

Tips for smarter meetings

No matter how big your business is, you probably spend a lot of time in meetings. There's no need to suffer – there are plenty of ways to use IT to make meetings more efficient.

1. Consider your options. Do you really need this meeting at all? Could you replace it with an email update or a chat over instant messaging?
2. Use mind maps. A mind map is a way to think through an agenda in a more creative way.
3. Count the cost. Add up the hourly salary cost of everyone attending the meeting and multiply by the duration. Does it represent value for money?
4. Set standards. Set common expectations about how your business does meetings. Everyone should know how to chair a meeting, how to take minutes, how to brainstorm etc. You should also set clear expectations about arriving on time.
5. Schedule breaks. Don't let long meetings continue without giving people a chance to take a break. Schedule the start and end time of the breaks and don't let people wander off for a coffee, cigarette or email break.
6. Have meetings standing up. Discomfort is a great way to focus people's minds and prevent unproductive conversation.
7. Hold meetings before lunch. Similarly, people are unlikely to tolerate overrun if they're hungry.
8. Schedule shorter meetings. Agendas always seem to expand to fill the time allotted to them. It's too tempting to schedule meetings for an hour or half an hour because that's the default in Outlook and other diary software. Try scheduling different times and different durations.
9. Finish meetings early. Try to finish at quarter to the hour so people can get to another appointment that starts on the hour.
10. Ten-minute meetings. Try scheduling ten-minute meetings. Send out a very tight agenda and all the supporting documents in advance. Give everyone a brief opportunity to have their say and then move to a decision.
11. Replace routine meetings. Status reports and so on don't need meetings. Don't let a 'same time, same place' meeting carry on after it has done its job.
12. Deflect distractions. If an issue comes up that is interesting but off-topic, note it on a whiteboard or in the minutes so that it doesn't get lost. And then move on with the agenda.
13. Shorter minutes. There's usually no need to record who said what; just what decisions you took and who is going to do what.
14. Manage talkative people. Don't put talkative people opposite the person chairing the meeting – that way they won't always get eye contact and start talking. Don't be afraid to challenge repeat offenders (one to one, outside the meeting as a courtesy). “I'm always interested in your views but perhaps with a bit of preparation you could be more succinct in meetings.”
15. Get everyone to contribute. If you are running the meeting, always ask quiet people for their views. They might have a critical contribution but lack confidence to speak.
16. Use a timer. Make sure each meeting room has a large clock with a second hand on it. If time is short, set time limits on individual contributions or a strict timetable for each part of the agenda.
17. Encourage brevity. Ask people to circulate lengthy reports in advance by email. Let people give high-level summaries but don't let status reports turn into lengthy monologues. Try to focus on the information that the meeting as a whole needs to know.
18. Learn from your successes (and your mistakes). After each meeting, spend a minute to ask everyone what went well and what they would change next time. Those who don't learn from bad meetings are condemned to repeat them.
19. Use document templates. Microsoft Word 2007 has lots of templates you can use to create an agenda or minutes quickly. You can use these as a starting point for your own company templates.
20. Use a computer to capture actions. An HP notebook or tablet PC with a projector is a great tool for capturing minutes and ideas in a meeting. Whiteboards and flipcharts are okay for capturing ideas during a meeting, but a computer never runs out of space and it's easy to add and delete new ideas as you go.
21. Project rooms. If you are working on a long-term project, consider setting up a permanent project room where all the meetings for that project take place. You can cover the walls with relevant material and keep documents and files in it. Or you could have a meeting room with a project wall.
22. Be a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007. Office PowerPoint 2007 puts the control in your hands to create great-looking presentations. The special two-monitor Presenter View lets your audience see the slideshow on a projector while your notebook displays speaker notes, the current slide and a clock – ideal for staying on track.
23. Avoid 'same time, same place' meetings. Regular meetings create a sense of continuity but it's easy to lapse into bad habits – no agenda, no minutes, and a bloated invitation list. The best idea is to treat each scheduled meeting like a one-time meeting.
24. Ban email in meetings. If people spend all day in pointless meetings it's easy to understand why they bring notebooks and answer their email; but if meetings are going to get shorter and more efficient, you'll need their full attention. Offer this deal: we'll cut meetings in half so you can give your full attention to the meeting now and your full attention to your email later.
25. Use Outlook to schedule meetings. Office Outlook 2007 has several features that make organising meetings much easier. These include the ability to see group schedules and other people's calendars as well as the 'Plan a Meeting' tool which automatically chooses a mutually convenient time for a group.

ADOBE Photoshop CS5

As you know photoshop cs5 it has been released, so we courage you to check the comments of this post to know more about its serial, crack, keygen or anything else whatever u want. We also have the Mac updates there, so don’t miss it and read everything.

More About Photoshop CS5:

Photoshop CS5 was launched on April 12, 2010. In a video posted on its official Facebook page, the development team revealed the new technologies under development, including three dimensional brushes and warping tools. A version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended was used for a Prerelease Beta. A large group of selected Photoshop users were invited to beta test in Mid-February of 2010.

Features:

Photoshop has ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring. The .PSD (Photoshop Document), Photoshop’s native format, stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g. .EPS or .GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality.

Photoshop’s popularity means that the .PSD format is widely used, and it is supported to some extent by most competing software. The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and the Web. Photoshop is a pixel-based image editor, unlike programs such as Macromedia FreeHand (now defunct), Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape or CorelDraw, which are vector-based image editors. Photoshop uses color models RGB, lab, CMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone.

Photoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, and Adobe Fireworks.

Its CLICK time of the Year !

Clicking photos is always fun. It’s the time of the year when your family and friends spend their time together at home during Navarathri, Diwali. It’s also the best time to get memories in print. But oftentimes people are frustrated to find out that the pictures they have taken don’t look too good when they get printed. Perhaps, when you get see your school days photos, it brings enough joy and happiness.. Great memories, Incident, Fight, Ego, Fun... what not.... Thats why i keep clicking any thing and everything.....

Digital photography has opened up a lot of new and valuable opportunities to all. Here are a few reasons for you to go digital. First, you can always make sure that the shot you took is the one you like before leaving the scene and if it does not meet your expectation, you can always delete it and take another shot. Second, digital cameras allow you to easily and quickly retrieve images. You also have the option of having your photos printed at home at your own convenience.

Digital cameras can also cost you..... filters, lenses and polarizers allowing you to meet any photographic challenge you might come across with.

These are just a few reasons to make you cross over the fence to digital photography. When you do decide to use digital camera there are a few things to consider in choosing the right one as there are a lot of choices when it comes to digital camera today. Most of these cameras only differ in use and price. If you are thinking of only using your camera to exchange snapshots with your friends, you do not need to spend a lot for the camera. Don’t forget to ask the seller if the camera you are purchasing can accept external power supply. Remember that cameras use power fast so you do not want to spend most of your time purchaseing batteries and miss the opportunity of getting the shot that you want.

Just one thing one need to consider before using a typer camera that fits you....

If u r buying SLR camera, you just need keep investing, for lens & accessories...

If ur OK with it then go with it !

If SLR then for Nikon D3000 , Nikon D90, Nikon D5000, Nikon D3100, D7000

About Canon SLR ( wont be able to comment, since am not aware )

Regarding Bridge cameras ( with larger zoom )

Nikon L110 ~ 14500 [Definitely wins the Bridge camera Race, Have tested it, Great worth for money , Recently i had suggested toJaved, He has fallen in love with it for a change instead of some Girls, u can take opinion from him tooo.... ask him share some pics too ]

Panasonic - LUMIX FZ35 [ Deepak sirs camera... great piece... u record videos HD format, Deepak sir has shown me few videos too.... Really loved the clarity... planning to buy this sooon ]

http://www.panasonic.co.in/web/pid/8386

Check for Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ40 as well !

http://www.panasonic.co.in/web/Pid/9771

DEFINITELY BIG NO FOR SONY !

(Don't know WHY !! )

Know it: Canon Digital Camera

Canon digital camera innovations have always been at the forefront of photographic innovations and their compact digital cameras package a variety of functions into a deceptively small Canon digital camera body. These are particularly attractive to a wide range of users because of their light weight, ease of use, high image quality and high functionality.

Canon digital camera experts are highly experienced in camera manufacturer, leading-edge optical technology, ultra high-precision mounting technology, electronic device technology and color management technology amongst others. All of this experience and expertise is combined to produce the Canon digital camera PowerShot series and the PowerShot DIGITAL ELPH/DIGITAL IXUS series.

Throughout their continuing research, the Canon digital camera development team has collected a large amount of photographic data and also made broad statistical analyses of the frequency involved in taking photographs. This data led to the creation of the Canon digital camera Photographic Space which is a graphical database of information relating to the relationship between surrounding brightness and distance between a Canon digital camera and the subject relative to the focal length and position of the zoom lens when pictures are taken.

... Not Just SUPER STAR ... but ROBOT, ROBO, ENDIRAN !

Endiran / Robo / Robot review !

Where do I start? What do I say? Where do I end? Never has writing a review been such a tough job in my life. A film that you have been waiting for so long, a film starring the best actors and some of the best technicians of Indian cinema will always be loaded with expectations that eventually wont be satisfied. Something or the other will be mocked at - the story, screenplay, technicality, etc. But what if the film exceeds expectations and wants you gasping for more? Endhiran - The 'Chitti' Robot is one such film.

Story: Simple. A scientist creates a robot for a good cause. But its just a machine that doesnt have the feelings associated with a human being. What if the feelings are programmed into the robot? The side effects of doing such work is what the movie is all about. A simple story that allows ample opportunity for the director to enjoy his ride with incorporating special effects and graphics. For Tamil cinema, its a new attempt as far as story is concerned.

Screenplay: The first half is just very racy with humor sprinkled in good amount. The fight scene in the train is just hair raising. Rajni's performance as Chitti the Robot with its humor is just spell binding. His romance with Aishwarya though stands out like a sore thumb. Was there a need for the romantic scenes to be shown? Rajni for his age seemed very uncomfortable doing those scenes, and I feel Shankar could have avoided those scenes. But the Kadhal Anukkal song was delightful to watch with the locations, Ash's beauty and Rajni's charm. The first half is very gripping and ends on a high.

The second half starts off on decent note where the Robot shows signs of emotions. Though there were some fillers at the initial part of the second half, most of them did not stand out like irritants. The moment the Robot is retrieved and goes into wrong hands, the movie gains momentum rapidly and the villian side of Rajni comes out in full flow and thats when all the fun starts. It all goes like a rocket from then on and at various points, the action is jaw dropping. It becomes a riot, and culminates in a typical Shankar style climax but at the end, you feel the sense of huge satisfaction that here is a movie that starts well and ends well.

Songs: Song visualisations are the most expected part of Shankar films. Almost all songs are picturised lavishly and superbly. One just wonders the amount of effort Shankar puts into every song. Songs that sounded OK while listening to them alone come alive with Shankar's visuals (e.g. Arima Arima). The best songs are ranked in order.

1. Irumbile Oru Irudhayam - Superb dancing by Aishwarya. She is just fantastic in this song. Completely dominated by her
2. Arima Arima - Lavish to the core. 100 Rajni's and Ash. A visual treat!
3. Kilimanjaro - Beautiful location, just awesome. A very colorful song with good steps and sexy looks from Ash. Rajni with his 'Baba' look is also pleasing.
4. Kadhal Anukkal - Again, the location is excellent. Rajni's charm and Ash's gorgeous looks carry the song through
5. Boom Boom Robo Da - A fun song. Not much to write about
6. Pudhiya Manidha - Used for titles, and introduction. Used in bits.

Background Music: Rahman has done a decent job with the BGM's though for his standards, people are bound to feel let down. The second half where all things break loose, the BGM is very noisy to the point where your ear drums face a serious threat. But the 2.0 BGM is very catchy although whether it suited the scene is a different matter. Expect more from Rahman.

Other Cast: Nothing really noteworthy to write about the other cast except Santhanam, Karunas and Danny Denzongpa. Santhanam and Karunas have lesser work to do than some of their other films but are apt for their roles. Danny Denzongpa was a decent cast, but I felt Prakash Raj could have done a better job in that role. Danny reminded me of Suman in various places (especially the way he walks off from Chitti at the conference).

Aishwarya Rai: A heroine who suited an action adventure Tamil film? She made it possible. She was given ample screen time and she just killed people with her looks and beauty. Especially in the 'Irumbile' song, her dancing was fantastic. Though a typical heroine role, the way her role was given importance in the movement of the story is appreciated. Chemistry with Chitti the Robot was awesome because thats where the real Rajni surfaces. Ash proves that "in this world, she is one of the most notable creations" (Rajni's punch in the film).

Rajnikanth: The man! The Hero ! Not being a typical Superstar film, one was a little worried because his different attempts are not as celebrated. But this time, he selects a perfect film where he tries something different and ends up hugely successful. No starry airs, no punch dialogues, no mass entry, but he gets into the role and ends up lifting the product along with himself. His acting as 'Chitti', especially in the second half is truly spectacular. Sir, we need more of your villiany roles please. There were some whistling moments when he mimics a sheep and when he laughs, but on the whole, he underplays himself and gives the film the right amount of input to project itself. Here's wishing he now slips into more character oriented roles and skips the romancing around parts very soon. He clearly is not comfortable anymore doing that. A film where he is the hero and where he has no heroine would be as well received.

Shankar: Dream project, matching up to Hollywood standards. But this guy SIMPLY ROCKED THE SHOW! His imagination just ran wilder and wilder and left us gasping. He interspersed all of it with enough drama, comedy, romance, emotions (near the end), and made it a film that would be liked by all classes. He kept the technical jargon but satisfies the rural audience with the extravagant action and special effects. For the elites, they have the technical explanations to all the madness that goes on and most if it is believable. With more money, Shankar can work bigger wonders. I wonder what would have happened had he done this film with Kamal Haasan who is not bound by the image that a Rajnikanth is trapped with. But Shankar provides ultimate magic with Rajnikanth too who reciprocates Shankar's faith in him and does what is asked of him. Shankar is a dream director for India, and hope he stays with us and makes even bigger films that expand our reputation beyond set boundaries.

Overall: As Rajnikanth said, "Its truly an experience" to watch this film. People came out so contended with the film and its been a long time since a highly hyped and highly anticipated Tamil film (or for that matter Indian film) satisfies the majority of the audience. Minor aberrations aside, this one deserves REPEATED VIEWINGS. Highly recommended for everyone!

Ctrl+ Alt+ Del - by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

UNESCO Announces INDIAN National Anthem Jana gana mana As Best in the World.

World Top national anthem announced by UNESCO :

Our national anthem (desiya geetham) jana gana mana lyrics written by Rabindranath Tagore is announced as best of the worlds national anthems by UNESCO .

So proud to be an Indian !

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site, mainly used for professional networking.

Features

The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.

This list of connections can then be used in a number of ways:

§ A contact network is built up consisting of their direct connections, the connections of each of their connections (termed second-degree connections) and also the connections of second-degree connections (termed third-degree connections). This can be used to gain an introduction to someone a person wishes to know through a mutual, trusted contact.

§ It can then be used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in one's contact network.

§ Employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates.

§ Job seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them.

§ Users can post their own photos and view photos of others to aid in identification.

§ Users can now follow different companies and can get notification about the new joining and offers available.

§ Users can save (i.e. bookmark) jobs which they would like to apply for.

My Linkedin profile: http://in.linkedin.com/in/inbarajan

www.waterlesswashingmachine.net/

The 'waterless' washing machine that could save you money, Currently, washing machines account for 13% of all household water consumption. With this technology the amount of water needed to service a household’s laundry needs will be a tiny fraction of that amount. It is also estimated that billions of gallons are used each year in the process of laundering clothing. This technology may reduce this amount by more than 90%.

New machine by Xeros cleans clothes with beads and a tiny amount of water and may cut household bills by 30%

http://www.gizmag.com/xeros-washing-machine/12088/