Which Song is this ?????

Somewhere you were busy .. May be shopping in a mall.. Having  dinner in a restaurant ... Listening FM Radio...  But one which was common in any of these  situations were you were listening to a song which you like a lot.. But unfortunately.. you are unable to either re-collect which one is it.. else may be you never knew which one was it but you want to add to your list...

You need the  SoundHound App...

Make the app listen.. And it tells you all the details of the song played is all about.....

My personal experience has been extremely good over the English numbers, Famous Hindi songs has been awesome...

Try it.. .. Use it.. Like it ...else there's always "I downloaded another app"...

Hit the link  below...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.melodis.midomiMusicIdentifier.freemium&hl=en

Browse the Play store on the web and click Install

Ever thought  browsing on your Google Play app is  tiresome.. Or you feel search is not that all  good.. Or you find the app when you get time over your computers...
Android makes your life easier by allowing you Install the app  right from your Google Play on the browser to your device..
All you need is to be just signed in with  the same ID..

Eg:
Go to https://play.google.com/store
Look for any app you feel good...
Click Install..
Provide your Google credentials
That's it. Your app in a few seconds would get Installed in your Android Phone....

Break even for Diesel Cars vs petrol cars

Well.. Petrol on the verge of hitting a century.. Many have already started moving towards the diesel cars.... There was a time when Diesel engines were considered to be of type trucky...  not jus about the size of the cars which were available but also the NOISE it creates... Today.. With the introduction of CRDi engines, not only the noise is drastically reduced but also the mileage is improved.. On an average, diesel cars give 20%more mileage than petrol.. Some cons still. ? Yet its not as smooth as petrol engines as even they enjoyed the technological promotions.. And of-course pick-up.. Petrol is Petrol..

Well.. Lemme dive into whats in my mind to write this blog...The Break Even....

Well....some facts as of today below on which my analysis is all about..
 1. Today, petrol price is 76 and diesel is 52.. Petrol being Rs24 costlier..
 2.  Diesel cars are expensive ....around 1. 3 lak on a average...
 3.  diesel cars have 25 % more mileage than petrol cars, eg,  petrol 15km.. Diesel 20km per litre.
4. Average car loan interest rate 13%

Now what is the BREAK EVEN... ok. break even time is the time i m referring is the time from when diesel cars would start fetching u more profit on your ROI. :-):-):-):-):-)
After watching a couple of experts views from the motors sectors.. Understood.. For a average user driving 1000km in a month , the break even time he/she starts beni fitting is  in about 4.5years...

I tried best to calculate how it works... Found the below analysis...assuming above assumptions figures hold good for this period....


In 54 months,
distance travelled :1000*54 = 54000 km
money spent on petrol In: 54000*76/15 = Rs 273600
money spent on diesel : 54000*52/20 = Rs 140400

Since diesel cars are around Rs 1,30,000 already expensive on purchase, adding that costs as well...makes diesel stand at Rs 2,70,000.

Plus Minus equals Zero... So diesel stands profitable right after 4.5years.....

Hold on ....hold... If at all say u had been purchasing car on Emi, then the above promotions which almost everyone in market is talking about holds Wrong...

Let me explain... You would actually be paying interest for this 1.4ak additional bore u incurred during buying. assuming loan at 13%interest for 4 years.. U would be in total paying Rs175200 from your pocket instead  Rs1,40,000 I.e with interest.  Now.. Since this is paid from your pocket.. It seems always your earned money as and when u paid... Paid from pocket.. Earned money... I m actually talking about if this money of Rs3650 if invested in recurring deposit on an ave of 8.5%...you would have wealth of Rs2,09,013.

In short  1.4 lake proves to be around 2.1lake proves...Around Rs70,000 more.
Now.. Which also means if u have petrol car, u can add this to your price... So... This also means u can drive for another 14 more months... Means break even is more than 6 years instead of 4.5 years....


In case if u drive for say around 500km in a month.. Then this break even would be in,ore than 13years...

I may be wrong in my analysis... Please do comment....

Back to square 1

Was a little disappointed with the bloggers capabilities on the mobility platform... I actually still wonder the capabilities which has not matured enough.. Expectations are always higher when its Google and expectations are even more higher when i expect out of it...

Well.. What am i talking about actually???? ok.. Let me again get you back to square 1... I had packed my bags a while ago to leave to wordpress ... A standing reason.. lack of mobile platforms here.... There was a two way inconvenience... time factor makes me rely my personal stuff on my Android ... Where thereby a lack of any mobility inputs made ne refrain.. Well.. Bow there is an app... I would say its great finally Google finally abduction finally were able to enervate their developers to make one... And i m trying the same through the blog... The second inconvenience.. Its still been a problem persisting.. Over the time,my readers ve states the i & A. platforms vividly... And its a real inconvenience browsing full web ondevice .... I just hope its too solved.... Well. why back to square 1... Its not just the Android app ... i personally felt a unified exp which could be more easily tied through the blogger than any others.. Well.. Would try best to publish a few morein the coming days....

Will move on soon

Hey guys, A little disappointed with Blogger.. Till now, the mobile version is not optimized.. I have been tracking my blog ever since and few of them are always hit from mobiles and they tend to get a por version of the format.. SO.. Thinking t move my Blogs to wordpress very soon.. Will catch u all out there since then..
Will announce ho too sooner !!! Planning a headstart in the coming week.. With may be with my last blog in the blogger..

Connecting Aircel GPRS to Mac

Connecting Aircel GPRS to your Mac is so easy.
My config i use is as follows:
1. Android Phone
2. Mac Snow Leopard OS.

1. Connect your Android Phone to Mac via USB Cable
2. Connected mode in USB is notified in the Phone.
3. Go to Mac, System preference -> Network
4. On the left pane, you can see your phone modem listed
5. Select the phone modem
6. In the right side, you would find the following fields. Feed in these details
7. telephone Number : *99***1# , account name and password -> Blank
8. Click Advanced, In the first Tab, select your modem, type as GSM/GPRS and in APN type : *99***1# and click OK
9. Click Apply and Connect.
10. Your connection would get connected and you can start browsing.

Comment here in case you need more assistance

What does it costs to think

What does it costs to think of making a better Android phone when you had the best in market.. What do you have it in you and what you don't. You know the market is thinking to make something beyond what you would ever think to make the next.. Market is close-by.. They got in place... The Dual core.. a Gig Ram.. Hd cam.. You never had these when you had he best in place last year...(0f-course even they never... :-))... Welcome to the Worlds thinnest.. lightest.. brightest...Fastest.. Smartphone ...

Samsung Galaxy S2..

It has a bouquet of handsets in similar range to compete with.. rather i would say the rest of the below handsets has a handset to compete with it.. The iPhone4, Htc Sensation, Motorola Atrix, Sony Xperia Arc... Its a war of Flagship smartphones....

Android absorption into Windows Phone 7

Its not surprising though for me but more of shocking... Yet the shock pulsing my nerves is energizing... Its about the Windows Phone 7 inter interoperability feature with Android APi's. Now , what is this ??? Well.. If you could guess... Its good.. Yet.. I would give a short over view right here.. It is all about consuming the Android Api's into the Windows Phone 7 and developing an app. One way to start positive is Microsoft all its starting from Gingerbread specific Api's. Its almost in the beginning. Now, how the ecosystem of developers and consumers are going to be benifitted?? time to market a WP7 app would be shorter.. Developers need not undergo learning a stressful new set of platform specific APi's and of-course, you get a solid build in libraries developed by Google which need not be re-invented by Windows..

something quite similar though not exactly is what i heard Blackberry trying out to get the existing Android apps ported into BB devices.. Lets see how far we see this adoption.. For me, i see a bright horizon though.

For more details, refer the link:

http://wp7mapping.interoperabilitybridges.com/Home/Library?source=Android

something out of all

Like there are a maximum of 366 days in an year, some dates gets blocked and some gets locked. This day also has its own reasonS for getting into both.. Though untold.. A few years back... May be forever for me as ...

Yesterday happened to be my first surgery of my life.. It was painful.. Though it was called off as a minor one.. For me.. It was like spending about 90 odd minutes...Ufffffff.. Ok...ok... U might stop getting more serious as it was a dental surgery.. Only a few around knows the kind of problems i had faced in the last couple of months.. The symptoms.... Vague.. Remote.. Undetectable....Yet the ultimateness connected.. Again.. Its 9th June today.. Somewhere there are always good chunks of these lucky dates repeating as the good omens on top of my head.... I really feel a lottttt better than ever in the last couple of months i had been....Though post surgery, i just carry the tooth pain anymore which should get ok just in a few days...

After a long time i had got chance to blog something.. I was in a dicey state for many days to move onto wordpress but still on thoughts.. Ultimately, decided to be home as my content would remain anyways same...

Galaxy S rocks.. Gingerbread really made it slippery.. I just love its smoothness than ever in any device... New house has been good as per how i had ever thought it to be.. Now, Just that it needs to be filled in with memoirs .. life.. and not to forget my dream.. (oops.. can;t share of now.. Its Thing-Y and no life yet it would be life-Y)

A very vague blog.. told yet almost everything untold...

A shock or a surprise -> iOS5

I literally could not stop laughing when Steve announced the Hot new features of iOS5. I still remember all of his 4 speeches wherein somewhere down the line, he was always bringing in the facts that Apple is not a follower of Android. No doubt, Android incorporated the major good good goodies from iPhone since its inception... And it was not like a crime.. And it was not untold.. Be it Multi Touch gestures or Inertia scrolling... Of-course ,there is bunch, Or-course there is double bunch what it has too !!!

Well.. Lemme come straight to the point..

Notifications Bar.. Notifications Bar.. Why does an iPhone want it when i had heard almost every iPhone user finding it ridiculous of being in Android...

Newstand ?? Was that an innovation which existed for about an year???

Reminders ?? Ha Ha.. Alarms.. Reminders.. tasks to do!! What were these ...

Camera -> Well, to be frank, not much comments since every platform needs updates

PC Free -> Thank god.. Finally they understood what a smartphone should all be about of being independent of a PC or Mac (Who gave this idea????)

Safari -> Slow.. Slow.. Slow... As always been when it encounters a JS and a html5 component. Forget flash....

I seriously don't want to comment on the rest of the features as i feel it has some minutest details.. If this goes into iPhone5, I m sorry .. as i ever waited for iPhone4, I dnt think i would ever wait for iPhone5.

One of the most important reasons why i m unable to find these differences .. I can understood the way Google works.. the openness in the platform paved ways ahead for the app developers to innovate more compared to iOS developers. This definitely has led to think for more platform improvements and scale higher when some planned milestones by Google had been exceeded by app developers..

Well, My guess whats next iPhone version can expect:

1. NFC Support for Payments vi mobile device

2. Open accessories support so that external USB devices could be easily connected

3. Widgets and mobile desktop

4. Apple mail which can sync thru all of One apple accounts, be it mail , calendars or tasks to do or apps or whatever

Well, All in all.. I m surprised rather being shocked..

Galaxy S

Yesss.. Finally i again remembered i ever used to maintain Blogs... This was the one written 2 months back and publishing now(as i forgot to!!).

Finally decided to buy what i had had the longest.. Get set and Go!! Got the Samsung Galaxy S.. Though Android has been the oldest ever in me, i m still not snugged with it. As one thing makes the other thing greedy... It makes me too.. I started demanding 3G since its inception.. Number portability.. Vodafone's disappointed in Bangalore of NO 3G license makes me apprehensive whether i should still hold on or wait what better alternatives they bring up or move on with Aircel which undoubtably been a well connected network across the city..(Of-course, its my finding on my driving routes)..Huh!! So much about so much.. Left hese to time...

Yes.. One thing is true for sure.. Any Smartphones ease Jobs(Though Its not always made by Jobs)...

Lot more to come..

Hold on your breath!!! Lot more of my blogs needs to be published!! Just my bizzy work life has put aside all these aside!!! I've just come back here to tell u that come back soon!!!
Well.. Any guess what it could be al about!!! A Few hints what i can share now would be like.. one.. ofcourse.. Technology!!! and obviously.it got to be related to the emerging media!!! Two.. work-life-work!!! the wave where i'm lost in some deep blue sea.... Three... Four..... Let that be instantaneous and be a surprise on times i publish...
Not much to reveal as of now!!!!

My take on "My name is Khan"

My Name Is Khan.... Simply on the grounds on Humanity.. a must watch movie to empathize.. Feel one's conscience what its been always telling..May be try to wake up something which we always planned "Lets do it from the time i achieve that..[that is practically never achieved]".. .. It not about something which we really need to feel for the scenes shown in the movie.. It could be anything.. It can be an Eye opener for some.. Could boost some.. Could provoke some.. Could make someone wakeUp.. Ofcourse.. cant deny.. Could even make some feel happy..

Kajol looks one of the most prettiest women on earth.. I dnt know who could be someone on this earth who wnt get drowned in her eyes..

Just a small trailer below:

After a long time....

Its was a Friday.. the 5th..The day was good as it was a friday(The casual wear day...)..The floor was full when i reached(though i was not the last person to reach)..It all started with calling out the names and a lil' bit of description ... Fortunately... or rather say with a whole lot of surprise, i saw the my passport photo on screen...Karthik Kaniyappan was the last to be called... It was the day of Target Annual Awards Ceremony.... .. I won the Leadership Expectations award...Yes..True.. It was a Big day after a long time in my life.Who will not feel good when one is one among many.. It is not about what I celebrate of winning.. There is long long ways and days to go to achieve something which i feel like to stamp upon where i dnt stumble .... But yes, I do equally agree that Getting Recognition is a beginning of something which routes to the next tough challenged road ahead....

When i was kid, i had received a lot of awards... I always felt it was quite easy as i was more or less somehow able to make it in the place which gave me something.. then started the next phase of life when i achieved nothing... :-( .. Yes It was really nothing for a looong time... Then started some phase of life where i got something again.. something again where i would have really felt the happyness on the ground but yeahh somehow to satisfy myself.. But Today, I realize one thing.. one thing.. its not someone who did not let me get it .. It was I who idiotically got away when even something still wanted me to be with.. Some say, celebrate Success.. But what is it!!!! Is it something what i got and they did not?? Is it something which calls for a party?? Anything could be partly true...Do you know the cause of success.. what i understand in my way of life is a Failure is the cause of Success.,, Bigger the Failure, Bigger the Success..At-least it makes you to yearn for One-thing. It does not mean run behind Failure to realize success.... Sry to success.. A failure out of "trying out to be successfull" is the cause of Bigger success...

My take on iPad

Well.. No wonder iPad is a truly amazing device... Its one of the another attractive device in the series ever Apple has delivered.. But personally i feel Apple could have done a lot more ground work on the device side and of-course majorly on the OS front before coming up with early launch... Ui what we have seen now is simply stunning... But thats not all of it..

Affirmative front are a thousand reasons which makes me "Go and Get".. But in my purview seeing other factors cannot be eluded.

At 680 Grams in weight, its not gonna be so easy to wave and work. Look at Kindle or Nook. Its just less than half its weight..

Lack of Camera: Now when Apple agreeing to VOIP based calls over 3g network, it looks dull-witted not to have an inbuilt camera.

No MAC OS X- : It has the iPhone OS 3.2 and not Mac OS X. Though the appstore has more than three hundred thousand apps and still growing... most of these apps are suited for small display screens.. It really does not make much of a sense of a separate app concept for this 9.7" display.. A Mac OS X with the Already existing Widget concepts could have done been garnered better advantages along with the strehgth of already existing Unix apps.. This can easily suffice the facebook app or or twitter apa or for the matter of fact..any apps.. and on top of all this..

No Flash: Because of using a smartphone version of OS, currently iPad doesn't have the Flash enabled. this problem would have never come to picture if at all it was a Mac OS X .Its just not about the Youtube flash.. Almost every websites run the flash programs and not rendering these in a 9.7" sexy display is like committing the biggest sin in terms of user experience.

NO Multi tasking: Cant run simultaneously multiple apps at the same time..(iPhone OS 3.2 can only run native apps in Multitasking way.. Not any apps)

No USB, No HDMI:Which generation are we living in!!! The design may seem just seamless. But, you may find it too seamless when you will figure out the number of adapters you would require with it. iPad has no USB ports reportedly. So, whatever you want to use with it camera, printer or even a USB, you would need an adapter for it.

Screen: Though the video shows how sexy the display is.. But when it comes to power consumption , Apple should not have stopped themselves from switching from the LED to OLED technology.. At-least, the battery life could have been extended by more than 30%. 10 hours seems less.

I understand Apple must have thought more than me for my above statements.. The device was not made such that we suit the device.. its the other way that the device suits our way...

I dnt forsee this to be a kindle/Nook killer and something which was unexpected is this has opened up the gates for the other upcoming Android Tablets to fill the gap.

For Those of you have not not yet seen the ipad Video, You can View here:

Thats it for now...

What is Your "Avatar"

Avatar .. Beautiful words to appreciate the movie would fall short.. Its one of the very good movies i have ever watched.. I still can't compare the 3D effects as good as Polar express.. But yes.. it wasnt intended either for all the scenes.. worth watching .. I wish i could have watched the same in the iMax format .. Inox screens are so small for 3D movies.. Common iMax.. Checkin Bangalore.. The best of the entire movie what i liked is about humanity...Its just within you which knows what it should think.. what it should do.. Just do that and feel better of yourself being human... I started to believe everyone has an avatar.. Its just how you take it forward is all upto you..

The day was good as once again Amalin Akshay and I met .. Had a light munch before the movie and even dinner out.. It was good for one more reason as we met one of our old gold friend Ganesh after a looooong time .. Shared a lot of happenings over the years he had been..had Fun... ..Finally reached home late...as usual...

:-) :-) :-)

3G in india

Finally experienced the 3G network in India.... Video calling was pretty good enough.. .Of-course , it was my first time ever i had a video call over the mobile though for me a video conference over the computers is more than 10yrs old...I felt what better one can expect on a video call with a 0.3Mpx camera in the front.. it was nice.. fun..

Its just in the beginning phases of Testing.Hope so it launches sooner on all networks...3G network is definitely lightning fast.. WebPages loads lightening fast when you compare the EDGE network..

All in all.. Its surely a great experience...

Solar Eclipse In Bangalore

Its quite a been a tough week for me.. Unwell.. Committed work.. Feeling better today than how all the last weekend started .. It was the day of Solar eclipse .. The longest in this century.. It was great to watch the Eclipse in the mid afternoon..
It reminded me of the Moon when on it 4th day after the new moon day.. It would have a sharp curve and though very thin, it would be always visible to eyes.. Visible like White Moon with Black background.. It was all the reverse today.. The Moon was visible similar but it was Black and the Sun behind was shading the white color.. It was simply awesome to watch.. Ofcourse.. all these Eclipse Stories happened and made me skip my lunch...

Yesterday was PONGAL and may be it was first time in my life that it wasnt celebrated in my house as ever... first time i realised the importance of SugarCane... Sakkara Pongal...I remember the last time when it was made.. Had...Shared..... Miss my mom a lott... Unfortunately.. It was a dry day...

I really dnt understand one thing in Bangalore,Suddenly it seems everyone's been hitting the theaters where on-line ticketing happens.. Its become pathetic to book the ticket on-line.. I've been trying for Avatar for about a month and still not able to book tickets.. Hope so.. anywayz.. Finally somehow got tickets for "Chance Pe Dance".. Th review on the same would go next right here...

Managing Investments

Managing Investments is one of the most tedious things in life.. Multiple Shares.. Multiple Mutual Funds.. Multiple Insurance Policies.. And lot more....

It is one of the most easiest to manage in the first year of investments as we all know how we well planned our investments and safe guarded every document related to it..First year... everyone knows where the money is invested.. What is its worth.. When its getting matured.. Next year.. You know what you did last year.. So.. You go ahead and make additional purchases and new funds.. Then again next year...But Imagine.. Year on Year investments...What would happen. By now we would have accumulated a lot of Statements which we would have received from the fund houses....Statements bundled.. Confusion.. When.. What.. Where... We might change our Mobile numbers.. We stop getting alerts on it.. We might change addresses.. We stop getting certain statements where we have not updated.. We change Banks if completely get dissatisfied..Confusion.. Its not me who is creating it.. Its the times which could be more than my limitations..

We often tend to forget what is invested where .. when our funds are getting matured .. when the funds are out of their lock-in period.. and when our funds are performing better and the most important.. when our funds are performing worser and its time to exit...Its all the mundane problems what almost every investor comes across when poorly managed..

There are many ways to manage our investments... Its definitely an extra cumulative effort every-time but ultimately pays off as and when required.

1. Centrally Dealing and Monitoring funds would be the best option is what I feel.. So.. Its at the top.. Its better to have one online account to purchase all the different flavors of funds though one place. Buying and selling of funds is all at one place and it can happen whenever we want ...Some examples for the same would include like Hdfc, Sharekhan, Indiainfoline, Icici etc..

2. If not having an online process as above, Its better to deal with a single broker of choice who can always do a similar model like above and give u access.

3. If interested in applying directly to different Fund-houses online/offline , Its a bit tedious process as documentation proofs are requirred for each and every fund house when u get into for the first time. Though the funds are scattered in different places, It would be wise to make up an online portfolio in some websites which can help u find and monitor anytime of its worth and performance. Examples includes like Moneycontrol portfolio manager , Valueresearchonline etc..


There goes a lot more thoughts when we get into the managing investments of what we have. Its really not possible to cover up in one single blog.. so.. again.. it would be continued in my subsequent blogs...

Happy Investing!!!!

The Era Of E-Mails

The Era of sending personal mails is almost instinct. We all log in to multiple social networking sites and IM's. Saying Hi in these SNS(Social networking sites) is in vogue than drafting a longer mails and taking the pain of keeping someone in the address-field and thinking twice on what to keep in the subject lines...

This is the new beginning of the SNS ... Pals wants their other Pals to know we are in touch.. And that automatically drifts others to make use of these services more.. its the times of facebook.. myspace.. twitter.. orkut... E-mails have become more formal among friends unless there is really something very personal intended or some attachments... Replying to emails has been very boring .. the reverse side on the same with social networking is we jump-into to reply on or to follow up someone else's thread...


My E-mails started way back 11years from now.. Hunting down friends list and sending mails were mundane.. Days have changed.. Pick someone from ur SNS profiles and poke them.. I feel its so easy.. I feel its fun.. I feel its no more a closed set and its more friendly...

So.. what makes one change to these!!! Ultimately, Will E-mails survive only in the corporate world???
I have no answers for these.. Time would make me aware in the years to come.. If you've got something.. comment down..

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