Brain Storm

The Last Pilgrimage

vaibhavivpradhan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:10:34 +0000

Devotion knows no religion, no language. This was proved by 80 years old Jaitunbi alias Jaydas Maharaja, who hails from Baramati Taluka, Malegaon. Born to a mason, Maqbul Sayyed, Jaitunbi was acquainted to devotional songs and prayers (abhangas) of Sant Tukaram and Sant Dnyaneshwar by her father’s friend Hanumandas Maharajah. The philosophy and thoughts of the poets impressed Jaitunbi so much, that she went on to become a devout pilgrim (warkari). However, the path she chose to tread was no cakewalk for her. Being borne into a Muslim family, she had to shun off strict oppositions from Hindus and Muslims as well.

She was famous for her lucid preaching. She always wished to breathe her last during the annual palkhi pilgrimage. She was currently on her 62nd Pandharpur pilgrimage when she breathed her last. On Tuesday night, she had performed discourse (kirtan) at Ramoshigate in Bhavani Peth. She started having breathing problems and was treated for the same. This pilgrimage turned out to be her last pilgrimage. She bid adieu to the world on Wednesday at 7 am. She was known as ‘Akka’ amongst her followers.

She also participated in the independence movement in 1942, and used to spread awareness about the freedom struggle through her preaching. After presenting a ballad in a meeting, she was felicitated by Krantiveer Nana Patil.

Despite becoming a warkari by her own wish, she used to observe fast during Ramzaan and offer namaz everyday.

Jaitunbi is a perfect example of humanity, where she showed two different religions could be kept alive in a single heart. All you need is, to feel it deep inside!

May her soul rest in peace! Amen!

Vaibhavi V. Pradhan

Maths Was Never So Delighting

noor — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:10:25 +0000

Internet has given new perspective in many peoples life. Information sharing and learning has become very easy. Human are always in hunt of new thing from entertainment to knowledge gaining. Adding to human expectation internet has given us multiple choices of web portals and social networking sites, which help us to stay, connected with close yet long distance friends and family.

Today e-learning sites are speeding up and luring user to grab all that they want in a single click. With the same niche www.mathtv.com has set-up new arena for all those who love maths and for those who find it brain whacking. The video wall gives you an amazing and easy implication of solving your (maths) problem within a fraction of seconds… may be a minute.

Come ahead and see what’s stored in here…

When can I use…

Prashant Jadhav — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:34:53 +0000

Cross-browser compatibility is the key factor of web development. It become very crusial while deciding which technology should be use while developing any site.

CanIuse.com offer a comprihensive comparison of features between various web browsers. It lets users select the technologies and browsers they want to view. It is very innovative and effective cross-browser compatibility tester (before starting development).

Click here to check the result provided for HTML5

URL Shortening & Security

Prashant Jadhav — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:57:22 +0000

With the rise of social networking and social bloging, the necessity of url shortening sites also rise. There are a handful of sites available which offer url shortening services. Sites like Bit.ly, Curio.us, Tinylink are among the popular one.

I recently came across another such site http://trick.ly

It is a bit special because it offers you an additional layer of security while sharing shortened URLs. One can also set a password clue that will be displayed to everybody in case they forget the password.

For those who view too many online videos on laptop

Prashant Jadhav — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:38:26 +0000

For the ppl who like to view videos on video hosting sites like youtube (including myself), I found a very nice extension of Google Chrome which provide us cinema hall like experience while watching video.

Turn Off the Lights is an extension of Google Chrome 4.x

Success doesn’t come within a day!

Prashant Jadhav — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:25:40 +0000

It was a tough path for ISRO to reach where ever it is today… One of the highly regarded space research centers in the World.
Hats off to the determination of 100s of self-less, genius and dedicated scientists and engineers who made this possible…

This was how the Rocket Cone was transported to the Launch Pad at Thumba !!

November 21, 1963: The Nike Apache rocket being readied for launch

Try Identifying the person on the left…most probably you won’t be able to identify…. He is our very own… Dr. A.P J. Abdul Kalam….

Early days at the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. Readying equipment to be carried by a sounding rocket into the atmosphere are Kalam and R. Aravamudan

The present day Launch Station at SriHarikota

Success doesn’t come within a day!

A salute to the creator of Amul moppet

Prashant Jadhav — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:45:56 +0000

Eustace Fernandes, the creator of Amul moppet (Utterly Butterly Girl) passed away at the age of 75 on Thursday 11th March 2010.

His creation, the utterly butterly girl, is one of modern India’s most enduring, popular and recognizable icons comparable only to R. K. Laxman’s Common Man and Air India’s Maharaja.

Thanks for everything Mr Eustace Fernandes. Though you are not there in us now, your moppet will always keep your name alive.

Firebug support for Non-firefox browsers

Prashant Jadhav — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:27 +0000

Firebug is an extension for Firefox, but what happens when you need to test your pages in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari?

The solution is Firebug Lite, a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in browsers that are not named “Firefox”.

Firebug Lite creates the variable “firebug” and doesn’t affect or interfere with HTML elements that aren’t created by itself.

Installing Firebug Lite 1.2

Insert this line of code into any page that you want to contain Firebug lite:

Firebug Lite can be used as bookmarklet too. For detailed information regarding bookmarklet and other customisable features of it, kindly visit http://getfirebug.com/lite.html

IETester & DebugBar

Prashant Jadhav — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:26:40 +0000

Recently I came across a very interesting application called IETester. It s a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP. Though it sounds similar to the popular Multiple IEs, it has few things which make IETester very different from Multiple IEs.

The main difference are

View source code option which doesn’t work in Multiple IEs properly.
Support for DebugBar which is free for personal use. DebugBar is similar to FireBug addon available for Firefox. It provides
- DOM Inspector: View DOM Tree and modify tags attributes and css attributes on the fly to test your page
- HTTP Inspector: View HTTP/S request to check cookies, GET and POST parameters, view server info
- Javascript Inspector and Javascript Console: View javascript functions for easier debugging, see Javascript and AJAX code
- HTML Validator: Validate HTML code to correct and optimize your code and html size of your page
- And many more features: See page cookies, get pixel color on a page, make a page screenshot, etc…

For more details, click here.

Firefox 3: Text selection and general in-page goodness

Prashant Jadhav — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:03:52 +0000

[] Double click a word to select it; triple click to select a paragraph. If you need to select multiple batches of text, hold down Ctrl and select at will.

[] Changes have also been made to the way the zooming feature works. Hold down Ctrl and move the mousewheel (alternatively, press + or -). Firefox will zoom in or out the entire site; both text and images. Want to switch to the old, text-only way of zooming? Click on View in the menu and choose Zoom, then Zoom text only. Your preference will be remembered on a per-site basis.

[] There’s been a tiny but useful change to the “Find” toolbar; select text inside a web page, then hit Ctrl+F, and the selected text will automatically be entered into the Find field.