January 13th, 2009
Mahindra Xylo unvieled Today. Ingenio, the much awaited vehicle comes with new name Xylo. Ingenio had been in the news for months. There was rumers than an Innova like car is coming from Mahindra. New Mahindra Xylo offers comfort of a luxury sedan and features of an MUV. This will be available in the market this month itself.
The Great Indian Traveling Machine
Mr. Anand Mahindra Managing Director of Mahindra Group said they are redefining the travel concept in india. Mahindra is targeting the sedan buyers.
Some years ago, Mahindra ruled the Indian utility vehicle market. Later came vehicles with more comfort. Mahindra Bolero and Scorpio, and now Xylo. Xylo comes with powerful and efficient 2.49 litre mEagle CRDe engine which gives 112 bhp. It is the engine used in Bolero Storm CRDe. In have spaciuos interior. It offers lavish space even in the back row seats. Xylo is for those who looking something more than that of a car.
It have frond grill similar to that of Scorpio. There has been rumers that Xylo bad looks. I don’t think it have bad looks.
I think this will make a success in Indian roads.. This will hit the market of Tavera and Innova. Its Price starts at about 6.25 lakh.
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January 11th, 2009
We had seen the more interactive Wordpress 2.7. In WP 2.7 new Admin panel interface is more friendly. What I like in this new Wordpress is all functions are accessible from dashboard. New Drop down menus are very helpful. Dashboard items can be moved – Like the boxes in my sidebar. The new Quick edit options for Posts, pages and comments are very useful. New Stiky posts option allows one post to remain on top. New Plugin upgrader and theme upgrader allows quick upgrade.
These are options is Wordpress 2.7. Are you satisfied with it? Surely…. Wordpress 2.7 is a big milestone.
There has been discussions ongoing about the upcoming Wordpress 2.8 in Wordpress forums.. What will be its features? Surely It would have more simplicity.
Is there any limitations in the current 2.7?
Some new Features must be more improved widget management and Template browser Installer option. I feel this new Dashboard of 2.7 is more crowded. There is to be an option to determine whatever items should be appear in the dashboard.
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January 11th, 2009
It will be really great if such devices are developed. We had seen in magic that magition moves a stick by concentrating into it. Some simple tricks are used here. It will be really fun if we can control something by ‘mind power’.
There is a gaming device called Mind Flex in which we can lift a ball by using power of concentration. This game was developed by toy maker Mattel. I found this very interesting.
In this game, player can lift a small form ball and it is to be moved through a small ring. The palayer wears a head set with sensors to sense the ‘mind power’. This device uses EEG technology which measures the Brain waves with thesensors in earlobes and forehead. A fan is used in this device to lift the ball. When concentrating to the ball, it becomes lifted because of the air from the fan. The ball falls when concentration is breaked. This is not the only game powered by ‘mind’. There are many similar games like this. There are devices in the developing stage which interface computer and mind. They measures electrical activity of the brain using sensors.
When such systems become more devoloped, games become more interactive.
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January 10th, 2009
After a long Gap Ikon Diesel is now in the market with improved features. There is only few sedans in india with cost below 6lakh. They ware Indigo CS, Renault Logan and Swift Dezire. Oh.. Ambassoder also comes in this range. It may be due to the success of CS, Logan and Dezire Ford is also looking into this segment with new Ikon. Ikon have high efficient 1.4 liter diesel engine (the same in Fiesta).
The new Ikon has redesigned front bumber, grill and headlight. Headlight and bumber have a small ‘Fiesta touch’. Front grill is smaller. No other changes in the exterior except tail lamp. But I don’t feel this design much better.
The interior have slight changes. Biege dashboard and new instrument cluster with digital odometer. Spacious interior. Its Backseat have good leg space. Its boot capacity is higher than Indigo CS.
1.4 liter diesel Duratorq engine which is used in Ford Fiesta is there in the New Ikon. 4 cilynder common rail engine have 67 bhp power @ 4000rpm (slightly lower than that of deZire) and torque 160nm@200rpm.
The driving position gives good view of the road. The indicator switch placed in the left side may make a little confusion.
Ikon have weight 150 kg less than that of fiesta. The 1.4 l Duratorq engine gives very good mileage. Company says that it will give a Fuel efficiency of 24 km per liter. Ikon diesel have good Fuel efficiency and price affordable by a normal Indian.
On Road Price: about 5.5 lakh
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December 26th, 2008
-A Solution for pollution
Yes.. the car powered by air. In the earlier days steam engine was there, but an air engine? This engine is not completely powered by air, but uses a small amount of fuel.
Before the last Olympics in China, there was an even no-odd no traffic system: half of the cars is banned for some days from the city. This was also for making the air fresh. The air pollution due to cars is a major issue in many countries. There are many technologies for pollution free engines. Most of them are expensive or having low power. Such technologies are not affordable by normal people. But the Compressed Air powered vehicle is able to reduce fuel cost and pollution.
The car powered by air is not a new concept. The first air powered vehicle was built in 1838. But this technology didn’t developed further. The commercial production of this type of cars isn’t started yet. Some months ago, it was a big news that India’ auto giant, Tata Motors is going to develop air powered cars. Tata is joining with MDI, a French compressed Air engine developer. Air version of Tata Nano may be also come soon.
In normal engines the fuel is burned with air and this will expand to move the pistons. Here the force of compressed air directly moves the pistons up and down. Weight of such cars must be very less to get high efficiency. Compressed air can run the engine upto a speed of 55kmph. For getting higher power, the engine burns small amount of fuel. This is like an electric hybrid engine. During slow journey through congested cities pollution and wastage of fuel will not occur. The compressed air tank can be refilled using electric power or from filling stations.
If Tata makes the commercial production of such cars a realty, we can expect a future with pollution free Indian cities.
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November 6th, 2008
All the Malayalis have given high values to Mohanlal and Mammooty Movies. Many movies of these great actors were huge success. There is no any other recent film in which they are coming together. If they comes together in a movie, It will be a great film in malayalam. Also Suresh Gopi another actor who performed many famous roles. Jayaram, Mukesh and Dileep, the other main actors. If they come together, who will take the main role? if all are taking the ‘winner role’ throughout the movie, it will be boring. But in 20-twenty all actors have good roles and the story have some twists. Ya, I like the movie. It is a good movie and it will boost the malayalam film industry. Thanks to the people behind the movie.
Before seeing the movie, I thought it would be just a movie in which all actors come, give some dialogues and go, and has just a simple story. Anyway, because I have no other work, I decided to go for the movie in the first day.
Twenty twenty
The arrival of Mammooty and Suresh Gopi to the story, as we expects is very well. Lalettan firstly comes as a poor ‘malancharakku vyaapari’. I thought Mammotty is having the chief role, and Lalettan have only a ‘cheap’ role. Oh, this will disappoint the lalettan fans. But a sudden twist in the story caused ‘Lalettan kee jai’ sounds in the theater. Later in the story they fights each other. Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Jayaram and Mukesh have their own good roles in this movie and no one is having a superior role. Bhavana have the main actress role. Prithviraj, Jayasuriya etc comes only for a song. Oh, Nayan Tara also, comes only for a dance. The best actor Sreenivasan is performing only for 5 minutes. All other actors have charactors that will not disappoint us.
All of us are interested to see a fight between Mammootty and Mohanlal in a movie. In this movie this fight is created very well. I didn’t like the songs in this movie. This movie is interesting like seeing a 20-20 match. This multistar movie surely make a dream run in Box-office.
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September 15th, 2008
Wordpress is the best blogging engine in the world. Wordpress was born in 2003. It is an open source project. It is now became the largest blogging engine. Installing and maintaining wordpress takes only little effort. The appearance of the site can be changed in one or 2 minutes. Finding and installing a nice wordpress template is very easy. Large number of themes are available. Also it can be modified very easily according to the requirement of blogger. Wordpress become so popular due to it ease of use.
Some people says that google loves wordpress. I also think so. Wordpress blogs are search engine friendly. Wordpress helps to get a specific structure to the site.
It is very easy for anyone to create posts. Specific keyword tags can be given and category can be chosen easily when creating posts. The use of categories allows the visitor to find specific types of posts. This category feature are search engine friendly also. There is a link from every posts to its category. If there is 100 posts in a specific category, there occurs that much links. These backlinks will help to increase rankings in search engines.
There is a feature for users to comment on different posts. Spam comments can be prevented. Also multiple authers for writing posts is allowed. Many features and plug ins can be added to a wordpress site. RSS feed can help to increase visitors.
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August 31st, 2008
I made a new logo and banner for “mootha’s” CircuitsToday e-magazine.
I firstly made a design like this: one in blue color which is very simple. Then I made another design which is more beautiful and suitable for placing in the header of the website. The yellow colored logo have some glassy effects. I put some linings in the logo similar to connections in a PCB which makes the logo related to circuits.
Later I made the logo more simpler and gave a green color.
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August 20th, 2008
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