Cool and Latest Mobile Models

Its been a long time since I wrote a blog thanks to my system that did not boot up for the past 2 weeks, At last I managed to put the bits and pieces of my system together and writing this blog. So what is this blog about? It is about some of the cool mobiles (and concepts) I happened to see. Of course you can see their reviews in some of the gadget sites but I wanted to present my perspective. So without any further fuss I start with the article

Morph
The first gadget is called Morph from Nokia which is still in its initial stage of research and development. It uses nanotechnology to build a device which will change its usage depending on the needs from a cell phone to a camera to a mp3 player and many more functions

Some of the key features are

The device can change its form depending on physical conditions

Nanotechnology will enable Self cleaning and self-repairing

As its batteries are in nanoscale (10 to the power -9) it will absorb solar energy and does not require physical charging

Cool stuff ah!!. This is the technology that Nokia is betting on in the next 5 years

You can watch a video on the various forms and shapes that the Morph can take in the following link in Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdF1JZkm2nQ

Samsung Serenata


Boy what a look it has. A mobile need not be just a mobile it can be beautiful (better than Miss Universe) and this is just the mobile that can make you fall in love.
The Serenata is a touch form music player and a slider phone with a jog-dial input. As all beautiful women come with a cost this mobile is also very costly. Th cost is a whopping Rs. 84,000

Tag Heuer Meridiist

A brand that we all know and admire is Tag Heuer and this brand of mobile surely comes with a class. The features Sapphire crystal main screen Monochrome OLED (Organic LED which is the recent advancement in screens)
The expected cost is an amazing Rs.2,33,000. It really can be a potential Vertu killer

LG Black Label

The name is not official yet but by the looks it will certainly emulate the success of LG Shine. It has cutting edge technology with carbon-fibre and tempered glass body
Expected price Rs.25,000. LG bring it soon to India, I would love to put my hands around it

Top 10 advertisers and advertising agencies

Here is the list of top advertisers in the world

Procter & Gamble Co.
AT&T
General Motors Corp.
Time Warner
Verizon Communications
Ford Motor Co.
GlaxoSmithKline
Walt Disney Co.
Johnson & Johnson
Unilever

These are the Top 10 advertisers in the world spending close to 40 billion dollars on their advertising campaign to promote their products. There are also other big corporations that are not far behind in the spending campaign. Companies like Toyota, Sony, Daimler Chrysler etc. Well these are the Top 10 advertisers, what about the Top 10 agencies who prepare ads for these large corporates

Ameredia
Arnold Worldwide
BBDO
Doyle Dane Bernbach
Goodby Silverstein & Partners
N.W. Ayer & Son
Ogilvy & Mather
Saatchi and Saatchi
Partnership Advertising
Wieden+Kennedy


The above companies deal in providing advertising facilities to their clients. There are different types of advertising services given by the companies. This list is of 10 reputed advertising companies in the world

The man behind Ripley's Believe it or Not!

I believe everyone has watched Ripley's Believe it or Not! (in AXN) show atleast once. The show in which bizarre things happen which we never imagined or believed existed like some of the images here



















This blog is about the man behind all that. Yes the man who started it all. Guess what his name is, it is Robert Ripley. Robert Ripley lived in the first half of the 20th century in which he was immensely popular and his whole life was a Believe it or not! type for people of that period. He was born in 1890 in Santa Rosa, California. His original name was LeRoy Ripley.

“Roy” was an avid artist and a great athlete at a very young age. He pitched semi-pro baseball at age 13 and also illustrated the posters advertising the games.
At age 14, he sold his first cartoon to LIFE Magazine for eight dollars.

By age 15, Ripley was working at the San Francisco Bulletin and soon moved on to the San Francisco Chronicle.

In 1913, he moved to New York and, as ‘Robert’, rather than ‘Leroy’, he began working at the New York Globe sketching sports cartoons. After having done this for several years, Ripley came upon a slow sports day and decided to draw up nine unusual sports event in small sketches. The cartoon was originally titled, “Champs and Chumps”, but after much deliberation, the title was changed to Believe It or Not!. The rest is history!

His cartoon became famous and he travelled all over the world looking for unbelievable stories. He had a special liking for China and the far eastern countries. Ripley was an extremely shy character and always used to wear flamboyant color combinations.

Even Ripley's death was like a believe it or not story. At 58, Ripley died while taping the 13th episode of his television series, an episode that dealt with death and death related rituals. He died while taping the show and was pronounced dead of a heart attack

Ripley’s legacy and what he brought to the world is alive in all of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museums and his traditions continue with the Believe It or Not! cartoon series. Today the daily cartoon is seen in nearly 200 newspapers worldwide, in 42 countries, and 17 languages. The majority of the exhibits in all of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museums are based on the collections of oddities obtained by Ripley throughout his world travels. Every year millions of people visit the Ripley’s museums to take part in the adventure, one in which they experience first-hand the incredible world of Robert Ripley!

The official website is www.ripleys.com

You can visit this site to have a look at some of the bizarre happenings around the world

Free Web hosting

Free is a word that is used in many websites recently. If you want to host a website and you want free web space for that there are plenty of sites available for that. The free web hosting concept is for those who have are just starting their site and want to try things out before starting their own full fledged site

One such site I came across is 987mb.com. The offer they provide is absolutely unbelievable. They provide 40 GB of free space, 600 GB bandwidth and free PHP and MySQL. It really is a great offer for starters in the net. The only catch in providing all this free stuff is that there will be one 468x60 banner in the footer(bottom of page) of your site. So if you want to start your new site and you dont want to spend any money this is a really useful site. The link is

http://www.987mb.com

If you dont want any forced ads on your site you can try these following links
http://www.my5gb.com
This site offers 5 GB free space with no forced ads and you can also place your own ads

http://www.gigacities.net
No forced ads. 20 GB of free space

http://www.rack111.com
No forced ads. 25 GB of free space

All the links related to free web hosting can be found in the following link
http://www.free-webhosts.com/search-webhosts.php?ORDER=16

The only catch with the free hosting sites are that as the number of users increase they start charging you for the services they offer or if they decide to shut down their servers the site you created will no longer be operational

All the best for your new site with a free host!!!

Webmaster submission

I thought there was only one Webmaster that belongs to Google and that it was very important to get your page indexed by Google (it is very important indeed). There are also other webmasters out there that are equally important (more or less). One of them is the MSN webmaster which is quite good.
It may not be that good as the Google version but still it provides a lot of information about the links pointing to your site and other links that are pointing from your site. The link is

www.webmaster.live.com

There is also a webmaster option available in Yahoo. But the features in this site are too poor to be used for any useful purposes (it really sucks)

www.siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

And last but not the least the Big Daddy of them all the Google Webmaster. It allows you to see how many URLs have you submitted and how many of them have indexed and if there are any errors on your page etc. It really is a good site for you if you are the Webmaster. The link is

www.google.com/webmasters

Submit to these sites and get your page indexed if you want to increase your page rank. Alexa ranking is yet another indicator of how popular your site is. The link for submitting your site is

http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters