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Popular Dances in India – Different Dance Forms of India

Debajyoti — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:11:05 +0000

The age-old culture of India has given birth to various forms of folk dances, coming from the unique diversity that the nation has. The diversity in culture and tradition is well reflected in the folk dances. All the popular dances in India forms from different states portray some expression of life and almost every dance posture has a specific meaning.

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Top 10 Popular Dance Forms of India

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Kathak

Kathak (Hindi: कथक, Urdu: کتھک) is one of the eight Indian classical dance forms, originated from northern India. This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks or storytellers. These bards, performing in village squares and temple courtyards, mostly specialized in the story of mythological and moral tales of the scriptures, and embellished their recitals with hand gestures and facial expressions.

It was par excellence the theater, the use of instrumental and vocal music along with stylized gestures that give life to stories. Its current form contains the remains of temple and ritual dances, and the influence of bhakti movement. Since the 16th century onwards absorbs certain characteristics of dance and dance Persian Central Asia that were imported by the royal courts of the Mughal era.

Kathakali

Kathakali is a highly stylized classical Indian dance-drama is notable for the attractive composition of characters, elaborate costumes, detailed gestures and body movements produced clear-cut in line with the anchor of music playback and additional percussion.

It originated in the state of current country of Kerala in the 17th century and has been developed over the years with improved appearance, smooth movements and sing song plus added more ornate and precise drums. One sees the combination of music, painting, acting, dancing in this dance..

Bharatnatyam

Bharatanatyam comes from the words Bhava (expression), Raga (Music), Tala (rhythm) and Natya (Indian classical Musical Theatre). Today is one of the most popular and widely performed dance styles and is practiced by many dancers from around the world.

Bharatanatyam is a classical dance form originating in Tamil Nadu, India. One of the oldest forms of classical dance in India, is also known as the fifth Veda. Bharatanatyam is usually accompanied by classical music. It has its inspiration from the sculptures of the ancient temple of Chidambaram.

Odissi

The oldest dance forms of India, is done in respect of Lord Jagganath. Odissi is one of the eight classical dance forms of India. It originates in the state of Orissa, east India. It is the oldest surviving form of Indian dance based on archaeological evidence. The treaty classical Indian dance, Natya Shastra, refers to it as Odra-Magadhi. In the first century BC bas-reliefs Udaygiri Hills (near Bhubaneshwar) attest to its antiquity.

Was suppressed under the British raj, but has been rebuilt since India became independent. It is particularly distinguished from other Indian classical dance forms by the importance it attaches to the tribhangi (literally: three parts of rupture), the independent movement of the head, chest and pelvis and on the square known basic position as chauk.

Manipuri

Manipuri dance is one of the main forms of classical Indian dance. It originates from Manipur, a state in northeast India bordering Myanmar (also known as Burma). In Manipur, surrounded by mountains and isolated geographically in the meeting point of East and the Indian mainland, form developed its own specific aesthetics, values, conventions and ethics. The worship of Radha and Krishna, in particular raslila is essential for their subjects, but the dances, unusually, to incorporate the signature dishes (or Kartal Manjira) and two-headed drum (or mridanga Manipuri pung) of sankirtan in visual performance.

Manipuri dancers do not wear ankle bells to accentuate the beats tapped their feet, in contrast to other forms of Indian dance and the dancers’ feet never touch the hard ground. The movements of the body and feet and facial expressions of the Manipuri dance are subtle and are designed to devotion and grace.

Kuchipudi

Kuchipudi (pronounced "Koochipoodi’) is a classical Indian dance form of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is also popular throughout southern India. Kuchipudi is the name of a village in the Divi Taluka District Krishna bordering the Bay of Bengal and with resident Brahmins practice this form of traditional dance, which acquired its present name.

The performance usually begins with some stage rites, after which each of the characters arrive on stage and introduces himself with a daru (a small composition of song and dance) to introduce identity, establish the rule of spirit, the character in the drama. The drama then begins. The dance is accompanied by the song which is typically Carnatic music.

Garba

Garba is an Indian form of dance that originated in the Gujarat region. It is more similar to Western folk dance style presentation of classical Indian dances such as Bharatanatyam and Odissi. The name garba comes from the Sanskrit term Garba ("belly") and deep ("a small earthen lamp). Many traditional sheaves are performed around a central lighted lamp.

The circular and spiral figures Garba dances have similarities with the spiritual. Traditionally held during the festival of nine days of Navaratri Hindu (Gujarati નવરાત્રી Nava = 9, Ratri = nights). Or the lamp (the Garba Deep), or an image of the goddess Amba is placed in the middle of concentric rings as an object of veneration. People dance around the center, leaning to one side every step, his arms gesturing radicals, each movement ending in applause.

Bhangra

Bhangra (Punjabi: ਭੰਗੜਾ (Gurmukhi) بھنگڑا (Shahmukhi) भांगड़ा (Devanagari),) is a form of dance and music that originated in Punjab region. Dance Bhangra began as a folk dance performed by Punjabi farmers to celebrate the arrival of the harvest season. Bhangra specific movements reflect the way people from their farmland. This art became more synthesized dance after the partition of India, when refugees from different parts of Punjab folk dances shared with persons residing in regions settled in.

This dance became Bhangra hybrid. The folk dance has become popular in the West by the South Asian communities and is seen in the West as an expression of Indian and the disco culture in india as a whole. Today, Bhangra dance survives in different forms and styles from around the world – including pop music, movie soundtracks, collegiate competitions, discotheques and even talent shows.

Bihu

Dance Bihu (Assamese: বিহু নৃত্য, Hindi: बिहू नृत्य) is carried out in conjunction with Bihu folk traditional music, played with: the "Dhol", similar to a drum, the pit Singora Mohor, an instrument made of a buffalo horn pipe, timber, cymbal, the gogona, cane and bamboo instrument, and the toka, a bamboo clapper. The songs (bihu geet) that accompany the dance have been passed down for generations.

The theme of the songs ranges from welcoming the Assamese new year to describe the daily life of a farmer, from historical references to the invasions of Assam to contemporary socio-political commentary of a satirical manner. The dance takes several forms, including various northeastern Indian tribes, for example, "Garo Bihu dance" and "Khasi Bihu dance." However, the fundamental objective of the dance remains the same: to express the desire to feel the pain and happiness.

Lavani

Lavani (Marathi: लावणी) is a popular music genre in South Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, India. Lavani The word comes from the word Lavanya which means beauty. The Lavani Nirguni (philosophical) and the Lavani Shringari (sensual) are the two types. The devotional music of the cult is popular throughout Nirguni Malwa.

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Most Popular Names in India – Top 100 Best Indian Names

Debajyoti — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:23:31 +0000

The Indian family names are based on a wide range of systems and naming conventions, which vary due to region, influenced by religion and caste and can come from religion or epics. Indians speak a variety of languages and nearly most world religions have an important monitoring in India.

This variety makes confusing differences in the names and styles of names. For example, the concept of a family name does not exist much in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Most Popular Names in India : Top 100 Indian Names

GIRLS				BOYS
Rank	Numbers	Percent	First names	Rank	Numbers	Percent	First names
1	9	0.47 %	Sneha	1	17	0.89 %	Raj
2	8	0.42 %	Aditi	2	10	0.52 %	Dhruv
3	7	0.36 %	rhea	3	7	0.36 %	Rakesh
4	6	0.31 %	priyanka	4	7	0.36 %	rahul
5	6	0.31 %	Kavitha	5	7	0.36 %	Aditya
6	6	0.31 %	Anjali	6	6	0.31 %	Abhishek
7	5	0.26 %	Shreya	7	6	0.31 %	akshat
8	4	0.21 %	Anumeha	8	6	0.31 %	vijay
9	4	0.21 %	Shriya	9	5	0.26 %	Anoop
10	4	0.21 %	Nikita	10	5	0.26 %	SURYA
11	4	0.21 %	Shruti	11	5	0.26 %	Vivek
12	4	0.21 %	kirti	12	5	0.26 %	Rohit
13	4	0.21 %	Tanya	13	5	0.26 %	yash
14	4	0.21 %	tina	14	5	0.26 %	Omkar
15	4	0.21 %	Riya	15	5	0.26 %	manoj
16	4	0.21 %	prachi	16	4	0.21 %	naveen
17	4	0.21 %	KRITI	17	4	0.21 %	Karthik
18	4	0.21 %	nishi	18	4	0.21 %	manish
19	4	0.21 %	miti	19	4	0.21 %	varun
20	4	0.21 %	RICHA	20	4	0.21 %	alok
21	4	0.21 %	vaishnavi	21	4	0.21 %	Ajay
22	4	0.21 %	samantha	22	4	0.21 %	Ramesh
23	3	0.16 %	Apoorva	23	4	0.21 %	raunak
24	3	0.16 %	kavya	24	4	0.21 %	krishna
25	3	0.16 %	sana	25	4	0.21 %	nikhil
26	3	0.16 %	Aishwarya	26	4	0.21 %	Palash
27	3	0.16 %	Stella	27	4	0.21 %	harish
28	3	0.16 %	MEGHA	28	4	0.21 %	ravi
29	3	0.16 %	Bhagirathy	29	4	0.21 %	rajesh
30	3	0.16 %	Pooja	30	3	0.16 %	Siddharth
31	3	0.16 %	disha	31	3	0.16 %	deepak
32	3	0.16 %	Anumeya	32	3	0.16 %	inder
33	3	0.16 %	niharika	33	3	0.16 %	kapil
34	3	0.16 %	ritika	34	3	0.16 %	amit
35	3	0.16 %	jasmine	35	3	0.16 %	VISHAL
36	3	0.16 %	kim	36	3	0.16 %	SHASHANK
37	3	0.16 %	Anipa	37	3	0.16 %	hari
38	3	0.16 %	shruthi	38	3	0.16 %	jeevan
39	3	0.16 %	ria	39	3	0.16 %	Sagnik
40	3	0.16 %	Tanvi	40	3	0.16 %	Zeal
41	2	0.10 %	radhika	41	3	0.16 %	bhushan
42	2	0.10 %	shelly	42	3	0.16 %	Kumar
43	2	0.10 %	anupama	43	3	0.16 %	pradeep
44	2	0.10 %	varsha	44	3	0.16 %	akhil
45	2	0.10 %	Aashritha	45	3	0.16 %	Saini
46	2	0.10 %	trupti	46	3	0.16 %	Vishnu
47	2	0.10 %	Meera	47	3	0.16 %	Abhinav
48	2	0.10 %	gayatri	48	3	0.16 %	raja
49	2	0.10 %	Divya	49	3	0.16 %	sahil
50	2	0.10 %	norah	50	3	0.16 %	Vignesh
51	2	0.10 %	Sumera	51	3	0.16 %	jatin
52	2	0.10 %	natasha	52	3	0.16 %	mohit
53	2	0.10 %	Poornima	53	3	0.16 %	Salman
54	2	0.10 %	ARCHITA	54	3	0.16 %	Sandeep
55	2	0.10 %	tenzin	55	3	0.16 %	Hemanth
56	2	0.10 %	usha	56	3	0.16 %	prashant
57	2	0.10 %	meenal	57	3	0.16 %	Arvind
58	2	0.10 %	Manju	58	3	0.16 %	gaurav
59	2	0.10 %	madhushree	59	3	0.16 %	akshay
60	2	0.10 %	alisha	60	3	0.16 %	Shubham
61	2	0.10 %	archana	61	3	0.16 %	Gokul
62	2	0.10 %	ash	62	3	0.16 %	Atul
63	2	0.10 %	Nayana	63	3	0.16 %	Prakash
64	2	0.10 %	Nidhi	64	3	0.16 %	Nithin
65	2	0.10 %	Akansha	65	3	0.16 %	shiva
66	2	0.10 %	sonali	66	3	0.16 %	Prathamesh
67	2	0.10 %	Aayushi	67	3	0.16 %	kali
68	2	0.10 %	swati	68	3	0.16 %	Ayush
69	2	0.10 %	Pragya	69	3	0.16 %	ROCKY
70	2	0.10 %	sonal	70	3	0.16 %	Nandu
71	2	0.10 %	Akshita	71	3	0.16 %	Arun
72	2	0.10 %	Vrushali	72	3	0.16 %	Darshan
73	2	0.10 %	Mahima	73	3	0.16 %	Midhun
74	2	0.10 %	shweta	74	3	0.16 %	manas
75	2	0.10 %	Ira	75	3	0.16 %	Vatsal
76	2	0.10 %	ishita	76	3	0.16 %	ashwin
77	2	0.10 %	twinkle	77	3	0.16 %	Mr. Respect
78	2	0.10 %	Aarushi	78	2	0.10 %	NOOR
79	2	0.10 %	Srushti	79	2	0.10 %	Bhavik
80	2	0.10 %	shivani	80	2	0.10 %	rayyan
81	2	0.10 %	manisha	81	2	0.10 %	sidharth
82	2	0.10 %	Radha	82	2	0.10 %	satty
83	2	0.10 %	Himani	83	2	0.10 %	viraj
84	2	0.10 %	Ann	84	2	0.10 %	Denny
85	2	0.10 %	raksha	85	2	0.10 %	kaustubh
86	2	0.10 %	puja	86	2	0.10 %	Chetan
87	2	0.10 %	rachel	87	2	0.10 %	shivankar
88	2	0.10 %	Pratishtha	88	2	0.10 %	MOHAMMED
89	2	0.10 %	Analina	89	2	0.10 %	sunil
90	2	0.10 %	Anita	90	2	0.10 %	swapnil
91	2	0.10 %	yeshi	91	2	0.10 %	akash
92	2	0.10 %	sowmya	92	2	0.10 %	tauseen
93	2	0.10 %	Hiba	93	2	0.10 %	Davis
94	2	0.10 %	Rupali	94	2	0.10 %	Siva
95	2	0.10 %	Priya	95	2	0.10 %	Mr. India
96	2	0.10 %	Deeksha	96	2	0.10 %	adi
97	2	0.10 %	Bhagirathi	97	2	0.10 %	sudhanshu
98	2	0.10 %	geyir	98	2	0.10 %	Rishikesh
99	2	0.10 %	Juvina	99	2	0.10 %	vikram
100	1	0.05 %	jewel	100	2	0.10 %	babu

So, which most popular names in India belong to you ?

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Popular Drinks to Order at the Bar – Men, Women

Debajyoti — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:53:08 +0000

You might crave the taste of se x on the beach and apple martinis, but ordering these sweet, colorful drinks can cramp your style. A real man is strong, bitter and stings a little on the way down. At a same time a women ordering a manly cocktail at the bar may look strange. Check out what are the popular drinks to order at the bar.

When you order a mixed drink, always announce the liquor first.

Popular Drinks to Order at the Bar – Men

# Kamikaze : Stride coolly to the bar, lean close to the waitress and say aloofly, "Kamikaze." Order this shot that will make you look and sound like a tough guy.

Ingredients : 1 1/4 oz Smirnoff Red Label Vodka, 1/4 oz triple sec, 1/4 oz lime juice or sour mix.

#Dirty Martini : As demonstrated by James Bond, the Dry Martini is certainly a man’s drink. So, how can it can get any manlier? Make it a little “Dirty”. Shaken not stirred.

Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz Smirnoff Red Label Vodka, 1 splash olive juice, 1 olive

#All-Irish Black and Tan : Nothing says manliness more than a pint of beer, and nothing shouts manliness of the roofs of more than a pint of Guinness. Request an All-Irish Black and Tan and flash their testosterone fueled himself with pride.

Ingredients: 1 / 2 pint of Smithwick Ale, 1 / 2 pint of Guinness Draught

Popular Drinks to Order at the Bar – Women

#Cosmopolitan : A cosmopolitan is a cocktail made with vodka, Triple Sec, cranberry juice, and fresh-squeezed lime juice or sweetened lime juice. Informally, it is referred to as a Cosmo.

#Appletini : The appletini, also known as the apple martini, is a cocktail containing vodka and either apple juice, apple cider, or apple liqueur.

Typically, the apple vodka is shaken or stirred with a sweet and sour mix and then strained into a cocktail glass.

#Se x on the Beach : It is a cocktail made from vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice and cranberry juice. It is an International Bartenders Association Official Cocktail.

The ingredients may be shaken together in a shaker with ice, and served in a highball glass.

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How Should a New Education System in India Be Like

Debajyoti — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:47:51 +0000

By Nandini Garg : Our basic model of public schooling — accepting raw material in the form of five-year-olds, and then adding value through a series of processing steps to produce educated graduates 12 (or more) years later — reflects the vision of the old industrial economy. This worked well in an earlier era, but improvements that might have kept this model up to date have been stalled for decades.

A Modern Indian Classroom – Photo Credit : indianschool.com

We now need a new vision for schools that looks a lot more like Silicon Valley than Detroit: decentralized, entrepreneurial, and flexible. Our once unchallenged pre-eminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being over taken by competitors throughout the world. This rote-learning is concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that undergirds Indian prosperity, security, and civility…. For a generation, many on the right have argued for school choice — especially through the use of vouchers — as the primary means of achieving this vision.

Their approach, however, has been both too doctrinaire and too artificial. If school choice ever becomes more than tinker-toy demonstration projects, taxpayers will appropriately demand that a range of controls and requirements be imposed on the schools they are ultimately funding. At that point, what would be the difference between such “private” schools and “public” schools that were allowed greater flexibility in hiring, curriculum, and student acceptance, and had to compete for students in order to capture funding? We should pursue the creation of a real marketplace among ever more deregulated publicly financed schools — a market in which funding follows students, and far broader discretion is permitted to those who actually teach and manage in our schools.

There are real-world examples of such systems that work well today — both Sweden and the Netherlands, for instance, have implemented this kind of plan at the national level. The Indian education system is supposed to be a pipeline that prepares children in elementary and secondary school to pursue opportunities in post-secondary education and in the workforce. It is well known that this pipeline is leaky–that millions of children pass through their K-12 years without receiving a quality education.

Too many students drop out and, all too often, those who do earn a high school degree lack the academic qualifications to succeed in STEM fields in college or in the workforce. Improving learning in education should remain a priority for policymakers. For students, succeeding in K-12 classes will open the door to future opportunities in higher education, and in the workforce. Also, ensuring that the next generation of Indian workers has adequate skills and training in critical areas is vital to India’s national security and economic competitiveness. If India lacks the tools to combat aggressors its future is at risk.

Wars are won partly with superior technologies–and India’s survival depends on its ability to maintain an advantage over its enemies. Indian scientists and engineers work every day to develop new tools to protect it from terrorism, such as lasers and explosives-detection devices. Tackling pressing global problems–from energy security to vulnerable cyber infrastructure–will require the intellectual curiosity and creativity of educated individuals. Our nation is at risk.

What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur–others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments….????? If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on India the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war…

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Most Popular Web Content Management Systems – Free CMS

Debajyoti — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:46:13 +0000

A Web Content Management System (WCM, WCMS or Web CMS) is software, implemented as a web application, for creating and managing HTML content dynamically. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and essential Web maintenance functions.

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Most Popular Content Management Systems (Best & Free)

Here, are the top 5 we content management systems that you can use for your website. Also read about some of the most popular web fonts for designing websites.

WordPress (link)

WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for content management. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.

Drupal (link)

Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites, including whitehouse.gov. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

Joomla (link)

Joomla! is an open source content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

SilverStripe (link)

SilverStripe is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for creating and maintaining websites. The CMS provides a web-based administration panel that enables users to make modifications to parts of the website. This panel includes a WYSIWYG website editor.

TextPattern (link)

Textpattern is an open source content management system originally developed by Dean Allen. While it is often listed among weblogging tools, its aim is to be a high-quality general-purpose content management system suitable for deployment in many contexts. Textpattern is written in PHP using a MySQL database backend.

Also, ExpressionEngine (link) is an elegant, flexible CMS solution for any type of project. Designed to be extensible and easy to modify, EE sets itself apart in how clean and intuitive their user administration area is.ExpresssionEngine is quite different than other previously-mentioned CMS in that it’s paid software. The personal license costs $99.95, and the commercial license costs $249.99.

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Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology : Guptipara, Hooghly (SMIT)

Debajyoti — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:12:22 +0000

Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology (SMIT) provides a nurturing educational environment within which to earn a highly marketable degree that serves students well, whether they choose to pursue a career in industry or attend graduate school in engineering or a related field.

The Institute is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), Govt. of West Bengal and All India council for Technical Education, Govt. Of India (AICTE). and is a part of the Techno India Group.

Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology Engineering College

Campus Address : Banda Gachi, Guptipara, Hooghly, PIN – 712512 | Phone: (03213) 262201, (03213)262499, (03213)262856 Fax: (03213)262201.

Courses Offered (below) | Website : SMIT (Link) | MAP : Link

Electronics & Comm. Engineering
Computer Sc. & Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Information Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Applied Electronics & Instrumentation

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The college offers engineering degree programs in most of the engineering disciplines. Ranked good among engineering colleges that offer the bachelor’s degree (B.Tech), SMIT (Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology) is totally committed to provide students with a career-oriented education.

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Most Popular Web Comics | Top 10 Best WebComics

Debajyoti — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:19:44 +0000

Unlike the comic strips published in your local newspaper which are scrutinized by the editor before they get published, web comics don’t have that kind of censorship imposed upon them. Hence they tend to be more sarcastic and hilarious than the traditional comics in print media.

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Top 10 Popular Web Comics

The Joy of Tech (url)

The Joy of Tech is a comic about technology and pop culture. They like to feature the people and events that are making tech news and tend to focus on Apple news and events because they often affect the industry in general, and also because they are longtime Mac users as they say.

Penny Arcade (url)

Penny Arcade is a top web comic focused on video games and video gaming culture and a story of 2 geeks. It talks about gaming culture, video games and other such similar topics. It is probably the most popular gaming web comic on the internet.

PHD – Piled Higher And Deeper (url)

The comic strip which is also published in newspapers portrays the perils of academic life and the problems students, college grads face, in a humorous manner.

XKCD (url)

xkcd is a cool web comic and the comic’s tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." It is widely read and has been recognized in such mainstream media as The Guardian and The New York Times. The jokes are usually meant for geeks and may not be easy to understand at the first glance for an average reader.

Garfield Minus Garfield (url)

Garfield Minus Garfield is a popular web comic site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

Questionable Content (url)

Questionable Content (or "QC," as it is frequently abbreviated) is a very popular webcomic strip that is ostensibly about romance, indie rock, little robots, and the problems people have. QC’s storytelling style combines romantic melodrama, sitcom, humor about rock music, and se.xual or scatological humor.

Dilbert (url)

Dilbert is an immensely popular satirical and business office humor comic strip appears in newspapers all over the world. But it also has a web version and is a nice way to keep in touch with Dilbert everyday if you don’t read the newspaper.

Least I Could Do (url)

Least I Could Do is a funny web comic which talks about the life of Rayne, the lead character who is a promiscuous young man and loves enjoying life everyday.The primary theme of the strip is se.xuality, especially the promiscuity of the primary character, Rayne Summers.

Ctrl+Alt+Del (url)

Ctrl+Alt+Del is a strip that focuses primarily on video game related humor, but does branch out into other types of stories.

Indexed (url)

Indexed is a unique web comic which displays funny, weird but mostly sensible graphs, pie-charts and venn-diagrams. The author says, “This is a little project that allows me to make fun of some things and sense of others without resorting to doing actual math.”

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Most Popular Web Search Engines

Debajyoti — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:11 +0000

A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list of results and are commonly called hits or SERP (Search Engine Rank Page). The results consist of pre-indexed web pages, images, information and files.

Some search engines also index data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.

A web search engine operates, in the following order

Web Crawling : A Web crawler is a computer program that browses websites in a methodical, automated manner. Other terms for Web crawlers are automated browsers like indexers, bots, and worms or Web robots which crawl websites and index them in proper categories.
Indexing : After the crawlers have visited the website, based on its content it is labeled (indexed) for the type of keywords it is relevant to. Although there are several factors involved but the basic idea is if a website is about gardening, then it will show up in the SERPs of gardening related keywords.
Searching : A web search query is a set of keywords or phrases that a user enters into web search engine to find some information. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are unstructured and often ambiguous, but basically rely on query language calls from the Search engine’s database which has info. about pre-indexed websites (after crawling).

Web search engines work by storing information about many web pages, which they retrieve from the html source itself. These pages are retrieved by a Web crawler (sometimes also known as a spider) — like an automated web browser which follows almost every link on the site.

3 Widely Used and Most Popular Web Search Engines

#1. GOOGLE

Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing and Internet web search technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates and primarily started as a simple web search engine.

"Google" has now become a verb which means to find information using web search. And google now offers all types of popular web applications and services, and now they are taking over social media, mobile dev, health, broadband internet etc. So much, that conspiracy theorists are targeting this internet giant as "the evil one" taking over our online lives.

#2. BING

Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is the current web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine") from Microsoft. Although nowhere near google in services and web search engine market share, Bing still has some interesting web search engine features which google lacks.

#3. YAHOO

Yahoo! Inc. is an American public corporation (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet web services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, popular web search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video & photo sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services.

Also Read : How to Find the Most Popular Web Searches

Best & Funny Geek T-Shirts and Ideas

Debajyoti — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:19:13 +0000

If you are looking for some of the most funny geek t-shirts or interactive geek tshirts then here are few of my favorite geek t-shirts.

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Most Popular Geek T-Shirts (Interactive)

8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt

Buy one of these glowing shirts for yourself, and gift one to your significant other (boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, fembot 2000…). During your normal activities two and a half pixelated hearts will light up on your shirt. Hey… you’re depressed and in need of a recharge. But get within hugging distance of your significant other wearing the matching shirt and suddenly the hearts on both of your shirts start to light up until you’re fully powered up. Go too far astray from the source of your affections and you’ll drop back down to two and a half hearts again. Got it?

Geek T-Shirt Source : thinkgeek.com

Wi-Fi Signal Status for You and the World!

We expect our gadgets to do all the busywork while we focus on the high level important tasks like reading blogs. That’s why we hate to have to crack open our laptops just to see if there is any wi-fi internet access about… and keychain wi-fi detectors, we would have to actually remove them from our pockets to look at them. But now thanks to the ingenious ThinkGeek tshirt you can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt. The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the surrounding wi-fi signal strength fluctuates. Finally you can get the attention you deserve as others bow to you as their reverential wi-fi god, while geeky chicks swoon at your presence.

Geek T-Shirt Source : thinkgeek.com

Funny Geek T-Shirt Ideas

Leave links to your other favorite ones in comments…

Also See : Most Popular Web Games You Must Play Online

Free Most Popular Web Design Software

Debajyoti — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:07:02 +0000

Most of the professional web design softwares are expensive. But here are 3 free and most popular web designing softwares to make beautiful websites out of scratch. Let us know if you like them.

Best Free and Popular Web Design Software

Here is a list of free website designing tools you can use to design your website…

Coffee Cup Free HTML Editor (url)

The CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor is a full-featured Web design system. With built-in FTP uploading, wizards for tables, frames, fonts, and more, and 100% valid code output, it’s a great tool for anyone who wants to design their own Website.

The Free HTML Editor is a trimmed-down version of the CoffeeCup HTML Editor, and does not contain the Visual Editor, CSS Menu Designer, Image Mapper, and Website Color Schemer.

NetObjects Fusion Essentials (url) : Free Web Design Software

NetObjects Fusion is a True WYSIWYG Web Design Software. Built on a Drag-and-Drop interface. Add database functionality with ease. Databind any object on the page to any XML or RSS feed. It also offers many core features found in NetObjects Fusion 11.

NetObjects Fusion Essentials is absolutely free and is the easiest way to try your hand at building websites. Features include Drag and drop layouts, Site Management Tools, Upload files with built-in FTP, Form builder etc.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 (url)

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is the best web design software development tool available today. It is the ideal HTML editor, enabling you to build world-class websites and and used for designing many popular web applications.

Build world-class websites and applications with one of the industry’s leading web designing software tools. Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software is ideal for web designers, web developers, and visual designers.