Posted on Monday, 28th December 2009 by Neeta

Our present decade started with concerns over high rise buildings in the wake of Sept 11, 2001 episode. But that was only for few early years. March to pridely own the tallest building continued unabated. Taiwan, Shanghai and now Dubai rivalled with one another to have the tallest man made structure in their country.  Even [...]

Tags: Green buildings, Green living, Green Technologies
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Posted on Sunday, 27th December 2009 by Neeta

Career planners and pundits have been vociferously yelling and ranting about the need for young guys to hear their heart’s voice and not get distracted over parental pressure when it comes to taking decision about the career.

Tags: Career planning, Dream career, Top career choices
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Posted on Saturday, 26th December 2009 by Neeta

Vidhu Vinod Chopra has announced that his latest block buster 3 Idiots will be available for download in 12 weeks time. This is an interesting move from Bollywood to tab Global Indian audience. In case this experiment is successful, we can expect more such online releases on YouTube.

Tags: 3 idiots, Aamir Khan, Kareena, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
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Posted on Sunday, 20th December 2009 by Neeta

A hashtag is basically the Twitter equivalent of metadata on a message. If you want your website or blog to be easily found in the search engines, you would add metadata in the website headers which will then be picked up by the Google spiders when they visit. Well, a hashtag is basically the Twitter [...]

Tags: hashtags, Twitter
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Posted on Saturday, 12th December 2009 by Neeta

Eloquent speakers are hard to miss. They are always toasts of any gathering. But this is an attribute which very few people have. And definitely public speaking can be improved through concerted efforts. But as we approach the era of Short Messaging and micro blogging, public speaking appears to be a far cry.

Tags: Power, PowerPoint presentations, Powerpoint presentations slides, Public speaking
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Posted on Sunday, 6th December 2009 by Neeta

Office Groove 2007 is a collaboration software program that helps teams work together dynamically and effectively, even if team members work for different organizations, work remotely, or work offline. Working in Groove workspaces saves time, increases productivity, and strengthens the quality of team deliverables. But irony is that it works in client server space. Google [...]

Tags: Collaboration tools, Communication tools, Google Wave Explained, Google Wave on Office Groove 2007, Groove
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Posted on Tuesday, 1st December 2009 by Neeta

Indian Power Projects slated for completion in 11th plan are showing very poor progress. However the achievement at the end of the 11th plan is expected to be around 75%. This is way ahead from the dismal figures of 9th and 10th plan. the silver lining is that all projects which fall under the 78700 [...]

Tags: Indian Power Scene
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