[31 Jul 2010 | No Comment | Posted By:Vivek]
Volkswagen Vento-Another winner from the VW Group

he Volkwagen Polo was well received by the Indian markets, even though the price was a bit on the higher side compared to other small cars. The good response from the markets prompted the German manufacturers to launch its next car without wasting much time. The new Volkswagen Vento is a sedan variant of the Polo and has been launched at a price tag of around 7-9 lakhs ( again a bit high). The sedan variant would compete against the likes of Swift Dzire, Hyundai Verna Transform , Ford Fiesta …

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Football »

[31 Aug 2010 | No Comment | Posted By:Lloyd|]
The Special One:Jose Mourinho

                                          Jose Mario dos Santos Felix Mourinho is a Portuguese name very familiar in the football world. Mourinho born in 1963 was the son of portuguese footballer and started his career as a football player. But later switched his profession to managing clubs and now one of the most envied managers in the world. He is got a nick name “The Special One“, self proclaimed.Mourinho started his new passion as an assistant coach under the veteran Sir Bobby Robson in the portuguese club FC Porto.This was in early 90’s. In the …

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Gadgets Corner »

[26 Aug 2010 | No Comment | Posted By:Vivek|]
World’s Slimmest USB Drives launched by Moser Baer

Moser Baer has launched the “Knight” USB Flash drives, which is claimed to be the world’s slimmest 8GB USB flash drive. The USB Device measures just 2.3mm in width and weighs only 1.3 grams! The USB flash drive comes with embedded LED and is just 29.4 x 12.4 x 2.3mm in size. These micro USB Flash drives are equipped with an advanced “Chip-on-Board technology” which allows 8GB of flash storage on its very small case. It also comes with the “MyZone” option which allows the users to customize their own …

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The Game »

[9 Aug 2010 | One Comment | Posted By:Vivek|]

The start of the 2010/11 EPL seson is just a week away and the Premier league has still not done an eye catching move so far, even though there has been no dearth in speculations.Its Manchester City who is doing all the spending. They have spend nearly 80 million already. Manchester United and Liverpool have done a bit of business while the London clubs Chelsea,Arsenal and Tottenham have so far not made any big signings.
City’s biggest signing so far has been David Silva from Valencia. Cash-strapped Valencia finally had to …

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ATG & Java »

[8 Aug 2010 | No Comment | Posted By:Sam|]

The code below explains how to get the value of a particular node from an XML. Dont forget to take a look into the imports in the class as the XMLToDOMParser and ApacheXMLToolsFactory are two very important packages you can’t forget for this code to work. “xPath” gives the node we have to find. The string variable “xPath” is defined in a particular way. The path in the eg: file(testParsingXML.java) will lead you to the node named “category“. Here is another example to know how to write the xPath:=  /root/son[@name=\"firstchild\"]/grandson[@name=\"gs1\"]
This …

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General »

[5 Aug 2010 | No Comment | Posted By:Lloyd|]

The objective of the article is not just to create a taste towards hiking but also to make awareness on the various aspects. Of course the word itself creates some interest but it requires some prep and knowledge as well. It is always the back packer’s responsibility to acquire the necessary info about the terrain, distance, directions etc. Hiking simply refers to an outdoor activity in natural environments on foot. Hiking in its height will be always in touch with a thick vegetation say mountains, forest, hilly areas etc. And …

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