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[23 Aug 2009 | No Comment | Posted By:Vivek]
Best Indian Television Ads

Often advertisements are the most disgusting moments when you are watching your television.Yet some ads are so creative and funny and sometimes even inspiring,that there is no way you can hate them but you end up admiring the creative genius involved.Here is a small list of the most creative ads that i can remember.
When creativity in ads comes to mind,i find nothing more amusing than the first ads of the Bajaj Pulsar.The nurse ad and others highlighted its “Definitely Male” punchline and i do think that the ad was one …

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Formula 1, The Game »

[23 Aug 2009 | No Comment | Posted By:Dileep]
2009 Formula 1 Telefonica Grand Prix Of Europe (Valencia)

Finally, Reubens Barrichelo had his day in the sun. He ruled the streets of Valencia and won his first race of the season on a car which was clearly the fastest one on the grid in the early part of the season when he was made to look second best by his teammate. But this weekend saw a flawless performance from the Brazilian, who had qualified behind the two McLarens. Reubens ran a better strategy compared to the much improved McLarens. As expected Lewis Hamilton, the reigning world champion led …

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C and C++, Tech Corner »

[23 Aug 2009 | No Comment | Posted By:Dileep]

A string is nothing but an array of characters.
Two strings can be compared, concatenated or copied. We can convert upper case letters into the lower case letters and vice-versa. Strings can be reversed. We can also check for the substrings present in the given string.

String is a one-dimensional array of characters.
Each one-dimensional character array(string) ends with a null character. So an n-character array contains (n+1) array elements.
C language provides many string handling functions which are defined in the header file .
Like a numeric array, character arrays must be declared before …

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Gadgets Corner »

[21 Aug 2009 | No Comment | Posted By:Vivek]
Zune HD-Portable Perfection

Microsoft Zune HD,Microsoft’s next generation portable media player will be in stores from September 15th.Apple i-Pod have long ruled the portable media player market while Zune always had to be second to the Apple product.The new Zune looks impressive and also is a remarkable improvement from the earlier models.Zune HD does look like a media player that will deliver you with the richest music experience on a portable device.
The Zune HD boasts a Nvidia Tegra CPU,high resolution OLED display and new styling.A 16GB version of the Zune HD will come in …

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PHP, Tech Corner »

[21 Aug 2009 | No Comment | Posted By:Vivek]

This tutorial shows you how to build a simple login form and to check the login credentials entered against te database using PHP and MySQL.I had introduced some PHP lessons earlier.It might be worth to take a look at them before you go through this.Anyway,this isnt any harder.I have specially included this as an article because a login form is an essential component of most dynamic websites.
Again we are using MySQL database.Create a database(here i have created one called as “test”).Now create a table ‘login’ with two fields namely ‘username’ and ‘password’.Make ‘username’ the …

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