Blogger's Rights - a must read for every blogger

Many a times we come across the news for people getting jailed for their bitter yet true remarks. Passing of resolution against Om Puri's speech at the RamLila Maidan is one of such events.

And on the internet, we do tend to use our freedom of speech , and we do sometimes go over the edge in expressing ourselves.

I found a link which mentions all the rights that we bloggers have, our freedom of speech, to things that go in for our defence in difficult situations.

https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers

The link has references to all your requirements, and points that you should know. Run by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, i found the link to be highly useful.

Hope you guys find it as useful as i did. Suggestions are welcomed

Product Review - Tzinga

I recently tried a new energy drink which i had heard of. The drink's named Tzinga, an is promoted by a Gurgaon based firm.

I purchased a pack of Tzinga. It was a 200ml pouch, hence cutting the traditional can cost. But the price was too shockingly low - INR 20. I can buy 4 of these, and still have a polo. This is probably the cheapest drink out there in the Indian market.

The pouch is more like those cheap one drink pouches available in the market.






The drink comes in Lemon Mint flavour, and claims to have ginseng and guarana added along with Taurine. And all this for 20 bucks. I decided to buy it.

I opened the pack(which is sealed like a juice tetrapack), and tasted it. First thought - Mint dominates every other flavour. Slowly lemon comes into the picture when the tongue becomes used to it. But first reaction is.... too wierd for someone whose just migrated from Red Bull or the similar class. The taste of caffeine is missing, and the flavour of mint is spoiling the drink.

I somehow managed to gulp the whole drink. Will i put my money on buying this product - maybe not. Reason : Out of the league flavour, which is totally imbalanced. Mint might make alcoholics go in for it, but as a regular stand-alone energy drink, the mint's just too much.

If the flavour have had less of mint and more of lemon, the flavour would have been better. Maybe because i'm drinking an energy drink after ages, i'm feeling the exhuberant variation in the flavour.

My rating - 3.5/5

Another visit at the Easy Day - more surprises await

Yesterday, i did visit the easy day store at the Botanical Garden Metro Station again. I was on my way to the Great India Place(walkable distance from there), and it was pretty humid and hot. So decided to pick up some juice or drink.



I bought a Minute Maid pulpy orange drink. The product costs 20 bucks normally, but surprisingly the staff charged me INR 16.50 . On furthur enquiring, i came to know that Easy Day does offer discounts at every product.

I literally was surprised to see that most of the stock had been sold, and fresh stock had been ordered. The store manager told me that the demand for the products had been more than what anyone had expected.

Good to see competition ruling the Indian chains

The Shame minister of India - Mohan Singh

Mohan Singh happens to be the most dull prime minister in the history of India. I wonder what was INC thinking before selecting such a man for the post.


Yesterday, when Rahul Gandhi read his speech from a piece of paper in the parliament, the whole union cabinet came in praise of Rahul for uttering his speech like a child's nursery poem in the annual playschool function in front of his sister Priyanka who was the chief guest.

It really surprises me. The government is acting like an incubator for Rahul Gandhi's political career, and not as the administrator of the nation.

And the shameless smile of the PM in the Lok Sabha, who under the cloud of the tag of an "administrative failure" still thinks praising Rahul will boost his career. His appointed ministers - Raja,Kalmadi, Soren all in jail,with the appointed impeached CJI being his choice- all adding to his failures. Anna Ji was fasting for 12 days for a strong Lokpal bill while all he can think is boost Rahul's career at that time?

Sounds bad for the nation, really disheartening state of affairs .

App Review - Adobe Muze(Code Name)

I just came across Adobe Muse while surfing around the web. Abobe Muze is a new software for creating beautiful web pages without having any knowledge of the web programming. It includes support for scripts. The software is in its initial development stages. Initially released for Mac's, the product is now available for the Windows platform.

Installing it wasn't difficult, as it installs directly from the Adobe site. You need Adobe Air to make it work.

Here are two screenshots from the development phase




I made a very simple site, and in 5 minutes. Yes, it did take me around ten minutes to understand what the software environment was, but then got comfortable with it. The environment is slightly different than of Microsoft Frontpage or Yahoo Sitebuilder, but still user friendly. Being Adobe, the software gives a feeling of a flash player in motion. Nevertheless, it makes quite gud pages. Novice and professional web designers will love this program. And this is after the fact that Muse is just a codename, and the product is still in its initial stages.

The demo site i developed is online. Check the photo gallery tab for the software's beauty. You can check it by clicking Here . You can go directly at the photogallery at http://prattzz.freewebspace.com/the-photo-gallery.html

As you could have seen in the site, scripting is embedded in the program. So in case of building a customised site, the program gives quite a lot of options. Also, the gallery does support facebook'ish photo browsing, something that appealed me a lot.

My personal rating for Adobe Muse : 4.5 out of 5

Adobe Muse is available at http://muse.adobe.com/

India gets a new cheap super-charged SUV with Force One

Yesterday, Force motors launched their new SUV - Force One. The new SUV is already making waves , as it is offered at a surprisingly low price of INR 10,65,000 , which seems to be quite cheap. And to add to it, the SUV comes with a Mercedes-Benz validation of the whole car, adding to it reliability and perfomance.

To add more, Amitabh Bachchan was made the brand ambassador for the SUV.

Source

Difference between the Govt "Jokepal" Lokepal and Anna's Lokepal

Today, on the Delhi Metro while on my way back to home , an India Against Corruption volunteer was distributed pamphlets clearly specifying the difference between the government formed Lokepal better known as Jokepal, and Anna Hazare led IAC's Lokepal. The pamphlet stated all the crucial points in Lehmann's language, so easy that anyone can read and understand. All of you should have a look at it. The pamphlet being in Hindi, was read by all in the train, and triggered discussion about the movement.






This pamphlet can also be read in English at http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org/docs/english_pamphlet.pdf and http://www.box.net/shared/l5okarpc3l3btzk6ore8

And after that, if the government doesn't decide to formulate Anna ji's Lokepal, then its a shame that we have selected such pathetic people to run the nation.

TOI comes in support Anna

Recently i was going through the Times of India, and found the TOI supporting Anna's IAC too.