Google and Historypin launch online gallery to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

 

Pinning The Queen’s History is a special Collection that acts as a global archive of Her Majesty’s visits and the Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilee celebrations. It has been created to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

 

It is a way for users from all over the world and from every generation to share photographs, videos, other materials and memories of The Queen's visits and the Jubilee celebrations from throughout her reign.

 

Buckingham Palace has already provided a selection of images of items from the Royal Archives, plus there have been contributions from a number of other major archives. Now we’re looking for contributions from individuals and archives.

 

Throughout her six decades on the throne, The Queen has undertaken hundreds of visits around the United Kingdom and 261 official overseas visits to 116 different countries. Historypin is inviting people from around the world to submit photos, videos and other memories of The Queen during these visits.

 

So if you've got photos, videos or memories of Her Majesty visiting your town or documenting your own royal celebrations, do add them in here.

 

We want to get pins in the map for all Her Majesty's visits and Jubilee celebrations, dating back to 1952, when the idea of an online archive like this, contributed to and seen by anyone in the world, would have been completely unimaginable.

 

Pinning The Queen's History was developed by Historypin, with support from Google. 

 

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Here is what I have pinned:

A collection of photos which took on the occasion of Queen’s visit to MGR Film city, Chennai on the  inauguration of the film ‘Marudhanayagam’ – an unfinished dream venture of Kamal Haassan dated 16th, October, 1997

Queen’s visit to MGR Film city, Chennai

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History Pin - Pin your history to the world

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.

Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.

Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.

A vibrant Cambridge Market in the 1900's
and
today with several marquees in place

Historypin was created to help people to come together from across different generations, cultures and places, around the history of their families and neighbourhoods, improving personal relations and building stronger communities.

Historypin was founded by Oxford graduate and former teacher Nick Stanhope, CEO of London-based 'We Are What We Do', a non-profit company created in 2010.

Historypin has been developed by the not-for-profit company, in partnership with Google.

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Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.

Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.

A Closer look

The website is the main focus of the whole operation, alongside it an app has been released for iPhone and Android phones, already downloaded 270,000 times, and several projects to work in communities and schools have been set up.

The app also allows users to add content in a few different ways - to take modern replicas of historical images, capture modern historical moments as they are happening, and scan and upload old images.

MG Road, Bangalore

The local projects take participation directly into neighbourhoods to broad, diverse audiences and facilitates the creation of community collections through outreach, support and lots of local partnerships.

You too can Pin your memories..

It's easy for people to use, all you need to do is Digitise your images, collect information, the more details you can find the better, upload it and pin it.

Science@Mobile - Learn science on mobile

Now learn science in your convenient way, on the go! 

The application-Science@Mobile-was launched as part of the two-day National Science Day celebrations by Director of Inter-University Accelerator Centre Amit Roy. "The number of mobile phones in the country have touched almost a billion. The penetration of mobiles has been immense, so the service would be of great help to create the right culture for science," he said. 

Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organisation under the Department of Science and Technology, and the IGNOU jointly introduced this service to tap into the potential of mobile phones to popularise science even into rural areas where mobile phones have made substantial penetration. 

Science@Mobile Webste

'Science@Mobile' will provide all types of information on science subjects including news, important days and events, facts, humour, quotes, about scientists, health tips and green tips to its subscribers free of cost. In addition, the content has been grouped into three categories with the first one not requiring any science background, second one requiring basic science literacy, while the third is for people with science background. 

Users can subscribe to the service by messaging "SCIMBL" to 092230516161 or clicking the link provided at Vigyan Prasar website. "The service currently is available only in English. Efforts to provide SMSs in Hindi is in progress and will be available within a week or little more," said O P Sharma, Project Coordinator of Science@Mobile service. For bringing the service in regional languages, he said, Vigyan Prasar would have to collaborate with state agencies. "We are looking into that aspect," he said. 

National Science Day is being celebrated for two days-February 28-29 -- at the National Science Centre. National Science Day falls on February 28 every year and is in celebration of the day in 1928 when Indian scientist Sir C.V.Raman announced the discovery the Raman Effect in light scattering which won him the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Onetastic–Multi feature addon for Microsoft OneNote

 

I usually save PDF files in Microsoft OneNote using ‘Send to OneNote’ option. But I could not edit the image saved in OneNote. Some times the wider files get saved as rotated and cannot be easily readable.  

MS OneNote users wonder, why there is no way to crop or edit a picture in MS OneNote?’ Microsoft says it is neither a filly-blown word processor nor a  picture editor.

After a long time search I have got a fantastic solution in the way of ‘Onetastic for Microsoft OneNote’.  This is the addon for OneNote with more features.

Image Crop 

Onetastic supports a new context menu item for images: Crop. Just right click on an image and select Crop at the bottom and you will be able to cut it the way you want.

 

Custom Styles

Let's talk about styles in OneNote. There is a styles gallery which has a fixed number of styles and you can customize them.

 

Favorites/Pin to Desktop

This was a button on the ribbon that would create a link to the current page on desktop. Favorites is an extension of that. The button is now what we call a split button, which has a top part to do the one-click action and the bottom part which is a menu.

The menu allows you to select where to pin the shortcut: Desktop, as before, Favorites menu, or some other location. You can switch between them and the button will reflect this:

 

Rotate/Flip Printouts

When you print a document to OneNote, sometimes one of the pages needs to be in landscape orientation or you may have forgotten to select "Landscape" for the whole document when to printing. OneNote has a rotate/flip option on images but the same feature was left out for printout pages. Install Onetastic and you can now right click any printout page and rotate or flip it.

 

Cleanup Printouts

When you delete a page of a multi-page printout, OneNote will display a message at the top of the page that reads: "One or more pages of the Printout below are hidden. To remove this message, delete all pages of the Printout below". This message tries to tell you that the file that backs the printout still contains the pages you deleted, so if you were to share the OneNote page with someone else, they can still extract those pages. However many users including me found the message confusing and there is no way to get rid of it even if you fully understand what it is trying to say. Onetastic provides a button on the ribbon to clean up the backing document for the printout by removing the pages you deleted from the file and remove the message.

India's most powerful businesswomen

In a male-dominated world of business, some women have broken all barriers to get to the top.

 Cracking through the glass ceiling in a man dominated world is difficult, presents many challenges, requiring many sacrifices to made, and family and society related pressures to be absorbed. Forget a developing country like India, more progressive countries in the West also face the same issue. According to the Glass Ceiling Commission in the United States, about 95 to 97 per cent of the senior managerial posts in country’s largest corporations are held by men. We salute these women who have beaten all the odds and have emerged cream of the crop in their organizations. Take a bow ladies!

Chanda Kochhar is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank Limited. She began her career with ICICI as a Management Trainee in 1984 and has thereon successfully risen through the ranks by handling multidimensional assignments and heading all the major functions in the Bank at various points in time.

Vinita Bali, Managing Director, Britannia Industries, has always made unconventional decisions. Rising prices of wheat, sugar and dairy products affect her as much as they do every housewife.

Kalpana Morparia former Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank, and currently CEO of JPMorgan gives complete credit for her transformation from a corporate lawyer to a corporate leader to K.V. Kamath.

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon, is India’s bio-tech queen. She says in a an interview to Forbes India that she learnt the importance of self-reliance and personal re-invention at an early age. From starting of with Rs 10,000 in a garage her company Biocon is today worth Rs. 1,511 crore.

Mallika Srinivasan, the Chairman and CEO of TAFE, believes in a no-frills working style. She has risen to become India's tractor woman making an indelible impression in a heavily male-dominated industry. TAFE's turnover, a mere Rs86 crore in 1985 - the year she joined - had risen to Rs5,800 crore by 2010/11

Long before the expression 'dealmaker' became commonplace in India, Naina Lal Kidwai, 54, currently country head of HSBC, was one of the biggest dealmakers in the country. It goes without saying that she was also one of the first women to enter the formerly male bastion of investment banking and rise spectacularly

Ekta Kapoor has created a niche for herself as the queen of the silver screen soaps. As the Joint Managing Director and Creative Director of Balaji Telefilms, her production company, she rules almost every television network

Neelam Dhawan is the Managing Director of Hewlett-Packard India. She has been an icon for women in the IT industry. There were just a handful women in the industry way back in the early 80s when she began her career accidentally at HCL

Preetha Reddy the managing director of India's largest healthcare company, Apollo hospitals. Ms Reddy has been instrumental in the group's quality certification process (ISO 14001 and 9001). As a trailblazer, she ensured the JCI accreditation process in five of the group hospitals in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ludhiana and Dhaka.

Roopa Kudva, Managing Director and CEO of Crisil, has been with the rating agency for 19 years. She is also Region Head, South Asia, of Standard & Poor's, which holds majority shares in Crisil.

A nominated member of the Rajya Sabha, Shobhana Bhartia also runs one of India's largest media houses. She is Chairperson and Editorial Director of HT Media which had revenues of Rs 1,815 crore in 2010/11.

Simone Tata, the chairperson of Trent, has worked out an uncomplicated equation to ensure the success of Westside, the chain of lifestyle stores the company set up in 1998. Mrs Tata took over as the company's chairman in 1982, and she was appointed a director of Tata Industries in 1989.

Sulajja Firodia Motwani, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Sulajja started her career at BARRA international, a leading investment analytic firm in California. She worked there for four years before joining Kinetic. She is now the Joint Managing Director of Kinetic Engineering Ltd and Director, Kinetic Motors.

Sunita Narain head of Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is acerbic and a populist in the same breath. Narain says in an interview to TIME, her main goal is not to hurt companies but to spur the government to tighten regulations

Swati Piramal who followed up her MBBS with a Master's in Public Health from Harvard University, is now Director, Strategic Alliances and Communications, Piramal Healthcare. She is a driven businesswoman who asks the tough questions that bring clarity to important decisions.

AirDroid - Control your anroid phone wirelessly

AirDroid is a fast, free app that lets you wirelessly manage & control your Android devices (phone & tablet) from a web browser. It's designed with the vision to bridge the gap between your Android device and web browser, on desktop computers or tablet devices, on Windows or Mac.

Home Screen in your browser

Get started 
Download and install AirDroid app on your Android devices, start the app and open your favorite web browser, input the address and Dynamic Password to login to AirDroid Web Desktop. 

Connect with AirDroid web desktop
The Android device and computer need to be connected to the same WiFi network to be able to connect. 
1.    Open AirDroid on your Android device and tap Start. The web address (looks like http://192.168.xxx.xxx:8888) to visit will be revealed, and a new Dynamic Password will be generated or the Predefined Password will be displayed (looks as predefined). 
2.    Open your favorite web browser to visit the web address above. Enter the Dynamic Password or Predefined Password from the previous step and click Login. 
3.    You'll login to the AirDroid Web Desktop.

Apps installed by you

Don't have WiFi network?
Some Android devices can be used as a portable modem in that you can hook it up to your PC via USB or tethering so you can use it as a Wi-Fi hub. After you have connected your computer to the WiFi hub you can use AirDroid to manage and control your Android device. 
Warning: Using your Android phone as a WiFi hub enables your computer to use your phone's data service, so please make sure you have an affordable data plan. 

Access files in your mobile

Via USB:
Use the USB cable that came with your phone to connect your Android device to your computer.
1.    Press Home, press Menu, and touch Settings to open the Settings application.
2.    Touch Wireless & networks > Tethering & portable hotspot.
3.    Check USB tethering.
4.    Uncheck USB tethering to stop sharing your data connection. Or just disconnect the USB cable.
Tethering:
Press Home, press Menu, and touch Settings to open the Settings application.
Press Wireless & networks > Tethering & portable hotspot.
Check Portable Wi-Fi hotspot.
Uncheck Portable Wi-Fi hotspot to stop sharing your data connection via Wi-Fi.

Browse edit SMS from desktop

Free
AirDroid is completely free. You can download it for free from the Android Market here.
Safety
Your Data security is among the top priority of AirDroid and industry standards are strictly implemented. And we'll never store your personal data without your explicit consent.
Requirements
The AirDroid Android app should be compatible with most Android devices running Android 2.1 or later (4.0 is not well supported yet). The Web Desktop should be compatible with most modern web browsers, including Chrome 12 or later, Firefox 3.6 or later, Safari 5.0 or later (For best performance IE is not recommended). Support for mobile browsers, like Safari on iPad, is experimental. The Android device and computer need to be in the same WiFi network to connect.