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So guys, the wait is finally over as I’ve been able to break those codes and bring ‘em out to you guys out there.

Index:
Strawberry- Deeply in love
Lichee- Having a strong crush
Cherry-Adore someone’s looks n personality
Chickoo- Hate your ex
Mango- Happy being single
Apple- Just suffered from a breakup
Pineapple- Hate love

How does it work? The most significant factor which contributes to depth perception is bionocular disparity–it’s the fact that your left and right eye, because they’re separated by a few inches, see a slightly different picture of what is in front of you. Your brain integrates these two pictures into a coherent vision but it uses the difference between the pictures to give you a sense of depth. To see what I mean look away from your computer screen across the room. Alternate closing one eye than the other; notice both the difference between the pictures from each eye and also that with one eye closed the world seems flat.

Most 3D pictures achieve their effect by showing a slightly different picture to each eye. The old fashioned red and blue glasses did it by color filtering; the modern day 3D movies use oppositely polarized lenses.

Below is a new technique I’ve never seen before: by alternating the left and right eye image fast enough your brain integrates them to give you a sense of depth.

[Claud pointed out in the comments below that these images work equally well with one eye closed, so it's probably not binocular disparity but instead motion parallax that causes your brain to perceive depth. Motion parallax is the change in relative position of objects in the foreground and background as you move. Lean left and right as you look across the room and notice how the objects nearest to you change position relative to objects further away. Basically, the images below are simulating movement even while you're sitting stationary at your screen tricking your brain into perceiving depth.]

The code for those who don’t use NetBeans IDE:
Note: 1)You have to import the Toolkit Package
import java.awt.Toolkit;
2) Image icon = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(”icon_confused.gif”);
frame.setIconImage(icon);

For NetBeans IDE users:
1)You have to import the Toolkit Package
2)In the Netbeans properties window for your Frame, try iconImage.
->Select Custom Code
->Add the following line:
setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(SampleFrame.class.getResource(”/image/logo.png”)));
/**Here SampleFrame is the JFrame class name.*/
/**The logo can be placed inside a folder named ‘image’. Relative path is used to access the logo*/

Now you have your own customised logo on the Frame window. Cheers!
I have used it on my B.E final year project.

It supports unlimited domains/users including virtual domains & aliases.

XMail Lite also offers anti-virus integration, bayesian filters (for spam protection) & a logging functionality of all the activities.

Homepage and Download:
http://www.afterlogic.com/products/xmail-server-lite

Dashain

Today’s the tenth day of Dashain festival; also known as Bijaya Dashami. On this day we take tika and jamara from our elders and receive their blessing. We visit our elders in their home and get tika from them while our younger ones come to our home to receive blessing from us.

Well, it’s said that we needn’t wait for a specific time to put Tika and receive blessings. But yet, the auspicious time to put Tika this year is 10:55 am NST as notified by the Panchanga Authority. The conversion for various cities is shown below.(Read more..)

Auspicious Tika time on Monday, September 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM Kathmandu Time

The time on various parts of the world.

bday balloon

A birthday, as the term implies, is the anniversary of the particular day on which a person was born. Though by no means universal, such occasions are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with a party or, in some instances, a rite of passage.

The day started out with a shower. Checked some text msgs on my mobile, then headed to Bindabasini temple. Since everyone was at home, we planned to cook momo. After lunch, we were all busy making dough, preparing the masala for meat, and finally stuffing the minched fillings inside the momo.

While the momo was being cooked, I came back to my computer to check some mails. Lots of wishes had been posted on my Facebook Walls. Emails were also coming now and then. This year my Birthday fell on a day before Teej (the biggest festival of Hindu ladies). Everyone was busy at their homes feeding various food items to ladies fasting for 24 hrs the next day. Celebrating my party with my classmates were nearly impossible, so we postponded the party.

Mom ordered a chocolate cake for me. Till then, momo was cooked. I could smell the aroma coming out from the chimney from my window. Me and my brother brought a huge pile of momos infront of the TV and we played “Love Aaj Kal” on DVD. It was quite a nice movie. After that, I cut the Bday cake in a small family gathering. Then had dinner and came to my room to have some research on my Final year project. A video link was left on my msn by my sisters in UK. It was a sweet bday wish created by my 3 cousin sisters in UK. I felt so nice to get that. They had actually edited and compiled a small clip of 38 seconds with a recent pic of mine. I felt so glad to see it. That’s how my day ended.

The Birthday Clip:

Let me give you what might seem a strange piece of advice – be lucky. Sometimes you have good luck and sometimes you have bad luck. But do you have a choice? Can you make your own luck? Dr. Richard Wiseman has studied why some people are lucky and others are not. He advises that there are four main traits that lucky people have that help them to be ‘lucky’.

1. They create, notice, and act upon chance opportunities that come up.
2. They make good decisions using their intuition as well as their logic.
3. They have positive expectations about the future.
4. They don’t let bad luck get them down; they find a way to turn it into    good fortune.

There are more details in his book, The Luck Factor.

By changing your attitudes, behaviours and actions you can change your luck. If you see obstacles as opportunities rather than difficulties then you can turn them to your advantage. If you notice unusual things and think laterally you can see novel openings. This is particularly true in the contexts of creativity and innovation.

• Sir Alexander Fleming noticed that a growth of mold in a petri dish resisted bacteria. He investigated this and discovered penicillin.
• Clarence Birdseye noticed that people in Canada kept fish fresh by packing them in ice. He developed this idea and created frozen food industry.
• Percy Spencer noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket melted when he stood in front of a magnetron. He used this insight to help develop the microwave oven.
• Hiram Maxim found two problems when he went shooting. There was a powerful recoil after each shot which hurt his shoulder and he then had to go to the trouble of reloading. He wondered whether he could use one problem to solve the other. He invented the Maxim machine gun which used the energy from the recoil force to eject each spent cartridge and insert the next one.

Each of these people was doubtless called lucky by some contemporaries. But their ‘luck’ was the product of observation, insight and action.

Many people blame bad luck for their failures – especially on ventures where they invested considerable time and effort. People with positive outlooks recognise that each obstacle is a step along the way and that there is much that can be learned from setbacks. They learn lessons from reverses and they seek out fresh opportunities. They are always optimistic and receptive to ideas. They see opportunities in situations where others give up. They make their own good luck.

When the great golfer, Gary Player, was asked why he was so lucky he replied, ‘The harder I work, the luckier I get.’ So the lessons are clear. There is a way to be lucky. It involves a positive attitude, hard work, observation, preparedness, action and a willingness to see every setback as a learning opportunity and a step towards success.

Quick Links to check your luck now:

BarCamps are organized and evangelized largely through the web, harnessing what might be called a Web 2.0 communications toolkit. Anyone can initiate a BarCamp, using the BarCamp wiki.

The procedural framework consists of sessions proposed and scheduled each day by attendees, mostly on-site, typically using white boards or paper taped to the wall. This approach and has been dubbed to play on words, The Open Grid approach.

FooCamps and BarCamps are based on a simplified variation of Open Space Technology (OST), relying on the self-organizing character of OST. Other than in classical conference formats, BarCamps and OST rely on the passion and the responsibility of the participants, putting them into the driver’s seat.

While loosely structured, there are rules at BarCamp. All attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session. However this can be intimidating and unwelcoming. Everyone is also asked to share information and experiences of the event, both live and after the fact, via public web channels including (but not limited to) blogging, photo sharing, social bookmarking, twittering, wiki-ing, and IRC. This open encouragement to share everything about the event is in deliberate contrast to the “off the record by default” and “no recordings” rules at many private invite-only participant driven conferences.

Related BarCamps Links below:

Topics included:

1. Swing  and JMF
2. Cloning Data Sources
3. Seeking Frames inside a Movie
4. Transmitting Video over RTP  [RTP DataSink]
5. Transmitting Audio over RTP  [RTP DataSink]
6. Transmitting Audio/Video over RTP  [RTPManager]
7. Receiving Media over RTP [RTPManager]
8. Exporting Media Received over RTP
9. Transcoding to Different Formats
10. Capture Screen
11. Dynamic Capture Screen

The graphic can be specified with the -splash attribute when the class is run at a command line. Here’s how to do it with the SimpleWindow class:

java -splash:Everest.jpg SimpleWindow