Cordoba, Argentina’s Spanish Beauty
Cordoba in Argentina is the second largest city of the country and is one of the earliest Spanish settlements of the region. This is the reason why Cordoba has a rich history of Spanish colonial art, architecture and culture that draws many tourists throughout the year.
Located at the geographical center of Argentina, Cordoba is surrounded by picturesque locales. The city nestles in the foothills of the Sierra Chicas and has the Suquia River flowing nearby. Blessed by natural beauty, Cordoba is also one of the most culturally endowed cities of the entire South American continent. The first university of the country was established here in 1613 by the Jesuit Order. In the beginning of the last century, Cordoba was the hub of Argentina’s literary activity and even today a varied musical culture flourishes here which includes classical, jazz, pop and electronic.
Another major tourist attraction of Cordoba is its rich heritage of historical monuments built during the Spanish colonial period. The Jesuit Block is perhaps the most famous of these and the Jesuit Cathedral is another emblematic monument of Cordoba. The city has many other elaborately carved Roman Catholic churches.
Visitors to Cordoba can do well to book accommodation in advance and a very useful site for this purpose is www.ooaha.com. The site brings together and compares rates from a vast database of hotels so that guests can get the best Cordoba hotel deal.
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IE8 gets flak for being ‘still slow’
Microsoft’s newly launched web browser Internet Explorer 8, IE8, has received mixed response from users across the globe. The software giant released the newer version of the Internet explorer on the 16th of this month. The newer version has been highly appreciated for its wider range of navigational and security features. On the other hand the users have also criticized its compatibility and still slow speed.
According to the results of The Web Standards Project’s Acid Test 3, IE8 users are encountering its compatibility problems with Web standards such as CSS, HTML4 and XHTML. The Acid 3 test has revealed that IE8 is not up to the standards delivered by other browser software from Google and Mozilla.
This inconsistency could further pose problems for developers who rely heavily on these standards for ensuring that it can run across many different browsers and on different other OSes as well.
Another problem faced by the users is regarding the speed of the new web browser. Microsoft might have claimed it to be the fastest web browser; however the fact remains that IE8 remains the slowest amongst the top five in the market.
According to the test findings, Google’s Chrome led all browsers and is tested to be more than four times faster than IE8. Mozilla’s Firefox 3.0.7 came second, followed by Apple’s Safari 3.2.2 for Windows and Opera Software’s Opera 9.63.
The technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg, also criticized IE 8’s performance in an All Things Digital post. He wrote, “Microsoft claims IE 8 is very fast, but in my tests, speed and performance were its worst attributes. Using two computers, one running Windows XP and one running Windows Vista, I timed the loading of a half-dozen popular Web sites, plus two folders containing numerous news and sports sites. I repeated the test in IE 8, and in Firefox, Safari 4, and Chrome. In every case, IE 8 loaded the pages and folders more slowly than most of the other browsers, and in most cases, it came in dead last.”
Also Microsoft has not confirmed any dates as to when will the company make available the final version of IE8 for Windows 7, but it is expected in the next public release for Windows 7.
The newly introduced navigation and security features do get the wider applause.
Philips’ Cinema 21:9
Gone are the days when only a handful were privileged enough to afford the luxury of a personalized 4:3 television! As the technologies advanced, televisions reached every home and this done, people now aimed for ‘bigger’. As big as the cinema!
Aspiring high, yet little had the people realized that the magic of cinema could reach there homes so soon! Bingo! You can now get the feel of the captivating 21:9 cinematic experience in the comfort of your home, courtesy Philips!
Royal Philips Electronics Inc., popularly known as Philips, has successfully replicated the magic of cinema for personal viewing by adapting highly advanced formatting technology to give you a totally absorbing viewing experience.
The available traditional LCD televisions compromise by distorting or compressing the picture to fill in the screen width, thereby losing the full scope of the original shot. Sometimes, they prefer the letterbox format with black bars at the top and bottom. Philips, world’s one of the largest electronics manufacturer, claims its Cinema 21:9, to be cinema-proportioned LCD TV and gives the viewer a truly enriching cinematic viewing experience.
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Get Greener! Part (II)
It’s a constructive way to kill boredom. This can get extremely relaxing for people who have a passion for greenery. A passionate person like me would daily return to application like these to and repay a little rather than making friends with unseen faces!
A selective exposure to Facebook for applications like this can be a fun filled way to teach the little ones the importance of greenery, teach them the basics of gardening, importance of sunlight, watering and pesticides.
However, the humble motive behind the applications like (Lil) Green Patch is to save the depleting rain forests. Using the sponsorship revenue from advertisers the developers are making donations to the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre program. The more you grow, the more you gift, the more you get back. And each ‘flowery’ gift that a user of these applications sends or receives, contributes a lot in saving the planet. And for those who think it’s a mere wastage of time and resources to live an illusionary life, living your passions through a social networking site, this should serve as enough of an inspiration to join hands with the world in saving our mother earth. Come unite for the cause!
Get Greener!
How do you make the best use of your Facebook account? “It’s a cheaper means of communicating”, “It helps me stay connected with my long distanced relatives”, “helps me kill time”, “I can build a strong social network” would be the most probable answers.
However the most innovative use of my account that I have discovered is to live my passion for green. Living in Delhi, accustomed to its polluted and hectic life, I had always had a longing for some greenery around. Exploring the Facebook applications the other day I found out that I can now afford the luxury of a personal garden and a farm!
Although online gardening would never let you breathe fresh but still can prove to be extremely passionate, relaxing and satisfying for the people with a green bent. Applications like, (Lil) Green Patch, Growing Gifts and myFarm allows you to grow a virtual farm or a garden, exchange ‘green’ gifts with your loved ones and also attach a personal message to it. What’s more, there are flowers for every occasion, mood and achievement!
The fun part is to see your gift, your garden or your farm grow over a period of time.
Continued…
Cyber crime : Technological Threat
Computer together with the technology’s most sophisticated advancement, internet, has aided everybody’s work. Be that an office, a bank, a ticket counter, school homework, a showroom think of any place and computers have reached there. Sadly they have reached the world of crime too. Cyber crime, the unlawful acts wherein the computer and internet are either the tools or targets or both, today is one of the worst intensifying problems globally.
Cyber crime involves less of a risk because the criminal can’t be seen, they are as virtual as the cyberspace itself. Sometime down the lane, you might just run into the person who has all your passwords, say sorry and excuse yourself! Cyber crime is easy too. The expert spammers and hackers, with the use of the most sophisticated technology have developed every technique to break into any website/mail account.
Criminal activities in the cyberspace are on a sharp rise. This includes a whole array of activities that it gets next to impossible to list all. Illegal distributions of softwares which are mostly copyrighted material to cyber terrorism, the world of cyber crime has expanded to a very large extend.
Hacking and Spamming has widely increased. There is a major threat to personal data and passwords. Blogs, online forums, chat rooms, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and many other aren’t safe either. These rely on effortless downloading/distribution, publishing, and other information-sharing techniques which leaves every user vulnerable to cyber infections. Hackers have made their presence felt at the Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace etc too. Recently, Orkut ‘communities’ of former India Prez APJ Abdul Kalam and Indian cricket star Rahul Dravid were hacked and abused by the hackers to send vulgar messages to the members and hack their accounts.
The transmission of pornography has also amplified. Frauds worth billions over the World Wide Web have happened. E-commerce sites are the most vulnerable targets. Cyber crime has left many in double minds when it comes to choosing the option of e-banking. Drug trafficking too has expanded by the use of encrypted e-mail and other Internet Technology.
And the latest, terror groups too are now emailing their agenda to the governmental authorities! Their accesses to governments’ official websites have left many wondering about the security on the web. Hoax emails are sent to terrorize authorities and citizens alike.
After all its 21st century and the evil bytes are fast replacing whizzing bullets. And for those who are surprised, this is merely the tip of the iceberg!
What does your status say?
Out of the many features available on Social Networking Sites (SNS), the funniest one I find is the status message. People have been using the status message to their convenience. For some, its fun and for others it’s simply irritating. At times this can be addictive but also confusing. There are many people who don’t exactly feel the need to tell the world what they are busy with, yet this category is overshadowed by hoards of those who simply love updating their status every single minute.
Gone are the days when the status messages were being used in the literal meaning of the term. People used it communicate joy, sorrows, achievement, amazing experiences etc. it has been only in the recent times that the attractiveness of the status messages has sky rocketed. That one statement now says much more than it should ideally be. People now tend to make it funnier. Thy hardly mind broadcasting their personal life or experiences. The most probable reason of this increasingly spreading trend is the way now people look at SNS. For those who treat the SNS very casually, it’s a fun filled activity, they don’t mind updating it a dozen times a day. Whereas there are other who have professional linkups at SNS too and they remain to be strictly poised. Sarcasm is yet another common feature of those looking to vent out their frustration through their status messages.
There is a growing addiction for this amongst the youth. SNS freaks always attempt to update a status which is stands them apart. According to a recently conducted study, the addiction to update status messages reveals the level of insecurity.
However, their craze has spread so much that now there are proper softwares that have been specifically designed to generate status messages for your SNS. All you need to do is enter your name and gender and see the amazing results that appear in seconds!
There are websites which gives you a listing of the status messages. What’s more, there is one for every mood and occasion. Just Google the mood you are in and get the ‘coolest status messages’. These sites are also regularly updated, some even thrice a day, and also allow to you submit yours if it is innovative enough. The funniest I have ever read, “Going into labor pain!”
Sure, the trend is here to stay!
Blending Responsibilities and Passions
Ever since they became popular in the late 90s, the blogs have been used by people to their convenience. Some have used them to share experiences, views and opinions, some use them to inform the public, some write to vent their frustration, the others live their passion through them. Where as the conventional connotation attached to the use of blogs have termed them as ‘personal space’ but the most debatable use of the blogs has been for journalism.
Enabled by the emergence of World Wide Web and with the advancements in technology, the blogs became the most powerful forms of interactive media. Realising their potential, many of the main steam media professionals shifted to the world of blogging to reach out to a wider audience and guage the public opinion.
This blend of journalism and blogging have been a bag of mixed experiences. While some have appreciated them for being unbiased versions, the other school of thought have given it a harsh beating. The criticisms that it attracts are mainly due to the mixing of duties and passion for blogging. The most powerful use of this new age media tool called ‘blog’ has been interactivity which keeps the audience better informed and develop deeper relationships. But the most difficult aspect has been to maintain the authenticity and credibility of their content.
A journalist who has to abide by the editorial policies and political bent of their media institution can only experince their fundamental right of ‘Freedom of Speech and Expression’ through blogging. The blogs hence can be termed as unreguated. But if anything posted on the journalists’ personal space goes against the organisation’s policies can lead to severe consequences putting it in a bad light. The credibility gained over the years both by the media organisation and the journalist could be lost in minutes.
Again although there’s always some level of the credibilty attached to the word of the mouth of a journalist, the defined ethics like objectivity are bound to be violated if the informtion is completely unregulated.
However useful or abused it might be, blogging has revolutionized the sharing experience. Today every person has its own story to say and also a freedom to make a choice of the medium he uses. Essentially what difference does it makes whether you read it on the World Wide Web or while sipping your bed tea?
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