The Staff

UNIX : Kumuda Ma'am

DATACOMNET : Ambika Ma'am

VISUAL PROGRAMMING : Anurag Sir

ENGLISH : Abdul Sir

KANNADA : Sweta Ma'am

Delayed

DELAYED,.....The classes have been put off until 12 December 2011. What a shame!

Must know keyboard shortcuts

1. Alt + Tab..................................Switch between open windows.
2. Windows Logo + L...................Lock the computer ( if password is activated )
3. F5.............................................Refresh Window
4. Backspace................................Go to previous window ( Use this instead of mouse )
5. LAlt + LShift + Num Lock.........Turn on Mouse keys ( if your mouse is not working )
6. Windows Logo + D...................Minimise All windows ( toggle to return)
7. LAlt + LShift + Print Screen.......Turn On/Off high contrast ( play a prank )

Make sure to you learn these commands, they may help you out during lab sessions.

Tips

A Few Tips to avoid getting your cellphone nicked in college

•  Always carry a budget device to college.
•  Dont flaunt your cellphones in corridors, someone may be watching.
•  Keep your cellphone in different places, one day keep it in your bagpack, the other day keep it in your pocket. Always choose random places to avoid prying eyes.
•  Activate the tracker system if your phone has one.
• Never keep the phone in silent mode when it is with you.
• During exams, when you are supposed to keep the cellphones near the board or in the bag, make sure you have turned the Security code access on so that if the phone gets nicked you can always call it up and hear it ring because the thief will be unable to put the phone in a silent mode because of the code access. 
• Use a lock for your backpack.

These tips are a few seconds read but they will come a long way in protecting your phone.

3D Compass and GPS : Application Review

When you are lost in the jungles of Amazon, you know you are so f****d. There is no way you're getting out without any help unless you are Bear Grylls.

You have lost all the sense of direction. All the places you go will look just like the places you left. You end up going in circles. Smart people will try to climb a tree to survey the area and devise a plan of action but when they are climbing down, they often tend to loose a limb or two or three or maybe four. Smarter still people ( the fat ones actually who cant climb trees ) will use their smartphones to do the work instead. It's become very essential that you carry a compass with you at all times. But who heeds the advice ? Carrying a cellphone has become more important than carrying a compass. Facebook is more important you guys! It hasnt been long since manufacturers integrated compass into your cellphones to avoid you the trouble of packing the little bronze gift you got while you were 8.

 People say that in places such as Amazon, your life depends on your choices. But to make choices, will you trust your mind or your heart ?
The answer is neither, coz if you do trust your mind or heart, you are going to end up in the anacondas belly!

To avoid such gruesome ends to our pathetic lives,Vladimir Ten has developed a neat little app. It's called 3D Compass and GPS. Wow!....that sounds awesome. 3D!!!
I mean do you really need 3D compass to get yourself out ? 3D ? With insects laying eggs in your skin ? NO, but its a lot fun getting out of the forest this way.
The application is more of a fashion than a function, but my god it looks pretty!

Bringing the agumented reality concept to a new level, the compass is shown just like a HUD over a live camera. The bearings rotate as you move and keeps reorientating itself to show you the magnetic North. Makes you feel like wanting to reach out and touch those pretty yellow numbers. Tilt your phone down and you can see a Disc which is itself a compass pointer. The useful thing here is that you can see right through the compass while you make your way. Who knows when you may spot that deadly adder sitting right in your path. The application also offers other goodies such as different pointers. Included in the set is a barrel (looks like a rubber dud commonly seen in compass keychains ), an Arrow (most boringest shape of them all) and a WindRose ( looks like a salted starfish which nobody ate ). Its fun to watch them float around as you move your cellphone. You can give those pointers a nudge with your fingers and they will eventually point back.

But what good is a compass when you dont know which way to go. So a GPS system is included in the app which has very clever 'Point of Interest' function. What it does is it collects your immediate GPS co-ordinates and sets it up as a marker points. You can see these markers through the compass. Similar to the LAYAR, you can also add some of your own unique GPS points. Practically, it's a lot helpful. Consider you are going out to see that local falls deep inside the forest. Before you set off, mark your hotel as a POI. It sounds stupid but when you do get lost in the forest, you can use the App which will track and point out which way your hotel is in through coloured markers and it also tells you how far you are from your destination. So you can continue that way instead of climbing trees and doing mokey stuffs. Suppose you forgot to add a POI Safezone, you can mark all the places you have been as POIs, that way you can know that you are not backtracking.
For those who think such applications are limited for use in Forest and Desert Situations, think again. If you go on as a tourist to unfamiliar countries, you can use the App and mark your hotel as POI Safezone. This way you can always find your way back in case you get lost or you can find out if that Rickshaw dude is trying to cheat you by going the wrong way for a larger fare. Another example : Mark your location as a POI Safezone, Use Google Earth to get the GPS coordinates of the destinations you want to go. Feed them all to the App to make a new POI Destinations. When you are travelling, you can see all the POIs you have marked along with their distance. This way you can visit destinations which are closer to each other first and then go to destinations which are further away.

Fruit Ninja Review

Fruit Ninja
Publisher : Halfbrick Studios

Hiyaaaaaa!!...Hooo! Hoo!
Slash Slash!.....Swish!...SPLASH!
Mehehehe!
Woah,that's quite a Mess!
No.....i am not slicing a sheep. Geez! why would i ?

Psssst...
Do you want to join a secret cult ? The secret league of Ninjas ?? Men who fear no darkness, Men who fear no pain, Men who fear no Death! But men who HATE fruits!!
Why hate them ?.....because the last time you tried to cut a stubborn Orange, you had cut your fingers instead. It wasnt funny when you found your Wife/girlfriend laughing at you! It's never funny.

Bow down to FRUIT NINJA, the messiest game you can have for Free on the BADA App store. It's Dirty.....real dirty,...it gets your fingers wet and sticky. But you get the satisfaction! The satisfaction for a cutting a fruit right. This is the whole point of being a MAN! Practise your slicing skills on different fruits and improve your 'MANa'.

I bow to the HALFBRICK guys for creating one of the most addictive games i have ever played. The game is straight to the point. You dont have a past or a future. You have no story.You have come to sensei to learn one and only one thing. To cut fruits.

The game has many fruits. Apples, watermelons, strawberries, pears and you name it. All of these will be thrown into the air at random and you have to slash them all up without a miss. You slash with your fingers. No!....You cant use your Katana. But there are many colourful virtual blades you can use. They range from blue coloured kniefs to smoldering fire blades. Score points and unlock them by completing some events. Such as 'Slash a total of 40 bannanas' to unlock the Yellow blade. You have to use brains and chain your moves to perform combos which will give you more points. But BEWARE. The sensie is not at all as cute as he looks in the cartoon. He's a physco. He sometimes tosses up a live grenade among the fruits. And if you slash it, you are F***D. But if you try to avoid the shot you may drop the fruits which are flying around the grenade. You can only drop upto 3 fruits. Use precision moves and impress your sensei.The fruits look juicy and the slashing sound effects are very good. Backgrounds are well textured. You even have to navigate through the menu by slashing fruits.

There are two additional game play modes. Arcade and Zen. In the Zen mode, there will be no grenades but you'll have only 90 seconds to score the maximum amount of points. This is essitially a practise mode. You can learn to slow down your slashes so that you can cut more than 3 fruits at a time.
In the Arcade, things are a bit more fun. You can slash one of the special bannana to start a special event. They include Frenzy bannana, Freeze bannana, and Double bannana. Slashing the Frenzy bannana, a bunch of fruits will be thrown at once. This means you can rake up in multiple combo scores. The freeze bannana slows things down, allowing you to chain one long combo. The Double bannana multiplies your score by 2 for a short period of time. Then there are the blue grenades, which if struck will deduct 10 points.