37 Most Amazing Real Pictures

Balloons in Cappadocia

The border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a cafe

Favelas of Brazil . The boundary between wealth and poverty.

In the Chinese province of Shandong is a bridge across the Gulf of Jiaozhou.

The bridge length over 36 km is calculated for eight car lanes, and is the longest sea bridge in the world.

In the city of Buford , WY ( USA ) lives just one person. He works as a janitor and as a mayor.

Autumn camouflage

The world’s highest chained carousel, located in Vienna , at a height of 117 meters.

Balcony of floor 103 in Chicago

From the outside it looks like this

In northwestern Montana , USA.

The water is so transparent that it seems that this is a quite shallow lake. In fact, it’s very deep.

Morning Glory –

kind of clouds observed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia

Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed). Flowering once in several years.

Dubai. The view from the skyscraper BurjKhalifa. The height of buildings is 828 m (163 floors).

And this is the view……. down

Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. Tongariro National Park – New Zealand

Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.

Haus Rizzi – Germany

Lost paradise in the Indian Ocean . Isle of Lamu.

Banpo Bridge in Seoul , South Korea

This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform. These phenomena can be observed in several places in China . This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu . The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.

Lighthouse guard in Mare

Lighthouse guard in Mare , France must be one of the most courageous people on the planet! Not everyone will have a smoke in such weather, and in such a place!

Skyscraper-Crescent Crescent Moon Tower ( Dubai )

Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid

Gibraltar Airport is one of the most extraordinary airports around the world

These trees grow in the forest near Gryfino , Poland . The cause of the curvature is unknown

The river above the river: Magdeburg Water Bridge , Germany .

Lena Pillars. Russia , the Lena River

In the resort town of Skagen you can watch an amazing natural phenomenon. This city is the northernmost point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides in this place can not merge because they have different densities.

Day and night. The monument in Kaunas, Lithuania

Twice a year in the Gulf of Mexico rays migrate. About 10 thousand stingrays swim from the Yucatan Peninsula to Florida in the spring and back in the fall.

Photo of storm in Montana , USA , 2010

Heavy fog in Sydney , which enveloped the whole city

The longest traffic jam in the world — recorded in China

Its length is 260 kilometers [and that's 161 MILES, folks!]

Thor’s Well a/k/a ”the gates of the dungeon” on Cape Perpetua , Oregon

At moderate tide and strong surf, flowing water creates a fantastic landscape

View of the sunset from inside the wave.

Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar

Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by boat.

An unusual tunnel in California’s Sequoia National Park

Tips to Get Confirmed Tatkal Ticket from IRCTC Site

Getting confirmed tatkal ticket from IRCTC site is like winning a gold medal. I have tried to get tatkal ticket hundreds of times but most of the time I was unable to get the tatkal ticket. And yes, I was always unfortunate at times when it was real emergency.

Daily thousands of needy people use IRCTC in the morning to get a tatkal ticket but a large percentage of them never got the success. The main reason of the failure of getting the tatkal ticket is either you were just 1-2 minutes late or the window says “session expired”.

Reasons you don’t get a confirmed tatkal ticket-

1. You can use the tatkal booking only when its 8.00 am at the IRCTC but even if your computer time has 1 minute difference with that of IRCTC, it will be a big problem as most of the tatkal tickets are booked in the first 5 minutes only and if this is peak season all the tickets booked in minutes.
2. After 8 am you start filling the details like station name, booking date, selecting your train, then filling passenger form details etc and when you want to book it says no more confirmed ticket.
3. If you try to fill all the details before 8 am and wait and after 8 am you try to go to the next window then it says “session expired” and you need to login again.
4. And one of the main reason is many fields in IRCTC does not work (like filling typing station name and it does not popup the code) and it loads very slowly or page does not open etc.

Its really frustrating because there is no other option left if you miss this tatkal ticket. Flights tickets are really not affordable now a days.

Here I am trying to give you one of the best tip for getting IRCTC ticket which I am using from the last couple of months and I was really successful most of the times. So next time when you are trying to get the confirmed IRCTC ticket, just refer this tip and increase your chances of getting a confirmed tatkal ticket.

Tips to get a confirmed tatkal ticket

Get Multiple IRCTC account

For this, you need to have at least 3 IRCTC accounts. Either you can create this or get the account of your friend and relative. You need to have different internet browser in your PC to open different account in different browser. You can install Internet Explorer (IE), Mozilla Firefox & Google Chrome.

You have to login to all different IRCTC account from different browsers. You can not login to different account in the same browser. So open one account in IE, one in Firefox & other in Chrome.

This is because if there is problem in one browser, you can immediately use another logged in account. This is confirmed that if you have problem in the booking process in one browser, it will work in other browser as per my experience.

Match the time of your PC with IRCTC

Next thing you have to do is match the time with that of IRCTC. To check IRCTC time, just visit this link here and get the schedule by entering any train number (or use 12833). Now scroll down to the bottom of the page in the next window and check there IRCTC time. And then match it with your PC.

Get Magic Autofill

Most of your time in the booking process goes in filling the passenger details form and saving here even 5 seconds can make a difference and where this Magic Autofill play the role. This is one of the best auto filling form developed by Amit Agarwal.

It’s a simple online tool that will fill the passenger details form on the IRCTC website with the click of a button thus giving you an upper hand.

Just check how the tool works. Visit ctrlq.org/irctc around 15 minutes prior to the opening of the booking window and complete the form i.e at around 7.45 am. Its an almost exact replica of the form that’s available on the Indian railways website. Once you’ve filled the passenger details, hit I’m Feeling Lucky and the tool will generate a Magic Autofill button that you need to drag to your bookmarks toolbar as shown in the image below.

Now at 8 am when you start the booking process and come to the passenger details form click on Magic Autofill button and with in a second all the details will be filled automatically. Its really magic. Now you complete other formalities like payment and get your ticket.

Get your details ready

This is very important as sometime you just forget the train details or sometime you get confuse which payment methods to choose when there is no time to think all these things. So just open a notepad, write all the details in advance like source train & destination train, credit card details or bank details with password.

You have already filled the passenger details in the magic autofill and bookmarked the button.

Write every details in that notepad that you are going to fill in the booking process so that you just copy and paste that detail. It can save your at least 1 minute and here every second counts in tatkal ticket booking.

This way you can really increase your chances of booking a tatkal ticket. I have many times used this tip and more than 95% time I was successful in booking a tatkal ticket.

Some Most Interesting Facts About Facebook

Amidst so many things said and heard, we has collected some crazy & interesting facts about Facebook that have made the company a treat for the readers.





Whether you are a user of Facebook or not, it’s always there and millions upon millions of people use it every single day. When Facebook IPO came, Facebook share was priced in open market for about $38 a share, bringing the totaled value of the company to a whopping $100 billion.



Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg makes about $67 every second totaling around $650K every week? Or what if Facebook was a country – with over 900 million users, FB would be the 3rd largest country in the world after China and India, basically crushing the US which is home to only 300+ million. In such a short amount time, this website has become an extremely strong force in today’s society and it only looks to go up after the IPO.

Some Interesting Facts About Facebook

• Facebook’s Worth would be more than eBay, Yahoo, Groupon, LinkedIn, Netflix, IAC, AOL, Zynga and Pandora combined, when it goes public.
• Facebook has 901 million monthly active users, with 526 million who use Facebook at least once a day as of March, according to Facebook’s fact page.
• Countries that block Facebook include China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
• Eminem has the most popular celebrity page on Facebook with over 57 million likes, beating Rihanna and Lady Gaga.
• In 2011, Zuckerberg became a vegetarian, according to his Facebook timeline history.
• The company that’s been valued at over $100 billion dollars was started from Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room in Harvard. Yep, that part of the movie is true.
• Eduardo Saverin, the Brazilian co founder of Facebook has renounced his US citizenship and is now investing billions in startups at Singapore.
• About 60 percent of the voting power at Facebook is controlled by Zuckerberg.
• The big shot media company Viacom had offered to acquire Facebook, but was rejected by Mark Zuckerberg.
• After agreeing to an acquisition offer from Yahoo while it was led by Terry Semel, Facebook stepped down from the deal when there were talks of lowering the offer price.
• The Microsoft CEO, steve Ballmer had offered to buy Facebook. Steve has invested $240 million in Facebook till date.
• Of all the incredible talents that Zuckerberg is bestowed with, his greatest and what seems to be his favorite is Firing People.
• Facebook interviewed Yahoo executive Ellen Siminoff, Apple veteran Bud Colligan, and former OpenTable CEO Jeff Jordan for the position of COO which is now held by Sheryl Sandberg.
• Steve jobs had to cancel the presentation that he had offered Facebook for the iphone application in 2008. Jobs, who had expected Zuckerberg to do the presentation was disappointed by the audition of the engineer who was selected by the Facebook CEO.
• Maintaining his reputation of having a a bad fashion sense, Zuckerberg wore a hoodie to the meeting with wall street investors.
• In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg took CEO lessons to improve his managerial skills.
• Mark Zuckerberg is said to be a big time Glee fan.
• One of the reasons for Facebook to be so mobile friendly is that Mark Zuckerberg is a huge fan of Blackberry.
• In 2010 Zuckerberg switched to iphone from Blackberry, apparently, because his thumbs were hurting.
• The employees at Facebook seem to be getting bored as Zuckerberg won’t agree to work on weird projects like driverless cars.
• Mark Zuckerberg promises to code every day of the year 2012.
• The CEO never consulted his board before starting his negotiations with the $1 billion acquisition Instagram.
• Facebook had started looking for overseas investors when it was not getting any attention from domestic investors during the housing crisis.
• The Like Button was originally named the Awesome button by the Facebook engineers.
• Facebook’s valuation is four times that of Google when it went public.
• In 2009, after being charged by the government for changing user privacy settings, Facebook agreed to 20 years of FTC privacy audits.
• The Zuckerberg family spent $85,000 to keep running Facebook during its first Californian summer.
• Before starting YouTube, founder steve chen had worked for a few weeks at Facebook.
• To drop the “the”, Sean Parker helped the company buy the domain name Facebook.com for $200,000.
• Mark Zuckerberg had initially resisted to the idea of including photo sharing. Sean parker had convinced him to include what is the most used feature of the website.
• Engineers at Facebook are paid more than any other in Silicon Valley.
• The young billionaire recently married to his long time girlfriend Priscilla Chan. Mrs Zuckerberg, who is of Chinese-American descent, had inspired her new husband, 28, to learn Chinese some time ago.
  

TOP 107 COMMAND PROMPT TRICKS

Hello Friends. Here Are A Few Commands For You  All To Know...

To Those Who Didn't Know HowTo Use Here It Is:

START<RUN<CMD

         (OR)

START<SEARCH<CMD

And Then Type These Commands According To Your Requirement.

HERE ARE THOSE:

1. Accessibility Controls - access.cpl

2. Accessibility Wizard - accwiz

3. Add Hardware Wizard - hdwwiz.cpl

4. Add/Remove Programs - appwiz.cpl

5. Administrative Tools - control admintools

6. Automatic Updates - wuaucpl.cpl

7. Bluetooth Transfer Wizard - fsquirt

8. Calculator - calc

9. Certificate Manager - certmgr.msc

10. Character Map - charmap

11. Check Disk Utility - chkdsk

12. Clipboard Viewer - clipbrd

13. Command Prompt - cmd

14. Component Services - dcomcnfg

15. Computer Management - compmgmt.msc

16. Control Panel - control

17. Date and Time Properties - timedate.cpl

18. DDE Shares - ddeshare

19. Device Manager - devmgmt.msc

20. Direct X Troubleshooter - dxdiag

21. Disk Cleanup Utility - cleanmgr

22. Disk Defragment - dfrg.msc

23. Disk Management - diskmgmt.msc

24. Disk Partition Manager - diskpart

25. Display Properties - control desktop

26. Display Properties - desk.cpl

27. Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility - drwtsn32

28. Driver Verifier Utility - verifier

29. Event Viewer - eventvwr.msc

30. Files and Settings Transfer Tool - migwiz

31. File Signature Verification Tool - sigverif

32. Findfast - findfast.cpl

33. Firefox - firefox

34. Folders Properties - control folders

35. Fonts - control fonts

36. Fonts Folder - fonts

37. Free Cell Card Game - freecell

38. Game Controllers - joy.cpl

39. Group Policy Editor (for xp professional) - gpedit.msc

40. Hearts Card Game - mshearts

41. Help and Support - helpctr

42. HyperTerminal - hypertrm

43. Iexpress Wizard - iexpress

44. Indexing Service - ciadv.msc

45. Internet Connection Wizard - icwconn1

46. Internet Explorer - iexplore

47. Internet Properties - inetcpl.cpl

48. Keyboard Properties - control keyboard

49. Local Security Settings - secpol.msc

50. Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc

51. Logs You Out Of Windows - logoff

52. Malicious Software Removal Tool - mrt

53. Microsoft Chat - winchat

54. Microsoft Movie Maker - moviemk

55. Microsoft Paint - mspaint

56. Microsoft Syncronization Tool - mobsync

57. Minesweeper Game - winmine

58. Mouse Properties - control mouse

59. Mouse Properties - main.cpl

60. Netmeeting - conf

61. Network Connections - control netconnections

62. Network Connections - ncpa.cpl

63. Network Setup Wizard - netsetup.cpl

64. Notepad - notepad

65. Object Packager - packager

66. ODBC Data Source Administrator - odbccp32.cpl

67. On Screen Keyboard - osk

68. Outlook Express - msimn

69. Paint - pbrush

70. Password Properties - password.cpl

71. Performance Monitor - perfmon.msc

72. Performance Monitor - perfmon

73. Phone and Modem Options - telephon.cpl

74. Phone Dialer - dialer

75. Pinball Game - pinball

76. Power Configuration - powercfg.cpl

77. Printers and Faxes - control printers

78. Printers Folder - printers

79. Regional Settings - intl.cpl

80. Registry Editor - regedit

81. Registry Editor - regedit32

82. Remote Access Phonebook - rasphone

83. Remote Desktop - mstsc

84. Removable Storage - ntmsmgr.msc

85. Removable Storage Operator Requests - ntmsoprq.msc

86. Resultant Set of Policy (for xp professional) - rsop.msc

87. Scanners and Cameras - sticpl.cpl

88. Scheduled Tasks - control schedtasks

89. Security Center - wscui.cpl

90. Services - services.msc

91. Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc

92. Shuts Down Windows - shutdown

93. Sounds and Audio - mmsys.cpl

94. Spider Solitare Card Game - spider

95. SQL Client Configuration - cliconfg

96. System Configuration Editor - sysedit

97. System Configuration Utility - msconfig

98. System Information - msinfo32

99. System Properties - sysdm.cpl

100. Task Manager - taskmgr

101. TCP Tester - tcptest

102. Telnet Client - telnet

103. User Account Management - nusrmgr.cpl

104. Utility Manager - utilman

105. Windows Address Book - wab

106. Windows Address Book Import Utility - wabmig

107. Windows Explorer - explorer.

ZeroN system holds a ball wherever you place it, in mid-air

People who saw the 1984 film 2010: The Year We Make Contact might remember a scene in which Roy Scheider, while describing the orientation of the spaceship that he’s aboard, picks up a pen and places it in mid-air in front of himself. While that effect was actually accomplished using a sticky-sided pen and a very clear plate of glass, the same sort of thing is now actually possible – if you’re in the right place, and positioning the right object. The place is MIT’s Media Lab, and the object is a small plastic-coated spherical magnet called ZeroN. Users can physically place it anywhere within a specified three-dimensional block of “anti-gravity space,” then watch as it stays in place when they let it go. It can also move through the air on its own, and even function as a virtual movie camera.




The ZeroN system was created by Media Lab research assistant Jinha Lee in collaboration with Dr. Rehmi Post of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, and the Media Lab's Prof. Hiroshi Ishii.

Above its open-air anti-gravity space sits an electromagnet, that can be moved vertically and horizontally via a three-axis motor controller. To the side is a stereo infrared motion-tracking system made with two stock Sony PS3 Eyecam cameras, along with a video projector. A second projector and third camera sit beneath a horizontal translucent screen, that is located on a tabletop underneath the anti-gravity space.

As the user reaches into the space with the ZeroN ball in their hand, the motion-tracking system keeps track of where it is. It relays this information to the motor controller, which moves the electromagnet accordingly. When the user lets go, the magnet will be in such a position that its magnetic field holds the ball in place, right where the user left it. If they then reach in and reposition it, the electromagnet will move with it, to keep it hovering in its new location.

Along with simply keeping the ZeroN where it was left, however, the system can also record its movements and then play them back. This means that the ball could be guided through an aerial routine by hand, let go, and then proceed to repeat that routine on its own.

While these may sound like fascinating parlor tricks, the technology has many potential applications. Using the side-mounted projector, for instance, images can be projected onto the surface of the ZeroN. They will not only stay with it through 3D space, but will also rotate with it as it spins in place. This feature could allow it to be labelled, then used to help visualize physics problems – instead of simply thinking the problems through or looking at two-dimensional computer models, physicists could actually reach in and manipulate models of objects such as electrons by hand.

It could also be used in the field of astronomy to act as a rotating model of a planet, orbiting around a static model Sun.

In fact, it could even play the part of the Sun. If an object is placed on the translucent bottom screen, the bottom projector can be instructed to create a digital virtual shadow for that object on the screen. As the ZeroN is moved above the object, the direction and length of its shadow will change, as if the ZeroN is the Sun.



Additionally, the ZeroN can be assigned the role of a movie camera. In this case, after it has been moved over a grouping of physical models placed below it, a 3D fly-over animation of those objects can be generated, “shot” as if the ZeroN were the camera. This could prove particularly useful to architects, who want to record virtual aerial shots of their hand-built models.

World's most expensive camera sells at auction for €2.16 million (US$2.77 million)

The Viennese WestLicht Photographica Auction House continued its stellar run of success with its 21st Camera auction in just its eleventh year as an auction house, when it recently broke its own world record for the fifth consecutive time by selling one of the original Leica 0-series cameras for €2,160,000 (US$2.77 million), including the buyer’s premium.

Only 25 of these cameras were produced to test the market in 1923, two years before the commercial introduction of the Leica A. Bidding started at €300,000 ($385,276).

In last year's auction, a Leica from the same 0-series from 1923 sold for €1,320,000 ($1,695,216), so with another of the 25 originals coming across the auctioneer's block, a record was in the cards before the event even started.

With bids coming from the room, by phone and over the internet, the price of the camera kept climbing past the world record and finally stopped at €1.8 million ($2.3 million), with the hammer falling to an anonymous bidder.

WestLicht Photographica Auctions' previous record was a Daguerreotype Giroux, the first-ever commercially produced camera which changed hands in May 2010 for €732,000 ($940,183).

Gasoline-powered diesel-like engine could boost fuel economy by 50 percent

With both gasoline and diesel engines having their own particular advantages and disadvantages, automotive component manufacturer Delphi is looking for a best-of-both-worlds solution with a gasoline-powered engine that uses diesel engine-like technology for increased fuel efficiency. According to MIT’s Technology Review, such an engine has the potential to increase the fuel economy of gasoline-powered cars by 50 percent and give hybrid vehicles a run for their money in the fuel economy stakes.

Gasoline engines use spark for ignition while diesel engines rely on the heat of compressed air to ignite the fuel. There have been numerous attempts to develop gasoline-powered engines that use compression ignition, it has been difficult to provide the level of control needed under a variety of loads – idling, accelerating, cruising, etc.

Known as gasoline-direct-injection compression ignition, Delphi's approach reportedly overcomes this problem by "combining a collection of engine-operating strategies that make use of advanced fuel injection and air intake and exhaust controls." This includes injecting gasoline in timed bursts to reduce noise and maximize the speed at which fuel is burned.

Delphi has already built a single-piston test engine to demonstrate the technology and is now commencing testing of a multicylinder engine that would be closer to a production engine. Estimates resulting from simulations of how a midsize vehicle would perform with such an engine indicate that the new engines have the potential to improve the fuel economy of gasoline-powered cars by as much as 50 percent.

Mark Sellnau, the engineering manager of advanced powertrain technology at Delphi, told Technology Review that gasoline-direct-injection compression ignition engines could also be used in hybrid vehicles to further improve efficiency – although he’s unsure whether this would be worth the added cost.