“Five Rules” for Effective Presentation created with MSPowerpoint 2010

If you’ve ever doubted if you were using the full potentials of PowerPoint, then watch this presentation I exported to video titled “Five Rules” included in Office PowerPoint 2010 (and the beta available today). Even if you’re already familiar with PowerPoint’s advanced animations features, it’s still quite impressive.

Designed by Duarte, a company who seems to specialize in corporate presentations (imagine making PowerPoints all day), this presentation not only provides some good insight on how to create a compelling presentation, but also showcases the powerful new DirectX-powered graphics engine in PowerPoint 2010 that’s behind the elegant animations with silky-smooth playback.

If you have PowerPoint 2010 handy, check out how the magic is created yourself by taking a look at the raw slides under “File > New > Sample templates > Five Rules”. While you’re there, open up some of the other sample presentations for some cool stuff too.

Email server ranking in India

The popular Email servers of India are Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail.

For the past ten years Yahoo ranked first with 16+ billion users. In recent survey it is estimated that Yahoo has lost 8% of users and ranking second with 13+ billion users.

Gmail snatched Yahoo’s position by gaining 3% of users and now ranking number one in India with 16.2 billion users. It is said that the reason for Gmail tremendous growth is its support for 8 different languages.

Yahoo is taking serious steps to gain its popularity.

Kavitha M.

Web inventor: Regrets the “//”

Yeap after a year long search for the answer for the quest put forth by sir in the IT class (2008) here is the answer… The question was, what is the purpose of “//” present in url’s. And the answer is nothing.

Tim Berners-Lee pretty much created the World Wide Web as we know it. And looking back, he says that while the “http” part of a URL makes sense, there’s no particularly good reason for typing the double-slashes.

The double slash, though a programming convention at the time, turned out to not be really necessary, Mr. Berners-Lee explained at a symposium. Look at all the paper and trees, he said, that could have been saved if people had not had to write or type out those slashes on paper over the years — not to mention the human labor and time spent typing those two keystrokes countless millions of times in browser address boxes. (Today’s browsers, of course, automatically fill in the “http://” preamble when a user types a Web address.)

I’m guessing that nobody was really all that hurt by their presence. But I guess it does show that in hindsight, pretty much anything could be done better. Read the full story  Here by Steve Lohr at NYTimes.com

Wish you all a Happy and Safe Diwali, First light up your hearts and then light up your streets…