Tech Dosa

The IT sector world over is going through a turbulent phase. The sector, which receives around 80–90% of its revenue from the US and Europe, went through a very difficult phase after 2001 due to a recession in Western countries, especially the US and Europe.

While the growth in the number of new projects has taken a back seat, the depreciation in rupee has helped Indian IT companies to some extent.

The sectoral ranking indicates that most top IT companies have managed to retain their ranking of the previous year.

Check out the top 10 IT companies of India in 2009:

Industrial  scientists in the US are in the final stages of plans to market a new generation of ”intelligent” CCTVs, which can spot violent gestures or suspicious movements.

“Active awareness” systems can detect any kind of unusual activity, including someone raising their hand suddenly, running along a street or taking an unusual route around a car park.

According to David Brown, a scientist at Portsmouth University involved in the ’smart’ project, future versions will be able to recognize sounds such as screaming or glass breaking and could integrate face-recognition software to pick known criminals out of crowds.

Wipro, India’s third largest IT outsourcing provider, has increased hiring Australian employees.

“Australia is a large market for us in the Asia Pacific region. We are quite bullish and investing heavily in that market. As a part of that strategy, we would like to enhance the capacity of our two development centres located the country and have about 250 Australian people by the end of this year, thus increasing the percentage of local people working there from the current 20 per cent to about 35 per cent of our workforce in Australia,” said Rajat Mathur, senior Vice President and Chief Sales & Operations officer for Asia Pacific, Wipro Technologies.

Currently, Wipro has about 450 employees  in Australia and there are around 350 employees at its various offshore locations in India, working for the company’s Australian clients.

Wipro has tied up with the local software industry body, Australian Computer Society, as part of its localisation strategy. This will help the company to hire graduates from the top eight local universities.

Wipro entered the Australian market seven to eight years earlier. More than 15 per cent of its global revenues come from the Asia Pacific region (mainly Japan and India).The IT market in Australia and New Zealand has a revenue of around $14 billion. This has prompted all Indian IT outsourcing providers to increase their focus on the Australia and New Zealand market.

Wipro is basically focusing on the following  specific sectors in Australia — banking and insurance, energy and utilities, telecom, retail and the government.

I have been having problems with my mouse and its so hard to manuver over the screen. So for those who has problems with mouse here is the tip on how to make your keyboard work as a mouse also.

How to make your Keyboard act like a mouse?

• Go to the Start Menu > Control Panel > Accessibility Options
• Use Ctrl + Tab button to go to the Mouse Menu
• Press Alt + M to click on the check box of Use MouseKeys
• Press Alt + S to go the Settings.
• Then you can click on Tab to go through the options as you desire.
• You can control the  Pointer through keyboard  when NumLock is either on or off (which you can set using settings tab).
• To click on something, use the key 5.
• To activate right click, press “* key” and then 5.
• To activate back to left click, press “/ key” and then 5.
• To drag or select something, click “0 key” and then drag the cursor and finally click 5.

Image hosting service is one of the major services in the internet. There are plenty of websites that lets you host your Images. We will have a look at some of these.

There are image hosting websites that lets you upload images without a signup and lets you share these images in forums and websites. There are others which lets you upload your images and gives a url for the set of photos you have uploaded and lets you share the link to the photos.

Please note some of the Top image hosting websites also have Masala (soft porn) hosted in them.

Top Image Hosting websites

• 
  Picasa
  Its from google and they offer 1GB of free space. You need to download Picasa tool to upload photos. 
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  Flickr aka (Yahoo Photos)
  You can upload 100MB of photos every month. Flickr is the most used Photo sharing website in the world. Flicker lets you share photos easily on your website and blogs. 
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  Imageshack
  Lets you upload images of size upto 1.5 MB. You can also upload multiple images. You can register and then create slideshows.
• Tinypic and Photobucket
    
  Tinypic is from Photobucket and the only difference is that all pictures uploaded to Tinypic are public. If you need to host private photos you need to go with Photobucket. There is a limit of 25GB on the bandwidth for free users. 
• Imagevenue
  Upload Unlimited Photos and Unlimited bandwidth. Only Jpeg Images 
• Slide
  No Limits image hosting. Host any number of images. Slide also lets you personalize your picture with stickers and also create slideshows.
• ImageFap
  Host images and earn money for views. You can earn $1 for 14000 views. This site does allow adult content to be uploaded.
• Picscrazy 
  From Xboard.us this is a masala picture hosting website. All celebrity images and masala indian movie images are hosted here.