Nokia acquires Trolltech!! – The most innovative and succesful company ever!

 

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Thats a terrific happy news for all those love Qt – the best C++ OpenSource Crossplafrom framework ever built. It just emphasises the fact that passion, innovation and dedicated hardwork always pays off. Trolls are a such wonder and unfortunately Qt, didn’t get much publicity even in the developer community! 😦 . But all those have felt the power and easiness of Qt, became the great fans of the wonderful framework.

Today Trolltech announce that Nokia is going to aquire Trolls to boost its business empire, for an approximate deal of $150 Million. This proves what potential Qt and its associated cousin frameworks like Qtopia offers!.

Trolltech provides cross-platform software development frameworks and application platforms. Trolltech’s Qt is used in popular software such as Skype, Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Lucasfilm and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech’s Qtopia has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech’s software has shipped in more than 10 million devices.

Trolltech’s products enable companies to easily build and deploy software across a wide range of operating systems and electronic devices. The company serves desktop and embedded application providers, as well as consumer electronics and mobile vendors, who face challenges in delivering user-friendly and differentiated software. Trolltech enables customers to accelerate innovation, shorten time to market and increase revenues. Trolltech’s software improves the user experience by increasing the appeal and quality of customer’s applications on desktop and devices. The future proof Qt software allows developers to code less, create more and deploy anywhere.

To know more about the deal read out here:  www.trolltech.com

Life Stories to Inspire: Indra Nooyi – CEO, PepsiCo.

Ever wonder how to be influential and reach the top of the world?. Here’s the inspiring story of CEO of PepsiCo and the Fortune / Time magazine’s most influential women in the world – the Chennai born Indra Krishnamoorthy Nooyi:

It’s a simple story of a powerful woman. A story of an Indian girl who came from conservative Chennai to pursue higher studies in the US with little money and no safety net. If she failed, she failed. A story of this determined girl, who while studying in Connecticut, worked as a receptionist from midnight to sunrise to earn money and struggled to put together US$50 to buy herself a western suit for her first job interview out of Yale, where she had just completed her masters. Incidentally, she wasn’t comfortable trying out a formal western outfit and ended up buying trousers that reached down only till her ankles. Rejected at the interview, she turned to her professor at the school who asked her what she would wear if she were to be in India. To her reply that it would be a sari, the professor advised her to “be yourself” and stick to what she was comfortable with. She wore a sari for her next interview. She got the job and has followed this philosophy for the rest of her career. She’s been herself, never tried to change her basic beliefs, derived strength from her traditions and believed in who she is. As she says, “I’m so secure in myself, I don’t have to be American to play in the corporate life.” She worked hard and in time was counted as one of the most powerful women in the world by Forbes. In this edition of ‘My Story’ we present Indra Nooyi, President & Chief Financial Officer PepsiCo, Inc – a story that is both inspiring in its simplicity and grand in its achievement.

It all began years ago in Chennai, where she studied hard in school to get her grades. She remembers how her mother would, after meal every day ask Indra and her sister what would they like to become when they grew up. They would come up with different ideas and their mother would reward the best idea each day. It forced Indra to think and dream for herself. It was this dream that led her to be a part of the 11th batch of IIM Kolkata. After two years of work with Johnson & Johnson and Mettur Beardsell in India, it was this fiery urge that took her to America in 1978, when she left India with barely any money to pursue a management degree from the prestigious Yale Graduate School of Management.

Starting off with Boston Consulting Group in 1980, she knew it would be harder work for her than others for two reasons – one, she was a woman and two, she wasn’t an American but an outsider. She spent six years directing international corporate strategy projects at the Boston Consulting Group. Her clients ranged from textiles and consumer goods companies to retailers and specialty chemicals producers. Six years later, she joined Motorola in 1986 as the vice-president and director of corporate strategy & planning. She moved to Asea Brown Boveri in 1990 and spent four years as vice president (corporate strategy & planning). She was part of the top management team responsible for the company’s U.S. business as well as its worldwide industrial businesses, generating about one-third of ABB’s $30 billion in global sales.

An interesting tale surrounds her joining PepsiCo in 1994. At that time she also had an offer from General Electric, one of the world’s best run companies under Jack Welch. The Pepsi CEO Wayne Callloway, in a bid to lure her, told her, “Jack Welch (GE’s legendary boss) is the best CEO I know, and GE is probably the finest company. But I have a need for someone like you, and I would make PepsiCo a special place for you.” Nooyi agreed.

She broke the glass ceiling when she was appointed senior vice president, corporate strategy and development after joining PepsiCo in 1994 but she knew that getting there was one thing while staying there was another. As she says, “If you want to reach the top of a company, I agree that it can only happen in the United States, but you have to start off saying that you have got to work twice as hard as your (male) counterparts.” Not only did she work harder than her counterparts, she also made her way up the ladder to become President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo, and was also appointed as a member of board of directors of PepsiCo Inc – which she assumed in 2001.

Nooyi was 44 when she joined PepsiCo. Ever since, she has been involved in every major strategic decision the company has made in the last few years. That includes the drive to spin off PepsiCo’s fast food chain in 1997, acquiring Tropicana in 1998, and the US$ 13 billion move to acquire Quaker Oats. PepsiCo chief Roger Enrico announced her elevation following the Quaker acquisition saying, “Indra’s contributions to PepsiCo have been enormous and she will make a great President. In addition to her new role as President and CFO, Indra will also be nominated for election to the Pepsi board. She is a terrific addition to our world-class board and her perspective will be invaluable.”

Indra attributes a lot of Pepsi’s success to its great employees. She believes that a company remains great when there is a strong competitor, like Coke. She believes if you have no competition, a company will atrophy. Nooyi has a unique formula that keeps her work-life balance. She feels that you must have an extended family at work to give you that balance. To keep a company running at top speed, you need to attract the best employees.

At PepsiCo she has ensured that employees actually balance life and work. She views PepsiCo as an extended family and everybody at the company is there to help in every way possible. Sometime ago, when Indra was traveling, her daughter would call the office to ask for permission to play Nintendo. The receptionist would know the routine and ask: “Have you finished your homework? Have you had your snack? OK, you can play Nintendo for half an hour”. She then left a voice message for Indra saying “I gave Tara permission to play Nintendo”. Unheard of in most corporations, it’s a team Indra has built up at PepsiCo which knows each other so well.

Despite the monumental successes of her career, Indra Nooyi remains a quintessentially Indian woman who has combined the high-octane energy of her job with the calm, collected demeanour required to manage the equally central responsibility of a mother and a wife. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Fairfax county, Connecticut. If you ever visit her Connecticut home, do remember to take your shoes off before entering. If you forget, at least remember to take them off before entering the large puja room where a diya is lit and the inviting air of incense greets you. She keeps an image of Ganesha in her office, and in fact, some PepsiCo officials visited India and received similar images besides being told of the Hindu belief about Ganesh being the symbols of auspicious beginnings. Many of them now keep images of Ganesh in their offices! Nooyi attends PepsiCo board meetings in a sari; for she believes the corporate world appreciates people who are genuine.

At work, Nooyi is in the pressure cooker world of intriguing business maneuvres and frenetic multi-million dollar moves but when she enters her home, it is like entering a sanctuary of calm. She says Carnatic music plays in their home 18 hours a day, and the feeling is much like being in a temple. Does she think her religious convictions help her to do a better job in the corporate world? “I don’t know about a better job, but it certainly makes me calm,” she says. “There are times when the stress is so incredible between office and home, trying to be a wife, mother, daughter-in-law and corporate executive. Then you close your eyes and think about a temple like Tirupati, and suddenly you feel ‘Hey–I can take on the world.’ Hinduism floats around you, and makes you feel somehow invincible.”

Is it tough being a mother and a corporate executive? Nooyi admits it is difficult, “You can walk away from the fact that you’re a corporate executive, but you can’t walk away from the fact that you are a mom. In terms of being a mother and a corporate executive, the role of mom comes first.” She believes that her husband has been a great source of strength for her. Adds Nooyi on a perkier tone, “Always pick the right husband. I have a fantastically supportive husband.” What sees her through tough times? “My family and my belief in God. If all else fails, I call my mother in India when she’s there–and wake her up in the middle of the night–and she listens to me. And she probably promises God a visit to Tirupati!” Nooyi has always seen the world through the prism of her mother’s faith and beliefs and calls her the guiding light in her life.

Read more about the inspiring achievement story of Nooyi here: Story of Indra Nooyi.

 And more what the world media says about Nooyi:

[ Fortune – 50 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN 2007 : http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0709/gallery.women_mostpowerful.fortune/ ]

[ The TIME 100 : http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1615737_1615996,00.html ]

[ Forbes – The 100 Most Powerful Women: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/11/06women_Indra-Nooyi_1S5D.html ]

[Thanks: http://www.6bridges.com/ / TIME / Fortune ]

Best of OpenSource :: Antivirus : ClamWin Antivirus

Looking for a free / Open Source Antivirus ?… Checkout – ClamWin, the free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista.

ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:

* High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
* Scanning Scheduler;
* Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
* Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
* Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

The latest version of Clamwin Free Antivirus is 0.92
Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

Download ClamWin here: ClamWin Download.

Audacity – The best OpenSource Sound Recorder / Editor

Scratching your head to find the best and free software to record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs ??

“Audacity” can help you. It’s a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

* Record live audio.
* Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
* Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
* Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
* Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Here’s what you can achieve using Audacity:

Recording

Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

* Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
* Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
* Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
* Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.

Import and Export

Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.

* Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
* Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
* Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder library.
* Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
* Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
* Open raw (headerless) audio files using the “Import Raw” command.
* Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats.

Editing

* Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
* Use unlimited Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps.
* Very fast editing of large files.
* Edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks.
* Use the Drawing tool to alter individual sample points.
* Fade the volume up or down smoothly with the Envelope tool.

Effects

* Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa.
* Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises.
* Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost effects.
* Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effects.
* Other built-in effects include:
o Echo
o Phaser
o Wahwah
o Reverse

Sound Quality

* Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating point) samples.
* Record at up to 96 KHz.
* Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.
* Mix tracks with different sample rates or formats, and Audacity will convert them automatically in realtime.

Plug-Ins

* Add new effects with LADSPA plugins.
* Audacity includes some sample plugins by Steve Harris.
* Load VST plugins for Windows and Mac, with the optional VST Enabler.
* Write new effects with the built-in Nyquist programming language.

Analysis

* Spectrogram mode for visualizing frequencies.
* “Plot Spectrum” command for detailed frequency analysis.

Free and Cross-Platform

* Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
* Runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and GNU/Linux.

Get the latest version of Audacity here: Download.

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Curious to know what others are searching for?… Here’s a list from the “ThePiratesbay” search cloud!
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Best Indian Cities To Live & Earn – An Interesting Survey

I just came across this interesting survey in Economic Times and was puzzled to see the results! – 5 out of 10 results in it and more over the 1st winner in – “Best Place to Live” is from my own state – “Gods Own Country!” in India!. I wonder when the traditional political ecosystem in Kerala will improve to make it effective and get the – Best state to work!. In spite of large number of highly educated graduating from Kerala, the hard fact is that only 5-10% makes it as the place to work, espcially Techies!. Interestingly I found my hometown – Kannur too, in the list, which have virtually zero – IT companies operating, in spite of large number of brilliant IT crowds from Kerala working in high profile roles in all other states in an virtually all over the world too!. Way far to go for the politicians in Kerala to learn lessons and become professionals too!.

Here’s Economic Times Survey Results:

[Thanks: The Economic Times]

Make your Harddisk Always Cruise At Top Speed

We all face the problem with computers getting slower and slower as and when we start dumping and trashing files out of the hard disks, choking it to struggle harder and harder seeking and writing files in and out of it. We knew the troubles of using the default disk defragment tool gifted by Microsoft Disk Defragment Tool – “Defrag.exe”. Don’t worry – there exists a far superior free / OpenSource tool to help you out in keeping your drive optimised smartly and help it cruise at the maximum RPM it can handle.

Free (released under the GNU General Public License) disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies and USB disks/sticks. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version
(for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), and versions for Windows X64.

You can get more info here >> JK Defrag Home Page.

Download JkDefrag v3.29 (412kb) for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista

Download JkDefrag64 v3.29 (400kb) for X64 versions of Windows 2003/XP/Vista

How it works

JkDefrag is based on the standard Defragmentation Interface by Microsoft (the FSCTL_GET_VOLUME_BITMAP,
FSCTL_GET_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS, and FSCTL_MOVE_FILE function calls), just like all other defragmenters.
It is therefore very solid, there is no risk of losing data or the disk getting scrambled, and you can run it while the computer is in full use.
Phase 1: Analyze

JkDefrag has to scan all the files on the disk to determine if they are fragmented and where they are.

Phase 2: Defragment

All fragmented files are defragmented, simply by moving them to the first gap on the disk that is big enough. If there is no gap big enough then the defragmenter will reduce the number of fragments in the file by moving as much of the file as possible into the largest gaps available.

Phase 3: Optimize

• end, sometimes by as much as 200 percent! See the link to “HD Tune” in the “See Also” chapter for a nice little free program to measure your disk. The default JkDefrag optimization strategy therefore moves all files to the
  beginning of the volume. It is intended for daily use and will simply fill gaps with files from above, very quick and with very little data movement.
• JkDefrag classifies files into 3 zones: directories (zone 1), regular files (zone 2), and space hogs (zone 3).
  Directories are perhaps the most accessed data on disk, so zone 1 is placed at the beginning of the harddisk. After the directories comes a free area (see below), then zone 2 with regular files, another free area,
  and then zone 3 with space hogs (less important files that take up a lot of space). The begin and end of the zones is determined automatically, see the “-f” option.
• A running computer will create and delete temporary files like there is no tomorrow. If the harddisk were completely optimized then the only place for new temporary files would be behind all the other data. Which is rather slow. So JkDefrag maintains a free space of 1% of the total disk space between zone 1 (directories) and zone 2 (regular files), and between zone 2 and zone 3 (space hogs).
• Sorting the files on your disk can give you even more speed. There are several sorting strategies to choose from (see the “-a” options). These are all very slow and intended for occasional use only.
• Windows reserves a percentage of the disk for the MFT (Master File Table), but can place normal files there if the rest of the disk is full. The files will remain there, even when there is enough space again.
  JkDefrag looks for files in the MFT reserved space and moves them to normal diskspace, making the reserved space available again for the MFT.

On most harddisks the beginning of the harddisk is considerably faster than the

How safe is it?

JkDefrag is based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft, a system library that is included in Windows 2000, 2003, XP, and Vista. Most defragmenters are based on this API, including commercial defragmenters.
JkDefrag is therefore very solid and there is no risk of losing data. You can stop the program at any time, it will finish the current file in the background. If your disks use NTFS then you’re even safe when the computer crashes in the middle of defragmenting. Nevertheless, it’s still a good idea to backup before defragmenting,
just like with other defragmenters, because the heavy use of the harddisk may trigger a hardware fault (disk crash), and/or overheating (disk, power supply, controller chipset, etc.).
Defragmentation and optimizing will not only make a harddisk faster, but also lengthen it’s life span. The disk will have less work to do and therefore have less wear and tear. Secondly, the sorting optimization strategies (see the “-a” option) will refresh all the magnetic data on your harddisk. However, defragmenting and optimizing is work, so
excessive defragmenting and optimizing can actually cause more wear and tear than it prevents. JkDefrag is therefore set for “fast” optimization by default, intended to be used on a daily basis. The other optimizations should only be used occasionally.

Smart Techie Recomendation: I am using it for more than an year and I could never blame my laptop/PC harddisks for running slowly. **Highly Recommended** and I suggest you to make use of the automatic screen-saver activated defrag mode for hasle-free operation.

[Thanks: Jeroen Kessels – jeroen at kessels dot com]

HighTech Motion Detector Alarm To Protect your Bag and Luggage

This was in my wishlist for a longtime, until recently the security product company – Doberman Security Inc. came up with a nice motion detector alarm to protect possible bag and luggage theft. It’s very small and can be used as an emergency alarm, in case you need to raise alarm to get others attention too.

The Doberman Bag Protector Alert is a uniquely designed dually triggered alarm device, including a motion sensor alarm and a pull pin alarm. The motion sensor is armed and disarmed via the Bag Protector Alert keypad. Use your preset personal security code and place the Bag Protector Alert on a bag or valuables. If the protected item is touched, the motion sensor will trigger the alarm to alert you of a possible threat to your valuables.

It costs approximately $20 at Amazon.com

[Thanks – Doberman Security Inc.]

Camera shake and Blurry Snaps?… GorillaPod is here to help you.

For all of us – Photography enthusiasts, getting a picture perfect shot, without blurry / shaken images are always challenging and we all wish if there could be perfect image stabiliser built in all cameras. Fortunately there a solution – a smart, ultra flexible Tripod to help you out, allowing you to take snaps, wherever you are, whatever the angle of shot you want. Its so flexible that you can twist and bend it at any form, angle you want!.

 

There are two origianal version of GorillaPods in the market (unfotunately not yet in India) – a compact models and for Digital SLR and bulky lenses models ($21.99 – $49.99)

Checkout here >> Gorillapod @ ThinkGeek

[Thanks – ThinkGeek.Com]

Enjoy the beauty of Macintosh, without ditching Micro$oft!

Getting bored with WindowsXP looks? Don’t want to upgrade to Vista right now? I guess I can give you a hand on that. I make this guide so that anyone who wants a more beatiful desktop can learn where to start from. If you’re one of them, then you’ve google to the right site. This guide will transform your desktop to mimic the upcoming Leopard 10.5 from Apple.

We all know that Macintosh is one of the best OS out there, and most people consider it beautiful. So, many people who use W*ndows and L*nux are trying to get the same appearance. Most of the themes and icons in this guide are taken from DevianART . Credits to all of the authors. They’ve done the hard work, it is for us to use and I just rearrange them for those who need. So let’s get started.

Here’s Ultimate XP to Leopard Transformation Guide

Here’s my Laptop desktop after the transformation!… It’s so live, fast and beautiful too and it’s hard to distinguish as WindowsXP too!.

Recomendations: I have been using FlyKyteOSX for more than 6 months by now and till now I have not faced a single issue with it, be it stability, memory consumption, resource utilisation… Its so light and runs benind, giving almost real MacOS Leopard Look and Feel. More over, during installtion, it does backup the Windows System files, hence you don’t have to worry about possible recovery after any nasty windows “Blue screen of Death” (BSOD). Try it… You will definitely love it…

[Thanks Ascetic & DownloadGeeks.com]