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Cellscope Microscope to help doctors diagnose deadly diseases

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:37:18 +0000

Medical researchers have unveiled a new gadget that could be used by
doctors in the developing world to diagnose diseases such as
tuberculosis and malaria.

The device, which attaches to a mobile
phone, allows physicians to create a portable microscope that can be
used to examine blood samples in the field and help spot some of the
world’s deadliest diseases.

The CellScope project focuses on the development of a modular,
high-magnification microscope attachment for cell phones. Due to its
portability, affordability and functionality, the CellScope will enable
health workers in remote areas to take high-resolution images of a
patient’s blood cells using the mobile phone’s camera, and then
transmit the photos to experts at medical centers. This device can
reduce both the cost and time of performing critical disease diagnoses,
as well as provide early warning of outbreaks in poverty-stricken
regions in the world.

Researchers at the University of California Berkeley
say they hope the gadget would be deployed in areas where the cost of
equipment and training currently prevents access to basic diagnostic
tests.

World Most Expensive Diamond IPod

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:00:34 +0000

Many of us are using Ipod these days. I am have an IPod touch and I am using it for browsing and music on the go. When I had purchased my IPod I was thinking of how expensive is this but I was wrong when I have found some pictures about iDiamond iPod. The iDiamond iPod shown here is the world most expensive MP3 player and it was put into a chairty auction in London. The iDiamond iPod and accompanying earplugs are made of solid 18 karat white and pink gold and encrusted with 430 diamonds.
Norwegian jeweller Thomas Heyerdahl based the design on the Apple iPod
shuffle and has donated the end result to a charity auction in London.
The worth of this IPod is more than 20,000 GBP mean more than 30 Lakh Pakistani Rupees. It is something very special and there was only one made of this kind so far.

Indian incredible technology

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:31:29 +0000

Indian Telecoms

Entertainment in Water

Rail and Communication

Parks and Horticulture

Goods Transport

Protecting Your Kids from Inappropriate and Unsafe Content on the Internet

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:39:32 +0000

Internet has become a necessary part of our life. I can hardly imagine a house where people are educated and well informed and they do not know or have internet. The websites served on the internet are growing very rapidly and their are billions of web pages all around. Many of these web pages may not be appropriate for us. Parents are all the time worried about the privacy and safety of their children on the internet and looking for easy ways to protect their children from the inappropriate and adult content. Today I am going to discuss a very easy way and free way to protect your kids. You do not need to be a internet guru to block the adult websites as we have an easy solution called OpenDNS. You can block adult sites automatically by using the the options with OpenDNS.

To learn more about OpenDNS please watch the OpenDNS tutorial video. You can also click on the above picture to enlarge. For setup you do not need to install any software or browser plug ins. simply visit https://www.opendns.com/start/computer/ and select your operating system. There you will find step by step easy instructions illustrated with pictures.

Keep browsing MobiZong as we will be writing more on similar topics with more tips and tricks.

Best Twitter Applications What You Will Use to Tweet?

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:38:04 +0000

Twitter a micro blogging tool is getting fame day by day. I have already published how to tweet automatically your rss feeds.

Today I am going list the twitter applications along with some of their brief introduction and usage It is upto you which application you consider best for you depending on the situation. I myself is using Twirl and Tweetbin firefox plug-in and off course I also like web interface

1. Twhirl: This really a very interesting and famous desktop application. One can install this on Windows XP, Windows Vista , On Mac or virtually any system which have Adobe AIR installed (please download Adobe Air if not already installed). Twhirl also have there facebook client application

2.TweetDeck:
This is a desktop application and is avilable in beta version for Mac OS X and Windows Vista & Windows XP and linux machines. TweetDeck is also an Adobe Air desktop application like Twhirl.

3. DestroyTwitter:is also a Adobe Air application. DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux machines.

4.TheTwitterToolBar: This application is a browser toolar which allow you to tweet straight from your browser . Avilabale both for firefox and inter explorer

5. Twitpic: If you want to share pictures instantinously then TwitPic will let you share pictures on Twitter. You can post photos to TwitPic from your phone, our API, or through the site itself.

6. Tweetr 3.4.
This is really a nice tool as you can send files to your friends, by just dragging any file on to Tweetr. Tweetr will automatically upload your file and when it is done will provide a short url to send to your friends

7.Twitter CLI:
A command line based twitter application for those who wanted a faster, more accessible way to post thier tweet updates.

8. TwitterFox: TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter. Really good add on to your firefox browser

9. Twitbin 2.0.7: Twitbin is a firefox sidebar extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser . You can tweet, share links, and much more from Twitbin, the best twitter addon for firefox out there.

10.TweetLater: The mission behind tweet later is Schedule tweets — Plan, set & forget!

This is a never ending list, I will come up with more applications specially twitter applications for mobile phones soon.

Social Media Networking A Pakistani Perspective

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:59:09 +0000

With the advent of web 2.o technologies social media like blogging, wordpress, blogspot, and social networking sites like facebook.com , myspace, orkut and twitter (a micro blogging tool) are gaining popularity day by day despite some some serious privacy concerns by some western organizations.

The social media and networking have not only attracted the common Internet users but also the business community around the different corners from a mobile selling company to a car selling company. Companies have realized the strengths and weakness of the social networking and they have employed staff to interact with customers online. In additions to compiens owned blogs, web advertisements, web chats they are now also interacting with the Internet users who can be their perspective coustomers over the social networking sites. Face book has also introduced a special kind of advertisement network known as social advertisements.

As for as Pakistani Perspective for social media and networking is concernwe are still lagging behind not only the world but also our close neighbour india where companies such as HDFC, HUL, Tata Tea, Titan, among others are using peer to-peer network on sites like Facebook or Twitter to spread product reviews and promote their products. We can see an ongoing increasing trend in the use orkut by the young personals and students in the different cities of Pakistan. There is also an increase in the number of full time professional bloggers from Pakistan however the business community of Pakistan have yet not realized the full potential of these attractive marketing strategies. The possible reason for lacking an initiative maybe potential security issues with the Pakistani Internet infrastructure, Internet speed and availability, and last but not the least electricity power failure which is off course required to get connect to the social networking via a computer.

However I would suggest an initiative should be taken by the young businessmen and enterpnuer from Pakistan to utilize the power of social media for interactivity and business promotion.

GiniPic Desktop Image Search Application

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:05:54 +0000

Being a blogger I am also a big fan of pictures and picture search. Although there is no apparent competitor to google image search algorithm however there is a room for improvment for presentation and style of the photo search. Today I have found a very intresting desktop application named as ginipic to search images from google, yahoo, facebook, flicker , orkut and other related social media. In addition to this ginipic also have its own local library of the pictures. Here is a screenshot of the ginipic in action

No doubt if you a photos lover you will find this application very usefull and an addition to your desktop.

Download the application

How to get more visitors and clicks with Twitter

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:27:24 +0000

Twitter a micro blogging tool is becoming very famous among the folks becasue of its portability and ease of use either from computer or from 3G smart mobile phone (nokia, iphone, blackberry etc) . One can use twitter to promote your blog website and get more clicks and visitors. TwitterFeed.com offers this great service to post or tweet all the updats of yourblog automatically to your twitter status.

Here is step by step guide how to set up every thing

1. Go to the website http://twitterfeed.com/

2. Click on the [login/register] on the uper right corner of the page

3. Now here you have a choice either to creat a new login information or login with your existing Google account, Open ID and many other accounts. The screenshot is shown below (please click below to see the large picture)

4. After signin now you have to enter your twitter login information and your blog feed URL. If you are using wordpress then you should have a feed url like e.g http://mobizong.com/feed

5. Here now you can set the frequency og tweets i.ehow many tweets and after every 30 minutes or after an hour.

6. Do not worry about your blog long URLs these will automatically become short with service like tinyurl.com

So keep broadcasting your blog on twitter and get more clicks then you ever though before.

Animal Shapes Drawn by the World Map

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:24:56 +0000

Swiss-Miss have reported in refrence to the Kentaro Nagai who created a project that uses the world map to draw animals pictures from the Chinese zodiac.

Twelve Animals were created in the intresting project check this presentation to look at the animations who these animals can be drawn.

Google AdSense New Contact Preferences and Special offers

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:04:06 +0000

Google AdSense team have sent out emails to the publishers announcing some changes how google can contact the publishers. This include five new categories of the preferences. A screenshot of the email is shown below.

So in a way google is offering some market based resaerch, special offers and help to the adsense publishers.
In order to activate the above options one have to either click the Go to Contact Prefrences link on the adsense welcome page after signin or to visit the My Account Tab in your adsense account.