Gmail labs has introduced a new feature called canned responses. This allows you to use pre-typed email messages to be used as reply to a mail. To use this facility you have to enable it from Gmail labs. This feature once enabled allows you to select a mail response that you want to use when replying. Then press send and the response is sent. This is a useful feature for people who have to respond with a similar reply to many people. That include people who use their Gmail account …

“Idol worship is  form of yoga , connecting the individual and the cosmos”

A Little child wants to know about human beings, animals, letters, alphabets and buildings. We do not give the child the real humans, tigers and lions, or ask him to read and write or take real bricks and cement to construct a building. We instead give the child models of animals, the alphabet and wood locks to play with.

It is the same with idols and symbols… A beginning of any form of meditative practice will not understand …

Every one of us should have a clear idea about what is permutation and what is combination. I insist on saying this only because i have seen many people using these two words interchangeably. Let us understand the difference between permutation and combination though an example.
Suppose you want to unlock a number lock and let the unlock code be 1234. OK, now u want to unlock your baggage and u know that the unlock code contains the numbers 1,2,3 and 4 and u r not sure about the exact number.Well,as you …

Toyota has developed airbags for the rear window. Today’s smaller cars have little or no space between the passenger and the rear window, as Toyota puts it and they elaborate that there is very little metal or other car body parts in that region to absorb the impact. This new safety device,  they claim comes in to fill the gap.
In reality the amount of safety this device provides needs to be questioned as smaller cars that would need this device usually have a smaller rear window which means that there …

World over sewage treatment plants are fighting algae bloom, when this algae can be effectively harvested and processed to obtain valuable oil that can be converted into Bio diesel. The equipment and knowledge required for the implementation of this process is available world over and at nominal costs , which is reducing by the day. The complicated part of this process is the separation of algae from water which currently has been made easy to a large extent.

Sewage treatment is done in different steps and the algae problem comes at around …

Ravichandra Potumarthi, a researcher in India, has demonstrated and presented his findings at a conference (the International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology) that using the enzyme lipase as the catalyst he can convert vegetable oils into biodiesel. The trouble, of course, with that, conceptually, is that lipase is a complex protein, difficult and expensive to synthesize. Naturally it would not be a significant breakthrough if Ravichandra did not start thinking “outside the box”, so to speak. He saw no reason to go to the trouble of refining the enzyme to …

Google’s project for user written authoritative articles is picking up heat by the day. Knol is defined by google as a unit of knowledge. Any one can create a Knol , it is also possible for an author to let other user’s edit their articles, it is actually possible to customize in detail who can edit and manipulate the articles.
One’s google account can be used to log in to this service also. The basic difference of the service from Wikipedia is that google has given importance to the author of …