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What is Dabr? http://dabr.co.uk/ Dabr is a mobile web interface to Twitter's API. It has been described as m.twitter.com on steroids, and tries to provide as much mobile functionality as possible. It's an open source project created and maintained by @davidcarrington , inspired by some suggestions from @whatleydude - who remains a keen user and strategic advisor on many of the features that make dabr what it is today. The project is built on your feedback, literally! Your ideas aren't just welcome, but are the driving force that makes Dabr improve and hopefully be your mobile twitter client of choice. So please get in touch :) Thanks The dabr.co.uk website is kindly hosted by @Ew4n of Mobile Industry Review - a great source of news for all things mobile. The logo "Juan" was created by Charlotte Schmidt . Security When putting your Twitter username and password into an unofficial site or application, there is always a risk that your details will b

Twitter twitter twitter.. don't you get bored listening to that? haha wait if you are getting bored of the web interface and wanna see tweets in a new style then check out these. Well guys these were the top visualisations I came across ever since I joined twitter. There are a few other visualisations but unfortunately the websites shut down. So without further ado enjoy the list and dont ever make the mistake of trying out them and show off in front of others. Well My friend was just doing that to me atleast. Enjoy the post and let me know if I missed out any. Toriseye Tori’s eye is a Twitter visualization tool, inspired by papercraft and origami . It’s a visual and technical experiment implemented using only standard XHTML/CSS and Javascript. Visible Tweets Visible tweets is very very gorgeous! one of the most neat and beautiful Twitter visualization ever Twitter has seen Twittospheric Twittospheric is beautiful don't dare disagree with me ;) haha just kidding I know

Tawidget is a site built on top of Taweet , a twitter apps site that helps you schedule tweets and events on Twitter. Tawidget is an extension to Taweet and lets you display your events to your blog or website visitors. The widget is completely customizable. If you’re a Wordpress blogger, Tawidget works great with Wordpress. Simply copy and paste your custom widget code into the sidebar or any other place on a HTML webpage where you would like to display your upcoming events. Quickie Display events that you create with Taweet on your blog Easily customizable

The Obama Administration has moved to scrap NASA’s ambitious but over-budgeted back-to-moon programme citing its economic non-viability and indicated it wants the space agency to spend towards longer-range research. $ 9 billion has already been spent on the Bush-era programme which the administration has proposed to scrap in the budget and has also proposed to invest $ 6 billion over five years in a commercial space taxi to carry astronauts into low Earth orbit. “Let me be clear about what is happening at NASA. The Constellation programme, which is over budget and behind schedule, was intended to do what we’ve already done, which is return a man or woman to the moon,” said Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, explaining why the Obama Administration decided to scrap this project. “We believe in the future of human space flight. We believe NASA can inspire Americans and lead to scientific advances. So we do have actually a small budget increase for NASA,” he

A retrospective of Bollywood legend Guru Dutt’s evergreen classics like ‘Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam’ and ‘Pyaasa’, is attracting huge response from film enthusiasts here. The event, organised by the Indian mission in Israel in collaboration with the cinematheques of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, has become a success, especially with the first generation of Indian Jewish immigrants who have travelled from far off cities in the country to watch the films. “It is not easy for me to come from Be’ersheva for the screenings but I have been driving back and forth, sometimes late in the night, to watch these movies. We grew up on these films,” the 72-year-old Eliyahu Yosef told PTI. Yosef’s childhood friend, Haim Ramon, says that they are planning to see ‘Pyaasa’ a second time in Haifa on the 7th of this month. “Pyaasa, for me, is Guru Dutt’s best film irrespective of its box office performance. Gulabo (Waheda Rehman) is at her refreshing best. Probably Dutt was too ahead of his times and people

Abu Musab Abdul Wadud said that Nigerian Muslims “must embrace and carry out violent jihad as the only means of defence.” –File Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) leader has offered to train and supply Nigerian Muslims to carry out “violent jihad,” in an Internet message, US-monitoring agency SITE said on Tuesday. Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, in a message posted on a Jihadist forum on Monday, told Nigerian Muslims that they “must embrace violent jihad as the only means of defence against Christians in the country,” SITE said. He was referring to last month's riots between Christians and Muslims in the Nigerian city of Jos that left more than 300 dead, reports AFP. “We are ready to train your children in weapons and to provide them with what we can of support, men, arms, ammunitions, and equipment to enable you to defend our people in Nigeria and to repulse the hostility of the Crusader minority,” Abdul Wadud added. A young Nigerian man allegedly trained in Yemen by Al-Qaeda's

US President Barack Obama has proposed a USD 3.2 billion assistance for Pakistan for fiscal 2011, a substantial jump in American aid to that country. Noting that Pakistan is a key country in the war against extremism, the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, Jacob Lew, said the budget focuses on improving basic infrastructure which will enable civilian government to provide better services to the people of Pakistan. "This is key to improving stability and will also provide the military the tools needed to wage an effective counterterrorist campaign. For Fiscal 2011, funding for Pakistan is USD 3.2 billion," he said, adding that in 2010 it has been USD 1.88 billion. "For Pakistan, the Budget also increases security assistance and funds a new signature energy project," the White House said in a fact sheet adding the budget expands the number of civilian personnel in Afghanistan and Pakistan in an effort to build government capacity, increase diploma

In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can easily add a retro feeling to your creations. We'll also cover techniques such as using gradient mesh tool to add inner shadows to your objects, which gives them a subtle rounding while keeping your artwork scalable. Let's learn how to make a character head of a retro circus bear, then you can apply these techniques in your own work! Read More Here

Guest Post by Michael John Wolfe I have dedicated the last two years of my life to finding legitimate ways to make money online and create sources of residual income. As you can imagine, I had to weed through thousands of scams and hundreds of websites that did not live up to their claims. Rather than focus on one source of residual income – I decided to create many sources. I only had a few hours each week to dedicate to making money online, but I was able to create $900 a month in total income from all of my sources. My first source was photography and I took some quality photos at home and while traveling. I uploaded these photos to the many microstock photography websites that are available. Within a few months I was making $200 to $300 a month from only 312 photos. Not a bad start! The next thing that I did was start writing articles for a variety of websites that paid me each month for the advertising earnings that accompanied these articles. I was able to create $250 a month in

Posted By Pritish Nandy Why do we work? For money? For success, fame, honour, self realisation? For the good life? Each of us is driven by an entirely different set of compulsions. But one thing is certain. Some professions are meant for those who want to make money and some, for those who want to discover themselves. Teachers are clearly not those who enter the profession in search of money though it’s true that some teachers today are indeed very rich. Just as gamblers are clearly in the casino to make money but most of those who enter a casino come out flat broke. The pursuit of mathematics, on the other hand, can go either way. You can become one of the greatest scientists of our time. Or you can, if you are so inclined, build a fortune on Dalal Street using your love for numbers to outwit others. Even when you succeed in your calling, rewards can differ. Some become, like Mukesh Ambani, owner of the most prized enterprise in the country. Others become, like Sachin Tendulkar or Sha

He is as 'reclusive' as 'reclusive' can get. He is the 'chashmo-chirag' of the Deol family, who can safely be titled as one of the hottest stars in Bollywood. We are indeed referring to the suave Abhay Deol, who is on the cover of the February issue of the 'andpersand' magazine. Those in the know are aware of the fact that this dude is quite media shy. To which, Abhay admits, "I am media shy. I didn't depend on the media to promote me. In that sense, I don't owe them or anyone anything. I arrived upon success solely by myself." Talking about films, he says, "I like films where I can relate to the characters- where I find them to be all flesh and flesh and blood, tangible and real." For those who felt that being a Deol had everything carved out for him and that Bollywood was a cakewalk for this man, he answers, "The Deol tag meant that people expected me to be in a certain way, to live up to a certain standard. So, it kin

Remember the last scene of 3 Idiots ? The one where Chatur extends a piece of paper to an unsuspecting Rancho and asks him to sign a 'Declaration of Defeat'? As baffled and amused that he could possibly be in that particular situation, Rancho didn't have a moment of hesitation in doing so because in his heart he truly believed that 'aal was well'. Now that was in reel life. Let's rewind a bit now and go back to the summer of 2009. This is when a similar drama, though of a completely opposite kind, took place in real life on the first day of the shooting of Sajid Khan directed House Full . Confident about the journey that he was about to embark on and positive about its final outcome, Sajid wrote a personalised letter to each and every actor. What it stated was something plain and simple but carried its weight in gold. It said - 'Welcome to the first day's shoot of your career's biggest hit'! Now that's quite a statement given the fact that

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Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on January 30, 2010 in Century City, California.

They say, in Bollywood, you can't keep a talented man hiding for long. But, Ashutosh Gowarikar is doing just that. After the debacle of his much-hyped film What's Your Raashee, the man on a mission, Ashutosh Gowarikar, is back again with his yet another magnum opus Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. It's one film that has made many in the industry sit up and take notice, for reasons more than one. Firstly, of course, is because it's a film that comes from the stable of the dream director Ashutosh Gowarikar. Secondly, because of its dream starcast, that compromises of Abhishek Bachchan and the gorgeous Deepika Padukone. The third reason happens to be the subject matter of the film, which is based on the historic Chittagong uprising. Bollywood Hungama happened to get its hands on the first look of Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. From the looks of it, one must admit that Abhishek is looking damn cool in the Indian attire (which is a break away from his casual look on screen). Considering

Indians went 'Jai Ho' once again Monday when music maestro A.R. Rahman scored a double triumph at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, a year after bagging two Oscars for his foot tapping music for 'Slumdog Millionaire'. The composer bagged the best compilation soundtrack for a motion picture and another one for 'Jai Ho' for the best motion picture song at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. He won the award with veteran lyricist Gulzar and Tanvi Shah who wrote the Spanish lyrics for it. 'This is insane, god is great again,' a beaming Rahman said after receiving the award at the biggest show in the music world. The other Indian contenders, Zakir Hussain and Amjad Ali Khan, could not manage to win the golden gramophones. 'Insane eh? I never even dreamt about winning all these awards,' Rahman posted on his Twitter page shortly after receiving the award. Just a year ago, Rahman's music for 'Slumdog Millionaire', a screen adaptation of Indian aut

The Symbiosis Institute of Design (SID) fest Fundamental 2010 came through after much trial and tribulation but thanks to the persevering Kshitiz, the student co-ordinator, we made many exceptions to our rule! It was an unusually early flight we took to land in Pune which was to our surprise much colder than Bangalore where we left from! And we were promptly welcomed by 2 guys from SID who looked like they really needed sleep and BAD! That was just the beginning! We were whisked away to our hotel and all was well till lunch when I decided to head to the college to check the status with the stage and the sound set up. Now the sound vendor was a good chap and he had reasonable equipment but sadly, he had gotten it all wrong! The monitors were phasing all over and for the longest time, Nitin Joshi who made the miracle happen, was seen marshalling the troops and rewiring everything to get it to a sound checkable state! The sound check it self was quite a challenge and aft

If one has the smile that appeals to the whole 'Universe' and the other has that 'special something' that enhances smiles the world over, then, don't you feel that the coming together of the two is just inevitable? Well, we are talking about the former 'Miss Universe' Lara Dutta, who, as per the latest buzz, has been signed up by the oral care major Colgate Palmolive as their brand ambassador. According to Bollywood Hungama 's confirmed sources, "Lara's name was playing on the minds of the Colgate officials since quite sometime now. And there couldn't have been a better time to sign on Lara as their brand ambassador". True- Blue girl that Lara always is, this association is something that is bound to sparkle its way to (smiling) glory! Lara Dutta however was unavailable for comment.

Sanjay Dutt has opened a new chapter in his life. From playing a gangster in a dozen odd films to advocating 'gandhigiri' in Lage Raho Munnabhai , he would now be marching to a different beat with Freedom, a film which would take audience through the journey of India from the 70s to the current times. The film would be directed by Vivek Agnihotri and has already been given a nod of approval by Sanjay Dutt as well as Madhavan. Hunt for the remainder of the principal cast is on. Confirms Vivek Agnihotri, the man behind Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Bipasha Basu) and Chocolate (Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Tanushree Dutta), "Yes, Freedom is happening for sure. The principal cast is more or less finalised and talks with Sanjay Dutt and Madhavan are progressing quite well as they are in the final stages. Sanjay is out of town and I would be meeting him soon after his return to take a closure on the formalities. I am also keen on signing Mohan Lal for the f

She came, she shot and she sneaked out of Mumbai on Friday night on a flight to New York, traumatized by the experience of making a film on the life of a sex worker. Lucy Liu came and shot her 30-minute film entitled Meena for ten days in Mumbai and tried to sneak out of Mumbai on Friday night as quietly as possible. Says a source, "Lucy shot her film right until Friday evening then rushed to the airport to escape all media attention. She had to return to New York for another film. Then she had to edit her Mumbai film entitled Meena and submit it by mid-2010." According to an actor in the film, "Lucy is painfully shy of the press. Plus this was her first film as a director, and it was on a very sensitive subject." Lucy's film was on the subject of prostitution. According to a source, "The film inspired by Meena's tale as told in the book 'Half The Sky' is about a real-life sex worker Meena Haseena who at the age of 10, was abducted from her

Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam performed in a live concert here Sunday to raise funds for a campaign against child labour in the country. The concert titled Pukaar saw the audience, consisting mainly of youngsters, going crazy with excitement and cheering while standing on chairs, while Nigam churned out his chartbuster songs including 'Shukran Allah' ('Kurbaan'), 'Aal Izz Well' ('3 Idiots'), 'Kal Ho Na Ho' ('Kal Ho Na Ho') and 'Soniye' ('Mujhse Shaadi Karogi') among many others. 'This is a very noble cause and we need to continue this campaign till each and every child labourer in this country is given back their normal childhood,' said Nigam. The event was organised by NGOs Divine and Loksathi as part of their campaign to eradicate child labour and rehabilitate the children forced to work. The money collected from the show will be spent on the rehabilitation and education of child labourers.

Socialite-heiress Paris Hilton has aped movie icon Marilyn Monroe back to life in adverts for her tenth eponymously-named fragrance. Hilton who posted her behind-the-scenes pictures from the commercial on micro-blogging website Twitter mimicked the tragic star's trademark hairdo, curvy eyebrows and beauty spot to perfection, reports thesun.co.uk.

'Desperate Housewives' star Eva Longoria-Parker who owns her own Mexican restaurants claims she doesn't diet because she enjoys calorific treats too much. The actress says she watches what she eats but does not stop herself from chomping on her favourite Mexican dishes, reports femalefirst.co.uk. 'I am a big eater, but I do watch what I eat. I love to cook and just love Mexican food. It's my weakness and any red meat, I just love it. So I'd say Mexican food is my secret indulgence. I also love New York pizza and I just love Indian cuisine - the spicier the better,' she said. The 34-year-old also revealed she doesn't do a lot of exercise to retain her sexy trim physique. 'It's mostly weight training or kick boxing. I have this amazing high for adrenaline. It agrees with me. Your body is a vehicle and you have to take care of that vehicle,' she said.

Seorang mahasiswa yang pendiam (diperankan oleh Ashton Holmes ) jatuh cinta pada seorang gadis cantik yang dilihatnya di ruang kuliah ( Emily Blunt ). A quiet student (played by Ashton Holmes) falls in love with a girl beautiful she saw in the lecture hall (Emily Blunt). Ashton terlalu pemalu untuk berani menyapa Emily, jadi dia hanya mengamatinya diam-diam. Ashton was too shy to dare to say hello Emily, so she just watched silently. Waktu itu adalah hari Natal dan perkuliahan akan diliburkan. It was a Christmas and lectures will be closed. Ashton yang sudah mencari tahu tempat tinggal Emily menempelkan sebuah pengumuman yang mengatakan kalau ia sedang mencari seorang rekan untuk perjalanan pulang dengan menaiki mobilnya. Ashton, who had to find out where to stay Emily put a sign that said if he was looking for a partner to ride home with his car up. Dengan sengaja dia berbohong tentang tempat tinggalnya dan disesuaikan agar searah dengan tempat tinggal Emily. He int

I’m not sure if anyone noticed, but Apple released a new product last week. The i-something-or-other. The meager media coverage , despite it’s generally low-key nature, did give me pause, though. While the iPad (yes, my tongue is now dislodged from my cheek) doesn’t hold a lot of interest for me outside of its potential to change the e-book landscape , it brought me back to an idea I’d first discussed with fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow: “ The Screen .” Essentially, I’ve been saving for a high-end laptop/desktop replacement that could handle virtualization, lots of storage, video editing, you name it. My MacBook just isn’t cutting it anymore. So what does that have to do with the iPad, or any other tablet for that matter? The idea of “the screen” and everything the iPad represents means that lugging around one of those slick Core i7 laptops I’ve been eying up is probably a recipe for obsolescence. I already spend plenty of time in the cloud. Regular readers of my blog over at

The recently released APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report for Q3 of 2009 , details record highs in multiple phishing vectors, but also offers an interesting observation on desktop crimeware infections. According to the report, the overall number of infected computers (page 10) used in the sample decreased compared to previous quarters, however, 48.35% of the 22,754,847 scanned computers remain infected with malware. And despite that the crimeware/banking trojans infections slightly decreased from Q2, over a million and a half computers were infected. More details: “Though the scanning system checks for many different kinds of potentially unwanted software, for this report, Panda Labs has segmented out ‘Downloaders’ and ‘Banking Trojans/Password Stealers’ as they are most often associated with financial crimes such as automated phishing schemes. The proportion of infected computers detected has decreased for the first time in 2009. In the same way, the proportion of banking Troj