Difference Between Twitter & Facebook

History
Facebook was created by a Harvard student in 2003, to provide a detailed networking system. Twitter was created in 2006 to provide a quick, simple way to communicate with friends.

Goals
Twitter is designed for rapid personal updates, to supply the social networking that its constituents desire. Facebook is constructed to provide more in-depth, time consuming methods for its members to socialize.

Basic Applications
Twitter allows its members to "follow" other members. This permits the user to be alerted immediately when an update is posted. Facebook provides a multitude of outlets including messaging--both instant and in email format--plus pictures, videos, wall posts and different notifications for its users.

Layout
Twitter's layout consists of a chronological list of the user's updates, and responses from followers to those updates. Facebook's layout consists of the same list in addition to notifications about the other social outlets provided.

Demographics
Most members of Facebook and Twitter are between the ages of 18-34. However, Facebook's biggest area of growth is in the 55-plus age group; Twitter's is in the 20s.

கணினியை ஒரே வினாடியில் ஷட்டவுன் (SHUTDOWN) செய்ய...

பொதுவாக கணினியில் உள்ள ஷட்டவுன் வசதியை பயன்படுத்தி அணைக்கும் பொழுது "Saving your settings" , "Windows is Shutting down" போன்ற செய்திகள் வரும்.

சில நிமிடங்களுக்கு பின்னர் தான் கணினி அணைக்கப்படும். இதெல்லாம் மைக்ரோசாப்ட் நிறுவனம் செய்யும் கண்கவர் வித்தைகள் தான் . கணினியை அணைக்க சில வினாடியே போதுமானது . இந்த கண்கவர் வித்தைகளை பார்க்க விரும்பாதவர்கள் கீழ்க்கண்ட முறையை பயன்படுத்தி ஒரு சில வினாடியில் கணினியை அணைக்கலாம் . எந்த சேதமும் ஏற்படாது.

உங்கள் கணினியின் Task Manager ரை திறந்து கொள்ளுங்கள். ( Ctrl + Alt + Delete விசைகளை சேர்த்து அழுத்தினால் Task Manager திரைக்கு வரும் )இந்த Task Manager ல் உள்ள மெனுவில் Shut Down ல் உள்ள Turn Off என்பதை Ctrl கீயை அழுத்திக்கொண்டே கிளிக் செய்யுங்கள் .வினாடியில் கணினி அணைந்து விடும்.

Kotiya in Sinhala and Puli in Tamil

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தண்ணிக்குப் பெயர் போன பாணம்

MTV's Big Change

MTV is embracing change. In nearly three decades on the air, almost everything about the cable network -- from its programming, to its focus, to its place in popular culture -- has changed with the times, except for its famous tagline, "Music television." Recently, the network quietly unveiled a new logo which has dropped the tagline entirely, indicating that MTV itself is leaving its original mission of an all-music channel in the dust.


The new logo is meant to put the focus on MTV's current slate of talent -- the stars of mostly reality shows like "Jersey Shore," "Teen Mom," and "The Buried Life." Since the logo (which seems to have a shorter "M" than the original) is also available in a see-through model, it can change when new stars come into the fold. Tina Exarhos, a spokesperson for MTV's marketing team, explained the change to "The New York Daily News": "If you watch the channel, you've seen that it's definitely going in a new direction. We really wanted to see the logo featured in a new way, and this was really meant to be able to house all the great things that are happening at MTV at any given time."


When MTV first revolutionized television in 1981, it was based on the idea of one network devoted entirely to music, a central hub where fans could watch music videos, see interviews with their favorite recording artists, and even get their news from a music fan's point of view. The channel was also a valuable promotional tool for the music industry itself, which no longer had to depend mainly on radio to get its product on an audience's radar. But over the years, MTV morphed into a channel that focused less on any one theme and more on targeting a specific teen and young-adult audience, ditching its music roots to deliver whatever the network perceived that audience wanted.


And, clearly, that audience is more into shows like "Jersey Shore" than old-school music video blocks like "120 Minutes."


"The MTV brand, to me, stands for such an irreverent groundbreaking brand, and unfortunately I feel a little underwhelmed when I look at this," Hamish McLennan, global
chairman-CEO of advertising powerhouse Young & Rubicam, told Ad Age.


The new logo and its focus on the personalities that drive the channel is based on recent show successes like "Jersey Shore," which turned its stars into celebrities overnight. According to Ad Age, MTV is looking into developing a new tagline to match its new logo.

Latvian ghost town auctioned off for $3.1 million

SKRUNDA, Latvia – Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million at an unusual auction Friday, officials said.
The town formerly known as Skrunda-1 housed about 5,000 people during the Cold War but was abandoned over a decade ago after the Russian military withdrew from Latvia following the Soviet collapse.

A representative of a Russian investor won the bidding contest in Latvia's capital, Riga, with an offer of 1.55 million lats ($3.1 million), said Anete Fridensteina-Bridina, a spokeswoman for the Baltic country's privatization agency. She said the buyer was Aleksejevskoje-Serviss, a Russia-based firm, though she could not provide details.

It wasn't immediately clear what plans the buyer had for the 110-acre (45 hectare) property, which is located in western Latvia about 95 miles (150 kilometers) from Riga. The town contains about 70 dilapidated buildings, including apartment blocks, a school, barracks and an officers' club.

Built in the 1980s, Skrunda-1 was a secret settlement not marked on Soviet maps because of the two enormous radar installations that listened to objects in space and monitored the skies for a U.S. nuclear missile attack. Like all clandestine towns in the Soviet Union, it was kept off maps and given a code-name — which usually consisted of a number and the name of a nearby city.

After the Soviet Union fractured in 1991, a newly independent Latvia was eager to scuttle all Soviet military bases and expel Russian troops. Russia's Defense Ministry, however, continued to rely on Skrunda's early warning system, and as a result the radar base was for years used as a negotiation tool between Washington and Moscow.

One of the radar buildings — dubbed Pechora — was enormous, soaring 60 meters (180 feet). In May 1995, it was ceremoniously blown up by a U.S. demolition firm using over a ton of dynamite.

Finally, in 1998 the last residents of Skrunda-1 departed, leaving behind hundreds of vacant apartments and dozens of buildings. Talk about transforming the town into a recreational area went nowhere, and finally two years ago Latvia's government decided to put the entire settlement on the auction block.

Sarmite Stradniece, a resident of Skrunda, which is 3 miles (5 kilometers) south of Skrunda-1, praised the idea to sell the former military base. "They need to restore that place and let some people live there," she said.

The fact that the town was sold to a Russian investor is bound to bother nationalists in Latvia, who are leery of Russian capital buying real estate in the tiny Baltic state, but privatizations officials insisted the sale was a success.

"It fetched 10 times the starting price," Fridensteina-Bridina said, "and finally something can be done with the town."

Gary Peach reported from Riga.

Go Green Doormat With Recycle Symbol for the Environmentally Aware

If you’re looking for a green doormat which symbolises your concerns over the environment then this green recycle symbol doormat might well be what you were after. The mat consists of a simple design but with a clear message to guests and family members alike. Placed by the front or back door, the ‘Go Green’ doormat will add an attractive color to the floor area as well as identifying your views on the environment.

The green doormat is made from environmentally friendly materials. As well as this, the coloring is composed from the latest fade-resistant dyes which means the all-important green will not begin to fade for a long time. The cream of the recycle symbol and ‘Go Green’ lettering contrasts tastefully with the grassy green of the doormat and will fit in snugly on the floor by the main door.

It’s important to recycle your home waste as often as possible and throughout this website I have given and will continue to give environmentally friendly tips and inspiration for the best ways to stay green and help the environment.