Wow Great Opportunity!!! Track Santa where is he right now and when he will reach you!!!!

Superb Light Show at Christmas !!!!!

With 1,500,000 lights, this family wins at Christmas

How many lights do you need for a real-life Christmas fairy tale? We don’t know the exact number, but a million and a half probably makes the cut.

In the small Croatian town of Čazma, a few thousand Christmas lights would make your house stand out from the rest. But retired engineer Zlatko Salaj wanted to make sure his family has the most Christmasy atmosphere ever, so he adorned his house and estate with an incredible number of lights — 1,500,000, he claims.

It's a spectacle, further emphasized by the lack of lighting in the area. An evening drive towards Salaj’s home, located a few miles east from Čazma, is fairly uneventful. Making the last turn around a small hill, a huge globe of foggy light will emerge from the dark — as if someone had taken New York’s Times Square and placed it on a meadow in rural Croatia.

Around 1.5 million lights — the Salaj family does not know the exact number, though they’re sure this figure is very close — hardly fit on a single house. To accommodate his ever-expanding light show, Salaj and his family placed lights on basically everything they could — several houses, a barn, the trees, the bushes, a bridge crossing a creek, the meandering paths surrounding a small lake — everything.

The estate spans across 19 acres — around 14 football fields — and though it's not all covered in lights, it seems like the spectacle never ends. Sometimes uneven but always breathtaking, every new set of lights made us wonder how much effort, hard work and insane electricity bills had to go into the project.

Sitting behind a modest table in his guest house, with a wide smile on his face and a firm shake of hand, Salaj reveals how his hobby turned into a fully-fledged business.

Successful Social Media campaigns of 2014

2014's top 8 moments in the business of social media

Coca Cola brought its #ShareaCoke campaign to the US this summer. They took the 250 most popular names for teens and millennials, the Wall Street Journal reported, and put them on the label of their 20 ounce bottles. Consumers could find a bottle with their own name, or share with someone they know. The company saw about 125,000 social media posts with 96% positive or neutral sentiment.


In honor of Earth Day, Nasa launched the #globalselfie campaign, encouraging people across the globe to snap selfies of themselves on Earth Day, in support of the initiative Earth Right Now. The result: an interactive, two-hemisphere mosaic of the Earth built from nearly 40,000 selfies submitted from 113 countries.

Six more to go 
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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Office is using Big Data techniques to process ideas thrown up by citizens on its crowdsourcing platform mygov.in

Model for the developed world.It's turning out to be action-oriented !!!!!!

The Prime Minister's Office is using Big Data techniques to process ideas thrown up by citizens on its crowdsourcing platform mygov. in, place them in context of the popular mood as reflected in trends on social media, and generate actionable reports for ministries and departments to consider and implement. 

The Modi government has roped in global consulting firm PwC to assist in the data mining exercise, and now wants to elevate Mygov.in platform from a one-way flow of citizens' ideas to a dialogue where the government keeps them abreast of some of the actions that emerge from their brainstorming. 

"There is a large professional data analytics team working behind the scenes to process and filter key points emerging from debates on mygov.in, gauge popular mood about particular issues from social media sites like Twitter and Facebook," said a senior official aware of the development, adding that these are collated into special reports about possible action points that are shared with the PMO and line ministries. Ministries are being asked to revert with an action taken report on these idea and policy suggestions currently being generated on 19 different policy challenges such as expenditure reforms, job creation, energy conservation, skill development and government initiatives such as Clean India, Digital India and Clean Ganga. 

With the PM inviting Indian communities in America and Australia to join the online platform, which he has termed a 'mass movement towards Surajya', the traffic handling capacity of mygov.in is being scaled up consistently, the official said.

PwC executive director Neel Ratan said that the firm is 'helping the government' process the citizen inputs coming through on Mygov. in

"There is a science and art behind it. We have people constantly looking at all ideas coming up, filtering them and after a lot of analysis, correlating it to sentiments coming through on the rest of social media," he said, stressing this is throwing up interesting trends and action points, being relayed to ministries. "It's turning out to be fairly action-oriented. I think it is distinctly possible that 30-50 million people would be actively contributing to Mygov.in over the next year and a half, given its current pace of growth," Ratan said.

PwC's global leader in government and public services Jan Sturesson told ET the participative governance model being adopted through mygov.in could become a model for the developed world.

"The biggest issue for governments today is how to be relevant. If all citizens are treated with dignity and invited to collaborate, it can be easier for administrations to have a direct finger on the pulse of the nation rather than lose it in transmission through multiple layers of bureaucracy," he said, not ruling out the possibility of using the mygov.in for quick referendums on contemporary policy dilemmas in a couple of years. 

Google's customized search engine and tool for students and academics of all stripes

5 smart ways students can use Google Scholar

Here's something that's happened to most college students: It's 20 minutes before your final paper is due, and you haven't written a bibliography yet.

This situation, and everything that precedes it, is going to be more difficult if you don't know about Google Scholar. Google's customized search engine and tool for students and academics of all stripes was created by Anurag Acharya, a former academic who joined Google's web-indexing team in 2000. Scholar allows you to search journals, save sources to your personal library and, yes, get quick citations.

SEE ALSO: 7 Fantastic Calendar Apps To Keep You on Schedule

Although Scholar celebrated its 10th anniversary in November, many students still don't know about it unless they talk to a librarian, and the navigation toolbar on the main Google page doesn't link to it. To help you out, just in time for finals, we've put together a quick guide to studying, saving and citing.

1. Search for journal articles.

The first thing you need to know about Google Scholar is that it works essentially like a regular ol' search engine — to get the best results, you should be as specific as possible. Scholar is designed to return a combination of the most relevant and most cited pages, meaning you'll get what's been cited most by other academics (which are usually the most informative, reliable sources).

Keep in mind that Scholar can search both the title and article content for search terms, even if the content is locked to subscribers.

Once you've navigated to a results page, you'll see information about the author, publisher and date for each entry. You'll also see the location of the entry (for example, Google Books or JSTOR) and a link that says "other versions," from which you can navigate to other webpages on which the article has appeared. A link on the left side of the page will link directly to the article and indicated its format (HTML, PDF, etc.).

2. Build (and search) libraries.

As you look through the results, you can save articles to your library. Once you add something to the library, you can view a comprehensive info sheet of the article, including the abstract, and put it under a label to organize it with similar sources.

What most school don't teach !!!!

How to Enable a Reader Mode in Chrome for Android to Enjoy Better Reading of Websites !!!!

Google Chrome for Android features a new Reader Mode that lets you read web pages on your mobile without the clutter. Previously you had to install bookmarklets to enable readability but not anymore as readability is now integrated in the recent releases of Chrome much like the Safari browser on iOS.

While you are reading an article inside Chrome (it will only show up in text-heavy articles), you can click the “Reader” button near the address bar (see screenshot above) and the current page is instantly optimized for reading. The page header, the ads, the sidebar, the navigation and all the non-essential elements are instantly hidden while the typeface and layout is changed for improved readability.

Turn-on the Reader Mode in Chrome

If you are not seeing the Reader Mode button in your Chrome yet, that’s because it’s enabled by default. Tap the address bar in Chrome, type chrome://flags and you’ll get a list of flags that are available in your Chrome.

Scroll down until you see a setting that says “Enable Reader Tool Mode” and click Enable. Relaunch the Chrome app and you should now see the Reader button in your Chrome when you are on a text-heavy web page. It may not show up on every article page though.

The Reader mode in Chrome will also come handy for printing web pages or when you saving a page as a PDF on your Android.

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http://www.labnol.org/internet/readability-in-android-chrome/28742/?mc_cid=bd80f96d22&mc_eid=bd5f9f6395

The Perfect Photo Sharing Networks

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those words aren’t worth much if no one is listening. This is why it’s important to choose the right network dedicated to photo sharing.

Before you begin shopping around for the perfect photo-sharing network for your business, create a mission statement to determine the main goals you want to achieve with the help of this network. Do you need a channel exclusively for photos, or does it dovetail into your content marketing platform? Will it show off photos of your company culture, or show off products for sale? Once you have decided how a photo-sharing network can benefit your business, it’s time to choose your platform. To help you make the right choice, we made a chart to showcase four major networks for photo sharing:

#Tile a “#SmartCompanion” for you because Tile helps you find things!!!!!!!!

Gadgets We Love: Tile, The Perfect Gift For iPhone Owners And Soon For Android Users Also.

Tile helps you find things – anything. It can be dropped in a bag, stuck to a device, attached to keys, whatever you like. It uses a Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) connection which pairs with your smartphone and has an app which helps you locate your item within 100 yards.

The app-based interface also allows you to track an item from any phone or tablet and it is possible to share Tiles between multiple users so an item can be located by anyone in your household. If further help is needed an audible ring can be triggered remotely.

My favourite feature of Tile, however, is when it goes missing. All Tile users are connected to the Tile Cloud network so if your item is lost or stolen, Tile only needs to pass within range of another Tile user for that location information to be sent to you. This happens automatically in the background without other Tile users being interrupted, so you have a silent army always on the lookout.

Furthermore if you buy Tile individually it costs just $25, but there are discounts for greater numbers. Packs of 4 ($70), 8 ($130) or 12 ($180) bring substantial savings.