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31.8.10

Prority InBox - an upcoming feature from Gmail to all it's users


People often tell - Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we’re happy to announce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.

Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn't outright junk but isn't very important. So google evolved Gmail's filter to address this problem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this from the important stuff. In a way, Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.



Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”:

As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Ganesh a lot, a message from Ganesh is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the or buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important. (You can even set up filters to always mark certain things important or unimportant, or rearrange and customize the three inbox sections.)
 
Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, including those of you who use Google Apps, over the next week or so. Once you see the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner of your Gmail account (or the new Priority Inbox tab in Gmail Settings), take a look.

Moser Baer launched ultra slim (weighs 1.3g) USB Drives

Moser Baer just launched  a new family of slim USB drives, which is available in two models – 4GB for Rs. 750, and 8GB for Rs. 1,150. It claims that the 8GB model happens to be the thinnest 8GB flash drive in the world. Well it certainly is thin, measuring in at just 29.4 x 12.4 x 2.3mm, and weighing in at a feather light 1.3g.

Moser Baer says it managed to squeeze in 8GB into such a small case using "Chip-on-Board technology". They are both available in vivid variety of colours - red, pink, orange, green, and yellow. The USB 2.0 drives will also come with a 5-year limited warranty, and are compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux, apart from support with the legacy USB 1.1 interface. An added bonus is the password protect feature, and MyZone media organizer tools.

30.8.10

Listen and Download, the A.R.Rahman's theme song for XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi

The XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi’s theme song, Jiyo Utho Bado Jeeto (Live, Rise, Ascend, Win), music maestro A. R. Rahman’s call to the people and athletes of India and the Commonwealth to come out and play was launched a day before yesterday.

A.R.Rahman had uploaded the song to 'SoundCloud' an online music storage site and informed this in his tweet.
ARR's tweet
Uploaded by ARR

You can listen the theme song here:
CWG Theme Song by arrahman

Click here to download the song

Google introduces new 'Realtime Search'

Realtime Search lets you see up-to-the-second social updates, news articles and blog posts about hot topics around the world
  • Search faster
    Get results directly on the new Realtime homepage
  • Refine results
    Pinpoint results by location, time, and more
  • See entire conversations
    Read full threads of conversations to get context about any topic
When google first introduced our real-time search features last December, google focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Google's goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results. Today they’re making most significant enhancements to date, giving real-time information its own home and more powerful tools to help you find what you need. Now you can access Google Realtime Search at its own address, www.google.com/realtime (the page is rolling out now and should be available soon. Use this link if you want to try out the new features right away).

On the new homepage you’ll find some great tools to help you refine and understand your results. First, you can use geographic refinements to find updates and news near you, or in a region you specify. So if you’re traveling to Los Angeles this summer, you can check out tweets from Angelenos to get ideas for activities happening right where you are.

In addition, google added a conversations view, making it easy to follow a discussion on the real-time web. Often a single tweet sparks a larger conversation of re-tweets and other replies, but to put it together you have to click through a bunch of links and figure it out yourself. With the new “full conversation” feature, you can browse the entire conversation in a single glance. Google organizes the tweets from oldest to newest and indent so you quickly see how the conversation developed.

Finally, they’ve also added updates content to Google Alerts, making it easy to stay informed about a topic of your choosing. Now you can create an alert specifically for “updates” to get an email the moment your topic appears on Twitter or other short-form services. Or, if you want to manage your email volume, you can set alerts to email you once per day or week.

Check out the demo video of the new features and quick tips on how to use them:
You can access Realtime Search by typing www.google.com/realtime directly into your browser, or clicking the “Updates” link in the left-hand panel of your search results. 
Set up your Google Alerts at www.google.com/alerts. Realtime Search and updates in Google Alerts are available globally in 40 languages, and the geographic refinements and conversations views are available in English, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. The features are rolling out now, but you can use this link to see them right away.

29.8.10

ErrorHelp.com: Search Engine for Errors

Search the world's database of error solutions and the web simultaneously. Later, provide your solutions to help the next poor soul. This site helps you search for errors that other people have encountered. Someone's bound to have run into your error before, right?

Imagine a world where all your command-line tools and software automatically connect you to people with similar errors. Imagine compiling software and seeing a list of solutions for mysterious cryptic dependency errors. Imagine getting a PHP or Python error and automagically getting the best-guess help from others like you.


The goal of the site is: No human should work on an error that has already been solved.
The Firefox extension is the recommended way to use the site. 

Features of Firefox add-on:
* Quick search form: Click on the bug icon in your status bar and your error will be automatically pasted in the search form.
* Web search: Simultaneously searches the web and the user solution database.
* Track unsolved errors: You see a running tally of your unsolved errors to provide some feedback on and help the world.
* See how you rank: You can see how you stack up against the rest of the world in solving problems.
* Light-weight: We try to write the most efficient code possible such that Firefox stays speedy and resilient.
* Help humanity! Your solutions will help the world. They are indexed by Google and other major search engines, too-- so don't hesitate to help the next guy!

IE7 Search Bar

Internet Explorer's search box can be extended to let you search for error messages on ErrorHelp.

Install this and you can choose ErrorHelp from the list of search engines when you find an error.







www.errorhelp.com

28.8.10

NASA's LRO Reveals 'Incredible Shrinking Moon'



NASA's Report Dtd.  08.19.2010

LRO
Newly discovered cliffs in the lunar crust indicate the moon shrank globally in the geologically recent past and might still be shrinking today, according to a team analyzing new images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. The results provide important clues to the moon's recent geologic and tectonic evolution.

The moon formed in a chaotic environment of intense bombardment by asteroids and meteors. These collisions, along with the decay of radioactive elements, made the moon hot. The moon cooled off as it aged, and scientists have long thought the moon shrank over time as it cooled, especially in its early history. The new research reveals relatively recent tectonic activity connected to the long-lived cooling and associated contraction of the lunar interior.

"We estimate these cliffs, called lobate scarps, formed less than a billion years ago, and they could be as young as a hundred million years," said Dr. Thomas Watters of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Washington. While ancient in human terms, it is less than 25 percent of the moon's current age of more than four billion years. "Based on the size of the scarps, we estimate the distance between the moon's center and its surface shrank by about 300 feet," said Watters, lead author of a paper on this research appearing in Science August 20. 
The mare basalts that fill the Taurus-Littrow valley were thrust up by contractional forces to form the Lee-Lincoln fault scarp, just west of the Apollo 17 landing site (arrow). It is the only extraterrestrial fault scarp to be explored by humans (astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt). The digital terrain model derived from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) stereo images shows the fault extending upslope into North Massif were highlands material are also thrust up. The fault cuts upslope and abruptly changes orientation and cuts along slope, forming a narrow bench. LROC images show boulders shed from North Massif that have rolled downhill and collected on the bench. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University/Smithsonian
"These exciting results highlight the importance of global observations for understanding global processes," said Dr. John Keller, Deputy Project Scientist for LRO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "As the LRO mission continues in to a new phase, with emphasis on science measurements, our ability to create inventories of lunar geologic features will be a powerful tool for understanding the history of the moon and the solar system."

The scarps are relatively small; the largest is about 300 feet high and extends for several miles or so, but typical lengths are shorter and heights are more in the tens of yards (meters) range. The team believes they are among the freshest features on the moon, in part because they cut across small craters. Since the moon is constantly bombarded by meteors, features like small craters (those less than about 1,200 feet across) are likely to be young because they are quickly destroyed by other impacts and don’t last long. So, if a small crater has been disrupted by a scarp, the scarp formed after the crater and is even younger. Even more compelling evidence is that large craters, which are likely to be old, don't appear on top any of the scarps, and the scarps look crisp and relatively undegraded.

Another fault cut across and deformed several small diameter (~40-m diameter) impact craters (arrows) on the flanks of Mandel’shtam crater (6.5°N, 161°E). The fault carried near-surface crustal materials up and over the craters, burying parts of their floors and rims. About half of the rim and floor of a 20 m-in-diameter crater shown in the box has been lost. Since small craters only have a limited lifetime before they are destroyed by newer impacts, their deformation by the fault shows the fault to be relatively young. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University/Smithsonian

Lobate scarps on the moon were discovered during the Apollo missions with analysis of pictures from the high-resolution Panoramic Camera installed on Apollo 15, 16, and 17. However, these missions orbited over regions near the lunar equator, and were only able to photograph some 20 percent of the lunar surface, so researchers couldn't be sure the scarps were not just the result of local activity around the equator. The team found 14 previously undetected scarps in the LRO images, seven of which are at high latitudes (more than 60 degrees). This confirms that the scarps are a global phenomenon, making a shrinking moon the most likely explanation for their wide distribution, according to the team.

As the moon contracted, the mantle and surface crust were forced to respond, forming thrust faults where a section of the crust cracks and juts out over another. Many of the resulting cliffs, or scarps, have a semi-circular or lobe-shaped appearance, giving rise to the term "lobate scarps". Scientists aren't sure why they look this way; perhaps it's the way the lunar soil (regolith) expresses thrust faults, according to Watters.

Lobate scarps are found on other worlds in our solar system, including Mercury, where they are much larger. "Lobate scarps on Mercury can be over a mile high and run for hundreds of miles," said Watters. Massive scarps like these lead scientists to believe that Mercury was completely molten as it formed. If so, Mercury would be expected to shrink more as it cooled, and thus form larger scarps, than a world that may have been only partially molten with a relatively small core. Our moon has more than a third of the volume of Mercury, but since the moon's scarps are typically much smaller, the team believes the moon shrank less.

Because the scarps are so young, the moon could have been cooling and shrinking very recently, according to the team. Seismometers emplaced by the Apollo missions have recorded moonquakes. While most can be attributed to things like meteorite strikes, the Earth's gravitational tides, and day/night temperature changes, it's remotely possible that some moonquakes might be associated with ongoing scarp formation, according to Watters. The team plans to compare photographs of scarps by the Apollo Panoramic Cameras to new images from LRO to see if any have changed over the decades, possibly indicating recent activity.

While Earth's tides are most likely not strong enough to create the scarps, they could contribute to their appearance, perhaps influencing their orientation, according to Watters. During the next few years, the team hopes to use LRO's high-resolution Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) to build up a global, highly detailed map of the moon. This could identify additional scarps and allow the team to see if some have a preferred orientation or other features that might be associated with Earth's gravitational pull.

"The ultrahigh resolution images from the NACs are changing our view of the moon," said Dr. Mark Robinson of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., a coauthor and Principal Investigator of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. "We've not only detected many previously unknown lunar scarps; we're also seeing much greater detail on the scarps identified in the Apollo photographs."

The research was funded by NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, Washington. The team includes researchers from the Smithsonian, Arizona State, the SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif., NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, Brown University, Providence, R.I., and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.


Over recent geologic time, as the lunar interior cooled and contracted, the moon's radius shrank Gregory Scarp
by about 100 m. As a result its brittle crust ruptured and thrust faults (compression) formed distinctive landforms known as lobate scarps. In a particularly dramatic example, a thrust fault pushed crustal materials (arrows) up the side of the farside impact crater named Gregory (2.1°N, 128.1°E). By mapping the distribution and determining the size of all lobate scarps, the tectonic and thermal history of the moon can be reconstructed over the past billion years. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University/Smithsonian



illustration of a lobate scarp thrust fault
Thrust faults are formed when the lunar crust is pushed together, breaking the near-surface materials. The result is a steep slope on the surface called a scarp as shown in this diagram. Credit: Arizona State University


  


global scarp plot of the moon
This map illustrates the distribution of lobate scarp features located thus far. Black dots indicate previously known scarps while white dots depict newly detected scarps found in images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Credit: NASA/Arizona State University/Smithsonian

22.8.10

Janaagraha - Be the change you want to see

  
Janaagraha is a Bangalore based not-for-profit organisation that works with citizens and government to change the quality of life in India’s cities and towns.

The term “quality of life” has two separate aspects, distinct and inter-related: the first is “quality of urban infrastructure and services”:  the roads, drains, traffic, transport, water supply etc in our urban areas.

The second aspect of “quality of life” is the “quality of citizenship”: the role that urban residents play by participating in civic issues, deepening democracy and holding our public institutions accountable in delivering various goods and services.  This second aspect includes very importantly the aspect of voluntarism.

Janaagraha seeks to change urban quality of life by improving urban governance, and seeks to do this by applying a well-defined framework of change that is based on a systems approach.

An apt metaphor would be that of a TREE- the roots are democracy, the trunk is the systems approach, and the fruits are a better quality of life. What nurtures this tree in a democracy is citizenship.

Founded in 2001 by Ramesh Ramanathan and Swati Ramanathan, Janaagraha started as a movement to include people's participation in public governance and has now evolved into a robust institution for Citizenship and Democracy.

The REED Framework
REED is a comprehensive framework to address urban governance. It is an acronym for four defining aspects of urban governance – a Regional perspective to urban issues, Empowered citizens and local governments, Enabled citizens and local governments, with Direct accountability of the government to the people.

REED addresses issues relating to systems, processes and the institutional framework with respect to governance, all intended to change “quality of life” on both dimensions – the quality of infrastructure and services as well as the quality of citizenship.

The following is a quick snapshot of REED framework with illustrative examples that show how the REED systems approach can solve India’s urban challenges:

1. R - Regional Perspective
The first element of REED framework stands for taking a Regional perspective when looking at urban challenges. Problems of urbanization cannot be looked at in isolation. The city is always a part of a larger region with many interconnections. In India, the district in which the city or town is situated is normally considered as the region. The rural hinterland surrounding most Indian cities is an important part of the city landscape as well as its economy.
This requires taking a regional perspective to almost all aspects of urban planning and governance. For example, transportation planning for the city must be done taking developments in the sub-urban and regional areas into consideration. Planning for solid waste management and its infrastructure (transfer points, landfills etc.) needs to be done with development pattern and ecology of the entire region in mind.

2. E- Empowering Local Governments and Citizens
Within any Metropolitan Region, there are many local governments – corporations, and municipalities. There needs to be full decentralization, devolution of state functions and the restructuring of local bodies and para-statal organisations, so that these local governments are empowered to solve the problems in their respective jurisdictions.
The 74th Constitutional Amendment dealing with urban decentralization lists out 18 functions (including urban planning, water supply etc.) to be carried out by urban local bodies. But some of these functions continue to be played by state government through para-statal agencies. This has resulted in a fractured set of responsibilities for the urban local bodies, severely constraining their efforts in providing a good quality of life to urban citizens.
Another important facet of this second element of the REED framework is empowering citizens. The roots of democracy in urban India need to be deepened by giving a formal voice to urban citizens in local decision making. A formal platform for citizen participation, called as Area Sabha, at a polling booth level is not just desirable but essential for urban governance to be effective and responsive to the needs of citizens, and the passage of a Community Participation Law is a mandatory reform condition under JNNURM (Jawarharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission).

3. E – Enabling Local Governments and Citizen
Empowering the local governments with necessary functions is necessary but not enough. In order for the municipalities to perform their functions effectively, they need to be enabled with the right kind of resources – suitably qualified and skilled human resources, sufficient financial resources, and management support systems like modern technology tools such as GIS, ERP systems etc.
Adequate and capable human resources are essential for any service agency to fulfil its obligations. India has an acute shortage in the number of urban planners – one for every 100,000 urban residents as compared to one for every 5000 urban residents in USA. Even for the existing planners and urban professionals, capacity building is the need of the hour and urban management sector needs to be strengthened.
The poor financial state of Indian cities is not just an outcome of poor federal and state allocation, but also due to poor municipal revenue collection. Most Indian cities have leveraged only a fraction of their potential to collect property taxes, and struggle with revenue collection for basic serves such as water supply, garbage collection etc.
Cities also need access to modern tools and technology of urban management in order to respond to the complex challenges of rapid urbanization. For example, GIS (Geographical Information Systems) is a very powerful and most commonly used tool by urban managers across the world. However, as we will see in the next chapter, there is very little usable GIS data available for any of India’s metropolitan regions, both at the macro level and at the micro neighbourhood level.
As with local governments, citizens also need to be enabled with platforms, skills and tools to participate effectively. Citizens need tools that help them objectively assess the performance of their local governments and their elected representatives in order to take collective action.

4. D – Direct Accountability
The final element in the REED framework stands for Direct accountability. One of the arguments that is often made in India against decentralisation is the risk of increased corruption – more number of local elected representatives, each of whom wants to extract rent for their political survival. While this argument has merit, the response is not to slow down the process of decentralisation, but to carry it to its logical conclusion – which is to empower and enable the local governments, but simultaneously make them accountable in a very rigorous manner to the citizens directly.
Such direct accountability can be achieved through certain institutionalised mechanisms: first, by having inclusive and formal platforms of citizen participation such as Area Sabhas, which are essential for citizens to engage with their local governments on an ongoing basis and demand accountability. Here, participatory budgeting is a good tool for prioritization of issues by city stakeholders based on local needs.
A second instrument of accountability is the Public Disclosure Law, as required under JNNURM. In this law, urban local bodies are expected to release quarterly audited financial statements of performance to the public, and also release information on key Service Level Benchmarks for services like water supply, drainage, solid waste management etc. The Public Disclosure Law is an extension of the Right to Information Act, in that it moves from the citizen asking for information, to the local body disclosing information in a suo moto manner.


Taken together, the REED framework offers a comprehensive framework of urban governance, which looks at the meta-issues of urban reform, while acknowledging the day-to-day challenges being faced both by citizens and those within government. REED also locates the solutions in a democratic context, thereby ensuring that solutions to our urban problems can result in deepening of democratic processes, even as they change the quality of the visible aspects of urban quality of life. (see the Mumbai Metropolitan Governance Report for an example of the application of the REED framework).

Governance Structure
Janaagraha’s governance structure is indicated in the diagram below:


JCCD’s Governing Board members are a small but remarkable group of institution-builders who bring deep knowledge about building strong governance structures, open decision-making processes, and solid management systems.

The Advisory Board meets four times a year with the executive leadership of JCCD, to review the plans and progress of various programmes and activities, ensuring that these are not only meeting milestones and outcomes, but are in keeping with the values and mission of Janaagraha.


Janaagraha Programmes 
Janaagraha’s programmes broadly work at two levels:
  • National Scale
  • City Scale
As is evident in the organisational structure below, Janaagraha’s key stakeholders are citizens and government. So, every individual programme within the national and city scale umbrella is either Citizen facing or Government facing. Technology, HR & Volunteer management, Communications and Development are support programmes.




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21.8.10

ipaidabribe.com - Website to fight corruption

IpaidABribe.com is Janaagraha’s unique initiative to tackle corruption by harnessing the collective energy of citizens. You can report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency and values of actual corrupt acts on this website. Your reports will, perhaps for the first time, provide a snapshot of bribes occurring across your city. They will use them to argue for improving governance systems and procedures, tightening law enforcement and regulation and thereby reduce the scope for corruption in obtaining services from the government.
Invites you to register any recent or old bribes you have paid. Please tell them if you resisted a demand for a bribe, or did not have to pay a bribe, because of a new procedure or an honest official who helped you. They do not ask for your name or phone details, so feel free to report on the formats provided.



     NOT A FEE, BUT A BRIBE One Bangalore resident narrates his experience on www.ipaidabribe.com “Though we were married in March, 2008, due to some or the other reason, we could not get our marriage legally registered. Few months back we decided to register and get our marriage certificate done, we went Sub Registrar’s office near N R Colony, Bangalore. The clerk welcomed us and we submitted all the required documents and our marriage certificate was ready in less than 15 minutes. Once the certificate was ready, we were asked to come to a room where he took our signatures stating that we have received copies of the marriage certificate. Once we signed, he politely said, “Sir for this fee is Rs 600.” I had thought the certificate was free, so I hadn’t brought much money along. I could muster only Rs 500. The clerk took the money and said with a smile, “That’s Ok Sir, we will adjust with this.” That was when I realised that I actually paid a BRIBE and not a fee to the government.” 

If you have any such story / complaints, click here

ipaidabribe.com - A website to fight corruption with information that comes from citizens

IpaidABribe.com is Janaagraha’s unique initiative to tackle corruption by harnessing the collective energy of citizens. You can report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency and values of actual corrupt acts on this website. Your reports will, perhaps for the first time, provide a snapshot of bribes occurring across your city. They will use them to argue for improving governance systems and procedures, tightening law enforcement and regulation and thereby reduce the scope for corruption in obtaining services from the government.
Invites you to register any recent or old bribes you have paid. Please tell them if you resisted a demand for a bribe, or did not have to pay a bribe, because of a new procedure or an honest official who helped you. They do not ask for your name or phone details, so feel free to report on the formats provided.



     NOT A FEE, BUT A BRIBE One Bangalore resident narrates his experience on www.ipaidabribe.com “Though we were married in March, 2008, due to some or the other reason, we could not get our marriage legally registered. Few months back we decided to register and get our marriage certificate done, we went Sub Registrar’s office near N R Colony, Bangalore. The clerk welcomed us and we submitted all the required documents and our marriage certificate was ready in less than 15 minutes. Once the certificate was ready, we were asked to come to a room where he took our signatures stating that we have received copies of the marriage certificate. Once we signed, he politely said, “Sir for this fee is Rs 600.” I had thought the certificate was free, so I hadn’t brought much money along. I could muster only Rs 500. The clerk took the money and said with a smile, “That’s Ok Sir, we will adjust with this.” That was when I realised that I actually paid a BRIBE and not a fee to the government.” 

If you have any such story / complaints, click here

EasyRoomin - Online tool to manage shared living with your PG Room mates


Simplify living with roommates
EasyRoomin gives you the online tools to manage shared living.This site provide a great set of tools for helping to navigate the complex terrain of shared living and helps to manage challenges faced while living with roommates.



1. Paying bills on time
• Add bills for roommates.
• Receive payment reminders.
• Log roommate payments.
• Enjoy your evening.



2. Completing chores without nagging
• Assign chores for roommates.
• Receive chore reminders.
• Record completion details.
• Marvel at the cleanliness.



3. Keeping track of who owns what
• Create a list of your possessions.
• Upload identifying photos.
• Check your roommates' belongings.
• Free space in your memory.



4. Knowing who to contact in an emergency
• Input important personal contacts.
• Examine your roommates' contacts.
• Quickly look up contacts in a pinch.
• Sleep better at night.



5. Communicating with your roommates
• Discuss residence policy.
• Plan the next big party.
• Keep in contact while away.
• You're staying in the know.



EasyRoomin - Online tool to manage shared living with your room mates


Simplify living with roommates
EasyRoomin gives you the online tools to manage shared living.This site provide a great set of tools for helping to navigate the complex terrain of shared living and helps to manage challenges faced while living with roommates.



1. Paying bills on time
• Add bills for roommates.
• Receive payment reminders.
• Log roommate payments.
• Enjoy your evening.



2. Completing chores without nagging
• Assign chores for roommates.
• Receive chore reminders.
• Record completion details.
• Marvel at the cleanliness.



3. Keeping track of who owns what
• Create a list of your possessions.
• Upload identifying photos.
• Check your roommates' belongings.
• Free space in your memory.



4. Knowing who to contact in an emergency
• Input important personal contacts.
• Examine your roommates' contacts.
• Quickly look up contacts in a pinch.
• Sleep better at night.



5. Communicating with your roommates
• Discuss residence policy.
• Plan the next big party.
• Keep in contact while away.
• You're staying in the know.



Fujifilm announces new 3D digital camera - FinePix REAL 3D W3

Model Name FinePix REAL 3D W3
Number of effective pixels *1 10.0 megapixels
CCD sensor 1/2.3-inch CCD x2
Storage media
  • Internal memory (Approx. 34MB)
  • SD memory card
  • SDHC memory card *2
File format
3D Still image:
MPO+JPEG, MPO (Multi Picture Format compatible)
2D Still image:
JPEG (Exif Ver 2.3 *3) (Design rule for Camera File system compliant / DPOF-compatible)
3D Movie:
3D-AVI (Stereo AVI format with 2 image channels)
2D Movie:
AVI format (Motion JPEG with stereo sound)

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