Some words about TCS

  These days my best pastime is exploring about TCS.Only 10 days are remaining before I join the company. So, I am curious to have a closer look at TCS. About salary hikes, about designations, about discounts as a TCS employee. I also heard the rumor that if a we(TCS'ers) marry among our colleagues then will be gifted Rs. 1 lakh each from TCS. But after surfing the net I found that its really a rumor and 0% truth is there in it. U can check...

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Happy Birthday Rajan

This post is dedicated to one of my best friends ever, Rajan. Today is his birthday. I know him from Std. XI. And he was also my roomie for the 4 yrs of my college life. Really last night I was missing all the Masti that we have done while celebrating all the b’days in Shyamalima(The place we spent the last 2yrs of college life). Those whole night masti, those candles, funny names on the cake, everyone’s  face coloured with cake,...

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Waiting for ICS

  As the ICS update for my phone is available, I am eagerly waiting to connect my phone to a good speed internet connection. Instead, Currently Gingerbread is the most popular android version. Still more than 60% of the people use Gingerbread.   Version     Codename     Distribution    1.5Cupcake0.2% 1.6Donut0.5% 2.1Eclair4.2% 2.2Froyo15.5% 2.3.xGingerbread60.3% 3.1Honeycomb0.5% 3.2Honeycomb1.8% 4.0.x Ice...

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USB 3.0

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. It came into existence in January 1996 as USB 1.0. After that USB 1.1 & USB 2.0 were released. Now the era of USB 3.0 has arrived. USB 3.0 was released way back in 2008 but its still not so popular. The major advantages of USB 3.0 are :- Super-Speed - USB 3.0 works at Super-Speed ( i.e. 5Gbps ~ 625MB/sec ) unlike USB 2.0 which works at High-Speed ( i.e. 60MB/sec ). Bidirectional...

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Full Screen Command Prompt in Windows 7.

I am sure that many of us may know this trick. But I think the small form of command prompt may be still annoying some people. This will be helpful for those who don't know how to enable full screen command prompt in windows 7. Just follow these simple steps : Open the Command Prompt. Enter the command wmic & hit Enter. Click the maximize button to get a real full screen window of Command Prompt. Right click the maximized Command Prompt...

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Login to your Facebook account with different passwords.

As we all know that we can login to our facebook accounts by different usernames like your email id, registered mobile no. or your username. But do you know that we can also login to our accounts by using different passwords. Yes, its true. I found it on a blog. We can use three different passwords to login. The main password that you use to login. Now if u toggle your password between upper case & lower case then also it will work fine....

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Introducing Command Prompt option to the Right-Click Menu.

This will be helpful especially to the programmers who use the command prompt too often. You can do this by simply editing your registry. Steps : Start > Run Enter "regedit" and hit Enter Expand to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DesktopBackground\Shell" Right-click on "Shell" and select New > KeyMake sure a new key is created under "shell". Change the name of this key to "Command Prompt" Right-click on this new key "Command Prompt"...

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2G! 3G! GPRS! GSM! Edge! HSDPA! A Brief Explanation.

Mobile networks! Right now it has become a part of our lives. We can't think of life without mobile networks. However most of the people are confused with the differences between them. I was also confused about all these things. But now these things are quite clear to me. Right now the most important & the most widely used is the GPRS.   GSM Initially GSM modems came into existence. Does anyone remeber the times we used those horrible...

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One Month to Go. The Countdown Begins.

Finally the countdown begins as only 1 month to go before I will enter into the corporate world. I am eagerly waiting for that day when I will officially become a TCS'er. When this long vacation(Almost 3 months) started, I thought how these days will pass by. But today when only one month is remaining, the days are starting to fly. I am also a bit scared about the life to come, when I think of those who have already joined like Abhay, Debraj, etc. They are so busy in Accenture that their social life has just ended. When this vacation started...

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