Top 10 iPhone Applications

Top 10 iPhone Apps of All Time


Pandora Radio
The list of top 10 iPhone apps will be incomplete if Pandora Radio is not included in it. Pandora Radio creates customized radio stations and you can listen to your favorite tracks and singers without changing the radio stations every now and then.

Instapaper

If you frequently visit blog sites then you must have this iPhone application. Instapaper enables you to save the online stories and blogs and you can read them in your free time. To use this iPhone application, you have to register on Instapaper.com and create an account.

AroundMe

AroundMe is one of the best iPhone apps and is a must have application for people who roam a lot. This iPhone application provides you information about important services that are available in your surrounding, which include, coffee shops, petrol stations, bars, banks, restaurants, movie halls and hospitals.

ShoZu

ShoZu is an handy and useful application for those who frequently upload images and videos on the web. With this application you can upload videos and photographs on almost 50 sites at a time. These include, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Photobucket, WordPress, MySpace and Photoshop.

Jott

This iPhone application transcribes your voice memos into text. All you need to do is simply tap on the record button and start speaking. You can record the voice messages and save them for future use. This application is useful for saving addresses and phone numbers on the go.

Google Mobile App

With this iPhone application you can make a quick and easy search of any data in your iPhone. Whether it's searching for a contact number or finding an address, Google Mobile App scans your mobile and helps you find the required data. This application also supports Google Docs, Gmail, YouTube, Picasa and Blogger.

Tweetie

Tweetie is a must have iPhone application for active users of Tweeter. With this iPhone application you can access to more than one Twitter account at a time and perform all the tasks that can be performed on a desktop. You can download this application at $2.99 at your App Store.

Meebo

With this iPhone application you can stay connected to your friends and chat them by instant messaging on Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Gtalk, etc. Using Meebo is a nice way to cut down SMS and you can chat with your friends on the go.

WritingPad

A must have iPhone app for those who send e-mails and need to type text frequently. While using this application all you need to do is drag your finger along the letters and spell out the words. Initially the application is difficult to use, but with gradual use it becomes quite easy to handle.

Facebook

Having a Facebook application is need of the time! With this free iPhone application you can stay online on your Facebook profile and go social all the time. You can chat, check your wall, upload and view photos and do many more things.

Top 10 iPhone Apps for Kids

* Mad Libs Lite
* Toddler Teasers: Shapes
* Airport Mania: First Flight Lite
* Freshwater Aquarium
* Sneezies
* Squiggles
* Weetwoo! Kid Videos
* Chuzzle
* Itsy Bitsy Spider
* Old MacDonald

Top 10 iPhone Apps for Business

* ClockIn
* eBay Mobile
* Evernote
* iTerminal
* Encamp
* FlightTrack Pro
* mbPointer
* Analytics App
* LinkedIn
* Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite

Top 10 Free iPhone Apps

* iBooks
* GodFinger
* Windows Live Messenger
* Apple Store
* Find My iPhone
* Chop Chop Tennis
* Facebook
* Pandora Radio
* Twitter
* Skype

This was a brief information on the top 10 iPhone apps. So, find out the best iPhone application for you and get it from the App Store.

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iPhone 4: Everything You Need To Know

Introduction

The Apple iPhone is no longer the Superman of the cellphone world, despite all the hoopla, lines and glitz. Every carrier now has (or will have) at least one comparable Android superphone, such as Sprint’s EVO 4G, T-Mobile’s Google Nexus, the upcoming Droid X from Verizon on July 15, and Samsung’s Galaxy S from either AT&T or T-Mobile later this summer. Plus, the iPhone 4 also has to compete with the lower-priced 3G S, which also can run the new-and-improved multi-tasking iOS 4 operating system.

The question really isn’t whether the iPhone is a cool, new phone – it is. Its video chatting FaceTime is fascinating and fun, the Retina high-resolution screen is a salve to squinters, its 5-megapixel camera is exceptional. But the iPhone 4 also suffers from a couple of niggling issues which, now that you have plenty of superphone choices, make it less than it could have been.

Design and Layout

Apple touts the iPhone 4 as being the thinnest smartphone ever. This is misleading. The iPhone 4 is actually thicker around the edges than the tapered 3G S, so it feels thicker. And its glass rear is slipperier than the plastic 3G S.

The iPhone 4 is a smidgen smaller all around than the 3G S and the same weight, but thanks to the metal band around the perimeter and the glass front and back, it feels more solid. It’s also squarer than the tapered 3G S, which means form-fitting skins won’t fit (they’ll be too small), and the upper frame by the earpiece has a sharper edge, which means a naked iPhone 4 held tight to your ear will feel sharp and uncomfortable.

The iPhone 4′s controls and jacks remain in the same place, but the volume controls and home key require a firmer touch, which eliminates accidental presses.

Storage

Inside the iPhone “General/About/Capacity” settings menu, we’re told the 32 GB S has 29.3 GB of user memory, and the iPhone 4 29.1 GB. When you plug the two phones into iTunes, you’re told the S has actually has 29.33 GB and the iPhone 4 just 29.06 GB. But that approximately 270 MB difference (if my math is right) is not big enough to account for the disparity between the content that fit on my S and what didn’t fit on my 4. I had 4,750 music tracks and 2,250 photos on my 3G S with 1.4 GB left to spare; I had to trim these down to 4,550 tracks and just 400 photos, with just 830 MB left over on the 4 (all other content – video, apps, books, et al – remaining consistent between the two). Considering I was hoping the iPhone 4 would be available in a 64 GB version, this memory short-sheeting is doubly disappointing.

Retina Display

Everyone will be talking about FaceTime, but the iPhone 4′s Retina screen that will be the longest-pleasing improvement.



The iPhone 4′s Retina 960 x 640 pixel screen leans to the greener end of the color spectrum compared to the 3G S’s cooler blue hue, most noticeable on white background Web pages, on faces, and on clear blue skies. But those extra pixels make a world of difference in illuminating tiny details and creating sharper edges in images and video. More importantly, the iPhone 4′s screen has deeper blacks (noticeable when comparing the iPhone 4 and the S when in sleep); colors pop in both tone and in contrast like never before.

But all of a sudden, the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen seems small in the expanding world of 4-inch and larger superphone screens.

iTunes Integration

As it does for photos, the latest version of iTunes gives you the choice of down converting all higher bit-rated AAC and MP3 files to 128 Kbps AAC for use on your iPhone. We were able to save nearly 4GB of space by doing this, with no real loss of headphone sound quality.

Sound Quality

We could discern no qualitative improvement from the 3G S, but the speaker did pump out a bit more volume during FaceTime conversations. In a quiet room, we didn’t even have to go much beyond three quarters of maximum volume.

The Reception Issue


We had none of the reception problems reported by other folks, primarily because we don’t hold a bare iPhone up to our ear, left-handed, in a bear grip. Using the phone hands-free (Bluetooth or wired headphone – it does come with one, you know) is simply more comfortable and, if recent studies have shown, safer. We held the iPhone 4 with our hands covering the metal perimeter band, a manner many folks have described as inhibiting reception, for two extended phone conversations and while using FaceTime without a single problem.

FaceTime

Speaking of these two FaceTime calls, they varied greatly in quality, although both seemed to be running at around 15 frames per second from both the front and rear camera; we assume the video is down-converted to around half VGA resolution for transmission. A call to a colleague in midtown Manhattan was crystal clear, with little pixilization. A second call to a colleague outside of Milwaukee was highly pixilated. Both us and our callers were using N routers. Calls were not quite full duplex – it was better if one person spoke at a time, and there was a second or two of lag.

So it isn’t exactly the instant tête-à-tête video call Dr. Heywood Floyd makes to his daughter from the space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the experience is both weird and fun nonetheless. You see yourself in a small window that can be dragged around to any of the four corners. But you and your caller are looking either at the tiny picture of yourself to make sure you stay centered in the frame or, more often, at each other rather than at the camera lens above the screen. As a result, you’re not really looking eye-to-eye at your caller, but a bit off center, which makes everyone look shifty. Switching to the rear camera to give your caller a view of your surroundings is a neat and, in some cases, useful feature sure to be emulated by other phone makers.



Two problems. One, who do you call? As noted, you have to know someone else with an iPhone 4, and you both have to be connected via Wi-Fi. Why didn’t Apple make FaceTime an extension of iChat, so anyone with at least a webcam-enabled Mac could make and receive video calls from the iPhone 4? One has to believe such a link will be established at some point. Or that Skype will create a video call app, if Apple allows it. Or better still, that AT&T’s network will become capable enough to enable cell video calls. But we’ll probably have to wait until 4G LTE before this happens.

In the meantime, if you have an iPhone 4 and no one to FaceTime with (yes, we’re already turning it into a verb), call Apple at 1-888-FACETIME (332-3846) between 8 am and 8 pm Central Time to chat with an Apple employee for testing purposes.

The second problem: Why do we need it? Insurance adjusters, real estate agents, spouses who need an assist while solo shopping – okay. But both calls we made were primarily comprised of “Isn’t this cool,” reminiscent of the early “I’m calling you from a cellphone!” thrills from a generation ago. The techno thrill is bound to wane unless a desktop or HDTV video calling component can be created, or even just establishing compatibility with other emerging cell video telephony solutions, like Qik for the EVO 4G.

Web

Even more than it is for movies, the Retina screen is a boon for reading smaller Web site print, and drastically improves ease of reading for text of any size, especially e-mails.

Web sites and pages all load a second or two faster on the iPhone 4 compared to the 3G S, even on AT&T’s much-maligned 3G network in Manhattan. Since both phones support high-speed 7.2 Mbps HSPA technology, the speed improvements must be attributed to the faster processor and improved antenna array.

Camera

Just because the iPhone 4′s camera is “only” 5 megapixels rather than the 8- and even 12-megapixel imagers showing up on other phones doesn’t mean squat. A 5-megapixel camera is all you need on any digital camera, unless you plan on creating billboards. It’s all about the lens and the processing. And the iPhone 4′s camera, sans flash, is the fastest we’ve used. We were frankly stunned at how quick – a second, maybe – the iPhone 4 captured and processed images and was ready to snap another. Shooting with the flash added a second or so delay between pushing the touch-screen shutter release and image capture. Larger icons would have been preferable for switching between still and video recording.

In terms of quality, indoor images and video all had an orange hue, even when we used the flash. Zooming was easy – tap the center focusing square and a touch 5x slider pops up, although indoor and night results look extra grainy. Photos also maintain focus across the entire frame, unlike the larger images on some of the other superphone cameras.

Sadly, there’s still no self-timer.

Battery Life

Apple says the iPhone 4 will give you seven hours of talk time and six hours of 3G Web surfing, with 30 hours of audio listening, compared to five, five and 40 on the 3G S. Both are rated at 10 hours of video viewing. With only a few days of use under our belts, it’s impossible to judge exactly how accurate these figures are, but FaceTime does seem to drain the battery faster than a normal call. After 45 minutes of FaceTime, the iPhone 4′s battery went from 100 to 68 percent.
Conclusion

The iPhone 4′s cool factor alone will grab your attention, but unless you’re a current AT&T customer sans iPhone, we would say hold on to your 3G S for a bit. Apple iOS 4 is a major upgrade, but it brought improvements to the 3G S as well, mitigating functional differences and perhaps lowering the reasons to upgrade. If you’re a Verizon, Sprint or even T-Mobile customer, you have plenty of worthwhile iPhone 4-like choices.

Highs:

* FaceTime video chatting
* High resolution Retina 960 x 640 pixel 3.5-inch display
* 5-megapixel camera with LED flash; HD video recorder
* 16GB or 32 GB built-in memory
* Long battery life

Lows:

* Sharp edges
* Less memory than 3G S; no 64GB version
* Greenish screen tone
* No HDMI out
* Orange hue on indoor photos
* No external camera shutter button

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Interesting Facts About WARREN BUFFET

1) He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!

2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.

3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.

4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.

5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.

6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.

7) He has given his CEO's only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any of your share holder's money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.

He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.

9) Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.

10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.

11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.

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Interesting Facts About Cricket

# A match between Barbados and British Guyana in 1946 saw an over with 14 balls in which there were no wides or no balls ! The 8 ball over was in force and the extra six deliveries were due to umpiring miscounting !!!

# SUNIL GAVASKAR was so ill tempered that his parents had to take him to a psychiatrist to check up if there was something wrong with him.

# In a test match in Faisalabad in 1997-98 ,Mushtaq Ahmed was bowling to Pat Symcox.Symcox missed the ball,which went on to knock the middle stump.However,the heat had fused together the bails and they did not fall.Symcox went on to make 81,his second highest test score..!!

# SHAHID AFRIDI used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a One-Day International.!!

# FOUR STUMPS !!!! -- An experimental game was played at Lords in 1963 to look at the effects of adjusting two features of cricket : the size of the wickets and the LBW rule,in order to create a wicket of width 11 inches rather than 9 inches,four stumps were used in that trial match..

# The only law of Cricket that has not had any changes or modifications,is the length of the pitch..

# Which style of play is known as 'MANKAD'? -- The running out of a non-striking batsman who leaves his crease before the bowler has released the ball is calle 'MANKAD, It is named after VINOO MANKAD , an Indian bowler,who used this method controversially,in a test match.

# It was a county match in 1946.After two overs had been bowled,Len Hutton,who was fielding at slips asked the umpires to check the length of the pitch.The check discovered that the pitch was 24 yards lng instead of 22! Then the match was restarted on a correct pitch.

# Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to be dismissed (run out) by using the television replays by the third umpire, Jonty Rhodes was the fielder. Next day,in the same test match,Jonty Rhodes was given run out by the umpire.This time the fielder was none other than Sachin Tendulkar.!!

# During a County match in 1986,a batsman hit the ball and ran three runs but dropped the bat in the process. The bowler picked up the bat. When the ball was returned from the boundary,the bowler stopped it with the bat ! For fielding the ball with any other substance than the person , the penalty is 5 runs. So the batsman got eight runs in that ball.!!

# Which cricketer faced the first ball in One-Day Cricket??Geoff.Boycott was the one who faced the first ball in One-Day cricket. Graham Mc-Kenzie was the bowler.

# In a World Cup Match in 1975, Gavaskar batted throughout the 60 overs & scored only 36 runs . India lost to England by a huge margin of 203 runs.

# In the first ever Test in 1877, Australia beat England by 45 runs. 100 yrs later,in the Centenary Test ,the result was exactly the same.!!

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Interesting Facts About Astrology

• One-third of Americans believe in astrology with the fastest growing segment among executives and professionals.

• According to The Harris Poll, nearly 41 percent of adult Americans believe in astrology.

• An eight year, worldwide study by Roper Starch reported a 30 percent increase in the belief in astrology.

• In 1976, 17 percent of Americans believed in astrology. In 1998 that number jumped to 37 percent.

• 75 percent of astrology consumers are women (StarIQ registrants).

• An estimated 80 percent of women make most of the household purchasing decisions.

• Americans spend $100 million on astrology each year.

• An estimated 38 million people spend approximately $44 billion annually on new age products and services including astrology.

• There are 6,000–8,000 professional astrology practitioners in the United States (based on membership to the National Council for Geocosmic Research, NCGR).

• A growing academic community of psychologists, statisticians, stock market analysts and professional astrologers effectively uses individually calculated astrological data for purposes beyond diversion.

• Astrology products are unique because they cut across normal demographic lines. Research indicates that astrology users span the spectrum from blue-collar National Enquirer readers on one end, to white-collar Psychology Today readers on the other.

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Interesting Facts About ART

. . . after much disagreement by art historians, it is now accepted that Jan Van Eyck had an older brother, Pictor Hubertus Eyck (Hubert), who worked with Jan on Adoration of the Lamb.
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. . . Florentine master painter Giotto di Bondone (1267 -1337) was also an accomplished architect? In 1334 Giotto's architectural skills were employed when he was put in charge of the building operations of Florence Cathedral for which he painted several panel pieces. The most celebrated piece being Ognisanti Madonna (1305 - 10).
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. . . Artist Edgar Degas was so fascinated with ballet dancers that he became obsessed with representing them in his art? It is estimated Degas made approximately 1500 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings of dancers.
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. . . in 1962 Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa was valued at $100 million? Who knows what it would be worth today!
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. . . there was an art movement called Pop Art? In the mid-1950's through to the early 1960's an art movement called Pop Art celebrated images from popular culture, advertising and the mass media. Exponents of Pop Art employed collage, air-brush and other techniques sometimes duplicating commercial silk-screen effects by hand. Artists such as Warhol and Lichtenstein took their subjects from popular American. Warhol's '100 cans of Campbell's Soup' and his repeated images of Marilyn Monroe are some of the most well known artworks to emerge from this movement.
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. . . the first pigments used in painting were ground from earth, minerals and organic matter? Pigment is finely-ground coloured powder which, when suspended in a medium such as oil, egg or water, forms paint. Most pigments are now made chemically and are more permanent.
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. . . the word 'cartoon' originally comes from painting terminology? The term 'cartoon' relates to a preliminary, but fully worked, sketch from which the outlines could be transferred to be the basis of a design for a fresco or painting.
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. . . artist Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) completed nearly 200 still-life paintings in his lifetime? The early 19th century saw a decline in the popularity of Still-life composition. Cezanne's love of the still-life was largely responsible for rekindling its popularity in the late 19th century. Cezanne seemed to revel in its possibilities creating an infinitely varied series of compositions repeatedly using a small set of household objects, along with everyday fruit and vegetables.
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. . . a tesellation is a design made from shapes that fit together perfectly. For example a chessboard is a simple tessellation mad of squares.
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. . . The Louvre was originally constructed as the fortress of Philippe Auguste in 1190.
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. . . John James Audubon painted 435 watercolours of birds in his life time. He was born on the Carribean island of Santo Domingo in 1784. In 1802 he moved to the United states where he fell in love with the bird life and made it his life's work to paint a picture of every species of bird in America.

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Intereting Facts About Dreams

1. One-third of your lives is spent sleeping- This is one of the most common known facts about dreams but if you actually take a moment to think about it,it is pretty amazing.

2. In an average lifetime, you would have spent a total of about six years of it dreaming.

3. Blind people do dream- Images will differ depending on whether a person is blind at birth or became blind later in life. But such senses as sounds and smells can also be a cause for a dream.

4. Half the content in a dream is forgotten after 5 minutes and 90% is forgotten after 10 minutes.

5. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women.

6. Studies indicate that our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake.

7. People that are awakened from REM sleep, tend to remeber their dreams more so then those that sleep through this type of sleep.

8. People who are trying to give up smoking have longer and more intense dreams.

9. Children under the age of 3 do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own dreams until after they are 3 or 4.

10. A person that is snoring cannot be dreaming.

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Fun Facts About Smiling

1. When someone smiles in is universally known as an expression of happiness whihc is recognized by almost all cultures.

2. When a person studies laughter they are known as a ‘gelotologist’.

3. There are over 18 different types of smiles that are used in a variety of social situations. For instance, people can use a smile to say a hello, and they can also use a different type of smile to show their understanding of a particular situation.

4. A frown uses more muscles to contract and expand then a smile does.

5. A smile is one of the most used human facial expressions. Smiles can use between 5 to all 53 muscles.

6. Smiling releases endorphins and makes us feel better, even when you fake a smile you can feel better.

7. A person that smiles more is deemed to be more pleasant, sincere, attractive and more sociable then a on-smiling person.

8. We are born with the ability to smile, it is not something that we copy. For instance, even blind babies are able to smile.

9. Humans are able to differentiate between a real smile and a fake smile by seeing the difference in a persons eyes when they smile.

10. Newborns tend to have more preference for a person with a smile then a person that is not smiling.

Don't forget to smile!

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Interesting About Calendar

1. The oldest calendar may be 30,000 years old. An engraved bone plaque found at Blanchard, in the Dordogne region of France, contains a series of 69 engravings arranged on a curved line. The shape of the engravings resembles the phases of the moon, and some archaeologists believe that that is what the marks represent.

2. The Egyptian calendar, which was 365 days long and started on the day that Sirius rose in line with the sun, was instituted around 4,241 B.C.

3. The year 46 B.C. was the longest year on record. By this year, the Roman calendar had fallen 90 days behind the seasons, so in order to make up for the accumulated, Julius Caesar had to add two extra months to the year as well as 23 additional days in February. Thus, 46 B.C. was 455 days long.

4. July is named after Julius Caesar, and August after Augustus Caesar.

5. September, October, November, and December come from the Latin words for seven, eight, nine, and ten, despite being the ninth through twelfth months. Originally the Romans had ten months, from March to December. Around 700 B.C., Numa Pompilius added the months of January and February.

6. Months have different numbers of days, between 28 and 31, because of the Romans. Numa Pompilius assigned 29 days to seven months, 31 days to four months, and 28 days to one month, because Romans thought that even numbers were bad luck. This only totalled 355 days, so later on various days were added to certain months.

7. The origin of the Julian calendar dates to 46 B.C., when Julius Caesar, after adding 90 days to that year to make up for slippage in the calendar, decreed that each year thereafter that was divisible by 4 would be a leap year, with 366 days instead of the regular 365.

8. In 1654, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh, having worked through the genealogy of the Bible, announced that the time of creation was on Sunday, October 21st, 4004 B.C., at 9:00 in the morning. Ussher settled on the hour because it was a "civil" hour of the day and he figured God would be civil.
9. Stonehenge may be a giant Neolithic calendar. The design of Stonehenge is such that, on the summer solstice (June 21), the rising sun is aligned with the avenue and perfectly bisects the stone circle. Stonehenge may have had other purposes, but whether it did or not is now a mystery.

10. The Lydians, who were allies of the Greek Spartans, and the Medes, who were dominated by Cyrus of Persia, had been locked in a five-year war in Asia Minor on May 28th, 586 B.C., when the two armies were again preparing for another battle. At this point a solar eclipse occurred, one that is believed to have been predicted by Thales, a Greek mathematician. When the Medes and Lydians observed the eclipse, they ceased fighting and signed a peace treaty. Incidentally, this is the earliest event in human history that we are able to assign an exact date to, due to the eclipse.

11. Sunday first became a day of rest in the year 321. Roman emperor Constantine chose Sunday to please both Christians (the day of the resurrection) and pagans (many of whom worshipped one of the sun-gods of the empire).

12. No record exists of Christmas being celebrated on December 25th before the year 336.

13. In all likelihood, December 25th is not the birthdate of Jesus. Most scholars believe that the date of December 25th was chosen for Christmas because it coincided with both the winter solstice on the Julian calendar of the time and the birthdate of Mithras, the Persian sun-god, and Sol Invictis, another sun-god, and was near the pagan feasts of Saturnalia and the New Year.

14. In the year 534, Dionysius Exiguus (also known as Dennis the Little), created the system, still used today, of counting the years starting with the birth of Christ. Unfortunately, he made some errors in calculation, so the birth of Jesus probably took place around 6 B.C. (Herod the Great, who is mentioned in the stories of Jesus' birth in the bible, died in 4 B.C.)

15. There were two Thursdays one week in 1147. Pope Eugenius III travelled to Paris, and was scheduled to arrive on a Friday. In order that the Parisians could hold a celebration on Friday, a day of fast, Eugenius decreed that that day would be a Thursday.

16. According to the Mayan "long count" linear calendar, the end of the world would occur on June 5th, 2012.

17. The ancient Mayan calendar was more accurate than the modern Gregorian calendar. While the Gregorian calendar gains three days in 10,000 years, the Mayan calendar loses only two days every 10,000 years.

18. About 1250, the English scholar Roger Bacon (circa 1214–1292) noted that the year in the Julian calendar, then in use, was somewhat too long, as the vernal equinox came increasingly earlier each year. However, it took over 300 years, until 1582, until the corrective Gregorian calendar, the calendar now in use, was introduced.

19. Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian Calendar in 1582. To correct the time error in the Julian calendar, which had been in use since 46 B.C., it was decreed that ten days (October 5–14, 1582) were to be omitted and it was ordained that, thereafter, years ending in "00" should not be leap years unless they were divisible by 400. Most Roman Catholic countries accepted these changes immediately. Protestant countries delayed for a while (for example, England waited until 1752). Other countries delayed even longer. For example, Greece didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1912, and the last country to change over was Turkey until 1927.

20. Because the mathematician John Wallis was an extremely nationalistic Englishman, he used his influence against Great Britain's adoption of the Gregorian calendar. He argued that acceptance would imply subservience to Rome (and hence to foreigners). His view led to a long delay of the Gregorian calendar's adoption by Great Britain.

21. In 1752, England adopted the Gregorian calendar. September 2, 1752 was followed immediately by September 14 because the Julian calendar then in use had become 11 days behind the seasons. When this occurred, there was rioting in England, with crowds of people, believing that they had been deprived of eleven days of their lives, shouting "Give us back our eleven days!"

22. In the sixteenth century, there was no coherent way of dating events that had happened in the distant past because of the many different calendars that were in use. To resolve this problem, Joseph Scaliger wrote A Treatise on the Correction of Chronology in which he proposed that events be dated by three different cycles: the 28 year solar cycle, the 19 year lunar cycle, and the 15 year period of Diocletian's tax census. Working backward, these cycles all started in 4713 B.C., which Scaliger numbered 1:1:1, and would repeat every 7980 years. Unfortunately, Scaliger's work was based on the Julian calendar, and a few months after his work was published, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar, rendering Scaliger's work useless.

23. In 1929, the U.S.S.R. decreed a week of five days. In 1933, a six-day week was decreed. By 1940, the seven-day week was restored.

24. In English, the days of the week are named after the Saxon gods (except for Saturday, which is named after the Roman god of agriculture). Sunday is named after the sun, Monday after the moon, Tuesday after Tiw, Wednesday after Woden, Thursday after Thor, Friday after Frige, and Saturday after Saturn.

25. On November 24th, 1793, the National Convention in revolutionary France decreed a new "Revolutionary Calendar" to educate the public to new ideas such as eliminating wasteful holy days, including Sundays and saints' days. It was similar to that used in ancient Egypt: Each year was divided into twelve months of thirty days each, with five extra days at the end of the year; each month had three ten-day "weeks." This calendar was mostly ignored by the end of the eighteenth century and was formally repealed by Napoleon in 1805, mainly because of the confusion caused by its abolition of the seven-day week. It had wreaked havoc with the traditional system of religious observances, festivals, and market days.

26. The ancient Egyptians defined the hour to be one-twelfth of the time between sunrise and sunset. So, as the days grew longer in winter and spring and shorter in summer and autumn, the length of the hour varied from one day to the next.

27. The third millennium and the 21st century began on January 1st, 2001, not January 1st, 2000. When Dionysius Exiguus created the system of counting years starting with the birth of Christ, he did not include a year zero, as the concept of zero was not a familiar one to the Romans and Greeks. Therefore, the present calendar starts from the year 1, so the third millennium started in 2001.

28. If it is not a leap year and January 1st falls on a Sunday, January, April, July, October, and December of that year will contain 25 Sundays.

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Interesting Facts about F1 Race Cars

A reaction of thrill comes when we talk about F1 Cars; today’s modern F1 Cars are a single seated cars, with an open cockpit, open wheels, rear wings and a substantial front. We are going to share some cool and interesting facts about Formula One Cars in to our interesting fact column….




• Do you know that 80,000 components are assembled together to make a F1 car? Even though these components are correctly assembled with 99.9% accuracy, it will still start with 80 things wrong.

• The deceleration and the retardation experience by the F1 driver when he pushes the brakes can be felt as if a normal car driver hits a brick wall at the speed of about 300 kilometer per hour.

• The F1 race cars can go from 0 to 160 kph speed and then back to 0 speeds in just 4 seconds.

• There are more than a kilometer length of a cable attached to as many as 100 of its actuators and sensors. Those are for monitoring and controlling various parts of the car.

• On an average the driver of the F1 reduces near about 4kgs of his body weight if he goes for just 1 race. This is because of the long time exposure of the high G forces as well as the temperatures.
• A F1 car is about 550kg in weight which is near about ½ of the total weight of a Mini.

• Aerodynamic design and the added down force is very much important. Just for an idea, take an example of a small plane; you know that it takes off at a speed slower than that of a F1 cars when it is on track.

• F1 race cars generally race at more than 300 kmph. If we do not have the aerodynamic down force, even the great racing cars which have sufficient power to produce the wheel spin will ultimately loss control at about 160 kmph.

• The down force has a tremendous power. Even in any street course race, it provides enough suction which basically can lift the manhole covers. Therefore, before the commencement of these type of race all manhole covers on the streets are welded from down in order to prevent from this mishap from happening.

• The refuelers which are used in F1 are able to supply 12 liters per second of fuel. Let assume that an average family car of 50 liter can fully filled in just 4 seconds. Actually they are using the refueling rigs which are now days used on the military helicopters of US.

• The top crew members of F1 can do refueling and change the tires both in just about 5 seconds. Amazing!!

• Every tire looses its weight during the race. It looses around 0.5 kg because of the wear.

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Most Expensive & 5 Best Mobile Phones In The World Today

Most Expensive Mobile Phones:

1. Amosu Diamond Nokia N95:

Price: $24,475



You all have seen the multi-functional Nokia N95 and most of you might be having one but this one is not a simple N95 but it is a luxurious piece of antique which is decorated with diamonds. This mobile will give you the class with quality and the beauty of this mobile phone is just over the imagination. This antique kind of N95 is decorated with 18 carats white gold and 325 diamonds which are totally 3.3 carats in weight.

Amosu have developed this mobile as a unique cell phone and according to their claim ten of the diamonds have never been created before. So be the first to get this ornamental beauty for you. The price of this mobile phone is $24,475 and the company also provides you the choice to select the colors of diamonds according to your style. Other than the decorations this handset is a fully working N95 which is famous for its multi-functional capabilities.

2. GoldVish Le Million

Price: $1.3 million



This one is the Guinness world record holder of being the most expensive mobile phone of the world, technologically it might not be like many top class mobile phones but in style and luxury it had no companion until the development of Alisson’s iphone 3g. This one is the most stunning mobile phone which is decorated by 1800 diamonds totaling about 120 carats. If you want to be unique than you have to but unique things as well.
The features for this mobile are also pretty nice, comes with a 2GB internal memory, 8x zoom camera and quad band support. This one is designed especially for the elite class and if claim to be an elite than this one is especially for you. As said earlier these mobiles cab be the best ever gifts for your loved one and this mobile has been purchased by a Russian business man for his wife.

3. Vertu Pink Diamonds Signature

Price: $ 107,500



This one could be called only a luxurious mobile phone because in capabilities it is not a very high class mobile phone but for the beauty and luxury it is also one of the records breaking phone developed Vertu. It was developed in 2005 and from that time it has got a huge round of a clause from the customers. This superb piece of technology has been made by almost 1,000 gemstones, purely made up of rose gold this mobile has been developed in limited quantity. This luxurious replica VERTU Signature M series has pink diamond crystals and ceramic shell plated with 18 carat gold. What could be a more luxurious gift for a woman other than this ornamental rose decorated mobile phone?





5 Best Mobile Phones in the World Today:

1. HTC Hero

The gadget award holder of this year The HTC Hero is just a magical mobile expressing all its features in a magical way. It is not just a mobile it’s your guide when you feel lost, it’s your messenger connecting you to your loved ones, your browser keep you connected to the whole world, and your play station and many more. Even from the earliest days of leaked hardware shots and blurry demo videos of its UI, Smartphone fans seemed to agree that the company had finally achieved what has been missing in the world of Android. The main quality of it is the Google OS which open a whole new world of connectivity in front of you.



Size: Dimensions 112 x 56.2 x 14.4 mm
Weight: 135 g
Camera: Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus
Features: Touch focus (via software update)
Features:
• OS Android OS, v1.5 (Cupcake)
• CPU Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor
Display:
• Type TFT capacitive touch screen, 65K colors
• Size 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
General:
• 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100

2. BlackBerry Storm 2

As the name suggests it is really a storm, a storm of facilities, a storm of good features and what nor. It could be better called a disaster of this century. Like its predecessor, the BlackBerry Storm 2 will feature a touch screen.
Unlike the BlackBerry Storm, though, the Storm 2’s SurePress “clickable” display doesn’t actually move (except for around corners). Instead, the display provides an electronic feedback that mimics the feeling of a click. It also features multi-touch support, allowing users to click two keys (like shift plus a letter) on the virtual keyboard at the same time. Like all BlackBerry products, the Storm 2 has excellent messaging and e-mail capabilities. You get BlackBerry Enterprise Server support for your work e-mail, and you can load up to ten work or personal POP3 or IMAP accounts.



Specifications:

• Display: High resolution 480 x 360 pixel color display
3.25” (diagonally measured)
• Wi-Fi: 802.11b/g enabled
802.11 infrastructure mode; ad-hoc mode is to be disabled
802.11d
• Voice Input & Output: 3.5mm stereo headset capable
Integrated speaker and microphone
Hands-free headset capable
• Security: Password protection Screen lock

3. HTC HD2

Like the HTC hero the HTC HD2 is also a disaster in itself. It is the first windows phone to embody HTC Sense – a holistic experience that focuses on making phones work in the most intuitive way. Its huge display gives you the sense of a canvas on which you can do whatever you want. It gives the fast fastest way of interaction through its email, SMS, phone logs, and even updates from Facebook are all in one place. Some design features of HTC HD2 are far better experienced than can be explained in mere words. Like the ringer volume level that immediately scales down when the phone detects that you have picked it up, or the display that automatically adjusts to the light level in your surroundings and turns off to prevent false screen touches during a call.



Specifications:

• Operating System: Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
• Storage: ROM: 512 MB
• RAM: 448 MB
• Camera: 5 megapixel color camera
• Auto focus
• Social Networking: Face book integration
Sharing photos on Face book and Twitter
Sharing videos on You Tube

4. Samsung i8910 HD

Like the HTC this mobile is also included in the race of android phones with the size comparatively larger than the other handsets. But Samsung knows what it’s doing when making a mobile phone, and if this much technology has been packed into a 123 x 59 x 12.9 mm chassis, and then it’s probably going to be pretty darn good. The screen is simply to die for, as anyone that’s seen an OLED display in action can attest. Deep blacks, rich colors and pin sharp resolution really make every frame from this phone stand out, and it’s very easy just to spend time showing your friends just how beautiful your new handset’ screen is.



Specifications:

• General: 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
• Size: Dimensions 123 x 59 x 12.9 mm
• Weight: 148 g
• Camera: Primary: 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, And LED flash
• Features: Geo-tagging, faces, smile and blink detection, image stabilization,
Wide dynamic range, ISO 1600

5. Nokia 5530 XpressMusic

Nokia might be late comer to the touch screen war yet the new mobiles by Nokia have filled the gap. This phone is basically coming up with the new audio features which are differentiating it from the other phones. It feels lightweight and the screen is noticeably smaller than other touchscreen offerings, but it doesn’t feel too tiny for a touchscreen, although it’s probably on the edge of what’s acceptable.



The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic feels nice in the hand, although a little plasticky. However, that’s offset by a decent weight, and a fairly well put together chassis. Put it this way – if you got this out at the pub most people wouldn’t think you had paid so little for a brand new phone.

Specifications:
• General: 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• Size: Dimensions: 104 x 49 x 13 mm, 68 cc
• Weight: 107 g
• Camera: Primary: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, And LED flash
• Video: Yes, VGA@30fps (verified)
• Features: OS: Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
• CPU: ARM 11 434 MHz processor
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
• Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
• Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Memory: Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photo call
• Call records: Detailed, max 30 days

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Most Interesting Facts About Mobile Phones

Do you know some of the most interesting things about mobile phones? Well, here are the lists of few most interesting things about the mobile phones that you should know:

• Can you imagine how much text messages through mobile phones do Koreans teens do? They are the No. 1; they send more than 200,000 text messages in a year.

• Do you know that there are 3.3 billion of active mobiles in the world? The number is equal to the half of the entire world population.

• People cast more than 125 million cell phones in each year. It becomes a general tendency of the people to shed their phones quite often. For example, it has been found that the Koreans generally change their mobile phones within a year. It is now becoming an environmental issue as well.

• For the convenience of vote delivery, the Estonians are using their mobile phones. It also serves as a very convenient means to show their personal identification.

• The first mobile phone device was invented by Motorola and the device was named as DynaTAC 8000X.

• Do you know two-thirds of the mobile phones users are using the backlight of their phone as a flash light? It was confirmed after the survey taken by the sprint. Well, nice use of a mobile phone.

• Mobile phone is becoming an excellent means to notify people about the upcoming disasters or emergencies. Phone companies in some countries like Finland and Japan, where earthquakes are very common have already worked out these features. Such features in the mobile phones will be absolutely of no charge.

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