ICC Test Team of the Year - 2012

Based on the performances by players between 4 August 2011 and 6 August 2012, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced its Test Team of the Year, as chosen by a selection panel headed by Clive Lloyd.

 

ICC Test Team of the Year:

Alastair Cook (Eng)

Hashim Amla (SA)

Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

Jacques Kallis (SA)

Michael Clarke (Aus) - Captain

Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)

Matt Prior (Eng )– wicketkeeper

Stuart Broad (Eng)

Saeed Ajmal (Pak)

Vernon Philander (SA)

Dale Steyn (SA)

12th Man – AB de Villiers (SA)

  

South Africa’s Dale Steyn has earned a place in the ICC Test Team of the Year for the fifth successive year. South Africa’s Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara feature in the side for the third successive year while England’s Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad appear for the second year in a row.

Since this award’s inception in 2004, it is the first time that the ICC Test Team of the year doesn’t feature an Indian player. Below listed players were a part of this side in the previous years:

 Year                        Player

2004                Rahul Dravid

2005                Virender Sehwag, Anil Kumble*

2006                Rahul Dravid

2007                Zaheer Khan*

2008                Virender Sehwag

2009                Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni

2010                Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni

2011                Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan*

*Selected as the 12th man

Google Jelly Bean Tablet @ $125

Karbonn Mobiles has unveiled 7-inch Jelly Bean Tablet which is using Google's latest OS at the price of around $125. Due to which the prices of tablets running with Android 4.1 OS are being dropped. Two months back Google's Nexus 7 was announced which starts at $199 which is almost $75 costlier than the latest release. 

This 7-inch screen tablet runs on a single-core MIPS processor at a clock speed of 1.2GHz. It has a 2-megapixel front camera, 3G support through a dongle, and seven hours of battery life. It has 32GB of expandable storage and is likely to be a micro-SD slot. Google's Nexus 7 is having quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, a 7-inch high-resolution screen and up to 16GB of internal storage.

Few models of Tablets with MIPS processors have not been popular despite the low price under $150.  It had a plan of releasing new 7-inch tablet Miumiu W1 with .2GHz MIPS processor, a front camera, a micro SD slot from Chinese company Ramos in India, Latin America and Europe. MIPS is competing against ARM, whose processors go into most tablets such as Apple's iPad. According to analysts, the new MIPS processors are more power efficient and faster comparable to current ARM processors in performance.

PROPELLERHEAD REASON 6.5

Propellerhead Reason 6.5 has won two MusicTech awards and people would be so curious to know what special it has? The special feature in this award-winning version is the introduction of Rack Extensions through which developers can create their own instruments and effects for Reason and also they expand their collection of instruments and effects. MusicTech magazine has rated 9 out of 10 and has given MusicTech Choice and Innovation awards. Interesting fact of this software is it is nicely streamlined without any disk images or installers. Since each rack extension is sandboxed, it will just stop making sound but still working in case of any crash.  

Firefox OS vs Android OS

Firefox is a well known and one of the best web browser which often have some fights with Internet explorer and Google chrome. There will be always some new releases, version updates and addition of new features to stay in the race over other browsers and so always people can find the Firefox against the word ‘versus’ in articles. Even this time Firefox is going to compete but with its new face. Yeah, this time it is Firefox versus Android in terms of Operating System (OS). The upcoming mobile operating system by Mozilla is expected to arrive before March 2013 and the first device with Firefox OS will cost less than $100 which is comparatively cheaper than the Android operating system from Google. 

Firefox is planning to launch its own HTML5-based mobile OS which is mainly for Smartphone. This platform ensures that the web apps will be compatible with all editions of the OS released till date.  Firefox OS will not need expensive hardware and hence Smartphone will be available in market at cheaper prices without affecting its features. Phones running on Firefox OS will have all the standard features such as camera, Bluetooth, USB port and Near Field Communication. Since we get lot of features at cheaper price, we can say this as dual-beneficial product.

Flat Tummy in 7 Days

Obesity has become a common problem for majority of the people in this world. With the kind of food we intake and type of work we do, it is impossible to burn the fat without proper body exercises. Even people understand this and have started going to gym on daily basis to keep them fit. But to your busy schedule, you may be missing your routine for few days and suddenly you can find some fat gets accumulated in belly. When you realize that you have party or get together or tour in a week ahead, don’t get panic. There are few simple steps with which you can get flat tummy in a week. 

First step is to perform circuit training through full body exercises like lunges, push-ups, and pull-ups, for one set of 15 repetitions. This is to build muscle and burn fat simultaneously and this workout should be done 3 days/week. With a minute of jumping rope, you can burn around 550 calories easily. Next step is for your abdominal muscles on daily basis. This can be achieved with crunches and leg rises for three sets of 20 repetitions. Here comes the food’s part in keeping yourself fit. During this period have Natural foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads and pastas, chicken, fish and low fat dairy. Lower your sodium intake by avoiding salt to minimize water retention. You may feel stress in office but please remember stress and anxiety can cause over-production of a hormone called Cortisol which encourages weight gain in the belly area. Please always keep yourself cool. Don’t worry and be happy.

VPS HOSTING STACKS

Virtual Private Server (VPS) is an elixir to the people who feels that the shared hosting is not handling the exact requirements of their blog visitors. It offers lot of direct and immediate benefits over shared web hosting with multi-blog hosting facility. When a blogger wanted to manage multiple blogs at a time and also to overcome the heavy traffic which exceeds the bandwidth of shared host, he/she will go for VPS. By default, the basic VPS will be having only the basic software which may not suit your requirements. This can be dealt with the addition of VPS hosting stacks like cPanel which will have some pre-installed software which can also be customized as per user’s requirement. 

Addition of stacks not only saves the time but also fulfills the requirement with some factors like easy setup, effective management and configuration which overcomes the disadvantages of dedicated and VPS servers. Stacks like cPanel, WordPress, Minecraft, Plesk interface etc can be obtained through service like DotBlock at cheaper rates than anywhere else. Depending on the type of VPS host you can set up your email accounts, FTP accounts, databases and sub-directories for each domain. Usually bloggers would choose Plesk interface for easy server management on both Windows and Linux-based operating systems and cPanel, which stick to the basics for effective performance. In general Apache, IIS7 & IIS7.5, nginx would the top 3 Web Servers for VPS Hosting of which Apache is the most powerful development platform for Linux VPS. IIS7/7.5 works with all Microsoft operating systems including the places where Apache has problem in some OS configurations and .ngnix works virtually across all OS and platforms.

Basically VPS is known for its customization, security privacy, dedicated resources and multi-site, multi-blog hosting. VPS provides unique IP address to the users which helps in increasing the reliability for a website due to which the VPS would remain unaffected even if another hosting account on the same server is hacked. VPS hosting offers privacy where users can get access with full administrative rights which enables them to have complete control over the content hosted on the server. Since VPS allows dedicated CPU, RAM, bandwidth and disk space, no single user can take away all the bandwidth capacity and hence it can be said as regulated resource. It allows bloggers to host multiple sites on their servers, including WordPress, CMS-based sites like Drupal and Joomla. The main advantage of VPS hosting is the setup of multiple domain at the cheaper cost than shared server hosting  which is cost effective. Shared server sites would need to pay for its additional domain names as well as for the additional server space.

KKR LIFTS IPL-5 TROPHY

The most awaiting result of fifth IPL has been finally revealed after a war between nine teams for almost two and a half months. The under estimated Shah Rukh Khan’s KKR lifted the IPL-5 trophy after beating the defending champions CSK. The fantastic final was played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Chennai Super Kings(CSK) MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai. A heroic knock of 89 by Manvinder Bisla and Kallis took away the trophy from CSK and it’s a full stop for the hat-trick dreams of CSK fans. Earlier, CSK made 189-3 with good batting performance by Vijay, birthday boy Hussey and Raina setting a tough target of 190 for KKR to win. Chennai was in the driver seat when Gambhir returned to pavilion earlier but the MOM Bisla took the game away from CSK with a knock of 89 off 48 balls. He was given a strong support by the legend Kallis with 69 to his part. Gambhir expressed this victory as ‘Mission accomplished’ and in the presentation ceremony he praised the local boy Lakshmipathy Balaji as the unsung hero of our team. Unfortunately he was missed out due to injury yet he has done his part than expected in the league matches.

TAMILNADU @ 1925 - 1935

India, a country known to be the richest ever in culture and heritage with various ancient histories into it which portrays bravery, poetry, art and science, culture etc. TamilNadu, a state bounded by the Eastern Ghats in the north, the Nigiri, the Anamalai Hills and Palakkad on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Gulf of Mannar, the Palk Strait in the south east, and by the Indian Ocean in the south has its own history in the architecture and words are not enough to explain its proud moments but the below pictures will do so.

Sri Rangam

 Thiruvannamalai Temple (Mandapam )

The Majestic Thiruvannamalai Temple : Sri Arunachaleswarar 

                            1925 Rameswaram Temple Tower : Ramanathaswamy Temple

 

 1925 Courtallm Falls

1932 Suchindram Temple : Sri Sthanumalayswami & a 22ft Anjaneyar

 

1925 Kanyakumari the view with the Kumari Amman Temple

1925 the Biggest, longest Rameswaram Temple Corridor

1925 Thiruchengode Hills : Kodimada-chenkunroor Ardhanareeswarar

 

1930 Anantha Padmsnabha Swamy Temple, Trivandrum

Golden Lily Tank with the North Mottai Gopuram : Madurai

                          The Sri Nagarajar Temple Nagarcoil

The Kumbakonam Mahamakham Festival

The Raja Gopuram of Sri Rangam on which the present Tower was built

  

The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple , Srirangam