Monthly Archives: September 2008

Google Adsense payment system hit by a currency conversion bug

  By Choto Cheeta | September 26, 2008 - 6:33 pm |
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It seems from the reports of Google Adsense users that, Google adsense programs payment system is been hit by a currency conversion bug.

Many users have found their August earnings are not being converted to their respective local currency . Google is doing the conversion in USD 1 = 1 unit of respective local currency format.

For example, a person who is waiting for USD 300 in India would get Rs. 300 instead of (300 x 45) Rs. 13500/- as Google payment system is calculating USD 1 = INR 1 instead of present market value of USD 1 = INR 45.

Google explains in their Adsense help forum,

Hi all,

Please be assured that we are aware of this issue, and are working to correct it as soon as possible.

We appreciate your patience in the meantime, and will be sure to keep you updated here.
Ashley

Catch the Kolkata (Calcutta) Durga Puja 2008 at DoorerSathi.com

  By Choto Cheeta | September 26, 2008 - 8:12 am | ,
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You may catch the 2010 Puja photo over the 2010 Durga Pooja picture gallery !!

Kolkata (Calcutta) is gearing up or its biggest event of the year. One can smell the excitement  in the city air. Shopping malls are over flowing with shoppers to complete the last minute shopping as the Durga Puja is just around the corner.

Known puja committees are now doing over time to maintain their pride and reputation of delivering mind blowing art work where as many unknown and new comers are trying their best to dislodge the reputed ones from their chair in a friendly competition.

Like every year, Team Doorer Sathi would travel and work round the clock to capture and upload the pictures of Durga Pooja 2008 !!

So lets catch Durga Pooja 2008 via eyes of DoorerSathi.com, a picture album which would get regular updates of the puja and related topics (Durga Idol / Pandals / Decorations) as the event progresses !!,

Incidentally, one may check out previous year pictures / photos at Doorer Sathi.com. Durga Puja 2007, Durga Puja 2006, Kali Puja 2007, Kali Puja 2006.

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The Dust effect !!!

  By Choto Cheeta | September 25, 2008 - 6:39 pm |
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Yes, that’s a computer motherboard (Intel 845GVSR)
with a processor (Socket 478 Intel P-IV 1.8 GHz) attached to it.

It is expected that one may assume this is an abundant computer at some abundant warehouse or such, but matter of fact is, this is a PC which runs in an AC room.

The PC all of a sudden started to power-down it self in middle of work and trouble shooting immediately lead us to the fact of overheating. While all fans running at full capacity, the only culprit left was dust and as we removed the processor fan and heat-sink, this was what we saw in side !!

Quick look at Microsoft (ICE) – A single click panoramic image stitcher / maker

  By Choto Cheeta | September 25, 2008 - 3:54 am |
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Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) is just 3MB in size but does a wonderful job to make great panoramic images.

Download -> Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE)

What is Microsoft ICE ?

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution.

Lets give it a test

Recently I have gone to Bangalore for some work and I have taken few overlapped images of Bangalore Airport with my Nikon s51c. There are 5 separate images which I have taken while standing still at a same place.

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Google Chrome – New web browser from Google

  By Choto Cheeta | September 3, 2008 - 7:51 pm |
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Google Chrome, a browser from those who are known to give big hits to the web industry. Google Chrome, an open source web browser which promises to give what our favorites are not delivering. We have seen the development and market penetration of Mozilla FireFox over Microsoft Internet Explorer and now we are having another new and promising browser entering the market.

Though many feels the product is more like Mozilla Code (FireFox family) but actually its lot more closer to Apple’s Safari browser.

Let’s learn more about this new browser Chrome,

Simple Interface : Clean and simple interface, within a second you can understand that Google has assigned all available space for the work pane, hence your work area by default is the largest in all available browser.

The product is very simple to use for both end customers. For example Internet Explorer and also it  (the interface) never makes you feel uncomfortable if you are a Safari or FireFox user.

Personally I am really happy to see that importance is given in the work pane. Just one  problem which personally I am facing with higher resolution is the gap between the the Refresh and Go button !! It takes a lot of mouse movement if you are using 1440×900 or higher resolution to swap between GO and REFRESH buttons.

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