#9 THE FORCE

#8 MARIA ARAGON – BORN THIS WAY

#7 THE CREEP

#6 LOOK AT ME NOW (KARMIN COVER)

#5 NYAN CAT [ORIGINAL]

#4 TALKING TWIN BABIES

#3 JACK SPARROW (FT. MICHAEL BOLTON)

#2 ULTIMATE DOG TEASE

#1 REBECCA BLACK – FRIDAY

[via YouTube Rewind 2011]

छलफलको बिषय संक्षेपमा
देशको कुल जनसंख्याको करिव ३१ प्रतिशत अर्थात ८७ लाख नेपालीको हातमा मोबाईल सेट पुगिसकेकोछ। रोजगारीका लागि विदेश जानेहरु घरमा रहेकाहरुसँग अनलाईनमा कुरा गर्न रुचाउँछन। सरकार ई-गभर्नेन्स अर्थात विद्युतीय सरकारको कुरा गर्छ भने बिज्ञहरु नेपालमै बसेर विदेशको काम गर्ने आउटसोर्सिङबाट करोडौं आम्दानी गर्न सक्ने संभावना रहेको बताउँछन। तर, सूचना प्रविधिको विकास गर्न सरकारले आठ वर्ष अघि बनेपामा बनाएको सूचना प्रविधि (आइटी) पार्क अहिलेसम्म उपयोगमा आउन सकेको छैन।

बनेपाको आइटी पार्कमा तयार भएको साझा सवालको १६८ औं अंकमा सूचना प्रविधि उच्चस्तरीय आयोगका उपाध्यक्ष – महोहर भट्टराई,गाउँ गाउँमा तार रहित ईन्टरनेटको विस्तारमा लागिरहेका समाजसेवी महावीर पुन (एशियाको नोवेल पुरस्कार मानिने म्यागसेसे पुरस्कारवाट पुरष्कृत)र कम्प्युटर एसोसियसन अफ नेपालका पूर्व अध्यक्ष तथा सूचना प्रविधी व्यवसायी विप्लव मान सिंहसँगको बहस छ। [स्रोत - बिबिसी साझा सवाल यूट्यूब]

Swasthani Brata is a very popular Hindu ritual observed in Nepal for an entire month starting from Poush Sukla Purnima (January-February) every year. Devotees, mainly women, fast and listen to stories of Shri Swasthanui everyday until the end wishing for health and prosperity of their family, especially their husband.

To listen to audio-brata-katha go to Swasthani.com and simply select the desired part from the “Swasthani Menu” on the left. Then click the play button on the flash player that appears on the top center of the page. There are all 31 episodes of the story to listen to everyday for and entire month. Besides the stories there are audio recordings of procedure for the rituals to be performed for puja along with Stuti and Aarati that are recited at the beginning and end of the story-telling everyday, respectively.

Follow this link to learn more about – What is Swasthani Katha

Swasthani Recital in Irving at NST Center
This year Nepalese Society of Texas is organizing Swasthani recital everyday at NST center from 5:30pm to 7:30pm starting from Wednesday, January 19, 2011 till the end of the festival. Below is copy of the email sent out via NST Google Group.

श्रद्धालु भक्त जनहरुमा अनुरोध
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श्री सम्बत २०६७ साल माघ ५ गते (19 jan 2011 ) देखि १ महिनासम्म श्री स्वस्थानी व्रत कथा , पूजा आरती भजन को आयोजना गरिएको छ ! सपरिवार आउनु हुन अनुरोध छ !
आयोजक :- नेपाली समाज टेक्सास ,
स्थान ;- नेपाली समाज टेक्सास को हल , अर्विंग
समय;- ५.३० देखि ७.३० सम्म
कथा वाचक ;- पण्डित, शेखर प्रसाद

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The Internet is crowded with millions of websites – some are very useful while others can be just waste of time. Since college life is the time when students prepare themselves for the rest of their lives, getting the best out of available tools must be everyone’s goal while in college. Online webs tools like Google Calendar can help students organize their schedules and get everything done in timely fashion while website like Twitter can help them socialize as well as find information efficiently. Below is a list of ten most useful websites for college students with a brief description of each.

1. Google Calendar

Time management is very important to succeed in college. Google Calendar is a free web service available to anyone with a Google account, which is free too. It lets you save your schedule and events online and is accessible from variety of devices like a mobile phone, PDA, or a personal computer with Internet connection. Apart from being very easy to use, it has a nice and clean look and is packed with numerous features. Some notable features include the ability to quickly add an event, with click of a button after specifying the event with few words like – “Lunch with John tomorrow at 11am” creates an event for the next day at 11am with details of the event as “Lunch with John”.

Google calendar also includes feature to add publically available calendars like US Holidays or schedules of a sports team to your personal calendar. This will let you view upcoming events, holidays and sports events right from your online calendar. It also lets you share your calendar with your friends or families, so they can quickly check your availability before planning any future event.

2. Academic Earth

This website is packed with thousands of academic video lectures from leading universities like Harvard, Stanford, etc. The lectures available are categorized into subjects and topics for easy search. The homepage includes links to featured lectures and videos for quick access to the best lectures available online. These video lectures can be used as a reference for your current class. Watching and listening to lectures from professors of the best universities in the world can definitely be very useful. In other words, you can get the Harvard education right from your home with a click of a button.

3. Evernote

This website can provide the best online note taking experience. The best part of the website is that you can take notes on a variety of ways – you can type them online, type on a mobile phone or a PDA or write on a paper. Notes written on paper can be scanned and uploaded which are then converted to text format automatically. However you choose to write, your notes get synced up together. Your notes are saved online and you will never have to worry about losing them again. Both free and paid accounts are available.

4. Wikipedia

Wikipedia has changed the way people find information online. In few years after its launch, the website now boasts an incredible collection of millions of articles written on hundreds of languages. It seems to have information on almost any topics. The most interesting part of the website is – the articles are written by thousands of volunteers from around the world and anyone can edit them. There are however certain rules to be followed – sources must be cited properly and plagiarized contents are automatically deleted by the system. In addition to that, there are people actively going through various articles to make sure they are credible.

5. Mint.com

Most of the college students are not aware of budge planning. They just like to spend the money on whatever they want. This can easily turn one into a spendthrift. In no time there will be a huge debt piled up and students find themselves confused and stressed.

Mint.com is there to help. This free web service lets its users do their budgeting online. It can keep track of your bank account, credit card accounts, loans and even investment accounts. You can quickly go over all of your incomes and expenses from a single web page. The expenses are also categorized based on types and vendors. You can track your expenses by weeks, months and years and compare them to get an idea about your spending habit. It also has useful features like alerts for payment due dates. This site definitely can keep you on top of your budget and finances.

6. Half.com

This website is very useful especially during the back-to-school days. It lists textbooks for sale. Most of them are available at a very discounted price compared to college bookstores. If you know your books before classes start, you can simply buy them from this website and save a huge amount of money.

7. RateMyProfessor.com

This website lets its users rate their professors in terms of overall class performance. Students can also leave comments about their class experience. This can be very useful for new students registering for classes. Every professor works hard for their classes but the need of students can vary. Some professors emphasize homework while some give more importance to tests. After reading the comments and ratings posted by students who have already taken classes with the professors, you can choose the best one available for you that match your preference.

8. StumbleUpon.com

This is a very useful website where you can find interesting and popular websites shared by millions of people around the world. It also has channels like University Sites, US Government Sites, PBS, BBC, etc via which you can stumble the most useful contents available online. This can be very useful for general knowledge or for research purpose. It also lets you browse videos and images liked by other users so you get the best web contents all the time. You can be friends with others and share your favorites with them as well. Moreover, you can also use it as online book-marking service. Your favorite websites, videos and images are saved online and you can access them whenever you want from anywhere in the world.

9. Youtube.com

Youtube can serve the need of online entertainment along with very useful source of news, tips and other useful videos. People upload videos on topics ranging from travel to research. There are videos explaining how to use the Internet. There are interviews, reviews, tips, tutorials along with news videos from news agencies like the Associated Press and even innovative talks from websites like TED.com. College students can use Youtube for both entertainment as well as for academic purpose, watching videos from popular Youtube channels like MIT, Stanford, BBC and many others.

10. Twitter.com

Twitter is one of the most innovative and very useful website ever launched. It is growing everyday and is a useful tool for social networking and finding useful contents online easily and conveniently. You can use twitter to keep in touch with friends, communicate with classmates, follow news from various sources and search for real-time information with a click of a button. Millions of people use twitter to post updates related to varieties of topics ranging from personal thoughts to a live news update. Twitter can be a very powerful tool to get your voice to a mass audience. A very interesting example is the 2008 U.S. Presidential election campaign when Predident Barack Obama used Twitter to send his updates to all his supporters.

Disclaimer – The list of websites on this page is based on author’s personal web experience as a college student.

[Via TechForStudents with permission to republish from the author]

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• The message ask you for username or password or has a link and wants you to click on the link to modify or update your account details.

• Check the email header (details about sender, receiver and date on the top) to see whether the sender/receiver email addresses look suspicious.

Click here to go to your Facebook Account Settings page now. You must be logged in to make this change. The images below depict the process of making this change.

Your Facebook page will look like this after you make the selection.

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To type in Nepali just click on the link below, which will take you to Google’s Indic Transliteration page. Start typing in Roman-Nepali (like ‘mero’ for my) and as you hit space after every word you will start seeing the words being automatically converted into Nepali words. Once done typing, you can easily copy the text and paste it anywhere you want.
Example when you type Ma Nepali Hu you will see मा नेपाली हु
Click here – Nepali Typing via Google Transliteration

For Advanced Users:
You can type in Nepali using transliteration bookmarklet on any website.
Click here for more information on how to use bookmarklet on different browsers.

Alternative Website:
Unicode Nepali Converter – This page lets you type in Nepali in the same manner as described above. This has been available for a long time.

[Via FansofNepal.com]

Academic Earth

The site has lectures from top universities like Harvard, MIT, Yale and more. The lectures presented are from actual classes from those universities. So you can now actually afford to get Harvard-education right from the comfort of your home. This website can be very useful to college students who are willing to find reference materials. It also helps to understand the concepts on any topic when you hear (and see) somebody else explain it if you have a boring professor for your class. If you are in college or taking any classes we highly recommend you take advantage of this and wish you Good Luck with your classes.

New deal is posted to the website every day at midnight (12AM) and the deal continues for 24 hours. If the item is sold out before the 24 hours there will be no other item for sale; hence the theme – one day one deal. They also have separate sub-sites that sell cool design shirts at shirt.woot.com and another one selling wine only at wine.woot.com. Also they feature a “deal of the day” at sellout.woot.com which redirects to the deal of the day page at Yahoo Shopping. The deal is same everywhere – one item per day. We hope you will find some cool things to buy at Woot. Happy wooting!

If you do not have Google Earth installed on your computer, download a free copy of the awesome software from Google here – http://earth.google.com and enjoy the tour of the Moon. Other such features include the virtual tour of the sky and the ocean too.

The website then lets you summarize your account details by week, month and even year to see how you are doing on the money-world. It is very useful to plan your budget and get an idea of your spending habits. Moreover it also has alert services where you can set alerts to be sent to your email or phone (via sms) about your account summary, balance, bills due dates, etc. Never miss out on your next payment due date. It also compares your credit card interest rates with other available credit card offers and recommends you to apply for new cards with better offer if any available. So make the most out of this great service and stay on top of your budget and financial management.

We think it is another step towards better government. With the technological advancement everyday and websites getting popular for all kinds of information sharing, this website is definitely a welcoming step for all of us who like to keep updated with news from Nepal. The site features news related to various functions and activities the PM attends, his speeches, audio and visual recordings of programs and photo galleries as well.

The website is available online at www.madhavnepal.com with its Nepali edition online already and English edition to be added soon.

Let us know what you think about the launching of websites by such a central Nepali political leader in comments.

Want to do more with Songza? Create a free account and the website lets you save songs as playlists so you can access them easily next time you want to listen to them. You can also share you favorite songs and playlists to your friends. It comes in handy when you are not on your personal computer and still want enjoy your favorite songs on-the-go. The website pulls most of its content from YouTube and lets you enjoy the audio along with the video on the side as well.

All you got to do is log on to the site GasBuddy and enter your city, state or just zip code and -voila!- it brings up the gas prices at nearby stations along with address, link to map and the spotted time. It is very handy and useful. No wonder it topped the TIME magazine’s top 100 sites for 2008. There is a mobile version also available to check the prices from your mobile device – www.gasbuddytogo.com. Happy Saving!

You can register to keep track of your progress. But if you just want to give it a spin, you can just click “No thanks..” link and start typing. Lessons range from beginners to advanced. The layout is perfect with keyboard and pictures of two hands on each side of the keyboard which lit up showing the finger that you should be using to type the next letter that appears on the top screen with your lesson.

So head on over TypingWeb and start your lessons right away. Get yourself that speed and accuracy you have always wanted. Good Luck!