Nokia 808 PureView comes up with 41 Mega Pixel Camera!

Believe it or not! Nokia is all set to make history as it launched their latest product Nokia 808 PureView smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The phone runs Symbian Belle instead of usual Windows Phone operating system. Nokia had announced that it is going to cease the Symbian handsets with the end of this year. That suggests that the 808 PureView may be one of the last Symbian Belle phones to come out from to the Nokia factory.
The PureView is concieved by two Nokia engineers who wanted to make revelutionary changes in the camera concepts of a smartphone. It is coming with the whopping 41 Megapixels camera that sports the PureView technology. It was developed by combining Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia's own Pixel over-sampling technology. The camera can take pictures at 5, 8 and 38 Megapixels. Apart from that, we can zoom in the frame up to 3X without losing any clarity. There will be no artificially created pixels in the picture, either.
But it is pointed out that the phone won't be having that much demand among the conventional smartphone users unless you are a photography geek. The Symbian OS is not as much flexible and perfect as other systes like Android and Windows Phone. So the mainstream consumers might hesitate to buy the Nokia 808.

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Clearmyguilt.com; Confess your sins anonymously

Have you been feeling guilty of something you did in the past? And you wanted to confess it but none was there to give an ear or none should know that it was you? Then you should join the website Clearmyguilt.com (http://clearmyguilt.com). It is a different kind of website that allows its users to confess their deepest secrets and sins online keeping their anonymity.
You can post your mistakes that have been haunting you in the forum named Guilt Box. The fellow users read rate the sins as either 'forgiveable' or 'unforgiveable'. The sinners who get more forgivable votes go to heaven and who get more unforgivable votes go to hell ! The venture helps to absolve sinners of their guilt and take the pressure away. The people can have some relief and make a new start.
The idea of Clearmyguilt.com was concieved by two Arizona University students named Lonny Ruben and Ryan Charleston. It was launched in January. The duo curate the sins and choose the top 15 those are supposed to recieve the best response on the forum. They say that keeping the identity anonymous encourages the members to be honest.
Obviously, the site has made an impact on the people that it enjoys around 100,000 visitors a day. Its Facebook page has got more than 2000 likes as well.

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Oscar Awards Quiz

1. Which was the first colour movie to win the Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Who holds the record of winning the Best Director award most no.of times ?
3. Which art director designed the Oscar statuette ?
4. Who was the first to win an Oscar for Best Actress for a role in a foreign language film ?
5. Which Oscar winning movie was a film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion ?
6. Who directed the Oscar winning film The Last Emperor, based on the life of Chinese emperor Pu-Yi ?
7. Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her 8 minutes long role in 1998 film Shakespeare in Love ?
8. Which two actors share the distinction of being nominated for Oscar 7 times without a single win ?
9. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando win his first Oscar ?
10. Who became the youngest to win a Best Actor Oscar in 2002 ?
11. The Oscar winning film Braveheart is based on the life of which English king ?
12. Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta ?
13. Which film by William Wyler based on Bible won a record 11 Oscars in 1959 ?
14. In which name the Oscar winning actor Krishna Bhanji became popular ?
15. Which 1985 Spielberg film was nominated for 11 Oscars, without winning a single award ?
16. Who was the director of 1976 film Dersu Uzala that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film ?
17. Who is the only woman to have won a Best Director Oscar ?
18. Which musical won 8 Oscars in 1958 ?
19. Who was the first to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1928 ?
20. The Oscar nominated film The Miracle Worker tells the story of which famous teacher and student ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind, 1939
2. John Ford, 4 times
3. Cedric Gibbons
4. Sophia Loren, Two Women
5. My Fair Lady, 1964
6. Bernardo Bertolucci
7. Judi Dench
8. Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton
9. On the Waterfront, 1954
10. Adrien Brody
11. William Wallace
12. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull in 1980
13. Ben-Hur
14. Ben Kingsley
15. The Colour Purple
16. Akira Kurasowa
17. Katheryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
18. Gigi
19. Janet Gaynor
20. Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

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Cricket Quiz 1

This is the first edition of Cricket Quiz. Only Men's Cricket has been reffered to here.

Questions

1. In which year the International Cricket Council was founded ?
2. Who was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in Test Cricket ?
3. Who holds the record for highest individual score in the World Cup ?
4. Who was the first player to be declared out by the third umpire in an international match ?
5. Sunil Gavaskar has taken only one wicket in Test Cricket. Who was his victim ?
6. Which player was known as Black Bradman ?
7. Which player scored century in his debut match, debut match as capain and the final match in Test Cricket ?
8. Who is the only player to have hit 6 sixes in an over in ODI ?
9. 'Straight from the Heart' is the autobiography of which Cricketer ?
10. Which company sponsored the first three world cup trophies ?
11. Who was the Player of the Tournament in 1999 World Cup ?
12. Which is the largest Cricket stadium in the world ?
13. Which Cricketer was called Big Cat ?
14. Which was the first country to win by 10 wickets in a One-day match ?
15. Which English king banned Cricket in 1365 ?
16. Who is the only player to have won 4 consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs ?
17. Which country holds the record for highest team total in both Test and ODI Cricket ?
18. Who scored the fastest double hundred in Test Cricket ?
19. Which umpire is known for his 'slow death' style of indicating a batsman is out ?
20. Which stadium hosted the first international Day-Night match ?

Answers

1. 1909
2. S R Spolforth
3. Gary Kirsten, 188* v/s UAE, 1996
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Zaheer Abbas, Pakistan
6. George Headley
7. Greg Chappel
8. Herschelle Gibbs, v/s Netherlands
9. Kapildev
10. Prudential Insurance
11. Lance Klusner, South Africa
12. Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia
13. Clive Lloyd
14. India, in 1975 v/s East Africa
15. Edward III
16. Sourav Ganguly
17. Sri Lanka
18. Adam Gilchrist
19. Rudi Koertzen, South Africa
20. Sydney Cricket Ground

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Music Quiz 1

1. Who is considered the father of Orchestra ?
   
2. Which music band has won the most number of Grammy awards till date ?


3. Who was the first Indian musician to do a symphony ?


4. Who composed the ballet Swans in the Lake ?


5. Who edited the book The Pelican History of Music ?


6. Which musical instrument was invented by Italian Bartolommeo Christofori ?


7. Which musician scored for the film Chariots of Fire to win an Oscar ?


8. Who are known as the trinity of Carnatic Music ?


9. Singer Harry Rodger Webb became popular in what name ?


10. Bouzouki is a string instrument from where ?


11. The song "Horst-Wessel-Lied" was the anthem of which infamous political party ?


12. Which instrument is known as the King of Orchestra ?


13. The word Music was formed from the Greek for Muses' Art. Who are the Muses ?


14. Whom did Ringo Starr replace to join the Beatles ?


15. Which jazz trumpeter was called the 'Prince of Darkness' ?


16. Which Beethoven symphony was a tribute to Nepoleon Bonaparte ?


17. Graceland was the home of which Rock N Roll legend ?


18. Which Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government during apartheid ?


19. Who composed the background score of the Satyajit Ray film Pather Panchali ?


20. The Salzburg Music Festival commommorates which music legend ?

Answers

1. Joseph Haydn
2. U2
3. Ilaiyaraja
4. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. Alec Robertson and Denis Stevens
6. Piano
7. Vangelis
8. Thyagaraja Swamikal, Mutthuswami Dikshithar and Shyama Shastrikal
9. Cliff Richard
10. Greece
11. Nazi Party
12. Violin
13. Muses are the 9 sons of Greek god Zeus
14. Pete Best
15. Miles Davis
16. Eroica
17. Elvis Presley
18. Another Brick in the Wall
19. Pandit Ravishankar
20. Wolfgang Mozart

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