Visual Pollution: The Most Dangerous

Few days back, I started feeling severe headache and pain in my eyes. After few basic diagnostic techniques, I formed my opinion that all the pain was  due to a psychological issue. My mind was strongly opposing the content being shown to me on print and electronic media. I started further research on the subject topic and my findings are as follows.

1. We are being shown the content which is of commercial basis. Every print and electronic media mean is trying to capture our visual space to get their content and ideas penetrated in our minds so that corporate effects can be gained.

2. We use media to see what we want to see and then get our psychological benefits but our visual space capturing phenomena takes place and a strong repulsing stream from our mind is created which results in behavior changes. Extreme cases can result in the form of severe headache and neck ache.

3. Print and electronic media is capturing more than 50% of our visual space. This can also be regarded as visual corruption. There must be some standards and visual limits for the usage of our visual space.

4. The most affected part of this pollution is children. Their visual space is being taken much from the real world which can result in many psychological problems.

If this issue is not catered for, we may see a drastic increase in the psy cases of children and loss of eyesight in children. In grown ups, certain psy issues and other medical complications can be of increase. There is a dire need to understand, analyse and plan our visual space for the better usage of our natural health cycles.

Happy Birthday Facebook!!!

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg never knew he was going to be a millionare at the age of just 23. Even when he launched facebook from his dormitory room, he never had an idea what ripples it was going to create in the social media networking world, and facebook did it. It toppled up the Orkat, and all other social media platforms, finally ended up in the end of Google backed dominence in social media. 

According to latest facebook statistics available, Europe is leading in the facebook subscribers, Asia going second with a very less margin. It has become the most visited page on the internet and left google far behind here. And has achieved all the milestones Mark Zuckberg never knew or expected. It has turned into a culture, a life style, passion and much more. 

Today is the 7th birthday of facebook. I congratulate Zuckberg and all his team on achieving all such goals. They have moved the masses. This can be termed as a perfect success story full of adventures, hardships, self determination,opinion controlling, creation of concept of social space and much more. The ideas are the crucks, and facebook story is the perfect example of how one turns his idea into practicality and fnally success comes in the way. 

Currently Pakistan is 28th on the facebook users table. It has been most popular trend in the youth of Pakistan. Everyone seems facebook addict. If it is kept as a hobby within the prescribed limits of social networking, its something positive. But we have moved it a bit up. Here I want to quote an incident which I came across few days before when we were in Sialkot Saddar bazar. I saw a young lad of just 8 yrs fighting with his elder brother at the shop. The thing which had moved this innocent mind was facebook account. The young lad had the demand of getting a facebook account and finally his elder brother had to signup for a new facebook account on behalf of his younger brother. 

Guys! I have been unable to build any relation between the positivities and negativities of using facebook and being addicted to it. So I leave it to you. But onething I would mention i.e. just give a thought when you enter the second hour of using facebook in a single go and think if you could spend this time in something positive which could pay you in any way. 

Once again Happy birthday facebook. Keep buzzing and keep rocking. Best wishes for you. 

The New Laptop Post !!!

While living in Pakistan and buying a new laptop is an uphill task. This is because of the non secure values and the lack of customer trust in Pakistani electronic market. So there are two options. The first one is to buy a second hand laptop and the sceond option is to get the new one from outside.

ASPIRE ONE

I can not say whether is was my love for country, fake  petriotism or lack of mony that I opted for the first option. And something amazing happened.

The first thing was to make a firm decision whether to buy a fulll laptop or buy a netbook i.e. a laptop with Atom processor and less storage capacity as compared to other laptops plus less in size i.e. 10.1 inch lcd. Here starts the mission impossible phase one. Me with my friend Usman Anwar who is currently serving in Sialkot went out to search the market abd finally spotted a blue Aspire One. The first impression lasted and we opted it.

When I was back to room, it was shocking for me that the charging sign was there but battery was unable to provide backup. I tried my local nuskhas. But unfortunately all these did not work. And I had to rush back to the market and find the shop from where I bought it. When he came across such case, he himself was ashamed of what had happened.

Finally after one week, I am in the shop again and got the issue resolved. The battery was not working. There is new battery and I am writing this post live from the shop. Happy blogging... 

Fine Art of Blogging

The latest social networking revolution has toppled up the conventional  concepts and a new theory of social space is on the verge of evolution. This might be something strange for the social media addicts but very soon it would be quite evident that the congested social media would be unable to cope up with the ever expanding demands and expectations of social networks users. So what is going to be the next brink of this social media revolution???

The new concept of social networking is the Social Space concept. The social networking tycons like facebook, twitter, myspace etc are constanty introducing new apps. But the ever increasing vision of common user has started demanding for more space and freedon of thought.

So blogging tycons have introduced this concept of social space where users get a bit mature approach as compared to social networking tycons. Thus infant bloggers like me got new horizons to explore and tycons like S A J Shirazi got the reinsin their hands to mold the user demands and user opinion as per the new theory of social space.

A project initiated by S A J Shirazi to encourage the young bloggers and bring them on one platform which has been appreciated at all levels is Art of Blogging. According to it:

 "Internet is a lonely place without Blogging; a fine social art, science, also a pure economics. Blogs are different to different people. At my tech blog (sajshirazi.com – where I mostly talk of basics) I am starting a project titled Fine Art (and Science) of Blogging in order to introduce meaningful blogs to local bloggers and my students."

As I experienced it here as M Behzad Jhatial – a blogger with conviction, I think is something worth experiencing and got much more like exposure, experience, new horizons, art and passion for a blogger. As I mentioned earlier Why blogging matters to me, this is something which comes up next after it. 

Google Page Rank Update

Few moments ago, I was surfing the internet. Suddenly, i thought to check the page ranks of my blogs. I was astonished to know that three of my blogs had got the page rank of 2. These blogs include
1. Boots and Laces (My travel stories)
2. Social Denter (My social feelings)
3. Pakistan Ultimate Sports Blog

And fourth blog i.e. Islamic Spiritualism got the page rank 3. I actually feel blessed. This is perhaps the best I could expect from Almighty Allah regarding blogging. Although There is still a long way left.

PTCL Broadband comes up with a smart Student Bundle Offer

PTCL has always been at front when any telecommunication service is compared or offered. Past few years have been a bit hard for PTCL due to the mobile phone companies, and internet serving companies in competition, but finally PTCL has come up with such a smart offers that its customers are back. One such offer was announced many months before.

But so called add on to this offer has been announced today. This is student bundle offer. This offer includes many smart add ons like free minutes, free calls etc. Plus it also includes the unlimited downloads as well. The complete offer details are as follows:

1. 1Mbps (Browsing speed)
2. Unlimited downloads
3. 150 free minutes
4. Free calls to ptcl landline, ptcl wireless and Vfone on sunday

The main thing about this offer is that it is economical. It comes at the cost of just 999 PKR per month. Perhaps thats the reason it is called the student bundle offer. The advertisement of this offer is given below.

 

For more details, Please visit the official website of PTCL i.e. http://www.ptcl.com.pk

Google Page Rank Update Left Me Flying

I was just back from paper, and sitting in front of PC to kill few moments to divert the attention, suddenly say a link shared by Syed Asghar Ali Shirazi about the google page rank update. Previously I had an idea that google updates the page ranks every 3 months. So the last update was on 27th June. I eyed on the August update, but this link stopped me.

I opened it and went through all the stuff there. S A J Shirazi had announced that two of his blogs got page rank of 2,3. I googled the page rank checker and browsed about my blogs. One of my blogs i.e. Islam & Spiritualism had got PR#2 and the second Pakistan Ultimate Sports Blog has the PR#1.

This is perhaps one of the gracious moments of my life. The PR post on S A J Shirazi's blog is here.

Google Maps, The best Google app I could ever use

I was caught in the mid of greater Thal desert at 4am in the morning. There were sand dooms and nothing else. The bus went out of order and no solution left to reach the nearest locality from where I could catch the bus and reach home far away from here. Then came Google Maps on my cell phone. And finally I was aable to come out of this barren desert where no water, human beings, and other life symbols.

Google maps launched many years before, but the mobile application was launced in 2006. It was just a java app but in 2007, a GPS like location app was released named Google Maps for mobile 2.0 but it did not require the GPS reciever. Since then, Google Maps has become one of the most useful location determining service for cell phones all over the world.

The history and diversity of Google maps can be found here.



The new 3D imaging in google maps.

But few things I wanted to mention are as follows:

• Excellent search capabilities - very intuitive!
• Visually appealing maps.
• Maps include parks, airports, hospitals, malls, and other points of interest.
• Aerial photos and traffic information are great additional features.

But at the same time,

• The site has problems understanding that you want to see a new region.
• Sometimes ZIP Codes are needed to make the site understand.

This application is available for the following platforms:

Android

iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad)

Windows Mobile (NOT Windows Phone 7 as of Dec 17 2010)

Nokia/Symbian (S60 3rd edition only)

Symbian OS (UIQ v3)

BlackBerry

Phones with Java-Platform (MIDP 2.0 and up), for example the Sony Ericsson K800i

Palm OS (Centro and newer)

Palm webOS (Palm Pre and Palm Pixi)

Their official service is here i.e. Google Maps 

If some one wants to download it on cell phone, he/she must visit this link : Google Maps for Mobile Phones. You will have to enter your cell phone operating platform and then google would sms you the downloading link. You can directly download as well. Just google "Google apps for mobile" and will get the list of apps for mobile phone users from Google.Or visit this link i.e. Google Mobile.

With the induction of location addition, location images, and now the latest one is 3D imades for certain locations make this app something special to be used by every cell phone user. This is the most important app one should have in his cell phone. Thanks a lot Google.