Technical Diagnosis of issues related to SEO

A Framework for SEO Audits

On-Page

1. Domains
2. Navigations
3. Sections & Categories
4. Pages Media

Off-Page

1. Backlinks
2. Social Media Signals
3. Cache Dates, crawl frequency, indexed pages
4. Toolbar PageRank
5. The Big 4 Factors

URLs
Site Architecture & Navigation
Deep pages (PageRank Dispersion)
Site Latency – speed of your site. This has gotten a lot of play lately.

Some Cool Tools
SEM Rush: look at a site and find the natural keywords that the site is already ranking for.
Use Google Searches: site: + inurl: /intitle:
Lynxlet/SEO-Browser.com
Charles/YSlow
Various Toolbars: Web Developer’s Toolbar, Wave Toolbar, SEOBook Toolbar
Using the command line is a great way to diagnose problems.  He mentions using Wget and there’s lots of code on the screen that I don’t understand.  My brain is suddenly yelling at me.  Adam also mentions that he uses SEOmoz’s Page Analysis Tool and LinkScape.  Because he’s super rad he wrote a post offering a free log file parsing script, that you may want to check out.

Crawling:
Full Crawl: Perform a full crawl of a site to ID each page on the site.
SE Simulation: Run consecutive crawls to simulate each engine.
Browser Crawl: View how a site is being rendered in the browser.

Goals:
ID indexation gaps and issues.
ID crawler behavior.
ID opportunities to trim the fat.

Infrastructure Issues
Template Coding: If templates aren’t bot friendly or flexible for change.
Directory Structure: Everything from parameters being added to dynamic URLs or nonexistent structure.
File Naming Conventions: Granted this isn’t the end all/be all but it’s yet another opportunity to establish theme.
Code Base: Some CMS’ generate a bunch of unnecessary code.

Performance Issues
Images, Flash, AJAX
Flash Alternatives
Semantic HTML
Frames
Image Maps
Tables
Page file size – he calls this the ‘big 2010 thing’ people will start to worry about, again it’s tied to load time.

Redirect issues:
Expiring products or content. This would include expired special offer pages or season promotions.
Internal 302 redirects or multiple redirects.
Internal JavaScript/page-based redirects
When prioritizing what to do, you have to consider impact. How will this recommendation impact our client’s business? What about ease? How easy can a client implement it? Readiness – how quickly can they implement it?  If you have an inhouse SEO team, you probably have a better sense of what types of resources you’ll need and how to allocate them.

For Ford Motor Company. They had a very Flash-heavy site. They had to do a site migration and deal with CMS troubles. They went in and collaborated with content strategy teams. They rolled out additional content and created a content migration plan.  They made sure the Flash was crawlable. Once all those things occurred they were able to up visitors by 66 percent.

Common Issues
Duplicate Content from canonical issues, mirror sites, staging sites, load balancing, pagination, non-localized international content, session IS.
Navigation Components: Maintaining the user experience. Robots.txt, XML Site maps, HTML Site maps.
Rich media & Content Accessibility
Brian Ussery is next.

Technical SEO: Images
Use detailed file names
Use keyword-relevant anchor text
Use Alt Text: Used to determine relevancy, by screen readers, people on cell phones, etc.
Place images near relevant text
Don’t place text in images
Provide info about images without spamming
Don’t block images
Use a license via CC
Use quality photos – bigger the better
Use direct names that describe your photos
Place images above the fold.
Specify width and height.
Provide as much meta data as you can about your images. Use tags, labeling, location info, etc.

Image Speed
Use the appropriate optimized image format

JPEG photos
Crush PNG for graphics
Optimized gifs for small and animated images
Don’t scale images in (X)HTML
Specify dimensions
Use a favicon with expiration to avoid 404s
It’s very difficult for the engines to extract images from Flash. Adobe doesn’t even rank top for [adobe logo] in Google Image Search. From Twitter: Use Flash like you would use cilantro – sparingly and for a single high-impact effect. Nobody wants to eat a whole bowl of cilantro. Heh.

Crawlability Intro
Spiders have limited resources. You control how easy your site is to spider. How important is crawl-rate for your Web business? TechCrunch and Mashable are crawled by the second.  Once they published an article it already ranks.  If you didn’t hear, Mashable is the new Wikipedia. Think users first, spiders second. Spiders love to crash parties. They’ll come back as much as you want them to.

Are all of your pages created equal? You control which pages are indexed.

Crawlability/Indexabilty Checklist
Convince spiders to visit often: Create static URLs that are updated frequently with the latest content and point links to them. Show the latest products that have been added. Do the same with your category pages.   Add a blog that is updated DAILY.
Show spiders where to go: Use consistent navigation that points your users and spiders to most important areas. Use breadcrumbs. ID pages that change frequently and link them directly from your top landing pages. Follow Web standards. Think of getting the user to various spots with a couple of clicks.
Block Spiders from less important content: Use Google Webmaster tools to create your robots.txt file. Don’t allow spiders to use their resources on pages that don’t need to rank.
Give the spider a map to your site: XML and user sitemaps provide a list of all URLs on your site. Just another way to help the spider around.
Feed the spider as quickly as possible: Implement server-side caching to reduce real-time database calls. Use a CDN server to increase the amount of parallel requests. GZIP the output of all text files. Limit the amount of code surrounding the content by leveraging external CSS and JS files. MINIFY the output of VSS and JS files. Use CSS sprites wherever possible.  You can use YSlow or Page Speed to see how well you’re doing.
Don’t make the spider think too hard: Since the spider is only going to allocate a certain number of resources on your site, don’t create any bottlenecks. Some common pitfalls: broken links resulting in 404s, long URLs w/ multiple parameters or session IDs, duplicate content, duplicate title/Meta tags, excessive code surround the important content, base use of Title, Meta and H1 tags.

The Dark Knight Rises shows CANCELLED

After the theater shooting during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, some theaters cancelled the movie's showings in other parts of the world, including Paris, France.

My question is, why?

Mass shooting deaths have occurred at places such as schools, shopping malls, political events, and now a movie theater. These places have in common a shared characteristic: that they are gathering places with large numbers of people. This is all. However, when the shooting death occurs at a place like a political event or a movie theater, people are quick to look at the movie it happened at or the politics of the person having the rally and say: did these particular politics cause this person to go crazy? Did this particular movie cause the individual to start killing? These are not fair questions. Nor are they reasonable. If we were to cancel schools each time there was a school shooting, or shut down all malls each time there was a mall shooting, or to ban movies based on a movie shooting; this would be illogical.

I do not believe movies are specific triggers for mental episodes or outbreaks of mass violence, but that this is a specific example of the logical fallacy of correlation being confused with causation. See this wikipedia page for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

When you have a population with a significant amount of individuals with mental instability, and these individuals have access to unrestricted access to weapons, you statistically will have a certain risk of these incidents per year; where or when they occur should not be the main topic of discussion. Such things are minutia, and speculative; we can never know what goes on inside the mind of one who is mentally ill.

The main topic of discussion should rather be how to better treat and identify such individuals with mental health concerns and how best to encourage those with mental health concerns to come forward and seek treatment without being penalized or stigmatized.  One of the many reasons we desperately need a cohesive, effective healthcare system where patients can consistantly obtain their medication and do not have to fear losing their insurance is so that those with a mental health condition do not end up on the street, or in a movie theater, at a midnight showing, carrying guns.

Thanks: M Monica

Best and Must Use WordPress Plugins List

This page has a list of some of the best WordPress Plugins out there. Check out this list of top WordPress plugins and find out which plugins you should be using to improve your blogging efficiency.

Must Use Plugins
Akismet – best guard against comment spam for WordPress blog!
WordPress Database Backup – This plugin is a life saver when things go wrong! It allows on-demand backup of your WordPress database.


E-commerce, Paypal Donation and Payment
WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart – is a very easy to use plugin that allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog. Very useful when you want to sell eBooks or digital products from various posts and pages and need a WordPress Shopping Cart solution.
WP Easy Paypal Payment Accept – This is a very easy to use WordPress plugin to Accept donation or Paypal payment for a service or a product in one click. Handy when you are trying to put a customized donation option in the sidebar of your blog.
WordPress eStore – This plugin provides a complete solution to sell digital products securely from your wordpress blog.


Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
WordPress SEO by Yoast – Yoast’s all in one SEO solution for your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps, breadcrumbs & much more.
All in One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. If you are using the “WordPress SEO by Yoast” plugin then don’t install this one.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

Blog Statistics Related
Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.
WordPress.com Stats – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. This plugin requires a WordPress.com API key to function.

Caching Plugin
W3 Total Cache - The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. After you use the w3 total cache plugin you won’t go back to using WP Super Cache.
WP Super Cache - WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

Blog Security
WP Blog Security Tips – This is not a plugin but all the tips mentioned here should help you securing your WordPress blog.
LoginLockdown – Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed WordPress login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.

Membership Plugin
WordPress eMember – WordPress eMember is a membership plugin that can turn your existing or new WordPress site into a membership site easily.

RSS Subscription Related
FeedBurner FeedSmith – This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
Add to Any: Subscribe Button – Helps readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader.
Category Specific RSS Menu – A simple WordPress plugin to add category specific RSS subscription menu into your posts, pages, sidebars. Very handy when your blog covers multiple topic from non related subjects. This plugin was developed by me.

Contact Forms Related
Contact Form 7 - Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
cforms – cforms II is the most customizable, flexible & powerful ajax supporting contact form plugin.
WP Contact form – WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you.

Social Networking
Sociable – Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.
Share This – This is a very useful plugin that allows your visitors to share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites.
Fat Free WordPress Social Share Buttons Plugin - This is a very simple and FAT FREE share button plugin that adds Google plus one, Facebook and Twitter share buttons to your blog posts.

For Google Adsense
Simple Google Adsense insertion – Easy to use WordPress plugin to insert Google Adsense to your posts, pages and sidebar. This plugin was developed by me.
Adsense-Deluxe – Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Capable of handling complex adsense management.

Affiliate Related
WP Affiliate Platform – WordPress plugin for affiliate recruitment, management and tracking. This plugin lets you run your own affiliate campaign/program and allows you to reward (pay commission) your affiliates for referred sales.
WordPress Affiliate Link Cloaker – Allows you to automatically convert specific keywords from your blog posts and pages into your affiliate links. It also cloaks the affiliate links and gives it a prettier and shorter alias (great for an affiliate marketer).

Other Very Useful Plugins
Simple Tags – This is one of my most favorite plugins. It makes my WordPress Tagging life so much easier. It helps with Auto completion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags.
Executable PHP Widget – Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Very handy for inserting custom ‘php’, ‘html’, ‘javascript’ in the sidebar.
SyntaxHighlighter Plus – A plugin to highlight any code in your posts or pages. very handy if you use example codes in your Blog.
WordPress Newsletter subscription – Creates a simple form to collect subscription requests to newsletter software managed mailing lists.
WP-Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. Allows you to easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.
No Self Pings – This plugin does exactly what the name suggests.
Exclude Pages – This plugin lets you manually exclude WordPress pages from the navigation menu. Comes in handy when you are trying to create hidden pages.
WP Smush.it – This WordPress plugin reduces image file size and improve performance using the Smush.it API within WordPress. Everytime you upload an image to your media uploader this plugin will automatically compress the image without losing quality!

Top Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques

Search Engine Optimization is a very hot topic in the World Wide Web. After all, everybody wants to rank higher and come up on the first page of Google search and get more traffic. I have identified and made a list of top 15 SEO practices that I tend to forget quite often. These simple SEO techniques if practiced properly can make a significant difference as to how my pages are ranked in the Search Engine Queries.

1. Use rel=”nofollow” tag on low value links to not pass the page rank juice. For example ‘Read the rest of the entry’, ‘About’, ‘Contact’ etc.
2. Use proper anchor text for interlinks. Don’t use ‘here’ or ‘there’.
3. Optimize the images, always create alt tags and write description in the alt tag.
4. Use search engine friendly permalinks. Make sure the URLs do not have ‘&’, ‘?’, ‘!’ etc characters.
5. Use hyphens (-) between words to improve readability.
6. Do not use underscores (_), use hyphens (-) instead.
7. Do not use session id in URLs.
8. Use sticky posts.
9. Use tag clouds.
10. Have a category description paragraph.
11. Let the visitors subscribe to category specific RSS feed. (Use category specific RSS plugin for WordPress)
12. Use internal linking when possible and appropriate.
13. Use sub-directories rather than sub-domains when possible. Sub-domains do not share link love from the main domain as it is treated as a different domain.
14. Research the target audience and aim the site content appropriately.
15. Keep the content up to date. Visitors don’t like outdated content. Updating the content frequently also attracts the Search engines spiders to index the web pages frequently.
16. Going forward I will try to use this list to optimize my web pages for search engines.

Buzz for your business

I give a lot of presentations on how businesses owners can get free publicity through media coverage. One of the challenges I often hear in these presentations is that business owners don't know how to create buzz or excitement in the media, or anywhere else.

Creating buzz for your business is not hard. It takes a bit of creativity, willingness to fail and look stupid, and some strategic planning. Here's how:

1. Create a contest
Contests are a great way to build buzz in your local or professional community. Everyone wants to be rewarded or recognized for an accomplishment—why not create your own award?

Maybe you are a general contractor like OPEN Forum member Coffman Construction. Why not create an award for kids with the cleanest and coolest looking rooms? Do this monthly and have a big event showcasing the annual big winner at the end of the year. This creates buzz in the media and goodwill in the community.

The great things is, you can have a contest about anything. You can even create an online award such as the Small Business Influencer Awards. These types of contests are low cost and people can submit their entries online—saving you both time and money.

2. Produce an event
Events are a great way to bring people together. You can celebrate, inform, teach, sell, network or just have fun. Maybe you have an annual event bringing together your best customers. You could feature a famous local speaker, great food and encourage your employees to foster networking. The options are endless.

The first time you do an event, you’ll be learning. But as you do more of them, you’ll get better at it. And there are many tools to use to help you manager your event if needed—my favorite is Eventbrite.

3. Volunteer time
It’s better to give, than to receive.

While it’s great to get sales for your products and have people buy from you, it’s also great to give your (and your employees) time and money to worthy causes in the community. Why not adopt a local school, help a local community center or host a weekly “feed the hungry” day. Doing this will make you feel good,  give your business a shiny new “do gooder badge” and build buzz in the local community.

4. Train your customers
This past spring I taught a course at the Adult School of Montclair. My class had about 20 students in it, and there were dozens of other classes that the local community could take as well.

What about paying for your customers to take one of several courses at a local college or training center? They’ll appreciate the extra knowledge and word will spread that your customers get free training. Of course, like all of these “buzz” suggestions, consider the ROI. Tools like Grovo are easy ways to train customers in tools that can improve their lives.

5. Conduct a research study
The media, business professionals, students and every day consumers love studies that are related to their lives. Why not consider what statistics and research is most important to your business and local community (or national audience). Hire a research firm, college students or do your own study about something and release a regular report. You could call it: [Your business name] Child Safety Report Of Local Parks. By giving useful information to your community, you’re creating buzz and giving the media yet another excuse to write something great about your business!

Creating buzz isn't always easy, but with the right planning and forethought, it can be a great boost to your business.

Pumpkin farmers vs Entrepreneurs

About twelve years ago I stumbled upon a powerful formula for growing an industry-dominating business in the unlikeliest of places: a pumpkin patch. I was working 25 hours a day, eight days a week to keep my moderately successful business going. That's when I read an article about the farmers, who grow those gigantic, prize-winning pumpkins.

I realized the same process these “crazy” farmers use to grow their colossal forces of nature could be used by entrepreneurs to grow wildly successful businesses. I started applying the method to my own business and it took off. Once it was generating millions, I sold it to private equity. Then I repeated the process, along with a partner, and grew a second multi-million dollar industry powerhouse, which was acquired by a Fortune 500 company in just over two years.

Here’s a brief overview of the growing strategy that, when implemented, will help you grow your business and secure its place as the leading company in your field.

Step One: Start With Promising Seeds
Prize-winning pumpkin farmers don’t plant the same tired old seeds every other pumpkin farmer uses to grow everyday carving pumpkins. Instead they plant special seeds, which they know have the potential to grow as big as your car. Likewise, successful entrepreneurs should never follow trends or the status quo. They should instead plant their own promising “seed,” building a business that fits three parameters:

1.     Something they are passionate about
2.     Something for which there is strong customer demand
3.     Something they can scale through systematization

Step Two: Nurture the Strong and Discard the Weak
You wouldn’t know by looking at them, but those pumpkin farmers are ruthless. To grow a gigantic pumpkin, they know they have to give all of their time and resources to the strongest few, and remove the weak and rotten plants from the vine. When I focused on attending to the needs, challenges and wishes of my best clients and similar prospects, and “let go” of my “weak” customers (those who distract, demand and disregard), my business grew by leaps and bounds. Fast.


Step Three: Develop Your Root System
The root system provides the steady stream of water and nutrients plants need to live. A few days without sun, and a plant will survive. A few days without the root system, and the plant is rotting in the field. For entrepreneurs, the “root system” is a steady referral source of new clients. Rather than ask for referrals from clients (which, if any, typically yields bad leads), the wildly successful entrepreneur generates leads through their clients’ complementary vendors. A growing network of complementary, industry-specific vendors is the strongest root system you can have.

Step Four: Prune and Weed
Farmers who grow extraordinary pumpkins are vigilant; the moment they spot a weed in their pumpkin patch, that sucker is out of there. Similarly, entrepreneurs who grow extraordinary businesses adhere to an almost maniacal “kill” strategy, removing “weak” or “rotten” clients from their roster. Often the weeds blocking an entrepreneur’s path to success are labeled as “opportunities,” but are really just distractions.


Ref: http://www.openforum.com/articles/follow-the-pumpkin-farmers-and-grow-a-multimillion-dollar-business?intlink=us-openf-nav-gallery

Mozilla Firefox 14

Mozilla today released an updated version of its Firefox browser that has a focus on security.

With Firefox 14, Mozilla will automatically encrypt searches conducted via Google's search engine in the browser's location bar, search box, or the right-click menu.

The idea is to "protect your data from potentially prying eyes, like network administrators when you use public or shared WiFi networks," Mozilla said in a blog post.

At this point, Google is the only search engine that will support encrypted searches, "but we look forward to supporting additional search engines with this feature in the future," Mozilla said.

As Mozilla explained in May, when the feature was added to Firefox in the Aurora channel, searches are sent through a secure HTTPS connection. HTTPS keeps data encrypted as it travels between your Web browser and servers and is mostly used for things like banks and credit card company Web sites. More and more companies, however, like Facebook, Twitter, and Google have added HTTPS to secure your personal data.

In October, Google pledged to encrypt the search queries and results of those signed into their Google Accounts. Earlier in the year, Google encrypted all synced data on Chrome.

Meanwhile, Mozilla has updated the way it displays security icons in the URL bar. Regular sites will be designated with a globe to the left of the URL, those with SSL encryption will feature a lock icon and "https" in the address bar, and those with extended validation (EV) certificates will get a green lock icon and the name of the site owner. Examples are viewable in a separate blog post.

On the gaming front, meanwhile, Firefox 14 supports Pointer Lock API, which will let games and apps better control the mouse. Firefox also now supports native full-screen mode with OS X Lion 10.7 for better video and Web game experiences, Mozilla said.

Firefox 14 is now available for download on mozilla.org.

About you

***Washington universityயில் psychology departmentட்டைச் சேர்ந்த‌ simine vazire மற்றும் Erika N. Carlson ஆகிய இருவரும் ஒரு விஷயத்தை சொல்கிறார்கள். அது இது:உங்களைப் பற்றி நீங்கள் நன்றாய் தெரியும் என்று நம்புகின்றீர்கள். ஆனால் உண்மையில் உங்களைப் பற்றி உங்களுக்கே தெரியாத விஷயங்கள் மற்றவர்களுக்கு நன்றாய் தெரியும். அதாவது உங்களின் தவறுகளை உங்களால் கண்டுபிடிக்க முடியாது. அது மற்றவர்களால் முடியும். அதே போல் மற்றவர்களின் தவறுகளை அவர்களாலேயே கண்டு பிடிக்க முடியாது. அது உங்களால் முடியும்.

ஏன் இப்படி ஆகின்றது என்பதைப் பற்றி அவ்விருவரும் சொல்லியிருக்கலாம். அதை குறித்து எனக்கு தெரியாது. ஆனால் அவர்கள் சொல்லும் இந்த உண்மையை இதை படிக்கும் முன்பே நான் உணர்ந்திருக்கிறேன்.

Only 2 reasons:

1. உங்கள் மனதிற்கு இயல்பிலேயே தன்னைப் பற்றிய உண்மையை அறிந்து கொள்ள விருப்பம் இல்லை. தன்னைத் தானே நல்லவனாய் நம்பிக் கொள்ளவே உங்கள் மனம் விரும்பும். அதனால்தான் அடுத்தவன் எப்படிப்பட்டவன் என்று நோண்டி நோண்டி மோப்பம் பிடிக்கும் நீங்கள் நீங்கள் எப்படிப்பட்டவர் என்று ஒரு நாளும் யோசித்து உங்களை நீங்களே கேள்விகள் கேட்டுக் கொள்வதில்லை.

2. உங்களின் தவறுகளை கண்டுபிடிக்க நீங்கள் விரும்பினாலும் கூட அது மிகவும் கஷ்டம். காரணம் உங்களை நீங்களே விலகி நின்று உங்களையே உங்களால் காண முடியாது. ஆனால் அடுத்தவனை உங்களால் அவனிடமிருந்து விலகி இருந்து அவனை காண முடியும்.

Miracle of Budha with Mustard Seed

The Cure of the Mustard Seed 

Once long ago in the time of Gautama Buddha, when he was speaking with monks and nuns under a Bodhi tree there was suddenly a disturbance in the back of the small group assembled. 

There appeared a young woman, Kisa Gotami by name. She was weeping and distressed and carrying a small baby, her only son, in her arms. She walked directly into the assembly and approached to where the Buddha sat. She said, "O Lord Buddha, you are considered an Avatar, an incarnation of God, with miraculous powers. Please, I pray you, help me, a poor woman." The Buddha, sitting quietly, asked, "What is it that you need help with?" "My child, this one that I carry in my arms has died,” replied the woman. “I have heard that you can help me. Please bring him back to life."

A small gasp went through the assembly as the people heard what she had requested. They had seen many miracles around the Buddha, but his teaching was primarily one of understanding and liberation, not of miraculous cures and powers. The Buddha sat quietly for a while and then spoke; "Bring me some mustard seed from a house in which no one has died.” he said. Hearing this simple request, she was overjoyed and replied, "I shall do as you ask",  and taking her dead child with her, she went immediately off into the village to seek the mustard seed. Now in India, mustard seed is one of the most common of grains. It would be comparable to asking someone to bring some salt or sugar from a home in America today.

Kisagotami went up to the first small hut she saw and bowing at the door to the lady of the house asked, "Do you have any mustard seed?  Please, do you have any mustard seed?" The lady of the house noticed the intensity of the young woman's request and went immediately to fetch some mustard seed .  She brought it back and gave it to the young woman. "Here my child and may it give you respite from all that ails you." The young woman hardly thanked her so excited was she to receive the mustard seed. But as she hurried off back to the Buddha, she remembered the last part of his instructions.

Turning around she went back to the woman who had stood at her doorway watching the young woman. "Please”, she said, "Has anyone ever died in your house?" "Only last month my Father died my child. But why?" "Oh," "I cannot take your mustard seed.”  and she poured the handful back into the woman’s hands and hurried off to the next house. Again she begged for some mustard seed and again the mustard seed was brought and again she asked 'Has anyone has ever died in this house?' Again and again and again she received similar answers, for in every household in that village there had been death. 

Kisagotami realized that death comes to everyone and that just as there was no household without birth, just so, there was no household without death. The next day she cremated her child by the river and returned to the Buddha. She thanked him for his Teaching and became a practitioner of the Way. This true event has come to be known as the ‘Cure of the Mustard Seed’.

Dindigul - My Home Town

Dindigul, which was under the rule of the famous Muslim Monarch, Tippusultan, has a glorious past. The historical Rock Fort of this district was constructed by the famous Naik King Muthukrishnappa Naicker. It is located between 10005” and 100 9” North Latitude and 77030” and 78020” East Longitude.

Dindigul was famous during the seventh century itself. "Appar" the great poet had visited the city. Thus the city had been noted in "Thevaram". Dindigul was mentioned in the book "Padmagiri Nadhar Thenral Vidu thudhu" written by the poet "Palupatai sokkanathar" as Padmagiri. This was later stated by OO.Ve Saminatha Iyer in his foreward to the above book. He also added that Dindigul was called as Dindeecharam.

Dindigul region was the border of the three great Kingdoms of South India, the Pandiyas,the cheras and the Cholas. Hence Dindigul has its set back in its growth by successive wars among the three. In the ancient time the cheran king Dharmabalan has built temples for Abirami ambigai and Padmagirinathar. After that in the book Silapthigaram it is mentioned as the Northern border of the Pandaya Kingdom whose capital was Madurai. Historian "Strabo" hadalso written in 20 A.D. The Roman Emperor "Augustus Ceaser" has sent a team to the pandya kingdom in 73 A.D., Pillni the great historian of the time has described about the Pandya king in his works we have more proofs that Pandya kingdom was established before the Christian era.

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PHP vs ASP.NET - PHP Rocks

Ever since Microsoft has come up with ASP.net, there has been a widespread debate among programmers as to whether it is any better than the existing open source programming language of PHP.

If you were to make a search on the Internet on how loyalists of both PHP and ASP.net are doing almost everything by biting each other's heads off, you will realize how hot this debate actually is. The major contention is that Microsoft products are generally considered to be superior to other products, but then there are programmers that have been using PHP since ages and never once has it let them down. While there is acclaim for ASP.net being more robust and speedier, PHP fans maintain that PHP has much better support and a very easy to understand language.

As the debate between PHP and ASP.net rages on, it is important to make a frank comparison between the two languages, so that other developers who are not so strong in their opinions are not caught in the argument between the two. Here are some of the important points that distinguish the two programming languages from each other:-

(For the uninitiated, PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and ASP.net stand for Active Server Pages. It helps to put things into better perspective!)

»PHP is a relatively simpler language to use than ASP.net. Initially, PHP was written in the C programming language to replace a set of scripts in Perl. That is the reason why coding in PHP remains simple even today. Many developers find themselves to be more at ease with the user-friendly nature of PHP when it comes to coding. However, critics also count this advantage of PHP as a disadvantage. Some of them maintain that the language of PHP has not been updated much, and hence it is still quite archaic and even, somewhat cumbersome for coding. ASP.net, which is a relatively new development, has a lot of options when it comes to languages. Here, you can use languages such as C#, J#, C++ and VB.net. Hence, when it comes to sheer choice, ASP.net has better to offer. But PHP is no less, since it can do its task quite well, even with its minimum language tools.

»PHP is has much better support for the database management system, MySQL. In fact, the very popular blogging platform, WordPress uses the formidable combination of PHP coding on MySQL for its content management system, which includes about hundreds of thousands of blog posts every single day. Another very popular and frequently updated service that uses the combination of PHP and MySQL is Wikipedia. ASP.net can also support MySQL, but PHP is unanimously hailed, by the masses and classes alike, for its great support for this database management system.

»People who use both PHP and ASP.net also maintain their opinion that PHP is better for embedded support with another database management system, viz. SQLite. SQLite is described as a relational database management system and since it is contained in a C programming library, PHP can provide better support to it.

»PHP has also a very good support for object oriented programming, on which whole scripting languages are being built nowadays. ASP.net also provides very capable support to OOP.

»When it comes to support, PHP wins over ASP.net. The main reason for this is that PHP is open source. Hence, the support can come freely from all over the world. In most cases, PHP fixes are made instantly. Being open source also ensures that there are very few snags in PHP. While, ASP.net could take a while to make fixes. That is because it is owned by Microsoft, and it is the development team of Microsoft that will need to respond to the support query. That could take more time than the worldwide open source support that PHP is able to get. Most PHP supports can be instantly found online by doing a simple search on the Internet. Some of the providers of support for PHP are Zend, NuSphere and ThinkPHP.

»PHP can use the command line to perform many everyday activities. Some of the things that the PHP command line is useful for is for manipulating across many files and for putting files into multiple directories at once. These are just some of the important features that PHP's command line is used for.

»PHP is an open source programming language, which means it is free for anyone to use. Programmers can develop PHP applications virtually at no cost, because PHP is free to use. ASP.net is not free too, but its extensions are available for free on Windows platforms, upwards of 98. Hence, ASP.net is available to Windows users when they buy it. That puts a bit of restriction in its use.

»ASP.net is compiled into memory in binary code. So, when ASP.net is used for coding, it is evident that it takes much longer time to process since the codes need to be retrieved from memory. However, PHP is not compiled into memory like ASP.net is. It is interpreted at runtime. That is the reason why PHP coding leads to better speed and even efficiency. However, it must be said that both PHP and ASP.net can run at supreme speeds and efficiency when they are coded expertly.

»Talking about hosting charges, both PHP and ASP.net are quite cheap to host. If you do a good deal of shopping online, you will also be able to find hosting for as little as $4. While there are several pricier hosting services out there, their charges are higher for both PHP and ASP.net. Hence, it can be said that both PHP and ASP.net are at par with each other on the hosting charges.

»Since PHP is older, there are many people who claim that it is much more secure than ASP.net where coding is concerned. ASP.net is much new, and the security options may not be fully in place yet. However, many programmers will pooh-pooh at this point, because they maintain that security in coding does not depend on the language that is used, but in the way that the coding is done by the coder. Even so, there is a lot of talk on the Internet about PHP coded sites being more difficult to hack into than those done with ASP.net.

Hence, there is a lot to debate on about the worthiness of PHP over ASP.net or vice-versa. There is probably no end to it, and there never shall be. The problem mainly is that both of them are good in their own place, but people who have been staunchly using PHP for several years now – some of them for more than a decade – would certainly not like to go in for the new ASP.net. The price to be paid is quite high, i.e. learning a whole new syntax and getting used to it. That is more the reason why PHP is still so popular.

But, to ASP.net's credit it must be said that it is much more dynamic, even if the mere use of different languages are concerned. While PHP is still stuck to its scripting language days, ASP.net has broken new grounds by entering into new languages, and even developing some of its own. However, a new shadow is looming large on these language-programming tools – the coming of the WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver, which are making coding a very simple task to do for even the lay computer user.

Existence of God

Challenging the idea that a Deistic God created the universe and set it in motion and then keeps aloof. In other words, according to him we believe in an absentee God who seems to be indifferent to what is happening in the world. But if He in fact does create individual souls 'off and on', then he should face the problem of evil that exists in the created universe in the form of sorrows and sufferings, injustice, exploitation, birth-based deformities. Why should there be any birth-based differences that make some more privileged than others?

Besides, aggressive atheists who deny the existence of God do so because believers have been committing horrible acts of omission and commission in the name of religious creeds and God. Despite this, it is said that the so-called all-powerful, all-good and all-knowing God remains silent. Therefore, God's silence is equated with God's non-existence by materialists and atheists.

However, the wonderful structure of the universe and of the things and beings in the universe does seem to suggest the existence of a Grand Design, which needs explanation. Can it be due to matter and motion? Though human reason is capable of understanding a lot, it points to the existence of Universal Consciousness or Cosmic Intelligence. This, say naysayers, is more faith than fact.

The theistic world view gives cosmic support to believers. After all, the question of all questions is whether the universe is friendly or inimical to life in general and human life in particular. Long before the 'Sun' in the solar system was seen as the friend of humans. So the believer bowed before the Sun and said, "Aum Mitrya Namah" - O Lord, i bow to you, our friend. Darwin's theory of biological evolution is a grand hypothesis to explain the origin of species on this planet. He never claimed that he could explain the 'arrival of life to evolve in favour of the fittest' in the world. How did the rudimentary amoebas evolve; out of nothing?

Biologists aver the principle 'life begets life'. Can they reduce biology to physics? Can they accept biology as a branch of physics? The usual answer to this is 'no'. Moreover, physics itself is becoming a science of the minute following the discovery that atoms can be split! The concept of God is not a stupid idea. It cannot be done away with so cursorily. It was the agnostic H Spencer who applied the concept of evolution to the evolution of the cosmos. Later, philosophers formulated different ideas of evolution, as did S Alexander in the idea of Emergent Evolution, H Bergson in the concept of Creative Evolution.

The tiny logic and intellect of man should not be elevated to the status of God or the Cosmic Intelligence; its role in human affairs ought not to be dismissed or under-estimated. Such a stand has its own limitations.

German philosopher Kant refuted the traditional rational argument in support of belief in God. Yet he formulated the Moral Argument. For belief in the existence of God and morality are special to human beings. Unless we accept the moral in the universe it is very difficult to make the universe morally intelligible. The discussion cannot be left in the hands of priests and pundits. Education in humanities will help believers liberate religion from the clutches of the priestly class. For aren't modern liberation theologians willing to learn from Karl Marx to solve the issue of hunger and injustice?

Consider the Sun. He is called Adithya, etc. Without him nothing can exist or happen! Think, don't be impatient to answer this question brusquely. Rains come, wind blows, sun rays and heat manifest and the whole world exists and is sustained. The sun is the inevitable enabler, the ground, the stage or the platform for all these. What made this Sun (with all his atoms, plasma, electrons energy etc.) do all this or capable of all this? You go one step backwards. What principle enabled this Sun manifest all this? Can you deny the existence of this enabler, more powerful and comprehensive and subtler than the Sun? Possibly, you may not! This most powerful, the most comprehensive, the subtlest ground is referred to as God(if you are not allergic to this traditional term). Having found a certain widespread inability to understand this reasoning and a certain failure to muster the ability to think about these essentially intangible matters, savants have called it ineffable, subtler than the subtlest, larger than the largest, the nearest yet the farthest etc. In brief, all knowledge(the light or ground for all the so called knower-known-knowledge forms of propositions), all existence including mental happenings like sorrow, happiness, love, hatred, jealosy etc. are due to that principle: the a priori principle to use a terminology from Immanuel Kant. And of course, to deny God, there should exist the denier, the core or essence of this denier principle, the more popular self itself is God according to Vedantins.

 Education in humanities will help believers liberate religion from the clutches of the priestly class. Actually God can be understandable withe help of science for todays generation. All the answers of the writer's questions are given in Adwait philosophy of school of thoughts of Hinduisem. Upnishad are really a very practical and scientific source for all dificult quries What we learn in physics and biology It is already well explained in Upnishad but to understand the correct meaning we have to prey for wisdom from our creator. In bhagwad Gita it is clearly mentioned that every person need different path (Yog) in order to achieve the answers of above questions(salvation) according to his nature like Bhakti yog is suitable for Imotional persons Gyanyog is suitable for scientific people and slowly slowly they come to the same conclusions. After gaining Gyaan ie true knowledge one can free from all feras and sorrows of the world because then he know that whoem he searching outside is present very near or nsay nearest to him only. All the superstitions become clean on that time.

Provided we accept the evolutionary theory completely it is quite possible to include physics as the source of biology but that requires to be understood as a separate subject for in depth study and management of the living system.. Taking the example of origin of life explained in the religious scriptures, all converge to the point of single couple like Adam and Eva, Manu and Satarupa, for further clasification, take example of family of the Chitragupta in hindu mythology when all are taken as descendant of the same couple and asked to live as belonging to a most common ancestors so all are alike and s'd be entitled to wellbeing level and taken as similarly competent to have opportunities in life. But a deviation from this outcome can lead to atheist view of life comfortably so the reasons cited to go for an atheist theory is most natural and a conscious mind can not be made simply to believe the theist philosophy so much lie on our understanding and approach. There are certain ideas and philosophy which professes to a degree the existence of occult sciences yet it is said those who believe in soul no proof is necessary and those who do not believe in soul no proof is enough. In our society when many of the high and mighty abide by the theist philosophy it may required not to deny it outright as a conscious body for a justice system may serve the system of the world provided we do accept the essential theories of all religion which states a work based cycle system to get evolved spiritually and help maintain the viability of the world system as well. As a naive in medical profession w;d depend on so many tests to conclude about the exact condition of a patient and a master of the field w'd get some idea at once subject to be put to furthers tests, so are the theories of the philosophy homeopathy for healing which aim to clear the cause than the disease itself which might reoccur otherwise, so are the people who depending on their inherent consciousness level can be able to judge themselves about certain mysteries and the prevailing injustice on the name of the God and that has led to few of religious ideas developed with time, in this way the universe can neither be taken as inimical or supportive to the life over earth and much depends on the human being to let life perpetuate in a sustainable manner and allow humanity reveal for ever.

News - Recession in India 2012

The global economic growth is expected to slow down further in 2012 and 2013 pointing that world is on the brink of another recession, according to UN 'World-Economic Situation and Prospects 2012' report.

Even emerging powerhouses like India and China, which led the recovery last time, will get bogged down.

The problems stalking the global economy are multiple and interconnected. The most pressing challenges are the continued jobs crisis and the declining prospects for economic growth, especially in the developed countries. As unemployment remains high at nearly 10% and incomes stagnate, the recovery is stalling in the short run because of the lack of aggregate demand.

Accroding to the reports, GDP growth in China and India is expected to "remain robust, but to decelerate".

India's economy is expected to expand by between 7.7 per cent and 7.9 per cent in 2012-2013, down from 9.0 per cent in 2010. In China, growth slowed from 10.4 per cent in 2010 to 9.3 per cent in 2011 and is projected to slow further to below 9 per cent in 2012-2013.

Meanwhile, developing countries, which had rebounded strongly from the global recession of 2009, would be hit through trade and financial channels. The financial turmoil following the August 2011 political wrangling in the United States regarding the debt ceiling and the deepening of the euro zone debt crisis also caused a contagious sell-off in equity markets in several major developing countries, leading to sudden withdrawals of capital and pressure on their currencies.

"All of these weaknesses are present and reinforce each other, but a further worsening of one of them could set off a vicious circle leading to severe financial turmoil and a renewed global recession for 2012-2013," the report said.

Who does not want to see their strong capital appreciation when it comes to investing in stocks. But among this present crisis of market volatility (where Sensex has tumbled 11% since beginning of the year), high inflation rates, weakening rupee, slowing down of GDP and country plagued with corruption allegations; I think investors shall be rather pessimistically invest in shares. These are hard time for stock market and looking at capital appreciation shall be done with only a long distant perspective. Eurozone crisis is staring straight at us and not many of the experts has any short term answers.

Growth prospects of India in particular is looking very bleak (in short term). In last few months FII’s has fled the market like they have seen the ghost. Indian government has taken the step to attract foreign funds into the market by allowing foreign investors open demat and online trading accounts in India. Earlier only institutional foreign investors were allowed to invest in India through mutual fund route. But now with liberalization of the Indian stocks market it is likely that that foreign funds may flow in. But if this will happen in short term I am not sure as Indian Economy is showing very weak fundamentals. High inflation and slowing GDP is certainly not helping.

Among this mood of gloom prevailing in Indian market, there are hidden signs of optimism. Majority of quality stocks are trading at very attractive price levels. In short term (< 3 years) you cannot expect much of capital appreciation but in long term (> 3 years) reasonable capital appreciation is almost a certainty. Even some stocks are trading at such price levels that dividend yield can be achieved well over 5% per annum. Some companies like Tata Steel, ONGC, Tata Motors, TCS etc which has strong dividend payout history is trading at undervalued price levels. When I say undervalued price levels I means that at these price levels you can be sure to get reasonable capital appreciation in medium term holdings. These are some high dividend yielding stocks that are trading at such price levels that the in long term substantial dividend inflow (…read more on divided compounding) is possible to the tune of 7%-8% per annum. This is a moment when we can really tap some quality high dividend yielding stocks.

The present market scenario is confusing. I am not able to see the recovery path for Indian economy unless the world (Europe) business flourishes. Weakening Indian Rupee is creating a huge expense burden on manufacturing sector of India. High Inflation rates are effecting purchasing power of Indian consumers. Slowing GDP is not helping the Indian Growth story. So all in all the market scenario is not good for short term investing. But when it comes to long term, probably it is best investing time for investors. Not many of us are experts of stock analysis but the present global meltdown is giving us opportunity to bag some most valued stocks at amazing price levels. It is a fact that we Europe of not doing well, United States is still on recovery path and fundamentals of Indian market is not as strong, but the present crisis is giving is more opportunity of portfolio creation in long term than misfortune.

News that GDP growth has slowed considerably to 5.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2011-12, as compared with 9.2 per cent in the corresponding quarter of the previous year, could not have come at a worse time for the government. While quarterly GDP estimates tend to be revised substantially, the evidence that the GDP growth rate has been consistently declining over the four quarters of the last financial year and that the fourth quarter rate is the lowest in nine years makes it imperative for the government to respond.

However, other aspects of the emerging economic scenario make the choice of that response difficult. There are three disconcerting aspects of that scenario that are being widely referred to. The first is inflation, which had moderated and the government was hoping would just go away. However, the annual month-on-month rate of inflation as measured by the national Consumer Price Index had risen to 10.4 in April, from 9.4 per cent in March, 8.8 per cent in February and 7.7 per cent in January. Hence, the government may find it difficult to persuade the Reserve Bank of India to announce a substantial reduction in interest rates in order to spur growth. Even if the impact of a reduction of interest rates on growth is not likely to be dramatic, such a move would have served to signal decisive action.

The second is the evidence that lower export growth resulting from the global recession combined with a rising bill on account of both oil and non-oil imports is widening the trade and current account deficits with attendant adverse effects on GDP growth. The deficit in the net exports component of GDP has risen from around Rs 316,000 to Rs. 413,000, and contributes to dampening rather than facilitating growth.

Thirdly, international investors are being less enthusiastic about investing in India, partly because of challenges they are facing elsewhere in the world. That is adversely affecting the rupee that is already weakened by the rising current account deficit, leading to s sharp depreciation of the currency.

These features of the current scenario are hindering the government’s resort to the most obvious countercyclical response to recession -- an increase in spending as at the time of the 2008 recession. If everything else remains the same, an increase in spending would require accommodating a larger fiscal deficit than would have otherwise been the case. This, the fiscal conservatives argue, is unacceptable, because of the already high level of the fiscal deficit, placed at 5.8 per cent of GDP in 2011-12. Moreover, influenced by the misplaced view that a higher fiscal deficit necessarily results in higher inflation, they warn of the dangers of hiking the fiscal deficit in an already inflationary environment. The government, given its own predilections is inclined to agree. It is also concerned that foreign investors would disapprove of a higher deficit, turning investor reticence into investor flight.

So increased spending would be acceptable only if it does not setback the government’s commitment to significantly reduce the fiscal deficit to GDP ratio in the near future -- a task made difficult by the slowdown in GDP growth. In normal circumstances this would mean that the government would have to raise more resources through taxation to finance spending aimed at reviving the economy. But times have not been normal for some time now because of the campaign to freeze and reduce direct taxation. Taxes, argue the rich and the corporate sector, create disincentives to save and invest and must, therefore, be kept to the minimum. The government too seems convinced, possibly with reason, that more taxes on corporate incomes and stock market returns would adversely affect foreign investor sentiment. So talk of mobilising resources through higher taxation is avoided.

This, of course, leaves the problem at hand unresolved. How should the government respond to the downturn that threatens to take the economy into a recession? One answer avoids the question by holding that all would be well if the government is able to continue with reform and even achieve its deficit reduction targets. That argument, if meaningful at all, must be based on the presumptions that growth is slowing because private investment is down, and that investment is falling because the slackening of the pace of reform has discouraged private investors. This is indeed a strange argument because it suggests that while reforms in the past have spurred investment and growth, that reform, even when not reversed, cannot keep investment going. Only a process of never-ending reform can consistently drive investment.

Recognising the problem with such an argument, a completely different package is being put forward by a section of the business community to revive growth without hurting corporate interests. They advocate a step up in public expenditure, especially investment, to revive demand and growth, but hold that such an increase in expenditure should not b financed with borrowing or taxation, but by a reduction in subsidies. The “strength” of that argument lies in the fact (see Chart) that recent increases in the central fiscal deficit to GDP ratio have been accompanied and partly “explained” by increases in the ratio of major subsidies to GDP. So if subsidies can be substantially reduced, it is asserted, it should be possible to step up investment expenditure without increasing the fiscal deficit.

What is being ignored here is the impact of a reduction in subsidies. In 2011-12, subsidies on food and petroleum together accounted for 70 per cent of the outlay on major subsidies (on fertiliser, food, petroleum and interest). These are the subsidies that would have to be reduced if expenditure is to be significantly curtailed. However, neither of these subsidies are easily cut. Reducing food subsidies is near impossible given the government’s commitment to substantially increase the population’s access to subsidised food, with even the diluted Food Security Bill promising to cover 70 per cent of the population. Going back on that commitment when inflation is high and growth slowing would be amount to betrayal of a majority that has been left in malnutrition at the margins of subsistence.

Further, in recent times the increase in the subsidy bill has been more on account of petroleum than food, because of increases in international oil prices. The share of the petroleum subsidies in outlays on major subsidies rose from less then 6 per cent between 2004-05 and 2008-09 to as much as 34 per cent in 2011-12. So curtailing the subsidy bill would require a sharp increase in the prices of petroleum products in the manner done recently with petrol. Being universal intermediates, such an increase in the price of petroleum products would accelerate the current inflation in the prices of necessities. That would not just be politically suicidal but also detrimental to growth.

The implication is clear. The government would have to find ways of financing an increase in expenditure to counter the downturn, while addressing with separate policies any impact this may have on inflation or the balance of payments. But with strong interests working against the choice of such a policy package, there is a real danger that nothing would be actually done. That would take the economy into the recession that it had managed to stall since the onset of the global crisis in 2008.

Samsung Galaxy S3

The much awaited Samsung Galaxy S3 is here finally. It has got simple yet beautiful look unlike Galaxy SII that has rounded edges with glossy plastic body. Samsung Galaxy S3 has an expandable memory slot and comes with an interchangeable 2100mAH battery. It has 4.8-inch screen (Super Amoled HD) and display of 720X1280 pixels resolution that instantly stands out. The phone has 1.4Ghz Exynos Quad Core processor and runs on a 1GB RAM. This Android Smartphone is GPRS, EDGE and 3G enabled, which means that you stay connected always no matter wherever you are. The Samsung Galaxy S3 is Wifi enabled and supports the Wifi Hotspot feature that lets the phone connect to the mobile network and act as Wifi router.

Samsung Galaxy S3 comes with 8 megapixel primary camera and 1.9 megapixel secondary camera. One of the most talked about features of the Samsung Galaxy S3 is its Smart Stay Feature that scans your eye movement using its front camera and the moment your eye moves away from the phone the display automatically goes off. It’s quite intuitive and saves power.

Another interesting feature is its Proximity Sensor. If you have missed a call or a text message, the moment you lift the phone or touch it, the phone alerts you of a missing call or text message. And if you want to connect to a missed call, you don’t need to navigate or type in the number and hit the dial button. As long as the number is on your screen, all you have to do is lift the phone and hold it against your ear and it will connect to the number automatically.

Best Buy At: 38900

Specifications for Samsung Galaxy S3 (Marble White) : Price 38900

Brand	Samsung
Category	Samsung
Network	3g network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 2g network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Display	Screen size 4.8 INCH  Resolution 1280 X 720 PIXELS Screen type HD SUPER AMOLED Colors 16M COLORS
Phone size	Weight 133G Dimensions (lxbxh) 136.6 X 70.6 X 8.6 MM
Platform	Cpu QUAD-CORE 1.4 GHZ CORTEX-A9 Os and os version ANDROID 4.0 (ICE CREAM SANDWICH)
Connectivity	Usb YES, MICROUSB V2.0 (MHL), USB ON-THE-GO 3g HSDPA, 21 MBPS; HSUPA, 5.76 MBPS Gprs CLASS 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 SLOTS), 32 - 48 KBPS Bluetooth YES, V4.0 WITH A2DP, EDR Wlan WI-FI 802.11 A/B/G/N, DLNA, WI-FI DIRECT, WI-FI HOTSPOT Java YES, VIA JAVA MIDP EMULATOR Browser HTML, ADOBE FLASH Wap YES Edge CLASS 12
Memory	Internal memory YES Expandable memory UP TO 64 GB Card slot MICROSD Phonebook YES
Others features	Colors MARBLE WHITE Miscellaneous MICROSIM CARD SUPPORT ONLY S-VOICE NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMANDS AND DICTATION SMART STAY EYE TRACKING DROPBOX (50 GB STORAGE) ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION WITH DEDICATED MIC TV-OUT (VIA MHL A/V LINK) SNS INTEGRATION ORGANIZER IMAGE/VIDEO EDITOR DOCUMENT EDITOR (WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, PDF) GMAIL, YOUTUBE, CALENDAR, GOOGLE TALK, PICASA INTEGRATION VOICE MEMO/DIAL/COMMANDS, PREDICTIVE TEXT INPUT (SWYPE) Maps GOOGLE MAPS Radio STEREO FM RADIO WITH RDS Messaging SMS(THREADED VIEW), MMS, EMAIL, PUSH MAIL, IM, RSS Gps support YES, WITH A-GPS SUPPORT AND GLONASS
Battery	Battery type STANDARD BATTERY, LI-ION 2100 MAH
Camera	Video player MPEG4, H.264, H.263, DIVX, DIVX3.11, VC-1, VP8, WMV7/8, SORENSON SPARKRECORDING & PLAYBACK: FULL HD (1080P) Camera features SIMULTANEOUS HD VIDEO AND IMAGE RECORDING, GEO-TAGGING, TOUCH FOCUS, FACE AND SMILE DETECTION, IMAGE STABILIZATION Secondary camera YES, 1.9 MP, 720P@30FPS Primary camera 8 MEGAPIXEL Flash LED FLASH Video recording YES, 1080P@30FPS
General features	Keyboard MULTITOUCH Touch screen YES
Sound	Ringtones & alert types VIBRATION; MP3, WAV RINGTONES Audio jack 3.5MM JACK Loudspeaker YES
Warranty	1 YEAR MANUFACTURER WARRANTY