5 Most Expensive Watches in the World

Wrist Watches were considered as status showing symbol for many people, as they were crazy about these. Bollywood Superstar Amitab Batchan used to wear a watch only once, as watch collection is his passion but not hobby.

#1. Split Seconds Patek Philippe Reference 1436 By Tiffany & Co. – $214,000

#2. Classical Billionaire Tourbillion – $998,000

#3. Hublot Black Caviar Bang – $1 million

#4. Ulysse Nardin – Royal Blue Tourbillon – $1,000,000

#5. Franck Muller – Aeternitas Mega 4 – $2,700,000

5 Most Expensive Mobiles in The World

#1. The Chairman by Ulysse Nardin

Its Main Features and Specifications are

1. Price – $49000
2. Rated as the most expensive phone on the Planet
3. Includes all the features of a smartphone including Touch Screen and Physical NumPad
4. Features a kinetic rotor power system visible through the backplate
5. Can generate power for itself
6. Sophisticated design that resembles the design of a wrist watch

#2. Nokia 8800 Arte with pink diamonds

Its Main Features and Specifications are

1. Price = $ 134,000
2. Has 680 plus pink and white diamond that amounts to 21.5 carats
3. 3.15 Mega Pixel camera with Auto Focus and video
4. Solid 18 carat gold
5. Music Player, Bluetooth and Voice Memo

#3. Sony Ericsson Black Diamond 

Its Main Features and Specifications are

1. Price = $300,000
2. OLED technology which provides the border less finish to the screen
3. 4 Mega Pixel Camera
4. A complete mirror finish which gives the a futuristic look

#4. Gresso Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot

Its Main Features and Specifications are

1. Price = $ 1 million
2. Features 45.5 carats of Black Diamonds
3. Panel is made up of 200-year-old African blackwood which is the most expensive in the world
4. Each key is cut from a hand-polished sapphire crystal
5. All materials are set in a 180 gram solid gold frame
6. Only three are available in the world

#5. Goldstriker iPhone 3GS Supreme

Its Main Features and Specifications are

1. Price = $ 3.2 million
2. Casing made from 271 grams of solid 22k gold
3. Screen trimmed with fifty-three 1-carat diamonds
4. The main feature is the Home Button which is made with a rare 7.1 carat diamond
5. 3G Compatible
6. Chest of the phone is carved from a single block of granite and sports Kashmir gold
7. interior lining made with Nubuck top grain leather

 
  

Top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates

Bill Gates is considered as a great man. Many people look up to him. And a lot of people are inspired by his life. But then again like any other human being he also has his own mistakes. Here are the top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates.

1. United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 U.S. states. Joel I. Klein was the lead prosecutor.The trial started on May 18, 1998 with the U.S. Justice Department and the Attorneys General of twenty U.S. states suing Microsoft for illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly.

2. Bill Gates did not consider opensource. His business strategies always counter opensource principles and paradigm.You may be interested in his open-source debate In a Fortune magazine he clearly says that
   

   It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.

3. The Windows OS made Mr. Gates the richest man in the world. But its latest iteration is bombarded with lots of negative criticisms.
4. He allowed Windows Mobile to happen. Did he run out of innovative ideas so he settled for a miniature Windows OS for mobile phone. He could have put up a team to design the OS from ground up.
5. He let DOS die. It was a promising OS and a very stable one.
6. Bill Gates did not think of cloud computing probably because of his proprietary Windows OS. But this is definitely one of his biggest mistakes.
7. He allowed Windows Millennium edition to be released. The OS was definitely a reflection of the lack of talents from Microsoft. It failed the expectation of the people. It was premature.
8. He ignored search. Look what happened to Google now. Bill Gates already made some moves about search in the end of the 90s and it was definitely a mistake to trash it.Scobleizer once revealed in his post that Look at my last post. Now read this one over on LiveSide. It’s a short report that Microsoft executives are bragging to MVPs that “we’re in it to win.”
   

   I don’t think Microsoft is. The words are empty. Microsoft’s Internet execution sucks (on whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks (look at that last post again). If that’s “in it to win” then I don’t get it. I saw a bunch of posts similar to the one on LiveSide coming out of the MVP Summit. I didn’t post any of them to my link blog for a reason: All were air, no real demonstrations of how Microsoft is going to lead.

9. The Microsoft Zune is a mistake. A lot of money poured into its development but yet it did not yield enough profit.John Biggs from Crunchgear had a poetic post on “Who killed Microsoft?”.Some of the extract are as follows:
   

   Who killed Microsoft? Why did all those jobs get lost?

   “Not I,” said the Zune fanboy, “I got Zune, I’m no iToy Sure it didn’t do too much and too bad my girlfriend bought a Touch now we’re iTunes all the way what else do I have to say?”

10. The Xbox on the other hand is too pricey for a gaming console and because of this; people go for other brands- the cheaper ones.This is only reason why Xbox price set to drop in war with  Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s top-selling Wii. Those are the top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates. These might be some of the negative side of the guy but these will never take away his greatness.

Facts about the internet – infographic

 

Medical Coding Certification has given us this interesting info-graphic with 15 facts about the Internet. They are quite fun facts that you might or might not already know. 

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10 Most Amazing Buildings In The World

 Modern architecture has brought many amazing buildings to the world.
Quirky shapes, ambitious designs, new materials, and new different styles have come with the modern architecture into construction today. The purpose of the building is not always seen in its design. Futuristic museums and opera houses have become a usual thing. Today we list 10 most amazing buildings in the world.

Cubic Houses, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

 Piet Blom had an idea of cubic houses in 1970s. Some of them were built in Helmond and when Rotterdam city asked him to build housing on top of a pedestrian bridge he chose this concept.

Dancing Building, Prague, Czech Republic

 

The ‘Dancing Building’ is a nickname given to Nationale-Nederlanden building that is located in Prague’s downtown. Designed by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in collaboration with Canadian Frank Gehry the building was completed in 1996. The building was built instead of the one that was destroyed during Bombing of Prague in 1945.

The Ufo House, Sanjhih, Taiwan

 

The Ufo House in Sanjhih, Taiwan is actually an deserted resort project. It earned this nickname from Taiwanese for its strange futuristic design. 

Kansas City Public Library, Missouri, United-States

 

As an incentive to visit library the design in the downtown of Kansas city was made in shape of books that according to people of Kansas city represent Kansas. 

Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace, France

 

Ferdinand Cheval Palace was built by a postman in Hauterives, France, who intended to use it as his own tomb but haven’t obtained a license for that. His Ideal Palace is now known around the world. 

Forest Spiral Hundertwasser Building, Darmstadt, Germany

Forest Spiral Hundertwasser was built in 2000. Designed by Austrian architect and painter, Friedensreich Hundertwasser the building has 105 apartments and features colorful and organic design.  

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Built by Nervion River Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art was designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The building’s silhouette resembles the ship while the design was random, which helped it, according, to architect catch the light.

Bahá’í House of Worship a.k.a Lotus Temple, Delhi, India

Bahá’í House of Worship mostly known as Lotus Temple was constructed in 1986 and is a Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent. It is open for people of all religions.

Ripley’s Building, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Known for the collection of odd and unbelievable things and artifacts Ripley’s Believe It or Not! franchise just had to have this kind of building.

The Crooked House, Sopot, Poland

 Started and finished in 2003 The Crooked House was design was based on Polish artist and child books illustrator, Jan Marcin Szancer’s and Per Dahlberg’s, Swedish painter pictures and paintings.

GET YOUR SWERVE ON

The Atlantic Road was opened in 1989 and is now toll-free. Chosen as “Norway’s construction of the century” in 2005, the 8.72-kilometre (5.4 miles) long road links together small coastal communities.

Snake with Five Head in India

It’s a five headed cobra supposedly found in “Kukke Subramanya, Near Mangalore, Karnataka, India”. Enjoy in this cool photos

Interesting and Funny Facts of English Language

• No word in the English language rhymes with Month, orange, silver or purple.
• 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'MT '. (Are you doubting this?)
• The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
  (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
• The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right Or right to left (palindromes).
  (Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)
• There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  (You're not possibly doubting this, are you ?)
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
  (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, A E I O U)
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  (All you typists are going to test this out)
• What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
• "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
• There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper
• There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
• There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
• Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed", "exceed" and "succeed."
• Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
• "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
• "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Nokia Mobile Secret Codes

These codes will work on most Nokia phones. Tested on Nokia 5130 Xpress Music. Anyway Nerdy Geeks does not accept responsibilities for any kind for damage done to your mobile while trying these Nokia Secret Codes.

*#06# for checking the IMEI.

*#0000# To view software version.

*#92702689# Takes you to a secret menu.

*#2820# Blue tooth device address.

*#746025625# Sim clock allowed status.

*#62209526# MAC addres of WLAN.

*#7780# reset to factory settings.

*#7328748263373738# resets security code.

Top 21 Desktop Shortcut Keys To Ever Use

These days are very interested to use shortcut keys & some newbies asked me to list it, but now I’m back to college, so i listed out the top 21 & we will blog the whole shortcut keys list later. Now let us see the top 21 desktop shortcut keys

1. Windows key + E = Explorer
2. Windows key + Break = System properties
3. Windows key + F = Search
4. Windows key + D = Hide/Display all windows
5. ALT + Tab = Switch between windows
6. ALT, Space, X = Maximize window
7. CTRL + Shift + Esc = Task Manager
8. CTRL + C = Copy
9. CTRL + X = Cut
10. CTRL + V = Paste
11. CTRL + Z   = Undo an action
12. CTRL + Y  = Redo an action
13. CTRL + A  =Select all items in a document or window
14. F1 = Display Help
15. F2 = Rename the selected item
16. F3 = Search for a file or folder
17. F4 = Display the Address bar list in Windows Explorer
18. F5 = Refresh the active window
19. F6 = Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop
20. F10 = Activate the menu bar in the active program

Youtube Trick I Never Knew Of!

There are times when your internet is acting up and even a youtube video doesn’t load. Here’s a nifty trick I found today.

• Pause movie
• Hold Left arrow key
• Press up arrow key
• Play Snake!

Awesome isn’t it!! Anyone else knew about this? are there any more “hidden” tricks for youtube?

The World’s Cheapest Tablet for Only $30 each

 

We often hear that cheap tablets keep coming from chinese manufacturers but the world’s cheapest Tablet comes from India. Actually the India government are trying to develop a $10 laptop but their experiment result a 7 inch tablet which only priced Rs.1500 ($30). It is not like the expected price but this $30 tablet is worth and very useful. This India’s tablet runs Linux OS and sport 2GB of RAM, WiFi and USB port as well as a webcam. The tablet support cloud computing and Adobe Flash. Lots of free or open source applications also preloaded to the tablet which include Open Office, PDF reader, Media Player and some more. This cheap Indian tablet expected to hit the Indian market starting from next year.

Facebook Keyboard Shortcut Keys

Using keyboard shortcuts not only help you to increase your productivity and accomplish more tasks, but also more efficient. Moreover, it makes you look like a pro, right?

In Windows, it is too common to find people using keyboard shortcut keys. For any Windows user, they should know the basic combination keys like Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

But have you seen people using keyboard shortcuts in Facebook? Guess what, Facebook has it’s own set of built-in keyboard shortcuts.

If you are a hardcore Facebook user that spends hours on Facebook, you might want to check out the keyboard shortcuts. It helps you to navigate around Facebook with ease and saves you time in the process.

Here is the list of key combinations which you could try in Facebook by using Google Chrome.

• Alt+1 : Return to Home
• Alt+2 : To view the Wall tab
• Alt+3 : To pull down the Friends Requests list
• Alt+4 : To retrieve the Messages list
• Alt+5 : To call out the Notification list
• Alt+6 : Account setting page
• Alt+7 : Account privacy configuration.
• Alt+8 : Facebook fans group page
• Alt+9 : Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
• Alt+0 : Facebook Help Center
• Alt+m : Create new message
• Alt+? : Cursor in the Search Box

As the shortcuts are browser-specific, so please refer below for your specific browser:

• Google Chrome : Alt + #
• Internet Explorer : Alt + #, then Enter
• Firefox : Shift + Alt + #
• Mac OS : Ctrl + Opt + #

Now, this should make you a pro Facebook user! Thanks

Samsung AQUA Transparent Touchscreen Cell Phone

 

South Korean designer Bon Seop Ku has creatively designed the “AQUA” for Samsung. This unique handset was inspired by drawing on the table with water, which features a progressive design to attract next-gen customers. Presenting a transparent body together with graphical user interface (GUI), the futuristic mobile handset comes with AMOLED display to enhance the experience of the user. The source of the interface is a water-based touchscreen. Users can delete the icons of the interface by simply rubbing the display with their hands. See more pictures after the jump. 

Nokia X3-02:Touchscreen aluminum beauty with 3G/wifi for 161$

Nokia has just revealed its X3-02 handset, which has standard 16-button keypad with a 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen, now that’s excellent news for budget market.  It sports Nokia S40 on a 2.4-inch resistive touchscreen, the X3-02 also has a numeric keypad, 3G and WiFi, and will launch in Q3 2010 priced at around €125 ($161).

Update : Check out our latest post on Nokia X3-02 touch and type spotted, First Impressions and Pricing in Pakistan, India and US

 

Other specs include an FM radio, 5-megapixel camera and a bundled 16GB microSD card.  It’s small, too, measuring in at 9.6mm x 106mm x 48mm and weighing 78g; all this in an aluminum shell; according to Nokia Conversations battery life is rated at five hours talk time or 17 days on standby.

This phone will be launched in countries like China, Ireland & UK, Russia, Australia & New Zealand, Singapore, Germany, Spain & Portugal, France, Mexico and Saudi & Yemen in the first phase

Check out the full specifications of Nokia x2-03 here.

10$ Laptop Developed By India.

This is a dream coming true effort by Indian computer scientists for the society who were  unable to hold their fingers on the laptops. Yes, now we have the world’s cheapest laptop developed at scientific institutes located in Veloru, Bangalore and Madras. This will surely boom the information technology movement in the vast country like India and abroad.

 

India has developed and released it some days back with costing max to 10$ to 20$ (  500 to 1000 INR). That will be surely a butter bite for the IT enthusiasts. The laptop, jointly developed by University Grants Commission, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was released by honourable Union Minister for Human Resources Development. This product is in beta testing stage and will be available in markets by next 4-6 months.  It is named as “SAKSHAT”.

IBM Builds Super Supercomputer

IBM Builds 750,000 Core Supercomputer

 

IBM said it has been contracted by the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory to build a new supercomputer that is seen as a stepping stone to Exascale computing.

Mira will be IBM’s latest supercomputer based on its BlueGene architecture, this time in the BlueGene/Q version. The system is targeted to provide a maximum processing performance of 10 PFlop/s, which translates to 10 quadrillion calculations per second. The company did not release specific details, but noted that researchers will have to scale their applications to about 750,000 cores to take advantage of Mira. The performance is about twice what the world’s fastest supercomputer currently offers.
If 750,000 cores sounds a lot, imagine that IBM already talks about exascale supercomputers that will feature (100s of millions of cores). Exascale supercomputers, which are at least 100 times faster than Mira, are expected to be available around 2020.
Argonne said that the new supercomputer will be “one of the fastest and most energy efficient supercomputers in the world after its construction and installation are complete” thanks to a combination of “innovative new chip designs and extremely efficient water cooling.” There has been no information when Mira will go into service.