Saturday, January 31, 2009

CELL PHONES & USEFUL TIPS

Hello Every One
I find this very very useful. Therefore would like share these with you. 5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you. There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST - EmergencyThe Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find Yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an Emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to Establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND - Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys In the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk). Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked Our car over a cell phone!'
THIRD- Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell phone next time.
FOURTH- How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following Digits on your phone: *#06#. A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service. provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. And Finally....
FIFTH- Free Directory Service for CellsCell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now. This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

M.S. in Library and Information Science

The DRTC now offers a novel M.S. Programme in Library &Information Science with the primary objective of preparing the nextgeneration information managers

The minimum qualification for admission to the M.S. programme is aBachelor?s degree in any discipline from a recognized Indian or foreignuniversity (obtained after a minimum of 12+3 years of education) with atleast 60% marks in the qualifying examination.

Selection of candidates for the M.S. programme will be based on academicrecords and performance of the candidate in an all-India written entrancetest and interview.

The duration of the Programme is 24 months (2 Years); the programme isoffered only at the ISI Bangalore Centre

For details and application form can be obtained from the following offices :
Indian Statistical Institute (by post or in person)
a) Deanof Studies, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T Road, Kolkata
b) Head. Delhi Centre. Indian Statistical Institute, 7 SJS SansanwalMarg, New Delhi 110016,
c) Head, Bangalore Centre Indian StatisticalInstitute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059,
d) Head, SQC-OR Unit,Indian Statistical Institute, 110 Nelson Manickam Road (1st Floor),Aminjikarai, Chennai 600029,
e) Head, SQC-OR Unit, Indian StatisticalInstitute, Street No.8, Habshiguda, Hyderabad 500007

By paying an amountof Rs.450/- (Rs.225/- for reserved categories) in cash (from 11a.m to 2p.m on working days from Monday to Friday), or by Bank Draft drawn infavour of ?Indian Statistical Institute? payable at Kolkata (Proper).

Prospectus and application forms are also available on
http:www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb in pdf format.

Distribution of Prospectus & Application forms: 10th February 2009 to 06th March 2009 Last date for Receipt of Completed Application forms: 27th March 2009 Date of Admission Test (India and abroad): 10th May 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Secure Electronic Delivery – SED

Delivery of the Document, Confirmation receipt and feedback is most successful process of Business today. Even many document delivery centers follow efficient manual methods such as Mail / Fax and recent productivity improvements with email delivery methods raise problems such as lack of proper documentation, still not receipt of confirmation like security issues exist.
To overcome challengeable security issues and delivers any document in high volumes, SED provides visibility and documentation management in a way that enhances delivery processes for both Deliver and Receiver side.
Secure Electronic Delivery (SED) is an alternative method of document delivery via ILL service which has been introduced in 2003 by the
British Library Document Supply Centre at Boston Spa. It is an electronic delivery of a scanned print article. It delivers articles direct to your desktop/PC faster than ever before. It removes all postal delays and accessible to you anywhere via a link from your e-mail. The document which has been delivered via SED can be forwarded but can only be opened on one computer and have a facility to print the document two times not more than that.
Some of the useful links related to SED:
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/Faq.do http://www.ntu.ac.uk/llr/file_uploads/66260.pdf http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/media/media,48924,en.pdf http://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/FileStore/Filetoupload,14395,en.pdf http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/portal/page?_pageid=734,299371&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL http://www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/infoservices/library/borrowing/requests/external_libraries/sed/index.php

For further information on how to order a document, read blog post “The British Library – Research Libraries” at
http://gadhariblog.blogspot.com/