hhuu.. there are so many things… but just one biggest point, when picture quality matters… look at size of sensor …..

Point to shoot :

* Size in inch format represents diagonal value. similar you see in TVs like 21″, 32″.

Is that make any sense ?

I have added an image to feel size difference of sensors

हर बार … हर साल ना जाने कितनी जाने जा रही है .. लेकिन प्रधान मंत्री से ले के पार्षद तक , कोई भी आत्नाक्वाद से लड़ने के लिए कोई ठोस नीति बनने की इच्छा नही रखते .. कोई कोशिश नही .. कोई कानून नही .. कोई संवेदना नही..!

वो दिन कब आएगा जब शासन में बैठे इन दिग्गज नेताओ को आतंकवादी निशाना बनाये और इन नामर्दों के बदले कोई हिम्मतवाला और मजबूत आदमी उनकी जगह ले…! एक बार मौका आया भी था जब संसद पर हमला हुआ था… लेकिन जाबाज हिम्मत वाले मर्द तो संसद के बाहर खड़े थे… और उन्होंने आतंकवादियो को बहार ही ढेर कर दिया… अंततः अन्दर बैठे डरपोक लोग तो बच गए और अगले दिन से फ़िर आने लगे…!
वैसे ये बात साफ़ तौर पर आतंकवादी भी जानते है कि अगर वे इन नेताओ को निशाना बनायेगे तो नुक्सान उनका ही होना है… उनकी आतंवादी गतिविधिया चलती रहे …उसके लिए इन नेताओ के हाथ में देश कि बागडोर होना जरुरी है….नही तो कोई सही जाबाज के हाथ में सत्ता चली गई तो सारी आतंकवाद की बंद कर देगा..!

सब जगह एक जैसी ही  ख़बरे है ..  शेयर मार्केट धराशायी … मार्केट से सारा पैसा गायब … डूब गए शेयर दलाल .. ना जाने क्या क्या  ..

खैर मामले पर ज़रा ढंग से गौर किया जाए ..  कि आख़िर सारा पैसा कहा गायब हो गया ..किधर चला गया ? उड़ गया या जल गया ? जमीं खा गई या आसमान निगल गया ? ..  और जब शेयर मार्केट कुलांचे भर रहा था और चारो ओर शोर  हो रहा था कि हिंदुस्तान का आदमी मालामाल हो रहा है … तब इतने धन कि उत्पत्ति कहा से हो गई थी ??

नही नही … ऐसा कुछ भी नही है .. ! जरा गहरे में जाए तो ये सब पूंजीपतियों का एक चौपड़  जैसा खाले है जिसमे मीडिया आगे कि लाइन मैं बैठी ताली बजाती, चिल्लाती है और आम आदमी दूर बैठा मूक दर्शक.

पहली बात तो पैसे ( धन , Money ) की सीधे सीधे छपाई नही हो सकती , कही पेड़ पर नही लगता .. कही फैक्ट्री में भी नही बन सकता . जितनी भी धन सम्प्पति  दुनिया मैं मौजूद है वह दुनिया के लोगो की रोज की मेहनत के बल पर धीरे धीरे ही बढ़ता है … !  और ये नही हो सकता की सरे लोग १ दिन अच्चानक ८-१०  गुना मेहनत कर के संपत्ति बढ़ा ले ..! क्या ये हो सकता है की १-२ दिन में देश में सारी सड़के बना दी जाए ? १-२ दिन में सारी फसले उगा ली जाए और भण्डार भर जाए ?  नही बिल्कुल नही .. बस ये हो सकता है की आप कई दूसरे भंडारों से निकाल कर किसी एक भण्डार को पूरा भर दे.

ठीक यही होता है शेयर मार्केट मैं. अभी मार्केट बहुत नीचे है ..और पैसा नही है .. इसका ये मतलब नही कि पैसा उड़ गया .. बल्कि कुछ खास लोगो  ने  सारा पैसा अपनी अंटी में कर लिया है ! और ये वही खास लोग है जो बड़े बड़े बिज़नस चलते है .. और बरसो से इस कारोबार में है .. और बरसो से ना जाने कितना कमा रहे है … ! अब आप ख़ुद अनुमान लगाईये कि इतना सारा पैसा लाखो करोडो लोगो ने जो एक हुंडी ( share market ) रख रखा था … उसे कुछ सौ या हजार लोग निकाल के भाग गए !!!!! तो सोचिये कि वो लोग रातो रात कितने माला माल हो गए.. ? आदमी को कुछ समझ ही नही आया कि क्या हो रहा है .. और जब तक कुछ समझ आता .. तब तक बड़ी मछलिया चारा ले के भाग निकली और बचा तो परेशानी और विलाप. शेयर के बड़े चालबाजों और दलालों की सामान्य  कमाई  भी एक आम आदमी कि कल्पना से भी परे है, फ़िर ये तो विशेष कमाई का मौका है.

तो फ़िर ये इतना हो हल्ला क्यो कर रहे है ….?? कारण है “कम कमाई” … जिसे इनकी भाषा में हमेशा नुकसान कहा जाता है..! और दूसरे को माल ले जाते देख ख़ुद चिल्लाने लगना वो ज्यादा ले गया और मुझे नुकसान  हो गया  ( नुकसान मतलब कम कमाई )…  ! आम आदमी की तो खैर वैसे ही कोई सुनवाई नही है … जाए तो जाए कहा .. उसने अगर कोई पैसा मार्केट में लगा रखा है तो उसके पास इतना वक़्त ही नही होता कि वह नफा नुक्सान का हिसाब लगा सके.

तो फ़िर मार्केट इतनी जोर से बढ़ा क्यो था ?  जब रातो रातो नोट नही छपे जा सकते  तो फ़िर अचानक से मार्केट कि ये उचाई ? ये  एक बड़ा छलावा था. अगर आप गौर करे तो एक शेयर दलाल का मुख्य काम होता है मार्केट गिरने पर शेयर खरीदना और बढ़ने पर बेचना ..! अब अगर मार्केट घटे बढे नही फ़िर धंधा कैसे चले ? कमाई कैसे हो ? तो कुछ लोगो का काम यही होता है कि मार्केट को कंट्रोल करे .. उसको घटाए फ़िर  माल ख़रीदे ..और फ़िर खूब बढाये .. और माल बेच दे..  जब बिक जाए तो फ़िर घटाए और फ़िर ख़रीदे .. ये एक अंतहीन प्रक्रिया है. रिलायंस परिवार का कई बार ये काम को अंजाम देने में नाम उछला  है .. और ये भी कहा जाता है कि सेंसेक्स अम्बानी परिवार कि मर्जी का गुलाम है. खैर मैं ऐसा नही मानता है .. मैं मानता हूँ कि कई और ऐसे परिवार और बिज़नस घराने है जिनका सेंसेक्स गुलाम  है ..!

तो पहले तो एक ऐसा माहौल बनाया गया कि भारत बहुत ज्यादा तरकी कर रहा है ..और बहुत पैसा सम्पति बन रही है .. अगर इसमे हिस्सेदारी चाहिए तो आओ .. शेयर मार्केट में पैसा लगाओ और दिन दोगुना रात चौगना कमाओ .. !  और फ़िर कहते है ना कि  लालच बुरी बला ..  अमीर गरीब आम ख़ास दलित सवर्ण .. सब चल दिए पैसे लगाने ..  सबको पूरा भरोसा हो गया था कि पैसा दोगुना चार गुना होने वाला है … रही कसार विदेशी भारतीयों ने कर दी और लगा डाला अपने डालरों को … देखते देखते सेंसेक्स २० .. २१.. २२ हज़ार पर पहुच गया .. और अब तो बहुत माल जमा हो चुका था .. तो बारी थी चतुर चालक भेड़ियों की.. सब माल बटोरा और चल दिए … !

यहाँ आप सबका सवाल होगा कि ये तो विदेशो में आई गिरावट का नतीजा है ..इन भेड़ियों की वजह से नही है .., लेकिन थोड़ा और उपर सोचे तो ये ऐसे लोग हर देश में मौजूद है और उनके उपर और भी कई सुपर चालक लोग है ! अमेरिका और यूरोप मैं इन्हे लॉबी बाज़ कहा जाता है .. और मार्केट पर इनकी पकड़ बहुत मजबूत होती है.

वैसे ऐसा  बरसों से होता रहा है .. अन्तर सिर्फ़ इतना है की इस बार बहुत ज्यादा स्पीड से मार्केट चढ़ गया और फ़िर एकदम बुलबुला फट पड़ा. और सब धराशयी .. ! इसमे बाद सारे लोबी बाज़, शेयर दलाल, बड़े बिज़नस मालिक, सरकार मिल कर सम्हालने की कोशिशे करने लगी .. ये इतना ज्यादा ख़राब हो गया कि कुछ भी कंट्रोल नही हो पा रहा है ..! आग से ये सब लोग इतने खेले कि अब आग बुझाने का नाम नही ले रही है ..और इनके ही हाथ जलने लगे है ..! आम आदमी को तो ये पहले जला चुके थे .. तो वो बेचारा असहाय पड़ा है… !

फ़िर भी इन चल्बजो कि कितनी भी ख़राब हो जाए स्थिति आ जाए .. ये अमीर हे रहेंगे …और लुट गया बर्बाद हो गया चिल्लाते रहेंगे. मीडिया भी इन्ही लोगो के पीछे भागती रहेगी !  हाल ही में दिवालिया हुई कंपनी Lehman Bro के सीईओ  Richard Fuld  जाते जाते $२२ मिलियन डालर ले गए .. उनको  retirement pay के नाम पर ये पैसा मिला ( या कहो कि निकाला ). जबकि कंपनी में इस पद पर रहते हुए उन्होंने १५ साल में ४८४ मिलियन डालर कमाए. ये तो सिर्फ़ सीईओ कि बात है .. बाकी सभी आला अफसरों ने भी मोटी मोटी रकम अपनी अंटी में कि और चल दिए फ़िर एक नए ‘लूट-प्लान’ पर.

अब भला आप ही बताईये कि दिवालिया हुई इस कंपनी से वास्तव में कौन लुटा ?

और धराशायी हुए इस शेयर मार्केट में हकीकत में रोटी के लाले किसके पद रहे है ?

There are many countries in world who was affected by hyper-inflation time to time. Here are few extreme cases from wiki :

• Germany in 1923 when the rate of inflation hit 3.25 × 10⁶ percent per month (prices double every two days).
• Greece during its occupation by Nazi Germany in 1941-1944, when the rate of inflation hit 8.55 × 10⁹ percent per month (prices double every 28 hours).
• Yugoslavia’s rate of inflation hit 5 × 10¹⁵ percent inflation between 1 October 1993 and 24 January 1994 (prices double every 16 hours).
• The most severe known incident of inflation was in Hungary after the end of World War II, peaking at 4.19 × 10¹⁶ percent per month (prices double every 15 hours).

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आईपील मे टीमें खरीदी गई करोडो डोलर्स मे और फ़िर खिलाडियों को तनख्वाह दी जा रही है … वो भी करोडो डोलर्स मे .. और उसके बाद तमाम खर्चे ! जो पैसा आईपील मे बोल रहा है .. ये कही पेड़ से तो झडा नही … गया हम सब की जेब से ही है .. और हमे तब तक महसूस भी नही होगा जब तक हम गंभीरता से सोचे नही नही.. !

एक बात और मेरी समझ के परे है की जब सारा खर्चा और सारी कमाई हिंदुस्तान मे रुपयों मे हो रही है तो ये बीसीसीआई और आईपील वाले डोलर्स डोलर्स क्यो चिल्लाते है ! सब डोलर्स मे बात करेंगे .. खर्चे से ले के कमाई तक. … अब तक हिन्दी मे बात करने मे इन लोगो को बेइज्जती और छोटापन महसूस होता था अब रुपयों की भी बात करने मे भी इन्हे शर्मिंदगी होती है…. हां भाई सही है .. स्टैंडर्ड की बात जो है …! कैसे समझाए इन लोगो को की हिन्दुस्तान के ९४-९६% लोगो को डॉलर की रुपये मे कीमत भी पता नही … और बात अंग्रेजी की तो हिन्दुस्तान मे अभी भी ७०-७५% लोग अंग्रेजी नही समझते ! और जो २५-३०% लोग अंग्रेजी से वाकिफ भी है उनमे से ८०% लोग बमुश्किल कुछ ही अंग्रेजी वाक्यों को समझ पाते है .. ! खैर फिलहाल यह मसला भाषा या नोटों का नही .. बल्कि क्रिकेट के व्यवसाय का है.

अब एक और बात जो मुझे बड़ी अजीब सी लगाती है वो ये कि टीमों को बनाया किस आधार पर गया…. ! कोल्कता की टीम का मालिक ना तो कोल्कता का है .. ना ही टीम के आदमी और ..नही वह कोई रहता या प्रेक्टिस करता है. फ़िर भला ये टीम कोल्कता टीम किस लिहाज से कहलाई जाती है ? .. और फ़िर जम्मू की या पटना की या आसाम की टीम क्यो नही है ? देश के सबसे बड़े और चर्चित राज्यों मध्यप्रदेश और उत्तरप्रदेश के नाम पर टीम क्यो नही है ? ये सब नामकरण लोगो की भावनाओ से पैसे बनने का है … राजस्थान के लोग समझे की राजस्थान रोय्लेस हमारी है … और तमिलनाडु के लोग समझे कि चेन्नई वाली हमारी .. और लुटाये अपने पैसे …..!! अब कौन दिमाग लगाये कि सारी कि सारी टीम मुम्बईया है और वही के बड़े बड़े होटलों मे रहती है .. फ़िर जहा जहा मैच होते है बस वह का वीआईपी दौरा !! तमिलनाडु के लोगो को कम से कम धोनी से ये तो पूछना चाहिए कि वो चेन्नई या तमिलनाडु के किसी भी इलाके मे कितने दिन रहे है ???

खैर और ना जाने कितनी कितनी बातें है जो साफ करती है कि क्रिकेट खेल नही धंधा है पर चलो किसी दिन और कुछ बातें करते है ….. हां लेकिन ये तो कहूँगा कि वाह क्या धंधा है …!!

When I switched on TV today, …. News …. 4 babies died after vaccination within 9 minutes. Hard and shocking news!!

This was not all death count of the day. Many others died in two different accidents. All sad, but first one was shocking because it is somehow related to all of us. We all go for vaccination, for our family and children.

How many of us really give attention on vaccination process?? When you go for it, do you check name of vaccine, manufacture, manufacturing date, expiry date and condition of vaccine??

Yes, It all matters!! Very much!!

Many of us really don’t know that vaccination is always under debate and controversies and doesn’t provide guaranteed cure from decease. We will discuss on this later, as it is not so important for most of us.

Keep in mind when go for immunization :

We really don’t have choice, we must have to go for all necessary and other vaccination. We need to protect our self, and next generation from deadest diseases. The side effects are on lower side. So what we can do … precautions. Most of us really don’t care much while doctor is giving vaccine to child or us. Few points I should mention here :

• Check vaccine name and company – There are several companies are now involved in drugs manufacturing. Many are marketing companies and outsource there manufacturing to third party. In normal drugs and medicine, scenario is worst. For example paracetamol is manufactured by thousands companies in India. Many of them 2 room size unit. I don’t know what is scenario in vaccine manufacturing, but I can think it is also worst. Recently supplied vaccines, which led to 4 children dead in Tamilnadu, were manufactured by a new Gujarat / Maharastra based company. The company got fetched order first time from government and supplied first time vaccines. GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth, Pfizer, Serum Institute of India, Merck, sanofi pasteur are some well known and good companies.

• Check always dates – manufacturing date, expiry date, place of manufacturing.

• Vaccination schedule – Schedule vaccination on the right time. Normally a vaccination card provided by hospitals has all date and time but most of us now days quite busy we couldn’t match exact age many times. There is no harm in postponing by few days but certainly do not propone. The chart provided by hospitals is standard, and based on national health index system. However in India, we are following mostly European chart, which doesn’t fit 100% for Indians. Growth of child in European countries are different then our India. Average birth weight in India is 3 Kg. But in Eastern and European countries, is 4.5 Kg. So always consult to doctor about right vaccination schedule.

• Time – Many doctors suggest vaccination at morning timings. In India we do not have 24×7-working infractrure. Many services don’t operate after evening. So in case of any complication, services are available in daytime.

• Allergy – If child has any kind of allergy with anything, it should be informed to doctor before vaccination.

• Health – Child should not have any kind of illness, fever or other disease while vaccination.

• Medicines – It is advised, no medicines should be given, 24 hours prior to vaccination. Also after vaccinations, medicines are subject to doctor’s supervision.

• Oral polio drops – Food or other eatables should not be given up to 30 minutes after OPD.

• Manual mixing of vaccines – Many times more then one vaccines given at a time by manual mixing. This we do normally to reduce numbers of injections. These are always subject to debate and different doctors have their different views. Mixing is always subject to mix right quantity, on right temperature, on hygienic environment. And most importantly, health of child. Many doctors advice that we should only goes for those vaccines, which are specially developed for two or more disease and packed while manufacturing. There is up to three vaccines successfully mixed in research and researchers working for five. These are pre-developed and manual mixing is not involved. Also manual mixing for more then one vaccines is should be decided based on health of child. Keep in mind, we can’t mix any two vaccines, the process and combinations are well defined. As of now there are not too much vaccines to be given, and we worry about numbers of injections. So I presonally think… avoid manual mixing and go for one vaccine at a time.

There are lot more issues involved in vaccination, Lets understand better ……
What is the Vaccine?

One line definition is “A vaccine is a preparation which is used to improve immunity to a particular disease”. But Vaccines are not chemical formulation like other allopathic medicines.

Vaccines are dead or inactivated organisms derived from virus/bacteria of particular disease. They contains killed or live microorganisms, taken and from blood of infected body and processed later. Few are made from toxic elements, like tetanus.

There are so many vaccines available now days. We normally concern much with childhood vaccines, and compulsory vaccines. Government of India has decided a list of vaccines, should be given within 2-year age schedule for a child. This schedule is mainly based on European vaccination system. World health organization (WHO) plays big role in making of vaccination policies worldwide. Indian vaccination schedule, made by Govt of Indian with WHO India, is as follows:

• Hepatitis A ( > 1 year)

• Chickenpox ( > 1 year )

• MMR (Replaces Measles vaccine, combine for 3 decease, measles, mumps and rubella.

• Typhoid

Pneumococcal vaccine

In July’06 Wyeth launched first Pneumococcal vaccine (named Prevenar) in India. Prevenar was licensed in 2000, and it is now part of the regular immunization schedule in many countries. But it is quite costly, available in somewhere around 3500 Rs, not affordable for most Indians. So we have to still wait for some time, till these medico companies recover their invested money and earn good enough profit, then price will come down. As of now this vaccine is not the part of necessary vaccination program, so you need to decide for it.

Pneumococcal disease is a group of illnesses caused by streptococcus pneumoniae, also known as the “pneumococcus” bacteria. These diseases are mainly attack infants and children under 2 year and in very few cases, children under 5 years.

Vaccination by Choice

There are plenty of vaccines available and many of them are not the part of childhood or necessary vaccination. This all depend on your living conditions and environ factors. Some of them are Rabies, Flu, caries (related to tooth decay), rotavirus, and smallpox.
A HPV (related to cervical cancer) is also introduced in 2006.

Vaccine controversies

There are several controversies around the world regarding safety of vaccination. There are some controversies related to ethics and morality derived by Christian gurus and religious groups. But I do not consider it as Vaccine controversy; it is there attitude problem or just non-sense. There are several incidents of boycott of vaccinations and they paid for it. A large group of Netherlands is one the victim in recent years by measles (1999–2000). In Europe and American states, a law still exists, if any one has religious issue with vaccination, the can be exempted from “national necessary vaccination program”.

I specially focus on medical controversies. There are proofs of side effects by vaccines. Certain studies and research has been proven that vaccination is not that much effective what is claimed by manufacture companies. All vaccines fall into patent law and formula is licensed to companies. The patent owner company makes huge profit by direct sale, royalty, further derivations and many other sources. A big amount goes directly by government if the vaccine is added into common necessary vaccination program. So most patent holder companies promotes their product on war level. And some time it misguide to common people. There are several cases reported in India and around world, where particular disease captured even immunization was done. And some time immediately after vaccination. Early polio program in India has several reports, that polio infected child after next day of vaccination. My father used to tell me about few cases in my childhood, mostly was from our nearby villages. It was not studied well by government but vaccine manufacture companies takes such data silently for further research and improvement in vaccine. New oral polio vaccine has much better results, but still every year many cases reported by government. In 2006, there were approx 500 polio cases reported, and approx 900 in 2007. Un-reported cases may be much more because 30% of Indian population lives in far rural areas with highly poor status, and not able to report or treat. Some NGOs believe, no is much higher then government reported, can be up to 4-5 times. One strange fact is, India holds nearly 35% yearly new polio cases from world.

However I respect “NATIONAL POLIO SURVEILLANCE PROJECT”, a tuff and expensive project execution by Govt of India with WHO. Nearly 1 Crore people involves, on the day of polio vaccination.

MMR vaccine controversy

MMR controversy comes in picture vary soon after vaccination starts. It is over safety of MMR vaccine. After giving the dose of MMR, incidence of autism has greatly increased. Autism is an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders or somewhat mental retardation. In 1998, UK, A group of doctors published a paper regarding MMR side effects and clearly proved by study of MMR given children, that there are large growth of cases of autism. He suspended MMR vaccines at there hospital and suggested to give all 3 vaccines separately. His study denied by many medico giants and opposed by manufactures. The issue is still unresolved and further study is going on. On other hand, study shows, MMR vaccines have link with Asthma, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Crohn’s Disease, Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis, and most discussed Autism.

Also it is always advised, if child has any allergy, it should be discussed with doctor while giving MMR dose.

Thiomersal controversy

The thiomersal-containing vaccines (TCVs) are in use since 1930, have similar controversy, cause or contribute to the development of autism and other brain development disorders. Vaccine making process has involved use mercury and thiomersal, which are seeing a cause for this side effect. However medico authorities and manufacturer denies this and says there are no convincing scientific evidence. This issue is raised many times and still disputed. In 1999 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) asked to remove thiomersal from vaccines immediately. Also they suggested, do not give does of Hepatitis-B does to new born. Many hospitals in US, suspended Hepatitis-B vaccine to newborn. Later it has been resumed.

Lawsuits

There are more then 5000 cases registered only in US, claims relating to autism. One claim was compensated, and 350 were dismissed; the rest are pending. US have prominent law for compensation, and tight justice system, that’s why people are filing lawsuits and demanding justice. Such cases also registered world wide, but here is no fact sheet or data available. Most of population even could not understand side effects of vaccines so there is no reporting, especially in devolving countries.

Denies of side effects

Well, this is clear, many researchers and doctors mentioned, vaccines have side effects. Some are high and some low. But Medical authorities and drug manufacture always denies it.

Right!! They have to deny, other wise they have to pay a big price. Many lawsuits are filled in US, UK, and many other countries. If serious side effects have proven, government has to pay lot of compensation because immunization is done under government’s necessary vaccination program. Also, vaccine manufacturers have to pay huge amount to public and public funds. On other side, it will affect manufacturers billion-dollar business. So there always controversy will be exist and immunization will go on.

Handling of vaccines.

Handling of vaccines is very important. Most of vaccines require a cold constant temperature to maintain its purity. In India we are lacking in infrastructure, we do not have 24×7 power guaranty or standby power supplies. Many times, drugs stored in refrigerators in medical stores and power fails more then 4 hours. It puts many medicines on alarm. While transportation, many times they delayed to put again in cold storage. Most vaccine suppliers always try to maintain required conditions; GSK has delicately a “cold-chain” program for this. Still there may be chance of failures.
Note: All views written here are my personal, based on experience, discussions, and study. Please consult always your doctor.

This review may not be much helpful for professionals, but may be good for normal consumer or personal videographer, as I am looking with eye of normal home/event video maker. After all this is consumer camcorder NOT the professional

- The camcorder is excellent, and one line review is – I AM HAPPY.

- And the one big fact is : Its not FULL HD, Its just 1440×1088 (actual, and yes 1088 not 1080) and stretched to 1920×1080 resolution. Canon is misleading to everyone here.

Main features :

• Hard disk based – 40GB storage, AVCHD format.

• 10x Optical/200x Digital

• Optical Image Stabilization (lens shift)

• Video resolution – 2.07 MP ( Strached and fixed, you cant change)

• Still Photo resolution – 3.1 MP Max.

For full specs, please refer : http://www.usa.canon.com/app/html/HDV/HG10/specifications.shtml

Here is my first test compostion :

Pari’s Day out. (HD) from SatyaDev

Recording format

This tiny tool record videos only on HardDisk and stills only on miniSD. File format is AVCHD, with variable bit rate.

Most of people says HDV (tape based) is better then AVCHD. But for me, Its not as much true. If you can record uncompressed video or in Microsoft video 1 format, that will be better then HDV also. In theory HDV uses more space(~25mbps) then this AVCHD(~15mbps), so it may better. But if you play footage of of both format shot under similar condition, on a full HDTV, you will not be able to determine the difference easily. First you should understand canon HV20 and HG10 both outputs video on 1440×1088 and upscales it to 1920×1080. It means they populated pixels 1.3 times. And, HDV may be good theoretically but this stretch-n-fit action sets it almost equal to AVCHD.

Let consider the 2nd thought, Handling. Canon HG10 creates a single file for every start/stop while tape based recording goes continuously until tap ends. You can simply plug your HG10 with USB cable to PC and transfer all footage within minutes. And all recordings separated, in a single file. I cant think, playing/editing with captured video can be so easy and fun !!!

Now think about working with HDV ( tape based HV20/30). First you need to play/transfer video to PC in real time. For 1 hour video, you need to spend 1 hour transfer time. Then separate videos into individual clips. Software are available for it, but this is again a time consuming process. Many times you just take a test footage for 4 mins or 5 mins or sometime 10 mins, and same time you want to check them on PC ? Yes, Its very difficult to play with it. Normally every one re-uses tape, and there is always a confusion about start/end point, which was we exported, which not. And some time we overwrite the video, which was not transferred to PC before.

So at this point, what you will prefer, AVCHD with extremely easy handling or 1%-5% better quality with lot of hassles ? I seen, because of lot of hassles and limited time, we only edit/export very important videos, rest of them are always on tape only.

Low Light Performance

When we say low light, what it mean ? really very low street light at night or bright moon’s night ? yahh .. but for this camera, normal home light is also low light. I tested under normal 60W Tube-Light, which is much more sufficent for reading, working and daily needs. But HG10 performed very bad. It has too much noise, motion trails and heavy color loss. I found this camera shoots ultimate under bright day light but anything other then that turned out into color loss. Some times I feel, Sony’s cheap DV handicam provide better low light perfomrance (I dont have footage in same condition for comparision, So I can’t claim). But as this is a consumer level Camcorder, I should say Okey.

Overall result is HG10 is not impressive under low light, but okey for consumer level, or similar to all other DV models.

Greb pics from Video Function

(editing continued…..)

There are so many tools available to enable Hindi ( and other Indic languages ) in your computer. Here you may get a good list and methods , but my preferred tool is HindiWriter,developed by Devendra Parakh. It can be downloaded from download.com. Its free , Thanks to Devendera Prakash.

It is very simple, doesn’t use much resources your system. You can switch your keyboard between Hindi and Enlgish by using “Shift+Pause” key. Once you switch your keyboard to Hindi, it works in all Unicode ready applications, e.g MS office, Firfox, IE, msn-messenger or whatever you use. Some applications still doesn’t support Unicode editing, like Yahoo messenger, so can only hope, they will release Unicode ready version soon.

This is keyboard layout of HindiWriter, it is phonetic keyboard, so you have to write as you spell. It is easy for most computer users, however it may take 2-3 days to remember few keys, e.g., .D for ड़ or .Dh for ढ़.

If you are a Remington keyboard user, dont panic, U need to install Microsoft IME, It is also very simple and provide many keyboard layouts. Remington ( aka Traditional ) layout provide best writing capabilities and fastest typing control.

So make your computer Hindi Ready and Enjoy expressing in your language.

If you have taken any loan from ICICI bank and could not paid installment then be ready to get worst….. Yes.. DEATH SENTENCE from ICICI bank. Although it is works virtually, from recovery agents on behalf of ICICI bank.

Watching news on CNBC-Awaz (19-09-07, 9PM) One more died because of LOAN default, taken from ICICI. 38-year-old Prakash Sarvankar, a father of three daughters, check full news and <more> <more>

Recently, recovery agents of ICICI Bank allegedly beat a customer to death at Hyderabad, in order to recover a loan of just Rs 15000. <read full story>

ICICI is well known for such harassment and death cases from there recovery agents. ICICI bank is having highly qualified professionals for recovery. Yes, persons with with great crime records and index.

A bank never allow any external person when giving money or allotting loan to some one . Then how they can involve external GUNDAs, goons, criminals. Fault is on government level, every year many no of cases comes in news but still no action on banks and no low enforced by RBI or government agency to stop external criminal’s role in the banks.

Let check just few of cases, :

• In alleged but unsubstantiated incidence of suicide, a father while talking to Times of India, stated that “The ICICI Bank recovery agents visited his house and threatened his family. And his son Nikhil consumed poison because of the tension”. But he has not registered any such complaint with the police. [more]

• Oppressed by ICICI bank’s loan recovery agents, Shakuntala Joshi (38), committed suicide by hanging herself. Suicide note stated that she was upset with the ill-treatment meted out by ICICI Bank recovery agents and had thus decided to end her life. Police officials believe that the overtly aggressive mode of ICICI Bank’s recovery agents and consequent mental tension must have driven the woman to commit suicide. [more]

• another case of a suicide it is alleged that ?goondas? sent by ICICI Bank abused Himanshu and his wife in front of the entire colony before taking away his vehicle. It was claimed that though Himanshu offered to pay the arrears, the bank officials insisted that he pay an amount of Rs 44,000 for release of the vehicle. Feeling frustrated and insulted, he reportedly committed suicide.[more]

• Murthy, a scientist with the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, was allegedly tortured by recovery agents of ICICI Bank after he defaulted on his loan.?They humiliated me no end. They ripped my shirt, shaved my moustache, cut my hair and gave electric shocks on my chest and even spat on my face” adds Murthy. [more]

• A dozen recovery agents of ICICI bank, riding on bikes, allegedly forced a prominent lawyer, Someshwari Prasad, to stop his car while he was going to the high court. They held Prasad at gunpoint and also slapped him to to force him to pay a debt to ICICI. A manager of the ICICI branch, Rakesh Mehta, alongwith four other employees including the collection officer and the security guard, were arrested.[more]

• A recovery agent allegedly working for ICICI Bank was injured in an exchange of gunfire with Lucknow police. Police said that the miscreants opened fire at the police, who returned fire. The agent, along with three others, was trying to escape after allegedly depriving a contractor, Jitendra Singh, of Rs 5500 in cash and a cheque of the ICICI Bank for non payment of EMIs. On confronted by Police they opened fire on Police.[more]

• High Court had ordered registration of an FIR against ICICI Bank branch manager, President, Chairman and Managing Director on a complaint of 75-year-old widow Prakash Kaur. In her petition before the High Court, she had complained that ?goondas? were sent by the bank to harass her and forcibly took away her truck. [more] [more]

• In the same case, when the Supreme Court wanted to know about the procedure adopted by the banks, ICICI Bank counsel Mr. Rohatgi said notice would be sent to a defaulter asking him either to pay the instalments or hand over the vehicle purchased on loan, failing which the agents would be asked to seize it. When the Bench pointed out that recovery or seizure could be done only legally, ICICI bank counsel said, “If we have to go through the legal process it would be difficult to recover the installments as there are millions of defaulters”. [more]

• Taking strong exception to the ICICI Bank’s use of ‘goondas’ against a defaulter to recover a two-wheeler financed by it, Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (North) president K K Chopra said, “The fact leaves us aghast at the manner of functioning and goondaism in which the bank is involved for a petty amount of Rs 1,889… such attitude is deplorable and sends chills down the spine….The bank had the option to recover dues through legal means. They have no legal right to snatch the vehicle in such a manner which amounts to robbery,”. In this case a borrower got an overdue payment notice from the bank giving him seven days’ time to pay the outstanding amount. But just two days later, he was stopped while travelling on his scooter by four persons and was told to hand over the vehicle to them. They pointed a pistol at him when he tried to resist. ICICI bank later sold the vehicle. ICICI bank argued that they had taken peaceful possession of the vehicle “after due intimation to the complainant as he was irregular in remitting the monthly instalments”. But the court found out that the records proved otherwise.[more]

• senior ICICI bank officials were booked in Indore in August 2007 for abducting Vikas Porwal from his house and keeping him hostage in the bank premises.[more][more]

• The credit card division of the ICICI Bank allegedly threatened a senior citizen in Chandigarh with a fictitious arrest warrant to obtain a payment of Rs 14,300 on account of a default that never was. [more]

• Delhi State Consumer Commission has asked ICICI Bank managing director K V Kamath to personally appear before it in respect a complaint alleging that the bank had employed musclemen for forcibly taking possession of a loaned car for which only last 3-4 installments remained unpaid. Borrower on protesting the forceful dispossession, as seen in the post-incident photographs, was roughened up and sustained the injuries.[more]

• An 18-year-old boy who defaulted on a credit card payment was allegedly kidnapped and detained at the Pune branch of ICICI Bank for three hours before his father paid up.[more]

• Links for other minor legal cases accusing harassment by ICICI Bank [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Are you in the process or getting loan/credit card from ICICI ??

Are you planning to get loan/c card from ICICI ??

So what are you thinking ??

The misleading web site appears authentic with familiar graphics and logos. The wordings are professional right down to the legal disclaimer at the bottom of the page.

If you happened to be holding an account of the claimed bank, followed the instructions of the email and input your account, pin, password, etc. you are doomed. You just have handed over access to your account to a con artist, who, in a matter of days, will drain off all the money available in that account.

This new scam, which is proliferating in a very rapid pace, is called “Phishing”. Phishing is a form of identity theft, where a con artist with the help of official looking email containing link to phony web pages capable of harvesting information, tricks an unsuspecting victim into divulging sensitive personal data. Scammers use these data to bilk victims out of their savings.

One of the most common phishing campaigns being waged has targeted users of Web auction giant eBay and its PayPal division with financial services giant Citibank serving as another popular target. However, recently, every major bank has been hit with this scam. Crooks send out huge amounts of emails with an expectation that some of these email address owners may have online access to their accounts at the bank.

The term “Phishing” is a deviation of the word “Fishing”. In hackers’ lexicon, in many words, “F” becomes “Ph”. The term derives from the fact that scammers use sophisticated bait as they “fish” for users’ personal information.

According to Gartner, a research firm, illegal access to checking accounts gained via phishing has become into the fastest growing type of consumer theft in the United States. Roughly 1.98 million people reported that their checking account was breached in one way or another during the last year and US$ 2.4 billion were defrauded from the victims!

Gartner also estimated that 57 million U.S. Internet users have received phishing emails and 3 percent of them may have fooled into revealing their personal sensitive information.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group has also spotted a dramatic increase in reports of phishing attacks in recent months. Since November, 2003 phishing scams increase by about 110 percent each month. In April alone, the group identified 1125 unique phishing scams, a sharp lift of 178 percent from the previous month.

MessageLabs, a company that watches phishing scams closely, has noted an even more dramatic increase in number of phishing emails. It claims to see phishing messages jump from just 279 in September, 2003 to a staggering 215,643 in March of 2004.

The scammers also started to use more sophisticated technologies in recent months. The latest generation of phishing scammers uses several methods to trick users, including pop-up graphics to mast the true web URL of the phishing site and the installation of Spywares and Trojans on victim’s computer. The perpetrators also take advantage of security bugs in web browsers, in which the URL in the address bar appears to be for one site but is, in fact, a link to a totally different site.

A new Windows worm under the name “Korgo” is able to infiltrate into victim’s system with a key logging Trojan, steal information that the victim input in web forms and secretly transmit to designated server. There are a number of variants of this worm and they are spreading rapidly. However, Microsoft in April came up with a patch to seal this glitch. Many computers without the patch are still vulnerable to this potentially dangerous worm.

A U.S. Treasury report provides consumers with steps to prevent and report phishing scams:

* Do not respond to or open any e-mail that warns that an account is about to be closed. Contact the company directly by phone and inquire of this e-mail.
* Do not submit financial information unless there is a symbol for a locked padlock on the browser’s status bar. Also look for the https:// at the beginning of the Web address. If both of these signs are absent, the Web site is not secure.
* Always review your bank statement and credit card statements immediately upon receipt.
* Verify the domestic telephone number listed on the Web site through directory assistance or other reliable sources and call the number. Many phishing attacks have originated outside the U.S. and don’t have a domestic number.
* Report suspicious activity or if you have been defrauded to the FTC and the FBI.
* Phishing e-mails can be forwarded to uce@ftc.gov. Complaints can be filed at www.ftc.gov. Phishing attacks can also be reported to the Internet Fraud Complaint Center at www.ifccfbi.gov.

Other cautionary measures you should take in order to protect yourself are:

* Since most of the phishing emails come through spam, get a spam filter and install on your computer.
* If you suspect a phishing attempt, report immediately to the bank. Every bank web site has a link or a toll-free number to report scams. Don’t be ashamed if you were tricked into divulging account information. If you report it immediately, your account will be protected until you receive a new PIN.
* Change your password and PINs regularly. Banks advise that you use separate PINs and passwords for different accounts, that way if one gets compromised, your entire financial life won’t be revealed. – If you are a frequent user of EBay, download its Web browser toolbar, a small program that runs with a user’s Web browser. It flashes red when the user visits a possible spoof site. The toolbar uses a database of spoof site URLs, submitted by customers and is updated quite often.
* Check your computer frequently for possible Trojan virus