February 2, 2012

My first obstacle avoiding bot based on the tutorial by Community of robots. This is my first one and helped me learn a bit about sensors, feedback and servo operations. One difference in mine is the use of IR proximity sensor which I had lying around instead of the Sharp distance sensor. This one does not measure...

January 25, 2012

I was fascinated by LASERs when I first went to IIT Kanpur during my school days. Since then I have been reading / playing a lot with LASERs. My first one was a LASER trip wire and then a LASER pattern generator. It all was around 10 years back. Having recently acquired an Arduino UNO a plethora of options have opened up. I have started to learn from the beginning and this time I have the power of a...

Arduino – 7 segment Dice

January 23, 2012

I have been waiting to play with embedded programming since and recently ordered an Arduino. I tested the spare LCD and displays with the normal tutorial commands and went step by step remeber the thing about slow and steady! I want to build a vector LASER projector and a quadrocopter someday but that is too far. It is kind of my VISION. My Mission is to learn embedded programming via arduino. It is one hell of a kit. My very first experiment was a 7 segment dice.

Why investors are not making returns in the stock market

January 4, 2012

In the last 10 years, sensex gas grown at 17.79% CAGR. That means, if someone could have invested Rs. 1 lac 10 years back, it could have grown to 5.14 lacs. In the last 10 years one third of diversified equity mutual funds have delivered a CAGR of more than 25%. That means if someone could have invested 10 years back in these mutual funds Rs.1lac, it could have grown to Rs.9.31 Lacs. But how many investors have REALLY got these kinds of returns…? In this context knowing about the...

Factors To Consider Before Investing In IPO

December 28, 2011

IPO’s or initial public offering is best understood as the first public offering of shares by a private limited company before listing in a stock market. Looking down IPO’s history of success and failure stories, you would be smart to first fully understand the various aspects behind such offerings and makes the right choice to invest or not in IPO’s. It is advisable to understand that investing in IPO’s could prove risky with unfavorable market situations and sentiments and...

How to increase your twitter followers

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January 3, 2010

By Ridhima

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If you are looking for increasing your twitter followers/friends then here are some tips which if you follow, you can for sure gain good number of followers in a short span of time and build a bigger network :

Register and start following the top bloggers or top twitter users who are in your business
Offer breaking news within your twitter network which can be ReTweeted[RT] and can help you in becoming famous within a short span of time.
Fill your profile under your settings tab and try to fit your profile under the 160 characters limit[One Line Bio]
Upload unique images using TwitPic, and tweet about them, which are worth retweeting.
Start Twitter contests among your blog/website readers with prizes given randomly.
Advertise on TwitterCounter which is a effective way to gain followers quickly.
Link to your Twitter Profile from all the available locations like your Instant Messenger Status, Email Signatures, About Page on your Blogs, digg profile page, facebook, myspace, linkedin etc
Ask Questions on Twitter, which can be answered by many and in return they would even follow you for building a network with you.
Post about job updates or openings at different companies and employees looking for jobs would follow you.
Use Hashtags(#) for particular keywords which are sometimes searched more than the normal keywords in twitter search engine.
Mr. Tweet – A personal twitter assistant. Follow that bot and the tool suggests the best people who can come under your network, and make good conversations with them, and this in-turn gets you more followers.
Show off your follower count and rankings by displaying Twittercounter, Twitter Grader buttons in your blogs.
Be active always. If you can’t, Tweet Later can help you schedule tweets for you when you are busy or not connected. This shows your continued presence on twitter, which followers expect from you.