knayam.com - Part 4

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By Mayank on January 4, 2010

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Download Windows 7 BETA legally for free

By Mayank on January 8, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft’s latest Windows avatar,Windows 7 (Beta) can be downloaded for free on 9 January 2009.

If you want to download head over to this Windows 7 page and download it. And do it real fast because Windows 7 Beta will be available to the first 2.5 million downloaders only. So be quick.

This Beta will expire on 1st August 2009.

Here is an excerpt from the Windowsteamblog:

On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download via the Windows 7 page on Windows.com. The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (we’re not sending out physical media) and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta.

The Windows 7 Beta will be available in English, German, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi, and each language will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (except Hindi which will only be available in 32-bit). Because the Windows 7 Beta will be offered download-only, it will be provided to you as an ISO image (an .iso file) that you download. After downloading either the 32-bit or 64-bit ISO image of the Windows 7 Beta, you will be required to burn the ISO image to a DVD to install Windows 7. So you want to be sure you have a DVD burner before spending the time downloading the ISO image.

Happy downloading.
Happy New Year and PR update

By Mayank on January 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

A very very happy and prosperous new year to everyone who is reading this message.

May we have economic stability and peace in 2009.

Google gave me a good new year gift, a PR. Google updated its PR in last days of December 2008. Knayam got a Page Rank of 2! Surprisingly,a few internal pages also got PR’s. I dint see that coming. Though I was expecting a PR of 3 for my homepage here. But I dint do any updates in December so I guess I missed the chance of getting a higher PR which seems like a tough job in this PR update process.

Well I have to say this PR update seems a little weird to me. Many good old blogs dropped their PR. Many blogs which have many back links, are stuck at 2. So from that perspective, a PR of 2 for my 2 odd month old blog is satisfactory.

My other main blog still remains to be black listed in Google’s eyes. I wish I got a PR on that.
A keyboard for blondes!

By Mayank on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

You have probably heard a million of blonde jokes and yet they never stop coming. Well the latest addition to the blonde saga is not specifically a joke but something very similar to it.

Keyboardforblondes have come up with a very interesting keyboard that is made just for the blondes.

The keyboard is pink in color and its keys have different “letters” or “words” printed on them as compared to what you find on a regular keyboard.

For instance,

The two “Shift” keys are renamed “Smart Blonde Button” and “Very Smart Blonde Button”

“Backspace” —->>> Oops! (lol)

“Caps Lock” —->>> “Warning! Size XXL letters ”

“Ctrl” —->>> “Somewhat useless key”

“Esc” —->>> “No!”

“Print Screen —->>> “Pink Key 1″

There are plenty more keys that will make you giggle while you use the keyboard. You watch the demo here. And the keyboard also “talk to you”.

All this and much more fun can be yours if you are willing to pay $49.95!
Knayam.com and WL announce $130+ contest

By Mayank on December 1, 2008 | 25 Comments

Knayam has just started and to give it a kick start we have decided to host a contest in association with Wordpressland where in you can win great prizes worth more than $130.

Here is the prize list:

1st prize:

An elegant, fresh and beautiful premium wordpress theme: “Content Press – Premium Magazine/News Style Wordpress Theme” woth $75 (sponsored by wordpressland.com).

The theme is well coded and 100% Valid XHTML/CSS and is ready for easy modification. Theme is also plugin and widget ready. The Content Press premium Wordpress theme also includes a fully prepared theme for bbPress, a forum that ties into Wordpress. (DEMO)

2nd prize:

An elegant, fresh and beautiful premium wordpress theme: “Magazine News – Premium Magazine/News Style Wordpress Theme” woth $49 (sponsored by wordpressland.com).

The theme is well coded and 100% Valid XHTML/CSS and is ready for easy modification. Theme is also plugin and widget ready. (DEMO)

3rd prize:

$5 cash via Paypal (sponsored by Knayam)

4th prize:

1000 Entrecard credits (sponsored by Knayam)

5th prize:

500 Entrecard credits (sponsored by Knayam)

All you have to do to enter the contest is:

1. Make a 40-50 word blog post about this contest at Knayam while also giving a link (no “no-follow” tags allowed) to wordpressland.com.(worth 2 points) Also, talk about wordpressthemes market is getting into the premium Wordpress themes market in Japan with the site wordpressland.com (worth 2 points)

2. Subscribe to the feeds by email.(1 point)

Enter your email address:

3. Leave a message here (1 point)

So you can earn upto 2+2+1+1=6 points.

You can just leave a message here in this post to be eligible for the contest but that will fetch you just one point. Earn more points for better chances of winning.
Winners will be chosen by a draw by me and the video of the same will be put up on the blog.

P.S. The themes will be the english versions,the same as the demo links and not the Japanese versions.

The contests ends 10 Jan 2009 31 Jan 2009 at 23:59 IST.

P.S. All your links should be “no-follow” free.

Good luck!

EDIT: Contest close date shifted to 31 January 2009 due to really less entries so far.
The day Mumbai stood still

By Mayank on November 30, 2008 | 6 Comments

Mumbai is getting back to normal after the unprecedented terror strike that lasted 60 hours. Mumbai found itself in mayhem when about 20 odd terrorists armed with heavy weopons like AK-47 rifles, hand grenedes attacked Mumbai on Wednesday, 26 November 2008.

The gunmen attacked 10 places like Chhatrapati Shivaji Bus Terminal (CST), a famous cafe (leopold cafe), railway stations, tourist spots, two 5 star hotels, cinema hall,hospital. Around 180 innocent people (including foreigners) lost their lives and 370 were injured. ATS (Anti Terrorist Squad) chief, Mr. hemant Karkare was also shot dead.

The attack is unique in every sense. The world had never witnessed anything like this before. Surely, this was the biggest, and most co-ordinated terror attack on India. Gunmen opening fire on civillians, policemen, and then holding hostages at three places, where the fight to thrash them lasted for more than two days. Terrorists also asked for people with British and American passports,another first of its kind.

According to initial reports, terrorists are thought to have come via a small boat to Mumbai’s coast, and then they dispersed in teams to their pre-decided destinations to create havoc.An previously unknown group, Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility behind the attacks. Speculations are also on regarding possible Pakistan link of the terrorists, though Pakistan has strongly denied any involvement. Though initial investigations point towards LeT (Lashkar-E-Taiba)

Terrorists held hostages at three places, including two luxuru 5 start hotels viz “Taj Mahal Hotel” and “Oberoi- Trident Hotel” and at Nariman House,a Jewish population dominated area. NSG, Army, Navy, marine commandos (MarCos) were deployed in addition to the local police to bring down the hostages who were holding hostages. This very difficult task took 60 hours mainly becuase of these reasons: (more…)