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4 Gyan Vigyan THE GLOBAL TIMES | JANUARY 16-31, 2011 OTOMANIA My first experience of stepping into the shoes of a journalist was in one word, Awe-fantastic-some! Sarthak Batra, Page Coordinator Science & Technology Imaging: Pankaj Mallik Plain is simply old they say, let us go the edited way! M Rashika Sood X A, AIS MV ore than 14 million photos are uploaded daily on facebook (umm, yeah I Googled it). So yes, you open facebook and your news feed will be full of photos! What all, do we NOT do to get a perfect picture that can fetch us hundred “likes”? Posing? Make-up? Or EDITING? Manipulating photographs to cover up that extra flab or concealing tiny yet embarrassing pimples, is the magic called photoediting! It is also a perfect display of your emotions, especially when you don’t know what to gift on your friend’s b’day - edit a photo of yours and your friend together and voila, you have a gift ready!! So, to all the photo maniacs, here are some free KeWl oNliNE Web$ite$ to have fun with. Befunky.com: As the name ‘Be funky’ suggests, the site provides funky editing effects. Feeling lazy? Just one click away! Use the repair option which effortlessly produces the desired results. FunPhotoBox.com: Want a picture with Edward cullen? Or limelights falling on your posters? Or one with bats flying behind you? You can get cool animated picture effects on this site. It’s one web- site where you can really have fun. Moronface.com: This is the best site to vent out your enmity and yet end up giggling! You can distort faces, make them creepy, scary or funny and then simply post it. Just upload your photo and the result=a moron face. Picartia.com: You can create beautiful mosaics and collages in just three easy steps. Photo505.com:A facebook app, this one provides a huge variety of cool templates and digital photo effects to choose from. It surely will keep you busy. Magmypic.com: Flaunt yourself on more than 50 fake magazine covers that the site offers. Edit your photos and make yourself famous. Pizap.com: All pranksters are going to relish this site! You can add groovy glasses, funny emoticons; text bubbles and even stickers! A little bit of tomfoolery is fun. Hairmixer.com: If you are gaga over Lady Gaga’s hairstyle or want one like Megan fox, you can choose from the hundreds available and change your hair color and style in a click! Try a hairstyle every second. So, all the photo enthusiasts go and check out these addictive sites and have fun. G T Browse the Epic Way B Sarthak Batra, X A & Ankita Marwaha, XII B, AIS MV Killer Plants! I Ritika Sharma X A, AIS MV f I tell you to imagine plants, conventional thoughts would be colourful flowers with scented petals and little dew drops on green leaves, a pleasant sight indeed. But if your imagination ends there, it’s time to rescale your thoughts, because there is another side of the plant kingdom which you are yet to unveil. Plants can also play Killer roles! We all know about Pitcher plants and Touchme-not plants, but they aren’t all. Here are a few more. SUNDEW This New Zealander plant lures the insects with the shiny droplets on its leaf, which is actually a sticky liquid, landing on which, the insect gets stuck! The more the poor creature fiddles to escape, the hold of the tentacles gets tighter. COBRA PLANT: “Cobra!” generates a danger instinct, doesn’t it? The tubular leaves of cobra plant resemble a rearing cobra and when any insect ventures the inside of this plant, it be- comes his last venture. Lubricating secretions and downward-pointing hair in the pitcher, traps the insect till death. Not just restricted to the wilds, These killers might even have a clandestine existence in your vicinity. STAPLE CYANIDE The African staple, cassava, must be thoroughly boiled and soaked to separate it from its poisonous compound, cyanide.(Yes ! the quick killer cyanide) SEEDY POISON Seeds - well, we don’t pay much attention to those seedy parts of fruits. We don’t care even if we swallow them at times. But halt there, if you are eating an apple while reading this! Cherries, potatoes, peaches and apple seeds are all toxic – eat enough of the latter, and it will prove fatal (Now you may resume eating and stop gaping). Just around you Many incredibly lethal plants are often hanging around the neighborhood park or gracing your tabletop. How many of you still believe green is clean? Anyways, Beware! You can be the next target of these killer plants.G T ehold! India’s first web browser ‘Epic’ is here. Developed by the Bangalore based ‘Hidden Reflex’ on the open source Mozilla Platform, Epic browser is specifically customized to the taste of Indian users. First launched in July 2010, it comes LOADED with preinstalled widgets. Social networking and email are just to name a few. Notes, videos, to-Dos, alerts, maps, games and even browsing through your computer files can be easily done through a single application, effectively reducing number of windows one has to open while surfing the web. It gives you 1500+ themes and wallpapers to choose from, supports transliteration to 12 Indian Languages including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Punjabi, Tamil Windows users can download it from www.epicbrowser.com, Linux and Mac versions are also expected soon. Listen to Learn and Urdu (and not just Indian- Greek, Nepali, Persian and Russian too). It is claimed to be the first web browser featuring built in antivirus and anti phishing protection. Its icon is a tribute to the Indian Tricolor Flag. Though it lacks the raw speed of Google Chrome, the flashiness of Safari 4, the extendibility of Firefox and the packaging of the Internet Explorer, it’s definitely worth a download. This Republic Day, be Indian, surf Indian. G T Do you think that reading is boring? Try listening! P Ankita Marwaha, XII B, AIS MV icture this…You are going to sleep, someone’s whispering a story in your head and just when you were about to sleep… WHAM! goes agent double-oh-seven’s bullet... No I‘m not talking about a friend telling you James Bond’s latest exploits over the phone, nor am I hinting you to reminisce your childhood storytelling sessions that have now faded into oblivion. I’m talking about AUDIOBOOKS. i.e sound recording of books that can be narrated into your ear via any audio player. While such books have existed for quite some time, not everyone has availed the plethora of advantages audiobooks have to their credit. Benefits of audiobooks: •Its great for homeschoolers, learningdisabled or – visually impaired students, struggling readers or non readers and second-language learners. •Learning through audiobooks is a great way to expose children to literature other than the traditional fairy tales. •More economical as opposed to buying dozen of books. One book can be used for the entire class. •Fun way of learning with interesting sound effects. •Improves pronunciation and interpretive reading. For those who wish to buy audiobooks might have to face issues like their rare availability in stores and shelling out an exorbitant amount. However, you need not worry as you can easily get them via internet for free or at a nominal price. All you need to do is to search for the audiobook on Google, download it, transfer it to any device that supports mp3 format and voila- You have someone narrating your favourite book to you, just the way you had wanted. (P. S. For those who are transferring the files into iPods, go to itunes, import the mp3 format file, right click and select get info>options>media kind>audiobook and itunes will then start recognising your file as an audiobook. Audiobooks are large files, so use download mgrs to speed up your downloads)G T