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SSLC Results 2010 – Keral

It should be available within a couple of minutes here. All the best

http://results.bennaiqbal.com



SSLC Results 2010

Results for Kerala board exams will be published on Monday 11:30 AM IST and on Tuesday for 12th Kerala Boards. Since there is a lot of confusion regarding the Result source, I’ve gathered all the sources and incase you don’t find the right source, just click the link below and it should take you to the results page.

http://results.bennaiqbal.com

All the best everyone!



WF 3.2 is Online! A Whole new Look.

It’s been so long since i wanted a simple, but clean new look for Windows Forums. There had been very tiny errors, but which was very annoying. The pages were loading slowly. The site’s color looked burning. So i decided to go ahead with an idea of making the site simply yet user friendly and pleasant. We have the whole new design, the new Windows Forums design for the year 2010.

I’m not posting a screenshot over here and taking away the suspense. See for yourself the cool new design as well as the functions here at

Windows Forums



9 41 9 42: The secret of Apple’s recurring numbers

Calling John Locke! If you aren’t too busy on the Island, perhaps you can help us out with a little number mystery in Cupertino. John? Hello? You there?

For years, Apple has featured a recurring number in all of its iPhone ads and screen shots. The time in the status bar always reads 9:42. What’s more, since the debut of the iPad, the time in every iPad ad and screen shot always reads 9:41.

9:42 or 9:41. Every single time.

What can those specific times mean? Well since Locke isn’t answering my pleas for help (you’d think he was dead or something), I’ll just have to turn to another Jon. Apple’s iPhone number question has bugged Jon Manning, lead developer of Secret Lab, for years. Did the numbers have some sort of cosmic significance or were they just randomly selected by an Apple graphic designer with a thing for the 9:40ish time slot?

Jon dug around for answers, but after the search led nowhere, he eventually all but gave up on finding out what the numbers meant. Then, this past January, he began noticing the iPad’s reoccurring numbers and knew it couldn’t be random chance — these numbers did mean something. How would he find out what that something was, though?

That’s when fate stepped in. Jon was at the Palo Alto Apple store this past Saturday when none other than Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone software, appeared. Jon didn’t sit around and question why, on the exact day that the numbers had been bugging him so much, Forstall suddenly decided to appear. Instead, he marched right up to him and demanded answers asked nicely about the numbers. That’s when Forstall turned to Jon and transformed into a huge black smoke monster that judges people’s souls nicely answered him.

“We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation,” Forstall revealed. “When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience’s watches. But we know we won’t hit 40 minutes exactly.”

“So you add a couple of minutes,” Jon said.

“Yeah! And for the iPhone, we made it 42 minutes. It turned out we were pretty accurate with that estimate, so for the iPad, we made it 41 minutes. And there you are – the secret of the magic time.”

So there you go, folks. That’s the the secret behind Apple’s recurring numbers. And Jon, you’re on a roll, but you may want to stay away from any pan-Pacific flights for the time being. There’s an island out there with your name on it.

Via TUAW



iPhone OS4 to get Printing support?

Apple has hinted at the prospect for direct printing from the iPad in its support documents for iWork apps, suggesting the feature may appear as part of iPhone OS 4.0.

Support pages for iPad’s Pages, Keynote, and Numbers apps each note that “printing directly from iPad is not currently available,” rather than simply stating that the apps do not print.

For now, Apple directs users to send their documents to a desktop computer that can print them, either via email or using iPad’s new File Sharing feature in iTunes.

The ability to print via Bluetooth or WiFi may likely be part of Apple’s iPhone 4.0 announcement on Thursday. Apple could avoid the need to include the massive amounts of (often buggy) printer drivers used by Windows or Mac OS X by simply supporting a limited subset of printing options.

Other details related to iPad’s new hardware, its new Human Interface Guidelines, and its new feature tweaks (and curious feature omissions) will be considered in tomorrow’s “In-depth review of iPad and iPhone OS 3.2.”

[Via Apple Insider]



New Grades App

Grades for iPhone

A Must have for Students

One more addition to the ‘must-have student iPhone App list’ – The new Grades app in the iTunes store. Grades shows students what they need to score on their upcoming assignments, tests, and finals in order to get the grade they want. And its easy. And its downright fun!

The UI is beautifully designed, the app welcomes you showing your current classes on home page.

You can tap any of these classes to show your current grades and the target you need to achieve. It surely motivates your grades Smile I’ve been keeping a track record of all my achievements and I’d say, its the best grades app out there in the Education category. Hope we can see more from the developer on an iPad version too Smile

Get it on the AppStore now!


Feathers for iPhone

One of coolest additions to the AppStore, an intelligent new app called Feathers. It was on sale today, so i purchased one Smile

The app basically allows you to convert the text input into various other ways, such as flipped text, striked text, 1337 style etc.

Its one of the intelligent apps among the other tons of Twitter clients our there in the AppStore. Check out the screen shots. Its one among the cute looking iPhone apps in the appstore. The tweety on the right gets filled with green color as the number of characters increases and gets filled when the tweet limit (140 characters) reaches.

It’s a must buy for any Twitterholics Grin



Plus One Sample Question Paprers

Guys,

Just thought to let you know that Kerala board has published a bunch of sample questions for plus one and plus two higher seconadry classes. You can get them at

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If your’re having trouble getting it, please do let me know so that I cab upload it here.



Solar Eclipse 2010

Here are some of the snaps captured from the longest lasting solar eclipse of the Millennium, 11 Minutes and 6 Seconds, 11.06 AM GMT +4.0 (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat)

The next similar solar eclipse will occur on the same date, Year, 3048, a Thousand and thirty eight years from now Razz lol I’m sure even our grand children’s children would be able to see it.

Anyways, here are the shots