Neerav's Blog

Useful Google Products

2009-07-03T10:58:00.000-07:00

1. Google Alerts

This tool is useful helps to search items as soon as it is added. It consists of a form where you have to fill search term, type (where to search the term in video , news ,blogs etc.) , frequency of alerts to be received. You can create upto 1000 alerts.

2. Google Chrome

This tool is a browser with many useful features. Useful features are suggestions as you type, most visited websites in “New Tab”, importing settings such as bookmarks , see the progress of downloads etc.

3. Google Directory

This tool is used to search by topic of your choice. It gives the no of articles for the topic you are searching.

4. Google Notebook

This tool is used for taking to clip and collect information as you surf the web.

5. Google SMS Channels

This tool is used to receive and send sms on the topic of your interest. To implement this, we can create a channel and then send / receive messages. You can also subcribe to already existing groups to receive / send sms.

6. Google In Quotes

This tool gives the quotes by major politicians and administrators of the country.

7. Google Trends

This tool is used to find out which item on the internet is highly searched. It also gives the graph of the item in consideration.

8. Google SMS

This tool is used to send the search query and get the results on mobile. We have to send a query by SMS to 9-77-33-00000 and results are received by SMS immediately.

All the new products of google can be located at http://labs.google.co.in/

Memorable Bus Journey

2009-07-02T11:26:00.000-07:00

When i sat on a BEST bus on 29th June 2009, which is a local bus transport in Mumbai. i met with a good experience. While sitting in the bus, i was reading the book "The Goal" by Mr. Elirayu Glodratt which i think is a must read book for everyone. At that time i was reading the part of the book related to the concepts of productivity.

The bus conductor was constantly shouting "Bheed koh aane do . Bheed koh mat daro". This is a typical sentence you hear in Mumbai ( Dont be afraid of the crowd . Let it come )

Conductor : Beechwale aage chalo. Bheed koh aane do . Bheed koh mat daro

Passenger 1: Itni bheed toh hain . Aur aur kitno ko loge.

Conductor : ( Pushes that man ahead ) Dekh Jagah ho gayi .

Passenger 2: Master (ppl call conductor master here ) rehne do

Conductor : Thoda khisko aur log aa jayenge

Moral of the story if the conductor is thinking to increase the cash flow by increasing throughput (rates at which sales generate money acc to Goldratt), then he was absolutely on the button.

Compare him with Chennai Bus conductors where they sit in one place and dont even bother to give tickets to everyone.

"Thats how productive mumbai bus conductors are : Extremely tough job but they are doing very well. A salute to them"

My Blog Idea

2009-07-02T11:22:00.000-07:00

Hi friends,

From now onwards, i will try to keep my blogs as short as possible. The idea is to share the experience using facts crisply. Probably big brother of tweets :) or probably its the age 20-20 :).

What's the Action ?

2008-12-05T10:34:00.000-08:00

The recent mumbai attacks have jolted the entire country.
Thousands of people came onto streets to protest against the measures taken for internal security of "Common man".
Now the focus shifts towards what Action should be taken so that we dont face this brutal attack again.
Let us look at all the alternatives:
1. Bomb Pakistan and get those militants. I dont think this is going to solve the problem.
2. If we say that we will try to increase internal security , then that's good but that's not enough.We have to respond to the attacks.
Then what should we do ?
I think the only option is to put "Pressure" on Pakistan using International support to fight against the terror. We have to continuously monitor the stepss taken by Pak to root out terror.
Hence International Community have to demand action from Pakistan on a regular basis.

Also as Citizens we have to be alert all the time and report any discrepancies you find in your neighbourhood , workplace etc.
Lets hope for the best.

My First Blog

2008-04-09T04:58:00.000-07:00

Hi ,
I am Neerav Gada from Mumbai .
This is my first blog ever.

Cheers