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- Big B – Amitabh Bachchan to sizzle on television with Bigg Boss 3
- Idea – Walk when you talk
- Surf Excel Advertisement – Daag Ache Hain…
- Display Google Friend Connect Members Count
- 100 Superb Wordpress Themes For Free!
- 60 Websites to promote your articles on
- Want your site to be featured on Google News Home page?
- Tweeting more than Blogging?
- Quick Gun Murugun – Mind It
- Tweet Us at wittysparks custom Twitter Widget
| Big B – Amitabh Bachchan to sizzle on television with Bigg Boss 3 Posted: 08 Sep 2009 10:46 AM PDT Bigg Boss is all set to come up with their season 3 edition on Colors Television. Bigg Boss as we all know is the Indian adaptation of UK’s largest reality Television show “Big Brother“. The first edition was won by former actor Rahul Roy. In this new edition, the surprise package comes in the form of ‘Big B’ Amitabh Bachchan. The Bollywood Super star will be replacing the sensational Shilpa Shetty who was the host of Bigg Boss 2.  Big Boss 3 - Amitabh Bachchan
So, what makes Reality shows like Bigg Boss popular? It could be the sneak peek moments, real life like conversations, chemistry between the various participants and bitchy moments which induces the ’spice’ element in the show. Hence, reality show could be considered a means to vent out the voyeuristic aspect that audiences have within them, which is entrapped and fails to surface in normal life situation. Apart from it, reality shows could also be a means to know the ‘real’ side to stars and their temperament. So, in short, it is about thrill and intrigue rather than a more meaningful context. One would have to wait and watch if this year’s Bigg Boss 3 is making an attempt to change the perception of the audience towards a reality show. By roping in Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan to host Bigg Boss 3 will surely make a remarkable difference to the show in terms of eyeballs and popularity. The star cast of the show is not yet decided and audience would have the onus to decide the residents of Big Boss House. Amitabh Bachchan would act as a truth-seeker wherein he will comment on the behavior of all the contestants in the house and analyze why they behave in a particular manner and also act as an association between the Bigg Boss contestants and the viewers. He will also analyze the weekly developments in the house. Amitabh Bachchan returns to the silver screen after a break of four years, ( he last he featured in Kaun Banega Crorepati season 2 and will be seen sizzling on small screen once again.) For all his devout and diehard fans, his return to television would come as a big news. To the millions who still remember ‘Lock Kiya Jaye‘ from Kaun Banega Crorepati, this legendary actor with his baritone voice created an entire aura of aplomb and warmth which gave the contestants a cushion of comfort in the show. For Colors it is a rocking season with two breathtaking shows coming up i.e. Khatron ke Khiladi level 2 and Big Boss 3 in the pipeline. The channel is already ruling the General Entertainment space with their shows like Balika Vadhu and Na Aana Is Des Laado. So, one would have to wait and watch whether it is able to extend its lead with Bigg Boss 3… Catch the action at Bigg Boss 3 Videos, Promos and Episodes |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2009 09:17 AM PDT The recent “Walk when you talk” commercial is the fifth sequel of Idea cellular’s brand campaign with their brand ambassador Abhishek Bachchan. All Idea campaigns revolve around the basic motto- To communicate a message to the masses of India. They did this having themes like providing education to all, importance of a democratic government in India to this recent commercial’s message linking health and fitness with the use of mobile phones.  Idea - Walk When You Talk
The Idea commercial “Walk when you Talk” is a little complicated in terms of execution as not many people may not be able to get the message properly (in terms of linking fitness and technology by talking over mobile phones). They could have perhaps used a simpler way of communicating to the audience the relation between walk and talk. But overall Idea commercials have been innovative and good in communicating a social message to the audience of India. The following are the videos of all Idea commercials: |
| Surf Excel Advertisement – Daag Ache Hain… Posted: 06 Sep 2009 07:08 AM PDT The recent Surf Excel commercial featuring a teacher and her student is similar to its predecessors and tows the same line that one need not stop living life to the fullest fearing dirt and grime on clothes; in short â€"”Daag Achche Hain“. Take a stroll down memory lane and you could recollect countless detergent commercials which showcased unhappy housewives toiling hard with grime on clothes. And then would come the detergent brand bringing happiness along with it by removing all the dirt in a flash!  Surf Excel Commercial Advertisements This line of thought was shunned with a radical and new course by Surf Commercials that clothes are bound to get dirty but that should not hamper living life the way one should i.e. to the fullest! The recent new commercial of Surf Excel portrays the efforts undertaken by a student to help his teacher get over the grief over the loss of her pet. It also brings out the respect and care that the student has for his teacher. The story line shows that the teacher is very upset as her dog passed away and doesn’t come to school. So her student tries to pacify her and bring a smile on her face by mimicking a dog’s gestures. He gives a ball in the teacher’s hand and asks her to throw the ball so that he could go and fetch it just like her pet ! Ignoring his dress which is all white, he goes around in the muddy garden to fetch the ball and gives it to his teacher and she plays with him just as she did with her dog. In the process, he makes his dress dirty, just to bring a smile in his teacher’s face! The commercial is short and well shot and executed. It somewhere also brings the emotional connect between a teacher and her student and their ability to share the joy and sorrows with each other. The innocence of kids is shown well in the advertisement which also highlights the thought process of children that transcends materialistic aspects like dirt and grime on clothes hindering their daily activities. Surf Excel’s two recent commercials are focusing on the aspect that stains are good and that children are bound to make their dress dirty. So living life with dirt without fearing it! A famous quote by Charles Gordy –
The following are the Surf Excel commercial advertisements: Surf Exel – Daag Acche Hai: Surf Excel ‘Dog Boy’: Watch More Videos of Surf Excel Commercial Advertisements |
| Display Google Friend Connect Members Count Posted: 05 Sep 2009 01:08 PM PDT Now a days many are more fund of using APIs to display a particular data from various services than by using the readily available widgets, by doing this one can achieve or maintain their site look and feel. Many are crazy about the counters to display in their site like, Alexa Rank, Technorati Rank, RSS Readers Count, Google Indexed Pages, Delicious Link Count, etc. I am also more fund of displaying the numbers  Google Friend Connect Members Count Going in the same direction, got an idea to display Google Friend Connect Total Members Count. So immediately started exploring the most user friendly APIs of Google Friend Connect. Finally I have come up with a small snippet with which you can display Google Friend Connect Total Members Count. Before you go through the Friend Connect inline JavaScript code, make sure you have set up your website in Google Friend Connect site. Head to http://www.google.com/friendconnect/ and click “Set up a new site”. You’ll be asked to input some information about your website, and to upload two files to your web server. For assistance with these steps, please consult the Friend Connect help FAQ. Once you have your site properly set up for Friend Connect, visit the Friend Connect panel and click the “For Programmers” link on the list of links underneath the name of the site you have just set up. The “For Programmers” page will give you a snippet of code to copy and paste into the HTML of any of the pages of your website. For reference, this will look something like the following: Here is the Javascript: Let me explain you the Javascript:
And the single line HTML is as follows:
I don’t think there is anything to explain in the above snippet right? And the following CSS will give you a custom look – can modify as per your site look and feel: .memberscountdisplay { display: block; border: 10px solid #e8d7a2; padding: 10px; background-color:#fef5d8; margin:0px auto; text-align:center; height:145px; float:left; width:760px; } #memberscount { font-size: 100px; text-align:center; width:100%; display:block; } Here too So for your reference, here’s the empty HTML file from the start of this article should now look like:
Here is the DEMO of the Google Friend Connect Members Count. Liked this? – Then Spread it all over and happy Google Friend Connect. |
| 100 Superb Wordpress Themes For Free! Posted: 02 Sep 2009 11:37 AM PDT Its really boring to see those old themes over and over again, here is my top 100 list of super cool themes which can be highly customized. I have divided this list into three parts DESIGNER THEMES, CLEAN THEMES and MAGAZINE THEMES which are free to download. The colors, designs and layouts are irresistible. Go Ahead roll over your mouse and enjoy the themes!
100 Superb Wordpress Themes For Free! | AntsMagazine.Com. |
| 60 Websites to promote your articles on Posted: 02 Sep 2009 11:17 AM PDT Writing a good article is not enough. Sometimes, it needs a little help to spread around the Internet. Submiting your article to different websites brings you new visitors and backlinks too, which is good for SEO. You can check 12 Methods to Obtain Backlinks to read more about backlinks.
60 Websites to promote your articles on | AREA 1 – Graphic/web design tutorials & articles. |
| Want your site to be featured on Google News Home page? Posted: 30 Aug 2009 07:32 AM PDT You have got a daily updated blog with the latest happenings, news, movie reviews, Sports etc.? Worried why your original articles are not well recognized? Thinking why your articles are not top on Google Search? Your articles have more original images? and looking to get it featured on Google Image Search or in Image Version of Google News?  Google News Submission
The same thing goes on in my mind, everyone want their site to be recognized well – I am one among everyone So started searching for the article submission to be featured in Google News, and found some interesting information which I thought to share with you all. For the people who don’t want to waste their time – here is the direct link for “Suggest news content for Google News“, follow the instructions in the form and Good Luck. One of my Favorite Blog is listed in News – TechCrunch.com and Google is even giving importance to Authors, you can even search Author based Articles – like here are the articles from Mg Siegler (the author from techcrunch.com) Follow this “Submitting Your Content: Individual articles” for having the your site get featured in the same way as techcrunch.com If your have got different type of content like Web Articles, Pages, Local Business, Media or any Items to Sale, you can check this “Grow your audience – reach more users” page to know more. Know more about Submitting your deviant stuff at “Submitting Your Content – News (publishers) Help“. Before submitting make sure you follow this “Creating a News Sitemap” help. Follow this page for “Submitting video and other multimedia content“. Follow this for submitting “Press Releases Submission“. Follow this important instructions for featuring your images in Google Image Version of News. And here is some good information about “How to get your website listed in Google News” Good Luck Folks! |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2009 09:37 AM PDT Looks like I have got addicted to Twitter now, sharing more web information updates in twitter than in my own blog  Twitter or Blogger
For people who don’t want to or have no time to write paragraphs and paragraphs about their views in a blog, twitter lets them share their idea in a simple 140 characters. It helps people stay in touch with their friends, get to know their opinions and statuses. You can “follow” your friends, have them as your “followers”, share your “tweets” with them and end up “twittering/tweeting” for hours and hours. It helps celebrities, politicians, sports stars to stay in touch with their fans as well. Twitter is also very simple to use, to share information right away with just CTRL+C and CTRL+V These days I seem to be tweeting more than blogging and I feel the urge to look for something to tweet today than to write an article on my blog. Do you share the same feeling like me? Please share your thoughts on twitter and your twitter usage. You can follow our tweets at: http://twitter.com/wittysparks  Follow WittySparks on Twitter |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:24 AM PDT As the name suggests, Quick Gun Murugun has a hero bearing semblance to cowboy of the West, firing from his pistol in a bid to defeat evil. Well, if you thought that shooting was all that the movie offers, then you would be mistaken. It is a spoof that borrows some typical cliches’ from the movies of yesteryears and ‘tries’ to weave a ‘funny’ story around the same thereby giving the viewer an impression of light movie with a touch of the Channel V or MTV kind of a promo stretched for an hour and a half! So a suggestion to those who wish to watch Quick Gun Murugun, leave your brains at home when you go to watch this movie!  Quick Gun Murugun Videos Quick Gun Murugun – Trailer – Watch More Videos of Quick Gun Murugun The movie’s star cast has Dr. Rajendraprasad who plays Quick Gun Murugun and lives up to the role pretty well. Then there is Nasser who plays the lead villain and Rambha who plays Mango Dolly along with Anu Menon (Lola Kutty). The plot is silly by its kind ( being a spoof) and meanders in all possible directions!. The special effects, garish and bright dresses and a few dialogues in between make it slightly humorous. The odd humor in between gives the impression of little ‘eddies’ in the middle of a lake of drag! The second half of the movie becomes a little monotonous and the catchy phrases and effects slowly begin to fade away. The actors have done justice to their respective characters in the movie and one should give credit to Dr. Rajendra Prasad to have played the character and carried it well. In the end, it would be fair enough to say that the movie could be taken as a ‘refresh’ item in the current times but falls short by some distance to meet the expectations. |
| Tweet Us at wittysparks custom Twitter Widget Posted: 24 Aug 2009 11:11 AM PDT When I came across the Twitter HTML widget, just thought why not I tweak it a little and customize it to show the User Info like User Picture, User Name, Following, Followers and their tweets count etc. along with their recent tweets displayed. So just explored Twitter API, and built this twitter widget with Basic HTML, Javascript and CSS. I just made it as a wire-frame, which makes it easy to tweak the CSS to apply your own color schemes which suits your website or blog look and feel. Here is how it looks like (Click on the image to see the demo).  Tweet Us At WittySparks Twitter Widget Here is the CSS: #twitter_div_ws {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; padding: 5px; width:300px; background-color:#FFF; margin: 0 auto;} ul#twitter_update_list_ws {padding:0; margin:0; list-style: none; display:block;} ul#twitter_update_list_ws li {list-style: none; min-height:50px; border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC; padding:5px 0px;} ul#twitter_update_list_ws li span {font-style: italic; display: block;} ul#twitter_update_list_ws .timeago {display:inline-block;} ul#twitter_update_list_ws .timeago a {font-size:10px; color: #999999; text-decoration: none;} #twitter_div_ws b a {font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform:uppercase} #twitter_info_ws {border-bottom: 5px solid #CCCCCC; padding-bottom:10px;font-size: 10px;} #twitter_info_ws b {font-size: 15px; line-height:30px;} #twitter_info_ws img {padding: 0 5px 0 0; width: 50px; border:0px;} Here is the Javascript: function relative_time(time_value) { var time_lt1min = 'less than 1 min ago'; var time_1min = '1 min ago'; var time_mins = '%1 mins ago'; var time_1hour = '1 hour ago'; var time_hours = '%1 hours ago'; var time_1day = '1 day ago'; var time_days = '%1 days ago'; var values = time_value.split(" "); time_value = values[1] + " " + values[2] + ", " + values[5] + " " + values[3]; var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value); var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date(); var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000); delta = delta + (relative_to.getTimezoneOffset() * 60); if (delta < 60) { return time_lt1min; } else if(delta < 120) { return time_1min; } else if(delta < (60*60)) { return time_mins.replace('%1', (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString()); } else if(delta < (120*60)) { return time_1hour; } else if(delta < (24*60*60)) { return time_hours.replace('%1', (parseInt(delta / 3600)).toString()); } else if(delta < (48*60*60)) { return time_1day; } else { return time_days.replace('%1', (parseInt(delta / 86400)).toString()); } } function twitterCallback1(twitters) { var statusHTML = []; var statusHTMLI = []; for (var i=0; i Here is the HTML Code to build Tweet Us at wittysparks custom Twitter Widget:
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