On my 2007 Vacation, I wanted to visit some cool places in Kerala, but as time was limited and I want to meet lots of old friends, I was not able to make to most of the wishlist. But we were able to visit Peechi Dam in Thrissur Dist. Its located around 23 km from Thrissur City. This dam project started as an irrigation project, offers boating facilities at the reservoir.

Peechi is a good picnic spot. Peechi dam was constructed primarily to cater the drinking water needs of the population of Thrissur city. In addition it also serves as an irrigation dam, reaching out to the paddy fields in and around Thrissur city. Built across the Manali River, the dam is a vast catchment area of nearly 3,200 acres with extensive botanical gardens and cascading fountains offer numerous inviting avenues for tourists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peechi_Dam

Its nice to be here almost in any season, the monsoon attracts a lots of people to here, its the beauty of the fully filled dam water when the open shutters which attracts lots of visitors mostly from the near by places and districts to here. Boating is permitted in the reservoir and on lucky days one can see wild tuskers on the forested banks, part of which forms a reserved forest. Built across the Manali River, the dam is a vast catchment area of nearly 3,200 acres with extensive botanical gardens and cascading fountains offer numerous inviting avenues for tourists. One can see tuskers on the bank of this reservoir Peechi Wildlife Sanctuary, established in 1958 has got 125 sqkm area.

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We started from Mannuthy a small town in the NH 47 which is around 7 kms far from Thrissur, as my friends Sajin, Pramod and Tony joined from there, we travelled in Tony’s car and I was visiting the place for 2nd time. I have been here during my college days and was not able to explore to the wild much. This time we were all ready to cross the limits and move in. As Sajin was familiar with the place and we  have around 6-7 hrs to explore the land, I was really thrilled.

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We started of to Peechi from Mannuhy around 2pm, taking the easiest route, it took some 40mins on a smooth drive, reached there before 2:45pm, the view of the roads with all the lush greenery and trees.. a great view.

We crossed some paddies and lots of greenery.

As we were reaching we can find the Kerala Forest Research Institute(KFRI) entrance,

Established in 1975, the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) is an institution of the Government of Kerala under its Science and Technology Department. The Institute is dedicated to research in tropical forestry, environment and biodiversity conservation. In 2003, when the State owned R & D institutions were re-organized to constitute the Kerala State Council for Science and Technology (KSCSTE), KFRI also became part of the latter. The Institute is managed by a Management Committee (MC) chaired by the Director. The Research Council (RC) comprising eminent scientists of the country overseas and assists in developing appropriate research policies; it also monitors the quality of research undertaken by the Institute.

We slowly moved in towards the Dam and we expected the dam to have some good amount of water after the monsoon. It was in the beginning of the Jan and the weather was not that hot, around 28-30deg.

As we passed we can see the gate of Kerala Engineering Research Institute Ref. (KERI)

We just posed for a shot..

Me too, in the picture, was a nice one.

We first went to the top view point from where you can see all the area and it was so beautiful and as it was windy bit, we really enjoyed, we saw the full area, some panoramic images are shared on last, please see that to have an experience of the same

The Dam was having a good amount of water and it was nice to see that water spreaded along area.

We were walking to the top view point which you can see in this picture, on the left like a temple structure, thats the view point from where you can see almost all the areas of this dam.

There are lots of trees and herbals in the garden along a with some nice canals through which the water flows to this area

The Dam has a catchment area of 3200 acres which is a diversified Botanical Garden. We decided to move down and explore a bit crossing some fences which was there

Ohhh Beauty…

Long view of a great dam..

We reached here crossing through the dams walkway

This is the other side view, the shutter side, and there is a garden setup here, which is good and we invaded the scene later by the time it was time to leave…

We took some break here before we move to the deeper areas near the dams catchment.

It was nice having chit chat and pulling each others legs, cool ….

A young squirrel was watching us.. Nop he was collecting his dinner food..

Yes its time to go wild… we started exploring the dams reserved forest crossing some of the fences which was already used as way to walk through, Sajin know this way, so we were less worried.

I just crossed to shoot Sajin as he was going cool to the limits and I got him on frame

Now Tony follows Sajin and reaches the small Tree.

There was lots of variety trees which was full of green leaves some with very thick leaves.

Sajin, just checking his skills which should be forgotten

We found a small stream along the way, very nice and cold water flows through this.

Now we have crossed another fence and more into the dense forest, we can feel that there is very less noise, each step we place is on top of the leaves which are very dry.

Dry leaves everywhere, and a complete silence, we were just experiencing the beauty of wilderness.

We have reached an area which gives some navigational signs, and Sajin was telling there used to be camps for students here some where in the middle of the forest. Most of which for the awareness of the students.

Tony was rewinding the route which we took, while Sajin mentioned that we will not be taking the same route on return, eh? ok what ever we need to leave this area in 1hr

I was just sitting for a snap here, we took around one hour to reach here it was around 5pm and we were just looking around as the water was not that steep

Some local people used to come and catch fish by using some explosives and also college students visits this place as to spend their bachelor parties, I think now most of the students do not care for such places, they prefer party clubs and discos. In our time we used to explore all possible places, especially for a great outdoor time and adventure trip, myself with my college friends, been to all the nearby dams and waterfalls.. Nostalgia ..

We saw some trees, which actually lives on the other, parasites, but both lives….

An old Bogain Villa Plant..

Here we are, we made a quick visit to the dam and the forest and around 6pm it was time to return, this was taken from the from of the dam, shutters was mostly closed during this season.

We found a small nozzle which was pumping the water to the canal for irrigational water, what a force..

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ABOUT KARUNYA NIKETHAN

As the Technology advances and the computing needs moves more to the mobile side and when you need your data and emails along with the computing power to be always with you and working, you select a device which can do all of this for you in your day today life without much hurdles of size and wires. On such scenarios we were taking the help of the so called  smart phones till now and it was possible up to a level now. But when you need little more power and comfort and real estate of the screen you wish if you could have managed to get a device which we usually see in the Sci-Fi Movies such as Avatar & Iron man 2. I always was a fan of the Tablet PCs and have been following all the Gadget and Scientific research sites closely. Listed here are some of the Latest additions to the Tablet PC and Ultra Portable regime with most of them supporting touch screens.

Tablet PC

Definition (wikipedia)

A Tablet PC refers to a fully functional laptop PC, equipped with a stylus and, in some models, a touchscreen. This form factor is intended to offer a more mobile PC; Tablet PCs may be used where notebooks are impractical or unwieldy, or do not provide the needed functionality.^{[citation needed]}

The term Tablet PC was made popular in a product announced in 2001 by Microsoft, where it was defined as a pen-enabled computerconforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of “Windows XP Tablet PC Edition” operating system or a derivative thereof.^[1] Tablet PCs are personal computers where the owner is free to install any compatible application or operating system. Other tablet computer devices, such as eBook readers or PDAs, do not provide this option and are generally considered another category. The original Microsoft licensing specification required proximity sensing of the stylus, which Microsoft termed “hover”. This requirement was dropped with the later announcement of the UMPC.

As there are still lots of debates going on what should be the strengths and what operating systems can be ideal for the Tablet kind of PCs. We will be primarily looking the following characteristics when you will be going for  the tablet PC Side.

The advantages and disadvantages of tablet PCs are highly subjective measures. What appeals to one user may be exactly what disappoints another. The following are commonly cited opinions of the tablet PC platform:

Advantages

• Touch and Multi touch Centric and direct input type using the hand gestures and hand writing
• Light weight and long battery with standby time up to one week and working time of 10hrs+ and works with either the Intel Atom or NVDIA Tegra , Tegra 2 , Apple A4, Qualcomm Snapdragon A8 Chipsets etc
• Allows to you do both Data Transfers and also Voice and Voip using the 3G or 4G
• Most of the Tablets does support Bluetooth and WIFI, SD Card
• Operating System varies from Windows 7, Apple OS 3.0, 4.0 , Android 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, Linux Variants of Ubuntu and Mint OS, Fedora 10, Google OS (gOS) expected
• Enables users with Video Chat and Voice Chat
• Wireless sync of Data, Apps, Calendar, Contacts etc.

Disadvantages

• Cost of owning the Tablet may be high due to the fact that most tablets are touch centric and large screen with touch capacity and the battery for longer working may cost more.
• Accessory support is limited and can be costly mostly can be supported using bluetooth and WIFI
• Limited availability of the Expansion ports such as USB and Network Port
• Limited Computer Power and Memory, Multi Task is Limited
• Application availability limited for touch centric OSs with touch optimization
• Not fully stand alone and can not replace a desktop with a tablet PC in most cases
• As the input mediums are limited to touch and most tablets will not support a physical keyboard in package, with data centric applications speed may suffer and longer and continuos usage may result in more issues with palm and fingers injury.
• The screen is more exposed to  damages and impacts due to the nature of  input and less protection.

Look into the Existing and upcoming  Models

As all the mobile world was waiting for the release of Ipad from apple inc, so was I, I found the product release bit disappointing on my side not because of the fact it was not worth but because my expectations from such a high profile co. was so high, can not blame any one. The missing options in my concept are here, camera (at least one), USB port, SD Card Slot, uses Micro SIM, OS not Macintosh Full Version only Mobile Platform, no support for Flash applications

Apple Ipad

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

(Courtesy to Engadget Review http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/03/apple-ipad-review/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipad, )

The ipad is more than a device its and icon and fashion statement. There are more than 6 Models with 3 in WIFI only version and 3 in 3G+WIFI model, WFI only starts with USD 499 and 3G versions starts USD 629

The main advantages of Ipad are

• Screen and Portability, very good built quality and very responsive.( onboard is 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, a digital compass, an accelerometer, microphone, and ambient light sensor)
• Support most 1,50,000 apps in the Apple store
• 16, 32, 64 GB with WIFI and 3G+WIFI Models
• Uses A4 Chipset for Processing with 1Ghz Speed
• A 25Wh Lithium Polymer not removable
• 10+ hrs Battery Life on normal Usage
• Support iBooks and Ebook reading support
• Near to desktop Web Experience
• The Apps support such as Remote administration to PC and Macs, support for accessories such as Bluetooth Keyboard, Dock and Cover

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We Tab

WePad Android Tablet Launching Soon

In CarryPad’s live blog coverage of the WePad conference today we learned of new specs, pricing and initial launch date. The WePad is an Android tablet with 11.6 inch touch screen display, 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor, 16GB of flash storage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1, and 1.3 megapixel camera starting at €449 ($611 USD) in July 2010. Shortly a 3G-32GB flash storage model will be available for €569 ($774 USD).

We’ve already seen Notion Ink’s Adam Android tablet sparking interest and rivalry with Apple’s recently released iPad. We’ll watch how this tablet stacks up… see the chart below.

JooJoo  - Fusion Garage JooJoo

The JooJoo is a beautifully crafted piece of hardware, and even if the iPad wasn’t out there for comparisons, its minimalistic design would remind us of an aesthetically pleasing Apple product. The front of the device is nothing but LCD, and the slightly recessed power button on the left edge is the only physical button on the entire thing. We happen to think the lack of hardware controls might be one of Fusion Garage’s biggest mistakes since there’s no easy way of getting back to the menu or home screen, but we’ll get to all that interface stuff soon enough.

The champagne-colored brushed aluminum backside of the tablet certainly gives everything a sophisticated look, and it also feels really nice in hand, if just a tad flimsy in the middle due to its expansiveness. But a “handheld” the 12.8 x 7.8-inch JooJoo is not — at least not in comparison to the iPad or other e-readers, like the Kindle or Nook. The larger and heavier form factor makes it more of a sit up / lap device, rather than something you can use lying down and holding it up. Obviously the payoff is in the bigger screen, and we really shouldn’t whine too much about a 2.4-pound, 0.7-inch thick device when it comes to portability, but one-handing this thing is pretty much out of the question.

A single USB port, a standard headphone jack, and a microphone jack live on the right edge. You can use the USB port to charge the device, but that’s all it will do since the operating system is completely browser-based and doesn’t allow for side loading music, video, or pictures. The camera on the top of the screen is apparently meant for video conferencing, but all our attempts to video chat through Meebo or Tokbox failed.

Screen and speakers

Obviously the JooJoo’s heart and soul is its 1366 x 768, capacitive 12-inch display. We have no qualms about the responsiveness of the glass display – light taps and swipes were all we needed to make selections / scroll down pages as long as the software was keeping up (we had to restart the device a couple times to get things working again touch-wise) – but viewing angles are less than stellar. Unlike Apple’s IPS display, colors fade quickly when the screen is tilted to a 120-degree angle (as demonstrated in our video walkthrough), and when we held it up while lying on our side it was hard to position it to get a great view of the entire screen. The horizontal viewing angles are wide enough for sharing the screen with a friend or two, though.

Getting the screen to rotate from vertical to horizontal can at times be a bit of a crapshoot – sometimes the accelerometer decides it’d like to pitch in and adjust just perfectly and other times it needs a bit of a shake to rotate (JooJoo thinks we might’ve gotten a lemon in this regard, and the problem certainly wasn’t consistent). We’re told the sensitivity will be tweaked in an upcoming software update, along with the speed of rotation. Luckily the ambient light sensor is much more accountable, dimming the screen when not in use and raising the lights in dimly lit situations, but unfortunately it’s positioned right where you might be likely to rest a thumb when holding the tablet in a landscape orientation, causing plenty of unintentional dimming. The two speakers on the back of the tablet sound like typical netbooks speakers – they’re loud enough for personal listening, but won’t fill a room.

Software: Browser and more browser

The user interface on the JooJoo can best be described as a Monet – very attractive from afar, but a total mess up close. Very much like Dell’s version of Ubuntu, the Linux browser-based OS is centered around rectangular shortcuts like Twitter and Hulu which are divided into different categories, including News, Social, and Entertainment. When selected they simply just launch the respective site in the browser. The homepage shortcuts are certainly helpful if you are looking to go to one of the preloaded sites, but there’s no simple browser shortcut if you just want to put in your own URL. Instead you’re stuck opening one of the shortcuts and changing the address. Counterintuitive, to say the least. And that’s all there really is to the entire OS – there aren’t any onboard applications for viewing pictures or music — the only other screen is just a settings section for adjusting the WiFi or brightness. From anywhere on the device you can swipe down at the top of the screen to bring up a navigation bar, which includes browser controls, in addition to quick utility items like bookmark, volume, onscreen keyboard, and WiFi.

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Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t (Tablet PC with Touch Screen and Keyboard)

Who says you have to pick between a netbook and the coming onslaught of standalone tablet devices? Okay maybe some (eh hem Apple), but Lenovo’s trying to have it both ways with the IdeaPad U1 and theS10-3t. In clamshell mode the S10-3t looks like any old 10-inch netbook, but swivel around its capacitive mulitouch display and it turns into that slate device you’ve been dreaming of. That’s not all: the S10-3t is one of the first netbooks (or netveritbles) that has the new Intel 1.83GHz Atom N470 processor. But can the S10-3t straddle both worlds and do it well? And perhaps more importantly, is it worth the premium $649 price tag?

There’s nothing too jaw-dropping about the S10-3t’s design, and we’d actually be totally fine with that if it didn’t have the glossiest black lid known to man. While the lid is inlaid with a subtle glitter tint and boxy pattern, you wouldn’t know it with all the smudgy fingerprints it collects. And though the plastic chassis feels solid enough, the lid did collect some scratches from being in our bag so you’ll want to pick up a case to keep the little guy clean and warm.

For a netbook the .79-inch S10-3t is actually rather trim, and it’s noticeably narrower than other 10-inch systems. While it’s obviously thicker than standalone tablets or e-readers like the Kindle DX, when equipped with its four-cell battery the 2.7-pound tablet was light enough to hold up in bed while reading. However, that eight-cell bulging battery version that we saw at CES looks like it would be incredibly uncomfortable to hold in arm.

We went into reviewing the S10-3t hoping it would be one of the faster netbooks we’ve ever used considering its new 1.83GHz Atom N470 processor and 2GB of RAM. However, those dreams quickly faded when we were met with the typical netbook performance. In fact, the N470 scored 1,348 on PCMark05, which is actually lower than the N450-powered HP Mini 210′s 1393. That’s sort of a letdown for us, but in typical usage — writing this review and surfing the web — performance seemed snappy. We did notice it taking a bit of time for certain apps within Lenovo’s NaturalTouch to open but we’re inclined to blame the slow 320GB hard drive or software for that. With no change made to the GMA 3150 graphics, the S10-3t was fine for playing standard def video, but couldn’t handle streaming a 720p music video without stuttering.

On our video rundown test the S10-3t’s four-cell battery lasted three hours and 12 minutes, but when we actually used the system to write this review and surf the Web we got close to four and a half hours of battery life. In our minds that’s not all that bad considering the battery fits flush with the system, but you can always go up to the chunky eight-cell for a couple more bucks.

As both a netbook and a tablet the S10-3t leaves a bit more to be desired. Sure, we’re disappointed that the N470 processor doesn’t provide improved performance, but what’s even more aggravating is that $649 buys you a tiny trackpad, sluggish touchscreen software and terrible viewing angles. Maybe you can live with those shortcomings, but we’re personally holding out for a better netbook / tablet combo to come along.

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Dell Mini 5 / Streak

Dell’s puzzled the world for quite some time with its outlandish Mini 5 / Streak — at first glance it’s just another Android-based MID, but a quick fiddle with it reveals the full-fledged 3G phone inside. So will it fit in a pocket? Can we carry it around like a normal phone? Is this the future form factor that will bring the ultimate balance between portability and practicality? With such heavy dose of curiosity, we eventually traveled all the way to Shenzhen literally just to grab this prototype. Now, before you read on, do bear in mind that some of its features — especially the OS — may not make it to the final design when it comes out later this year, nor do we know what stage this prototype was at. We good? OK.

Let’s start with the basics: the main specs on our unit include Android 1.6 (which will definitely be obsolete for the final product), five-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, Snapdragon QSD8250 chipset (with CPU clocked at 1GHz), Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and WCDMA radio. Sadly, we have no info on whether the Mini 5 will have other cellular radio options, but it wouldn’t hurt to send Dell a petition regarding this matter. For those who want the dimensions and weight in numbers, it’s about 152mm x 78mm x 10mm at 8 ounces (including the battery, which lasts for almost a day for normal usage on 3G). Memory-wise there’s 405MB RAM and 1.63GB of internal storage — a slight let-down for the latter, so let’s hope the retail unit will be given a more generous dose of silicon. You can add a microSD card next to the battery on the back, but it appears that the mysterious second card slot we saw in the earlier teardown only gave us false hope — we couldn’t find a way to get to it without prying open the housing. Connection to your computer relies on a proprietary port — similar but slightly larger than the iPod’s — to USB cable, which may suggest that we will see some more peripherals made for the Mini 5 and its future siblings.

Software, buttons and keyboard

We won’t bore you with a full list of preinstalled Android apps on our Mini 5, but there are indeed a few that are worth mentioning: the usual bundle including Google Mail, YouTube, Amazon MP3, WebKit browser (with pinch-to-zoom but no Flash support), Google Maps (no pinch-to-zoom, boo!), K-9 Mail (which supports Exchange server) and Quickoffice (a file browser that can also view Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents). For multimedia there’s the standard Android music app, a Gallery app by ArcSoft (pinch-to-zoom supported), and a three-year trial of the forthcoming CyberLink Live for Android that gives you “instant access to your photos, music, and video stored on your home computers.” There’s no social networking integration (like MOTOBLUR and Sense) as such, but you can use the preloaded Meebo IM for chatting on AIM, Facebook, Google Talk, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, etc. If you want to be discrete about your gigantic phone, you may find the Voice Control app by Nuance handy for voice-dialing — it can be triggered by holding down the button on the bundled handsfree earphones.

Multimedia experience

Given the MID form factor and that gorgeous five-inch screen, we immediately loaded a few MP4 videos of various resolutions (1080p, 720p and 480p) to see what the Mini 5 could take. Annoyingly, our Mini 5′s default video player could only handle MP4V video codec, so we had to convert our test videos, including the MP4 files that were compiled by iMovie (which encodes in H.264). On the contrary, Carrypad‘s heard from Dell at MWC that the final product will support “H.264 and other codecs.” Even then, the device failed to open our 1080p files, but that’s not the end of the world considering 720p is already plentiful for the 800 x 480 screen — we had a 7Mbps 720p video playing smoothly with just the odd stutter. On a similar matter, the preloaded YouTube app performed nicely for us, except for the lack of higher quality playback options to make full use of the large screen.

Moving on to audio: the Mini 5 has a mono speaker on the back that sounds loud and surprisingly clear, but naturally, the bundled earphones sound even better — we’d scale it to somewhere between the levels of the iPod buds and Apple’s in-ear headphones. Fans of stereo Bluetooth headphones will be pleased to know that our Mini 5 supports A2DP and AVRCP, which are particularly useful for devices of such size.

Comfort

Understandably, most people are concerned about whether this 5-inch tablet would fit inside their pocket. We’re happy to tell you that it snuggled nicely in our jeans’ pockets, which is most likely to do with the device’s sensible thickness and our lack of tight pants. Apart from the slight exposure (as pictured below) and the occasional struggle when walking up stairs, we’ve had no other issues with pocketing our Mini 5. A more popular concern would be whether you’d look like a dork when holding the monstrous phone right next to your face. To be honest, it’s not too bad, except the user would most likely be more concious about the size, simply because you’d have to stretch your fingers a bit to accommodate the unusually large footprint and weight — you can see the size better demoed in the earlier walkthrough video. Just keep that to yourself and you’ll be fine — so far most blokes who’ve seen and touched our Mini 5 have said they want one, so this phone is already quite the masculine symbol. And yes, the phone makes a great tool for chatting up the ladies, too (although they’ve all said it’s too big and heavy after playing with it; perhaps the Mini 3 will strike their fancy?).

Wrap-up

Dell may not be the first to forage into the scene of oversized smartphones (see HTC Advantage and HTC Universal), but it looks like the combination of Android, Snapdragon, 3G affordability and resurrection of the tablet trend may give the Mini 5 a great potential. We found the five-inch form factor to be neither too big nor too small, perfect for browsing the web, watching videos (watch out, Archos 5!), car navigation and reading ebooks on the go. Even the battery life matches most current 3G phones, despite the larger screen and faster CPU. We haven’t seen one yet, but a dock for this phone would be a great addition as it’s just big enough to serve as a digital picture frame, if not a side monitor for your social networking apps or emails. Update: the dock exists!

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Archos 7″ / 9″ Tablet

Upon first look is there anything not to love about the Archos 7 Home Tablet? It’s .5-inches thick, has a seven-inch touchscreen, runs Android, and wait for it…only costs $199. It’s all sounded pretty great to us since its CeBIT unveil, but then small, yet saddening details began to emerge about the device: it has a resistive touchscreen, lacks an accelerometer, and doesn’t have access to the Android Market — and worst of all, it runs Android 1.5. Sure, you get what you pay for, but can the Archos 7 rise above those shortcomings and persuade us to dig $199 out of our piggy banks? We’ve spent the last week with the tablet, so you’ll just have to click on to find out.

Look and feel

There’s no denying that the Archos 7 shares DNA with the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, and considering we’ve always liked the look of the 5 that’s not a bad thing. The brushed metal back cover of the device feels comfortable in hand, and though it’s plastic at the core it’s still rather sturdy. It’s cheap, but we wouldn’t say it’s cheap-feeling. Sure, on the build quality scale it isn’t as rock-solid as the aluminum iPad, but the 7 Home Tablet has something the Apple’s tablet certainly should: a kickstand. A skinny plastic stand can be pulled out of the back of the tablet to prop it up on a tablet or desk, which means not having to invest infancy stands.

Size-wise, the tablet is actually ideal — the seven-inch display isn’t too wide, and at 8 x 4.2 x 0.5-inches it doesn’t take up much room on a nightstand or in a small shoulder bag. And because it weighs less than a pound (13.7 ounces, to be exact), it was quite easy to hold up in bed to read an e-book or surf the web – it’s noticeably lighter to hold up than the 1.5-pound iPad while lying down. It’s actually closer in size and weight to the 10.2-ounce and .36-inch Amazon Kindle.

There’s not much to report in the way of buttons and ports – Archos kept it relatively simple with a power switch and micro SD card slot along the top edge, and headphone / composite video out and mini USB sockets on the right side. There’s a circular opening on the front of the tablet where you’d expect some sort of cam, but unfortunately, that’s just a placeholder at this point. In the box, Archos includes a pair of pretty crappy earbuds, a standard mini USB to USB cable, and an AC adapter. Archos plans to sell the composite-out cable separately.

Android experience

In reality, the fact that the tablet runs an outdated Android 1.5 operating system will probably mean very little to the average consumer, but for us techies it means knowing that the software doesn’t include quick search, the advanced battery usage indicator, multitouch support (not that it matters on this device) and a bunch of other recent additions. Archos can always push a firmware update to the device, but these firmware updates will not be able to administer an Android OS update. Sorry. That’s really all we can say for this unfortunate reality.

Our bigger issue with the Android implementation is the lack of access to the Market. Yes, because of Google’s restrictions the 7 doesn’t have access the 50,000 apps designed for the operating system. Instead Archos has gone and created its own AppsLib store, which only has 1,000 approved apps at the moment. Even if Archos does plan to add 2,000 paid apps by the end of June, that’s still a lot of missing apps! And to say the selection is lacking is an understatement. Some of our favorites were missing, including Seesmic, Slacker, Pandora, and Facebook. And though Archos preloads five apps – eBuddy, Aldiko, ColorNote, DailyNote, and Deezer — there’s no Gmail and YouTube, and obviously those aren’t in the AppsLib store either. What does this all mean? It means you have to go out of your way to get your favorite apps on to the device. We managed to wrangle up Facebook, Seesmic, and Opera Mobile from AndroidFreeware.com. We also got Skyfire and Slacker by heading to their respective sites and grabbing them from there. But, yes, it’s incredibly frustrating to have to go searching for the apps / .apks around the net, and it’s even more frustrating is when they don’t work quite right.

Beyond the app experience, web browsing is what you would expect from an Android device. The default browser was quick to load sites and was easy enough to navigate using the resistive touchscreen. Again, we wished here that we could turn the tablet and read Engadget vertically. We did try out Skyfire so we could actually play some YouTube videos, but the browser itself was sluggish and videos were quite laggy even when connected to a very strong WiFi signal. Speaking of video playback, as a personal media player the Archos 7 does a stand-up job. With H.264, Realvideo, and MPEG-4 codecs it supports .avi, .mp4, .mkv, .mov, and .flv files. A 720p clip of Up in the Air played back smoothly with no audio or video sync issues. And after you’re done watching a video on the device, it also makes a decent e-reader with the Aldiko software – the app, though it takes a few seconds to open, defaults to a vertical orientation and on-screen swipes turn the pages. Since the book selection in Aldiko is lacking, we don’t need to tell you we were wishing for Amazon’s Kindle or Barnes & Noble’s Nook app, but that they aren’t available in the AppsLib store.

Notion Ink Adam

The folks from Notion Ink certainly haven’t been shy about showing off their Adam tablet in prototype form, but they unfortunately haven’t been revealing anything more than the most basic specs. That’s now changed with MWC, however, which seems to have made Notion Ink quite a bit more talkative. As we’d heard previously, the Adam is Tegra 2-based with a dual-core ARM CORTEX -A9 processor, and it packs a 10-inch transflective screen with a 1,024 x 600 resolution courtesy of Pixel Qi. Also now confirmed is a swiveling 3-megapixel camera, three USB ports, an HDMI out for full 1080p video, a promised 16 hours of battery life, built-in WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth, and some welcome touches like an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor and, of course, an accelerometer. As you can see above, the device has also undergone yet more changes from the last prototype we saw at CES, and

Videos of Some more Concepts and upcoming Models

Microsoft Courier Tablet

HP SLATE

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Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits
Believe in yourself
Consider things from every angle
Don’t give up and don’t give in
Enjoy life today; yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come
Family and friends are hidden treasures; seek them and enjoy their riches
Give more than you planned to give
Hang on to your dreams
Ignore those who try to discourages you
Just do it!
Keep on trying, no matter how hard it seems it will get easier
Love yourself first and most
Make it happen
Never lie, cheat or steal always strike a fair deal
Open your eyes and see things as they really are
Practice makes perfect
Quitter never win and winners never quit
Read, study and learn about everything important in your life
Stop procastinating
Take control of your own destiny
Understand yourself inorder to better understand others
Visualize it
Want it more than anything
Xcellerate at doing your best
You are unique of all God’s creations nothing can replace you
Zero in your target and go for it

Easter is a promise God renews to us in each spring. May the promise of Easter fill your heart with peace and joy. Happy Easter.

For Long time I was being invited by a friend to visit one of the beautiful islands in UAE, but because of time constraints and our holidays we used to postpone, but this time we found the time and we started off to explore the once in a blue moon opportunity. We started our journey from International city quite late on 11th Thursday, instead of the planned 5:30pm, also we have to face traffic issues. Meanwhile Salam Ikka and Shabin was waiting us at Samha, near to the border of Dubai, as we were late all of us was worried about the weather, which used to be foggy during this season and visibility becomes low.

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We took Salam Ikka and Shabin from Samha, Adnoc Pump and started towards Abudhabi. The Island comes just before the Sadiyaat Islands and its sorrounded by some more islands in the area. This was shot at 9:15pm travelling with Sunilji, who came to pick us to the island, as it was low tide and the channel was low with water, they have to ride very carefully.

We got a very warm welcome at the place and momentarily we came to know that all of the four in the Island was so friendly like our friends and family, we soon started our dinner plans. As there was some charcoal we took for barbeque and some chicken with all the spiced to it,  and our favorite “tapioca” prepared from home, we all were around the barbeque stand soon. It was n’t much cold that time still the breeze was there.

The Wonderful Flames, I just took some snaps of the same and was wondering how nice the closeups came up

Later only I came to know that all the guys went in to the kitchen to fry the fish, they had caught freshly that evening just before we reached. All were in to the act of eating.

To the Grills, The Chicken is prepared to the Barbeque Grills, all were waiting to see how it comes out.

No more chicken, fresh fish first. Grabbing the freshly cooked fish from the Kitchen Salam Ikka, Justin, Rajish and Jabbar.

Salam Ikka with Shabin’s Pappa.

Just a helping hand only.

Sunilji and Sajish on chit Chat.

Barbeque almost ready.. oye oye..

“Chicken Leg Kollam” taking a leg piece

Our guys trying to finish the fish catch, eat slowly people….

We were on to discussions soon, with lots of things under the roof films, politics, religion etc etc..

So around 1.00 am we were on to sleeping mode, all were tired after the days work and long journey. We said Good Bye and went to bed, for a great sunrise in the island.

Morning I woke around 8.00 am and was not able to see anything because of the fog, I was thinking to sleep for some more time, but got up and started walking around, this shot was taken from the window of the room.

Morning birds were all making noise and singing, just some of the captured shots.

It looks so foggy outside and nothing much was visible to see in the place, I thought taking a walk all through the island as it was a special experience walking in this fog in an alien island in the morning.

The leaves where fallen and was full of dews. As I was just out and thinking where to go, Salam Ikka got up and joined, so we decided to make a walk around. I din’t carry the camera with me as we can’t see much in this foggy weather, and we didn’t expect the same to clear for another 2 Hrs.

We went back after a great 45 mins out in the mist and fog and was really fresh, we took coffee after reaching back, and all were awake and looking around to explore, by 9:15am the fog moved out and all of a sudden there was sunlight and we could see the full island and its beauty.

There are Mangrove [Kandal Trees] in the coastal line and it protects the soil from the water flow, this trees gives the island a green look and its even the food for the deers in the island.

Ohhhhhhh… Beauty of water. We enjoyed the beauty and it was quite nice to walk in the shallow water

The side rocks made shapes and it was sharp too.

The beauty of the Mangrove grown in the sides, took from the small walk bridge to the next portion of the island.

On the walkign bridge, in the background you can see the old Jeep in decayed stage.

Justin on the Edge, posing in the cinema style.

One cart which has been submerged in the water.

Just a small inspection of the cart. “Its too heavy man leave it here”

A Rock Art

“Eda pathiye poyaal namukka sraavine pidikkam, shradhichu nadakkoo..”

Justin and Shabin checking some thing on the ground “Pampano !”

“nammal innale kuzhichitta kuppi kanaanillada, sathyamayittum, pani paalinna thonnane”

An unused barrel, aged.

The Water show.

On the edge for the water shoot

From left Sajish, Rajish, Nalin, Jabbar, Salam, Justin & Shabin

I was joined on the photo.

Shabin was looking cool, “pinney enthaanu manasil!!! chullanayittundu “

“Nammal Pavam, Jeevichu pokkotte maashe…”

Thrimoorthikal, enta oru planning???

Sajish and Jabbar “Eda vishakkunneda, vegam photo edukku, fish ellam kazhinjo entho…”

On waters….

Shabin, Binoy and Salam

On top  some ducks pattern followed, bottom a Vathu (Big Goose Duck)

Different shots of the friends .. Rocks and Man

“Nallonam Thalli Nokkam, Chilappo start aayaalo!!!”

After the 90mins walk in the morning, we came back to the villa, to take rest and later decided to fish for sometime. We all were very excited as it was the first time after reaching here in UAE we got  a chance to be on the boat to be with the guys for fishing all were eagerly asking lots of questions, while Rajish was still busy trying his luck with the big fishes, with a small net which they gave, we hope for the best. haha..

Warrier Trying to catch fish………………… No fish and  and wasted a full bread from our breakfast!!

“Eda ithu Chathittu Kurachu neramaayi, Kalanjaalo??”

All was busy checking the different aspects of fish and fishing and was on the toes while Rajish was assisting Sunilji and Rafi to pull the net.

Justin was so professional to check and clear the fish and the rest of the unwanted stuff that we call were wondering about the true fisherman

“Nalla Vala Panikkaran, Ivane Kootti Naattil Poyalo?” Sunilji

“Athyavashayam Fishing Nammakkum Ariyamennu Ivarku Manasilayinna Thonnane!” Justin

“Eda Meen Chaadi Pokkathe Nokkane.. Kashta pettathellam veruthe aakum”

“Ivane njan thattum mone dineshaa..”

While we were on the fishing boat to try the nets and try our luck, Salam and Nalin was all happy to try a hand on the small boat.

There are around 50+ deers in the island and you can find them of different ages.

We decided to take a bath just before the lunch and all were just in water in the blink of and eye.

“Entamme!, Njan polum kelkaatha Kadhayanallo ithu” Shabin

We were all around while sunilji was sharing some of his experiences about fishing, We came to know that Blue Whales will not attack the humans, they flush the water out of the hole in the head, which is so high that it makes upto hundreds of meters, also that the Chakara (also spelt Chaakara) (is a Malayalam word used to describe a peculiar marine phenomenon in which a large number of fish and prawns throng together during a particular season as a result of mud bank formations) is the phenomenon happened in the beaches where mud is collected and becomes think, also it lasts for 10-15 years long, about the fishing patterns and how the Catamaran is  used for fishing and how it was operated with winds help.That 20 mins was really helpful to increase the knowledge and get some more idea of sea and sea life.

This is how they feed the deers with the Leafs from near by plants.

There are also some birds in the island which looks so nice when watched with their styles and lots of variety.

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Just a review of the snaps we took on this trip, looked so nice and enjoyed each moment.

It was time for us to leave in the evening, even though we all knew that 30 hrs was nothing to explore this place, but we were pretty happy that we made it and we all were repeating that we will come back for another elaborated visit with more things in plan.

We were almost to the other bank and I was thinking in mind, another day and back to the mechanical life again and was not sure, when we can return here. Still kept all the hopes alive and promised them we will  come back.

Nalin was smiling, just churning all that great experiences and lots of new friends and lessons which we learned from here.

So that was it and we really enjoyed each and every moment in the island. As it is a private island and we don’t want the location and other details of the same shared all over here, we have n’t posted some snaps here. When looking back in rewind the day went like a flash  and special thanks to all especially to Shabin, Sadananthanji, Sunilji, Aziz and Raphy.

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Earth Hour 2010 will continue to be a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up, to show leadership and be responsible for our future.

Pledge your support here and turn off your lights for one hour, Earth Hour, 8.30pm, Saturday 27th March 2010.

It’s Showtime! Show what can be done.

Even though I have travelled in trains a lot of times, but the opening of Dubai Metro Service was special to me and all in Dubai, it has created so much of buzz and curiosity in minds of people in Dubai and all over the world. Its is one of the Urban wonders in all aspects and the main thing being it THE WORLD’S LONGEST AUTOMATED DRIVERLESS RAILWAY SYSTEM spanned over 70kms presently. It has a Total Project value of 4Billion USD, and completed in a record time of 4yrs. Read More Here

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A long view of Metro from the Zabeel Park Side.

Presently Metro Operates Red Line with 11stations Starting from Rashidiya Station to Jebel Ali (Nakheel Harbour & Tower)Station. The image above is the stations at Rashidiya

At Rashidiya Station you can see the parking building on the right side near to the station and a skybridge connecting the other side near to the Royal Terminal.

The station is equipped with plenty of parking space in Rashidiaya station 2714 exact.

Rashidiya Station . The station is 130 metres long and 30 metres wide and has a capacity to handle 11,000 passengers per hour per direction. The station has two entry points equipped with escalators and lifts to ensure smooth passenger traffic in and out of the station, along with a parking lot to accommodate 2,714 vehicles.”

There are escalators and staircases provided for passengers also the Lifts operates to both G Level and Concord Level, but you have to use the lift in 2 Different Places to reach from the Platform Level to the Top Level.

You have to Purchase Nol card incase you are not using the Public transport in Dubai yet

NOL CARD

We started from home in International City to take a full ride of metro around 4pm on 12.FEB.10, as I was prepared to shoot all things, we took the back glass seat(standing) 10minutes before the trains departure and I prepared my mind and camera for all the shoots.

Even though I took the ride on the first week after the inauguration of metro on 09.09.09, I was not able to shoot any thing in full detail. So this time I was pretty sure to shoot all comes on my way. This train was almost ready to go.

On right you can see the Car Parking , which is almost 2714 in number and it was free for 24hrs or less parking.

You can see the long view of the Train, this train contains 5 Compartments, there are 3 Types of cabins in the same and First is Gold Class, which is Separated from normal class with a wall in between and the couches are big and more comfortable, next to that is the Womens and Kids compartment. After which all the General compartments comes. Depending on the direction it travels, this changes, ie, when the train is traveling from Rashidiya to Jebel Ali, Gold and Womens Class is in Front and on Return from Jebel Ali to Rashidiya its in Back.(This is because the trains ends are never changed).

We started our Journey and I was shooting already with Photos and Videos

We were reaching near Mall of the Emirates and it took more than 55 minutes to here. There are lots of stations still under construction and expected to be open in the coming months, which will definitely increase travellers through metro.

DEIRA CITY CENTRE STATION

DEIRA CITY CENTRE STATION

You have to punch the Nol card against the reader to  get the entry to the station the minimum amount for travel is 1.80 dhs and maximum 5.80 dhs

Passing Kempinski Hotel near  Mall of the Emirates

Another Train Crossing us, I was not sure how speedy the train was when I was traveling on the same, but when I checked the same from the car, I came to know it travels at a speed of 60-80 km range.

Another station which is being built.

We were almost reaching the Jebel Ali Nakheel Harbour and Tower Station

It took more than 1hr 10mins for us to travel the Full length from Rashidiya to Jebel Ali.

You are assisted with the Staff and Security incase you find something hard to understand

Everything is neatly put on Navigation and you will not have to  much worry about this.

Work and Illumination at Nakheel Harbour and Tower Station Jebel Ali.

The skybridge connects the Nakheel Harbour & Tower Station to the other side of the Sheik Sayed Road and Feeder Buses operates from both sides of the Metro station to the nearing places.

For promoting the use of Metro and to make the commuters journey easy RTA has ensured that there are enough Feeder Buses to all the places around the station which is free if used along with the RAIL boarding, you will not be charged additional if you take the feeder bus by before one hr expiry time of the last termination from your Metro Journey.

The ticket vending machines inside the terminals are bit different and more faster than the ones in Bus stations

Incase you need any help, you get it from the Metro Staff, the running of metro is undertaken by Serco

I was just relaxing while salam took some shots.. nice eh?

Each Station is Announced and guided display is shown both in the Screen and LED dispaly  inside the Metro, which prepares one to get ready to get out of the Train.

Dubai Airport Terminal 3 has a dedicated metro station and it connects the Passenger direct to the terminals Checkin Desks, the Emirates Airlines, Dubai’s Primary airlines operates from here.

The journey in Dubai Metro is quite comfortable either you are sitting or standing, it does n’t give much of jerks also. Check the video for more.

The Dubai Metro was officially opened at 09:09:09 on 09/09/09 by His Highness, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, by putting the last lego of this structure in Rashidiya Metro Station.

There are stations which are still being built and almost near of completion, some are shot here.

Ohhh What a beauty

Cool

This Lamp reminds me of the moisture collected in the morning , on the leaves of the small plants which in our village we used to pour to our eyes, due to the coolness of that thick water jelly. I was wondering how come this is so beautiful with changing colours.

The walls  are decorated with Photos of the Olden Dubai. These are images from Khalid Bin Al Waleed Station (Burjuman, Burdubai) and you can see there is lots of old history written in pictures on walls.

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References

Wikipedia Dubai Metro

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System works better without human interference but has safeguards in place to prevent emergencies

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• Train controller Ronaldo Go mans his station at the Dubai Metro control room at the RTA Operational Control Centre in Dubai. Only 10 people, including three traffic operators, run the whole Metro system.
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Feast of St.Sebastian at Mary of Mount Carmel Church, Chengaloor is celebarted on JAN 21,22 & 23rd every year. The celebrations are so great that all chengaloorians from around the globe tries to reach for the Feast on all possible years. The Bands and Shinkari Melams along with crackers and lots of fireworks makes it a memorable event and we all love to be a part of the same.

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Completely decorated alter at the Church

Completely decorated alter at the Church

Completely decorated alter at the Church

Completely decorated alter at the Church.

Mother Mary and  St. Sebastian

Day Time Picture of Church Illumination

Decorated Road for Perunal

Colourful Pindies

Colourful Pindies

Fireworks at Home

Colourful Pindies

Illuminations

Fireworks

On 21st is the Ambu, and all the houses in the Parish is visited by people with the Arrow representation of the Saint and his suffering during his martyrdom. 

With Ambu

Crowd Enjoying the Shinkari Melam

Crowd Enjoying the Shinkari Melam

Crowd Enjoying the Shinkari Melam

Ambu Perunal

Bro. Ebin with Lights near Grotto at Karunya Nikethan

Lights near Grotto at Karunya Nikethan

Decorated and Illuminated Grotto with Candles and Lights Karunya Nikethan

Decorated and Illuminated Grotto with Candles and Lights Karunya Nikethan

This time the as the fireworks by our friends was not there at the church, so we decided to have a small fireworks at Karunya Nikethan for the inmates and all were there for the celebration, Inmates and all of us enjoyed the same. Can see the same in more action in the second video which is bit long.

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CRACKERS AND FIREWORKS AT KARUNYA

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It was heavily raining on 27.02.2010 at Dubai, Usually I never gets an opportunity to watch rain in Dubai as it happens during DEC – JAN season and I used to be back at Native for Annual Leave. But this time I took my camera to the rain. I am posting some of the Images, as it was heavy and my camera was not water proof, I could n’t get more photos. Enjoy the Rain and Video.

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During the outdoor shoot of Aleena & John Wedding Album, I was Standing in the Kurumali River near Kundukadavu far you can see the temporary dam (bund)built in the River which is normally gets destroyed during the monsoon. All of them where busy posing, while I was floating through the waterless parts of the River.

Near the Bund. Abrooz and Kutts laughing at Joke , while Aleena and John was shooting.

The River is Shoot from River itslef, less water so I came till here to shoot. you can guess where I was while shooting this image by looking first posted image.

The River Shoot.

River shoot from the temporary dam, I went till the rocks in front to shoot the previous shots.

The river shot from the dam(bund)

Guess What?? This is the docking station for the boats which is used at the Manikyan Kadavu.

Abrooz taking the Ride at the Manikyan Kadavu.

During the ride at Manikyan Kadavu

During the ride at Manikyan Kadavu

People taking the boat to travel from Nellayi area to reach the Chengaloor Side, they takes 1 Rs per ride and its the cheapest you can find to reach this place so quick, it takes 2 buses to reach else this place and have to walk 2kms to reach.

Vallakkaran. The Boat Man who is going to take a small break.

The route to Mattumala, filled with the leaves.

Abrooz preparing the Camera for the shoot while Kutts was carrying the arsenal.

A beautiful moon at the Mattumala, shoot from the Quary.

Sheema Konna

Grandpa & Grammma

Grandpa & Grammma

With my Grandpa & Grammma

With my Grandpa & Grammma

Ohhhhhhhhhh. Delicious Paneer Kuruma.

The Fried Full Kada Chicken.

The Pappad

Marymol and Rosemol

Marymol and Rosemol

Checking the Chakka, Marymol and Rosemol just checking the Jackfruit with enthusiasm

They came to pluck the leaves of the Palm tree, as food for the Elephant, he climbed all the way and took around 4-5 leaves while I was shooting from down.

A Bunch of Palm Tree Seeds

A great Pappaya Tree @ Home

Cool, Green Pappaya

A Flower, even though I was trying a very close shot, could n’t get any better ones which was clear.

Garden Flowers

Orchids on our Garden

Experiments

Experiments

Experiments

Preparation of the First Night Bed

A Beautifully set small Rooftop Pond at Fort Kochi

A Just born Love Bird inside the cage

What a good Present for Birthday, Kutts hand was behind this beautiful bouquet and I just asked him to make a good bouquet of good size, I never thought that it can be so beautiful, and you know Marykutty Mummy was so surprised by Aleena and Johns Birthday Gift when it reached home in a well wrapped packing, with Cool Birthday card and Photo of Both on Top. Great Stuff. VCare.

An Image of Church taken from the Window of Bell Mount Resort Munnar, while we were there for a 2day trip.

A Bunch of small plants shot on one of the Nursery near Mannuthy.

A Scene very less seen nowadays in villages even, ladies working on the Grain collected from the Paddys

Working on the Grain to extract the bad contents

Cool stuff, they use the force of the high capacity fan to extract the waste

Older days manual power (some body with a good strong hand used to wave with the hand) Technology helps in cultivation.

Golden grains of Love

Collected grain after the first extraction of stuff

The Second round of extraction.

The hay is kept on side.

The hay is kept on side.

Whos??? Abrooz with his arsenals near the River.

We made a visit to the newly built, so much hyped BURJ KHALIFA/DUBAI Tower in Dubai on 2oth February 2010. Even though we didn’t make it to the top we were interested in shooting the structure from down.

Burj Khalifa (Arabic: ??? ?????? “Khalifa Tower”),^[8] formerly known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft).^[8] Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010.^[1][9] The building is part of the 2 km² (490-acre) flagship development called Downtown Burj Khalifa at the “First Interchange” along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai’s main business district.

The tower’s architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of Chicago. Adrian Smith, who started his own firm in 2006, was the chief architect, and Bill Baker was the chief structural engineer for the project.^[10][11] The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea, who also built the Taipei 101 and Petronas Twin Towers.^[12] Major subcontractors included Belgian group Besix andArabtec from the UAE. Turner Construction Company was chosen as the construction project manager.^[13] Under UAE law, the Contractor and the Engineer of Record, Hyder Consulting, is jointly and severally liable for the performance of Burj Khalifa.

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BINOY ANTO INFRONT OF BURJ KHALIFA   WITH SALAM

JUSTIN NEAR BURJ KHALIFA                                                      SALAM NEAR THE TALLEST STRUCTURE

SALAM & JUSTIN NEAR BURJ KHALIFA

Burj Khalifa Current records

• Tallest skyscraper to top of spire: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m/1,671 ft)
• Tallest structure ever built: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38 m/2,121 ft)
• Tallest extant structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m/2,063 ft)
• Tallest freestanding structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m/1,815 ft)
• Building with most floors: 160 (previously Willis Tower – 108)^[18]
• World’s highest elevator installation, situated inside a rod at the very top of the building^[19][20]
• World’s fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s)^[20] (previously Taipei 101 – 16.83 m/s)
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m (1,988 ft)^[21] (previously Taipei 101 – 449.2 m/1,474 ft)
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 606 m (1,988 ft)^[21] (previously Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant – 532 m/1,745 ft^[22])
• The first world’s tallest structure in history to include residential space^[23]
• Highest outdoor observation deck in the world (124th floor) at 442 m (1,450 ft)^{[24] [25][26]}
• World’s highest mosque (located on the 158th floor)^[27][28]
• World’s highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade, at a height of 512 m (1,680 ft)^[29]
• World’s highest swimming pool (76th floor)^[27] (previously Shanghai World Financial Center – 85th floor)

JUSTIN NEAR THE BURJ KHALIFA

BINOY ANTO NEAR THE BURJ KHALIFA

BINOY ANTO & SALAM NEAR THE BURJ KHALIFA

SALAM WITH HAT NEAR THE BURJ KHALIFA

BURJ KHALIFA MAIN ENTRANCE

The Dubai Mall is the world’s largest shopping mall based on total area and sixth largest by gross leasable area. Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it is part of the Burj Khalifa complex, the 20-billion-dollar project has 1,200 shops.^[1][2] Access to the mall is provided via Doha Street, rebuilt as a double-decker road in April 2009.^[3]

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