Saturday 26 April 2014

What Does It Cost to Run a Startup? [ Infographic ]

This Infographic by staff.com compares the costs of a startup including a small office and hiring 2 developers and 1 designer from various cities around the world.
What Does It Cost to Run a Startup? Infographic
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The Billion-Dollar Startups [ Infographic ]

How many tech startups you know that is worth billions of dollars? This infographic by Staff.com lists 12 startups since 2004, the year Facebook was founded, that have reached the billion-dollar worth – Instagram, Evernote, Box, Airbnb, Zynga, Spotify, HomeAway, Square, Groupon, Dropbox, Workday, Twitter and Facebook.
The brief but telling infographic also reveals a few vital statistics of the companies, for instance, have you ever wondered how much capital each of these companies raised in the start to get them where they are today? Guess which of the 13 startups currently employs the most number of employees and which, the least? Even more interesting is how much is Instagram now worth?
Have a look – some of the numbers may surprise you.

Staff.com – Connecting Great Companies with Global Talent

Wednesday 23 April 2014

The First YouTube Video.

Today in Internet history: YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first video “Me at the zoo” to the website on April 23, 2005, at 8:27 p.m, according to the description of the video, which now boasts more than 14 million views.
Check it out.

The 19-second clip shows Karim standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo and saying that the “cool thing” about the animals is that “they have really, really, really long, um, trunks.” According to a 2010 editorial in The Toledo Blade, the clip was shot by a high school pal, Yakov Lapitsky, who is now a professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Toledo.

Wednesday 16 April 2014

Access all system management tools in Windows effortlessly

In Windows, there is a hidden function which allows all system management tools (usually spread through control panel, computer management, administration tools etc) to be conveniently accessed from a single place. It is called as GodMode.

GodMode is not a plugin, or a software. To activate a GodMode shortcut, you just need to create a new folder and rename it to a specific file name with a code.

Create a new folder anywhere on your Desktop and rename the folder from 'New Folder' to this exact code:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}


You can also rename the folder to anything you want by replacing 'GodMode' by the desired name in the above code.




















Just hit enter and your GodMode shortcut will get created. The folder icon will resemble like that of Control Panel.














You can now access all the functions and tools from one place which are originally intended to be available only to Microsoft developers.





















An expanded list of GodMode is shown below in the screenshot. This code works for all Windows OS including XP, Win 7 as well as Win 8.  
PS: In case you wish to know how I printed this whole list in the scrolling window, read this.