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How I Learned to Love Twitter

adilraza — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:44:38 +0000

When I first heard about Twitter I scoffed, rolled my eyes and placed it on my ‘Not to Do’ list. Since then, I’ve had to eat my words. At that time everyone was on MySpace and Facebook was beginning to grow in popularity. With both sites merging the functions of e-mail, instant messaging, photo and event sharing and a range of other activities into the one handy website, I simply couldn’t comprehend how a site limited to 140 characters hope to compete with these juggernauts of social networking. The site moved to the back of my mind and didn’t come to my attention for the next year or so. By not really taking part in the site and only watching from the outside I found it hard to engage, and soon lost interest. Fast forward to the start of 2010, I started Twitting to promote my blog, engaging in discussions and getting regular rants out of my system. I stumbled through the site, slowly learning how to use it. When I Plugged in the contacts list from my e-mail I was surprised to learn a lot of my friends used the site. After learning about hash tags (#)I started posting more content from my blog. I expected nothing to come from it; Instead what I got was three times the traffic I used to get. I am now following a very interesting array of people from sports, media to interesting people with interests similar to mine. More I use twitter more I realise how powerful it is. I tend to get most of my news and information from it now. Though I blame twitter for ruining my book reading time as once you get on your twitter timeline its hard to stop.

So what’s the morale of the story?

The age old maxim of “Don’t knock it until you try it” holds very true in this scenario- Twitter has already outdone my wildest expectations, and I’ve only been on it for a few years. I dare say the best is yet to come. Secondly, if you’re interested in working in media, PR or communications and aren’t on Twitter, then ask yourself why not? As far as networking and publication tools go Twitter is free, easy to use and opens your world to local and international experts in your chosen field. So go ahead make your Twitter Account.

PS: People at twitter I would not mind if u donate some money to my blog for this advertisement Regards Raza

2011 in review

adilraza — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:30:02 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,700 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 28 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Random App Videos

adilraza — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:55:44 +0000

RandomAppVideos.com is anew site by Philipp Lenssen with 1000s of random game and app videos, for discovery or just fun. There are iPhone and iPad games and apps, Android games and apps, PC and console games, and retro games.

(Source: PreSurfer)

PTA Bans The Word “Mango”. Mind==Blown ……

adilraza — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:39:24 +0000

Pakistan telecommunication Authority PTA has issued a list of abusive words to be banned Which include Mango, Taxi and many other common words. Here is a short animation telling us why.

PTA Mango Ban

If you want to be amazed and have your Mind Blown you can download this Fantastic List from this Site. I would also take this opportunity to thank PTA for this list as I have learned a lot of new words today.

You fancy a drink. But what drink would fit the music?

adilraza — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:12:50 +0000

You’re at home listening to the music of your choice. You fancy a drink. But what drink would fit the music? Drinkify is a handy reference tool to give you the perfect drink based on what music you’re listening to. I was listening to Bryan Adams and Drinkify advised me to drink a ‘The Bryan Adams’ which is:

10 oz. Rum
10 oz. Cream
10 oz. Schnapps

Combine in shaker and strain into cocktail glass. Serve. Stir quickly. Garnish with cocktail monkey.

(Source: PreSurfer)

Don’t Listen To Most Relaxing Song Ever Created While Driving

adilraza — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:11:11 +0000

It slows your breathing and reduces brain activity to such an extent that ‘Weightless,’ written by Manchester band Marconi Union, is said to be the ‘most relaxing song ever‘. The eight-minute track is so effective at inducing sleep, motorists have now been warned they should not listen to it whilst driving.

The band worked with sound therapists to get advice on how to make the most effective use of harmonies, rhythms and bass lines. The result on listeners is a slowing of the heart rate, reduced blood pressure and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

Link To The Song : Weightless

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7 Billion People And You: What’s Your Number?

adilraza — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:49:23 +0000

The world’s population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks. After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years. Where do you fit into this story of human life? Fill in your date of birth to find out.
It seems that when I was born, I was the 4,736,986,517th person alive on Earth.

(Source: PreSurfer)

Similar Site Search

adilraza — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:25:18 +0000

Similar Site Search is a free and simple to use search engine. Similar Site Search helps you find similar, related, or alternative websites. The search engine collects and combines information about websites from many sources including the site itself. They then generate a list of websites based on the similarity of topics and categories

(Source: PreSurfer)

Draw A Stickman

adilraza — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:33:59 +0000

Can you draw a stickman? Sure you can!
Just try it and see what happens.

(Source: PreSurfer)

PAKISTANI TRUCK ART

adilraza — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:38:37 +0000

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Pakistan, the country today is known for terrorism and extremism but it has beautiful culture and lovely people. In this post we are discussing wondorous truck and bus decoration of art of Pakistan. This extraordinary tradition has it’s routes in the days of the Raj when craftsmen made glorious horse draw carriages for the gentry. In the 1920′s the Kohistan bus company asked the local Michaelangelo, Ustad Elahi Buksh, a master craftsmen to decorate their buses to attract passengers. Buksh employed a community of artists from the Punjab town of Chiniot, who’s ancestors had worked on many great palaces and temples dating back to the Mogal Empire.

It was not long before truck owners followed suite with their own designs. Through the years the materials used have developed from wood and paint to metal, tinsel, plastic and reflective tape. Within the last few years trucks and buses have been further embellished with full lighting systems.

This art is so Pakistani, that the freight trucks which are built by Ford, General Motors, Hino Pak etc in beautiful aerodynamic shapes are first retro-fitted with very Pakistani stlye bodies and a special ‘viewing deck’ at the top of Driver’s cab. The ‘viewing deck’ is a very multipurpose extra space. It is used by ‘cleaners’ to sleep at night and also to load extra luggage when needed.

(Source: Damn Cool Pictures)