How to compose music on your computer

New Delhi: Can't carry a tune if your life depended on it? Well, you can still groove, with a little help from technology. Making music on your computer is now easy. You don't need to play any musical instruments to do it, just some snazzy software.
If you want a really easy way to make music without knowing how to play a musical instrument, here's Fruity Loops software.
The software is basically a collection of loop sounds and instruments, which can be manipulated with absolute ease. It's a great software to learn the basics of music production. And it's so easy anyone can use it. Just click on the sound you want and press play.
When it comes to video editing, it can't get any easier than window's movie maker. Put in a video clip and the software allows you to make whatever cuts you want.
The on board effects in this software look really cool. And you just have to drag and drop to apply even beginners can use this to produce professional looking clips.
To record vocals, use any good mike and you can use the software on windows to record voice. So now you can make your own song and video without any professional know how whatsoever.

Touching one to Stop Abortion

Dear Mommy,
I am in Heaven now... I so wanted to be your little girl. I don't quite understand what has happened. I was so excited when I beganrealizing my existence. I was in a dark, yet comfortable place. I sawI had fingers and toes. I was pretty far along in my developing, yetnot near ready to leave my surroundings. I spent most of my time thinking or sleeping. Even from my earliest days, I felt a specialbonding between you and me.

Sometimes I heard you crying and I cried with you. Sometimes you wouldyell or scream, then cry. I heard Daddy yelling back. I was sad, and hoped you would be better soon. I wondered why you cried so much. Oneday you cried almost all of the day. I hurt for you. I couldn'timagine why you were so unhappy.

That same day, the most horrible thing happened. A very mean monster came into that warm, comfortable place I was in. I was so scared, Ibegan screaming, but you never once tried to help me. Maybe you neverheard me. The monster got closer and closer as I was screaming andscreaming, "Mommy, Mommy, help me please; Mommy, help me." Complete terror is all I felt. I screamed and screamed until I thought Icouldn't anymore. Then the monster started ripping my arms off. Ithurt so bad; the pain I can never explain. It didn't stop.Oh, how I begged it to stop. I screamed in horror as it ripped my leg off. Though I was in such complete pain, I was dying. I knew I would neversee your face or hear you say how much you love me. I wanted to makeall your tears go away. I had so many plans to make you happy. Now I couldn't; all my dreams were shattered. Though I was in utter pain andhorror, I felt the pain of my heart breaking, above all. I wanted morethan anything to be your daughter. No use now, for I was dying apainful death. I could only imagine the terrible things that they haddone to you. I wanted to tell you that I love you before I was gone,but I didn't know the words you could understand.And soon, I no longer had the breath to say them; I was dead. I felt myself rising. I was being carried by a huge angel into a bigbeautiful place. I was still crying, but the physical pain was gone.The angel took me away to a wonderful place... Then I was happy. Iasked the angel what was the thing was that killed me. He answered, "Abortion". I am sorry, for I know how it feels." I don't know whatabortion is; I guess that's the name of the monster. I'm writing tosay that I love you and to tell you how much I wanted to be your little girl. I tried very hard to live. I wanted to live. I had thewill, but I couldn't; the monster was too powerful. It sucked my armsand legs off and finally got all of me. It was impossible to live. Ijust wanted you to know I tried to stay with you. I didn't want todie. Also, Mommy, please watch out for that abortion monster. Mommy, Ilove you and I would hate for you to go through the kind of pain Idid. Please be careful. Love,Your Baby Girl

John, Bips shoot to prove the affair ain't over

Bollwood's most talked about couple make it to the cover pages of the latest issue of Filmfare and finally all the doubts about their rocky relationship are put to rest.
John and Bipasha launched the latest edition of the Filmfare magazine that shows the couple in some cozy moments caught on camera by Jatin Kampani. The shoot needless to say was John and Bipasha’s way of mixing business with pleasure.
Bipasha says that they were their natural self and that is the way they usually are. "It was good to shoot with John after a really long time," she adds.
And it is not just John’s fans who lust over his six-pack, but it is Bipasha too who goes crazy over his hot looks. “I think John is hot and yes he is getting better with every passing year. Ask the girls here in Mumbai who drool over his looks."
The couple seems to be all praises for each other. John too is all praises for his lady. “She is Asia's sexiest woman, so that’s more than enough a reason for me to go gaga over her," says John.

Cars flash mails before breaking down

Bangalore:Breakdowns in the middle of a busy street due to engine trouble would become a thing of past as future technologies would enable a car flash ‘health report’ well in advance indicating ‘all was not well with it’.
“Your car could send an e-mail telling you that it’s time to drop in for a health check-up at your nearest service centre,” said Alan Taub, executive director, General Motors Research and Development in Warren Michigan, while tracing the future technology in the automotive industry.
“It could warn you well in advance that it was having an engine problem or that the brake pads were getting worn out or that the battery has not been charged enough,” he said. The component of electrification and electronification of value-added software in vehicles, especially in the high-end segment will go up to 40% by 2015, said Allan. The vehicle would have sophisticated software that could be serviced by just downloading a patch of software.
GM, which has already made available parts of this sophisticated technology in the US, is working on increasing the content of sophisticated software that could be addressed through remote applications, Nady Boules, director, Electrical and Controls Integration Research Lab said.
The technology, which will be made in India in future, would enable the driver to receive a ‘once-in-a-month’ report from the vehicle telling you its health status. The technology would help monitor the critical systems in the car from time to time and send indications if it was going to face some trouble, said Boules.
“The indicators could be available in various ways, you could have a green saying that it is time for a check up, a yellow that could indicate that you need to hurry and red which meant that you swerve immediately to your service centre,” said Boules. GM is working on software at two ends, one that could be made available on the driver’s panel and another that could be availed through remote control, he said.
“Next time you find you have locked your car and left the keys inside, you could call the back office of the company, inform them and they could in turn ‘break in’ the software and unlock the car. Or if you find there is some problem that needs to be immediately attended to, they could through remote application attend to it immediately,” he said.
In the US, currently, a driver whose vehicle has been stolen could intimate the company back office, which, through GPS system, would track the location of the car.
The software, which could be remotely controlled could actually “slow down the car and prevent the thief from running away. It would take out the control of the car from the thief’s hands,” he said with a chuckle.
Such a technology could help immensely in preventing vehicle thefts and free the owner from worries about the car being parked in dim-lit corners of a road. These back-office services could be availed of even during other crises with regard to the car. “The person driving the car could simply call up the back office of the company, inform them of the specific problem, which could be attended to immediately with the help of the advanced software,” he said.
In the US, in case of an accident, the back office is immediately alerted through an automatic system which then calls the driver to understand the gravity of the situation. Help is immediately deployed to the site of the accident. Such accident alerts could be extremely beneficial for India too where the driver in a serious situation could get help immediately, he said. The bursting of the airbags could send out the alert signals to the office.
“Currently, GM is working on components like engine control, steering, safety controls in the process of introducing more electronification of the vehicles,” he said. Once the sophisticated software is in place, it would mean that a car breakdown would have to be struck off from the list of ‘most common excuses’ dished out for showing up late.

Porn websites pose hidden, extortionate dangers

Online pornography hunters' internet adventures are already fraught with danger from malicious code many porn sites use to commandeer visitors' machines or steal personal data.
Now comes a scheme some researchers say amounts to extortion: One site's threat to disable visitors' computers with relentless pop-up ads if they don't pay for a subscription they were automatically signed up for after a free trial.
The threats, reported this week by researchers at security vendor McAfee Inc's Avert Labs, affect people who visit the Web site and download software to access a free three-day trial membership.
Visitors do get free access for three days, but the download includes code that then generates a stream of pop-up windows, when the user is online and offline, demanding payment of roughly $80 for 90 days' worth of additional access.
The windows stay open up to 10 minutes and appear once a day. They appear on top of any open windows and restore to their original size if shrunk or moved, making them impossible to ignore. They also reappear if the computer is rebooted.
The site actually warns visitors they will be billed as full members - and lose full use of their computers if they don't - unless they cancel the subscription within the trial period. But the warning appears in the full terms and conditions statement, which downloaders aren't required to read.
Once the fees are paid, the software can be removed with a special file.
"What it appears they are doing is, in my humble opinion, a form of extortion based on the (usually correct) assumption that a person's computer will be key to many other activities in their daily life,'' McAfee researcher Seth Purdy wrote on the Avert Labs blog.

Ramadoss flooded with marriage offers from medicos

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has been flooded with marriage offers by medical students. But if only it was for love!
Armed with roses for the minister, these students want him to marry and accompany them to the rural areas. The students have adopted this novel way to get Ramadoss’ attention after the Health Ministry’s move to increase the duration of the MBBS course, which included a one-year compulsory rural service.
“He is the most eligible man for us because we don’t have an option. He is sending us to the rural areas and we will also get less salary so we need to marry Ramadoss to get us through the difficult times,” Lakshmi, a medical student said.
Instead of agitated protest marches these medical students have taken refuge in a show of love. For them, wedding posters speak louder than words.
“Be our husband and come with us to the villages to protect us. If he (Ramadoss) is so keen on sending us to the villages then he should also be there to support us,” another student Rashmi said.
It’s a new form of Gandhigiri in which love and cupid take centrestage but will the persistent minister bow to their proposal or rather the rural posting? That’s a million dollar question but if he doesn’t then this protest will just be remembered as an eye-capturing tactic.
Meanwhile, the story in Hyderabad, too, is one of protest, but here there is no space for love and roses. Senior doctors in Andhra Pradesh have threatened to join their juniors in a strike, seeking action against MIM MLA Afsar Khan, who is accused of assaulting a lady doctor.