The very impressive Apple iPod lineup has dominated the digital music player market ever since the first iPod hit the streets in 2001. And that lead continues as Apple keeps on adding more impressive features and storage space to their iPod models while maintaining the thin and sleek look. And if you are planning to purchase an iPod and not able to decide among the various iPod models like Shuffle, Nano, Classic or the new iPod Touch,   then follow up the iPod Buying guide that compares all the new iPod models to help you pick the best iPod for your needs.

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The iPod shuffle is ideal when you want to gift someone an iPod but do not have a big budget. The shuffle is small and wearable so you can easily clip it to your sleeve or the coin pocket of your trousers - a perfect choice for joggers or people who frequent the gym. With 1GB of storage, iPod shuffle weighs just around 15g. iPod Shuffle Specifications.

The new iPod Nano, one of the best sellers, can now play video on their 2” colored screen in addition to photo slideshows and music. With the recent update, Nano models have become slightly shorter and wider. The Cover Flow feature lets you flip through your music album covers visually through the Click Wheel. Nano is available in 4GB and 8GB models and weighs around 50g. iPod Nano specification.

iPod Classic is much like the iPod Nano except for the storage size – Classic comes in 80GB and 160GB variants enough to store even your full length high resolution DVD movies. The screen size is slightly bigger at 2.5” but they weigh around 150g which is like 3x that of a Nano. iPod Classic specification.

The new and very gorgeous iPod Touch with a large 3.5” display and touch screen QWERTY keyboard, this is the most innovative iPod ever. The inbuilt Wi-Fi and Safari Browser in iPod Touch lets you surf the web in any hotspot. iPod Touch specification.

With so many choices, which iPod would you now go for? The solution is simple. Log on to the SHOPWIKI and check out for the specifications you want to have on your iPod.

I was trying to add this blog into the mybloglog account. After I submitted my blog url a page came up looking something like this

I decided to go for the first option, as my knowledge of html is almost nill. This option is preferably better for me. It instructs me to enter a blog post conataining the link below as 

Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification

I hope this works.

These thought has always been with me since I gained senses. I have always wondered about death and have never been that much attached to life. Infact, i have always sensed and believed that i would die at the age of 40, exactly on my birthdate. Now, if somebody ask my why so, I DON'T HAVE THE DAMN ANSWER. It is just something like a voice from my inner soul and it has never been wrong with me. Whatever that I have felt has always came true. May be I have got a stronger sixth sense. 

I hope this one is also going to come true. As evidence, I will narrate some incidents that have been part of my life. 

1. When i was in the second year of my Engineering, I felt down from a 10 meter high ladder with my face on the ground. That morning I still remember I had so many slips from my hand, almost broke a dozen of glasses. Then, in the afternoon, I slipped from the ladder and I almost died.  

2. This second incident in the list has been my most painful day till now. In the morning, I felt something not right within. I had no problems at that time, everything was going so well. But, still something very bad kept me occupied the whole day. While I was returning from class, that maroon coloured checked half shirt that my girlfriend gave me got torned out of nowhere. I loved that shirt and she was my whole world ( Ofcourse, my parents are there in their place). In the late evening she called me up as usual. But, that one was for a different purpose. She decided to leave me, it came just like a 100000 million volt lightning to me. I got dumped ( feel sorry for myself saying this, but fact is fact ). U won't believe, I slept for two whole days after taking 15 sleeping pills that night. (I was a great fool I agree and readers please leave no comments for my stupidity, i'm already aware of that )

3. The summer vacation this year, i had to cancel my ticket for the journey back to home because of ankle fracture while playing badminton in the morning that day itself. The next morning i heard the same bus got overturned and fell into the river. 

There are a number of cases like these and it will take atleast three days if I were to write all about those. These are the major incidents. And I belief, my dear readers might be convinced that my sixth sense is quite strong. 

Now, my point is that, if these have been all true then the belief and the sense of the death at 40 will also be true. To add to it, here is another fact. At the age of 21 I was diagnosed of ALS meaning Amyotropic lateral Schlerosis and death occurs due to the failure of respiratory organs. Now, my readers may say that I will survive this one too as I have been surviving all the others. Yeah, I will ask the same, but this one is different as I felt I am dying unlike those in which I felt I will be alright. 

Whatever, I am just sharing my feelings with my readers. God knows the fate, not me. 

I have been using Google Chrome since the time it has been released. It is the best browser I have ever used. It is faster then any other bowsers present till date. I have used Mozilla firefox, Opera (the latest version), netscape, internet explorer 7, almost all the browsers available in the internet. But, I find chrome to be the best. Once the site has been browsed, then Chrome can load much faster the next time.

In order to prove it to myself, I simultaneously installed firefox, opera and chrome, and tried to browse the same website. For the first time, all the bowsers took almost the same time to load the page. But, I found out the difference in the second time I open the same page. Chrome could load the page mush faster as compared to the browsers. No doubt, Opera and Mozilla Firefox have been the fore-runners in the list of fastest web browsers. After using Chrome, I would stick to it untill a better one comes up. Regarding browsing speed I would say Chrome is much better. Apart from this, the quick access links of the latest browsed sites in the front panel gives a much better interface for quick links. The cool looks add to its features.

Everything has limitations. This applies to the Google Chrome also. I have been blogging for the last six months. I have experienced certain problems with the Chrome. These have been listed below.

1. While I was trying to change the template of my blog, certain error codes came up repeatedly. And I was unable to change the blog template. I tried using Internet Explorer, and there were no more problems. There were no problem in changing to a template as given in the blogger. I wanted some other templates which I can customize and with a better look. There I got the problem. This is one limitation of Chrome. So, whenever I am upto changing my template, I use Internet Explorer.

2. The other problem is the blogger's Posting > Create menu. Whenever I inserted pictures to the post, I used to find problems in placing the pictures to the place where I wanted. I couldn't drag the pictures with the mouse. I thought the blogger didn't support it. I have been using Chrome since the time I started blogging. Once I tried in Internet Explorer and it did work. I can drag the pictures with the mouse and it give the best flexibility in placing the pictures where I wanted them to be.

The Chrome team have to come up with solutions to these problems. There may be many more, these two only for the timebeing. If I find more, I will surely write about that also. Readers can check in regularly for more updates.

This last five days have shown me how life is going to be after I pass out from my College. I realized the world is going really fast. After this semester, I have got only one more semester to go. After that I'll be called an A grade Mechanical Engineer, ofcourse my percentage is quite good till now. Even if I do prettty bad in the next semester, it's not pull me down atleast below the A grade line. 

I think studying engineering is one of the most safest option if you're looking for an easy study. I got the prestigious selection in this Govt. of India funded NERIST. It's not bad at all. When I was in first year i was quite a sincere students, it was a habit though, as my mom is pretty strict and She has been a nightmare for me when I was in School. Thanks MOM, otherwise I won't have this percentage. I'm not saying that I'm still sincere or studying regularly, that scope is totally out of focus for the time being. 

OOps!! my story if getting off the track. I was talking about the world changing rapidly, and I realized today only. 

In the last five days, I completed 30 assignments, 3 seminar reports of atleast 30 pages each, a training dairy of 100 pages, and have given 3 seminars. In each seminar I have shown around 30 slides accounting 90 slides in total. Why I'm mentioning this is that I want the readers to imagine the time and efforts that i must have given to read the reports, sort out the points and put them in the slides. Above these I have been having internal assesment test continuously in these five days. I couldn't explain How have I done it and I don't want to get through those memories again. It'll be a nightmare. I have slept for only 10 hours in total in these five days. And this is making me sick. I'm surely going to a long sleep after this write up.

Before these five days, the whole semester I did nothing except for watching movies, blogging, chatting, and playing badminton. My major exam is starting day after tomorrow, that is on the 1st november 2008. Till now I have not read even a single chapter of any of the courses. What I know is the names of the courses only. (I have been following this routine for the last two years after I got broke up with my 'V'. She is ex though, I still prefer to called her as mine, kind of fondness)

That's why I said engineering is really easy to study if you have some knowledge of Mathematics.

I'm going for the sleep. Good night readers.

This is about a moment that I and 'V' have shared together. I used to think about this all the time, specially when it is a cold winter night, late and when i'm lying on my bed, alone in my room.

Who is 'V' ? You might be having this question in your mind. Well, she was my girlfren, we broke up two years back. Yet, her memories are still alive in my mind each one of them.

I went to JORHAT, a small town in Assam, North East India. I was too eager to see her, meet her as she accepted my proposal after two long years. I met her. But, my concern is not the moments that we spent together. This post is only for that moment, in which we talked in silence.

It was the time for me to go. My bus was scheduled to leave at 6.30 pm. It was around 5.45 pm. I was there sitting in a chair in the station. I was recalling all those moments that I spent with her during the day. I had to stay only for a day as I was having exams coming up. All the memories were lingering around me. I was missing her so much. I wished to listen to her voice just once last time before leaving. 

That time I wasn't using cellphones neither did she. She was staying in the Hostel. So, I called up from a local Phone boot to her Hostel Phone. her room was on the far side of the hostel. And I never expect her to be the first to pick upthe called. I still remember clearly, it was at the end of the fifth ring, the receiver was picked up. I heard a familiar voice, and Lo.... it was her. She was waiting for my call. She said nothing else and then started crying. I felt her tears rolling down her cheeks. I couldn't say anything nor did dhe do. I was silent and neither she spoke a word more. 

Now it was more than 40 minutes without a single word. It was 6.28 pm and the bus had already arrived and all the passengers were onboard except for me. They were calling me. But, I couldn't say anything to her, i couldn't even move. Even in silence I can hear her telling me not to go. And I am sure that she must have felt that I don't want to go either. 

All of a sudden she broke her silence and said in a very weak voice "Your bus must be waiting, go safely, I am there by your side. I LOVE YOU". If she didn't break her silence I would have surely miss the bus. I give her a smooch and said goodnight and stepped onboard the bus. Whole journey I felt as if she was sitting by my side, leaning her head over my shoulder. Sometimes I would look over as if it were for real.

Though it has been quite a time, the moment is still fresh in my mind. But, I don't know how did she knew that the bus was waiting for me. She was in her hostel and that's quite far from the station. We spoke no words, yet we were talking to each other in silence. May be it was " Silence talks better than Words  ". 

We are no more together. But, she is still a part of me.

Smile please !! 

And if you have a bad breath or a stained teeth, you won't smile at all. You might have seen the smile of Aishwaria Rai Bachchan. Isn't it awesome ?? You will surely want to smile like that and even more.

I have a simple way out to it. Follow the steps that I've given below. It's very simple and you don't have to put money for that. And I assure you a "MILION DOLLAR SMILE".

- Brush at least twice a day (using flouride-containing toothpaste, two minutes each time) and floss each time.

- Use a soft bristled toothbrush.

- Hold your brush at a slight angle against your teeth and use short back-and-forth motions.

- Brush the inside and chewing surface.

- Brush your tongue to clear all odour.

- Avoid rigorous or hard scrubbing.

- Massage your gums with your finger-tips for two minutes once a day to improve circulation.

- Seek a doctor's recommendation for mouthwash especially for kids.

- Replace your toothbrush every two or three months at least.

- Consider using an electric toothbrush, especially if you have anthritis that makes it difficult to brush well.

- Rinse your mouth after every meal.

- Avoid snacks in between meals.

- Your diet should contain a lot of green vegetables and fruits.

- Vitamin C, found in citrus fruits and guavas, etc, is essential for healthy gums.

- Eat foods rich in calcium, like cottage cheese.

- Apples are an excellent cleanser for the teeth.

- Maintain balanced diet, but reduce consumption of foods containing sugar or starch.

- Cola drinks damage teeth.

- Smoking stains teeth and damages gums by reducing blood supply.

- Chewing of sugar free gum prevents bad breath and fights tooth decay.

- Don't chew on hard objects that can crack your teeth like ice and supari, etc.