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Technology Tips, guidance and video tutorials for all technical problems...chayanupadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468544501358881590noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746550755363042699.post-52011979230510331512011-11-09T06:02:00.000-08:002011-11-09T06:04:42.444-08:00How did the rumor about Facebook shutting down start?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBsvkyD8R_EcZSXreXyC1yY-NmwUiGLCu7O3RL1KMkhpbnpF6qy5mnW0FBHVhC6C_KncrXZtlbAocYTICn5bTS3BLclLeKeVypGgHAHQq_2tpfnkmmxs9hJUYx4R__eY4MOTWw8UeR5gXn/s1600/facebook-no-apto-para-padres.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBsvkyD8R_EcZSXreXyC1yY-NmwUiGLCu7O3RL1KMkhpbnpF6qy5mnW0FBHVhC6C_KncrXZtlbAocYTICn5bTS3BLclLeKeVypGgHAHQq_2tpfnkmmxs9hJUYx4R__eY4MOTWw8UeR5gXn/s320/facebook-no-apto-para-padres.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Since January 8 there is a fast spreading rumor that says that Facebook is shutting down on March 15, 2011, because its creator Mark Zuckerberg finds managing the site too stressful. <br />
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The oldest question about this rumor on Yahoo Answers makes reference to a post of January 8 by the satirical Weekly World News, which seems to be the one that started the rumor. <br />
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The creation of the rumor seems to be the result of the mixture of two different real news. The first one is the announcing by Yahoo that its service Yahoo Video will be closing down on March 15, 2011, and the second one is an opinion article published on CNN in which the author sees a recent investment in Facebook as the “beginning of the end” for this company. This is because, in his opinion, the investment is a sign of Facebook being cashing out. <br />
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As indeed Goldman Sachs recently invested $500 million dollars in Facebook, some people state that, besides being false, this rumor is also ridiculous. Facebook already responded the rumors ironically with a tweet that says, "We didn't get the memo about shutting down, so we'll keep working away. We aren't going anywhere; we're just getting started." <br />
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This is not the first time that Facebook is mentioned in a massive rumor. In fact, the home page of Facebook says, "It's free, and always will be" since the date stated by a previous rumor for Facebook to start charging its users. <br />
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Maybe on March 15 the home page will say “It's free, and always will be, and we are not closing anytime soon.”</div>chayanupadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468544501358881590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746550755363042699.post-45586734933552866012011-10-25T11:50:00.000-07:002011-10-25T11:50:08.384-07:00Happy Diwali<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPYQrw37lEe4aabFkL5y31BzXDRkEfRrzyWYB3sdXqkhlqRThXnqoUVyrVuvi0ExddIbq5ZKKO0uGfRLJ4d8IVOYymegZjiSgYUInVRMqAnFJ1eDQRMglHUeZO0JbwIBROhWvh73L4x4F6/s1600/diwali.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPYQrw37lEe4aabFkL5y31BzXDRkEfRrzyWYB3sdXqkhlqRThXnqoUVyrVuvi0ExddIbq5ZKKO0uGfRLJ4d8IVOYymegZjiSgYUInVRMqAnFJ1eDQRMglHUeZO0JbwIBROhWvh73L4x4F6/s400/diwali.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div>chayanupadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468544501358881590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746550755363042699.post-56191666586020796872011-10-13T08:48:00.001-07:002011-10-13T08:52:46.529-07:00Dennis Ritchie, father of C programming language, dies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: museo-slab, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #768696; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4286em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.133em; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Dennis Ritchie, an internationally renowned computer scientist who created the C programming language, has died at age 70.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Ritchie died at his home over the weekend, according to a <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google+ post from longtime colleague Rob Pike</a>. His Wikipedia entry was updated to say he had died in Murray Hill, N.J.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">His death was confirmed today by Bell Labs, in a <a href="http://www2.alcatel-lucent.com/blogs/corporate/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-message-from-jeong-kim/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">message from its president, Jeong Kim</a>, to employees. That message reads, in part:</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><blockquote style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/News/blog/blockquote.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 23px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #768696; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2857em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dennis was well loved by his colleagues at Bell Labs, and will be greatly missed. He was truly an inspiration to all of us, not just for his many accomplishments, but because of who he was as a friend, an inventor, and a humble and gracious man.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition to being the creator of C, Ritchie co-authored "The C Programming Language," commonly referred to as K&R (after the authors, Brian Kernighan and Ritchie) and widely considered the definitive work on C. He also made significant contributions to the development of the Unix operating system, for which he received the Turing Award in 1983 (along with Kenneth Thompson).</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">President Bill Clinton <a href="http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1999/april/28/1.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">awarded</a> Ritchie and Thompson the <a href="http://news.cnet.com/Short-Take-Clinton-lauds-Unix-inventors/2110-1001_3-225192.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">National Medal of Technology in 1999</a> for their contributions to Unix and C. He won many other national and international awards for his work and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for "development of the C programming language and for co-development of the Unix operating system."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Ritchie went to work at Bell Labs' Computing Sciences Research Center in 1967 and was widely known as "dmr"--his Bell Labs e-mail address. As part of an AT&T restructuring in the mid-1990s, Ritchie was transferred to Lucent Technologies, where he retired in 2007 as head of System Software Research Department.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In a <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/business-of-it/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-dies-40094176/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tribute to Ritchie</a>, Rupert Goodwins of CNET sister site ZDNet UK, offers some observations on Ritchie's work habits and his legacy.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0714em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><blockquote style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/News/blog/blockquote.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 23px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #768696; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2857em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.433em !important; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ritchie had the lifestyle and habits to match his position as an early guru of IT. Long-haired and bearded, and famously more owl than lark, he started work at midday in his industry-standard chaotic office, emerging late in the evening to go home and carry on working through to the small hours at the end of a leased line connected to the Bell Labs computers....<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Although I'm young and haven't followed Jobs' career as intently as others, he has taught me a lot about business in last five years. Here are 11 business secrets I learnt from Steve Jobs:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">People matter, not features</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Everything Jobs built made life easier for you. It was rare to ever hear him babbling about features he created, instead he focused on how these products made life easier for others. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For example, the iPhone enabled you to talk on your phone, watch movies, record movies, and listen to music. As simple as that may sound, without an iPhone you may have to had to carry around a cell phone, mp3 player, and a video recorder. Because of him your pockets are much lighter. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He taught me, along with many others, not to focus on just adding features or creating products. First and foremost, you need to focus on solving problems that people are experiencing. If you can do that, you'll stay ahead of the curve.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There’s nothing wrong with pre-selling</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most companies launch products and then sell them. Jobs didn't do that with Apple. He let the public know what he was going to sell them, how it solved their problems, and that they could pre-order the product online. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can do the same thing. Don't wait for your product or service to be released. Start selling it now. The money you earn today will help cover your costs and it will help solve any cash flow issues you may encounter during distribution.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Keep it simple, silly</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I switched from a PC to a Mac because Macs are much easier to use. Or at least they are for my dad and 1-year-old nephew. Every Apple product I bought during Steve's tenure was simple to use. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He also created cool looking devices, but above all else his products were simple to use. For example, the iPad was the first device I was ever able to give my dad that required little to no instruction. There are no shut down or start options, you just click on applications and start using them. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you want more applications, you just go to the App Store and download them. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't try to make your solutions complicated. Keep it simple... even if that means you have to strip off the bells and whistles. If you aren't creating usable solutions, it will be harder to gain traction.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Think big</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you are in business, you are there to make money. If not, you shouldn't be an entrepreneur. If you are going to create a business, create one that changes the world.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple isn't just a technology company, Steve Jobs changed the world. His products are used all around the world and by everyone. This is why Apple is the largest company in the world. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You won't be able to create a big company unless you solve big problems. Although you can make a nice living by conquering a small niche, you wont make billions doing it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Focus, focus and focus some more</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When you look at Apple's website, it seems like they have a lot of products, right? Well, for being a hundred-billion dollar company, they actually don't. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jobs was smart, he always focused his energy on a few big products instead of trying to create thousands of small ones. In other words, he went for big wins instead of looking to hit singles and doubles. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With your business you shouldn't try to do multiple things. Just focus your time and energy on one product or service. As long as your core business continues to grow, you shouldn't do anything else. The moment your growth slows down and flattens, that's when you should expand.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Create an ecosystem</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I never really understood the power of creating a platform until the iPhone was released. When the phenomenon hit the market and companies started to create applications, Apple grew to have a huge ecosystem. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Not only were they selling their products, other companies started to build products on the Apple platform and their customers were encouraged to buy and use Apple products. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By this point Apple didn't have to sell their products, other companies were doing it for them. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Steve Jobs created an ecosystem and he was able to do it around Apple products. If you want to grow a brilliant idea, you have to create an ecosystem for that idea to flourish.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There’s always room for innovation</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The iPod wasn't the first mp3 player. There were hundreds of others that were already out before Apple released the iPod. That didn't discourage Jobs from entering the space... he just one upped everyone by creating a better product. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">These days if you are looking to buy a music player, the first thing comes to your mind is the iPod, right? And what's the second brand that comes to your mind? Ummmmm... That's right, they demolished all of their competitors. The only other device that I can think of is the Zune, which kind of sucks. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't be afraid to enter a saturated market... you just have to be willing to stir things up. If you can innovate, you will win. If you decide to create another me-too company, expect to be crushed.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Be passionate</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Did you know that Steve Jobs had a salary of $1 a year? That's right, he didn't care for money and he stated it publicly. He cared about the company, their products, and changing peoples' lives. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you love what you are doing, you are going to work harder and be more likely to succeed. Heck, Jobs even worked hard when he was sick... that's how much he loved what he was doing. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't just do things for the money, do things because you love what you are doing. You aren't going to live forever, so enjoy your life while you can.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ummmmm…</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">That's right, they demolished all of their competitors. The only other device that I can think of is the Zune, which kind of sucks. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't be afraid to enter a saturated market... you just have to be willing to stir things up. If you can innovate, you will win. If you decide to create another me-too company, expect to be crushed.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Never lose your investors money</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Although Steve Jobs wasn't the CEO throughout all of Apple's history, he always took care of the company. He came back, and turned the company around. In other words, he grew shareholder money and took care of his investors. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As I stated earlier, Apple is the biggest company in the world. It's very difficult to create a decent size company without taking money from investors... so make sure you take care of them. And if you do so, they'll always take care of you. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Another great leader who also has a very similar rule is Warren Buffett. If you can take care of the people who are feeding you, they'll constantly be willing to reciprocate.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You’re nothing without your team</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple has a ton of benefits: from onsite fitness centers to tuition assistance, they even have cafeterias with organic food. Why did they do all of this? To take care of their employees. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A big part of being a good leader is realizing that you have to have a good team. It's impossible to do everything yourself. If you don't take care of your employees and show your appreciation, you'll quickly lose them. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you take care of your employees they'll put their blood, sweat and tears into your company.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don’t Forget about your friends and family</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As an entrepreneur when you work so hard for so many years, you tend to forget about your friends and family. All you do is live, sleep and breathe business. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At the end of the day, there is nothing wrong with that, but you also have to spend time with your friends and family. Money will always be there, but your friends and family won't.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When Steve Jobs got sick, he left Apple to spend his final moments with his friends and family. He knew what was important to him. You too need to figure out what's important to you no matter how much time your business or job takes from your life, don't forget about what's important.</div></div>chayanupadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468544501358881590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746550755363042699.post-88137966429566929962011-10-10T02:31:00.000-07:002011-10-10T02:31:30.598-07:00Memories Of Jagjit Singh (1941-2011)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jagjit Singh</b> (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Punjabi</span></span>: <span lang="pa" xml:lang="pa">ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Hindi</span></span>: <span lang="hi" xml:lang="hi">जगजीत सिंह</span>) (February 8, 1941 - October 10, 2011) was an Indian <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Ghazal</span></span> singer, composer, music director, activist and entrepreneur. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; white-space: nowrap;">1</span></span><span>]</span></sup>Popularly known as "The Ghazal King" he gained acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Ghazal</span></span> singer <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Chitra Singh</span></span>, in the 1970s and 1980s, as the first ever successful duo act (husband-wife) in the history of recorded Indian music. Together, they are considered to be the pioneers of modern <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Ghazal</span></span> singing and regarded as most successful recording artistes outside the realm of Indian film music. He has sung in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Punjabi</span></span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Hindi</span></span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Urdu</span></span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Bengali</span></span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Gujarati</span></span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Sindhi</span></span> and<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Nepali</span></span> languages. He was awarded India's third highest civilian honour, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Padma Bhushan</span></span>, in 2003.</span></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jagjit Singh was born in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Sri Ganganagar</span></span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Rajasthan</span></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; white-space: nowrap;">2</span></span><span>]</span></sup> to Amar Singh Dhiman, a government employee, a native of Dalla village in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Punjab (India)</span></span> and his mother, Bachan Kaur from Ottallan village, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Samrala</span></span>. He had four sisters and two brothers and he was known as Jeet by his family. He was raised as a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Sikh</span></span> by religion.</span></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jagjit Singh was first offered to sing in a Gujarati Film. <b>"Dharati Na Chhoru"</b> produced by Mr. Suresh Amin, famously known by Jagjit Singh as "Jholi Vaaley Baba" : known so, because he carried a Red Shoulder Bag wherever he went. Mr Suresh Amin was from Baroda-Gujarat and was associated with Scad Consultants Pvt Ltd. When, Mr Suresh Amin died in 1998 and Scad Consultants, Baroda, Organized a Live Concert by Jagjit singh in December 1998 - Jagjit Singh [Famously Called by friends as Maharaj] paid a special Tribute to Mr Suresh Amin and dedicated the Scad Consultants Concert to Mr Suresh Amin by Singing the song " Chitthi Na Koi Sandesh ", the perfect song to match his unawareness of Suresh Amin's Death.</span></a></span><br />
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<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: black; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ghazals"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965">Ghazals</a></span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many successful ghazals composed by Jagjit Singh. Some of them are listed below:-</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiv0olUbr3q3wfXfPQvjzCVm2DIBVBSLB3NqzSwz83gMbU4nVi1FE5kQmK6mz_-xOInD1RgTviZ1GnmjFOLfP5sC5JhV2ZSUHR59kegfaLDqjFKu19oo5wEGgNy2suii1c3DmdbxWnDCU7/s1600/220px-Jagjit_Singh_performing_at_Symphony_Hall%252C_Birmingham%252C_12_September_2008.jpg" /></span></a></span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yaarian Rab Kar Ke (Sang for Shiv K. Batalvi)</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Umr Jalwon mein basar ho</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Der lagi aane mein tumko</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apni aankho ke samundar mein utar jaane de</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Koi paas aayaa sawere-sawere</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apne hothon par sajaana chaahta hoon</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meri zindagi kisi aur ki, mere naam ka koi aur hai</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apne haathon kee lakeeron mein</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sadma to hai mujhe bhi ke tujhse juda hoon main</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aadmi aadmi ko kya degaa</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haath chhooten bhi to</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garaj baras pyaasi dharthi par phir paani de maula</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apni marzi se kahan apne safar ke hum hain</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ik barahman ne kaha hai</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Main na hindu na musalmaan mujhe jeene do</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kaise kaise haadse sehte rahe</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wo jo hum mein tumme qaraar tha</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patta-patta boota-boota haal hamaara jaane hai</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chak jigar ke see lete hain</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Main bhool jaaoon tumhe, ab yahi munaasib hai</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jaate jaate wo mujhe achchhi nishaani de gaya</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shaam se aankh mein namin si hai</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tere baare mein jab socha nahin thaa</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tere aane ki jab khabar mehke</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tamanna fir machal jaaye agar tum milne aa jaao</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ab main ration ki kataron mein nazar aata hoon</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tujhse milne ki saza denge tere shehar ke log</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patthar ke khuda, patthar ke sanam</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huzoor aapka bhi ahtraam karta chaloon</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Din aa gaye sabaab ke aanchal sambhaaliye</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gulshan ki faqat phoolon se nahin kaaton se bhi zeenat hoti hai</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baat saaqi ki na taali jaayegi</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roshan jamal-e-yaar se hai anjuman tamaam</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tera chehra kitna suhaana lagta hai</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tum nahin, gham nahin sharaab nahin</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarakti jaaye hain rukh se naqaab aahistaa-aahista</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ae khuda ret ke sehra ko samandar kar de</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeh daulat bhi le lo, yeh shohrat bhi le lo</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoshwalo ko khabar</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honthon se chhoo lo tum</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Koi yeh kaise bataye</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tere khat</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bahut khoobsurat hai</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kiska Chehera</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kal chodvi ki raat thi</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baat niklegi to</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Der laagi ane mein tumko</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Main nashe mein hoon</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pyar mujhse jo kiya tumne</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tera chehera hai aaeene jaisa</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chitthi na koi sandesh</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jab se kareeb ho kay chale zindagi se hum</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Koi fariyaad</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kahin duur jab din</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kehta hai baabul</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jhuki jhuki si nazar</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tumko dekha to yeh khayal</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sehma sehma</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yaad kiya dil ne kaha ho tum</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aap ko dekh kar</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jab saamne tum</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hazaron khwaishe aisi</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ya to mit jaaeeye ya mita deejiye</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tere aane ki jab khabar mehke</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">woh khat ke purje jala raha tha</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tum ye kaise khafa ho gaye</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hum to hai perdes mein desh mein</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeevan Maran Chhe Ek (in Gujarati)</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Woh kaaghaz ki kashti</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Badi Najuk he ye manzil mohabbat ka safar he</span></a></li>
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Awards</a></span></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2003, he was awarded the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Padma Bhushan</span></span>, one of India's highest civilian honours, by the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;">Government of India</span></span></span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_349182965"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2006, he was also presented the Teacher's Achievement Awards</span></a></li>
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<div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1.2em !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="Android-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-banner.jpg" class="mt-image-center" height="300" src="http://www.techdigest.tv/Android-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-banner.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="640" />Google have inadvertently confirmed (and swiftly puled) the launch date for the latest build of Android, 4.0 or otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1.2em !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The October 11th release date was revealed via a placeholder page on Google's YouTube channel before quickly being removed by the administrators. If a rare livestream on the Google YoutTube page wasn't cause for suspicion enough, the placeholder page was titled "Android ICS Launch".</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1.2em !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The 11th October release date seems to be pretty solid now, what with it coniciding with Samsung's Unpacked event on the same day. Here Samsung are expected to reveal the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, or Nexus Prime; the first handset to ship with Google's latest mobile OS build.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1.2em !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ice Cream Sandwich will be Google's first mobile operating system that will work seamlessly and efficiently across both smartphones and tablet devices. Google are claiming it to be their "most ambitious release to date".</div></div>chayanupadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468544501358881590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746550755363042699.post-38006562427759778432011-10-08T00:51:00.000-07:002011-10-08T09:49:27.581-07:00'Three stories of my life': Steve Jobs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
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This was among the top comments on a Youtube video on Thursday, displaying Jobs' speech at Stanford University's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005. Regarded as one of Jobs' most inspiring speeches, the video has been viewed more than 6 million times and has drawn around 10,000 comments, mostly after news of his death at the age of 56 spread in the media.<br />
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The speech, written by Jobs himself, is regarded as some of his best work. In it, Jobs summarized his life into “three stories” and urged others to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.<br />
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Here is a transcript of the address:</div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You've got to find what you love, says Jobs</strong><br />
(<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Stanford Report</em>, June 14, 2005)<br />
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<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The first story is about connecting the dots.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />My second story is about love and loss.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down -- that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />My third story is about death.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand, not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: It was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Thank you all very much.</em></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)</div></div>chayanupadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468544501358881590noreply@blogger.com0