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  • The 25 Best Film Schools In The World !

    The Hollywood Reporter has launched its first ever rating of the best film schools in the world !

    The Hollywood Reporter has compiled the list of Top 25 schools after consulting industry insiders, execs, filmmakers and film school grads. The participants were asked to rate each program based on the following categories:
    – Alumni
    – Cost
    – Facilities
    – Industry Access
    – Strength of Faculty.

    1. American Film Institute
    2. University of Southern California
    3. Beijing Film Academy
    4. New York University Tisch School of the Arts
    5. University of California Los Angeles
    6. California Institute of the Arts
    7. The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
    8. Columbia University School of the Arts
    9. Wesleyan University
    10. The National Film and Television School
    11. La Femis
    12. University of North Carolina School of the Arts
    13. University of Texas at Austin
    14. The Polish National Film, Television and Theater School
    15. Syracuse University
    16. Stanford University
    17. Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts
    18. Emerson Visual and Media Arts School
    19. Loyola Marymount University
    20. University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee
    21. Rhode Island School of Design
    22. Chapman University Dodge College of Film & Media Arts
    23. Ringling College of Art and Design
    24. Northwestern University
    25. Colorado Film School

    Detailed Report : HERE !

  • Adobe Shuts Down Its AppStore:

    Adobe has decided to discontinue its AppStore and has decided to support other AppStores…

    Please Check The Adobe Release….

    After reviewing our efforts and based on feedback from developers, we have decided that we will deliver the most value by helping developers author and publish their apps on multiple platforms. Given this focus, we have decided to discontinue development and support of Adobe InMarket. We are going to continue to provide support for publishing to different app stores through our tooling. The recent Flash Builder 4.5 and Flash Professional CS5.5 provide support for publishing to multiple mobile platforms including Android and Apple iOS devices.

    Given this shift, we are not accepting any new applications through Adobe InMarket. If you have published applications on Intel AppUp center, Intel should send you login credentials to the Intel AppUp developer program by August 31, 2011. This should let you manage your applications and view data associated with your applications published on Intel AppUp.

    After August 31, 2011, you will not be able to login to the Adobe InMarket portal. Please download any analytics before this date including revenue reports you wish to keep for your use as all data associated with InMarket will be inaccessible to you after this date.

    Concurrent with this change to InMarket, we are also closing Adobe AIR Marketplace. When we established Adobe AIR Marketplace three years ago, there were few distribution opportunities for AIR developers. There are now several app stores on desktops, mobile devices and tablets that service AIR developers including Apple App Store, Android Market, BlackBerry App World, Intel AppUp center, Samsung Apps, and Toshiba App Place. We encourage you to use these newer popular app stores to distribute your applications.

    As before, Adobe will continue to provide the best technologies and solutions so that developers and publishers can create, distribute and monetize content.

    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/inmarket.html

    Thanks to Durgesh Kaushik for the information !

  • InfoStretch CTO Interview

    InfoStretch CTO and Co-Founder Manish Mathuria was featured in Tools Journal. Please find the link to the interesting article.

    http://www.toolsjournal.com/testing-articles/item/234-qmetry-interview-with-cto

  • Ahmedabad Film Project – 2011

    The first ever filmmaking competition of Ahmedabad is here, the “Ahmedabad Film Project”. This weekend film project will give you a chance to make your own film, but that isn’t it. The entire film will have to be completed in flat 48hours. No, we aren’t not looking for professional filmmakers to participate. We are looking for amateur people like you and us, who want just one chance to make it!

    All you need is a Camera, a Team of 3 or more than 3 people and lots of Passion to make a film!

    Competition begins – August 19th, 2011, 8:00pm
    Competition ends – August 21st, 2011, 8:00pm

    Registration closes on August 15th, 2011.

    For more information, visit us on www.freewaymotionworks.com/afp

  • Coming Soon : Gujaratilexicon On Mobile

    Today’s Times of India carries the interesting news of the GujaratiLexicon’s Mobile Plans…Here is the article…Special Thanks to Ashish Vashi….

    AHMEDABAD: A vast Gujarati language resource will soon be available on a mobile phone application. The group developing the application has already put online the Bhagawat Gomandal ( Gujarati encyclopedia) and the Gujarati Lexicon, a language compendium that has scores of tools like translator and thesaurus.

    The group will make all those services available on the mobile phone application so that they can be used on the go.

    Features like Gujarati dictionaries, proverbs, and idioms will be available on the application without any charge. “One can solve Gujarati crosswords, take quick quizzes and play games on all new-age smart phones,” said Ashok Karania, the facilitator of the Gujarati Lexicon. “The application will be helpful to the new generation, especially the NRGs. The project is now in its last phase and we will make it available in three months.”

    Karania said the application could be used on mobile devices, smart phones, tablets, and smart TVs. “The Gujarati Lexicon team has ensured that Gujarati language tools and technologies are compliant with the latest trends,” he said.

    The team faced many challenges during its mission. “The biggest challenge was to make the service compatible with all mobile devices,” Karania said. “We had to rearrange the database of the lexicon, which contains millions of words.”

    The Gujarati Lexicon team is working on other interesting projects as well. After digitizing Gujarat Vidyapith’s Sarth Dictionary and Bhagwad Gomandal, Gujarati Lexicon presented Lok Kosh – a dictionary recording popular words in current usage. The team is also working on specialized dictionaries for medical and legal disciplines.

    Gujarati Lexicon aims to preserve, popularize and develop Gujarati language through the power of information technology.

  • Great Restaurants In Ahmedabad

    Now that I keep recommending eating joints, people keep asking me about the best options to eat in Ahmedabad. Here is a ready list for your you !

    1. Swati – Gujarati, Snacks
    2. Dasprakash – South Indian
    3. Havmor – Punjabi, Fine Dining
    4. Gurmoh – Punjabi
    5. Oshwal – Fafda, Jalebis – Must Visit (Place Is Deceptive !)
    6. 7 Chef – Various
    7. Pepperazzi – Various, Fine Dining
    8. Cellad Eatery – Healthy Foods
    9. Vishalla, Rajwadu, Agashiye – Gujarati Thali, Experience – Must Visit Places
    10. Haute Peppers – Fusion
    11. Waterside Cafe – Experience
    12. Curries, Mirch Masala – Punjabi
    13. Mainland China – Chinese
    14. Little Italy – Italian
    15. Cafe Upper Crust – Continental
    16. Cafe MoMo

    Patang can be added to the list as another experience. It is Ahmedabad’s rotating restaurant.

    Ahmedabad River Front will add more restaurants to the above list !

  • New & Noteworthy Restaurants In Ahmedabad

    1. Mint Route – Refreshing Food – Panjrapole Cross Roads
    2. Dangee Dums – Great Place for Chocolate Lovers ! – Panjrapole Cross Roads
    3. Souq – Arabian, Mediterranean – Vijay Cross Roads
    4. Cravings – Yogurts – Commerce Cross Roads !
    5. Zazil Cafe – Prahlad Nagar
    6. Sirkaa – Drive-In (It is Bawarchi Re-Branded)

  • Blackberry PlayBook Launched In India

    Blackberry PlayBook Launched In India

    The much-awaited Blackberry PlayBook is here !

    Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM) on Wednesday announced the launch of BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in India, priced at Rs.27,990 (for 16 GB), Rs.32,990 (32GB) and Rs.37,990 (64 GB). It comes in an ultra-portable design and features industry-leading performance with real-time multitasking and symmetrical multiprocessing.

    The BlackBerry PlayBook features Wi-Fi support and delivers high-fidelity web browsing including support for Adobe Flash, as well as spectacular high-definition (HD) multimedia, advanced security features and out-of-the-box enterprise support.

    “PlayBook offers the same level of encryption as any BlackBerry device, so security is never compromised,” Advait Vaidya, RIM’s head of product management in India said.

    “The BlackBerry PlayBook is an incredibly powerful and innovative product in the growing tablet marketplace. It is perfect for both large organisations and individuals, and it gives users an unmatched mobile experience,” said RIM Managing Director (India) Frenny Bawa.

    The BlackBerry PlayBook is a multitasking powerhouse, measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound. It includes a vivid 7 inch high resolution display, 1 GHz dual-core processor and the new BlackBerry Tablet operating system, which delivers a highly-responsive, fluid touch screen experience. It also comes with premium multimedia features including dual high-definition cameras for video capture and conferencing.

    Bollywood superstar Salman Khan along with Research In Motion’s Managing Director, Frenny Bawa officially launched the tablet.

    Comparative Analysis: PlayBook Vs iPad Vs Galaxy Tab

    All three devices – PlayBook, Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab – work on different and highly sophisticated operating systems.

    PlayBook’s design is the most compact at just 7 inches. This feature makes it the most portable tablet amongst its competitors.

    The PlayBook’s camera is of a superior resolution than iPad2, but Samsung Galaxy Tab beats both of them in this department.

    The biggest advantage that the PlayBook has over the iPad is that of a USB port. External devices can’t be plugged in the iPad, but the PlayBook and Galaxy have overcome this disadvantage.

    The BlackBerry tablet also supports 4G services, which are not supported by the iPad. That makes this device a good and forward-looking buy.

    Like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Blackberry PlayBook supports Adobe Flash and its applications.

    Salman @ Launch

  • Google Translate For Gujarati

    Google Translate For Gujarati

    Google has extended its translation services to Gujarati language. Recently, Google added five more Indian languages – Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu – besides Hindi potentially increasing its reach to over 500 million people.

    Google Translate

    Research Scientist Ashish Venugopal has written the following note on The Official Google Post:

    Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we’ve launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63.

    Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering. This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations; the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada are also highly agglutinative, meaning a single word often includes affixes that represent additional meaning, like tense or number. Fortunately, our research to improve Japanese (an SOV language) translation helped us with the word order challenge, while our work translating languages like German, Turkish and Russian provided insight into the agglutination problem.

    You can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of our more mature languages—like Spanish or Chinese—which have much more of the web content that powers our statistical machine translation approach. Despite these challenges, we release alpha languages when we believe that they help people better access the multilingual web. If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of our languages, please correct us; we enjoy learning from our mistakes and your feedback helps us graduate new languages from alpha status. If you’re a translator, you’ll also be able to take advantage of our machine translated output when using the Google Translator Toolkit.

    Since these languages each have their own unique scripts, we’ve enabled a transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards. For example, if you type in the word “nandri,” it will generate the Tamil word நன்றி (see what it means). To see all these beautiful scripts in action, you’ll need to install fonts* for each language.

    We hope that the launch of these new alpha languages will help you better understand the Indic web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages, taking us five alpha steps closer to a web without language barriers.

    Check The Results:

  • Infostretch Achieves ISO27001 Accreditation in Quality Assurance and Mobile Development

    Santa Clara, CA April 6, 2011: Infostretch Corporation today announced that it has been conferred with the prestigious ISO 27001:2005 Information Security certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS).

    “Infostretch is already an ISO 9001:2008 (Quality Management system) certified company, but as we continue to work on mission critical projects for large enterprises, Information Security became extremely important, “said Rutesh Shah, CEO at Infostretch “this certification comes as a testament to the stringent standards and processes that we follow to ensure information security throughout the organization.”

    With this certification for Management of Information Security in Software Development; mobile app development and testing; Test Automation services and SaaS Solutions, Infostretch provides enterprise customers with the assurance of established protocols of security measures to protect their IT investments from information security threats and vulnerabilities.

    ISO 27001 is the highest international standard for Information Security Management System (ISMS) that will underpin and protect the IT worldwide over the next decade. The audit for certification was conducted by BSI INDIA. Infostretch was evaluated for effectiveness in implementation of information security policies and procedures to protect customers and organization’s confidential information and intellectual property. With this, Infostretch has become one of the very few companies globally that have been awarded ISO 27001 accreditation.

    This certification from BSI India (accreditation with ANAB) followed a rigorous audit, meeting ISO/IEC 27001:2005 requirements and standards – as published by the International Organization for Standardization, the leading international standard for measuring Information Security practices.

    This certification shows that Infostretch takes information security very seriously and has the ability to manage its business to the highest professional standards. “ISMS is designed to meet our organization’s security needs on an ongoing basis and that will protect our client’s valuable information assets against potential security risks, issues and vulnerabilities” Said Rutesh Shah.