Account Manager - An app which learns for you.

How great, it would be if you could use your mobile to track your expenses. So you could know where all your salary goes? ;)

There are a lot of android apps on market to do it but Unfortunately they expect you to do a lot of typing. This takes a lot of time and effort.

So here is an app to track your expenses effortlessly. It learns as you use it (like your personal assistant). This saves you time and a lot of effort. After all "Time and Convenience" matters. Doesn't it?

Key features are:

• Learns as you use.
• Your data is secure within the app. Import it and export in simple CSV format.

• Minimalisitic UI design.

Learning feature:

The app learns like a kid.
Say you bought milk the first time. You manually type it.

Now the next time. When you buy milk. You won't need to type "milk" again. It would automatically detect what you are trying to type from the first letter and make appropriate suggestions. So just 1 tap and you are done. :)



In a few days, the app will learn your routine and help you to save and track your expenses effortlessly.

Data Privacy:

The app does not share your data with anybody. You can export your data effortlessly and open it in Microsoft Excel easily.
So saving an expense is a matter of  "tap Next tap tap Next Done!"

Give it a try. You will love it. :)

Click this to download

Just download the Account_Manager.apk file and click Install.

Note: Your phone should be running Android HoneyComb or later versions for this app to work.
In technical terms it's minimum requirements are supporting API Level 11.

P.S. Remember to go to "Settings" and allow "Installation of apps from unknown sources" for app to install otherwise you will get parsing error.

Let me know. :)

Nitish Kumar's Master stroke

In a master stroke, JD(U) Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar resigned on moral grounds without asking for dissolution of Bihar Vidhan Sabha.

Now all eyes are on BJP poaching JD(U) MLAs to form the next government thus any poaching by BJP is sure to earn it bad reputation.
Meanwhile JD(U) Chief Sharad Yadav tries to forge alliance with RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to again form JD(U) government.

BJP has tried to counter Nitish's move by calling his resignation as 'emotionally black mailing the rebellious MLAs'.

Dear BJP and JD(U),
We understand!

Foot Note:
The move has element of strategy of using media attention just like AAP (28 seats) ,chief convenor, Arvind Kejriwal's declared no interest to form the government with assertion that BJP would poach MLAs to form the goverment in the Delhi Vidhan Sabha.

This focussed media attention on BJP (31 seats) which needed only 5 MLAs to reach the majority mark in 70 member assembly. As a result of media attention BJP could not garner the required support by poaching MLAs.

Source:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/nitish-quits-as-dissent-brews-in-jdu/article6021159.ece?homepage=true
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/resignation-is-toemotionally-blackmail-rebel-jdu-mlas-bjp/

How to improve your english vocabulary

Vocab is an essential component of language. It helps you to present your ideas beautifully as well as read, understand and appreciate other people's ideas. So do not see vocab as merely a hurdle to be crossed to get through but also as something that would improve your personality and appreciation of finer things.

To start with
Why do we fall short of words when we are expressing our view?
Either we do not know the word or we do not remember it at that time.

So
Step 1 Know words:

You can get a good list from reading a newspaper, magazine

To begin with, I would recommend
Read just two pages of newspaper daily
Front page of newspaper, Editorial page of newspaper

When you get a difficult word, mark them and find the meanings. But don't stop there
Look at the origin of the word (It helps you to understand why the word means what it means and it can also be used to group words as we will see later)

And now comes the difficult part
Write the word, origin, meaning and the sentence.
Believe me, it works! and you will never forget the word. You would not even need to revise.

Step 2: Remembering the words

Our mind has difficulty remembering a lot of things separately. It is far easier to club things together under a heading. So just remember the heading and all the small things come to you.

For example
Think about move
What words come to your mind?

You would think walk, run, gallop,
Now I come across a new word called 'amble' (means leisurely walk). So I add the word to the heading move

So next time I think of move
My mind automatically thinks walk, run, gallop, amble

So as I find more new words I put them under generic headings. The mind does the rest.
Off the top of my head I can associate with move: walk, run, dash, gallop, scamper, scurry, sprint, flee, amble, saunter, trudge, cavort, stroll, dawdle...

So just put words, usage under generic headings and they will come to you.

Using Origin to group words: You can also remember words by using origin. Get the origin of the word and find all words having the same etymology and group them together. Now, You can act pedantic too while telling somebody about a word... :P

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Mushrooms

Come rains and we see mushrooms popping out of nowhere.
Similarly, come elections and we see some faces being prominently displayed by the media as "People to watch out for." I simply don't get the logic and wonder  "Do, even, they get it?"

"I have no idea, Why I am here?" seems to be Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi's gesture

I haven't read about such famous personalities as above in the past 5 years. Now since I have no data on their actions for past 5 years. There are two possibilities

1. They are selfless workers who kept a low profile for the past 5 years.

2. They come out to make headlines.

Since I haven't come across any work of selflessness being carried out by them for the past 5 years. I am inclined to go with the latter possibility

"Media gets a photo op. 

Junta gets a darshan.
As useful as Kim Kardashian."

Safe House (2013)

Brilliant action movie with a great plot and brilliant acting by all actors.
Starring Denzel Washington, Ryan Renolds.

Watch it, if you want to see a brainy action flick.

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If you're gonna vote

There is this term 'emotional investment' : the amount of feeling in favour of someone. As an example: we can say 'A mother has a high emotional investment in her child.' because she loves her child, no matter what. So To the mother, Her child is the most honest, sincere and good natured kid in the world. It would be difficult to convince her other wise even with proof.

Emotional investment can also be seen in nationalism - 'We want India to win even regardless whether other side is Bangladesh or Australia.' We won't accept or it would be difficult to make us consider the idea that may be the other side may be better than India. Even if we do consider, we may not give the other team players deserved credit.

Emotional investment can also be high in political parties. One says I am a fan of Narendra Modi. Rest are thieves., other says I am a fan of Arvind Kejriwal. Rest are thieves.
It seems that in a zeal to see our favourite party win in elections, we may choose to ignore looking carefully at records of all the candidates (even the party we don't like) in the fray.

I do not seek to change anyone's voting preferences but we need to look at all candidates objectively and take care that in our zeal for our favourite political party we don't vote in criminals to run our country kyonki Criminals ki ek hi party hoti hain :|

Here is the official link to check your candidate's affidavit on his criminal record : affidavitarchive.nic.in

Windows 7/8 Installation Issue: CD/DVD device driver missing...

For the past few days, I was troubled by cd/dvd driver missing error :(
I was trying to install windows 7 (or windows 8) on my PC using a USB drive

But when I click "Install now" I get the error
"A required CD/DVD device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now."

Solution:
When windows asks for driver just click "Cancel".
Now press Esc key or click the "x" button on top right (the red one). It will ask that "To install or upgrade windows, you must run windows installation. Are you sure you want to cancel windows installation."
Click'Yes'.
This will bring you back to the original screen showing Install Now.

Now physically remove your USB drive from the original USB port and put it in a different USB port. (Very Important)
Click "Install Now". This time it should not ask your for device driver missing.
Voila! Installation continues without error. Have fun.
Say 'Thanks', if I helped you. :)

Reasoning:
This problem happens to all new version of updated Windows 7 installer. I think, it is due to failure of Windows installer to continue detection to the USB drive. It loses the connection and becomes confused, It doesn't know where to find the USB drive it used while setting up.

When we re-insert the USB drive, Windows installer detects  the USB drive back, and continues like usual.

Source: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/a-required-cddvd-device-driver-is-missing-usb/61eda679-66cc-4512-b175-d02871394461

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