Wednesday, October 03, 2007
# An adult of average weight has about 10 to 12 pints of blood.
# Blood fights against infection and helps heal wounds, keeping you healthy.
# Just one pint of donated blood can help save the lives of several people. One pint of blood may be separated into several components: red blood cells, plasma, platelets and cryoprecipitate.
# People who have been in car accidents and have suffered massive blood loss may require transfusions of 50 pints or more of red blood cells.
# Platelets are small blood cells that help control bleeding. Platelets help blood to clot and give those with leukemia and other cancers a chance to live.
# Cancer, transplant, trauma, and open-heart surgery patients require platelet transfusions to survive.
# Plasma helps maintain blood pressure, carries blood cells, nutrients, enzymes, and hormones, and supplies critical proteins for blood clotting and immunity
# Every three seconds someone needs blood.
# One out of every 10 people entering a hospital needs blood.
# Anyone who is in good health, is at least 17 years old, and weighs at least 110 pounds may donate blood every 56 days.
# Giving blood will not decrease your strength.
# You cannot get AIDS or any other blood disease by donating blood.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Email Icon Generator : This website allows the generation of an image(in PNG format) of your email address for free,so that you can post it on your website,blog or wherever you like.
Benefit: It cannot be read by email address fetching bots which crawl through the web and lead to the filling of your Inbox by spam.
For e.g, if my email address is google@gmail.com ( which infact is not) then,it will look like this:
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Google News Cloud
A very unique and interesting way of reading the news!
Sunday, September 23, 2007
I am very much fond of animation movies but this one has completely overcome me and i watched this movie (of just 4 mins) two times a day for the last one week.
Its size is 12.69 mb and it will just take half an hour on 56k but i am sure every geek will love it!
Download Link
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Foxit Reader 2.1 for Windows
Its Free.
Its Fast(loading time of pdf is 2-3 seconds as compared to Adobe Reader which takes about 40-55seconds).
Its Small(2.1 mb as compared to Adobe Reader which is 20 mb).
Foxit Homepage
Download link
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Hey! Why are you using a browser other than the Firefox?
This thing has completely revolutionized everyone's browsing experience.Take a look at my Fox:
Its a very secure & fast browser and has all the features which you can imagine.Its magic lies in the add-ons.I am currently using following extensions:
1.Tab Mix Plus-alot of options for managing tabs.
2.Cooliris preview-look at a page without clicking the link.
3.No Script-Blocks all kinds of Java Scripts.
4.Flashblock-stops all kinds of flash media from downloading.
5.Scrapbook-Allows to view the pages in Offline mode.
6.ErrorZilla-Replaces the default "page cannot be displayed screen with page with a no. of options
7.Flashgot-Attaches your download manager with Firefox.
8.Tinymenu-Shrinks the menu into single popup.
I am currently using the Vista Aero 2.0.0.8 theme for firefox.All these extensions and themes be downloaded from the firefox hompage.