MISC

A wonder called Ronaldinho

Here are a few revelations of the Genius footballer nicknamed as Ronnie.

* Ronaldo de Assis Moreira was born on 21st March 1980 in Porto Alegre; Brazil. His more popular name Ronaldinho means 'Little Ronaldo' in Portuguese and was used as a way of distinguishing between the two Ronaldos.
* He has become a naturalized Spanish citizen since January 2007.
* His top achievements include winning the World Cup in 2002 and the European Cup in 2006. He was named the FIFA World Player of the Year and European Footballer of the Year in 2004 & 2005. He was also awarded the FIFAPro World Player of the Year(2005) along side Zidane & Maldini.
* His interest with football began with the unconventional forms of Football that included Futsal and Beach Football.
* He is among the very few players to have played at every level of football - Uder-15, Under-17, Under-20, Under-23 and the senior level.
* Ronaldinho has now surpassed David Beckham in becoming the World's most marketable player generating USD57.8 annually. His popular endorsements include Pepsi, Nike, Unilever and American Express.

Ronaldinho has so far lived up to the levels of legendary teammates Romario, Ronaldo (Brazil) and Maradona (Barcelona).
However one of his biggest European challenges would come when Barcelona (2006 UEFA Champions) face Liverpool (2005 UEFA Champions) in a Champions League encounter on Wednesday.
Courtesy:wikipedia.org

Edmund C. Arnold, Father of newspaper design is no more.

Edmund C. Arnold, a renowned journalist, newspaper design consultant and the father of the modern newspaper’s 8-column design is no more. He was 93.
Edmund Arnold was born on June 25, 1913. As a newspaper design consultant, he designed hundreds of newspapers in the US and abroad including the Boston Globe, National Observer, Today, Toronto Star and The Kansas City Star. He also worked as the Editor of The Linotype News, and as a columnist for Publisher's Auxiliary. He also helped a few newspapers in South America despite the fact that he knew no Spanish.
He was also the pioneer of the axiom that the top story for the day has to be placed on the right top corner of the front page which is a concept followed by editors for many years now. Another of his famous concepts is the Gutenberg Principle, which talks about how a reader approaches a newspaper, first from the top then down to the bottom and then turns the page. He was the first person to design the 8-column page (currently the industry standard) in a newspaper as against the old 6-column style. One thing always eluded his list of achievements was a new type of ink which wouldn’t rub off and make newspaper reading a better experience.
After his retirement, he lived in a retirement community in Virginia where he designed birthday cards and the community newsletter. He passed away on Feb 2^nd, 2007.

source: pressgazette.co.uk; image courtesy: nytimes.com

Experience Old Spice - Only Men allowed!

Old Spice, the leading men’s grooming products brand has come up a new online initiative called the ‘Voice of Experience’. Accessible through their website www.oldspice.com, the new feature provides you with information on latest trends, experiences and upcoming event listings.
The site features insights, guidance and experiences from a range of stalwarts which includes Tony Stewart (Editor – Cars, Two time NASCAR NEXTEL Cup series champion), Jamal Munnerlyn (Editor – Entertainment), Alana Kelen (Editor – Fashion, groomed the likes of Lenny Kravitz and Jon Bon Jovi), Matt Buser (Editor – Sports, Yahoo! Sports columnist.) and many other big names to form the ‘Experience Panel’.
The ‘Experience Panel’ will develop monthly content for the site (also accessible through experienceoldspice.com) which will also feature ‘guest editors’ in coming months. This site went live on 8^th Feb 2007.
Old Spice is a brand owned by P&G whose most famous product lines are Red Zone and High Endurance.

courtesy: yahoo news. image courtesy: old-spice.jp

Windows Vista lets you speak to your computer

Imagine a life where you don’t have to use your keyboard or your mouse to perform standard tasks on your computer like writing an E-mail, opening MS Word, etc. Don’t be surprised. This is a new feature from the latest version of the Windows operating system, Windows Vista.

Windows Vista comes with integrated speech recognition software which recognizes and executes voice commands like “Open Word” or “Write Mail”, etc. Now anyone can just sit in front of a computer and ‘speak to the computer’ instead of using your keyboard or a mouse. It runs an additional piece of software in the background to enable speech recognition tasks. But, the user has to spend at least an hour for the system to get acclimatized to the voice. This is a revolution in the way an average user interacts with a computer at home or at office.

Windows Vista’s speech recognition technology is said to be reasonably reliable, however it is not meant for professional use as there are better tools available for users who dictate text on a daily basis.

Windows Vista was codenamed ‘Longhorn’ before it was officially announced. It was officially made available for purchase and download from Microsoft’s website on 30^th Jan 2007, 5 years after Windows XP was released. This was the longest gap between releases of any two versions of Windows.
image courtesy: www.wikipedia.org