Saturday, September 09, 2006

M-Audio
M-Audio is a business unit of Avid Technology, is a manufacturer of a variety of digital audio workstation interfaces, keyboard MIDI controllers, condenser microphones, and studio monitors, among other products. M-Audio is a leading provider of creative tools for computer-centric musicians and audio professionals. Founded in 1988, the Company now has independent offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Japan.

M-Audio’s Pro Tools M-Powered 7 features the same user interface as Pro Tools and Pro Tools LE, yet it offers an expanded choice of hardware options with nearly 20 supported M-Audio interfaces. M-Audio's interfaces are the only devices not made by Digidesign that can operate with Pro Tools. Session compatibility with all current versions of Pro Tools software means that projects can easily be moved between pro, project and mobile personal studios.

Monday, August 21, 2006

The Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. They are 32-39 cm long, with the drakes larger than the females.
Adult males have a dark head with a large white cap behind the eye and a mainly white body with a black back. Adult females have a brown head with a smaller white patch behind the eye and a mainly brown body.
Bufflehead (female) their breeding habitat is wooded lakes and ponds in Alaska and Canada. They nest in cavities in trees, often using old Flicker nests.
They are migratory and most winter in protected coastal waters or open inland waters on the east and west coasts of North America and the southern United States. Bufflehead is an extremely rare vagrant to Western Europe.
These diving birds forage underwater. They eat aquatic insects, crustaceans and plants.
Buffleheads do not tend not to collect in large flocks; groups are usually limited to small numbers (less than 10).

Friday, August 04, 2006

Language
A language is a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols which communicate thoughts or feelings.Human spoken and written languages can be described as a system of symbols and the grammars by which the symbols are manipulated. The word "language" is also used to refer to common properties of languages and to communicate to other person.
Language learning is normal in human childhood. Most human languages use patterns of sound or gesture for symbols which enable communication with others around them. There are thousands of human languages, and these seem to share certain properties,feelings even though many shared properties have exceptions.

There is no defined line between a language and a dialougue, but Max Weinreich is credited as saying that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy;" in other words, the distinction between a language and a dialect of a language is as much due to political divisions as it is because of cultural differences, distinctive writing systems, or mutual intelligibility.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Culture
The culture of India is one of the oldest country in the world.India has managed to preserve its culture and traditions throughout various eras of history and all the while absorbing customs, traditions and ideas from both invaders and immigrants. Many cultural practices,languages, customs and monuments are examples of this co-mingling over centuries.

It is to be noted that in modern India, there is remarkable cultural diversity throughout the indian country. This cultural melting pot, comprising the various regions of India, namely South, North, and North-East, have their own distinct identities and almost every state has carved out its own cultural niche. In spite of this unique cultural diversity, the whole country is bound as a indian civilization due to its common history, thereby preserving the national identity.

The Indian culture also has had a considerable influence and flow of ideas from Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and European cultures. The various religions and the multiple traditions of India have had an impact on South East Asia, China and beyond. India was the birth place of many major religious systems such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism, which have a strong prevalence and influence not only in India, but also the whole world.