Wolfram Mathematica: An excellent computational tool

Worlfram Mathematica is an amazing tool for any one interested in doing some research in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and applied Sciences. The software consists of the largest integrated web of mathematical capabilities and algorithms.This software is so powerful that it is even used in Supercomputers! This software can also be used as a programming language of its own. For example you want to plot a graph of the Ionization energy vs the Atomic Number, you enter a line and you get beautifully illustrated graph. This program has no limits to the precision of the number of digits that you can calculate. For example I calculated the value of Pi upto 10 million digits. You can see its value here Pi.txt. I uploaded it. And you can create beautiful interactive visualizations. For example you can create an interactive menu showing details about every Polyhedron as shown in the picture. I strongly recommend this software to every student, this will surely deepen his interest in the subject.

"Stop Teaching Calculating, Start Teaching Mathematics".

Call Of Duty : Black Ops

Call Of Duty: Black Ops is a fantastic game. Make sure you see my self-recorded video playing Black Ops in High Definition!! It takes a lot of effort to record a video, encode it and then upload it all in HD. This clip is from a mission called The Defector

100 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos

Here I present before you the HOLY GRAIL of rock music 100 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos which comprises of solos of every rock genre. Believe me this list has been a key to my endeavor in rock music.

100 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos-

001) Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
002) Van Halen - Eruption
003) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
004) Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
005) Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
006) Guns N' Roses - November Rain
007) Metallica - One
008) Eagles - Hotel California
009) Black Sabbath - Crazy Train
010) Cream - Crossroads
011) Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
012) Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
013) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
014) Derek and the Dominos - Layla
015) Deep Purple - Highway Star
016) Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
017) Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
018) Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
019) Pantera - Floods
020) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
021) Pink Floyd - Time
022) Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
023) Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on Parade
024) Metallica - Fade to Black
025) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
026) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
027) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy
028) Ozzy Ozborne - Mr. Crowley
029) Steve Vai - For the Love of God
030) Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
031) Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
032) Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun
033) B.B King - The Thrill Is Gone
034) Radiohead - Paranoid Android
035) Pantera - Cemetery Gates
036) Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
037) Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
038) Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
039) Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
040) Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
041) Queen - Brighton Rock
042) Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
043) ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
044) Pearl Jam - Alive
045) Doors - Light My Fire
046) Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
047) Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
048) Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil                                  
049) Santana - Europa
050) Kiss - Shock Me
051) Ozzie Ozborne - No More Tears
052) Jimi Hendrix - Star-Spangled Banner
053) Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
054) Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA
055) Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
056) Black Sabbath - War Pigs
057) Pantera - Walk
058) Eric Clapton - Cocaine
059) Kinks - You Really Got Me
060) Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
061) Metallica - Master of Puppets
062) Pink Floyd - Money
063) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
064) Prince - Little Red Corvette
065) Allman Brothers - Blue Sky
066) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
067) Michael Jackson feat. Eddie Van Halen - Beat It
068) Yes - Starship Trooper
069) Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
070) Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
071) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
072) Aerosmith - Walk This Way
073) Phish - Stash
074) Deep Purple - Lazy
075) The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
076) Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
077) Alice In Chains - Man in the Box
078) Grateful Dead - Truckin'
079) Van Halen - Mean Street
080) AC-DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
081) The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
082) King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
083) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Scuttle Buttin'
084) UFO - Lights Out
085) David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
086) Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post
087) Johnny Winter - Highway 61 Revisited
088) Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
089) Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
090) Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
091) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heard It Through the Grapevine
092) Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
093) The Doors - The End
094) Rush - Working Man
095) Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
096) Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
097) Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death
098) Dream Theater - Under a Glass Moon
099) Jeff Beck - 'Cause We've Ended as Lovers
100) Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive


A few of my favorite guitar solos (not included above):-

• Dreamtheater - Hollow Years Live at Budokan
• Michael Angelo - Planet Gemini
• Nitro - Freight Train
• Judas Priest- Beyond The Realms Of Death
• Judas Priest - Painkiller
• Metallica - Orion
• Pantera - Domination
• Racer X- Technical Difficulties

Do comment your views....

INSIRE scholarship in basic sciences

I am also a person with scientific bent of mind so I thought I should help some of my fellas when it comes to science. INSPIRE is a highly rewarding but poorly publicized scholarship programs by govt. of India. It rewards you with Rs. 80000 for a year for taking Bachelor of Sciences and Master of Sciences. There are 10000 nos of scholarships available but I recently read that only 1500 of them are actually awarded as they fail to find students who might take this scholarship. So if you are interested to get Rs. 80000 as pocket money in Bachelor and Masters level (Which adds up to 4 Lakhs in 5 years) you may want to look at the following criteria for eligibility:-

1. Top 1% in both 10th and 12th boards
2. Getting within 10000 rank in IIT-JEE or getting within 20000 rank in AIEEE or clearing CBSE-medical
3. If you join IISER (for those who don't know what this is I don't blame you), Join Department of atomic energy at Univ. of Mumbai; or if you happen to be the NTSE scholar, Olympiads medalists or KVPY Fellows(Like me!), or Jagdish Bose Science Talent Search scholars you are eligibile for the  'SHE Scholarship'. Don't worry it is open for males too!(pun intended)

You have to qualify ANY ONE of the above 3 criteria.

Check all the details here and I hope I changed some lives!

Google translation bots!

I recently, went through a bunch of Google translation bots. These bots can be pretty fun to time-pass with. You simply type in one language and they chat back the translated texts. It can be pretty useful when talking with international clients or co-workers. For example if you want to convert English into Hindi you add en2hi@bot.talk.google.com to your friends lists and you are ready to go! I also played a prank using this bot. I added the English to Hindi bot to a group chat and every thing my friends wrote got translated into Hindi and every one was clueless what was going on. They thought I was personally translating the text, who has so much time to translate when I can employ robots! You can get the full lists of chat bots here. Enjoy fooling your friends.

My new laptop!

I recently bought a laptop and I am quite excited about it. It is a Dell XPS 14 L401x with the best in class configuration including Intel Core i7 740QM processor which can process data upto 2.93 GHz, 2 GB Nvidia GT425M GPU having 96 CUDA cores and 4GB of 1333MHz RAM. Even though it has such high specs it cost me only Rs.58500 after Rs5000 discount!(I know this amount is not small but this is the best config one can get in this price).
Performance: The high specs doesn't leave anything to complain. I can multitask easily, even if I open multiple heavy applications simultaneously the system does not seem to budge even a bit. Being a gaming enthusiast the games I could get my hands which includes COD:Black Ops, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Bioshock and Hitman:Blood money; ran pretty well in almost full settings and in high fps.But one complaint while playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 is that the Frames per Second(fps) dropped below 30 whenever I tried to use my gun's scope, which made aiming difficult and I had to lower settings.
Look and feel: Well, the design of the laptop isn't the best available nor it is poor, middle of the order instead. The body is made up of Black and grey plastic which seems sturdy under use. The back cover of the laptop is anodized aluminum even though it might seem to be plastic. The laptop is bundled with several ports which includes 2 USB ports, 1 USB/eSATA port, 1 HDMI port,2 audio out, 1 ethernet port, power port and one port which I cannot identify!

Speakers: A section dedicated to speakers may seem odd but it is worth it. The 6 watt JBL speakers in the laptop is claimed to be the best in the planet by DELL! And so it is, it is the crispiest, clearest and loudest of all laptop speakers I have heard to date. I rarely use my headphones as I dont need to! The laptop also has a HD webcam which takes HD videos pretty well along with audio as it also has embedded microphones.
Battery life and software: Frankly I expected my laptop's battery to last longer. It usually lasts about 2 hours something minutes on full charge. But while playing demanding games, it comes down to 1 hour and something minutes. I can partially blame it on the demanding specs; The processor itself can eat 45W of power during burn. The included softwares include Skype, Mcafee Antivirus, Dell Dock and Roxio burn. The no. of softwares doesn't really matter as I have my sources! :P

My first blog!

Welcome to my first blog post among the multitudes to come. It was in my mind to start my own blog but I stayed away from it until NOW!
So I am a no-nonsense kind of person aspiring to be a scientist or computer scientist! and I am going to talk mostly about general interesting stuff including my ideas, some computer related tips, gaming and  some Metal songs. \m/
Hope you enjoy!

and visit the website that I made for my school's IT fest www.technolympics.co.nr