Top 10 Techies Who Changed The World!!!

Steve Jobs, Apple Maverick entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs is the current grandmaster of technology. Business savvy and a risk taker, Jobs is the visionary who redefined technology with world changing products like the Personal Computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Whizkid Zuckerberg almost single handedly transformed the Internet from a place people went to get information to a place they went to meet each other. Facebook gave the virtual world a patina of humanity, the real world a new medium of interpersonal relationships, and made Zuckerberg not only this generation's phenomenon, but also the second youngest billionaire in the world.

Interesting fact: The youngest billionaire is Dustin Moskovitz co-founder of Facebook and 8 days younger than Zuckerberg, his Harvard roommate.

Bill Gates, The Microsoft founder has passed the legion of supergeeks into the pantheon of technological demi-gods. The richest man in the world from 1995 to 2007 is currently the second richest. He holds 8 percent of Microsoft stock and now functions as the non-executive chairman of the company. Over the years, Gates and wife Melinda have made philanthropy their primary concern and recently pledged to give away at least half their fortune to charity with time 

Linus Torvalds, Linux This Finnish engineer is virtually unknown outside the inner circles of technology, yet he is among the most influential figures in software development. A believer in open source software, Torvalds initiated the development of the Linux Kernel. He now acts as the coordinator of the project. The Linux operating system runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world and a diverse range of hardware including the smallest of devices. A modified version of the Linux kernel powers the ubiqitous Android OS.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google Co-founders of internet behemoth Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin ran Google from a rented garage in 1998. Twelve years later, Google has left it's Silicon Valley startup past way behind to become the world's largest media corporation.

Evan Williams, Twitter & Blogger Virtually unknown in the real world, this college drop-out created two key communication technologies that shaped the Internet Blogger and Twitter. He no longer works at Twitter but he's left an indelible handprint on the cyberworld. 

Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo Even if you've never played a video game, chances are you've heard of Super Mario Bros. Shigeru Miyamoto is the Japanese game designer behind popular Nintendo titles like Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and the grand old man of gaming, Mario.

Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon In 1994, this Princeton graduate started Amazon.com from his garage in Seattle and changed the face of online retail forever. He began with selling books online but soon diversified into, well, almost everything. Amazon made him a billionaire as well as Time magazine's person of the year in 1999.

Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web 20 years ago British physicist and computer scientist Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, the first web browser and the first web server. This man is the reason we can access webpages and surf the Internet using browsers today.

Akio Morita, Sony Former naval officer Akio Morita left his family business of sake, miso and soy sauce to co-found Sony Corporation in 1946. Most of Sony's path-breaking products like magnetic tapes, tape recorders, pocket-sized radios, the Walkman and the Discman were developed under his leadership.

11th Man: was The other Steve who founded Apple with Steve Jobs was Steve Wozniak. Affectionately called Woz, he has been credited with developing the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s. He no longer works full time with Apple, but is still a shareholder and employee of the company. 

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Pinics/Camps ....the best thing about Summers !!!

i love Spring and Autumn season...but i'm not a fan of Summer or Winter much....both seasons make me lazy and clumsy....but both have some positive sides as well....like in winters you get to enjoy the awesome snowfall(Sheen)....and in summers....you get tanned by the harmful UV rays of the sun :P....plus there are picnics/camps ....gosh!!! how i miss my camp life....We used to go for campin' in school days with all my FRIENDS and a few Teachers.....stay there for utmost 3 nights n 4 days....and explore the undiscovered land by means of trekkin'....ugh !! i hate trekkin' cause it drains off my energy....but at the same time i happen to see beautiful places....not visible otherwise....not to mention the fun all the way through....and the best night ...the camp fire night... when we used to collect fire sticks on the last day of our trekkin'....and then entertain ourselves with some hilarious skits/plays, music, etc. around the campfire…makin' memories of what we had seen so far …partly being happy cause the other day we were supposed to head back to the city life "Home sweet Home" and partly sad cause we were goin away from the so-called natural beauty!!!

The campin' session ended by the end of my school...no more camps for me now ...cause girls aren't supposed to go campin' alone....i mean not without anyone's supervision....not in Kashmir atleast =|….no matter how old you are…We go for picnics instead....at few times i do wish i was a guy who could go wherever he wants with whoever he wants !!! but at the same time i'd say i'm proud to be a girl....cause while in trouble girls find an easy way out ~_^ ...Girls Rock\m/...anyway....so much with the girl/boy thing goin' on my mind ....movin' on to picnics/excursions....i love picnics....picnics are fun!!! could it be with your classmates or your amazin' cousins…!!!!

two places that i visited so far this year ...!!!

Sonmarg

Glacier

Naranag

Kashmir is truly what we call HEAVEN on Earth !!!

If you think about it picnics are more relishin' than camps…just a one day adventure and you don’t get used to that LIFE ….While others may find it a perfect place to live or get settled in the mountains alongside the stream of fresh water…. i find the hi-tech world more peaceful...!!! :)

the Computer Geek who changed the world !!!!

Bill Gates is known as the World’s richest man (although he was recently de-throned), yet most people really don’t know a whole lot about the name and face behind Microsoft.

Little Known Facts about Bill Gates :

• William Henry Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.
• His SAT score was 1590. The top score for the test is 1600.
• By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.
• Gates told his university teachers he would be a millionaire by age 30.  He became a billionaire at age 31.
• While at Harvard, Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s first product.
• He met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a worker for the company.  They would go on to get married on New Years Day in 1994.
• In 2002, Bill Gates was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tungin a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China.  The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong.
• He is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.
• Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year!
• If he drops a thousand-dollar bill, he needn’t even bother to pick it up because in the four seconds it would take him to pick it up, he would’ve already earned it back. 

 
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Resolutions !!!!

i don't like transitions at all ....but i love to make resolutions....even if later i don't follow 'em completely ;)....after my new year resolution of talkin' less and being serious didn't work out well ....i decided to quit chattin' and facebook completely (: my b'day resolution you see :) ....so far so good...now since its my last year in college i've made some new sem resolutions as well....to start with i'll try to be a better daughter....a better sister....a better friend.....a better student...precisely be a better person/Muslim....may God be with me !!!! and yeah no personal stuff online anymore ....so this is me signin' off until i find somethin' really interestin' to share....tchao !!!!

!!!Facebook Addiction!!!

If you are on Facebook, I'm sure you will find this hilarious

The 76-year-old woman walked down the hallway of Clear view Addictions Clinic, searchin' for the right department. She passed signs for the "Heroin Addiction Department (HAD)," the "Smokin' Addiction Department (SAD)" and the "Bingo Addiction Department (BAD)." Then she spotted the department she was lookin' for: "Facebook Addiction Department (FAD)."

It was the busiest department in the clinic, with about three dozen people fillin' the waitin' room, most of them starin' blankly into their Blackberries and iPhones. A middle-aged man with unkempt hair was pacin' the room, mutterin', "I need to milk my cows. I need to milk my cows."

A twenty-somethin' man was prone on the floor, his face buried in his hands, while a curly-haired woman comforted him.

"Don't worry. It'll be all right."

"I just don't understand it. I thought my update was LOL-worthy, but none of my friends even clicked the 'like' button."

"How long has it been?"

"Almost five minutes. That's like five months in the real world."

The 76-year-old woman waited until her name was called, then followed the receptionist into the office of Alfred Zulu, Facebook Addiction Counselor.

"Please have a seat, Edna," he said with a warm smile. "And tell me how it all started."

"Well, it's all my grandson's fault. He sent me an invitation to join Facebook. I had never heard of Facebook before, but I thought it was somethin' for me, because I usually have my face in a book."

"How soon were you hooked?"

"Faster than you can say 'create a profile.' I found myself on Facebook at least eight times each day -- and more times at night. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle of the night to check it, just in case there was an update from one of my new friends in India . My husband didn't like that. He said that friendship is a precious thing and should never be outsourced."

"What do you like most about Facebook?"

"It makes me feel like I have a life. In the real world, I have only five or six friends, but on Facebook, I have 674. I'm even friends with Juan Carlos Montoya."

"Who's he?"

"I don't know, but he's got 4,000 friends, so he must be famous."

"Facebook has helped you make some connections, I see."

"Oh yes. I've even connected with some of the gals from high school -- I still call them 'gals.' I hadn't heard from some of them in ages, so it was excitin' to look at their profiles and figure out who's retired, who's still working, and who's had some work done. I love browsin' their photos and readin' their updates. I know where they've been on vacation, which movies they've watched. I've also been playin' a game with some of them."

"Let me guess. Farmville?"

"No, Mafia Wars. I'm a Hitman. No one messes with Edna."

"Wouldn't you rather meet some of your friends in person?"

"No, not really. It's so much easier on Facebook. We don't need to gussy ourselves up. We don't need to take baths or wear perfume or use mouthwash. That's the best thing about Facebook -- you can't smell anyone. Everyone is attractive, because everyone has picked a good profile pic. One of the gals is usin' a profile pic that was taken, I'm pretty certain, durin' the Eisenhower Administration. "

"What pic are you usin'?"

"Well, I spent five hours searchin' for a profile pic, but couldn't find one I really liked. So I decided to visit the local beauty salon."

"To make yourself look prettier?"

"No, to take a pic of one of the young ladies there. That's what I'm usin'."

"Didn't your friends notice that you look different?"

"Some of them did, but I just told them I've been doin' lots of yoga."

"When did you realize that your Facebookin' might be a problem?"

"I realized it last Sunday night, when I was on Facebook and saw a message on my wall from my husband: 'I moved out of the house five days ago. Just thought you should know.'"

"What did you do?"

"What else? I unfriended him of course!" :P

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