Tuesday, September 6, 2011

01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
02. bounceapp.com – for capturing full length screenshots of web pages.
03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
04. untiny.me – find the original URLs that’s hiding behind a short URLs.
05. localti.me – know more than just the local time of a city
06. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard.
07. topsy.com – a better search engine for twitter.
08. fb.me/AppStore – search iOS app without launching iTunes.
09. iconfinder.com – the best place to find icons of all sizes.
10. office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents.
11. woorank.com – everything you wanted to know about a website.
12. virustotal.com – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
13. wolframalpha.com – gets answers directly without searching – see more wolfram tips.
14. printwhatyoulike.com – print web pages without the clutter.
15. joliprint.com – reformats news articles and blog content as a newspaper.
16. isnsfw.com – when you wish to share a NSFW page but with a warning.
17. e.ggtimer.com – a simple online timer for your daily needs.
18. coralcdn.org – if a site is down due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN.
19. random.org – pick random numbers, flip coins, and more.
20. mywot.com – check the trust level of any website – example.
21. viewer.zoho.com – Preview PDFs and Presentations directly in the browser.
22. tubemogul.com – simultaneously upload videos to YouTube and other video sites.
23. truveo.com – the best place for searching web videos.
24. scr.im – share you email address online without worrying about spam.
25. spypig.com – now get read receipts for your email.
26. sizeasy.com – visualize and compare the size of any product.
27. whatfontis.com – quickly determine the font name from an image.
28. fontsquirrel.com – a good collection of fonts – free for personal and commercial use.
29. regex.info – find data hidden in your photographs – see more EXIF tools.
30. tineye.com – this is like an online version of Google Googles.
31. iwantmyname.com – helps you search domains across all TLDs.
32. tabbloid.com – your favorite blogs delivered as PDFs.
33. join.me – share you screen with anyone over the web.
34. onlineocr.net – recognize text from scanned PDFs and images – see other OCR tools.
35. flightstats.com – Track flight status at airports worldwide.
36. wetransfer.com – for sharing really big files online.
37. pastebin.com – a temporary online clipboard for your text and code snippets.
38. polishmywriting.com – check your writing for spelling or grammatical errors.
39. awesomehighlighter.com – easily highlight the important parts of a web page.
40. typewith.me – work on the same document with multiple people.
41. whichdateworks.com – planning an event? find a date that works for all.
42. everytimezone.com – a less confusing view of the world time zones.
43. warrick.cs.odu.edu – you’ll need this when your bookmarked web pages are deleted.
44. gtmetrix.com – the perfect tool for measuring your site performance online.
45. imo.im – chat with your buddies on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk etc. from one place.
46. translate.google.com – translate web pages, PDFs and Office documents.
47. youtube.com/leanback – enjoy a never ending stream of YouTube videos in full-screen.
48. similarsites.com – discover new sites that are similar to what you like already.
49. wordle.net – quick summarize long pieces of text with tag clouds.
50. bubbl.us – create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser.
51. kuler.adobe.com – get color ideas, also extract colors from photographs.
52. followupthen.com – setup quick reminders via email itself.
53. lmgtfy.com – when your friends are too lazy to use Google on their own.
54. tempalias.com – generate temporary email aliases, better than disposable email.
55. pdfescape.com – lets you can quickly edit PDFs in the browser itself.
56. faxzero.com – send an online fax for free – see more fax services.
57. feedmyinbox.com – get RSS feeds as an email newsletter.
58. isendr.com – transfer files without uploading to a server.
59. tinychat.com – setup a private chat room in micro-seconds.
60. privnote.com – create text notes that will self-destruct after being read.
61. flightaware.com – live flight tracking service for airports worldwide.
62. boxoh.com – track the status of any shipment on Google Maps – alternative.
63. chipin.com – when you need to raise funds online for an event or a cause.
64. downforeveryoneorjustme.com – find if your favorite website is offline or not?
65. example.com – this website can be used as an example in documentation.
66. whoishostingthis.com – find the web host of any website.
67. google.com/history – found something on Google but can’t remember it now?
68. errorlevelanalysis.com – find whether a photo is real or a photoshopped one.
69. google.com/dictionary – get word meanings, pronunciations and usage examples.
70. urbandictionary.com – find definitions of slangs and informal words.
71. seatguru.com – consult this site before choosing a seat for your next flight.
72. sxc.hu – download stock images absolutely free.
73. imo.im – chat with your buddies on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, etc. from one place.
74. wobzip.org – unzip your compressed files online.
75. vocaroo.com – record your voice with a click.
76. scribblemaps.com – create custom Google Maps easily.
77. buzzfeed.com – never miss another Internet meme or viral video.
78. alertful.com – quickly setup email reminders for important events.
79. encrypted.google.com – prevent your ISP and boss from reading your search queries.
80. formspring.me – you can ask or answer personal questions here.
81. snopes.com – find if that email offer you received is real or just another scam.
82. typingweb.com – master touch-typing with these practice sessions.
83. mailvu.com – send video emails to anyone using your web cam.
84. ge.tt – quickly send a file to someone, they can even preview it before downloading.
85. timerime.com – create timelines with audio, video and images.
86. stupeflix.com – make a movie out of your images, audio and video clips.
87. aviary.com/myna – an online audio editor that lets record, and remix audio clips online.
88. noteflight.com – print music sheets, write your own music online (review).
89. disposablewebpage.com – create a temporary web page that self-destruct.
90. namemytune.com – when you need to find the name of a song.
91. homestyler.com – design from scratch or re-model your home in 3d.
92. snapask.com – use email on your phone to find sports scores, read Wikipedia, etc.
93. teuxdeux.com – a beautiful to-do app that looks like your paper dairy.
94. livestream.com – broadcast events live over the web, including your desktop screen.
95. bing.com/images – automatically find perfectly-sized wallpapers for mobiles.
96. historio.us – preserve complete web pages with all the formatting.
97. dabbleboard.com – your virtual whiteboard.
98. whisperbot.com – send an email without using your own account.
99. sumopaint.com – an excellent layer-based online image editor.
100. lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc.
101. nutshellmail.com – Get your Facebook and Twitter streams in your inbox.

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High School Inventors

Ten students who are improving MRIs, cancer treatments and human-robot interaction--between classes, of course

By Katherine Bagley

High School Inventors Rachel Frank

In between pep rallies and history tests, these 10 brainy students are refining cancer treatments, cleaning up car exhaust systems, and improving communication between humans and robots.

ALLISON DANA BICK

Allison Dana Brick: Jonie Schwartz

Age: 17
High School: Millburn High School, Millburn, N.J.
Invention: Smartphone water-quality tester

When Alison Dana Bick was in middle school, a downpour swamped the streets of her hometown and flooded its well. Public officials warned that flooding might have carried sewage into the water supply. “My friend called to ask if there was a way to check the safety of the tap water,” Bick says. When a Google search revealed that there wasn’t any fast and easy household test, she decided to create one. Four years later, she completed work on a cellphone application that determines the concentration of bacteria in a photographed sample of water. Unlike current water-testing kits that take 18 hours to evaluate the full chemical and bacterial content of a sample, Bick’s cellphone test provides a simple answer—contaminated or safe to drink—immediately. Bick knew that Colilert-18, one of the most common water-quality testing agents, turned yellow when mixed with bacteria-contaminated water; the more the bacteria, the darker the hue. So she developed an algorithm to read and analyze the yellow-pixel intensity in a low-resolution photo of the chemical water sample. She is currently collaborating with the Millburn Short Hills chapter of the American Red Cross to field-test the system.

College: Bick starts her freshman year at Princeton University this fall. She plans to study chemical engineering.

Ryan Erickson:

RYAN ERICKSON

Age: 18
High School: Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, N.M.
Invention: Portable, solar-powered desalination unit

Ryan Erickson may live on a high desert mesa, but he has big plans for the ocean. Last year, he began to develop an interest in large desalination projects—which remove salt and other minerals from seawater to make it drinkable—in countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Australia. But he soon learned that no one had built a portable, automated, affordable desalination system that also treats seawater for harmful bacteria—although millions of people, including those living in coastal nations, lack safe drinking water. His solar-powered device, a three-foot cube easily carried by two people, relies on readily available materials: sand, charcoal, and plastic bottles. Saltwater is filtered through layers of sand and charcoal before entering a boiling chamber. The steam is cooled and collected on a condenser coil and then exposed to a SteriPEN, which kills harmful bacteria with ultraviolet light. Other portable desalination systems are less sophisticated and can remove only salt from the water, not other harmful contaminants. Erickson’s next step is to redesign the system to make it even more compact.

College: This fall, Erickson will enter the University of California, San Diego, where he will study electrical engineering.

PARAM JAGGI

Param Jaggi: Param Jaggi

Age: 17
High School: Plano East Senior High School, Plano, Texas
Invention: CO filtration system for car exhaust

Other teenagers, upon receiving their learner’s permit, think only about driving to the mall. But behind the wheel for the first time, 17-year-old Param Jaggi couldn’t stop thinking about exhaust. Ever since, he has been working on a novel carbon-dioxide capture system that fits on the end of a tailpipe. In Jaggi’s design, exhaust enters a chamber filled with algae, which uses light from an LED and CO₂ in photosynthesis. The by-products of the process, water and oxygen, are eventually released out of a canister-shaped attachment on the exhaust pipe. Other systems in development capture CO₂ inside filters or chemicals, which must be disposed of. Jaggi’s algae system only grows more algae. The device (patent pending) won the EPA’s 2011 Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair this May. The algae in it currently needs to be emptied every three to five months, but Jaggi is working on tweaking light conditions and chemicals to stretch it to six months. The extra time would match it with the average oil-change interval so that drivers could take care of both at the same time.

College: Jaggi will start at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, this fall, where he plans to major in pre-med.

Eduardo Fernandez (Far Right): Eduardo Fernandez

EDUARDO FERNANDEZ

Age: 18
High School: Carl Hayden Community High School, Phoenix, Ariz.
Invention: 3-D assisted robotic arm

After Eddie Fernandez figured out how to take apart a remote-control car at age five, no gadget was safe. “Toys, batteries, motors, circuits: I wanted to know how they all worked,” he says. In seventh grade, he joined a team that built robots for the national FIRST competition. One entry threw 80-inch spheres eight feet in the air. Another played soccer. He also helped design and build an underwater autonomous robot. But his best work so far, he says, came about when he led the construction of the EVROV robot arm, designed to lift and move instruments to assist astronauts with spacewalks. He also created a complementary 3-D video system that helps human operators gauge depth as they remotely operate the arm from inside their ship. He presented the robot (and its nearly $11,000 price tag) at last year’s Conrad Foundation Spirit of Innovation Awards. Fernandez is motivated in part by uncertainty—his father was recently deported to Mexico. “When it happened, it really hit me that things can change overnight,” he says. “And that I needed to work harder and make better use of my time.”

College: Fernandez will be heading to Arizona State University in the fall to study mechanical engineering.

ALEXANDER GILBERT

Alexander Gilbert: Alexander Gilbert

Age: 18

High School: St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.
Invention: Improved MRI contrast for more-accurate diagnoses

When Alex Gilbert was about six years old, a close relative of his was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. A year later, she discovered that doctors had misread her MRI results. “I was so young, I don’t think I fully appreciated how shocking [the false diagnosis] was,” Gilbert says. At age 15, he began to study magnetic imaging technology, and after his sophomore year in high school, he had an internship at the National Institutes of Health. There he developed a technique to improve MRI image contrast so that practitioners can more accurately spot the signs of neurological diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging systems excite protons and record the pattern by which their spinning slows down—that’s what produces the image. But the cell density of each part of the body alters the signal intensity: Air and bone produce weak signals and dark images. Fat and marrow produce bright images. Gilbert wrote an algorithm that accounts for those differences and improves image contrast, which can help reveal hard-to-spot tissue damage. The next summer, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Gilbert developed another technique for improving contrast in MRI images. He found that by injecting a stain that binds to nucleic acids, the structural details in gray matter are clearer.

College: Gilbert is about to start his freshman year at MIT. He plans to major in physics or biophysics.

Matthew Fedderson and Blake Marggraff: Rachel Frank

MATTHEW FEDDERSON AND BLAKE MARGGRAFF

Age: Both 18
High School: Acalanes High School, Lafayette, Calif.
Invention: Tin-based cancer treatment

Matt Feddersen and Blake Marggraff have been blowing things up in their backyards together since the fifth grade. “We each have very patient parents,” Marggraff says. In their junior year of high school, they entered the world of formal experimentation. A teacher mentioned that faulty tin-based shields at nuclear power plants were somehow amplifying radiation. Feddersen and Marggraff, who both had family members who had had battled cancer, wondered if tin could be used to create a secondary dose of x-rays that would augment an initial dose, making radiation treatment more effective. In their high school’s biology lab, the students injected tiny particles of tin into a simulated tumor made out of yeast. When x-rays hit the metal, it produced a second wave of radiation like in the faulty nuclear shields, but this time frying additional cells. The treatment killed more than 20 percent more cells than conventional radiation treatments, for only 60 cents per patient. Feddersen and Marggraff plan to test the treatment on human cells when they move on to college.

College: Feddersen is attending the University of Illinois for a year and plans to transfer to MIT. Marggraff is entering Washington University in St. Louis.

JAO-KE CHIN-LEE

Jao-ke Chin-Lee: Jao-ke Chin-Lee

Age: 16

High School: Stuyvesant High School, New York, N.Y.
Invention: Active noise cancellation for human-robot speech interaction

Since she first watched a television show about DARPA’s Grand Challenge competition for driverless cars in 2006, Jao-ke Chin-Lee has been fascinated with artificial intelligence. In high school she applied for a summer research program at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and wound up working on an autonomous forklift known as Pokey, one of the lab’s major projects that year. Robots have a difficult time processing the subtle inflections of human language, especially when a lot of background noise is present. Pokey, designed to operate on construction sites, couldn’t tell the difference between spoken commands and the ambient noise that shares the same frequencies as human speech. After teaching herself how to apply the necessary math and computer science to speech processing, Chin-Lee developed an algorithm that filters out the background noise. The program has potential applications beyond just Pokey; she hopes to someday build it into voice-operated wheelchairs, for example.

College: This fall, 16-year-old Chin-Lee, who skipped first grade, will begin her freshman year at Harvard University, where she plans to study computer science and machine learning.

Javier Fernandez-Han: Peter Han

JAVIER FERNANDEZ-HAN

Age: 17
High School: Homeschool, Conroe, Texas
Invention: All-in-one waste, food and energy system

While visiting the 2005 World Exposition in Japan, Javier Fernandez-Han and his family came across a mock refugee camp staged by Doctors Without Borders. “I didn’t know people lived in those situations, without drinkable water, food and shelter,” he says. “I realized I wanted to focus on systems for sustainable living.” In 2009, at the age of 15, he began to integrate existing and modified devices such as a water pump and a flush latrine into an all-in-one system for refugee camps and small villages in the developing world. Among other functions, his invention treats sewage, turns harmful gases including methane into fuel for algae, and produces oxygen and algae biomass that can feed livestock. Later that year, he won the Ashoka Lemelson Excellence Award for the device. Soon he began to wonder: If he created this system by himself, what could a whole team of inventors do? He founded two groups, Inventors Without Borders and Innovation Foundry, in which teenagers collaborate on problems such as hunger, lack of access to education, and poor air quality.

College: Fernandez-Han hopes to study industrial design at Stanford University.

GABRIEL SEE

Gabriel See: Valerie Au

Age: 13
High School: Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning, Sammamish, Wash.
Invention: Lego robot for automated DNA assembly

At the age of nine, Gabriel See joined his high school’s robotics team. By 11, he had mastered every high-school science and math course available in his district and enrolled in undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Washington. See had worked with several commercial liquid-handling systems—devices that use robotic arms and motorized pipettes to measure, transfer, and control liquid in precise quantities—but knew that the equipment’s $10,000–$50,000 price tag made them unaffordable to all but the best-endowed labs. So, at the university’s pathology lab, he invented a simple system that uses Lego Mindstorm programmable construction toys. Within a year, he finished the system using firmware from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Lab and software that he wrote himself. It can transfer as little as five microliters (slightly larger than the tip of a ballpoint pen), the amount demanded by such projects as DNA assembly. The system costs just $750, making it affordable to small universities and start-up companies. The device won the silver medal in MIT’s 2009 iGEM competition.

College: See still has to learn to drive and to go to prom, but he’s already hoping to study computational biology at MIT.

Sara Volz: Sara Volz

SARA VOLZ

Age: 16
High School: Cheyenne Mountain High School, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Invention: Improved efficiency of algae derived biofuel

Sara Volz insists she’s not some “crunchy” Colorado teenager. She hikes, skis, and camps with her family, but she’d rather spend her time conducting experiments. Volz decided at an early age that she wanted to help do away with fossil-fuel consumption, and in the seventh grade, began studying alternative fuels. As a high-school freshman, she began testing hemp oil as a potential biofuel source before reading several journal articles about algae-based fuel. After talking local alternative-fuel energy companies and labs into familiarizing her with the field and equipment, she set up a photobioreactor and a novel medium in which to grow algae at home. She has manipulated the growth conditions to limit the algae’s supply of nitrogen, and suspects that the manipulation increases transcription of an enzyme that enables the algae to accumulate more oil. “The whole idea is so appealing,” she says, “making oil from pond scum.” Next she will test whether extra copies of the enzyme’s genes cause the algae to produce more oil, which would mean higher yields of oil per acre.

College: Volz wants to attend an Ivy League or small liberal-arts school with a strong research focus. She plans to study biochemistry or molecular biology.

Bladder issues found in young women

MONAH UNIVERSITY

The research found that UI affects 12.6 per cent of women under 30, unrelated to pregnancy.

Image: fatihhoca/iStockphoto

An Australian study has revealed that as many as one in eight healthy young women have urinary incontinence (UI).

Monash University honours student Tessa O’Halloran, together with Professors Susan Davis and Robin Bell, surveyed 1000 healthy young women in Melbourne looking at the issue that is commonly considered to be a problem experienced by older women.

“Our research found that UI affects 12.6 per cent of women under 30 years of age, unrelated to pregnancy, and is associated with impaired wellbeing,” said Ms O’Halloran.

“The findings are important as previous studies have shown that UI is clearly related to pregnancy and being overweight. However, the extent to which UI affects younger women who have never been pregnant has not been understood until now.”

The study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of UI in otherwise healthy young women aged 16 to 30 years who have never been pregnant (which is a known risk factor for developing urinary incontinence) using validated questionnaires to diagnose urinary incontinence and to determine factors associated with the likelihood of having UI.

The research showed that 12.6 per cent of surveyed women had urinary incontinence, with most experiencing stress incontinence (6.2 per cent) or urge incontinence (4.5 per cent). About 1.9 per cent of those surveyed experienced both.

“We found that women are more likely to have incontinence if they had been sexually active, however this was 50 per cent less likely amongst this group if they were taking the oral contraceptive pill. Interestingly, women were more likely to experience incontinence if they had a history of bedwetting after the age of five,” said Ms O’Halloran.

This is the first study of its kind to be conducted in women who have never experienced a pregnancy and demonstrates that there is a significant proportion of women who are vulnerable to incontinence irrespective of pregnancy or obesity.

“I encourage young women who are experiencing this problem to speak to a medical practitioner to learn how to best manage the problem in the short-term and then to prevent a worsening of the condition in later life,” said Ms O’Halloran.

Asbestos-cancer hitting home renovators

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

"Asbestos-containing products such as asbestos cement sheets are still found in many homes, particularly older homes and fences."

Image: Gordo25/iStockphoto

According to the latest research at The University of Western Australia's School of Population Health, a' third wave' of asbestos-related cancer has emerged among home renovators.

The study published in the September issue of the Medical Journal of Australia has found a sharp increase in the number of malignant mesothelioma cases in Western Australia over the past decade as a result of home renovation/do-it-yourself (DIY) activities involving building products containing asbestos.

The domestic exposures are described as part of the ‘third wave' of asbestos-related diseases, the first being in miners, millers and transport workers, and the second in workers who used asbestos products.

Although occupational exposures remain the leading cause of mesothelioma, home renovation/DIY exposures accounted for about 13 per cent of all cases in the last five years.

Home renovation activities that lead to asbestos exposure included construction using asbestos cement sheets, particularly if sawing or drilling the sheets, and the removal or demolition of these sheets. In some cases, bystanders were also exposed.

Lead author Nola Olsen said while the exposures occurred before asbestos-containing products were banned, there is still a concern due to the large number of homes and buildings that still contain these products.

"Asbestos-containing products such as asbestos cement sheets are still found in many homes, particularly older homes and fences. A recent survey by our colleagues at Curtin University found that many people did not take adequate precautions when dealing with these products. They also found that people, even tradespeople, do not think they can easily identify asbestos-containing products. Our study shows that exposures in the home, when people were less aware of the health issues and these asbestos products were still legally available, have unfortunately had dire consequences for some," Ms Olsen said.

Due to the widespread distribution of asbestos-containing products in Australian homes and the amount of home renovation/DIY work that has happened in the past, the number of mesothelioma cases attributed to these exposures will likely increase.

"We have very little understanding of the number of people who have been ‘exposed' during home renovation so it is very difficult to estimate how many more cases we expect to see," Ms Olsen said.

"It is important to remember that this disease is still very uncommon and if you have been exposed to asbestos in the home the risk of mesothelioma remains very low. However, the study highlights the importance of being extremely careful and following the relevant guidelines if you are renovating or doing any work that involves asbestos-containing products."

The Occupational Respiratory Epidemiology research group continues to monitor the incidence of mesothelioma in WA via the WA Mesothelioma Registry. It will also continue to investigate and report on other asbestos-related diseases that occur as a result of occupational and environmental exposures.

நம்பிக்கைத் துரோகத்தால் ஏமாற்றப்பட்டவர்களுக்கு வரமளிக்கும் அதிசய அம்மன் ஆலயம்

ஆண்டவா, என் எதிரிகளை நான் கவனிச்சுக்கிறேன், நண்பர்களை நீ பார்த்துக்கோனு ரஜினிகாந்த் ஒரு படத்துலே வேண்டுவார். ஞாபகம் இருக்கா? நல்ல நண்பர்கள் கிடைக்கவும், நீங்க புண்ணியம் செஞ்சு இருக்கணும். கிட்டத்தட்ட எல்லோரோட வாழ்க்கையிலும் , இதுதான் நிலைமை. கூட இருக்கிறவங்க , நல்லவங்கனு நம்பி - நீங்க அவங்க கஷ்டப்படுறப்போ , அதைப் பார்க்க மனசு பொறுக்காம , உதவி செஞ்சு இருப்பீங்க . ஆனா, அவங்க எதோ அது நம்ம கடமை மாதிரி கொஞ்ச நாள்ல நினைக்க ஆரம்பிப்பாங்க. அதுக்கு அப்புறம் தான் கொடுமை, நமக்கு ஒரு கஷ்டம் னு வர்றப்போ , அவங்களுக்கு உதவி பண்ண கூடிய சூழ்நிலை இருந்தும் , அவங்க கண்டுக்கிடுவதே இல்லை.

உதவியும் செஞ்சுட்டு , இளிச்சவாயன் பட்டம் வாங்கிட்டு - பார்க்கிறவங்க எல்லோரும் பார்க்கிற ஒரு ஏளன பார்வை இருக்கே...! அய்யோடா... சாமி ! .

பண உதவின்னு இல்லை, ஏதாவது வேலை சம்பந்தமா இருக்கலாம். அரசாங்க அலுவலகத்தில் ஏதாவது ஒரு வேலையா இருக்கலாம்.

இதை விட பயங்கரமான விஷயம் , தேனொழுக பேசி , நம்ம கூடவே இருந்து - நம்ப வைச்சு கழுத்தை அறுக்கிற கோஷ்டி. இந்த மாதிரி ஆளுங்களை , நீங்க நேருக்கு நேர மோதியும் - பாடம் புகட்ட முடியாத , சூழ்நிலை இருக்கலாம். இவங்களை எப்படி அடக்குறது?
.. என்ன இருந்தாலும், அவன் என் நண்பன், .. என் கூட பிறந்தவன் , அவனை எப்படின்னு , இன்னும் யோசிச்சுக்கிட்டு இருக்காதீங்க ... நல்லவனா இருக்கலாம் , அதுக்கும் ஒரு லிமிட் இருக்கு...! அவங்களோட தப்பை உணர வைக்குறதும், உங்க கடமை தான்... நீங்க நேரடியா எதும் செய்ய வேண்டாம்.

சரபேஸ்வரரை நீங்கள் கும்பிட்டால் போதும். நாம் ஏற்கனவே அதைப் பற்றி சில கட்டுரைகள் பார்த்து விட்டோம். அது தவிர, நம்பிக்கை துரோகம் மூலம் , நீங்கள் இழந்த அனைத்தையும் - உங்களுக்கு திரும்ப பெறவும், வஞ்சித்தவர்களுக்கு நல்லதொரு பாடம் புகட்டவும் - சில சக்தி வாய்ந்த ஸ்தலங்கள் உள்ளன. அப்படிப் பட்ட ஆலயம் ஒன்றை, நாம் இன்று காண விருக்கிறோம்..

அருள்மிகு புல்வாநாயகி திருக்கோயில், பாகனேரி, சிவகங்கை மாவட்டம்

பிறரால் அநீதி இழைக்கப்பட்டோர், செய்யாத தவறுக்கு தண்டனை பெற்றோர், பொருளைக் கொடுத்து ஏமாற்றப்பட்டோர் தங்களுக்கு நீதி கிடைக்க இங்கு வழிபடுகிறார்கள். இதற்காக கோயில் எதிரேயுள்ள தீர்த்தத்தில் நீராடிவிட்டு, கோயிலுக்குள் வருகின்றனர். அம்பாள் சன்னதி முன் நின்று கொண்டு, கொடிமரத்தை கட்டிக் கொண்டு தங்கள் குறையைச் சொல்லி வணங்குகின்றனர். அம்பிகை, தன்னை தஞ்சம் அடைந்தோருக்கு துணையாக உடன் இருந்து அருள்புரிவதாக நம்பிக்கை.

அசுரன் ஒருவன், தான் பெற்ற வரத்தின் பலனால் பூலோகத்தில் மக்களுக்கு தொந்தரவு கொடுத்து வந்தான். அவனை அழித்து தங்களைக் காக்கும்படி மக்கள் சிவனை வழிபட்டனர். அவர் அம்பிகை மூலமாக அவனை அழிக்க ஒரு தந்திரம் செய்தார். அப்போது, அம்பிகை விளையாட்டாக சிவனின் கண்களை மூட, அவர் அம்பிகையை பூலோகில் பிறக்கச் செய்தார். இங்கு வந்தவள் அசுரனுடன் போரிட்டாள். அசுரன் பல வடிவங்கள் எடுத்து, மாயையாக போர் புரிந்தான். ஒருகட்டத்தில் அவன், புல் வடிவம் எடுத்தான். எனவே, அம்பிகை மானாக வடிவெடுத்து புல்லை மேய்ந்து, அவனை அழித்தாள். இவ்வேளையில் புதிய மானைக் கண்ட மக்கள் அதை நெருங்கினர். அம்பிகை ஓடிச்சென்று, ஓரிடத்தில் பூமிக்குள் புகுந்து கொண்டாள். மக்கள் அங்கு தோண்டியபோது, அம்பாளின் சிலை வடிவம் இருந்தது. மகிழ்ந்த மக்கள் அச்சிலையை இங்கு பிரதிஷ்டை செய்து கோயில் எழுப்பினர். புல்வநாயகி என்றே பெயர் சூட்டினர்.

அசுரனை அழித்தபோது உக்கிர வடிவம் எடுத்த அம்பிகைக்கு இங்கு பஞ்சலோக சிலை உள்ளது. சாமுண்டீஸ்வரி எனப்படும் இவளது உக்கிரத்தை மக்களால் தாங்க முடியாதென்பதால், இச்சிலையை மூலஸ்தானத்திற்குள்ளேயே வைத்துள்ளனர். இங்கு ஆனி மாதம் நடக்கும் திருவிழாவின்போது ஒருநாள் மட்டும் இவள் ஊருக்குள் வலம் வருவாள். அப்போது, அம்பிகையின் பார்வை மக்கள் மீது விழக்கூடாது என்பதற்காக, கண்களை பூமியைப் பார்த்தபடி அமைத்துவிடுவர். அன்று, புதிதாக திருமணம் செய்தோர், கர்ப்பிணிப் பெண்கள் யாரும் இந்த அம்பிகையைப் பார்க்க மாட்டர்.

அம்பிகையை வேண்டி பிரார்த்தனை நிறைவேறிய பக்தர்கள், இங்கு நடக்கும் விழாவின்போது மஞ்சுவிரட்டு நடத்தி நேர்த்திக்கடன் செலுத்தும் வழக்கம் உள்ளது. கோயில் எதிரேயுள்ள தீர்த்தம் மிக விசேஷமானது. வஜ்ரகிரீடம் என்ற புழு, காலப்போக்கில் கல் போன்று கடினத்தன்மையுடையதாக மாறும் தன்மை கொண்டது. இதை சாளக்ராமம் என்பர். இவ்வகையான புழுக்கள் இக்கோயில் தீர்த்தத்தில் உள்ளது. எனவே, இந்த தீர்த்த்தில் நீராடி அம்பிகையை வழிபடுவது விசேஷமாகக் கருதப்படுகிறது. கோயில் பிரகாரத்தில் தல விருட்சமான நெய் கொட்டா மரத்தின் கீழ், அக்னியம்பாள் பீட வடிவில் இருக்கிறாள். பக்தர்கள் இவளுக்கு மஞ்சள், குங்குமத்தால் அபிஷேகம் செய்து வேண்டிக்கொள்கின்றனர்.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

1. ஆன்லைன் -ல் புகைப்படங்களை அழகாக வெட்டித்தரும் பயனுள்ள தளம்.

2. வீடியோ விளக்கத்தோடு அசத்தும் இணைய அகராதி.

3. தமிழில் கணினி செய்திகள்

4. உங்கள் போடோவை ஓவியமாக மாற்ற ஒரு இலவச மென்பொருள்

5. அனைத்து அரிய வீடியோக்களையும் கொடுக்கும் பயனுள்ள தளம்.

6. ஆங்கிலம் கற்க கைகொடுக்கும் தளம்.

7. தேடல் முடிவுகளை வகை வாரியாக பிரித்து கொடுக்கும் மிகவும் பயனுள்ள தளம்.

8. தொலைக்காட்சியில் இருந்து வீடியோ பயனுள்ள தளம்.

9. குழந்தைகள் விரும்பும் கார்டூன் முதல் அத்தனை டி.வி நிகழ்சிகளும் ஒரே இடத்தில் பார்க்க

10. வீடியோ எடிட்டிங் செய்ய உதவும் இலவச மென்பொருள்.

11. பிறந்தநாள் வாழ்த்து செய்திகளை கொடுக்கும் பிரத்யேகமான தளம்.

12. வலைப்பூவுக்கு அழகான பேக்ரவுண்ட் வடிவமைக்க.

13. வீடியோ மெயில்ஆன்லைன் மூலம் இலவசமாக அனுப்ப.