First Evidences of Counting as we Know

In the early days our ancestors were using Bones as the Tally sticks for counting. The most ancient is a baboon’s fibula with 29 notches, found in Swaziland, southern Africa and dated to about 35,000 BC. It may represent the lunar cycle as it resembles ‘calendar sticks’ still in use in Namibia.

Another invention was in Moravia, Czech Republic – A wolf bone with 55 notches 30,000 BC years old…

These tally marks are arranged in various groups although what they represent remains a mystery.

These kind of counting was followed in later modern numerals as well: our own numeral one, as well as Roman and Chinese numerals for one, two and there, are merely tally marks, I, II, III. But counting in ones is limiting, and civilizations soon began to group together single digits to create more flexible number systems based on 5, 10, 12, 20, and 60. Most seem to have their origins in a variety of finger-counting methods.

Coming up in next one – General Writing history as we know….

YouTube launches TestTube

Video editing usually requires installing software packages and having a fair amount of technical savvy. But we think video editing should be fun and easy, so we’re introducing a new tool that anyone — even this guy — could figure out: it’s an online video editor, now available in TestTube.

Check it Out > http://www.youtube.com/testtube

5 Branding Mistakes…

1. Misunderstanding What A Logo Is:
Too many business owners think that their logo should include a tag line that tells what they do and a graphic that shows every aspect of their business. For example:

Pinnacle Construction

Tagline: Private and Commercial Construction & Renovations

Graphic: A bulldozer, an outline of a home and an outline of a building. And a hard hat.

A logo needs to communicate a message within 3 seconds. It is a signature, a quick look into the professionalism of a company. If it takes longer than 3 seconds to process your logo, you’ve already lost interested people. Remember, the average person is exposed to over 200 business names and marks in ONE HOUR. Your business needs to look professional and memorable instantly.

2. Having No Brand Guidelines.
Every person in your company that uses your logo needs to have some kind of guide on your company branding. This should be created by a design professional. The guide should include logo usage, typography, color palette, and thee company message. Any misuse of your visual branding, no matter how small, is detrimental to the integrity of your brand, and ultimately, your company.

3. Having No Focus in Their Branding.
Become famous in your market for one thing. One thing to ask yourself when you are designing your brand is “what one thing do we do best?”It’s important you limit this to one single thing. You can excel in many areas, but your branding should emphasize the thing that you do better than everybody else, otherwise, your target market has no reason to come to you.

4. Thinking Their Clients Are Idiots.
Names that rely on cute puns, crude imagery or gimmicks generally are communicating one thing: “You’re dumb, and we are too” and will put off 90% of your potential customers

5. Having no branding at all.
Too many people believe that with their niece’s scribbled artwork and a registered business name, they are ready to start advertising. Jumping the gun like this will show your target market that your business is unprofessional and not well thought-out. Take the time to research what other companies are doing and what makes them successful at branding. Really get to know your audience. Consult with experts in branding, and be prepared to spend money on your company’s identity. You’ve already made the right step by reading this article.

Extraterrestial Life (0003)

What is Extraterrestrial Life?
Life forms that originate away from the Planet Earth are considered as Extraterrestrial Life.

Is there any Extraterrestrial Life?
Any topic related extraterrestrial is still in dispute. When I mention Life Form, it doesn’t need to be similar to Human, which is a complex Life Form, but even simple Bacteria is considered as Life Forms too. Recently in a documentary I have seen this new kind of Bacteria found in the outer space, outside Earth’s atmosphere which can survive the deadly gases and radiations. Which means these Bacteria are extraterrestrial. It is not confirmed about their origin planet, it might be even from our nearest Moon.

Others’ View:
It is said that the origin of Extraterrestrial can be found in Mars, Venus, Moons of Jupiter and Saturn and near Earth Mass Extrasolar Planets. Beliefs in Extraterrestrial is been there for thousands of years in the ancient world in Babylon, Assyria, Sumer, Egypt, China, India, Arabia and South America. There are thousands of literature that directly or indirectly indicates to Extraterrestrial.

It was not only in the Ancient World, this dispute and beliefs in Extraterrestrial is continued even now in the 21st Century and Scientists around the World, tries to identify another Life Form out of the Planet Earth.

So the Science trying at its best to find out another Living Form more than a Bacteria in outer space with its technological development. Will update this Blog in 1000 days what is happening and whats new and is Extraterrestrial is a Myth or Truth….

Continued…

Hand Phone / Mobile Phones (002)

Hand Phones are invented for the comfort ability of talking to the loved ones on the go. Slowly as years passed different types of phones have been launched and one after another the Hand Phones / Mobile Phones added new features, making the phone using experience better.

In last decade the development of phone technology gone sky high with million color displays and starting from VGA Camera to 12.1 MegaPixel Camera, Massive Storage, Infrared – Bluetooth – Wi-Fi…

Making calls have become super easy with just voice activated calls, video calls and so on… Likewise, sending sms became better and MMS with rich media format of SMS…

The future of Phones are going much more higher with the technology and precious metals combined making it a luxurious thing to have. Adv. operating systems in the slow touchscreen models for the future making it much more faster to use. Face Recognition in the phone?? Remote Accessing your Computer thought mobiles??

These features are available already in the mobile phone, the betterment and ease of use in the mobile phones can be seen. Hoping for next decade of mobiles to rock and break the records of older ones…

Binary Day (0001)

I call the day as a Binary Day – 01/01/10 and there are eight more days to come in the same way, – 10/01/10, 11/01/10, 01/10/10, 10/10/10, 11/10/10, 01/11/10, 10/11/10 and the last one is 11/11/10. The day filled with binary digits – 1s and 0s hopefully one out of the three days something special going to happen regarding Computers / IT

SAE Singapore’s 20th Year Anniversary

It is 20 years in Singapore since SAE Institute started and am glad that I was one of its student. The event was nice and fun @ Central Square, Clarke Quay held on 29th of October 2009. Felt comfortable in the SAE Environment once again. It was good seeing SAEans…

Cookies Paradise

A New Project – Branding for Cookies Paradise is completed which includes Name Card, Letter head and Envelope.
Below is the Sample of the Design…

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K Going Green

The Whole World is talking and doing things to change themselves to Earth Friendly by reducing the ways of eating up the Precious Natural Resources. I’m just a Sole Person working in the name of Company or Myself. I believe even the smallest drop could contribute a big difference. I’ve changed green, and how I’m doing? mentioned below;

1. I’ve reduced the use of papers, no print outs, no paper bills, for past 2+ months and going to continue in a official way from today (25th October 2009)
2. I will reduce the use of oil consuming vehicles as much as I could, will use the public transport, bicycle and good old fashioned walking
3. I will do my best to reduce the usage of electricity

Do leave me your comments and suggestions to help me to change to Green in Better Way…

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