One last piece from Volswagen for its Nueva Passat car. Here the emphasis on the luxurious back space available in the car. Again, great art work and execution.

Some more effective anti-smoking advertisements that I came across recently

The ad is for Sunsilk Shampoo. The copy reads - ‘For stronger hair’.!!

This is for The Economist magazine

An ad for Western Union Money Transfer, targeted at the receivers. Interesting play of words.

Ad for Lucozade ‘energy drink’. Guess on some days we could do with one of these energy drinks.

Sugar free Lollipop..!!

The headline is a beautiful play of words. Save Trees. Trees save. And the visual impact is quite stunning. He who first said that a picture is worth many words is quite right.

This is a very catchy ad for a karate school. Looks like they have a very practical approach to learning it

The copy says: ‘Harry’s bread. Nice and Soft.’ Indeed. The cute sleepy girl takes the cake here, er.. I mean, the bread.

This is a print ad taken out by Rodasol insect killer in the Obituary section of a newspaper. Death to the Bugs

A very interesting print ad by Frizz skin salon. Catchy.

Thank God the zoom was invented.

And here is one of the best anti-smoking ad, released by Cancer Patients Aid Association:

A very simple but hard-hitting advertisement by the Mumbai Traffic Police on the importance of wearing helmet:

Drunk drivers get preference over others in prime parking spots. Surprised? Here’s how:

One of the best, by Seagram, that asks drivers to choose carefully between two things:

An explosion of colours fantastically brought out by the recent print ads for Sony Bravia television:

Here is a very creative use of bowling alleys to advertise for dental implant insurance. Whoever got this idea and made a sudden leap of imagination was being sooo.. damn creative.

IWC, the famous Swiss watch makers, used these stickers on the holds in airport buses to catch the attention of travelling pilots and other passengers for their new ‘Big Pilot’s Watch’.

A ‘Don’t Drink and Drive’ campaign by Vasir breweries on their beer bottle caps. Upon opening the bottle, the car printed on the cap appears bent, and on reverse we have the simple slogan. Very simple but effective.

More creative advertisements.

Canstruction is a national charity and has similar competitions each year in over 66 cities throughout the United States and Canada.

The past and present…

Mario is a fictional character created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto who serves as Nintendo’s mascot.

The Sega Mega Drive is a 16-bit video game console. The Mega Drive was released in Japan on October 29, 1988

The Sega Mega Drive was sold under the name Sega Genesis in North America as Sega was unable to secure legal rights to the Mega Drive name in that region.

The Neo Geo is a cartridge-based arcade and home video game system released in 1990 by Japanese game company SNK. The system offered comparatively colorful 2D graphics and high-quality sound.

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES (also called SNES and Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia (Oceania), and South America between 1990 and 1993.

Playstation is a 32 bit fifth generation game console relese by Sony Computer Entertainment in 1995.

The Sega Saturn is a 32-bit video game console that was first released on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995.

The Nintendo GameCube is Nintendo’s fourth home video game console.

The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. It was Microsoft’s first foray into the gaming console market,

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft, and was developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, and SiS.

The PlayStation 3 (officially marketed PLAYSTATION 3, commonly abbreviated PS3) is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer

Workers toil virtually because of the food, they live inside factories, prepare food themselves, sleep in the corridors, wake up next day to start production again, work about 16 to 17 hours a day.

This is the making of low-cost products.
Catwalk Shops.



General view of shop







Working labour - The only machines that are in the factory, sewing machines.



Manager

Works in two floors



Finished goods

Kudos to the photographer and US beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh is suddenly in limelight.

Peek-oh-nomics

Adding Horizontal Dividers in Word

To add a variety of horizontal dividers in Word, type three characters and press enter.

Type Out a Table in Word

You can create tables in Microsoft Word by simply typing out a string of PLUS SIGNS (+) and MINUS SIGNS (-).

Start the row with a PLUS SIGN (+) and then type MINUS SIGN (-) until you have the column width you want. If you want to add a new column, type PLUS SIGN (+) again. When you’re done type a final PLUS SIGN (+) and press ENTER. Word turns your text into a table. To add more rows to your table, move to the last cell in the table and press TAB.

Filling Word Documents with Pretend Text

If you want to fill a page(s) with text to test something like printing, but don’t want to spend time pasting the same phrase over and over,

Type in =rand(x,y) and press “enter“ .

Where x and y are replaced by numbers.
X would be the number of paragraphs.
Y would be the number of sentences in a paragraph.
The text that gets generated is ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.’

Select a vertical block of text

Press Alt + drag

Quickly Replicate Text or Graphics in Word

Here’s a quick way to make copies of text or graphics in Word:

1. Select the item or text you want to copy.
2. Press and hold down the CTRL key.
3. Then use the mouse to drag the item to the desired position.

A copy of the original item is made right where you want it. This is helpful when you’re creating a document that will include a lot of repeated text or images.

Quickly Change Font Size in Office

To quickly change the font size in your Office application (Word, Front Page, Publisher or PowerPoint):

1. Highlight the text you want to change
2. Press: CTRL+SHIFT+> - To Increase the size    CTRL+SHIFT+< - To Decrease the size

Use your keyboard to quickly change the case of text in Microsoft Word

Select the text you want to change and press SHIFT+F3. Each time you press the F3 key, the text case switches between Title Case, UPPERCASE, and lowercase.

Insert Current Date and Time in Word

You can insert the current date or time in a Word document using keyboard shortcuts. Here’s how:

1. Position the cursor where you want to insert the date or time.
2. Do one of the following:

To insert the date, press ALT+SHIFT+D.
To insert the time, press ALT+SHIFT+T.

Close all word documents without closing Word

Shift + click the File menu then select Close All

Shift + clicking on the File menu give one more option Save All

Return to the last place you were working

Return to the last place you were working or the place before that or before that.

Press Shift + F5 repeatedly to return to last 5 cursor positions (even if one of those positions is in another open document).

This one’s even cleverer, when you first open a document, press shift + F5 to jump to the last place you or someone else edited before closing the document.

Cycle through all open documents

To cycle through all open documents press Ctrl + F6 +F6 +F6….

It works for Photoshop and others applications as well.

Whether you’re saving a file or opening a file try these shortcuts

Alt + 1 Go to previous folder

Alt + 2 Go up one folder level

Alt + 3 Search the web

Alt + 4 or Delete deletes selected file

Alt + 5 Create a new folder

Alt + 6 repeatedly Cycle through all views

Alt + 7 Display the Tools menu

Determining the Formatting in Word

To determine what formatting is applied to a particular paragraph in Word:

• Go to Help / What’s This?
• When the cursor changes to a question mark, click on the paragraph.
• Information such as font and size, alignment, indent, spacing and margins will show.

Reducing the File Size of Word Documents

If you have make documents using MS Word and you make many formatting changes for the paragraph, fonts, page etc., you will see your file size gets bigger. Microsoft Word saves files by blocking, so any change you made for your document it will create a new block with the new formatting and disappear the old block without deleting it from the file.

You can solve this problem.

1. If you open your file and select File \ Save As and give your file a new name, it will save only the active blocks with out the old ones.
2. If you compare the two files you will see a difference in size

There is, however, a much easier way.

• Choose Tools
• Options…
• Open the Save tab
• Uncheck Allow Fast Saves

This makes Word rewrite the entire document file from scratch each time it is saved. The save command takes slightly longer, but your files can be drastically smaller (especially if you’ve done lots of formatting changes).

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The bear was sent to a zoo where it is refusing to eat and Munda’s abandoned six-year old daughter has been shipped off to state-run boarding school.

The law has obviously been applied mindlessly. Hope Munda will be relased and get reunited with his bear and daughter.

Evening view

Sunset View

Build strong teeth

Save electricity.

star wars III in the theaters

Learn to appreciate

Kill your boredom

Ad by Funeral services

Smooth legs

Life is too short for the wrong job!!

iPod - movies in your pocket.

More creative and superb advertisements.

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman! The man of steel turns 70.

GEORGE REEVES TV SERIES | 1950s

• Superman is an alien from the planet Krypton. He has super strength, super speed, invulnerability, possesses x-ray vision, super hearing, super breath (which can freeze objects) and can also generate infrared heat beams from his eyes
• Superman’s loses his strength if exposed to the green, radioactive kryptonite, which is debris from his planet Krypton. His x-ray vision cannot penetrate lead
• Superman’s lives a secret identity of Clark Kent, reporter of the Daily Planet in the city of Metropolis His love interest Lois Lane is the newspaper’s star reporter

CHRISTOPHER REEVE 4 FILMS | ’78-’87

• The first Superman character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster was not a hero, but a villain.  Jerry reconceived the character in 1932 as a hero and began a six-year quest to find a publisher
• The revised Superman first appeared in Action Comics #1, in June 1938, and a newspaper strip started the following year.

DEAN CAIN TV SERIES | 1993

• Superman gets his superpowers from the solar system’s yellow sun. Kryptonians from his planet were devoid of these powers as they lived under a Red Sun
• The phrase ‘faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound’ was first used in the Superman radio serials of the 1940s
• Superman appears in every episode of the TV sitcom Seinfeld in some form, such as a toy or a verbal reference

BRANDON ROUTH 1 FILM | 2006

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the
summer away.

Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or
shelter so he dies out in the cold.

For Indian version,

Indian Version:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant’s a fool and laughs & dances & plays the
summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed
while others are cold and starving.
NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper
next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled
with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor
Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant’s house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that
Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .
Mayawati states this as `injustice’ done on Minorities.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for
not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the
Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt
support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance).

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for ‘Bengal Bandh’ in
West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard
in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and
Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway
Trains, aptly named as the ‘Grasshopper Rath’.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ‘ Prevention of Terrorism
Against Grasshoppers Act’ [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the
winter..

Arjun Singh makes ‘Special Reservation ‘ for Grasshoppers in Educational
Institutions & in Government Services .

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left
to pay his retroactive taxes,it’s home is confiscated by the Government
and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it ‘ A Triumph of Justice’.

Lalu calls it ‘Socialistic Justice ‘.

CPM calls it the ‘ Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden ‘

Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

Many years later…

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar
company in Silicon Valley ,

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere
in India,

..
..AND

As a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the
grasshoppers,
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India is still a developing country…!!!