How to know/follow an original account of a celebrity in twitter?

  Are you sure that you are following the original account of a celebrity in the twitter..?
May be the question is strange to you...(for some people may be not).  But, in reality it is true.  Yes, it is true, in twitter there are hundreds of fake account for every celebrity from Amitabh bachan to Amisha patel, Rajinikanth to Rakki sawant, Sachin tendulkar to Shilpa shetty.  It is a kind of identity theft.

  So, how to find the real/original celebrity account in twitter..?

  A long back twitter introduced a feature "Verified account".  It ensures the identity of the twitter account holder.  So, before follow any celebrity in twitter, ensure the account is a verified one or not(Some exceptions are there, Still there are few celebrity[in terms of my/your opinion] either don't have twitter account or their twitter account is not yet verified.. ).

  So, how a verified twitter account look like?
  All the verified accounts have a white color tick mark in side a small blue color GEAR(Wheel with teeths) like this,

Verified twitter account of A. R. Rahman

 How to find these verified account and follow it..?  Just search the celebrity name in the twitter which returns all the related results, now select only people.  Find the account with the symbol.

For your convenience i list some Indian celebrities verified twitter accounts, Just click and follow.

@sachin_rt
@ashwinravi99
@pitrodasam
@FarOutAkhtar
@narendramodi
@PMOIndia
@ShashiTharoor
@anandmahindra
@arrahman
@aamir_khan

Note: Few web sites/services are there there that scans you account, and provide you a detailed report about your follower/following.  One such nice website is
http://thetwitcleaner.com/ - Don't worry about your username and password it just going use twitter's OAuth.   But, you have to authorize the app to access your account.

Must have apps for Android smartphone(List-1)

There are thousands of Apps available in Google's play.  Here i am going to list few most important,  useful & productive apps(yes, you have your own right to differ with me about these apps).  One more important thing these are free apps.


Aldiko - epub reader

  Are you a voracious reader..? If your answer is yes, then you must install this app.   Aldiko is the app that keeps your reading appitite alive in digital age.  Aldiko's GUI is designed elegantly, navigation is smooth, let user to set his own preference in terms of color, font size etc..
  You can either use the free epub books or you can buy online also.  Moreover Aldiko even let you to use your pdf files also.  So, you import your pdf files to Aldiko for reading.

Gesture search - Awesome app from google

 It is searching application within your mobile, but interestingly without typing the phrase to search instead by drawing(gesture) it.  While you start drawing it shows you suggestions :).  As like in google search which shows suggestions by ajax.

  Nowadays our android smart phones becomes more and more rich in terms of features, applications, settings etc.  We often change our mobile(not all, not me but, many of us), as soon as a new model hit the market.  We can't keepup ourselves with its speed of change.  It lets one to find anything within the mobile contact name, application name, settings anything.

 This tiny app is a very very useful one, interestingly it is a adaptive one.  Means by continuous usage it will adapt with your drawing pattern and gives you the exact result what you are searching.

Google translate - Language translation(not translitration) application from google.


  Have support to almost all major languages.  You can translate from any language to any other language.   Important thing is it supports text input, voice input even a image input also(not to all languages).  You can get the text output & audio output.   You just need to select the from language & to language thats all.



Imdb - movie database app from Imdb.com

 Many times you end with the question, who is the hero of the movie?  how many academy awards that movie got? What is that famous dialogue in that movie? etc etc.. Every time you need to go wikipedia, imdb or rottentomatos websites, instead go with this app.  This app will keeps you restless in terms of movies, TV Series.  If you are a movie manic and if you want to be upto date in details of World cinema, TV series, yes it is for you only.

Yahoo mail - Official yahoomail app from yahoo



 As its name implies, It is the official mobile mail app by yahoo.  GUI design is nice as gmail mobile app comes by default in android mobiles, for yahoomail we have go with app.




Will let you know other must have apps in another post soon... :)

Thamizh wikipedia reaches 60th position among all the languages and 2nd in india in terms of number of articles... :)

  Hope almost all of us(especially whose life&survival quite depends on google, wiki) know very well about english wikipedia.   How may of us know about the wikipedia in our mother tongue..? 

For thamizh we have http://ta.wikipedia.org

Some more details:
Thamizh is the 18-th most spoken language in the world (terms of no. of speakers)(have doubt..? or want proof..? google it..)

Total no.of articles in thamizh wikipedia is about 51,500

Thamizh wikipedia is@60-th position with all other languages(based on no.of articles) and 2nd in india(hindi holds 1-st position, telugu at 3-rd position) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

Good news is anyone can edit(either as a registered user or anonamouly) articles in thamizh(any language-ofcourse if you know the language) wikipedia.  So, give a try.

Wikipedia is the 5th most accessed website in the world, running only by the funds from public, maintained by a non-profit organization, since its starting not showed a single commercial advertisement, and never in the future. 

Note:  All the details/statistics furnished above are as on 13-2-2013.