Mtv Video Music Awards 2013

The MTV Video Music Awards 2013 was another big hit in Brooklyn New York, on the 25^th Aug, 2013. The show had young artist who made the leading nominees like Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Robin Thicke and many more. Even though there were a few things that both critics and fans didn’t expect to see the show put up by Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke for their erotic and sexually of their hit songs “We can`t Stop”, and “Blurred Lines”. Sad to know that there was no host this year even though Kevin Hart tried to make a few appearances during the broadcast just to crack a few jokes. 

Justin Timberlake was awarded with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for his profound effect on the MTV culture.

Justin Timberlake won Video of the Year for “Mirrors”

 Bruno Mars won the Best Male Video Award for “Locked Out Of Heaven”

Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video Award for “I knew You were Trouble”.

Austin Mahone took the Award Artist to Watch for “What About Love”.

Best Pop Video was achieved by Selena Gomez with the song “Come and Get it”

30 Seconds to Mars won Best Rock Video for “Up in the Air”

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton took home the Best Hip- Hop Video.

Pink and Nate Ruess won Best Collaboration for “Just Give me a Reason”.

Justin Timberlake (featuring Jay-Z) — "Suit & Tie" (Director: 

David Fincher) won the award for Best Direction.

Bruno Mars — "Treasure" (Choreographer: Bruno Mars)

bagged the award for Best Choreography

Capital Cities — "Safe and Sound" (Visual Effects: Grady

 Hall, Jonathan Wu and Derek Johnson) won the moon man

 for Best Visual Effects

One Direction — "Best Song Ever" achieved the award for

Best Song of the Summer.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (featuring Ray Dalton) —

 "Can't Hold Us" (Directors of Photography: Jason

 Koenig, Ryan Lewis and Mego Lin) achieved for Best 

Cinematography

Janelle Monáe (featuring Erykah Badu) — "Q.U.E.E.N." (Art

 Director: Veronica Logsdon)  took home the award for Best

 Art Direction

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (featuring Ray Dalton) —

 "Can't Hold Us" (Directors of Photography: Jason

 Koenig, Ryan Lewis and Mego Lin) achieved for Best

 Cinematography

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (featuring Mary Lambert) —

 "Same Love" won the award for Best Video with a Social

 Message

These are the videos that achieved all the different awards in the Video Music Awards of 2013.

The show also had a first appearance of N Sync since they last broke up in 2002.

Katy Perry closed the show with her performance of “Roar”.

Electronic Clutch By Bosch

All New Electronic Clutch By Bosch

With continuous research and development Bosch has developed an electronically controlled clutch which will shorten the gap between the manual and automatic transmission as:-

1. It allows the driver to use 1st gear while in traffic without using clutch as with the pressure on accelerator it gets deactivated and it gets activated when there is no pressure on accelerator.

2. With its coasting feature it will make cars more fuel efficient up to 10% as it decouples the engine from transmission when the accelerator is not pressed leading to the saving of fuel.

3. It is more cost effective than whole automatic transmission so it will help the owners to enjoy the automatic kind of drive without paying that much for an automatic version.

4. It works with the pressure on brake and accelerator pedal.

Though it is a nice alternative of that traditional clutch which requires pressure and will make your joints suffer while in heave stop and go traffic but still it is a clutch so it can’t give you pleasure of fully automatic transmission.

BMW-1 series is ready to strike Indian roads

All new BMW-1 Series

It may look like a regular hatchback from the outside, but the 1-series is unique. It’s the only hatchback around that uses a longitudinally placed, front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout – a layout that offers more driving thrills than a regular front-wheel-drive hatchback. We’ve driven the 1-series from Germany to Austria before its September 3 launch in India, to get a feel of what you can expect.

The seats are low, so you slide down into them. Once seated in the particularly sporty driver’s seat (it has adjustable bolsters and thigh support), you’ll see a typical BMW dashboard that’s dominated by a smart-looking 8.8-inch screen on the centre console. Build quality, as expected, is almost faultless and the driving position, as is with all BMWs, is spot on. The problem, then, is that the 1-series’ dash doesn’t feel special like a Merc A-class cabin does. There’s also precious little storage space in the centre console, although the door pockets are generous. Our test car didn’t have powered seats or electric steering adjustment, but

there was still quite a bit of kit on offer, including a lane-departure warning system and a rear-end collision warning system. We don’t think the last two will make it to India though. BMW is also keen to point out that the iDrive system that, once paired to your phone, lets you tweet and update your Facebook status without having to touch your phone.  

Still, if you're expecting the 1-series to be spacious, think again. It's quite cramped at the rear and the high transmission tunnel (thanks to the rear-wheel-drive layout) eats into the middle passenger's legroom. Headroom is decent though, and the bigger windows (in contrast to the A-class's thick pillars) don't make you feel as hemmed in as you would in the Merc. The 1-series has a usefully big 360 litres of boot space and the rear seats split 40:20:40, which is useful.

BMW has said that, to start with, there will be two engines on offer in India – a 136bhp, 1.6-litre turbo-petrol and a 143bhp, 2.0-litre turbo-diesel – both mated to the ZF eight-speed automatic transmission.

The cars we are driving, however, have manual gearboxes and this is, at least mechanically, the only difference from what you will soon be able to buy in India.

The initial impression of the petrol is that it is a peppy engine. The mid-range is strong, it revs rather freely to almost 7,000rpm and there’s good top-end performance to be had too. Add to that a snappy gearshift and a progressive clutch and it’s a car that is a lot of fun to drive. The only fly in its ointment is the weak bottom end. Below 1,500rpm, especially if you have to start off on a slope, you really have to slip the clutch and feed in lots of throttle to get going. This, however will be less noticeable on the automatic that we will get here. It also gets quite thrummy near the redline, so you tend to up-shift early. Do that and the engine, like most direct-injection petrols, runs smoothly and quietly.

It’s a similar story with the diesel. There’s a bit of lag you have to work around initially, after which there’s strong acceleration from an engine that will happily rev to 5000rpm. It is surprisingly quiet too and it’s like that even when you accelerate hard. Both engines are reasonably smooth, although there are some vibes from the gearlever when you rev them hard, and though they aren’t particularly quick, neither will disappoint in a straight line. More importantly, both engines offer more power than what you get in an A-class. The diesel and the petrol we drove came with selectable driving modes that alter throttle response characteristics, among other things.

The 1-series is a lot of fun to drive – the steering on both cars is quick and well weighted, and there is lots of grip. That said, there some body roll and the car tends to understeer when you drive it hard.  The diesel, as expected, feels slightly more nose-heavy than the petrol, but both have lots of grip and come alive when you drive them hard. As for the ride, a drive over German roads is no test for a suspension – they are just too smooth. Still, it does feel pliant enough save for a few jiggles over lumpy tarmac, and the relatively high-profile tyres on 16-inch rims do their part as well. Sadly, BMW will continue to offer the 1-series with run-flat tyres when it comes to India.

BMW is assembling the 1-series in India and is expected to price it at around Rs 20-25 lakh. For that price, it’s a fun to drive and fundamentally sound car. The question is, how many of its potential customers in India will really want what the extra driving thrills it offers? It doesn't look as special as a Mercedes A-class, though, and when you're this much money for a hatch, special is what you want, isn’t it?

Courtesy:- www.autocarindia.com

HONDA ACQUIRED SECOND POSITION IN TWO WHEELER MARKET

HONDA ACQUIRED SECOND POSITION IN TWO WHEELER MARKET

Honda motorcycle and scooter India private limited (HMSI), the only Honda in Indian 2 wheeler industry, has overtaken Bajaj Auto in both domestic and overseas sales in July to claim the second position.

At present HMSI have wide range of bikes and scooters in India HMSI is having Activa, Activa-i, Aviator, CB Shine, CB Trigger, CB Twister, CB Unicorn, CB 1000R, CBF Stunner, CBR 1000 RR, CBR 250 R, CBR 150 R, DIO, Honda Dream Neo, Honda Dream Yuga.

With this large number of products Honda is serving ant catering the needs of all generations and income groups, recently Honda has launched light and zippy version of Activa which is Activa-i which will be a straight competition with Hero Pleasure and TVS wego and all others in same range.

Not only this, Honda came up with Dream Yuga bike which will be a direct competition with legends which are Splendor and Passion. Honda Dream Yuga is powered by 109cc single cylinder air-cooled engine which churns out 8.25bhp at 7500rpm and 8.63Nm of torque. The engine is mated to four-speed constant mesh gearbox which has all-up gearshift pattern. The motorcycle has telescopic suspension in the front and 5 step spring loaded suspension at the rear and features 8 litre fuel tank. The company recently updated the motorcycle with a 2013 variant which features the Honda Eco Technology (HET). With a claimed fuel efficiency of 72kmpl, the motorcycle can travel for approximately 576kms on a single tank. It gets 18 inch allows wheels and tubeless tyres at both, front and rear. Which makes it ahead of all other competitors.

HMSI had earlier overtaken Bajaj Auto in domestic sales. The monthly sales, declared on Thursday, put HMSI July numbers at 287, 177 units, its highest ever sales in its 13 years of Indian operations. Of these, 147,635 units were motorcycles and rest (139,542 units) scooters.

Company officials said the 35per cent growth in motorcycle sales had powered it ahead of scooter sales for the first time. HMSI had started its business in India with a scooter portfolio to tap the market that had virtually no major players and entered the fiercely competitive motorcycle market later. 

Scooter sales grew by 8 per cent. Sources said demand for the 'Dream series' motorcycles had led to the sales surge, enabling HMSI to overtake Bajaj Auto in domestic as well as international market. HMSI domestic market share is 24per cent. Highlighting the company's performance in July 2013, YS Guleria, HMSI vice-president (sales and marketing), said, "Honda has created a new chapter in its Indian operations with three new records. In July 13, Honda have achieved highest ever sales, highest domestic market share of 24per cent and also became second largest player in domestic and export sales in two wheeler industry.

This is largely attributed to the overwhelming demand for Dream series and the increase in production with start of second production line at the third factory in Narsarpura, Karnataka."

Review: Google Chromecast

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

It’s probably the most overused quote in tech writing… which sucks, because I’d really like to use it to describe how I feel about the Chromecast.

The Chromecast is deceptively simple: you plug it into your TV, then stream video and music to it from apps running on your iPhone, Android device, or laptop. The Chromecast itself has no remote; whatever device you’re streaming from is the remote. The Chromecast has next to no user interface of its own, either; it’s got a single screen that shows the time and whether or not it’s connected to your WiFi that appears when nothing is being streamed, but again, the device you’re streaming from largely acts as the interface. The Chromecast is a wireless portal to your TV, and doesn’t try to be anything more.

A Box Full Of Surprises:

I’ve been thinking about it all night, and I don’t think I’ve ever been as surprised by a device as I am by the Chromecast.

The price? Surprise! It’s $35. Are you kidding me ? According to Google, they’re not selling them at a loss . Even after accounting for the WiFi chip, the CPU, 2GB of flash memory, the RAM, licensing the right to use HDMI, assembly, packaging, and shipping them to the states, they’re somehow making money selling these things for thirty five dollars. Sure, their profit margin is probably like, four cents — but that they’re not selling these at a loss at that price point is kind of absurd.

The setup? Surprise! It’s ridiculously easy. Plug it into HDMI, give it some juice (through USB, which most new TVs have, or a standard wallwart), then run the Chromecast app on a laptop to tell it what WiFi network to connect to. Done.

App compatibility? Surprise! It’s already there on day one in some of the most notable online video apps, including Netflix and YouTube. I didn’t even have to update the apps — I just launched’em on my phone and the Chromecast button was sitting there waiting for me. They’ve even already built an extension for Chrome that drastically expands the functionality of the device (though, in its beta state, it’s a bit buggy. More on that later.)

Hell, even the very announcement of the Chromecast was a bit of a surprise. Google somehow managed to keep the Chromecast a secret until right before its intended debut, even with a bunch of outside parties involved. Netflix, Pandora, teams from all over Google, everyone involved in the manufacturing process — all of them were in the loop, yet nothing leaked until someone accidentally published a support page a few hours too early.

Now, none of that is to suggest that the Chromecast is perfect. It’s not! Not yet, at least. But its biggest issues are quite fixable, assuming that Google doesn’t look at the “overwhelming” sales of the Chromecast and say ‘Oh, well, screw this thing.’ And for just $35, the few blemishes it has are pretty easy to overlook.

Taking The Bad With The Good:

Video streaming quality is quite good (on par with what I get on my Xbox 360 or my Apple TV, at least) particularly when pulling from an app or website that’s been tailored for compatibility — so Netflix, Youtube, or Google Play, at the moment.

If you’re using the Chromecast extension for Chrome on your laptop to project an otherwise incompatible video site (like Hulu or HBOGO), however, video quality can dump quite a bit depending on your setup. It’s using your laptop as a middle man to encode the video signal and broadcast it to the Chromecast, where as the aforementioned compatible sites just send video straight to the dongle, mostly removing your laptop from the mix. When casting video tabs on a 2012 Macbook Air running on an 802.11n network, the framerate was noticeably lower and there were occasional audio syncing issues.

While we’re on the topic, the Chrome extension packs a bit of an easter egg: the ability to stream local videos from your laptop to the Chromecast. Just drag a video into Chrome, and it’ll start playing in a new tab. Use the Chrome extension to cast that tab, and tada! You’re streaming your (totally legitimate, not-at-all-pirated-am-i-right) videos without bringing any other software into the mix. I tried it with a bunch of video formats (AVIs, MOVs, MKVs), and they all seemed to work quite well, albeit with the lowered framerate I mentioned earlier.

Even within the apps that have already been tweaked for Chromecast compatibility, there are some day one bugs. Sometimes videos don’t play the first time you ask them to, instead dropping you into a never-ending loading screen. Other times, the video’s audio will start playing on top of a black screen. These bugs aren’t painfully common, but they’re not rare, either.

Fortunately, it’s mostly all good — and it can only get better:

Even with a bug or two rearing its head, the Chromecast is easily worth its $35 pricetag.

Remember, this thing just launched, and it came mostly out of nowhere. Those bugs? They’ll get patched away. The sometimes iffy framerate on projected tabs? It’ll almost certainly get better, as the Chromecast extension comes out of beta.

Pitted against the AppleTV — or, in a fairer comparison, against the AppleTV’s built-in AirPlay streaming feature — the Chromecast’s biggest strength is in its cross-platform compatibility. Whereas AirPlay is limited to iOS devices and Macs, Chromecast will play friendly with any iOS, Android, Mac, or Windows app that integrate’s Googles Cast SDK. Having just launched, the Cast protocol obviously isn’t nearly as ubiquitous as AirPlay, either in terms of Apps that support it nor in terms of other devices (like wireless speakers) that utilize it — but assuming that developers embrace the format (and really, they should), both of those things could quickly change. If developers support the protocol, Google could quite feasibly open it up to third parties to be integrated directly into TVs, speakers, and other types of gadgets. If that happens, AirPlay could be in trouble.

On the topic of its cross-platform compatibility: the experience on Android is a slightly better than it is on iOS, as Google has considerably more freedom on the platform; for example, apps that use Chromecast can take priority over the lockscreen, allowing the user to play/pause/skip a video without having to fully unlock their Android device. That’s just icing on the cake, though; for the most part, all of the primary features work just as well on iOS as they do on Android.

Conclusion:

It’s one of the easiest recommendations I’ve ever made: if the Chromecast sounds like something you’d want, buy it. It’s easily worth $35 as it stands, and it’s bound to only get better as time goes on, the bugs get ironed out, and more apps come to support it.

Latest Hits

"Exotic"

Priyanka Chopra is the hottest and dazzling new superstar that hits the Music Industry today, with her latest song “Exotic” featuring the International Rapper, Pitbull or Mr. Worldwide. The song has been a great hit ever since it made the billboards and it even quickly made it to Number One song on iTunes India. The song has been a huge success round the globe, even on the internet the song reached over six million views within ten days of release. After the first hit single of Priyanka titled, “In My City”, featuring American rapper Will.i.am, which was a promotional single from her untitled debut studio album, the second recording was more energetic and more lively showing the celebrity life of a star, making it big and living it large in the new world of international living and lifestyle.

The video was first published on http://www.youtube.com

"Blurred Lines"

It is a song recorded by American R&B recording artist Robin Thicke, his 2013 album. The song features guest vocals from American rapper T.I. and American singer and producer Pharrell; all three share writing credits on the song. It was produced by Pharrell. The song was released as the lead single from Blurred Lines on March 26, 2013 through Star Trak Recordings.

The single has peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as well as topping the Billboard R&B Songs chart. It has also become Thicke's most successful song on the Billboard Hot 100, being his first to reach number one on the chart. The song has been a worldwide hit, topping the charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the United Kingdom, as well as the top ten in Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, France, Iceland, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland.

The video was first published on http://www.youtube.com

“Addicted”

It is a debut single of the rock band, Saving Abel. Formed in 2004 by vocalist Jared Weeks and guitarist Jason Null, Saving Abel combine riff- heavy hard rock with sexually charged lyrics and Southern rock influences. The quintet started in Corinth, where Weeks and Null were in different bands before merging their song writing talents. In early 2005, the duo attracted attention from producer Skidd Mills, who invited Weeks and Null to record in his Memphis Studio. Juggling day jobs and regional gigs, the two began driving back and forth between Corinth and Memphis, sporadically recording their self- titled EP with Mills while putting together a full line-up consisting of guitarist Scott Bartlett, bassist Eric Taylor and drummer Blake Dixon.

Within a year, the EP had earned Saving Abel a contract with Virgin Records and Mills returned to produce the group`s full length debut. Combining new materials with the EP best songs, the surf titled album was issued in March 2008. It went gold within the year, with the lead single “addicted” cracking the top 40 and nearly topping the modern rock charts. While touring the country in support of the album, Saving Abel began playing new material, most of which appeared on the sophomore album miss America in 2010.

The video was first published on http://www.youtube.com

Golden Temple: The most sacred shrine for Sikhs

The Golden Temple or the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar stands at the core of Sikh belief system and also as a testimony to the 600 year old history of the birth and evolution of Sikhism.

The construction of Harmandir Sahib  was started by Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru, and it was completed by Guru Arjan Dev. Guru Arjan Dev installed the Adi Granth, the holy scripture of Sikhs, in the gurdwara in 1604.

The video was first published on http://voiceof.india.com.

Originally built in 1574, the site of the Gurdwara was surrounded by a small lake in a thin forest. Mughal Emperor Akbar, who visited the third Sikh Guru, Guru Amar Das, in the neighbouring town of Goindval, was so impressed by the way of life in the town that he gave a jagir (the land and the revenues of several villages in the vicinity) to the Guru's daughter Bhani as a gift on her marriage to Bhai Jetha, who later became the fourth Sikh Guru, Guru Ram Das ji. Guru Ram Das enlarged the lake and built a small township around it. The town was named after Guru Ram Das as Guru Ka Chak', Chak Ram Das or Ram Das Pura.

The upper floors of the gurdwara was covered with gold in the early nineteenth century by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. This covering of gold on the upper floors gives the shrine its distinctive appearance and its English name of “Golden Temple”.

Golden Temple

The Harmandir Sahib is considered holy by Sikhs. The holiest text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib, is always present inside the Gurdwara. Its construction was mainly intended to build a place of worship for men and women from all walks of life and all religions to come and worship God equally. Over one lakh people visit the holy shrine daily for worship.

The film looks at this complex history of a spiritual sect emerging out of the confluence of Hinduism and Islam and it’s metamorphosis into one of the most prolific religions of the world by looking at a day in the life of the Golden Temple.

It follows the pre-dawn preparations and cleaning of the temple and the daily awakening ceremony at dawn to the re-installation of the Guru Granth Sahib in its chamber at 10 pm and in this duration explores the lives of the people associated with the temple, diasporic and otherwise, and their contributions to the upkeep of the temple specifically and of the faith at large.

Deeply embedded values of spirituality and selfless service play themselves out in the form of everyday activities like the langar.

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