Must Have Windows Desktop Software Applications

1.) Duplicate Files Finder :

      Ever since storage devices becomes cheaper, we lazily create many duplicate files in our hard disk.  This can create a headache when we run out of free space (or) when we can not organize our files in a meaningful structure.  'Duplicate Files Finder' free application comes in handy in this situation.  It is really cool.

         http://doubles.sourceforge.net/


2.) Desktop files search tool :

    'Google Desktop' is an application to search your desktop for specific file or text.
    Google, the leader in searching, often provide better and faster results than the built in search engine provided by the desktop operating systems.

http://download.cnet.com/Google-Desktop/3000-2379_4-10328117.html?tag=contentBody;pop

3.) Open source password management tool :

    'Password Safe' is an open source application to securely save and manage your passwords.

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

My Favorite Quotes

1. Motivational

    * Failure defeats losers. Failure inspires winners.
                                                  - Robert T. Kiyosaki 

    * The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
                                                  - Eleanor Roosevelt

    * You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
                                                  - Buddha


     * You cannot believe in god until you believe in yourself
                                                  - Vivekananda.

     * Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
                                                  - Buddha

     * Rather go to bed without dinner than to raise in debt.
                                                  - Benjamin Franklin

     * An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.                                                  
                                                 - Benjamin Franklin


     * I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
                                                  - Confucius


     * A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
                                                  - Kahlil Gibran

    * God created the world, Man invented the boredom.
                                                 -

    * When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
                                                 - Confucius

    * If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
                                                 - Sir Isaac Newton

    * I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
                                                 - Sir Isaac Newton

    * If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
                                                 - Sir Isaac Newton

    * Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
                                                 - Confucius

    * A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for.

                                                 - William Shedd

    * If I don't feel the fire in my belly, I will soon find it in my bums.
                                                - Saravanan Palanisamy (It is me :-))

    * Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. 
                                               - Mark Twain 
     *  We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
                                             - Einstein

    * Change breaks the brittle.
                                            - Jan Houtema

    * When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
                                           - Joseph.P.Kennedy.

    * The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.
                                            - Tara Ploughman

2. Writing and Reading

    *  Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.
                                              - Stephen King

   * Description begins in the writer's imagination but should end with the reader's.
                                             - Stephen King on Open endedness

   * Feedback : Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
                                             - Stephen King

DalhousieWinterTrekking2011

YHAI trekking things to carry checklist

This is my checklist of things to carry for the International Youth Hostels Association (YHAI) Dalhousie winter trekking (6 days) - 2011.  Hope you also find it useful.

Documents :
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1.  Flight Tickets & Train Tickets and Identity proofs.
2.  YHAI admission card to the trek.
3.  Medical certificate
4.  Two passport size photos
5.  YHAI membership printout.

Things for trek :
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  Garments

1.     Backpack / Rucksack
2.     Trekking shoes
3.     3 pairs of socks
4.     Slippers (for normal use.)
5.     Jeans / Track pants : 3
6.     T-Shirts : 3
7.     Vests and briefs : 4 sets
8.     Thermal wears (atleast 1 set)
9.     Woolen sweater
10.     Thick jacket
11.     Woolen muffler (or) balaclava (monkey cap)
12.     Hand gloves
13.     Woolen sock for leg
14.     Light rain coat for your backpack
15.    Woolen shawl

  Paraphernalia

1.    LED Torch light (Eveready torch lights available in normal electric shops.) with extra batteries.
2.    1.5L water bottle. (May be coco-cola bottle is enough)
3.    Small lunch box
4.    Small plate, spoon, Tumbler,
5.    Toilet kit: Soap, Tooth brush, Tooth paste, comb, coconut oil sachets (5), small talcum powder, Deodrant, towel, toilet papers of few roll.
6.    Camera & charger & spare batteries & spare memory card
7.    Cellphone and its charger
8.    Ipod / MP3 player
9.    Small lock and key (If we keep our luggage in cloak room.)
10.    Wrist watch (If you usually check time in cell phone, you may not be able to charge cellphone all the time.)
11.    Knife / sickle, Rope (not needed for YHAI trek, optional)

  Medical items / First aid

1.            Vaseline cream (small), 
2.            Soframycin skin ointment (fungus problems), 
3.            Electrolyte (for dysentery problems.), 
4.            Tiger balm,  
5.            quick pain-relief spray
6.            band-aids (atleast one for our group.), 
7.            cotton, tinger
8.            Medical tablets depends on your requirement. (optional)
9.            Tobacco, Salt, etc, to ward off leeches during monsoon

For sight seeing days
1.)    2 sets of pant & shirts
2.)    2 sets of vests and briefs
3.)    Last but not least, cash as per your requirement.

Some other useful links :

Tool to customize your packing list : http://upl.codeq.info/index.jsp

http://chennai-trekking-club.32436.n3.nabble.com/What-luggage-to-carry-td32535.html

http://www.basecampindia.com/tips_for_outdoors.html

5 Common Mistakes Travellers Make

Karnataka Trekking Places

My Trekking Wishlist :

1. Kannur kotte [http://www.dreamroutes.org/dreams/lohit_dabbe_kanoor.html]

2. Kumara parvath [http://www.dreamroutes.org/etc/alltreks.html]