Most popular ways of celebrating Valentine’s Day are:

• Romantic Date: Go out and woo your love by arranging a romantic date with your lover. On this day we can easily find parks, restaurants, discotheques all filled up with lovers holding hands and expressing love. So, go ahead and plan the romantic date for your love and share those precious love moments together.
• Romantic Dinner: Love can also be expressed this Valentine’s Day by arranging a romantic dinner for your loved one. Guys can express their love by cooking some surprise stuff like cakes with a romantic message on it.
• Share love through cards: You can share your love through cards and other creative forms of art. If you are running out of ideas, then a simple letter with “I love you” can make Valentine’s Day special for your love.
• Spread joys through flowers: Flowers can refresh the love between partners. Roses, which are considered as Flower of Love,  make your partner feel special. So, decorate your home with flowers and let your partner know that you love her.
• Spend quality time with a theatre show: Arrange for a romantic movie that you would enjoy watching together. Spend those precious moments with your love and a romantic movie.

Surprisingly, yet again we have come to the end of another year. Now that, we are slowly approaching towards the end of 2011, we realize the accomplishments, failure, happiness and grievances during the year. It seems that the year went by pretty fast.

So, that we are now heading towards a new year, we must be having some new plans, aspirations and dreams as well. Things that we could not achieve in the past, things that we always wanted to achieve, something new, something out of the box. Some great person once said, “If you want your dreams to come true, you need to wake up.”

We all have dreams regarding something or the other; a future position, a future goal that we’d like to achieve. It’s important to be realistic while aiming what we would like to achieve and at the same time its important to plan and execute the same. As we all know that, “It’s a good idea to implement a good idea.” On this note let us all unite in making this New Year a prosperous one, through spreading happiness and love. May this New Year bring many opportunities to your way, to explore every joy of life & may your resolutions for the days ahead stay firm, turning all your dreams into reality and all your efforts into great achievements. Happy New Year to you and your loved ones.

The much awaited event for many who have been through our ADP venture. FOURDY group welcomes you all to the World wide open event…

What is ADP?

Amar Durga Puja a.k.a ADP is a platform for the internet users to share thoughts, photo and more about Durga Puja just when they are amidst the celebration. It is competition of photography in its sense. Upload your pictures, as many unique ones you can, and based on the visitors response you can win if:

To participate: Log on to Amar Durga Puja - www.amardurgapuja.com

Click on register and create an ADP account.

Fill in the details correctly and click on continue. Go to your profile homepage.

and then click on ‘Upload’

Fill in the details of the photograph

After you submit the photograph. You will see the following page. To promote your photograph and your album you can link the photograph to your Facebook and Twitter Account.

ADP 2010 Winners

This year it could be you, keep uploading folks. Competition ends on 10th October, 2011. Best of luck!

Well not only for girls, for everyone it is a hectic to carry bags and then themselves.
In simple terms it is like Hindi saying ‘credit card swap karo, aish karo’.

Come, lets get acquainted the modern shopping online shopping trend.

The Reverse

The first online shopping on web was created by Tim Berners Lee back in 1991. After that it was Pizza Hut which started its online business in 1994 along with the German company Intershop. Then appeared the famous Amazon and eBay. It was from Amazon and eBay that this business flourished and the rest you can see it yourself; every other day you get another mail.

What do you need?

• A Computer/Laptop/Application with easy access to internet.
• A Debit/ Credit Card (as very few e-shops allow cash on delivery)
• And some time (to choose from the huge variety of items.)

Consumer network

Though till the past it was so believed that the customers to this B2C shopping on web were in general the people with higher level of income, education and occupation. But with the evolution of networking the customer network has expanded.

How it works?

Here once the customer logs into the account he can choose the items and store them in a virtual ‘shopping cart’. Cart is a place where the items selected by the customer is accumulated and then when the customer checks out, he finally chooses among the items selected those that he actually wants to purchase. At this stage (or after the checking out, for some sites) the customer feeds in the payment details. Then the customer is intimated about the progress via SMS and E-Mails.

Payment

Most of the shopping sites take payment via Credit cards and Debit cards; but due to security reasons the customer isn’t comfortable to give the details of his card on web. So for such group there are sites which take payment on delivery (better known as ‘cash-on-delivery’ with extra charges) or the billed amount is added to phone bills.

Is it secure?

Security is what the customer and the merchant is worried about. It can be the concern both ways. The customer is at the risk of leaking his credit/debit card number. And the merchant is at the risk of fraudulent purchases from stolen credit cards.

Identity threats and phishing and stealing of data from the merchant’s site via spamming is very common. (That is why you see those jumbled numbers and alphabets, called captcha).

The way out..

To overcome the problems, standards must be set for all the websites. The sites must be rated based on assessments, quality, service and anonymous feedback, to ensure that the consumer and the merchant both are safe.

Well, its the festive season. Happy Shopping!

Some suggested sites:

• www.amazon.com
• www.ebay.com
• www.flipkart.com
• www.olx.com
• www.homeshop18.com
• www.snapdeal.com

We all have the memories of the moment we first heard about. I, personally, recall the day as the one when WE all were attacked. Whether we’d lost our loved ones, or have simply seen the images on television – the pictures of smoke turning the sky black in New York, Washington struck us all. It challenged the entire humanity.

We shall be kidding ourselves if we think the effect of crime so deliberately committed can be put aside without introspection. Healing begins with reflection, not with a time clock that says, “Get over it”.

“Get over it…”, some say, “Time to move on…”, say others. But how do we do that? Question is can we forgive the “unforgivable”.

YES, we can. In fact I believe that is the secret behind America (New York) still being incredibly vibrant, dynamic place. Ten years after the incident America has come through this thing in a way that was consistent with their character. Few things didn’t happen as quickly as they needed to. But overall, Americans took the fight to al-Queda, preserved their values, preserved their character yet moved on keeping the continuity.

This teaches us a nice lesson. FORGIVENESS does not require to forego justice, or make up to people we have every right to despise. ANGER has its place in the panoply of human emotions, however it shouldn’t become a way of life.

In the great respect to the leaders of such a nation and essentially in the tribute to those who died in 9/11 Attack:
FOURDY SOLUTIONS does its bit by going Black & White on web for a week from today. May their souls rest in peace, we pray.

This year’s Ganesh Chaturti date is September 1, 2011 (Yes, the Ganeshotsav celebration has already commenced and people are out of their home since early morning to pick up Ganapati idols ).

Having discussed so much about Ganesh Chaturti and the celebration that accompanies the festival,  I had wish to draw your attention to a fact that a large section of the society is unaware or conveniently forget to think about — the pollution and environmental damage that plaster of paris idols and chemical paints cause due to immersing of the same into the water body. Before anyone opposes me on this idea, I’d another mention to make. Widespread campaigns for eco-friendly Ganeshotsav is already on and some large Ganesha Pandal Committees have gone an extra mile (besides just pondering on the themes) to make this year’s celebration a memorable one with a demand of more Eco-friendly idols and statues. WE appreciate the organizers of the Ganesh Chaturti 2011. Great effort and appreciated by all humans throughout for giving a special thought for ‘OUR Environment’ which is another issue of concern for the coming generation (will be discussing about it in details in the coming posts ).

Venue: Weaver’s Studio Ballygunge, Kolkata

Event: Cinematheque 2011
Organized by: Xaverian Film Academy
Date: 8th and 9th of March 2011.
Venue: Auditorium, St. Xaviers’ College, Kolkata.

What is the event, Cinematheque 2011, all about?

The Xaverian Film Academy of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata will be organizing a national level film festival CINEMATHEQUE 2011 on 8th and 9th March, 2011.

Young filmmakers and media enthusiasts from all over the country will be visiting St. Xaviers’ College, Kolkata for this grand event during the two days mentioned above. People from all across Kolkata and country will be witnessing films in a competitive & non-competitive category made by student filmmakers. It is sure to generate a lot of Cinephilia among the youth of Kolkata and India during this time.

Who is Organizing the festival?

Xaverian Film Academy, a students based community of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, brings to you the grand film festival. The community focuses its attention to the media world and films in general. They believe in both viewing and making films. Hence the concept of a film festival just like CINEMATHEQUE satisfies their identity to a massive extent.

Tentative Programme of the event

• Day 1: The films from the DOCUMENTARY section will be screened where FIVE short listed films will be shown followed by a rare non fiction film which will be screened in the non competitive category.
• Day 2: There will be the screening of the competitive section of SHORT FICTION films where FIVE short listed films which will be shown followed by a non competitive fiction film for the audience.

• For more information visit www.sxcfilmstudies.com
• REGISTER ONLINE for the event.
• To view the Rules and Regulations of the event, click here

As we all know that Durga Puja is one of the most awaited festival in West Bengal but because of it’s geographical restriction people in the other part of the world can only read about it or view photos only once the event is over – it’s like watching the highlights of the World Cup Finals. We, at FOURDY WLOG, decided to take Durga Puja to the whole world. After a lot of thinking the only way we could do it was through the most powerful medium of today, the internet. This is when we decided to create ADP – www.amardurgapuja.com. ADP would be like a platform for the users to share their thoughts, videos, photo and more about Durga Puja.

The bigger plan was to create a live online streaming video for EACH location in Kolkata. The user who comes to the website would be able to choose the location for which he wants to view the video for and the live video plays. Many may ask: Almost all media channels and radio stations cover the event, how are they different? Well, the primary difference would be that the user gets to choose the location himself and can view each moment of any location rather than watching the puja for only the location where the media is present at that point of time.

Is it happening for Durga Puja 2009?

Unfortunately, No, we will not be rolling out this year due to the lack of sponsors and lack of time.

Then, why are we talking?

Well, because we are ready to make the first move this year. First Move: We will be organizing a photo submission competition this year.

I am excited, tell me more!

What we plan to do is create a website which would be available for the public at www.amardurgapuja.com. On the website, each user can upload photos of puja happening at various places in Kolkata. All the uploaded photos can be view by the general users visitng the website and will have following features:

• Comment on the photo
• Rate the photo
• Search photos (by location)

What happens next?

Next, we plan to give away prizes to:

• Best Rated Photo
• Most Visited Photo

What about publicizing the website, is it too late to start?

No, we believe it’s the best time to start. We would be using 1 Radio Partner, 1 TV Partner, weblink exchanges and Social Network to promote the event.

Are you interested in contributing?

If yes, please feel free to contact us at http://web.thefourdy.com/contact/