The Khan Academy

Hey guys, today I'm going to tell you about a wonderful educational site I came across while searching for tutorials. It has video tutorials on a lot of subjects including Mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science; and its all free.
All the tutorials are well explained and described in a way that anyone can understand what it is about.

So what is this Khan Academy?
       It is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Salman Kahn (not to be confused with the Bollywood actor with the same name). This guy is a graduate of MIT and Harward Business School.
They have stated their mission is to provide "high quality education to anyone anywhere". This I believe is exactly what they have done.

Visit their website : www.khanacademy.org

They also have a YouTube channel which contains more than 3,200 micro lectures.
You can visit the channel here :  LINK


You can get an idea what this is about by watching this video:




Khan on Big Think:

Java Resources

Java is an exciting programming language developed at Sun microsystems (Now merged into Oracal corporation).  Java is currently one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 10 million users. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another. This brings the edge to java over lot of other languages.
Java accomplish this by using a VM  called JVM (java virtual mechine). It helps the program to run on any computer regardless of the computer architecture or in other words hardware technology.

On November 13, 2006, Sun released much of Java as free and open source software, (FOSS), under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). On May 8, 2007, Sun finished the process, making all of Java's core code available under free software/open-source distribution terms. Allowing anyone interested to develop/improve it.

Java is a really good OO (object oriented) language, but it has a simpler Object model and fewer lower level facilities with respect to other OOP languages like C, C++.


It has two major components.SDK (Software development kit) also referd as JDK (java development kit) and JRE (java runtime environment).

JRE (a subset of the SDK) contains all the runtime libraries that are essential for running any java application.  It also is the JVM which I mention before.

SDK contains compiler, utility programs, header files and jre. This is the most essential part needed to develop a java application.

There are various versions of JAVA.

• JDK 1.0 (January 23, 1996)
• JDK 1.1 (February 19, 1997)
• J2SE 1.2 (December 8, 1998)
• J2SE 1.3 (May 8, 2000)
• J2SE 1.4 (February 6, 2002)
• J2SE 5.0 (September 30, 2004)
• Java SE 6 (December 11, 2006)
• Java SE 7 (July 28, 2011)

Most of the people who start to learn java struggle a little in the beginning. There are some really good resources out there, what you see below is a list of such; which I think anyone who’s interested in java might find useful.

Best of TED

This is another one of the best talks in TED. Given by Sir Ken Robinson.
Its the same person who have given the talk about "schools kill creativity". Which i have posted on my blog. For those who haven't seen it click Here.

This TED talk was given in Feb 2010.

Bring on the learning revolution!

"Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.”     (Ken Robinson)


The transcript for this talk:

Best of TED

This is first of many posts I will publish about the best talks I've seen on the TED conference. Hope you guys enjoy them as much as i do.

The TED talk I'm showing you today is done By Sir Ken Robinson.
This is one of my favorite and perhaps one of the best ones I've seen

This is a talk was given in Feb 2006

Schools kill creativity

"We are educating people out of their creativity," Ken Robinson.

 This is the Transcript Of this talk

TED

TED or in other words Technology, Entertainment and Design is a global set of conferences owned by a non profit organization called  Sapling Foundation; formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading."

This was founded in 1984 as an one off event. Since 1990 it was held as an annual event. Since then it has grown in to a global event.

What started as a conference where talks were largely on technology and design has grown into a conference with wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture.
 Large number of speakers who are researchers, politicians, philosophers, writers etc... have spoken in here.
 Since 2006 these talks have been offered viewing online. By mid 2011 the views have surpass 500 million.

To visit the site : TED.com

kuppiya.com (Sinhala Tutorial)

Java Tutorial (Sinhala medium)

http://kuppiya.com කියන්නෙ අපේම සහොදර සහොදරියන් එකතුවෙල හදල තියන වෙබ් පිථුවක්. ඒකේ හුගාක් හොදට විස්තර කරල තියන පරිගනක පාධම් තියනව.

Java කියන්නෙ හුගාක් හොද computer programming language එකක්. මේ videos වල ඒක හොදට තෙරෙන්න කියල දෙන්නව.
 
මෙතන සේරම videos මම දාල නෑ. ඒව ඔය ගොල්ලන්ට මේ ලින්ක් එකට ගිහින් ගන්න පුලුවන්.

Download Java Sinhala Tutorial here

මේ පඩම් කරන්නේ : Kalpani Manatunga.

Lesson 1
Install and configure Java JDK.

Hitman: Absolution

• Details
• Developer : IO Interactive (Site)
• Publisher   : Square Enix  (Site)
• Series        :  Hitman
• Rating       :  RP (not yet rated)
• Release date : November 20, 2012

Website : www.hitman.com




Its been nearly 6 years since Hitman : Blood money hit the shelves in 2006, agent 47 is suppose to be at rest. But it was turn up to be false when suddenly he resurfaced in about year ago. Its rumored that this time around he's  going for the kill in a personal level. Recently he was seen in Chicago. Where some unfortunate "accidents" have occurred.




Some of the ICA (The International Contract Agency) secret files went public recently, they show some interesting roles. All of whom have ties to the Agent 47 in the past.

• Diana Burnwood (aka Diana)

• Benjamin Travis (aka Travis)

• Saints (ICA initiative 424)

Giveaway of the Day

Software piracy is one the Largest problems in the IT industry. Many people don't think much about it. But for Software designers, developers whom spend hours and hours to develop their software is a terrible loss. To see their product/ software (their intellectual property) is being pirated and copied and sell all over the place WITHOUT GIVING them even a DIME which they deserve, is painful to watch. The worst part is that most of the time they (developers) don't even get credit. This kind of situations could demotivate them from creating marvellous software's.

So what can we do to prevent these kind of things...  Is there an answer for this?
well, YES. it is giveawayoftheday.com
This is an website dedicated to help developers/ companies to promote there software without promoting piracy.

They working along side with software companies have enable us to get/download a Full License Version of a software within a period of time. Then we don't have to use any pirated version of them because we have the full version for free. The best thing is its not illegal.

To visit the site please fellow the link:giveawayoftheday.com

Win Free gifts

I have Found these sites while surfing on the internet. These are wonderful sites whom let its users WIN FREE GIFTS. The best thing about them are that they offer FREE SHIPPING Globally.

• Xpango

Register now for a free account.

Internet Bank Accounts

There are a lot of ways to earn money on the internet which is called e-money. (To find ways to earn money go to the post about earning money on the internet)
 The biggest problem a lot of people face when they earn e-money is "how are we going to cash out?"

Well there are several ways to do that...

The most popular way is to use an Online bank. These act in the same way as average banks. The only difference is these banks are operating Globally and can use these to buy and sell goods online.


These are the list of some of the popular ones

• 
   PayPal

Create an Account in PayPal

• AlertPay  Payza

Get your FREE account with AlertPay.
Benefits of having an Alert pay account:
        22 Currencies supported worldwide
       190+ Countries supported worldwide 

Earning money on the Internet

There are a lot of talk on the internet about this topic. If you put this on Google you'll find TONS of  results for it too. Lot of theses would show and tell you that they have the ability to make you rich before even you can say "internet money". All they ask is a small payment from you so they can Double, Triple or sometimes even more.

"Sounds too good to be true" don't you think. Well i can tell you In this case IT IS. Most of these people are Scamers. They just rob you blind and steal all your money and just disappear.

Now you might start to think so is there any way to earn internet money or in other words E-Money?

YES, there are ways to earn money on the internet.

 Actually there are so much i don't think this blog is gonna be enough to tell all of it.

When topic E-money is discussed there are few topics that stand out...

1. Google adsence
2. PTC (Paid to click)
3. PTW (Paid to write)
4. PTR (Paid to Read)
5. Data entry
6. Forex trading
7. etc...

The list goes on and on...

Now lets see what these things are...

• Google Adsence

Link: https://www.google.com/adsense

This is another service provided by Google. Do you remember when you search anything you sometimes see response links in your search results. Well those are Google ads or in other words Google adsense.
Advertises give Google there ads and google Shows them relevantly. When some body clicks on that link they are taken to the sponsors website. Google is  get paid for this. With adsence We get to play a part in this. Google give us ads to promote. When somebody clicks on the advertisement YOU get paid.

• PTC (Paid to click)

This is another way to earn money on the internet. When done correctly and get you a decent income.


What happen in this is exactly what it say. You get to paid to click Advertisements.

 Now through my experience i have seen some a good deal of these sites. And not all of them are legit.But I have found some which are LEGIT and Reliable...

                                          Minimum payout for a free member : 8.00$

• PTR (paid to read)

In this section we get sites where we can earn to Read E-mails, articles...

• Data entry

• Misc.
• Get-paid

A great site for earning money, there are a lot of ways to earn money here too.