Friday, July 1, 2011

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Regarding career prospect

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 01:23 PM PDT

hello everyone , i completed by Btech in mechanical , now has been in the power industry (project erection) for 3 yrs . I would like to pursue MS in USA , which course should I opt for which would enhance my current power sector skills.

Amitava Ganguly - Exploring the Creative Boundaries in Mass Media

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 11:08 AM PDT


Mr. Amitava Ganguly, a young entrepreneur from Thane, India heads Couch Potato Media which deals with all the important media product categories and creative services. They endeavour to create not only world-class products and services but also long lasting relationships with their clients. Mr. Amitava Ganguly, an entrepreneur in the field of Mass Media has taken some time out to answer the questions we had for him. It is our pleasure to have his words here. Let us learn few important tips on how to make it out as an entrepreneur in the field of mass media through this exclusive interview on CrazyEngineers.


CE: Could you tell us something about yourself? What kind of person you are, your interests, and a brief family background. What did you do after school before coming up with your venture?

Mr. Ganguly: I come from a typical Bong family and being the only son, I have been pampered a tad bit. Right from my schooling days, I got myself involved in a lot of art and creative activities. Music was always my passion. I play as a sessions drummer in many bands. I did my graduation in Mass Media and that gave impetus to my creative side. The various projects, internships & work experience got me into hardcore filming and designing. Eventually, I decided to take off with my own venture and Couch Potato Media happened.

CE: What is Couch Potato Media exactly about? When was it formed and what is your role in it?

Mr. Ganguly: I started Couch Potato Media in full swing in January 2011. It is a full service multimedia agency which deals with films, websites, corporate branding and designing. I am the Creative Director of the company.

CE: You come from one of highly reputed ICSE schools in India (Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania High School, Thane). As such, those students are expected to turn big doctors and engineers and seek such conventional roles. What made you get interested into this field?

Mr. Ganguly: I personally think every person is meant to do something special and it doesn't really matter which school you are from. Coming from a highly reputed school like Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania High School has in fact encouraged me to play to my strengths and achieve what I wanted to achieve. I identified my strengths and got working on it.

CE: How supportive were family and friends in helping you get ahead with the idea?

Mr. Ganguly: One of the most important things in starting a new venture of your own is the support of the people around you. It gives you a lot of drive and confidence. I've been very lucky that way to have friends and family who have encouraged me all through with this.

CE: So how did you get started? How did you deal with the basic requirements such as time, people, money, getting new clients?

Mr. Ganguly: Networking with the right people at the right time is very important for a good clientele. And when you deliver decent work from your end, the goodwill leads to one client from another. Managing time, money and people is difficult at a start-up stage but no rocket science. Work experience in the past and some basic management skills does it for me.

CE: What services does your venture offer? What type of customers do you generally target?

Mr. Ganguly: Couch Potato Media is a full service multimedia agency which deals with films, websites, corporate branding and designing. We serve professional and commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world with media related products.

CE: Your clientele includes some big names too. Being a startup, how do you convince them into giving you the job? Can you give us a brief idea as to how you set a target customer, how you market your idea, how you work upon them and how it all ends up?

Mr. Ganguly: We look at our business from the client's perspective always. That's the master key of being into a media related field because it's a visual medium. We are into creation of things (be it films, websites etc.) of which the client already has a vision. We try to connect with their thought process in the best way and deliver more than just that. Good pricing, networking, marketing, publicity are all important for more visibility of the company, but nothing matches GOODWILL which can be generated only by delivering kickass work.

CE: Do you work alone or do you have a team? How do you select your team members? Is there any specific skill you look for in them?

Mr. Ganguly: Right now we are a team of three permanent members. It comprises of me being the Creative Director and my other two colleagues who assist me in managing the marketing and web department. We also have a separate production team which works only on project basis. We usually look for people with a media background. Selecting a team member is like fishing, you don't know what you get hold of until it's hooked.

CE: What is your success mantra?

Mr. Ganguly: My success mantra is my passion for work. If you are passionate about your work and you enjoy it, then it's like a game. Other things just follow.

CE: Any tips for budding entrepreneurs?

Mr. Ganguly: Be passionate about your work, believe in yourself, generate supreme confidence, have guts to take risks and develop your own style of working.

CE: Having being into this venture for 6 months now, are you satisfied with what you are doing and have achieved?

Mr. Ganguly: In course of the last 6 months, each day I expected more output of work from myself and my team. We worked hard on that and now it's a habit. So far we have a good growth graph and I am decently satisfied with what we have achieved. There are goals and dreams, and I am sure we will achieve them too. I want to see Couch Potato Media as a well-established organization with bigger associations.

CE: Any message for our CEans ?

Mr. Ganguly: Crazy Engineers is a great platform. It's on its way to become one of the finest forums for entrepreneurs to know each other well. Keep up the endeavor. I wish you all the very best.

We are thankful to Mr. Amitava Ganguly for taking out time for this interview.

You can check out more about him and his work at his official website Couch Potato Media

P.S.: The unconventional colour pattern is just being tested to check if it is pleasing to the reader. I would like to have feedback especially if it is irritating and would like to revert to an all-black format.

Additional feedback on things such as on the current content, expectations from these interviews etc are most welcome.

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Need some Cool Project Ideas?

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:32 AM PDT

Hi guys. Could you give me some ideas and advice on making any IT Project.... which is theory based and not a working software. Any Management related It Project and something which is very interesting? thanks for the help you will give me...............?:)

The Google+ Review

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:34 AM PDT

Hi ppl,
Google released its new social networking platform Google+ 3 days ago. I started using it and I really like it. The product is awesome as all Google products are. Its been called facebook killer. Well I don’t know about killing facebook, but it matches facebook a lot. Here are some points I would like to emphasize on:

Interface: It’s a simple interface with white background. And as they say “simplicity is the power”. So, basically they just show you streams (like Facebook status updates) from your friends, your circles and chat (obviously…;)) on a white background. You can share photos, videos and even your location. Yes, they actually have a “share” button (remember something…;)). A very simple and attractive interface.

Circles: I personally liked the concept of circles more than anything else. I can make different circles for my college friends, my work friends, my family and my girlfriends….;).
I can also set updates visible to a particular circle only. You can also be online for a specific circle. So basically, this is the most highlighted and highly useful feature.

Hangouts: Just one word, Awesome. I mean you actually feel like you all ppl are sitting together. Start hanging out and normally you find ppl online and start chatting that too video chatting. All your friends are in front of you. Do whatever you want to do and enjoy the party….!!!!!

Notification: Now this is a real good part. When you get notification on facebook like someone commented on your post, then you click on it and you are redirected to the post. Come to Google+, you get the notification, you click on it and whoa the status get opened there only. Your home page stays there only and the status opens in the notification window only. So, here you can comment without actually going to Google+, it doesn’t matter if you are on web search page or email page, you can see and act on the notifications from there only. It really looks like extension of Google.


Except that you can +1 your friends’ status, you can comment on them, you can mention them is a comment, you can share pics. It has everything that a social networking site should have. Basically this is an awesome product and as Google said there are more features to come, it could really be Facebook killer. Lets hope it doesn’t join Wave and Buzz.

Anyways, did anyone notice the change of interface of Facebook…;)

P.S: There used to be a CE-Review section and surprisingly i couldn't find it.

Without Electricity How To Look For Earth?

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:12 AM PDT

with out electricity how to look the earth:p

Blown resistor

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:11 AM PDT

A resistor in a circuit of a LED light is blown...

Problem : the battery is not charging,,
Can i replace it? And how ? Plz help me..

PRO_E or UNIGRAPHIX

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:57 AM PDT

which one is the best to learn after AUTOCAD ? :confused::confused::confused:

Dedicated IP is important?

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:37 AM PDT

Whenever we host any website, there is the option (some sites provides) for Dedicated IP to your website. Is that important? What's the exact role of that?
Is it necessary to take Dedicated IP for our website?? :)

BigAdda Social Network Shuts Down. Turns Itself Into Ecommerce Site

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:13 AM PDT

Reliance owned BigAdda.com has ceased being a social network. The site has been turned into a social network and following communication has been mailed to the users-
Quote:
We value and appreciate your long standing support for Bigadda.com. In the past few months we explored our potential as an ecommerce portal by providing branded products at profitable deals to you and have found immense success. We are reaching newer heights everyday and hence are planning an expansion in the same arena.
We request you to download all your personal collection of blogs, audio files, video files and images from Bigadda.com as we are scaling down our Social Networking services.
Please note that all your old personal data, uploaded on Bigadda.com, shall not be available after July 15 2011.
Does this tell us that only money won't make any startup successful? Reliance advertised their social network all over TV and through print media, but it failed to gain any traction. Strong support from people is something that makes a startup successful. What's your take on this?

single phase Z source inverter using matlab/simulink

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 04:59 AM PDT

Am doing project in single phase Z source inverter using matlab/simulink.. To generarte gate pulse for inverters i design driver circuit, and i connect train of pulses to gates of inverter switches. But while run the simulator i got link error...How can i solve it?....

project ideas in manufacturing and production field

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:52 AM PDT

can any one suggest any project ideas in manufacturing and production field............:(:(:(

Samsung Galaxy Z: Samsung Galaxy SII's Affordable Brother

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:27 AM PDT

Samsung Galaxy Z has been made available for pre-order. Up for pre-order today, on the Swedish arm of Three, is the Galaxy Z -- billed as a more affordable spawn from its Korean progenitor. The Gingerbread-toting handset will sport a 4.2-inch Super Clear LCD, 1GHz dual core processor (rumored to be Tegra 2), and 8GB of onboard storage, extensible with microSD. Fret not camera junkies, also present is a 5 megapixel sensor plus flash and "HD" video recording. All that stands between you and this little Galaxy, are 4,000 kronor (about $630) and your undying love of Swedish meatballs.

Via: Engadget

CrazyEngineers Forum: Bigger Than Ever Before!

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:21 AM PDT

CEans,

Just few minutes ago, we added our 100,000th CEan. Congratulations to everyone who's a part of CrazyEngineers community and has helped it grow. Check out our official announcement on VoiCE: Engineers Forum - CrazyEngineers - An Online Community Of Engineers - CrazyEngineers

Celebrating 1,00,000 CEans on July 1, 2011

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:20 AM PDT

A screenshot of the moment when we became 1,00,000 CEans strong!

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Best Free Video Chat App For IPad 2?

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:04 AM PDT

I recently purchased iPad 2 and have been searching for a decent, free app that lets you dial and receive video calls on the iPad 2. I've tried the iPhone version of Skype on iPad, and it works fine. however, you have to zoom 2x to get the full picture. I searched for free apps, but not able to decide which offers better experience. Also, I wish to know whether Google Talk chat will be made available for iPad?
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