I just captured it via my Xperia Mini Pro, Have a look…

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The lines above are from a book written by Mark Ryan titled Calculus Essentials for Dummies. I should quote a para from the Introduction section of the book …
The mere thought of having to take a required calculus course is enough to make legions of students break out in a cold sweat. Others who have no intention of ever studying the subject have this notion that calculus is impossibly difficult unless you happen to be a direct descendant of Einstein
Its time for me to start with calculus and the first paragraph of the book makes me sure that I would master the subject 🙂
The Google Adsense Reports Home was showing notification to change one of my smaller Adsense Ad Unit to into a larger one. It is being claimed that If I replace the 250 x 250 ad with 300 x 250 ad there would be 25-30 % guaranteed increase in Revenue.
So, after a week of thought I decided to take heed of the notiification and clicked on create now and created the ad unit of 300×250 size. As I put the old 250×250 square ad in my side bar that was fitting there nicely, now I was required to change the width of the sidebar, which I did without any hassle. Thanks to creator of the Graphene theme for wordpress. I just dragged the slider so that side bar width shows to 320 px, saved and it was done. the last thing was to replace the code in the sidebar text widget.

All done have fun!
Here, I am going to tell you the most economical way to call India. Of course everybody knows that the Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) has already made the international calling a lot more easier and cheaper.

Now even Google provides the option to call phones worldwide using their Google Voice/Gmail account. For India they ask 0.02 $ per minute. Skype‘s rates are expensive if you choose to pay as you go option which is 0.092 $ per minute. Skype rates are competitive to Google Voice when you choose monthly subscription with Skype.
 Yet, there are cheaper options available. Since last almost two years I was using Action Voip and Rynga to VOIP services to call India.

They were charging $ 0.01 and $ 0.009 per minute (excluding tax). Recently I discovered that another VoIP provider that I had used in the past (almost 4 years back) is charging super economical $ 0.006 per minute to call India on cell phones.

The rates shown in the picture are just revised ones seems from 1st of June, 2012 although its still most economical ‘pay as you go’ option to call India over internet. Well, these are the rates of Just Voip, You can sign up and download the application for your PC or Mobile by visiting their site!
And, Please don’t forget to comment here if you find any cheaper option than this one, me and of-course other reader would highly appreciate it.
It was my first Doctor’s Appointment in USA. Initially I had scheduled for Friday afternoon at 2 PM. Later, I got the call from his office and it was rescheduled to Monday at 2PM. As both of us work and my wife drives to her workplace, She had to come and pick me up to visit Doctor. For a 2 PM appointment she left her office at 1:19, picked me up at 1:30 and we were there at 1:40. I was the first one in the que, however as it was the first time for me to be there I had to fill a 4 page form giving summary of my health records.
After 2:15 the nurse came and brought us in a room, where she did the blood pressure measurement along with heart beat and oxygenation of blood estimation. She left in two minutes and we had to wait for another 5 min. to see the doctor. he came and asked some general questions like where I work and if I am allergic to something etc. When I talked about my problem, he listened, checked it with a torch and said I don’t know what it is but I can give you some medicine that you can try.
I told him that I m not very  fond of medicines and would be better if he can refer to a specialist, that he did with pleasure. I went to pay the fee, where the secretary tried to schedule an appointment with nearby dermatologist but found that the doctor doesnt accept my insurance. She took sometime and then scheduled an appointment with dermatologist at another clinic.
Recently I got my first AMEX Card’s Bill to pay. Added my Bank details to my online account and scheduled a payment for the same. I also use the AMEX Android App to track my spending and taking care of balances. Following is the screenshot of the payment page on my phone.

I have a microscope with Digital Camera attached to it. To start with, I collected a little dust of pollen from the flower in my patio and looked through the microscope. Actually I used the software on my laptop to get the images from the eyepiece of the microscope digitally. Here are few images from a single slide at different magnifications.




I was waiting for my FICO score update since last few days and this morning when I logged in through my Walmart credit account I saw the change, I was expecting a reduction but fortunately I saw the increase.
The term FICO stands for Fair Isaac Corporation. The information is been provided by TransUnion credit reporting and raring agency. If you dont know anything about what is your credit score and how it changes month by month, I recommend you to get a walmart credit account so that you can easily monitor your credit score efficiently.