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LUMS Students’ Fake Shaadi or Wedding videos gone viral

In your student life, at your school, collage and university, you would have celebrated many kinds of days but the students of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) celebrated something, which never happened in a university in the history. They came up with an idea of holding a fake wedding at LUMS. Also they decided to do it properly with all things which take place in the normal wedding. According to a LUMS student, it was decided that a fake wedding will be held at LUMS. For this on the facebook page of LUMS few names of were nominated, after some election process, two names were chosen for the wedding. The students who were chosen for the LUMS fake wedding […]

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Kids’ world’s longest running universally popular show sesame street is back with season 41

Sesame street first premiered on 10 November 1969 on 200 TV stations simultaneously, this American based show was great source of entertainment and preschool education for kids world wide. Even here in Pakistan lots of us watched this show in our childhood on the only available terrestrial TV network PTV back in our childhoods. This world wide recognized show have until now broadcast 40 seasons, the reason for success was only the idea of providing education through cartoon characters which were very attractive to children. Sesame street is premiering its 41st season from tomorrow and in this regard world’s most popular video site Youtube have featured Sesame Street youtube channel. This channel was yesterday was hyperlinked with youtube logo, also […]

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Google brings Pacman fun on 30th anniversary of Pacman game

Google is rightly believed to be the fun loving organization. They have proved it once again, on 30th anniversary of Pacman Google have embedded the special Pacman plug in into its logo as shown above in the image. Please notice the insert coin button which is placed on place of “I am feeling lucky” button and it initiates the Pacman game. This was the fully featured playable game plugin with proper scoring in place. The plugin is embedded in to Google search page into the logo for 48 hours as part of Pacman’s 30th anniversary celebration.

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Youtube comes with TEXTp video format on april fools day

Youtube which is a google’s product came up with a new TEXTp format for videos on youtube. You can select this from same place where you can select the video resolution like 360p or 480p or higher. This is only available for videos with resolution more than 360p. To watch any of the video in this mode make sure its more than 360p resolution and add &textp=fool on end of video url and it will show the video in text format. i.e. everything in video will be composed of the text. Following is screen capture of a TEXTp video, According to them this will save the broadband costs for them, as more and more people will engage them watching the […]

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Pakistani Taxi driver Asif Hussain Shah writes a book and goes online with his taxi

A Pakistani Taxi driver Asif Hussain Shah who drives his cab mainly in Rawalpindi/Islamabad and is citizen of Rawalpindi is the person who thought out of box and written a book. His book is named ‘For Hire’, the book is based on his daily experiences while driving his taxi, mostly based on experiences and thoughts he heard from passengers who traveled in his taxi. Following are few photos of his taxi featuring himself. Asif Hussain Shah not only wrote the book, he gone one step further, he used his cab as a moving bill board to advertise his book. He used the space on sides and behind his taxi to attract more buyers of his book and spread the word […]