UPSC has declared the result of Combined Medical Services Examination, 2008. The successful candidates have been recommended for appointment to medical posts in the Railways, Indian Ordnance Factories Health Service, Central Government Health Service and Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

The Combined Medical Services Examination, 2008 held by the Union Public Service Commission on 03.02.2008 and Personality Test held from 13.10.2008 to 15.11.2008. A total number of 556 candidates recommended for appointment include 253 General Candidates (including 12 Physically Handicapped candidates), 169 candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes (including 05 Physically Handicapped candidates), 89 Scheduled Caste (including 02 Physically Handicapped candidates), and 45 Scheduled Tribe candidates.
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Music can be a great motivation tool for exercise, which is it’s almost impossible to go to a gym and not see an iPod. However, that’s just one role an iPod or a Mac can play in regard to fitness — with the right applications, it can be a personal trainer, dietitian and trail guide.

The iPod is clearly the ultimate exercise accessory. Not only does it play music, but it also plays podcasts, videos and audio books. So if Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” won’t get your heart rate up while jogging, certainly most any audio book by master of horror Stephen King will.

A study from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, as reported in fitness magazine Men’s Health, has confirmed that those who listened to music while going hard on an exercise bike for 10 minutes pedaled 11 percent farther than those who listened to silence or static for the same amount of time. It seems obvious to those who exercise to tunes, but this scientific study confirms the assumption.

Aside from the basic benefits of listening, what other products for the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple enthusiast can help with living the healthy life? There’s quite a handful, it turns out.
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Unfortnately it’s written in Ruby on Rails which can be a bit of a pain to set up under Linux, especially if you want to use Apache as the webserver instead of the built-in WEBrick server. I’m already running Apache on my server and I didn’t feel like running a second webserver on a different, non-standard port just for this one app. It took me quite a bit of time to piece it all together, but here’s how I set up Tracks in Debian Lenny.

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Technology may have made a huge difference to our lives but not everything it has touched has turned into gold. One of the things tech-haters love to moan about is about how the advent of better technology, especially in the field of communications, has led to an erosion of basic manners and etiquette. (more…)

Apple is the number one brand in MP3 players with the iPod line sitting far above its competitors on the sales charts.

Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Apple would soon introduce new iPod models. Renderings have been surfacing showing the possible design of the new iPod nano and iPod touch players. Engadget has a rendering of the new iPod nano that is advertising some sort of screen protector for the device.
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The mobile manufacturer Motorola just recently has come out with latest camera based handset(Motozine ZN5 camera phone) in collaboration with Kodak in the Indian market, which would surely give Sony Ericcson’s Cyber Shot series some tough competition. Motorola’s Modeshift Technology and Kodak’s imaging technology will surely give the other mobile phones a run for their pixels in this segment.

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Nokia announced a pair of smartphones that it said balance a mobile professional’s business needs with robust multimedia functionality.

Today, missing our expectations by a small margin, Nokia has officially taken the wraps off their new pair of handsets – the Nokia N79 and Nokia N85. As the successor to the Nokia N81, the dual-sliding Nokia N85 offers a newly uprated 5 megapixel camera, fitted with the dual-LED flash and the Carl Zeiss optics that Nokia loves to use on their higher-megapixel cameraphones. Additional to that some GPS, 3G (HSDPA), WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, 2.6-inch AMOLED display, and microSDHC card slot, and you’ve got the makings of a serious handset. The Nokia N85 runs on S60 3rd Edition and is fully N-Gage compatible.
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