Sachin's 100th 100 Cheers!!

The God of Cricket, Master Blaster, Record Breaker - many are the words used to describe Sachin Tendulkar, my favorite cricketer in the world. One page is not enough, even just to list all the records he holds in the game of cricket. 

Sachin Tendulkar is on his own at the moment. The next two are Ponting and Kallis with 71 and 59 tons. The recently retired Rahul Dravid is the only other Indian with 49 tons

Sachin Tendulkar spoke to Ramiz-Raza after completing his 100th 100

Sachin Tendulkar: "It was a tough phase for me. I began the season well, but I was luckless. There was no real hype when I scored the 99th ton in the World Cup, but post that, the media blew it up. Wherever I went, everyone just talked about the 100th 100 and not the 99 scored earlier. It became mentally tough because I was not just playing for that milestone. In the end, I got to do what is good for the team. Happy to have done it. It was tough batting today and we had a score of 280-290 in mind, which we have achieved. (Gives a message) Chase your dreams because they definitely come true! I had to wait for one for 22 years. We won the World Cup - that was my dream. So keep chasing your dreams." 

Cheers !! for Sachin Tendulkar by wishing him with his Best Quotes.

Sachin Tendulkar playing a shot during Asia Cup Match vs Bangladesh

Centuries of Sachin Tendulkar

Below are the complete list of all International Centuries scored by Sachin in his career so far. The lists are made sortable for your convenience. Long Live Sachin! We pray for you.

List of All Test Centuries (51) of Sachin Tendulkar

(click column header to sort results)

No.	Runs	Against	Venue	Date	Result
1	119*	England	Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester	14 August 1990	Drawn
2	148*	Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	6 January 1992	Drawn
3	114	Australia	WACA Ground, Perth	3 February 1992	Lost
4	111	South Africa	Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	28 November 1992	Drawn
5	165	England	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	12 February 1993	Won
6	104*	Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo	31 July 1993	Won
7	142	Sri Lanka	K. D. Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow	19 January 1994	Won
8	179	West Indies	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	2 December 1994	Drawn
9	122	England	Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham	8 June 1996	Lost
10	177	England	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	5 July 1996	Drawn
11	169	South Africa	Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town	4 January 1997	Lost
12	143	Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	3 August 1997	Drawn
13	139	Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo	11 August 1997	Drawn
14	148	Sri Lanka	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	4 December 1997	Drawn
15	155*	Australia	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	9 March 1998	Won
16	177	Australia	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	26 March 1998	Lost
17	113	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington	29 December 1998	Lost
18	136	Pakistan	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	31 January 1999	Lost
19	124*	Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo	28 February 1999	Drawn
20	126*	New Zealand	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali	13 October 1999	Drawn
21	217	New Zealand	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	30 October 1999	Drawn
22	116	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	28 December 1999	Lost
23	122	Zimbabwe	Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi	21 November 2000	Won
24	201*	Zimbabwe	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	26 November 2000	Drawn
25	126	Australia	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	20 March 2001	Won
26	155	South Africa	Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein	3 November 2001	Lost
27	103	England	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	13 December 2001	Drawn
28	176	Zimbabwe	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	24 February 2002	Won
29	117	West Indies	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain	20 April 2002	Won
30	193	England	Headingley, Leeds	23 August 2002	Won
31	176	West Indies	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	3 November 2002	Drawn
32	241*	Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	4 January 2004	Drawn
33	194*	Pakistan	Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan	29 March 2004	Won
34	248*	Bangladesh	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	12 December 2004	Won
35	109	Sri Lanka	Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi	22 December 2005	Won
36	101	Bangladesh	Bir Shrestha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium, Chittagong	19 May 2007	Drawn
37	122*	Bangladesh	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	26 May 2007	Won
38	154*	Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	4 January 2008	Lost
39	153	Australia	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	25 January 2008	Drawn
40	109	Australia	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur	6 November 2008	Won
41	103*	England	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	15 December 2008	Won
42	160	New Zealand	Seddon Park, Hamilton	20 March 2009	Won
43	100*	Sri Lanka	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	20 November 2009	Drawn
44	105*	Bangladesh	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	18 January 2010	Won
45	143	Bangladesh	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	25 January 2010	Won
46	100	South Africa	Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur	9 February 2010	Lost
47	106	South Africa	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	15 February 2010	Won
48	203	Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo	28 July 2010	Drawn
49	214	Australia	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	11 October 2010	Won
50	111*	South Africa	SuperSport Park, Centurion	19 December 2010	Lost
51	146	South Africa	Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town	4 January 2011	Drawn

This is the list of all International Test Centuries scored by Sachin Tendulkar in his career

List of All ODI Centuries (49) of Sachin Tendulkar

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No.	Score	Against	Venue	Date	Result
1	110	Australia	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	9 September, 1994	Won
2	115	New Zealand	IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Vadodara	28 October, 1994	Won
3	105	West Indies	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur	11 November, 1994	Won
4	112*	Sri Lanka	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	9 April, 1995	Won
5	127*	Kenya	Barabati Stadium, Cuttack	18 February, 1996	Won
6	137	Sri Lanka	Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi	2 March, 1996	Lost
7	100	Pakistan	Padang, Singapore	5 April, 1996	Lost
8	118	Pakistan	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	15 April, 1996	Won
9	110	Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	28 August, 1996	Lost
10	114	South Africa	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	14 December, 1996	Won
11	104	Zimbabwe	Willowmoore Park, Benoni	9 February, 1997	Won
12	117	New Zealand	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	14 May, 1997	Won
13	100	Australia	Green Park Stadium, Kanpur	7 April, 1998	Won
14	143	Australia	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	22 April, 1998	Lost
15	134	Australia	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	24 April, 1998	Won
16	100*	Kenya	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	31 May, 1998	Won
17	128	Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	7 July, 1998	Won
18	127*	Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo	26 September, 1998	Won
19	141	Australia	Bangabandhu Stadium, Dhaka	28 October, 1998	Won
20	118*	Zimbabwe	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	8 November, 1998	Won
21	124*	Zimbabwe	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	13 November, 199	Won
22	140*	Kenya	County Ground, Bristol	23 May, 1999	Won
23	120?	Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo	29 August, 1999	Won
24	186*	New Zealand	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad	8 November, 1999	Won
25	122	South Africa	IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Vadodara	17 March, 2000	Won
26	101	Sri Lanka	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	20 October, 2000	Lost
27	146	Zimbabwe	Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur	8 December, 2000	Lost
28	139	Australia	Nehru Stadium, Indore	31 March, 2001	Won
29	122*	West Indies	Harare Sports Club, Harare	4 July, 2001	Won
30	101	South Africa	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	5 October, 2001	Lost
31	146	Kenya	Boland Park, Paarl	24 October, 2001	Won
32	105*	England	Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	4 July, 2002	N/R
33	113	Sri Lanka	County Ground, Bristol	11 July, 2002	Won
34	152	Namibia	City Oval, Pietermaritzburg	23 February, 2003	Won
35	100	Australia	Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior	26 October, 2003	Won
36	102	New Zealand	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad	15 November, 2003	Won
37	141	Pakistan	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi	16 March, 2004	Lost
38	123	Pakistan	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	12 April, 2005	Lost
39	100	Pakistan	Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar	6 February, 2006	Lost
40	141*	West Indies	Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur	14 September, 2006	Lost
41	100*	West Indies	IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Vadodara	31 January, 2007	Won
42	117*	Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	2 March, 2008	Won
43	163*	New Zealand	AMI Stadium, Christchurch	8 March, 2009	Won
44	138	Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	14 September, 2009	Won
45	175	Australia	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad	5 November, 2009	Lost
46	200*	South Africa	Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior	24 February, 2010	Won
47	120	England	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	27 February 2011	Tie
48	110	South Africa	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur	12 March 2011	Lost
49	114	Bangladesh	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	16 March 2012	Lost

This is the complete list of One Day International Centuries scored by Sachin Tendulkar in his career.

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Tutorial Guide : All about Wikipedia

Since its launch in 2001, the global army of passionate and dedicated Wikipedians have created close to 3 million articles on the English version of Wikipedia encyclopedia alone. Britannica Encyclopedia has about about half a million topics only though it has been around since 1768.

 

Some Frequently asked Questions about Wikipedia

Q: I am completely new to Wikipedia and wikis in general. How do I get started?

A: Wikipedia has a detailed tutorial on everything you need to get going with the Wikipedia Encyclopedia. Another useful resource is the online version of Wikipedia’s Missing Manual– it’s free and has all the information you need to master Wikipedia.

Q: I know Word and some basic HTML tags but find the Wiki syntax complex and confusing. Do you know of any Wikipedia editing tools?

A: You can write a document inside Microsoft Word and this extension will convert that Word Document into a markup that Wikipedia can understand. Alternatively, you can use any HTML editor – like Dreamweaver or Live Writer – and then convert your HTML tags into Wiki markup using this tool.

The next option is wikEd with Greasemonkey – it turns your web browser into a WYSIWYG editor for Wikipedia and you’ll also be able to import rich text from Word Documents and web pages.

Q: How do I get the Wikipedia community to write a page about me?

A: Unless you are notable or "worthy of notice", it’s highly unlikely that your biography will make it to the Wikipedia website.

There’s however a workaround. You can create an account at Wikipedia – this will get you a special user page on Wikipedia where you are free to write about your own self. You can also upload images, include contact information or add external links to your Wikipedia profile page as in this example.

Q: Do you know exactly how many people are contributing to Wikipedia?

A: There are over 9 million registered Wikipedians or people who write and edit articles on Wikipedia. But you’ll be equally surprised to know that around 75% of all the edits are done by just 2% of people. The remaining 25% of edits are from people who make minor contributions like spelling fixes, etc. Here’s a full list of most active users who have made the maximum contributions to Wikipedia.

Q: The article I was looking for has been deleted by the Wikipedia community. How do I retrieve it now?

A: If a page has been deleted from Wikipedia, you can find a copy of the article on Deletionpedia – it’s an archive of deleted Wikipedia pages. They track the Wikipedia’s deletion log and grab pages as soon as they removed from Wikipedia. 

Q: How do perform ego-surfing on Wikipedia? I want to know about all Wikipedia pages that link to my blog / website.

A: Open the Link Search tool on Wikipedia and type the address of your website. Always use a wildcard before the domain name to take care of both www and non-www links. For instance, a query like *.xyz.com will show all Wikipedia articles that link to the xyz.com site.

Alternatively, you may use the linkdomain: search operator on Yahoo (see: Search Features in Yahoo!)

Q: I am an Internet Marketer and need to do some SEO related keyword research on certain Wikipedia pages. How to get started?

A: To know the daily page views of any Wikipedia article, start with stats.grok.se. If you are curious to learn about trends or topics that are currently popular on Wikipedia, tryWikirank. Another service that analyzes Wikipedia server logs at frequent intervals isWikiStics.

Wiki Checker is a slightly different statistics tool that shows the exact date when a particular page on Wikipedia was first created, how many people are involved in editing that page, and best of all, you get know what other pages are being edited by users who frequently edit that page.

Q: How can I read Wikipedia on a mobile phone?

A: The mobile version of Wikipedia is available at mobile.wikipedia.org but you can also use Wikipedia on a cell phone via email. Just send a message to ask@snapask.com with the topic name (e.g. wiki Mickey Mouse) in the subject line and you’ll get the relevant Wikipedia page via email. Another service is Web in Mail though it would require you to specify the full URL of the Wikipedia page before fetching it.

Q: How do I print Wikipedia pages?

A: While all Wikipedia articles do have a print-ready version, these pages carry lot of extra information like images, reference URLs, etc. that aren’t really useful on paper. 

If you are looking to print multiple pages from Wikipedia, start here. You can download the finished book as a PDF (ready to print) or it can be ordered as a bound physical book.

Q: I need access to Wikipedia on my iPhone even in areas where the network is absent.

A: If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, get Wiki2Touch or Encyclopedia – these are offline Wikipedia readers that will provide you access to Wikipedia content everywhere – even in an airplane.

Q: How can I add information from Wikipedia articles to my Google search pages?

A: Googlepedia and WebMynd are two useful Firefox extensions that add snippets from Wikipedia articles that seem to match your Google query.

Q: While the built-in Wikipedia search works great if I know the topic name, are there any other "more efficient" Wikipedia search engines?

A: You should try PowerSet from Microsoft – it’s a Wikipedia specific search engine that will not only help you find all Wikipedia articles relevant to your search query but it also provides a summary of these articles for quick reading. You may want to add PowerSet to your browser’s search box – it’s that useful.

Q: I am a content publisher and looking for other Wikipedia articles that could be related to my niche.

A: Go to Simipedia and type the URL of your website or copy-paste some relevant text into the search box. The tool will help you find relevant English Wikipedia articles that have similar content to a blog, news article, or an entire web page.

Q: I am looking for some free images for my website. Can I use images from Wikipedia on my website without worrying about copyright?

A: It depends. Every image (or media) available on Wikipedia has an associated copyright tag which indicates the license of that file. If the image is not in Public Domain but under a Creative Commons license, you need to attribute the creator even if the image is on Wikipedia. This page has more information on reusing content outside Wikipedia.

Q: How can I download the whole of Wikipedia and use it on an offline computer?

A: Yes, you can download an HTML dump of the entire Wikipedia Website for use elsewhere but the problem is that these dumps aren’t updated frequently and each can be a few gigs in size so don’t think about it if you are on a slow internet connection. A better option would be to download Wikipedia  as an XML file – they are updated nightly and you can use a software like WikiTaxi to turn these XMLs into human readable web pages that you may also read offline.

Q: Can I buy Wikipedia on a DVD just like Microsoft Encarta or Britannica?

A: It’s not official but a children’s charity group in UK has created a Wikipedia DVD with some 5,500+ Wikipedia articles designed for use by school children. You can download the school Wikipedia DVD via BitTorrent or the contents may be accessed online at schools-wikipedia.org.

Q: I have a website and like to integrate Wikipedia articles into my web pages. What are the available options?

A: Get Apture. If you link to a Wikipedia article, your readers will be able to see the Wikipedia entry in a neat pop-up without having to leaving your site.

Q: We have a local MediaWiki installation in our company for internal use. Is is possible to import certain pages from Wikipedia into our own wiki?

A: Go here and list down all the Wikipedia pages that you want to copy into your own wiki. The tool will create an XML file will the full text and history of the requested pages that you may import into your MediaWiki.

Q: Can I subscribe to Wikipedia pages via RSS feeds?

A: Every article on Wikipedia has an RSS feed but you need to take an extra step for subscribing to these feeds. Click the "History" tab on any Wikipedia page and you’ll find RSS icons in the left toolbox. 

Q: Our Government has blocked Wikipedia across the country. Any workarounds?

A: Wikipedia is routinely blocked in countries like China, Iran, Syria, etc. Please read this guide on how to access blocked sites for reading Wikipedia through alternate routes.

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All About Pinterest [infographic]

Over the course of the past few months, what was once a colorful haven for Midwestern mothers and Mormons is now an even more colorful haven for even more pin-tastic peeps. The growth has been staggering, even in what many would call an overly social era. But surrounded by Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc., Pinterest has really made a name for itself.

And while many are scurrying to set up their pinboards for FOMO‘s sake, we in the tech world are curious as to what’s going on behind the scenes. What’s the growth rate? What does the demographic data look like? Referral traffic? Marketing? How does Pinterest really stack up against the big guys?

The questions never end, mainly because Pinterest kind of came out of left field and threw the entire model on its head. It’s not for women, but it is mainly women. It’s not overbearing in terms of rules or policies (at least not more so than its competitors), but still seems to be a very “white-bread”, nice place to be compared to the deep black hole of nasty awfulness that is the Internet. The epicenter of its popularity is in the Midwest — that’s not to say that Midwesterners aren’t tech savvy, but they’re usually not the early adopters of anything.

It’s this big question mark, Pinterest, and we all want to better understand it, especially considering that the network is still building itself out. Just recently, Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann teased an iPad app and revamped profile pages at SXSW this week.

Luckily, the folks over at Internet Marketing Inc. took all the data we have on Pinterest, like that comScore study and the Shareaholic referral traffic study, and whipped up a comprehensive guide to “The Power of Pinterest”.

These are the tidbits I found most interesting:

• The number of Pinterest users to visit the site daily has gone up 145 percent since the beginning of 2012
• Pinterest content is very different in the UK, and more centered around venture capital, blogging resources, web analytics and the like
• Over 80 percent of pins are actually re-pins rather than brand new content
• Pinterest user growth is better than that of Facebook and Twitter at the same point in their history
• As expected, 80 percent of Pinterest’s user base is female
• Brands are having a helluva time leveraging Pinterest — Better Homes & Gardens has 25,000+ followers on Pinterest, compared to 21,000 on Twitter

Check out the full infographic below*:

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