Boopathy's Scribbling

Mixture 1

2009-10-02T21:14:00.004+05:30

Just thought, so started again.. a mixture of some things i wanna tell...

->ARR music for Vince Vaughn hollywood film - Couples Retreat.. Hope it goes well too.. http://www.musicaloud.com/2009/09/25/couples-retreat-music-review/
->ARR music for Blue - good music, slow poison .. i guess the movie should be a usual high budget Hindi crap.. http://www.musicaloud.com/2009/09/10/blue-music-review/
->ARR music for The Passage - in torrent now, will hear today.. review says good..
http://www.musicaloud.com/2009/09/16/passage-music-review/
->Unnai Pol oruvan, i liked almost all the songs as the film..

->Playing Batman Arkhum Asylum, its very tempting.. but struggling with the piracy bug they put in it.

->Started using Trillian, i am using it for having gmail, yahoo, twitter and facebook at the same time.. i feel it good.. http://www.trillian.im/
->I am in twitter, http://twitter.com/boo3dmax ,following some 13 with 8 followers.. its different, and it good to see wat johnmayer is doing right now, though its none of my business..
->This one is really good if you had organized music and want to see the lyrics instantly from internet without any pain.. i like this very much for my itunes.. http://www.crintsoft.com/minilyrics.htm
->Again started using some tools - movie label2010, password memory2009, personal finance pro.. all are in torrent and helpful for me..

this might seem like a hurry post.. it isn't, its something like going to office/exam hall at the last moment.. wow i posted finally.. congrats boo!!

An Indian to the land of Native Indians..

2009-01-11T12:56:00.011+05:30

Even a poor old beggar lady begs in fluent English!!
All the electricians are dumb, keeping the switches inverted!!
The traffic police are dumb enough to come in wrong direction!!
Seems a big backup generator always is running: matchboxes are meant for only smoking, candles are meant for praying only..
Noise pollution can only be done by blasting hip-hop music and not by horn in your car!!
A taxi ride just costs you buying a bike and ride it!
Two way flight charges are cheaper than one way!!
YES, am in the land of native Indians.. AMERICA..

I have been here nearly 3.5 months. This whole period passed as fast as my flight which am travelling now, from Sanfransisco to Denver, and to St.Louis by a connecting flight… Got 2 ½ hours, my IBM lappy and a strawberry juice from south west airlines, to start my first blog about my trip. So here it goes…

Where to start? okay from the beginning, coz i understand memto only after multiple tries.. Got short term onsite assignment.. Any living thing having VISA can go US and get their jobs.. Got flight to St.Louis – Bangalore to Paris, Paris to Atlanta, Atlanta to St.Louis. Spent some 2 hours in Paris roaming here and there in airport finally figuring out that Paris uses Euro and its conversion rate. Arrived Atlanta and got the I-91 attached to my visa. So became an NRI, in perfect words, a essential and basic qualification to become a bridegroom to these days girls.. Getting a American return bridegroom has become a fashion these days.. okay keep aside tat stupidity..

Now to St.Louis, figured out easily the missisipi river by seeing the big river near the st.louis when landing.. Finally got my baggage after 15 minutes and easily became the entertainer of the airport, struggling to pull those two baggage. My friends are kind enough to give me their address and giving me a great idea that I can get a taxi..

My big deal was to get the baggage to the taxi stand.. somehow figured out and got a taxi, which is far more good than the personal cars.. I saw in Chicago, taxi drivers havin laptop in taxi and streaming you tube songs connected to the car audio! First taxi driver having and using laptop! Second connecting to internet and steaming audio!! But the drivers in st.louis is not tat developed as the area.. but did a cruise in the highway, somewhere about 100 mph.. and did all the interesting feats, swearing words I saw in films.. here am in America, place where I am Me, I do wat I like to do…

So now in St.Louis, Missouri. It’s the gateway for west, it’s the land which had Jesse James (if you have seen – Assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford), it’s the land of Nelly & Chuck Berry.. route 66 passes through it.. it’s the US second crime city.. That’s it nothing more..

This is the Scrap which I wrote when I was in US, will add more abt my travelling in upcoming posts..

2009 TODOs

2009-01-04T20:04:00.002+05:30

Okay, Don’t know if anybody got affected or going to be affected, I AM BACK - may be the most common word used by most scribblers like me. So I AM BACK..

March 2008, I did my last post.. so I don’t want to tell reasons coz its always usual.. 2008 was an incredible year in my life, yes for the first time I was called NRI for few months… from may to aug 2008, lots of pain to get that name.. and lots of enjoyment in that short duration.. Back to India; Back to Singaara Chennai on September.. I got to love it; so I guess I love it.. Back to stay with parents.. again the same struggle with BSNL Broadband.. and few weeks before got internet.. so guess it is clearly stated though not proved that “I was busy from March till now”..

Okay its now 2009, as usual I stayed in home, tuning some TV channels at 00:00 2009 for the wishes.. as usual the same orchestra programs in all channels; I used to surprise about orchestra groups, they survive because people instead of hearing the original song, like to see them trying to reproduce the original song.. Fine, so this New Year went fine.. As everyone tells and few of them executes, here is my resolution plan or 2009 TODOs.

It just took me few minutes to list these, may be becoz I am good at identifying the faults in everybody (as everybody includes me) or may be becoz I am more faulty..

I believe taking a resolution like “I will be kind to others; I will not get angry; I will not cheat others; I will be perfect” is good just to list down but not to execute.. it is simply like I will not lie in my life or I believe Ajith’s next film will be good or Vijay’s next film won’t have rowdies; I mean to say impractical; So I decided to put small actions that is really possible by me.. Guess the intro is big enough..

First one. “try perfection like arrange things” – more generic; I am not going to save any file in my desktop; only the scraps. I am going to save the files in proper folder.. this TODO isn’t new, but its new for me.

Second one. “try to update blog regularly”; update blog weekly, so do it in the week ending for sure. Donno how good this is for u.. okay, any have the TODOs are for me..

Third one. “sleep soon; wake early”; stick to sleep before 11:00 PM and not after 7:00 AM, trust me, haven’t seen two consecutive 7:00 AMs in the past 3yrs..

Fourth one. “try to complete things tat time itself; don’t postpone” – no one can really do that, So maintain a todo list in the desktop and prioritize things.

That’s it I guess, there are lots that can be told, but i believe the above four though small will make some significance difference, first and third makes my job easier in office and home; especially with computers, second should make my friends circle healthy, third should make myself and my parents circle healthy.. Guess its overdose of words for a resolution.. have a draft post written in flight somewhere during my roaming in US, will continue about that.. only thing that I got now to write, boast and celebrate – My US Trip.. will be back with that, bfn..

Template Change

2008-03-05T09:35:00.005+05:30

I always like changes and especially in designing.. So altered the blog template, to avoid not to be too much blue-ish.. Hope you like it.. Also did a small scripting to show the front image randomly.. These are the altered/designed images that you will see randomly...

Finding ME with GPS

2008-03-04T09:22:00.001+05:30

Finding Me – Not psychologically but geographically.. Yes with the help of GPS receiver that I installed in my PSP. A short description on this product.

I always like to use my PSP for some other purposes, other than gaming. Found out that it can be used as navigation device. As it has display, a small GPS receiver and software with maps loaded in the memory, helps to see the maps and track where we are and where we are heading.
I ordered this device – GPS Receiver official from Sony and hence cost little more, but very reliable. I saw some other cheap GPS receivers for PSP, but they required extra wires, which need be genuine, it seems. Also I realized from some forums, about the compatibly issues with other receivers. So finally decide for sony product which doesn’t need wires. I ordered from Play Asia, Hong Kong in this link.

It got shipped within few days by postal, as if you wish to track it by DHL or BlueDart, you can but paying price more than the product. It is relatively small compared to the device and it mounts on the top of the PSP perfectly. That’s it, its installed.

Now the Software for using this: You need two software, PSP mapping software and software for your PC to download maps. There are plenty of softwares for your version of PSP, luckily the software I downloaded first, worked for me. FYI my PSP firmware is 3.51 m33-6. I am using MapThis! Software in PSP for GPS Navigation and using GMDL0.5.04b software for downloading necessary maps (from Google Maps, Microsoft live maps, etc etc)

The Map This! Wiki Guide: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Map_This

The GMDL Guide: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=60230

I downloaded the maps of south India and Bangalore covering my location and put it in my PSP. Then turned on my PSP, and opened Map This!, turned on my PSP. I couldn’t get any satellite if I sit inside my house. But I am able to get up to 13 satellites at the max when standing out. When I give some 3 minutes, I can get easily fixed to 4 satellites and able to get my position – longitude and latitude something like N 13` 04` 13` and E 77` 38` 17` . Now a tiny blue arrow shows my position, even if my map is somewhere, it centers it and shows my position.

So now I have the point where I am and If I move the point moves. The software just needs this, it calculates the speed, max speed, avg speed, distance travelled, trip time and different 3d views of map. I tried using it in my car, seems to be working, but couldn’t test it thoroughly as I was stuck in traffic that day. Will go home or somewhere with the map loaded just for testing this!! Here are some of the PSP screenshots of my location.

All about my PSP – Versatile portable

2008-02-26T23:59:00.007+05:30

I bought a secondhand PSP a month above to quince my thrust on Create Zen Vision W or to prevent myself from big expenses by getting Zen Vision. I see PSP (Play Station Portable) far cheaper and worthy comparing to any portable players if you are an active PC user, I mean you have to compromise the memory size by replacing files you want to play. Here is why I put my money on PSP.

Short description:

PSP is Play Station Portable by Sony Corporation launched in 2003. It is meant for portable gaming. It has separate drive called UMD drive, where you can only put UMD discs. So Sony PSP is meant to play game/software only from UMD disks. It will be the same if there are no hackers in the world and no users like me to utilize them. By doing a 1000 INR firmware update, the PSP is hacked. Now it is ready to play anything from its memory stick.

Features:

Now coming to features, PSP is versatile. It can play games, obviously. It can play videos (mpeg-4). It can play audio (mp3/wma). It can be used to view pictures. Nothing can beat its video quality and audio quality is also fine and its obvious as it is a Sony product. It is Wifi enabled. It can also read pdfs. It can read docs. It can be used as organizer. It can be navigating device…the list goes on, until the PSP software hacks halt.

Why all these features with such a low price of 8k INR? I heard that there are still people getting original UMD disk paying 1k INR for one game UMD disks are sole proprietary of Sony Corporation. Seem they get money in them.

Drawbacks: size and size.

Yes, memory size and device size. The PSP I am using is having a memory size of 1GB only. By far I have seen PSPs having memory 4GB at the max in common. But in my 1GB memory stick I can put two movies and one compressed game and some software as well. Won't that be enough for your journey? Yes it won't if you have uncompressed game which could be 1GB, but 4GB should be more than enough to put all.

If you are okay with this memory size then comes the player size.. it is definitively bulky, but bulky enough for good video display and to sit in lap for movies in long journey.

Small comparison:

Ipod nano, wins in player size and sucks in everything. Ipod classic wins in memory size and sucks in everything. Ipod video without its wide screen first sucks and I feel it would be difficult to hold it to see an entire movie, where PSP seems better. Zen Vision, which is around thrice the price of PSP has only the media features of PSP. No portable player has gaming, wifi, applications like pdf reader, gps navigation…

I watched Michael Clayton, Bee Movie and BeeGees live last during my last time journey. I played NFS Most Wanted from UMD disk in between each movie. I saw neither my watch nor the mile boards of my home town with a sleepy head.

Conclusion :

Only music – Ipod
Only Video – ZEN Vision
Only Game – PSP
Atleast any two of the above – PSP. Am for all the three… In the next post am gonna write abt the navigation feature of my PSP…

Online AOE Guide

2008-01-20T16:40:00.000+05:30

Again a game related post.. Thought of trying this long before.. Finaly into it, I would say more into it..for about a week..Playing Age Of Empires 2 and 3 and Asian Dynasty expansion online daily.. Got some friends from India and abroad too.. This is post is just a shot tutorial for playing Age of empires 2 and 3. Here it goes…

Things you need.

Of course Age Of Empires Game
Hamachi
AOE loader (only for AOE3)

AOE Games:

As far as I know there are two versions of AOE 2, having same version with both peers is mandatory for online play.

1. AOE 2 - Age of Kings (Red) : CD2.0
AOE 2 – Conquers expansion (Blue): CD1.0

2. AOE 2 - Age of Kings (Red) : CD2.0a
AOE 2 – Conquers expansion (Blue): CD1.0e

For AOE3, you have three editions: Age Of Empires 3 (Basic) and two Expansions: The Asian Dynasties and The War Chiefs. For AOE 3, it is always better to update whatever edition you are having through net. So make sure the editions and versions of the peers are same.

Hamachi:

Hamachi is a VPN internet application which makes one to connect to peers as if you are connecting in LAN. Just install it from here and power it on. You will be given an IP something like 192.168.xx.xx. Choose your own Nick name, and create your own network for your friends, or better join my network
Username : booaoe
Password : password

You can chat with your peer friends to setup all using hamachi.. That’s it, nothing else, if you want to play AOE 2

AOE3 Loader (Only for AOE3 users):

As AOE3 has problems in seeing the internal IP provided by hamachi, this small comes for rescue. Just download this loader from here. Run it and choose the hamachi IP like 192.168.xx.xx and start game and choose the game you want.

Now for AOE2 and AOE3 you are in the game, go to Multiplayer and LAN settings as if you are playing in LAN and host a game and wait for the peers to join or join the game of your peer and enjoy gaming.

Troubleshooting Tips:

Make sure all your peers are in sync with the editions and version you are playing. Make sure all peers have updated for AOE3.
You should be seeing the hamachi IP 192.168.xx.xx in the Peers joining screen. If you are some other IP, check if you have selected hamachi ip in aoe3 loader.
For AOE2, if you are not seeing hamachi IP, goto, control panel -> network connections. Select Advanced -> Advanced Settings menu. Make sure hamachi Connection is in ordered first above all other connections.
If you have problem in finding the game of the peer who has hosted, try to connect using IP of the peer instead of searching the game present in the network.
If you get CRC Version Mismatch error, try different Crack. I had the same problem for Asian Dynasties expansion, and I used this crack to solve it. Download it from this rapidshare link.

I would like to thank Quang, a Vietnam guy who helped me patiently for my first online gaming. And this 14yr old kiddo, Denis from Israel, who helped me for AOE3 setup. And he is a Photoshop geek too… the pic posted in this blog is done by him.. hats off to Denis.. Denis, I think its enough!!

So dudes, come lets play aoe2/3.. join my network :
usename : booaoe & password : password

All About Games

2007-12-25T12:13:00.001+05:30

So for all of the gamers , Q4 of 2007 made them busy. Yes busy in Crysis, Gears of War, War in Confilct, Command and Conquer, COD4 the list goes on.. Fine this should be rather an old post about the hot topic of Gamers in earth – The Crysis. I completed it a month ago I guess and the thing is luckily or efficiently I completed it without referring any walkthrough guide.

Why is it so? Crysis which has the promising graphics and game play has quite enough bugs too. But the game play is awesome but very short, you will have different environments which makes you feel you really miss the previous one. So if you are a gamer you must try this one. Gears of War, from Microsoft is a good one with its different 3^rd person shooter style, which only console users might have used, I guess. This one is different and good except the same environment and same stuffs again and again, I played only few levels. I am not sure how it will be in the next levels. COD4 is the also most spoken game, seems there is a good competition between Crysis and COD4, so downloading it now. Bioshock with amazing graphics and sound, but gameplay is not the way I expected, so I left it without continuing. The same goes to STALKER.

Recently I got this expansion pack from fleming, Age Of Empires - Asian Dynasties. With a great interest in seeing the things regarding india, I got it from him. Basically three cultures are covered in that – India, China and Japan. As all AOE has, this too has campaigns which tell the story with the game play associated with it. I was very interested to see the game play of India, but I have to finish China, Japan campaigns to unlock this one. It took some few hours to complete these at first started without cheat and finished with cheat codes. Now started the india campaign, the first plot starts with barakpur and then Punjab, seems the campaign is about Nana Sahib and at first he about to resist the Indian revolts L So in the starting campaigns Indian are enemies and after some levels Nana Sahib joins indian to protest agains English and I see no great in the game play too, as Indians start doing some revolt and I have to go and crush them. So started the skirmish mode, where me being Indian. You have maps of Himalayas, Central Deccan and Cyleone. The funny and interesting part is: The voice of Indians, all in HINDI; "Mein Aaa Rahaa hoon", "Makan banana vale", "Youth karne ke lea" ,"Sharir mar saktha hai, parathama amar hai". You get mostly elephant warriors and sultans and sipoys. Its really interesting to try this out, you have to install AOE3 first as this one is an addon.

Corporate Crude Jokes

2007-12-21T11:04:00.000+05:30

Well, am tired of telling reasons for long gap in post that am tired of writing posts. So..
In most of the team there will be at least one person who sparks these corporate jokes spontaneously, which other team members inevitably smiles (like me) or laughs (like him). Generally once he opens his mouth all will keep his mouth in smiling position.. that’s corporate culture yaar… Most of these jokes will always consists of these keywords : FTP (measurement of work), Day light savings (time setting changes), issues or Tickets, Onsite, night out, reimbursement or claiming etc..

Recently we had our lift having announcement system for blinds. So started corporate crude jokes.. Whenever I use the lift, I will hear some jokes on this, and the whole lift rocks, laughing! Some of those:

Once it announced, “You are in 1st floor and the time is 6:39”. One man as usual started cracking, “what? 39!!” LOL!! LOL!! Everyone in the lift, laughing… Hey its digital thing yaar, what different it is doing? Whats there in this, to laugh?

The announcement was something like the life is stopping now. no body understands the announcement, but a joke sparkled from one- “Hey.. the lift is falling down” everybody laughed, fine, okay.. now, he is adding more flavor – “ Common man run! Run!, the lift is falling down”. Very few including me in the lift, looked at him murmuring - shut the …

As usual it announced the same pattern and one guy started his ultimate creativity, “can’t this announce daylight savings?” wow!! wat a joke...k i understand you know these stuffs, but why the day light savings comes here? But still two other persons laughed for tat. So it’s a joke.

Well, whether the announcement system in lift is useful for blinds or not, its very useful for these joking jokers. Bye! for next post...

Crysis: Great expectation, Well served

2007-11-04T16:56:00.001+05:30

So back to Bangalore after my (pre) Diwali vacation. Since am not a kid to use crackers to disturb others, instead of using RDX, I decided to have my diwali vacation earlier and so bigger. But the only thing that made me worry is the Crysis Demo, which got postponed a month before to the exact date when my vacation begins. So the first thing I did after my vacation is the download of the 1.8GB download of the Crysis demo. Tried some of the mirrors and found this one having very huge bandwidth, I downloaded it from my office @ 320KBps! NVIDIA link

Completed the demo two times. The great expectation on this game is well served. There is no game to beat its graphics and gameplay. I am having the following rig: Intel core2 E6600 @ 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 7600GT. The game is fine to play in 1280 X 1024 with medium settings and no antialliasing. I don't like to compromise resolution to quality, so only tried in 1280 X 1024 resolution. With my 7600 GT card I am even able to see things in high settings while very high setting is disabled. But it is very hard to play the game in such setting.

As everyone says the graphics is simply superb, you see an high quality movie being rendered in front of you depending on your movements! Apart from graphics the gameplay is outstanding. You can complete a mission in your own creative way. I completed the demo first using the vehicle and in land, then the same demo using boat the next time. It has all farcry features plus plenty of creative things to enjoy. One can shoot the trees and make it fall down to see the enemies hiding behind the trees. You can use object to throw on them and you can shoot at the tires of vehicles to make it immovable. Likewise when you are in a vehicle you can be in different positions and there is display showing the damaged parts of the vehicle, simply superb! Apart from these, you can switch to different modes and attach special features to your weapons. There won't be any game to make you creative and enjoyable like this.

So as the world does, I am dying for the game's release on Nov 15^th.

ATM – ARR makes it for both CLASS and MASS

2007-10-25T11:25:00.001+05:30

Thanks to ARR, there won't be any perfect kutthu song with amateurish lyrics in a Vijay's film soundtrack. I feel ARR is now capable of giving music depending on the hype the films has about, for example, sillunu oru kadhal needs more soothing songs than a grand gala songs as required for sivaji. And here comes a tough situation in music for Vijay, for whom the film only rolls behind him from starting to ending, with some loud jarring songs. ARR handles this very cleverly and has given songs satisfying Vijay fans and ARR fans. The album has six songs, most of them in contra to ARR music, appeals one, in the first listen itself.

Ellaappugazhum – This is the song which most of the music lover hear first in the album, reason: the singer– starting from Humma Humma to Adiradi, you can't tell whether ARR voice or music makes them best. But I think for this one I can tell ARR voice from ARR fan prespective or Lyrics from Vijay fan perspective. The music is not that great as you see in any songs sung by ARR. But repetitive hearing will make this one to be good, I don't like a small bit in the last, not sure if this is because the lyrics is very simple. But overall this song will be the anthem for Vijay fans and ARR deserves the credit.

Order : 3/6. My iTunes Rating: 4 Stars.

Ponmagal Vandaal – Just amazing as I was with "thottal poomalarum" in New. This one proves ARR's versatile music talent. Simply superb the way the old song handled, This song will prove, remix is not just having a eurodance music playing in the background and singing the same old song with some abstract lend raps inserted in between.

Order : 1/6. My iTunes Rating: 5 Stars.

Nee Marilyn Monroe – The pick of the album, the whole song is very catchy, especially the first 2 minutes of the 6 minutes song is simply superb. The lyrics makes it more stylish. Thank God Vaali didn't pen for this song. Na.Muthukumar has done his job well. This song is more western kinda with good tune as Smaiye songs in Kandukonden kandukonden. Only Rahman can create these scores.

Order : 2/6. My iTunes Rating: 5 Stars.

Valayapatti – This one is okay at first listening and its appealing increases as you hear more. This one is very catchy and Naresh has to thank ARR for this. Though seems to be a classic mix, it is appealing with some good interludes and when Naresh comes with a bang.

Order : 5/6. My iTunes Rating: 4 Stars.

Kelamal Kaiyile - This is also a slow poison, The center I mean the anupallavi is simply superb. My iTunes got 4 rating even at the first listen itself. It different to have a beat for a melody but its techno mix is seems good. Though it starts with ordinary tunes and pace, the center portion reserves best. The voices are also suitable for this. The only melody in the album is good and rahmanic.

Order : 4/6. My iTunes Rating: 4 Stars.

Maduraikku Pogathadee – Old folkish song, which resembles to illayaraja tune but it is mixed with various tunes and the flow goes on to make it good. The first start tune is good to hear and will be appealing to all mass. ARR comes with this for B and C grade I guess.

Order : 6/6. My iTunes Rating: 3 Stars.

All these ratings and reviews are after hearing the album, just 15 to 20 times. As a typical ARR album this will slowing grow in you. As my topic tells, ARR managed to give numbers balancing CLASS and MASS. I won't explicitly tell CLASS as ARR fans and MASS as Vijay fans. So ARR rocks with ATM, looking forward for his next project.

2007 Nobel Prizes

2007-10-20T11:43:00.001+05:30

Thanks to Ravi, who gave me hint about Physics Nobel price, I am writing this post. I don't closely watch current news and trends and because of that I am not aware of Nobel price distributions for 2007 a week before. And I decided to get some info about the Nobel prices this time. As usual Wikipedia gives some info about its Swedish origin and controversies and some interesting things like Gandhi was nominated for 5 times and when he was about to give Nobel price, he was assassinated.Now back to 2007 Nobel award, I am just putting the extracts from the Nobel prize site, the parts which I understand (at least partially)..

Medicine - Making Model Mice

"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"

The elevation of the humble mouse to become many scientists' experimental animal of choice has been one of the scientific phenomena of the last two decades. Today, genetically-altered mice are an essential component of the experimental toolkit, with thousands of varieties contributing to research in laboratories around the world. Their existence stems from discoveries made in the 1980's by this year's Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine.

Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies were both seeking ways of specifically altering the mammalian genome, Capecchi with a view to inserting new genes into cells and Smithies in the hope of correcting genetic defects that lead to disease. Working against a background of skepticism, they independently discovered that they could use a natural mechanism, revealed decades before by Joshua Lederberg in bacteria, to introduce short sequences of manipulated DNA into the chromosomes of mammalian cells growing in the laboratory. The technique allowed them to target individual genes with exquisite precision, producing the genetic alterations they sought, but only at the cellular level. Happily, the embryonic stem cell cultures that Martin Evans was then developing provided the necessary vehicle for taking such gene manipulations from the Petri dish into the whole animal. Combining the two, by modifying genes in embryonic stem cells and then injecting those cells into fertilized mouse eggs, made it possible to rear mice with discrete genetic modifications that would be inherited between generations. The so-called 'Knock-out mouse' was born.

Knock-out (and knock-in) mice, the workhorses of many a laboratory today, allow researchers to study the effects of removing (or inserting) a single gene. Genetically-modified mice have therefore frequently helped to reveal a gene's function and, since mice and humans share a remarkable genetic similarity, they also serve as models of many human diseases.

Physics – Gaint Magnetoresistance

"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"

Lying at the heart of the computer which you are using to read this article is a memory retrieval system based on the discoveries for which the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. They discovered, quite independently, a new way of using magnetism to control the flow of electrical current through sandwiches of metals built at the nanotechnology scale.

150 years ago, William Thomson observed very small changes in the electrical properties of metals when they were placed in a magnetic field, a phenomenon he named 'Magnetoresistance'. In due course, his finding found application, magnetically-induced current fluctuations becoming the underlying principle for reading computer memories. Then, in 1988, Fert and Grünberg, working with specially-constructed stacks made from alternating layers of very thinly-spread iron and chromium, unexpectedly discovered that they could use magnetic fields to evoke much greater increases in electrical resistance than Thomson, or anyone since, had observed. Recognizing the novelty of the effect, Fert named it 'Giant magnetoresistance', and it was only a few years before the improvements, and the miniaturization, it offered led to its adoption in favour of classical magnetoresistance.

Giant magnetoresistance is essentially a quantum mechanical effect depending on the property of electron spin. Using an applied magnetic field to cause the electrons belonging to atoms in alternate metal layers to adopt opposite spins results in a reduction in the passage of electric current, in a similar fashion to the way that crossed polarizing filters block the passage of sunlight. When, however, magnetic fields are used to align the electron spins in different layers, current passes more easily, just as light passes through polarizers aligned in the same direction.

The application of this discovery has been rapid and wide-ranging, dramatically improving information storage capacity in many devices, from computers to car brakes. And while quietly pervading the technology behind our daily lives, the principles of giant magnetoresistance are now being used to tackle problems in wider fields, for instance in the selective separation of genetic material.

Chemistry - Exploring Chemistry at the Frontier

"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"

Like a successful dinner party, productive chemical reactions depend upon getting the right components to mingle in the right surroundings, and often the best environment for chemistry turns out to be a solid surface. From the cleaning of exhaust fumes in factory chimneys to the reduction of ozone on the outside of ice crystals in the clouds, surface chemistry surrounds us constantly. Developing ways to better understand the detailed dynamics of chemistry at these interfaces has been Gerhard Ertl's life work.

Studying surface chemistry is a painstaking process, requiring intricate preparation of samples and great precision in visualizing the reactive species that are undergoing chemical reactions in regions just a few atoms deep. The challenges Ertl set himself were bold, for instance to understand the Haber-Bosch process, a reaction of huge industrial importance that has been used since the first world war without anyone knowing precisely how it worked. This process generates ammonia, primarily needed for agriculture, from its constituent elements, hydrogen and nitrogen, on the surface of an iron catalyst. Using an astonishing variety of techniques, Ertl was able to piece together the step-by-step interplay between the hydrogen and nitrogen atoms bound to the face of the iron particles during the reaction, solving a sixty-year old mystery.

Another of Ertl's longstanding areas of interest, and one where his investigations have also revealed previously unknown phenomena, is the conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide on platinum catalysts, one of the reactions performed by catalytic converters in cars. A hallmark of Ertl's approach has been his willingness to return to the same research questions whenever technology became available that opened new avenues for investigating an old problem in a fresh way. This intense focus on particular problems, combined with his patient approach to solving them, hold part of the key to his success in exposing events at chemistry's hidden face.

Peace - The Risk of Climate Change

"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"

For the third successive year, but for only the sixth time since it was initiated in 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been divided equally between an institution and an individual. In awarding the Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body responsible for scientific assessment of climate change, and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore, the phenomenon's most renowned campaigner, the Norwegian Nobel Committee are highlighting the link they see between the risk of accelerating climate change and the risk of violent conflict and wars.

The IPCC was established by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide policymakers with neutral summaries of the latest information related to human-induced (or anthropogenic) climate change. Run from offices in Geneva, but open to any of the nearly 200 member states belonging to the UN or WMO, the IPCC functions through its working groups. There are currently 3 working groups, focusing on the science, impact and mitigation of climate change, and one task force charged with developing greenhouse gas inventories. The findings of the IPCC are presented as 'Assessment reports', synthesizing the views of the working groups, which are produced approximately every 5 years. The fourth and next report is due at the end of 2007.

The working groups have already published their individual contributions to the forthcoming fourth report. A quote from the Science Working Group's report states "Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations". A quote from Working Group II, which looks at impact, states "Much more evidence has accumulated over the past five years to indicate that changes in many physical and biological systems are linked to anthropogenic warming". They go on to say that "Unmitigated climate change would, in the long term, be likely to exceed the capacity of natural, managed and human systems to adapt".

Al Gore is the leading public advocate of the need to take immediate action to reduce anthropogenic climate change. His campaigning takes many forms, including the Academy Award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth and a book of the same name. He is also the founder and Chairman of the Alliance for Climate Change, an organization dedicated to persuading people of the urgency of responding to what it calls the 'climate crisis'.

I haven't included info about Literature and Economics, which I am not interested and really don't understand. The above search leads to discovery of Ig Nobel Prize and a fantastic documentary – 'An Inconvenient Truth' which I will put in upcoming posts…

Post from Office 2007

2007-10-19T10:42:00.001+05:30

I was about to write post, so opened Office 2007 and when I clicked new, I wondered seeing it having 'New Blog Post'. So trying that now. It asks for username and password by providing the famous blog sites, obviously Blogger is one of them. So picked it and gave username and password and it asks for Image Server. As I am not about to upload photo in this post I skipped and got this nice page in office 2007. Lets see how this works.

This has things like Publish (obviously) and 'publish as draft' too. The 'Manage Accounts' option is for switching between your blogs. Cool! If it works… lets see…Will continue using Office 2007 if this works…

Edit: It works absolutely fine, but i believe i can't put labels for post from World.. But this feature of MS Word 2007 is really Cool...

Vista -> XP Downgrade

2007-10-18T13:24:00.000+05:30

Hi, Its been a long time to be here, believe me i was some what busy in CODING, really office work... Fine so many things happened in between this gap.. One of them i spent my night formating my PC and installing XP and Vista successively during my VO (Virtual Office). This is because i felt my PC to be bit slow and wanted to use Vista extensively (not only becoz of its features and awesome graphics but also i got a solid good crack). But after an extensive use of Vista for 4 or 5 days, i decided to be apart from that. Here are some of the problems which my PC and i faced in Vista (though some of them i did already which i installed the day the torrents had fresh vista).

I am having Pinnacle TV Tuner card, which is not at all detected by Vista, even with the vista driver i am able to make it unrecognizable and even listed channels in Vista Media Center. But when i tried to see the video it will show you the perfect 'Checking for Solutions' screen giving some error. Pinnacle software is far more worse. But i wonder about this as i was able to make the card work when i installed Vista the previous time.
I am having Asus P5B motherboard with inbuilt sound card of 7.1 channel, but again this one has problem in Vista. Though this card is recognizable, the 4.1 speaker of mine is only able to play sound in two speakers. I tried all the combinations settings like 4.1, 5.1 and 7.1 channel with and without sub woofer. Only few produce sound but only in my front two speakers.
If you are iTunes user, then i feel Vista will give you pain sometimes. I had this problem thrice, When you open iTunes, sometimes it will keep on loading the library and results in hanging and after the restart you will see the iTunes having a blank library. All your rating and playlists are gone!!
And at last a big tragedy happened, i did almost all the updates for Vista including Ultimate Extras... After that to my surprise, my Benq DVD writer driver is not at all accessable, its driver is gone into flames!! I am not all able to read anything from my dvd.. That really tested my patience for working in Vista.

Due to these problems i decided to switch back to XP. Luckily i had installed XP along with Vista only for playing games as anyone knows playing heavy games in Vista is foolish having XP with you. So installed everything back in XP from Azureus to iTunes and now using XP and keeping Vista idle in my second drive. So at least for anyone having Pinncle Tv Tuner, Benq dvd writer, Asus Mobo with 4.1 speaker XP is the tension free zone.

Return of Simbu

2007-10-07T23:15:00.000+05:30

I see TV very rarely, sometimes used to switch between VH1 for music and Podigai for fun, but surprisingly yesterday a bigger fun was awaiting for me in Vijay TV. My friend assured me fun in this program called 'Some Jodi program' - regional tv serial dumbs danc competition. As everyone does we scrolled some other channels when these dumbs start dancing, but we didn't miss any part where the main comedian Simbu opens his mouth. This is the first time i am seeing his comments, that my friend assured will be of fun. To my surprise things turned out more interesting and emotional according to Vijay TV... Very childish and exaggerated drama took place..i have no word to speak about it. Check out the video below.

One thing is for sure, Like Father like son, the same emotional psycho. But you will enjoy this, and don't get tears in eyes,laughing...

And just tried to make use of this cartoon tool - http://www.toondoo.com/

Will come with something worthy one later...

Coorg Trekking

2007-10-01T14:12:00.000+05:30

Hi, This is about another trip which me, fleming, lal and friends went for our first trekking trip to Coorg. I am posting the chosen pics and the map we travelled.

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Mumbai Adventure

2007-09-26T09:37:00.000+05:30

Hi, its been long time when we (me and Fleming) went an adventurous trip to Mumbai – Aurangabad. Got time and net only now to post pics of that. I didn’t find interesting to write about the whole travel coz its been very long before (I forgot also some of them). So here I am posting the chosen pics and the map we travelled.

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Office 2007 to Office 97-2003 file conversion

2007-09-25T21:12:00.000+05:30

It happened to my friend long back when cracked Microsoft Office 2007 had been successfully installed. Now it happened also to me. Nothing serious, I liked the style Office 2007 gives and enjoyed creating a excel document which I needed to show in my office in xlsx format mistakenly and ended in trouble when I had to open it in my office with older Office version. After little bit googling this one I found out. Just a small exe provided by Microsoft which will convert Office 2007 word, excel and powerpoint files to Office 2003 format.
Here is the link for that.

My September Games

2007-09-25T09:43:00.000+05:30

I was playing Oblivion for trying out a proper RPG (Role Playing Game) and got the Command & Conquer 3 - Tiberium Wars. Have only played AOE series and then tried lil bit of Empire Earth under Strategy game genre. This C &C 3 is simply superb, which has many types of campaigns and good & sufficient graphics for strategy game. To fully enjoy this game try to get the 2 dvds pack as this high budget game has many clippings as good as a Hollywood clippings featuring Tricia and Jennifer Morrison and our famours Lost guy - Josh Holloway.
So this one is a must try game (rated 9.0 in gamespot) until you get World In Conflict. Also Command & Conquer - Tiberium is gonna come in FPS genre. Now started trying Bioshock from Unreal engine, so unreal, Quake and Doom series lover will like it. Good graphics but indoor brutal shooting, thats it.
One sad news - the demo of The Most awaited game in the universe - The Crysis is postponed one more month :(

Enjoy Gaming!!

Ganapathy Birth Month (Day)

2007-09-24T11:50:00.000+05:30

Here in Bangalore, people who use car like me has to suffer more because of Ganapathy, Because Ganapathy Birthday celebration is converted into BirthMonth. It’s the same as the Ambedkar’s BirthYear! Whenever a politician wants to give free supplies like dresses/food to backward community, they will arrange a function celebrating Ambedkar irrespective of the month Ambedkar is born. The same is the fate for Ganapathy, local rowdies for having their party are giving lift to Ganapathy in their tempo and roams the city causing traffic jam and noise pollution. I wonder instead of destroying Ganapathy by submerging in water, why don’t people destroy him by planting small bombs on his belly? Coz in blore only rowdies celebrate his function who might be using at least petrol bombs…

Seems Ganapathy is the figure just for comedy. I mean he is the comedian among the crew of other Gods. Here is one comedy role of Ganapathy… I feel pity on him; People please give him at least the heroic role of comedy movie (like vadivelu)..

Battle Ends in Peace

2007-09-24T11:29:00.000+05:30

Very few people survived in that battle. I am one of them. Yep, Got back my broadband connection at last! Got the number of the local field engineer and started calling him whenever you think of broadband (during brushing, eating, gaming…) The only advantage is that he is one of them who has at least some sense which most of the govt. employees don’t have. Because whenever I call he had a sign of hesitation for telling me that he couldn’t give me the connection. So, at last got the connection and its speed is far better (for now). So expect more post hereafter…

New Maruti 800 / Suzuki Cervo

2007-09-17T17:32:00.000+05:30

Suzuki is planning to replace the long lasting master kid "Maruti 800" with the Japanese Suzuki Cervo which is the latest small car recently launched in Japan, the Cervo is a compact five door mini, that looks to put the other kids on the block into the shade. This sleek cute car offers 54bhp 660cc engine that boasts to offer peppy performance with great fuel economy.

Suzuki believes that they can price the car in the same amount given by Tata, they can do this by deleting some of the stuff available in the car, or by using a cheaper material to make it cost less, but, we doubt that Suzuki will use such cheap material so long as price is considered. There is going to be a lot of competition between these two in the below 800cc category. The name Cervo has been a history for jap Suzuki cars mainly used in the Japanese version of alto.

Exteriors

From the outside the Cervo looks like the Honda Fit, but this one looks like its smaller bro. As there is no sight of Tatas 1 lakh car, comparism between these two are not possible , rumors have been spread that Tatas car would be based on the Indiva Concept. Coming back to the Cervo the lines and cuts of the car are neat and classy and the clean blacky covering at the end of the windows are cleverly made so as not to see too many holes.

The headlights seem too agressive and getting ready to vrroomm and seems confident, well we can hope it really does. The Small mini SUV looks at the back, with an arching roofline, wedgy stance, slanted headlights and stubby bonnet makes out a new shape of itself and bound to be a great car if its priced is good and if its at 1L, it will be crazy selling.

Interiors

The interiors of this car somewhat looks like that of the much popular Swift. The rectangular air vents in the center and the circle open closed ones on the sides dont look even and looks a bit uneven. the colors of the controls do look lights up the dash. The boot is very small, but for daily shopping and office stuffs its just OK.

Seats at the back can seat only two and the third one can cramp up the place. A lot of storage areas are available to keep stuff in the front and find little at the back. Power Windows are airbags are available in the international markets but we doubt that it will come to India at that cost atleast airbags as an option would be better to make the car safe. In the outside markets this car is equipped with front semi-bucket seats, 4-speed auto gearbox a K6A DOHC engine with VVT, bluetooth capability.

Verdict

Cars like these will be a success in India if they are priced well with high profile, the sporty and agressive exteriors and the classy and swifty interiors are bound to make the young gens and the ladies to force their cash out, the Suzuki's bet of combining performance with FE, this car will be a hit in Indian roads.

got this info from my new big buddy - Gopi, Got My Car Stereo becoz of him.. Will be back with a post about it soon...

Crazy Little Character..

2007-08-27T21:18:00.000+05:30

Saw this one from my friend's link...
Just copy the character anywhere, and start typing.... its crazy...
Read this to get the idea...

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‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮Get Crazy!!

Desperate to see the sun in the east...

2007-08-13T20:19:00.000+05:30

This post comes out of my own experiences and my current research which is to complete a big task: to make - my eyes open; my brain back to normal, at least around 7:00 am. These are the tips which could make this succeed sometimes.

Avoid a timepiece alarm which stops just by a push on the top button.
Use your mobile phone alarm; also don’t use the Alarm option as it is just for setting only one time. Use remainders so that you can set for 6:45, 6:50 and 6:55 like that as many as you want, depending on the ferocity of your sleep.
Usage of the most annoying tune like (manmade rasa or ambulance alarm) for alarm is a wise option.
Place the mobile in a non reachable position from you bed, I mean a little far from your bed.
Place some chocolates or some eatables near your alarm which could try its best out of your brain.
Put the most interesting download of yours which could make you to go and see its status; switch on the TV immediately before turning off the ringing alarm.
Don’t use curtains to avoid sunlight; your bed could be positioned for direct sunlight.
Setting the fan at full speed and using the insufficient blanket is also good if your morning whether is cool.

These are some of the tips that am trying to survive at 7:00 am, if you have something tell me the secret and please don’t tell anything about late hours coz it’s the time software engineer’s brain is at peak… Bye for now…

New Tamil Nadu Censor board

2007-08-08T15:00:00.000+05:30

This is just to waste time - mine and yours too, just thought of what should be done by the Censor board to make Tamil film industry better.

Ban the following directors : perarasu, ramanarayanan, TR, Vikraman
Ban the following actors playing chubby youths: Cap10 Vijayakanth, Rajini, TR..
Ban the following music directors: Deva, Srikanth deva, Iman, SA Rajkumar..
Ban actor Vijay, if he doesn’t play 2 consecutive films not as a local B grade fellow (teekadai master, poriki, cycle kadaikaran, auto workshop koolie).
Ban actor Ajith if he doesn’t use his brain in choosing forthcoming 2 consecutive films.
Ban cap10 if he does anything in film industry.
Ban the whole TR family from entering to safe guard Tamil film industry and the job of cinema professionals.
Ban so called comedians like Satyan, madhanbabu and supporting actors like overacting sreeman and great actors like ramesh..
Ban actor/Director Seran if he plays any sort of modern character.
Ban the actors if played in movies with age, less than 10 yrs of their real age.
Do censorship only if the film comes with tag - masala home entertainment.
Only 5 films per year can be allowed having new Heroes and heroines.
Ban films having very low budget like ramanarayanan’s and TR’s, if low should be considered as short films or documentaries.
Ban films having very high budget unnecessarily like sivaji, lovebirds, ratchagan, spending more just for songs and waste fight sequences.
Ban the directors if their 3 consecutive films appear same – e.g.: Shankar, same mass strategy; bala, same psychic heroes..
Ban the producers trying to impact on direction screenplay of the film.
Allow all kind of gore scenes and offensive things usage if really required for the film.
Instead of having subtitles like “Smoking / Acquiring liquor is injurious to health” in smoking scenes, “This scene has no logic, this is just for the sake of fun” can be put in very worst no-logic scenes, like collapsing one tower to collapse the n/w connection of whole mobile n/w in a city; famous current shock scene by cap10;
Remove the funny and useless tax reduction on Tamil names for the films.
Strictly Ban Telegu remakes.

If the above things are done I am sure there would be only some 10 movies per year but that is what the viewers has to see, and eventually their taste may improve . The above is just for the sake of fun, it is clear to everyone, who wants a change in Tamil films, that ‘all depends on the viewers taste; nothing won’t change until their taste remain the same.

Fish rain and Toad explosion

2007-08-07T20:11:00.000+05:30

A week before I was seeing the latest film from Nicholas Cage “The Next”. Its quite good with its own style of showing the hero’s powers. Not only Jessica got attracted by the different facts that hero tells but also me, as he told about the fish raining. As I got this bad habit of ~~analyzing~~ confirming info bits which I get, so as I did for fish raining.

I got this link in wikipedia which is about Raining animals, seems fish is the most common one while frogs comes second. There has been several scientific conclusions for these rare occurrences, some of them:

The frog rain is because, the frogs might have been taken by tornado or waterspouts to a large altitude and made to fall after some time.
There has been another conclusion for raining of fishes which managed to alive – the eggs are taken to the clouds by strong wind and hatched there and back to the ground as tiny fishes.
One more theory states that these fishes are from underground fresh water and never exposed to light that they are blind.

When reading these facts, I saw one more interesting fact about exploding animals. Yes in northern Germany toads used to explode because of a strange disease. The toads used to swell up to 3.5 times its size and propelled by the explosion to 3.2 meters. It has been concluded it is due to unknown virus or fungus in the pond they lived.

And finally after my complete analyzing of these facts I concluded

that the temple elephants can’t be rained as they don’t hatch from eggs and they can’t be lifted by heavy winds, but it can explode by some virus or fungus. So better stay at least 2 meters away from our temple elephants.

Joku pa joku.. ok, see u in next post..

whats He doing

2007-08-07T16:51:00.000+05:30

Man On Fire Vs Sivaji

2007-08-03T19:53:00.000+05:30

One more recent film I saw is ‘Man on fire’ , actually this is a old block buster from the pair Tony Scott (Director) and Denzil Washington (Actor) whose recent one is ‘Déjà vu’. Simply superb, no word to say. No big complex screenplay, no big complex actions, no big extraordinary acting, not a beautiful charisma hero, not a big budget movie, but the film has a magic, it has a good story and it is presented in a very good manner. Just think about the pathetic sivaji. I wonder why rajini don’t take the similar kind of movies like Man on fire or Deja vu. Won’t the fans accept the real aged rajini? Is it really required and good to see the old man pathetically running in fast beat songs? Do tamil fans really require a heroine for rajini film with glamour, which is abundant in all tamil films. Let him use his styles with a suitable role, sivaji is really a big hyped disaster. It has been a deadlock with fans and film makers, only big shots like rajini or sankar can change this. Pokiri or Sivakasi can’t be with fixed storyline or no-logic scenes or heroines to survive. But sivaji could have been. Sankar is fit for album making; I would consider sivaji as an album. All the songs are done in a grand and good way. I would like the dvd of sivaji only with the 5 songs, may be some styles of rajini as bonus track. I would pray God, that rajini should not be given any college student role in future because it is not amazing if he plays it.Lets wait till our people get tired of 1 hero, 1 villain, 5 songs, 5 sentiments, 5 fights, 5 comedy scenes films…

Am Not DEAD

2007-08-02T18:30:00.000+05:30

I am tired of waiting for broadband connection from bsnl. So back for blogging. I got shifted from southern Bangalore to north east outer area of Bangalore as my company did. All my things including my body got shifted except my blood - broadband connection. So stopped blogging partially believing the 2 months promise of bsnl dumbs. Luckily less than million fans for my blog no request mails for my blog continuation, but some relief expressions from my friends. So here it goes..

Still wasting the golden time by seeing films and seasons and now often seeing some Nat Geo or History or Discovery documentaries too.. So as usual let me talk abt the recent films I saw. The most recent is ‘Premonition’ yesterday. First I hesitated as it got low rating in imdb of 5.5/10 and worst rotten tomatoes rating too. But its really good and I wonder why it got worst rating. I bet 80% of Tamil audience won’t understand to enjoy it. Even I need to see it once more to enjoy it more. The screenplay could have been better as you can forecast some of the scenes but it is really a complex screenplay, I don’t know how to change it but it would have been better if it is changed. Lots to say but enough for now, see u in next post.

The ultimate joke of the year.

2007-07-18T15:39:00.000+05:30

In an interview when vijayakanth is asked, whether he had seen sivaji, he replied without hesitation - "i only see good english films".

Thanks Cap10 for making me coming back...

24 years old system

2007-06-12T17:41:00.000+05:30

It has been exactly 24 years since this chemical system got exposed to the world and this got the capability of writing this post. ok fine too much intro..Yes, Today is my birthday. I dont know wat to do this day except giving one piece of sweet or chocolate to all the members in my team or only taking few close friends to a nearby resturaunt and try to make the credit card balance hit its limit or visiting temple asking god to make my life smoother until death.. But i didn't do any of the above, because i thought i have a valid reason for not celebrating my B'day :- Poor people can celebrate this geting 1 rupee candy coz they are not going to have new dress or candy whenever they want, and riches can celebrate because they can shell out money and may be they will have more friends expecting to shell out for them.

And i do have these silly jokes, to tell my friends instead of the above reason which can make me banged:-

-> Today is not my birthday, its on 1984 and not 2007.
-> According to my star birthday, not today, this same day in 2006.
-> If i give u sweet for my Bday its selfish, coz i want u to take sweet for my function. If i give u sweet on ur bday its wise, coz its meant for u.

As said above as a joke, i am surprised by a cake cuting funtion organised by my team especially by my two friends Ganesh and Saravanan. Going for that, first bday function in my life. Will be back with pics of that...bye

Maroon 5 - It Wont Be Soon Before Long

2007-05-18T19:16:00.000+05:30

Maroon 5 – nobody cant forgot them by their top most played songs in the album Songs About Jane and their recent entry in the American idol with their stunning single “Makes Me Wonder”. After 5 years they are back with the album “It Wont Be Soon Before Long”. As usual computer geeks get this earlier before its release, me too one among them ;) Tried to get it in some shares and found after a long search which is now removed. So Don’t waste your time for rapidshare link for this album, 90% no chance. Go simply for torrent.

So how is the album. Almost all the songs doesn’t makes you dislike at first, then slowly u will the best ones though it is bit hard as almost all are good. The Singles “Makes Me Wonder” and “Wake Up Call” are clean hits. If I Never See Your Face Again, Won't Go Home Without You, Goodnight Goodnight, Kiwi, Nothing Lasts Forever all are good. One thing I notice is this has different style and different styles in each songs too not as the songs in “Songs About Jane” having some similar styled songs. Don’t know how music lovers response will be. I just added this splendid album in my itunes library immediately with good My User Ratings !! Check this out ASAP!!

Make Any Movie as Family Movie

2007-05-18T18:56:00.000+05:30

So guys, after long time..so a BIG HI to everyone, fine straight to the topic: “Necessity is the Mother of invention”, in this case its Discovery. Yep here is my necessity:

A Software which should skip some selected "time span" from the movies while playing. I don’t want to edit or delete the scenes as it will take lot of time and will reduce the quality of the rip too. And it would be good, if i could just select the portion of the movie (as in adobe premiere ) and tell it to hide, like tat and i can save this settings for this movies as some file (as .srt or .sub file for subtitles) so that i can see the movie censored without affecting the quality of the movie rip.

Ok now the necessity of this necessity : most of the splendid non-indian movies has some pornographic content, mostly unnecessary examples : from godfather, schindler's list, last king of Scotland, the departed, Black book and the list goes on.. which we have to enjoy with our family..

So I posted in many forums to get a solution for this but in vein, and at last with some googling and lil bit of luck which I usually have ;) I got the solution. It is AviSynth. So those who have knowledge on this already with so much relax u can just skip this post, others continue..

I just did this few minutes before, so haven’t tested it extensively. But it seems working, so am just giving you hint:
Download the avisynth software from here.And just install as you like. Now just open a notepad and write this command:

AviSource("C:\Downloads\BBC Supernatural Science - Physical Feats.avi")
Trim(0,100-1) ++ Trim(200+1,0)
Trim(0,500-1) ++ Trim(800+1,0)
Trim(0,1000-1) ++ Trim(2000+1,0)

(OR)

DirectShowSource("C:\Downloads\BBC Supernatural Science - Physical Feats.avi ,fps=24,audio=true)
Trim(0,100-1) ++ Trim(200+1,0)
Trim(0,500-1) ++ Trim(800+1,0)
Trim(0,1000-1) ++ Trim(2000+1,0)

and just save the notepad file with .avs extension. Here the AviSource() or DirectShowSource() are used to open only avi and (avi and mpeg) movies respectively. The Trim command removes the frames provided. In the above example, I have trimmed three portions – frames from 100 to 200 ; 500 to 800 and 1000 to 2000. so this movie will be played without these clippings.

So to run the movies, you just have to open the .avs file in the media player and thats it. If you want to get the frame information, just use this light weight tool which is actually used for encoding purposes – VirtualDub. Just open the movie in this tool and it will display the frame numbers and the timings. So take this frame number and put it in the above code and Enjoy Movies With Your Family!!

Note: The above code trims off the unwanted scenes, you have to decide which one is unwanted ;) hope u understand!!

Be back with something else…Comments and rating always invited. ;)

Perarasu across Woods (Kolly to Tolly)

2007-04-28T16:50:00.000+05:30

I saw Déjà vu some weeks ago. After seeing the excellent screenplay and story I referred Wikipedia and found out the screenplay for Déjà vu was sold for $ 5 Million. Now lets come to the point, heard about the film Annavaram or something? For this film the story is from our Prominent Director Perarasu, Check this out to know more about him. 1 பொறிக்கி hero, 2 பொறிக்கிய love பண்ற village & rich heroines , 3 குப்ப தெரு for location, 4 வெத்து வேட்டு rowdy villans in queue to get defeated by hero, 5 சிரிப்பான punch dialogues, 6 ஏறசெலான பாட்டு including some big குத்து songs, and every 10 minutes of the movie will have sentiments, jokes, heroism.. The telegu film crew are the world biggest dumbs as they should have atleast given him 1 rupee. Thirupachi to Telegu, Aathi from telegu, etc shows there are dumbs in both states.. May be telegu more, just see the film poster...எப்படித்தான் எப்படி சிரிக்காம..

Aerosmith To B'lore

2007-04-28T00:27:00.000+05:30

Mark June 2nd in your calendar for Aerosmith Live - 2007 World Tour. Palace Grounds is gonna be rocked by Aerosmith. Check this out.

Am presenting "Timbaland presents Shock Value"

2007-04-27T09:16:00.000+05:30

The big producer Timbaland comes now with his own album, S hockValue. Some of his prominent productions Black Eyed Peas – Monkey Business, The Pussycat Girls – PSD, Nelly Furtado – Loose, Justin Timberlake – Future, Sex, Sounds the list goes on… So for him it is easy to get all these chart making artists for his album. It is seen in his album Shock Value. I just saw this one making charts and downloaded it only because of my favorite Nelly Furtado feat for “Give It To Me” in this. So as his genre, this album has more hip hop and pop and some rock too. And it will catch you easily, After Nelly Furtado Loose this album has more of my favorite songs. Yep, Here are my favorite songs:

1. Give It To Me (Feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake) – Nelly Furtado & Timberlake & Timbaland making #1 in billboard charts. Simply awesome. 5/5
2. 2 Man Show (Feat. Elton John) – a good feat with the piano magic by Elton. 5/5
3. Time (Feat. She Wants Revenge) – This songs makes a breakthrough identification for She Wants Revenge. The part by She Wants Revenge is simple superb. This rating is specially for She Wants the Revenge. 5/5
4. Scream (Feat. Keri Hilson & Nicole Scherzinger) – Don’t know the other except pussycat member Nicole, has good beat but don’t know how long it will be in our head. 4/5
5. Apologize (Feat. One Republic) – Don’t know this one too, One Republic? Quiet a good melody. 3.5/5
6. Throw It On Me (Feat. The Hives) – This is more kinda speedy songs will be helpful for your ride, as it does for me... 3.5/5
7. Bombay – I am still hearing it, has some old song from our Bollywood. Couldn’t get it very good, but just added as this comes from our side ;) Don’t expect this to be as good as Indian Flute the previous one from Timbaland.

I would recommend getting it for the above tracks. Use this rapidshare and torrent links . Got my favorite Travis, “The Boy With No Name”. Gonna hear it, be back with my favorite tracks of him. So see you soon…

Sivaji – The Boss, ARR at his best

2007-04-25T11:23:00.001+05:30

I have posted about the Sivaji leak on Friday, March 23, 2007 post. Now I am posting about the album after a month I believe. The late may be becoz I have been simply working on Template changes without blogging. Fine, The first thing I want to say is I bought the original CD in my life for the first time. May be becoz of curiosity about the leak and the price is somewhat cheap then what I expected and my support to AR Rahman.
Whatever it may, I got this album in hand and I would say this is one of the masterpieces by ARR indeed. Almost all the songs are fantastic. Don’t know how its gonna reach Rajini Fans’ mind who protested after the music release of Padayappa saying it was the worst album for Rajini, but later they started accepting it. Fine don’t want to say about it more as this is very old topic. Here is my rating of the songs.

1. Adiradhi - Haven’t heard such a splendid vocal & sound mixing – 5/5
2. The Boss – Splendid music, Short and Sweet – 5/5
3. Style – Again super vocal and sound mixing – 5/5
4. Sahana & Sahara – Such a gorgeous massive melody – 5/5
5. Vaaji - Good, but predefined expected music – 4/5
6. Balleilakka – Good, especially for urban rajini fans - 4/5

Unavoidable hit series hits from RDB, Guru, JOK, Pray for me Brother to Sivaji by AR Rahman keeps a permanent place in the Indian music charts.

The Thirds

2007-04-25T01:22:00.000+05:30

I wonder when people asking about one's favourite number, Coz its doesn’t sound like favourite color - which pleases you, or favourite dish - which attracts you. But what is in the number?! It sounds like asking one's favourite chemistry equation or mathematical formula. For me it sounds Crazy. Fine, as favourite number is a FAQ, I made up myself to give some answer long before, hence comes the answer THREE. How it came? Simple my DOB 12, 1+2 = 3. So let this be my favourite number. Anyhave, this is not what I wanted to talk. The Third installment movies which gonna hit this year. All these Movies with their Part 1 and 2 did good in box office and now with their Third Sequel, have a tough competition :-

1. Pirates Of C arib bean: At Worlds End - May 2007
2. SpiderMan 3 - May 2007
3. Ocean’s Thirteen - June 2007
4. Shrek The Third – June 2007
5. Bourne Ultim atum – August 2007
6. Rush Hour 3 – August 2007
7. Resident Evil Extinction – September 2007

Now I started thinking, why our Tamil films have no sequels coming up. And I wondered as we are already getting only sequels. Yep, here are some sequels of tamil industry that I can think easily. I have given how the sequel names for all the films for fun..

1. Perarasu’s Thirupaachi, Sivakasi, Thirupathi, Dharmapuri – Total Disaster1,2,3..
2. Cap10’s Sabari, Perarasu, Sudesi, Neranja Manasu, Gajendra, Engal Anna, Chokkathangam, Vaanathaipola, Perivanna, Dharma – Just for Laughs 1,2,3..
3. Vijay’s Madurey,Thirupaachi, Sivakasi, Aathi, Pokiri – Low grade Superman 1,2,3..
4. Ajith’s Thodarum, Uyirodu Uyriaha, Raja, Attagasam, Ji, RED, Paramasivam, Tirupathi – Strictly Flops 1,2,3..
5. Rajini’s Annamalai, Muthu, Badsha, Arunachalam, Padayappa – Second Half Millionaire 1,2,3..
6. Kamal’s Tenali, Panchatanthiram, Pamal K sambandam, Vasool raja –Buffoon Makes Money 1,2,3..
7. Bharath’s Kadhal, Veiyel, Emmagan – Pity Boy 1,2,3…
8. Sethu, Pithamagan, Nandha, Ram, Paruthiveeran – Yet Another Different Movie 1,2,3..

Real Gutts comes here, Krotham 1, 2, 3. Simply mind blowing science fiction comedy series by Prem Kumar with Krotham 3 ready to release for about 2 years. Will it hit this year? Will Hollywood Thirds gonna bite the dust. Only Prem has its answer. Hats off to Premkumar!! Enough for today. Bye for now..

Direct x 10 Cards ready for Crysis

2007-04-24T09:01:00.000+05:30

Recent SMS from Akshay:
Direct x 10 cards have been released in India. Price range is in 7.5k, 10k, 16k, 20k and 42k. Seems around 10% increase in performance over the predecessor.

Repainted my blogging

2007-04-19T20:20:00.000+05:30

Yeh! After very long time, took more patience to create this template. Hopefuly this comes in good form. When i compare blogging and designing, i could spend more time only on design :(, so this much long gap..more to blog.. Will be back soon.. Added rating system, good if you could rate my blog template style in the below rating.

2007-03-23T09:32:00.000+05:30

AR Rehman's Sivaji - Bootleg

Back from Mumbai, will post about it in the upcoming posts.. for now i would like post the current BREAKING NEWS - i don't care about Bob Woolmer, so i am talking about the leaked bootleg of AR Rehman's Sivaji. Three Songs are released in a fine mp3 192kbps quality which makes me to think that this could be the final version, though Media Studio members are refusing it -

Inspections are on how it has leaked… But we are sure that it has come out from the sets. All the songs are scratches… The final mixing is nowhere near tothese. Esplly on the Sunlight song sung by Shaggy, Blaaze and Tanvi; what is available on net is just a scratch piece for shooting. And Sahana song is sung A.R himself on the final version with Chinmayi. We have one more brilliant number called “Day light dude” which is the opening song sung by Rappers from US.We have a Song recorded with the voice of Rajinikanth Sir and Drums kit played by Siva Sir which is interesting, in the movie. Please don’t post our opinions and underestimate the soundtrack now it now. Its does enhance the visuals on screen quite brilliantly and wait for the moment to catch it on 70 mm.

Shafeeq,
Media Studio

But any have songs are superb, very catchy even in the first time, don't know how tamil kutthu fans take it.. And the leaked songs' links are given in this blog , am sure me gonna get a fresh CD pack of Sivaji, expecting you too..

2007-03-02T00:29:00.000+05:30

Last week in Boo World
This is one more column, am gonna write..Confused about the tilte - Nothing its just the உள்டா of ‘சென்ற வர உலகம்’ which runs in suntv..Dont worry am having (1/100)% knowledge about the world affairs – yep I am confident Harrison Ford is the president of USA..So don’t want to go to real world..
This one is about things that are thrown in or out of my 1400gms brain – now I remember, how I remember this number – its somewhere in the excellent film I watched last week = The Pursuit of Happyness’. So I think you got what this post is about..Still want to continue.. good..

($) I got this somewhere – nice particle simulation..Check this out..
http://www.seb.cc/particles/

($) Don’t Try this at Theatre : Veerasamy.. yes even at home, continuously.. As all software engineers even I like to see cap10 movies and these kinda movies..so tried a little bit of this circus film performed by Big Bear. But as proverb goes - அளவுக்கு மிஞ்சினால் அமிர்தமும் நஞ்சு, you can watch this film with you conscious for some fifteen minutes continuously not more than that.. Putting in a single sentence – worst story, worst screenplay, worst dialogue, worst music, whatever worst in film making by T Rajender; purely for low low-class senseless crude movie. So to be safe, avoid it.. Its not as easy and funny as u think..

($) Wanna keep video as ur wallpaper background? There were certain tools for XP, but Vista has its own thing. Yeh I installed Vista ultimate in my PC. Vista Ultimate is the highest that vista offers. Depending upon the version you are having you will be given extra features – this Vista ultimate has Windows media center and things like that. I got in net as extra feature for Ultimate – Vista DreamScene, which will put all your wmv and mpeg videos as your wallpaper. It is not working for .avi files neither divx not xvid.. Check out this for more info:
http://windowsultimate.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2007/02/14/windows-dreamscene-technical-preview-is-live.aspx

($) Thanks to torrent, this is the first time when I have seen almost 80% of Oscar nominated movies.. So very curious about the Oscars. Good to see Departed, Little miss sunshine, The Queen getting Oscars. The films I hated most in Oscars are Babel, Pan's Labyrinth and Happy Feet. I am really disappointed that my all time favourite Pixar productions didn’t get Oscars for “The Cars” instead the “Happy Feet” which I really hate very much.

($) Now-a-days I think my itunes gets angry on me becoz of the repetitive music of Dixie Chicks. Yeh saw their documentary film – ‘Shut up and Sing’ and the 5 grammy awards in their hand and their catchy country songs. So they become one of my favorite band. Will be back with a debut post on them.. Meet you soon..

2007-03-01T23:04:00.000+05:30

BACK WITH BANG!!

So, after a long time… I have come to you with a hell lot of things. First of all I would like to introduce my logo for special features – Specials features means :-Its like bonus tracks in albums or நம்ம தமிழ் படத்துல வர குத்து பாட்டு or Cap10 படத்துல வர train scene or Song performed by rehman in his ost – இப்படி blade போட்டுக்கிட்டே போலாம்.. Fine let me stop with this.. So u should have come to conclusion it would be either enjoyable comedy or கடுப்பு. So i decided to put this logo for those kinda of post. இன்னும் நீங்க tubelightea இருந்தா, கீழே பார் :

Indiaglitznu ஒரு website இருக்கிறது, email forward messageல வர pics logoவ பாத்துதான் தெரியும். ஆனா இப்ப 1 weeka அந்த website தான் Most visited siteனு BBCல Second flash newsa வந்திருக்கு..

அப்ப, first flash news enna? how indiaglitz became the most famous website? Only one answer – கரடி. These people please avoid seeing this: already வயத்து வலியோட இருகிறவங்க, கரடிய பக்க பயப்படுற குழந்தைகள், என்ன மாதிரி வேலவெட்டி இல்லாம இருக்காதவங்க.

http://images.indiaglitz.com/playerV2/vplayerV81.asp?vid=24561&category=5002

In conclusion, இது commedy பொருளா இருந்து அசிங்க படுரதுக்கு, இத கருணை கொலை பண்ணிடலம்.. மனசு செரியில்ல அப்புறம் வரேன், bye..

2007-02-14T15:34:00.000+05:30

If (GF == false)
Happy Independence Day
Else
Happy Valentine's Day
Bank balance = 0

2007-02-10T18:51:00.001+05:30

Yogi B & Natchatraz : வல்லவன் - Tamil Hip Hop

You can classify them under any genre R&B, Hip hop, Rap, Remix.. But Tamil Rap is gonna flourish soon, that’s for sure..Yeah! they call it as ‘சொல்லிசை’(rap). Heard their superhit song from my friend’s you-tube link. It was catchy at the first time itself and funny too.. And now they performed in Vijay TV some award program making an expectation of their cd release (at least from chennai people I think). Enough of intro for them. Surprisingly their tracks got a place in my iTunes playlist recently, so small review of their album.

வல்லவன் is their debut album, though not yet released. The band members are Yogi B and Natchatraz (Jesz and Dr,Burn, I think). Their songs has all the things of an international Hip Hop music, may be not explicit lyrics I can say. Also one more thing I notice is they do good mixing of old songs like most hindi DJs doing these days..and Raghav did it splendidly.

Among the 10 songs I got,I like these in the order:

1. மடை திரண்டு: This one is a feat with someone named Lockup Guna. Good remix and good rap too..This is the one sung in vijay tv awards. 5/5 rating.

2. சிவ சிவ: Feat with someone named Prema. This one is a devotional remix and good to hear too. A different approach though funny at first singing about hindu Gods in English..4/5 rating.

3. வழி தேடுது: This one is the same kinda gangsta rap scolding each other..this rap is simply superb and this rhythmic verse is very good:
நேத்து முழச்ச செடிகள் எல்லாம் அரசமரம் போல வாழ துடிக்குது
என்னை பகச்ச எதிரிகள் எல்லாம் என்னை வெல்லா வழி தேடுது தேடுது
4/5 rating.

4. Hip hop era: This one is also a good flick. Several good layers of humming are going behind the song is very nice. 4/5 rating.

5,6. Indian Girl & Kamasutra: Both of these has fantastic rap things. In Kamasutra the feat by Mogethen is good to hear. 4/5 rating.

All these six songs are in my ratedrap playlist of iTunes. This is a fusion of Eminem, Tupac, 50 Cent and as well as Raghav. To conclude, this album is good for those who like above hip hop artist albums (atleast you can get all the lyrics) and also for those who don’t listen to those who don’t like them becoz of gangsta English. Here is the link I download it: Download
Official Webpage

2007-02-08T19:48:00.001+05:30

GURU - Not up to par

Finally got a good quality rip of guru, for which we had plans to sacrifice some bucks in PVR cinemas.. So nicely enjoyed the movie in my bed even with my dinner, as done in Gold Class for 500 bucks. So first of all that is a great satisfaction for me.
And now about the movie.. Much awaited, Much hyped movie Guru is the one which has to be enjoyed once..Thats it. Yeh, it is not up to the par what I expected. It may be becoz of the storyline - nothing to show differently and i dont know 100% hindi. But as usual AR Rehman - Mani combination rocks. Hope for the next one.

2007-02-04T19:29:00.001+05:30

UNITED 93 - Must See Movie
{cinema}

I was thinking to write about this for long time.. This one is more like historical documentary or drama but easily admirable by anyone.. Yeah, most of my roommates who hesitate to see non-action English movies liked it. So a little bit about it..

From the Bourne Supremacy director - this 2007 Oscar nominated film, is a favorite movie of mine. It depicts the only plane United 93, which didn’t reach the target in 11/7 attack. So here are things which make this movie my favorite one: The plot, taking a movie about the hijack situation of a plane which doesn’t reach the target, I mean not taking the one which reached the target. The movie teaches us a lot..Clearly depicts things about Air Craft Traffic Control, Domestic Air Force service things like that. I just thought when our industry can make movies like this - still hero and villains fighting on train or airplane. I would say it doesn't make me to see it once more, but i am sure you will enjoy every bit of the film till the last. And this one proves it: Nominated for 2 Oscars, Another 15 wins and 19 nominations (taken from imdb).Watch this in the good AxxO Dvd rip given. So Enjoy!!

Genre: Drama / History
Links: imdb, news
Torrent: Torrent

2007-02-01T10:48:00.000+05:30

Coorg Trip - A must for Amatuer Trekkers

Being bored by reading so many Coorg visit blog (read almost all the Coorg blogs in Google first 2 pages), I don’t want to tell u story about what we ate in the dawn and how we sat in the van.. so precisely about our COORG Trip:

Decided only in 2 full time workdays and got sufficient members, the day before the trip. We got a van which has only Toyata Qualis embossed to prove it, thank God it didn’t wasted our time except some 15 minutes for some tire patch work !! Confirmed a separate house - 1500 bucks for 24 hours in Coorg before leaving.

First Day visits:
1. Nisargadama : Good to see the park, but not as special as in most of the blogs and websites. Boating in a swimming pool size pond and Elephant ride in helipad size area!! That’s it!
2. Tibetian Temple : Worth see, different culture and different paintings.. That God don’t want money to photo shoot it, yeah no restriction for Camera.. good to see the saints posing for Camera!!
3. Abbi Falls: Good site seeing, but can be also be seen in websites..Yeh, Bathing restriction ,I can say or no suitable location for bathing..Its like Stop, watch, go..
4. Camp fire in our home: The climate was cool enough to enjoy the warmth of camp fire..but not so good as we gave 300 bucks for that!! But any have enjoyable..

Second Day Visit (Tadeyendamol Trekking):
The most awaited journey started to reach Kakabe, from there packing up things we started through the steep roads of Tadeyendamol..Started at 12 we were able to reach half of the peak around 2:30 for energetic lunch, where we stood as three warriors aiming the peak!! Other four left back to base..we three survived to reach the peak at 3:30. Seems that Tadeyendamol peak is 5734 feet..not sure about it, I took this data from some other website..We came back to base at 5:30. Though this is my second trekking after Kodaikanal, this one is a good experience with only little time left behind..But only thing is the hilly way was not that cool and greenish as we expected.. Seems we went at the end of the season.. Anyhave it was a real thrilling experience throughout that 15kms trekking..

So here are my suggestions..Visit Coorg making sure of the season.. Seems it is better to visit before Jan..I would say tekking and that Tibetian temple are the best part over there.. So prioritize them fist..Next one, don’t rent house, better try to put a tent in the peak and that will be a stunning experience..

I have attached below my pics in Coorg Trip.. Just click on the pic to view the description..Pics in flickr

2007-01-16T23:30:00.000+05:30

LORD OF WAR – Must See Movie
{cinema}

All most all of the movies I have reviewed before were not so good, so decided to put the movies I liked most as 'Must See Movie'. Though this one I saw a month ago, It used to remain in my mind always.. I came to know Nicolas Cage from his hit FACE/OFF and lil bit more from his 'Con Air'. But this movie made him my favorite hero..Okay, enough intro, let's get into the stuff..

LORD of WAR is released on 2005 starring Nicolas Cage, directed by Andrew Niccol. Well, a short intro on the director, he is the maker of 'The Truman Show', 'The Terminal' etc.. The hero plays the antihero role as an arms dealer, some where I heard that the character is taken from real Russian arms dealer. So whats the title is for? The answer is given in the starting of the film: "There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other eleven?" Every little bit of the film is perfect and enjoyable. The casting is superb; Cage plays his role perfectly, the dictator Baptise, the interpol agent everyone played perfectly. I am not that knowledgeable to write a review on the whole film. Each and every portion is taken from the real world history. You should watch this 122 minutes movie for 244 minutes to understand it.

I can compare this movie with two other movies- Blow and Pudhupettai(Tamil). Blow by Johnny Depp is the exact same thing done but this one is somewhat non-commercial like or documentary like movie. Instead of Arms dealer this is about the Cocaine smuggler. Pudhupettai is also the same sort of antirole Gangster flick. So this movie is a must see movie. Watch this in the good AxxO Dvd rip given. Enjoy!! Will be back with another good movie..

Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
IMDB rating: 7.7/10 (27,985 votes)
Links: IMDB
Torrent: Torrent

2007-01-16T09:04:00.000+05:30

Torrent - Azureus - Let the blue Frog gets you anything you want!!
{tech}

This thing is for those who are new to Peer-Peer downloading, like as I was two months before. I think I know something about that to write few more lines as below! I will tell the way I am doing the torrent downloading by the migration from my friend Fleming.

Steps for torrent downloading:
Download Azureus , which is java based torrent client software. So to install it you need java to be installed in your computer. You can get both the java runtime and Azureus here.
After installing Azureus, you need to configure it in the 'Configuration Wizard', nothing tricky..Proceed as follows:

Select 'English '
Select 'Beginner', coz I used 'advanced' very rarely.
Select the speed, for me it is 'adsl/cable xxx/256 Kbps'.
Let the incoming TCP Listen Port be the one come by default, Click 'Test'. It should say 'NAT OK'. If not, your port is blocked, you have to configure your router for 'IP Forwarding' (discussed at the last)
This is the location where torrents are stored, I would suggest to change it and give the location where you can access it easily, I mean 'C:\Torrents\' like that.
Finish.

NAT Error:
In my experience, for people who are connecting to broadband using 'PPoE' dialer won't get NAT Error, as in step 4 above. For those whose modem does the automatic PPoE dialing (just switch on PC and browse scenario, your username and password will be stored in the router to dialup automatically) has to configure your router to do Port Forwarding. I am now having this scenario, my router is D-Link 502-T, I will tell you how to do IP Forwarding for this in next post.

So your torrent client setup is done. Now go for downloading. I would recommend these sites which has huge collections of torrents to download:
1. http://www.torrentspy.com/
2. http://www.isohunt.com/
3. http://btjunkie.org/

Click on any of the sites, and do the googling thing.. For example I want to download the good quality of movies from 'axxo', so type 'axxo' and get the search results. All results will show the latest movies in the order of health. Health of the torrent can be defined by the 'Seeds' (system which has fully downloaded file and is sharing for us to download) and 'peers' (system which is downloading the file currently having partial file, like we gonna do). Check out the files with high seeds and peers or the green symbol for good health, and click on it.

Now click on torrent download, you will download the torrent file. This is a small file which contains metadata about the files to be shared, and about the tracker, the computer that coordinates the file distribution. So using this file we can connect to the specified tracker which tells them from which other peers to download the pieces of the file. You no need to save the file when it prompts just click open, the torrent file will be saved automatically to the specified location like 'C:\Torrents\' and it will automatically open Azureus.

There you need to specify where you want to save the downloaded file. That's it. It will come in 'My Torrents' tab of Azureus, after some time the downloading speed should come to at least 25kBps if you have 256Kbps. Others you can navigate in the Azureus menus, you can get it easily, since even Boopathy, the stupid person got those things by himself!

2007-01-14T22:33:00.000+05:30

Explore Google Earth 4, to explore..
{Tech}

The latest version of Google Earth has quite a few very interesting features such as the ability for 3D models to have textures and a new user interface. Also, it is now possible to see animations on Google Earth to show geographic changes during different seasons and stuff.
You can take some time to wonder on this.. Here's an excerpt from google page:

Seeing 3D terrain and buildings is one of the coolest features of Google Earth. We’ve added higher-quality terrain data for many mountainous regions, as well as support for "textured" 3D buildings-meaning bricks look like real bricks, glass looks like real glass, and overall, the world looks more like the real world. It's just one more step on the path of creating a life-like 3D model of the whole planet.
Millions of Google Earth users add and share geographic information every day using .KML, the Google Earth file format. In Google Earth 4 we've expanded that capability. Now you can view travel photos, hiking trails uploaded from your GPS, overlays of your own imagery, or large geographic data sets. You can even times-tamp the data to create animations of how the world changes over time. Explore Google Earth Showcase for some popular examples.

Download it here ..

2007-01-12T10:02:00.000+05:30

Weekend music - jan 2nd week
{Music}

So what about this weekend.. Apart from taking the dosage of 'one movie per day', I thought of taking some music this weekend. Helpfully the much awaited tamil version of Guru is gonna be online this weekend.

Apart from that I would like to hear some sort of different, yeh..so got Norah Jones.. I have heard this name several times, but didn't tried her songs. Heard of her connection with india being the daughter of ravi Shankar, the famous Sitar maestro.

Norah Jones - Not Too Late

Got this album, which is supposed to release on January 20, 2007!! Heard a little bit of it. The first song "Be My Sombody" is good, all others seem very slow melody. Will try it in the weekend.
BitRate: 160kbps
Release Date: 2007-01-30
Size: 52 MB
Links: homepage, wikipedia, torrent

U2 Recent Singles

U2, the 2006 best album of the year winner released a single in Jan 1 - Window in the skies, As our Rehman did 'Prey for me brother' in new year eve. This single has two songs - "Tower of Song" and “Windows in the skies”. Both are good. You have to try it out..

Name: Windows in the skies
Release Date: Jan-01-2007
Links: U2 homepage, wikipedia,torrent

One more single released last year end is "The saints are coming" by U2 and Greenday. Though this one is the remake of the song by "The skids" (one old band), this is from U2- The best album of the year 2006 winner and from Greenday - The best album of the year 2005 winner!! This is also good and making out good in charts. So first download it and read my other blogs ;) I know how curious you are to read my other blogs :))

Name : The saints are coming
Release Date: Jan-01-2007
Links: U2 homepage, wikipedia,torrent

Will be back with some more good music..

2007-01-10T23:13:00.000+05:30

Happy Feet - didn't make me happy :(
{Cinema}

I saw the iMBT screener of Happy Feet yesterday, this one is has a very good quality and sound. But I can say this box office hit which pushed the Casino Royale out, didn't do what I expected. For your info, this movie is the second largest box office hit after 'Pirates of Caribbean 2' and this is from the director of 'Babe, the Pig in the City'. These things made me go crazy to watch this movie.
But in my view this film is a total crap. In the cold land of Antarctica, the Penguins express their true love with a special heart song of their own that expresses their very being. However, the hero, Mumble cannot sing, but instead has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the deeply conformist leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing that threatens them all. Defiant in the face of unjust rejection, Mumble and his true friends set out to find the true cause of the famine. And here comes the total crap things, the hero goes behind the human beings and was put into the zoo, and it learnt that people loves its toe tapping. Then it comes back to its own home place and all the penguins uses the toe tapping for making the man kind to recognize the over fishing, bla bla bla.. So our hero save their life..total crap! I totally don't like the screenplay, and also the soundtracks are not the way I like. So "Happy feet" did't make me happy.

Genre: Comedy
IMDB rating: 6.8/10 (6,129 votes)
Release name: Happy.Feet.DVDSCR.XviD-iMBT
Links: IMDB, Homepage
Torrent: NewTorrents

2007-01-09T22:04:00.000+05:30

My Computer
{Personal}

Though this is the second PC in my life, I felt the same excitement and pleasure in buying this. This was because; I bought the world's third processor and the world's first economy processor I can say. And one more thing is I put my hands in making the PC. I was thinking of putting its spec in blog for a month ago.. So now I am proudly introducing my PC here!!

I bought this PC in Bangalore SP road, the electronic market of Southindia I can say.. The plan to get the correct things was devised for just 6 months I believe.. This genius kid named Akshay is the one who did the assembling of my PC. Nothing more to say.. So this thing is helping to waste my time easily by gaming (trying all the latest games), watching movies; listening music (50 movies and 6000 songs in Hard drive.. still growing), blogging (u know this very well)..
This is the spec of my PC bought on 10-Nov..

Core 2 E6600 Processor - 15,400
Asus P5B mother board - 9,200
Transcend 2 GB RAM - 11,300
LeadTek 7600GT Game Card - 9,485
Seagate 250GB SATA Hard disk - 3,850
Samsung 740n TFT 17" monitor - 9,500
Microsoft wireless Keyboard & Mouse - 1,500
Zebronics Peace Cabinet - 2,350
APC UPS - 1,950
Plus 4% VAT as usual..

In Short : Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.61; Asus P5B-2GB 667MHz RAM; Nvidia 7600GT; 250GB HDD; Benq DVD-RW; Zebroics Peace

See my PC Pics..

2007-01-09T10:00:00.000+05:30

Is Vista Ultimate, The Ultimate?
{Tech}

Windows Vista has been released for a month now to business, and is going to be released to the general public in a month (January 30). For those who haven't been following Vista's development, it is worth noting that even though Vista comes 5 years after XP, it is a rushed product. Originally set to be a relatively small update to XP, to be released in 2003, it was re-envisioned as a major release, with revolutionary technologies such as WinFS (a new file system), Palladium (security system), Avalon (graphics system) and Indigo (communications system). We don't see such a big breakthrough as it happened from Windows to XP in this XP to Vista.
It doesn't really matter if Vista is a success or not, Microsoft cannot wait another five years to release another Windows. And that is why Microsoft is planning a "Vista R2", codename 'Fiji'. From what little information is available we know that this will be a minor release sometime in 2008. Want to see the features of this damn thing?

Windows Fiji

The UI will be updated with things that were originally promised for Vista, along with a more powerful sidebar, which will be more than just a dock for widgets (a.k.a. gadgets)
.Net Framework will be updated to 3.5 (or maybe even 4)
WinFS will be applied over NTFS to give us Virtual Folders (or maybe just Saved Searches)
All bundled application will be updated to newer versions
Tighter integration with Windows Live. Probably through 'Codename Nemo', a media center application that is integrated with Messenger, Spaces, and probably lots of other Windows Live Services.
We might see Monaco, a music authoring tool, similar to Apple's Garageband.
Default playback of HD-DVD (maybe even Blu-ray), Vista currently identifies these disks but cannot play them without an external decoder.
A more advanced Speech Recognition
NGSCB will be implemented to make the system more secure.
New themes, icons, wallpapers, games, and minor tweaks to almost everything.

Although Fiji doesn't sound too exciting yet, new features are bound to be added. Still, it might just be a way to keep us quiet while they work on Vienna.
Windows Vienna (formerly Blackcomb) will be a huge departure from current incarnations of Windows, Similar to the transition from OS8-9 to OSX. It will break compatibility with all applications, but the newer, more flexible, richer and secure platform will be incentive enough for applications to be re-written for Vienna.

Windows Vienna

The current interface will be completely stripped, no more explorer shells, and taskbars. No start menu. Probably no toolbars, or menus (which already started with Vista)..
Speech Recognition will become a major input device (though it will not replace the keyboard and mouse) and will be supported by most third party applications.
Many projects from Microsoft's R&D will come into play, especially from their VIBE research center. A pie-menu is rumored to be used.
A new version of NTFS wrapped in a more powerful WinFS. No more drives, or files/folders location to worry about. File Management will be done through applications, which will automatically index and sort the files they support.
Even bundled applications will evolve a lot (jus compare WMP6 with WMP11).
Search will part a huge part in Vienna (like it does in the control panel of Vienna)
Applications with non-managed code will run in a sandbox mode (like IE7 does in Vista), so that security exploits in a single application doesn't affect the entire OS.

Facts are hard to come by about Windows Vienna but it has 15 years of R&D to borrow from, and one thing is for certain, Vienna won't be just an operating system, but a new generation in computing. So don't get amazed on Vista!!

2007-01-06T02:20:00.000+05:30

Idiocracy - Only for Idiots
{Cinema}

The only good thing in this is the dvd rip with good image resolution and mp3 sound by Diamond. I can say I wasted my 86 minutes in this. Don't know how it got 6.7 rating in IMDB. I don't see good comedy everywhere, though it has some. The story and direction, everything reminds me of classic cartoons. An Army librarian, is judged to be absolutely average in every regard, has no relatives, and has no future, so he is chosen to be one of the two test subjects in a top-secret hibernation program. He and Rita(heroine) were to awaken in one years, but things go wrong and they wake up instead in 2505. By this time, stupid people have outbreed intelligent people; the world is run by morons - and Joe and Rita are the smartest people there. There is nothing adventures and no Science Fiction but sometimes good humor. I would suggest this movie to watch in TV.. no, that's too far, better let it be the alternative movie during tv advertisements.

Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fiction
IMDB rating: 6.7/10
Type: Diamond Dvd Xvid Rip
Torrent: NewTorrents

2007-01-06T01:59:00.000+05:30

Flushed Away - Plunge into it

I love to see all animation movies. I have been desperately waiting for the final rip version of "Open Season". But for my surprise I didn't expect this- the best version of Flushed Away from DreamWorks and the director of Wallace & Gromit. You won't believe this as a screener, yes this one is just like the dvd rip. iMBT has done a very nice job. And as DreamWorks usually does, popular actors like Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet are behind the voices of the characters.

I don't want to tell the plot, because it is not very different. But as the animation films do this will surely entertains you a lot. Seems this is the first time, they have used the stop motion characters with CGI. There are many chances in this film for you to laugh louder. Also the OST seems good and the humorous character of the singing worms adds more fun. I would suggest you to see this movie at least once.

IMDB Rating : 6.9/10
Genre : Animation / Comedy
Torrent : NewTorrents

2007-01-01T21:52:00.000+05:30

New Year Eve in Bangalore

I am not one among the guys who used to do their Roll Call in Brigade Road, MG Road and Forum every weekend:- touching only entrance of all the pubs in the way; having only 200 bucks in hand; ready to spend 300 bucks from the 75,000 limit Credit Gold card; blaming friends for not taking their purse for treat, when passing through all kind of beverage shops etc.. But I did the same kinda stuff roaming Brigade road on the New Year Evening. Seems the terrorists haven't marked this New Year in their calendar!! Happy about that, because we were able to tell our parents that we were celebrating New Year outside our house. I managed to get at least a dustbin corner to park my bike. All the traffic police seemed really busy in doing traffic control work, because my TN regd bike escaped easily from them. This is the brigade road around 8pm full of decoration lights was good though the local kannada fm was torturing our ears.

These three + the one which the camera could not capture as he was the photographer, are my friends. New Year Party had begun.. We got one big cake quite enough for four of us and left Brigade thinking of TV Channels.

In home we sang "Happy New Year to us" song cutting the cake, around 00:15 i think, because we were watching the mesmerizing AR Rehman & Nelly Furtado Concert in Star plus at 00:00:000. It was really nice to see Rehman introducing the 'Pray for me brother' song, following Kalbali, Eshk Bina, Tere Bina and Humma with the intro of Blaze. Even Nelly did the best with Josh at last. Singing Maneater, am like a bird and another song from her only infamous album Folklore followed by Promiscus girl feat Josh and the famous Powerless at last. I have been searching the net in vein till now to get the Powerless feat josh good quality audio. That was the end of my New Year celebration.

2007-01-01T19:53:00.000+05:30

Welcome to 2007

So.. Another great year has come to an end. I hope 2006 was a good year for you, as it definitely was a good year for me. Yeah, I became a Conroe Owner getting the Intel Core 2 PC, started doing this (blogging), got unlimited internet connection, got some new friends, saw hell lot of movies, played some really good games and things like that and more over was never experienced any problems..
Hopefully this 2007 will give us more fun and happy in our life. So I am wishing you good and prosperous 2007 wanting the same from u.

2006-12-31T18:21:00.000+05:30

Am Really Back

Don't want to tell the excuses for not writing blog.. Am really back to write blog frequently because of these two things:

One "2007" : In order to choose a simple New Year resolution which can be done, I have chosen to write blog frequently. If I am not able to do this, then I think I should take "brushing teeth regularly" as the 2008 resolution.. Hopefully it should not happen!!

Two "fans Support!!" : Yeah! Really, Not believing it? One of my friend has given me encouragement for continuing the blog. And by the way, I like to refer my quote from my first blog: "...when my friends are there i can do anything i can..(in tamil it is - 'eathyvitta enna venumnalum seivan..."

So, guess what? U gonna find some more waste space occupied in the blogger.com server.. Yeah I am going to put more blogs frequently :) Watch out..

2006-09-25T18:56:00.000+05:30

Got BroadBand

It took for me long time to think about writing another blog..This is because i was busy those days. Sometimes i think something crazy about the word 'Busy'. i can say Everybody is busy all time - working, sleeping, reading, hearing music, breathing..one will not say 'i am busy in playing' unless he is a player,and 'i m busy in singing' unless he is a singer..so one will only be busy in the work he has to do, or which is important to him..

Okay..leave that. Hereafter i hope i can write more frequent blogs, because i got broadband connection. Its quiet worthy for unlimited connection of 256kbps for 900 bucks provided you are having your own modem, otherwise 100 bucks extra as life rental - plan of almost all providers. Airtel is the best as far as my knowledge goes,but its only available for you if you are lucky. I am not one of the lucky persons..Airtel responded me within a day to say sorry for the non feasibility of broadband connection in my area.

So i started scanning for next option since i couldn't wait for a minimum of 2 months as airtell told me, yes its minimum not maximum..the next options are bsnl, sify, reliance and tataindicom..I can easily omit Tata Indicom because of its well known poor customer service and well known problems. Sify i think its costly when comes to installation and charging..so opted for bsnl with little hesitation because of govt sector, because of my friends suggestion who is using it.

Its always better to take steps carefully when dealing with govt sectors.Yes, you should not opt for internet connection and phone connection in a single form from bsnl, if so its gonna be absolute delay. I applied for the phone connection first in BDA complex with the refundable security deposit of 500, which i got exactly the last day of the week followed. Then i requested for broadband form, with the option of 900 plan with own modem choice. I opted for own modem, since the line man who gave me connection clearly told there is no modem in stock in bsnl office. At last got the connection within a week. Bought Dlink ADSL 2+ modem and tried to configure it in my system for two day and still trying to configure it with my NetGear router so that i can share internet in my pc and my laptop..

2006-09-08T17:42:00.000+05:30

DVD Version 2

--BLU-RAY & HD-DVD--

I was randomly looking over the pages of PC World - September 2006 edition, where at the first time I saw names like high definition DVDs, Blu-ray, HD DVD. And started looking over it.. After the launch of mid 90's only now DVDs have become popular and cheapest in India. Now everyone is getting DVD writers for mere 2K bucks and it has become the essential part of a PC. I got one not a year before.

It seems there is the next version of DVD and is out already and there are two flavors of them which has heavy competition. Yes, there's a new standards war in town: HD-DVD versus Blu-ray. Both promise true high-resolution video and more features than the current generation of DVDs, but because the formats are incompatible, hardware manufacturers, and we are in a situation to take decision to go on which side.

HD-DVD by Toshiba was first to market, and Blu-ray movies by Sony are available now but not extensively. The DVD switch will also affect PCs: several manufacturers will start shipping systems with Blu-ray drives, which will work via third-party software, over the summer, and Microsoft and Intel are supporting the HD-DVD drives. Blu-ray discs are more expensive, but hold more data, while HD-DVD is comparatively cheaper holding less data. This is the capacity chart for them:

Capacity
Blu-Ray		HD DVD
ROM single layer: ROM dual layer: RW single layer: RW dual layer: Highest test: Theoretical limit:	23.3 / 25GB 46.6 / 50GB 23.3 / 25 / 27GB 46.6 / 50 / 54GB 100GB 200GB	Single layer: Dual layer: - - Highest test: Theoretical limit:	15GB 30GB - - 45GB 60GB

(Taken from engadget)

Since manufacturers of blue laser diodes are still unable to improve yield rates, the shortage may result in pushing back the competition between Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD optical disc drives in the market to the first quarter of 2007. So it should take some 2015 for us to put hands in them!!

2006-09-07T21:50:00.000+05:30

The REAL COMEDIANS
--Tribute to the real comedians of South India.--

Do you think Vivek and Vadivelu are the comedians? They are not the real comedians, they are just jokers trying many ways to make people laugh. Real Comedian is the one who makes us to laugh as well as cry very easily at each and every bit of the film.

The Stable Answer for the Real Comedian from Tamil side is well-known; he is none other than our beloved, college going graduate, fresh youth, charming - Cap10 (as he pronounces). But there has been a very heavy competition from Telegu side emerged & well established star NBK alias Ballaya alias Balakrishna.

I have compiled some of the highlight comedies of these comedians. In this case it is hard to separate their highlights from the whole film. For example, you cannot distinguish comedy from the screenplay in Narasimha, a comedy box office hit form Cap10. But thanks to our real humorous friends' u-tube posts, I compiled some of their masterpieces.

Our Cap10 vs NBK
BEST INTRODUCTION

Our Cap10's

Do you still like the introduction scene of Arnold in Terminator 2? If so you might not have seen this scene.
Intro - sunglass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn-CKI1UgtI

NBK's move :

Have you seen the stupid intro scene of MI2? Getting some sunglass goggles. very funny!! See this MI0, a stubborn reply for all the Hollywood stuntmen to pack and go home...See how our hero uses his powers to save a lamb, clearly depicting his humanity. A superb into scene showing hero's power and his humanity.. our Cap10 is clean bold in this move.
MI0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygR68FIvri0

BEST LOW BUDGET COMMEDY

Our Cap10's :
This is the most wanted scene of all time. This can be taken as the low budget yet rich humor scene.
Mostwanted scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDM8NHTJ9_k

NBK's move :
See this how this low budget comedy is..Our Cap10 touches his moustache to fight with enemies. But Ballaya points his fingers to move anything he wants. Whose has more power? Decide urself..

Chair pulling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmCpFu8kq0k

BEST POWER

Our Cap10's
Do you like science fiction comic movies? Is there any hero in the film industry who has this much power? Embrace yourself!!
Current's shock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nOhiKwZWdU

NBK's move :
Is that bursting transformer is a feat than moving a train by pointing finger? You can see who Ballaya is.. Again Cap10 is clean bold in this move.
Train http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jROdvv1AB0I

Our Cap10's team
Paparazzi video got our Cap10. See his childish angry. Don't laugh he is angry!!
Child gets angry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iME4RBT4YLs

NBK and his team
This is yet another high budget film with lot of big hens in our ballaya's team. Spielberg couldn't have imagined such a script for Jurassic Park series. Yet another mile stone form telegu side.
The Team http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NskkXnyRdQY

BEST REAL COMMEDIAN

So in conclusion our Cap10 Vijayakanth has to work hard and has to think even more creative to beat Ballaya. So sadly Vijayakanth is the runner up for REAL COMMEDIAN. And the REAL COMMEDIAN award goes to non other than "Ballaya". To know more about the winner, logon to http://www.nbkfans.com/

There were plenty of nomination from tamil as well as telegu actors like Krodham Premkumar (is busy in Krodham 100), Ramarajan (has no money to fill the nomination form for REAL COMMEDIAN), Chiranjeevi etc..

BEST STUNT COMMEDIAN
Chiranjeevi got special awards for the BEST STUNT COMMEDIAN for the following clips:

Horse stunt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxAORwD7J8U
Tractor stunt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-gzPCvNpY

So Tamil industry has to work hard as telegu is going to its extreme... In this case we have to admit our lose... Our Cap10 is the only rescue person.. WE WILL WAIT, WILL WAIT ..WAIT (as told by cap10) for him in future products to beat deadly NBK..

2006-09-05T13:38:00.000+05:30

Vettaiyadu Vilayadu

Vettaiyadu - Villain did the hunting.
Vilayadu - Hero did the childish playing.

I was one among the eager audience to see Kamal movies, coz he is one among the few not spoiling our Tamil industry. I was also quite impressed on Goutham for the good and natural screenplay of Kakka Kakka. So there is nothing to wonder on the expectation for the trio Kamal, Goutham, Harish.

The first half of the movie went very well without flaws. Though the villain was introduced bit early, I had so much expectation for the cause of the serial murders. In the interval, I was debating with one of my friends who told me this one is not as good as Kakka Kakka, that it has a different plot. I meant to say Kamal is not some 30 years old Anbuchelvan, in Kakka Kakka encountering local rowdies. Here Kamal has a matured role of investigating which needs patience and intelligence to unveil mysteries. Moreover the first half went naturally and the way I expected. I was comparing VV in my mind as a non commercial Hollywood movie meant for academy awards.

But all my satisfaction and joy started collapsing seeing the flashback of the villain. I compromised my mind asking myself why it shouldn't happen? I am okay with the plot that villain killing Anderson, Kamal's associate and attacking kamal for escape. But I could compromise myself when Kamal escaped form the fire very easily who is about to die within minutes. I was expecting some sort of intelligent escape of Kamal. This is first flaw. The villains suddenly escaped to India. Another one surprise!! Okay lets compromise this. Then as, usual Tamil cinemas do, there is one song for villains which they started playing, made me annoyed very much.

Kamal after arriving India discusses this issue and tells as if he has some good plan and starts to execute it. But I don't understand the plan itself and the effectiveness of the plan. As usual villain started chasing after Hero’s family. But the strange thing is hero comments villain as small boys in between all the murders. At last these small boys take the heroine as everyone expected. But as not everyone expected, one among the two villains himself falls into Hero's trap. Here I started thinking about plans after the movie and the next day works. And after this I can see that the dialogue writer and the director are in a miserable situation to end the movie.

The other thing which might have taken care is violence. Since this movie is not for a separate audience of SAW series or Hostel, I feel there is no need for showing extreme blood and gore scenes if it not required. This movie is a thriller and not a horror.

So what is worth to see this movie? Really the whole first half of the movie is simply best. The mature love between Jothika and kamal, really a good move. Music is simply superb. Music is the only part to relax in the second part, though some songs might have mixed in other part of screen play. I would say there might be some quarrel on screen play, which got much worse because of that. Villains are given more importance and more scenes. And these small boys hunts people whomever they don't like easily. And luckily our hero and heroine escaped from them, though luck didn't work for heroine at first.
So we can expect really good movies from Gautham if he is away from Kamal. And as usual we can expect really good movies form Kamal if he is away from Gautham.

2006-09-04T19:12:00.000+05:30

Finalized Tremplate

I won't get satisfied by myself easily..and that's why It took 6 days for me to finalize my template. Searched from several sites and got one basic but good template. Did some alterations and changed background pics..Now I think its almost finalized. But not sure how long this will be..coz I like doing graphics/actions than writing.. and that's why you may wonder why this fool is taking this much time for mere blog templates..Before I was looking into some template with buttons for navigation, but it took some more time to load. So I omitted those templates. Then I got this one, but I had to modify it to 1024 X 768 resolution. Then I want to change it into my favorite blue color. Some where I want to add my face. So did all these and finalized, hope u like this..

2006-09-01T20:24:00.000+05:30

Weekend Music

Its Friday, and its gonna be long weekend coz Monday its holiday for US people, don't want to know the reason..So I can come to office more casual than I usually do on monday..no week end plans as usual..so started looking to take some time to relax. I love music very much as others usually do, I go some sort of addiction on the western music coz its is western.. I used to take screen snaps of the new album titles when they are playing on VH1 / MTV / VTV in my PC with tv tuner card..Likewise I used to get some favorites to download..I got some for you to play..

These days I used to love mild music, after started hearing Dido. Skye Edwards from the Morcheeba, has made her debut album - Mind how you go, which is so mild and beautiful to hear..Favourite ones are Love Show, Stop Complaining, Wha's wrong with me, All the promises.

Check this out..

Skye Edwards - Mind how you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye_Edwards

h**p://rapidshare.de/files/14273011/skyeedwardsmindhowyougo.zip

Watched the track Good Day - Jewel, because of its different video and started loving this song. You can download the whole album for this single song, coz its that much worthy!! even 'satellite' one more song is also good..

Jewel - Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_%28singer%29

h**p://rapidshare.de/files/22441718/rAzOrblAdE_J_GAIW.part1.rar.html
pass: uds

Wanna some splendid hip hop, check the Smile - Lily Allen, Also watch the video for fun..

Lily Allen - Alright Still
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Allen

h**p://rapidshare.de/files/23161055/LAAS.rar.html
Pass: apathy

So happy weekend, waste ur time with these albums like me…

2006-08-31T21:02:00.000+05:30

Planned PC Config.

A week before i was walking with some 300 bucks in my pocket, though it happens rarely - which makes me look around to make affordable things as essential things for me..My dad often advices me to be careful in distinguishing between 'just affordable' and 'essential' things. Luckily i am one among people for whom essential things are affordable. People used to love unessential things coz it is affordable, that day likewise i bought 'PC World' magazine for 60 bucks, could be 2 days lunch..though the magazine is available in online, reading of hardcopies are always preferred. Main reason i bought the book is - i am planning to assemble a PC, surely not now..waiting for Quads from AMD and Intel..yes, to go to Dual..Just Kidding..

I have been closely watching than ever before on the price slashes and the war between Intel and AMD.. I would prefer to put some 50K bucks to get a handsome pc.
The best Configuration for now seems to favor Intel Core 2..Here is the configuration I am thinking of..

Samsung 740 17" TFT monitor =10000
segate 250 gb Baracudda = 4000
ups m+tech 600 VA = 1800
tv tuner = 1500
mouse+keyboard(Microsoft) = 1000
Zebronics Antibiotic cabinet = 2000
1GB Tracend RAM = 4000
lite on shw-1635S dual dvd writer = 2200
total: 26500

So the balance is for Processor and Mobo..i am not planning for the Game card when I am going to assemble.. Now available things are:

intel core 2 duo e6300 = 9000
asus p5b deluxe = 10000

So the total comes 45500 for a pc. I decided to wait for the Intel mobo to come to the market, so that the processor and other mobo prices may decrease..so wats ur opinion..

2006-08-30T17:58:00.000+05:30

Template Change

After i did the first post with the usual 'Minima Black' template, being a semi animatic designer (not professionally), i decided to change the template something different..so started googling and got some templates and out of them i put one during this post..hope you like it..But more works are there to change the sea anemone and starfish pics, which i am planning to do using my Photoshop Illegal version..Don't know when we can see indian softwares could be downloded and registered by paying Indian money..I am happy to be in India for using illegal softwares easily..

It took more time to figure out a good template, and i got something like if you download a template and put it in the blog, the style sheets(.css) and javascript (.js) mostly will be from the website you downloaded it, so your blog will take the pics and formats from the template website and data from the blogger.com. So i think it would be better to embed the .css and the .js in the template itself, so you can get the whole page from a single server blogger.com. I have to do this for my blog..so i am going to do it now..

2006-08-29T13:35:00.000+05:30

Let's Get it Started

At Last even I have started to do this..yes..there were three main reasons which made me to hesitate to write a blog..

One -
I think I am good in simple English (without touching those important list GRE vocabs) , but I think I am worst in vocabs..
Two -
I feel shy when I am lonely, yes.. This is because when my friends are there i can do anything i can..(in tamil it is - 'eathyvitta enna venumnalum seivan') I have to blog when I am lonely without thinking what others think on me..its quite difficult for me..

Three -
I haven't read a single book if it is not meant for Exams and i was not interested in reading blogs before i started thinking about this.

So now why should i started wasting the space in blogger.com?..surely not wasting my time..coz i won't feel boring - having difficult to become old and also busy - having difficult in seeing whether i became old? I at first saw some of my friends general blogs(poetic like for which i have to sit with dictionary) which frightens me to come to this area, as all non-computer science software engineers did before they exceed the cs engineers..
But i found some of the blogs are with downloads links (its my passion) and with fun and info..I saw one of my friend's friend blog fully in tamil. Though i can really understand tamil very well,i could not read as faster as english and vise versa. This is the fate that lies on a good student from middle class in TamilNadu. But this blog is so good as reading Tamil monthlies with selected pages. I started thinking why can't we at least start which could be the end..so here are the reasons why I stated this:

One - I can get knowledge for this, coz i am not planning to write my personal dairy details or about the traffic in my city which everybody is experiencing daily. I could write something interesting or which is knowledgeable or some reviews coz every one is having their own views..

Two - I used to forget things faster than i used to store in my memory. Also I am having some virtual memory problem..So this blog might be of use to store some info which I can refer when needed..

Three -Expose my intelligence or foolishness to everybody..For safety precautions to avoid my foolish side, i have hidden the comments for now and I am not going to give link to some of my friends until my post count goes 2 or 3..

so meet you in next post, if u read up to this line..hopefully..