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14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 --- IPL

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:55:00 +0000

Nothing great... but it was intersting to see the IPL points table in that fashion... top 7 teams are all separated by 1 point evenly :)

Good Luck Chennai!!!

Benazir Bhutto's Assasination Video

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:45:00 +0000

"I Dont hate Mozilla but use IE or Else" Virus

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:29:00 +0000

Or "USE INTERNET EXPLORER U DOPE" virus. Know what? Just got affected by it.

Want to know how? A consequence of using an infected USB. This virus is spreading through USB drives.

As Kalai points out:

"Its a safe practice to press and hold the Shift button before inserting any usb drives to avoid the autorun feature from being activated. For newbies, hold the shift button until any LED lights on the usb drive stops flashing. Then open My Computer and right click your drive which should be the last alphabet anyway. Use the open menu and check for any auto.inf files (it might be hidden)and delete it. Mind you, these files if any, have no business in the USB drive in the first place!"

Ok, thats all about prevention which is better than cure. Now that if you are affected, never mind - you can get rid of this "amateur" virus within next 2 minutes:

Thanks a lot to "learns" at Mozillazine forums. His/her solution worked for me.

Download this app from this page
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

direct link: http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorer.zip

extract it to drive and run it .

goto view->select columns , (select) image path, click ok .

In the column named "path" look for heaps64 or heaps41 or heaps .

note down the path , open the path in explorer.

now kill the process by right clicking -> kill process.

delete the heaps folder.

if you are not able to delete.

download this http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/unlocker1.8.5.exe

install it .

now right click on the target folder (heaps*** )-> unlock -> delete

Update:
If you can't see a folder starting with "heap" or "heaps" or "heap41a" or "heaps64", never mind... just try open your MyComputer in "Explore" mode and type "C:/heap41a" or "C:/heaps64" and it is very likely that the folder will be listed in the Explorer pane on left. Just delete the folder and your PC is clean now.

Heights of Sarcasm - "Reserved Parking"

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:10:00 +0000

Courtesy: Technews

Firefox 2 Phishing protection ROCKS!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:48:00 +0000

I had read lots and lots about firefox 2 phishing feature ever since it was released. I had never seen it directly in action benefiting me until today. Perhaps, SiteAdvisor had always made me feel safe of my internet sessions.

I wanted to find a way to upgrade my gmail space and found related discussions on a Google groups page. Although, the very second response in that thread shouts "That is Spam and Phishing", I missed it somehow and clicked exactly on the link which I shouldn't have clicked. My Siteadvisor didnt know about this website and it didn't say whether the website was good or not. But, my good luck, I got some message popped up from near the address bar (See below)

Wow, that was neat and right on time. I never saw such a thing earlier. I don't know if I dont get trapped into such phishing websites that much or perhaps I dont use internet that much at all :D
FIREFOX rocks!!!

A better proxy... well, kind of!

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:59:00 +0000

[Thanks Rupesh, via Amit ]

So you are tired of using so many proxies to access many blocked websites and your system admins blocking the proxies as well?

Well, well, well, guess this is a smarter approach now. If you want to access orkut, try this:

http://www.operamini.com/demo/?url=orkut.com

Just replace orkut.com with any URL you want. Youtube, flickr, Gmail, Yahoomail, Hotmail or just any other cookie-enabled websites.

All the requests will be made by opera.com website hence making it easier to bypass the local filtering.

Good Luck !!!

Baby vs Cobra

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:41:00 +0000

WARNING: Not advisable for weak hearts (but advisable for those who have so-called "brains")

TRAILER - Rajini in Sivaji

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:36:00 +0000

I guess this is the first officially released trailer of most awaited Rajini's movie - SIVAJI. ENJOYYY

SHORT MOVIE (HORROR): Possum Death Spree

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:40:00 +0000

This is easily one of the best shot "short" movies in recent times. The theme revolves around the awakening of bloodthirsty possums which are thought to have played a major role in the extinction of dinosaurs (atleast fictionally).

Will these killer possums be able to repeat their action and cause the extinction of humans this time? Not to over-hype, but you can't expect more than this in a 4:34 movie. :D

Enjoy!!!

Need a Windows XP key??? Here it is - NO, don't pay me a penny

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:46:00 +0000

Digital Inspiration quotes:

"Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software, hardware components, printers, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, software keys, network details, ports, software drivers, software file versions, hard drive partitions and every possible information about your computer."

But the best part is that people started posting their Belarc profiles on internet and the result??? Yes, you guessed. If you need a Windows XP key or any other popular software, chances are you can find it right now @ Belarc-powered Windows XP Key data

World Cup 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:38:00 +0000

Seriously, its disgusting to think of Indian team's performance (and the team as such too). We're almost out of the world cup as I'm writing this now.

India need 96 runs in 74 balls

India: 159/8 (37.4 Ovs)

H Singh*

2(7)

Z Khan

0(0)

Sri Lanka: 254/6 (50.0 Ovs)

L Malinga

8-0-39-1

S Jayasuriya*

8.4-0-31-1

Run Rate : 4.22 (Required:7.78) Current Partnership: 0(1)

Last Wicket: Rahul Dravid c M Muralitharan b S Jayasuriya 60(82) - 8/159 in 37.3 ov.

Well, Indian team all that I have got to say to you is, "Its not a shameful thing to be called a minnow... You deserve that pretty much... and I seriously dont understand why your Test nation status hasn't been grabbed yet"

Topless Chick in the middle of the Beach - Image

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:53:00 +0000

Is Twitter better than a blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:27:00 +0000

My experience with Twitter & potential applications

I am a die-hard fan of Twitter ever since I knew about it. Even though not many of my Indian friends use it, I'm quite happy playing with it - who would like to resist the ability to have live conversations with people like Scoble?

For the forthcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 (which nearly 25% of the world population is going to follow), I thought its a great way to help them receive LIVE UPDATES right on their mobile/IM absolutely free of charge. And I set up this website at www.crictimes.com

The goal of this website:
Send LIVE CRICKET SCORE UPDATES to any cricket fan on the world absolutely FREE irrespective of the medium (mobile, IM, email, RSS or web)

I didn't publicise much about it as I was not completed with my testing of the service as such. Some of the problems I observed:
(1) It doesn't work on few mobile networks (for example Hutch in India)
(2) It doesn't have local numbers for all parts of the world (Some people find it expensive to send ISD messages everytime to update from their mobiles)
(3) Apart from these, there were several random instances when the updates don't arrive on my devices at all (mobile or IM) and there is NO real reason as why its not getting updated.
(4) There is ONLY one UK-based Twitter number I can use. Although this is beneficial in most cases, having a couple of options doesn't harm/

I contacted Twitter team on this and it seems clear that their growth itself is a big barrier to offer a stable service. I can definitely understand this but I had to re-consider my decision now to run crictimes and I might not possibly run it because I dont want to let cricket fans down who might be looking for that important update on an important match.

Considering the potential applications of Twitter:

(1) You can be a broadcaster of a particular event (just like I thought of updating all the cricket fans with the live scores and related newsbits around it for the next two months)
(a) Even if you're not generating content, you can think of setting up a Twitter account exclusively to update all the breaking news on CNN / IBM / New York Times / TechCrunch or just about anything or any other blog.
(b) How about an account to follow Web 2.0 expo exclusively and keep the world virtually follow you all next month?
(c) How about a soldier/civilian following activities at Iraq and updating his Twitter account?
(d) How about someone following George Bush?
(e) How about if someone following things happening inside North Korea and updates us?

Anything like that. Possibilities are endless. Once you have followers behind you, you can set-up a business model like sending upto 10 relevant ads per day as updates to same mobile or something like that. That way you get paid for your time as well :D

Twitter is NOT a replacement for a blog but it has a great potential as a notification service.

If everyone subscribes for their own Twitter account, we don't need special news correspondants to cover an event and show us "edited" content. Every one of us can be a news correspondent covering our own topics in our own way - be it of global scope or something restricted to your friends circle.

If James Kim had used Twitter, I believe we would have had more chances to save him. The opportunites & applications are immense and sky is the limit with something like Twitter.

The beauty of twitter is the marriage it conducted between web and mobiles. I think its time for early adopted like us to support it offer a stable service. To offer a stable service, they need money. Its time now to make VCs realize that twitter is a revolutionary concept and has a huge potential just by tweaking few aspects of its business model.

Lets show our support to twitter by digging this.

L O L, can't get closer than this, Scoble !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:01:00 +0000

Seriously, that's how closer you can get to Scoble here . L O L !

Ever dreamt of your own business?

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:34:00 +0000

Had you been into a situation where you'd given a really smart idea that greatly helped your team / company? And finally you hear your boss complementing with a BIG THANKS... Is that really sufficient? Or did you ever think your performance could have been rewarded better?

I had always thought that my mission in life is to simplify things - be it making my mom understand how "flickr" works or helping my client understand the working principle of "http"

Now I wanted to find a way to make it easy for potential technopreneurs (technology entrepreneurs) who had always dreamt of some cool technologies, software, websites or even some smart utilities but just couldn't realize it. This quest is the cause for the birth of dreamZhunt

dreamZhunt is a way to appreciate and reward smart business ideas (technology/ software/ internet related) sponsored by Netandhost. dreamZhunt is literally a "dreamz" hunt contest where the best dreamz (ideas) would be appreciated with the required (seed) funding and expert guidance. At the end of the contest, three winning ideas would be converted into businesses.

All the required seed funding and other resources are hassle of Netandhost - which means your duty, if you win, would be to run your dream business without worrying much about finances or other legal issues (or atleast to start with). Hey wait, did I say that you'll also get upto 15% stock option in the new business floated based on your idea?

So if you are working as a software engineer, business executive, student, or anyone else who has some cool concept but just couldn't find resources (or finance) to kick-start, this is THE RIGHT TIME.

All that you'd need to do is to submit your idea at www.dreamzhunt.com The best part is that you do NOT need to have any business plan to submit your idea. The application form is pretty simple and would not take more than an hour if you've something ready in your store.

Also, please dont forget to spread the message to your friends who might benefit out of this initiative. You've a large collection of logos, blog snippets (that you can put on your blog/website which automatically updates latest news here at dreamZhunt) and several other options to help spread the message.

If things work out well, we're hoping many other companies adopt similar strategies with their staff members that could be a win-win scenario for both. After all, selling "time" is a pretty old fashion of doing business :)

PS: Feel free to suggest your ideas to keep this event simpler, better and fun

Is Walmart a threat to Indian retail market?

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:49:00 +0000

Well, there had been lots of buzz about Walmart's discussion with Bharti bosses this week. Infact BBC quotes: A spokesman for India FDI Watch, which tries to limit the growth of foreign retailers in India, says Wal-Mart's entry threatens large numbers of jobs.

Is that really so? Can anyone justify? Perhaps the number of small business owners might go down but definitely not the jobs. Infact, Walmart's proven system would help create more jobs and add a good competition thereby benefitting the end-users.

A loser's talk: "If Wal-Mart comes, they will sell goods at wholesale prices which will be cheaper and I will have no customers. I simply can't compete with these big supermarkets ... what will happen to me and my family? I'm worried we'll end up on the streets."

My point: If you think you can't really retain your "niche" loyal customers, why would you not consider working for someone who can run a better business. Is that really bad? In most cases, salaries at big companies are greater than profits made out of small businesses. After all, that is why most small business owners ensure that their kids get the best job out there.

By "beating" the competition, you're making an end-user lose the value. To conclude, try to partner with someone who can offer best value to an end-user or SIMPLY STAY AWAY

UI change in Google results pages

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:58:00 +0000

I was just trying to search from flock search box and saw a new interface for Google search results. A new coloumn on the left side appeared for the first time with links to services like Google Images, Maps, News & Groups. I was not able to reproduce the same when searching from Google homepage search box.

Is this another way of pushing Google's services even if I dont want them??? Which other scenarios produce similar interfaces???

Digg on Google - Organic or Co-op?

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:39:00 +0000

I know this had been an ongoing debate on Digg community whether Google results must be include Digg news. Just adding my two cents to it. I found this Digg news on Google search results now.

I searched for World's smallest man and found this digg listing at 10th place. To expand the ongoing discussion, lets try to analyse the scenario. Is the result redundant???

There is this Co-op module for digg which displays something like onebox results. I think this module would be useful for who already knows about Digg. What about others who are yet to become a part of Digg community? How will we add new members to the DIGG community?

The DIGG listings might NOT be redundant to them. Infact, the Digg listing is only going to add further value with its valuable comments by other diggers. After all, who would resist to receive the community feedback on their favourite topic???

I strongly think Digg listings MUST be included in Google results. I'm sure it DIGG is another special website just as Wikipedia and would add a great value because of valuable community feedback for each topic.

What do you think?

Shilpa Vs Jade: Is it racism?

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:01:00 +0000

For the past 6 or 7 hours, I am learning about one news, just abt a SINGLE thing, right from my good old TV to radio and all across Internet, "Shilpa vs Jade". The issue has even been raised in UK parliament.

The attention generated around this is just too high than it deserves. The issue can be simplified to a single question: "Is it racism?"

Frankly, jus as this blogger, I dont think so. The issue must be treated at the "individual" levels and NOT at national or international levels. More specifically, this incident must NOT be related to a sensitive issue like "racism".

Staying with new people for months in an isolated world can't be entirely so "sweet". And it definitely can't "start" sweeter. After all, that is the concept of a reality show - to withstand such hurdles. Except for this outraged controversy, I'd not seen or learnt about this show in the past.

It is ofcourse a mistake if Shilpa was referred to as a "Paki dog". But I believe the game rules are stronger enough to flag this contestant in such a case. This issue MUST just be seen as a game. Nothing more, nothing less.

It doesn't make sense to make this a global issue. IMHO, it doesn't deserve that kind of attention. As anyone would agree, this is a typical "girly" fight. I'm confident that Shilpa is stronger enough to handle such issues considering her successful attitude in Bollywood. Being a Tamilian, it was never tough for her to deal with native Hindi co-workers. "Big Brother" row is just going to be a "round-2" to showcase her attitude.

This row is only adding atleast few more million votes in support of Shilpa. Click here and keep voting your favourite stars. :D

Okhil Babu’s letter to the Railway Department (early 1900’s )

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:21:00 +0000

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Quote:
“I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with ‘lotah’ in one hand and ‘dhoti’ in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station. This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers.”

Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption “Travellers’ Tales” in the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Any guesses why this letter is of historic value?
It led to the introduction of TOILETS in trains!!!!!!!!!
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CREDIBILITY OF THIS STORY --- REALLY NOT SURE. THIS IS AN EMAIL FORWARDED TO ME AND I THOUGHT ITS AN INTERESTING STUFF TO PUT ON MY BLOG.

Snake vomits a hippo

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:08:00 +0000

What a month it had been!!! Heard of many such stories but never saw a snake swallowing a hippo... This is one crazy snake ;)

Heights of ad humour

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:38:00 +0000

If an adamant child is a non-sense then this child is non-sense whole squared. Of course the father of the child has to be appreciated for his endurance. Guess what the video is about. I am sure that you would guess wrong.

TOP browser yesterday

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:49:00 +0000

I know IE has a market share of around 80% globally followed by Firfox and others. But my visitors are almost equally divided between Firefox and IE. However, posting Saddam's video on my blog increased the browser share to 65% for IE and just around 25% for Firefox.

Just thought we'll run a simple poll to determine browser market share in blogosphere and diggnation. Which browser tops the list on your Google Analytics (or any other related software you use) in the past 24 hours?

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Full Saddam Execution Video Leaked from Cellphone

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:27:00 +0000

This is a rather diturbing video.
TPM Cafe quotes:
It's hard to know who is directing this internet traffic, but it can be concluded there were elements within America's government and/or military, working in concert with Iraq's current scarecrow power-holders, who wanted as many people as possible in the world to see Saddam hang.

Video : Saddam Hussein Execution

noreply@blogger.com (Manoj) — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:45:00 +0000

Just saw this video of Saddam Hussein being executed (almost). The video is cut after the noose is placed over his neck. Pls add links to any other related videos in the comments