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Oct 5, 2009

Save your docs and stuff ... cloud style ...

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Hello ...
I've this tendency to save my docs/PDFs online ...
I do this coz I wanna have access where ever I may be ...
You never know when you might need a copy of your ID card ...
Or a copy of your passport for that matter ... hehe ...
I used to save my stuff in Yahoo! Briefcase since 2000 ...
But some how ... I missed their (multiple) announcements ...
And around mid this year ... I lost all my stuff with them ...
That was a major bummer ... but luckily I had backups ...
I had copies of everything important ... that was a life saver ...
Since then ... I've been looking around for a new service ...
I settle on not one but two services ... you know just in case ...
One is Upload Robots ... a fairly new service on the market ...
They offer 4GB of storage free ... more if you go pro ...
I like their site ... really like the user interface ...
I also mirrored everything to my apple dot mac account ...
A paid service ... expensive ... but easy to use with my OS ...
They rebranded the service recently... its now known as dot me ...
Guess with my stuff on two separate services ...
The possibility of loosing it will be kept minimum ... hehe ...
What service(s) do you guys use to save/store your stuff ???
Lemme know ...
Laterx ...

Sep 11, 2009

Get Caught ... Get Flipped ... Or Get Deeper ...

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Hello
Started watching a new TV show ... action packed of course ...
Its called Dark Blue ... here's the official site ...
It stars Dylan McDermott heading a team of undercover cops ...
Show doesn't loose time but throws us right in to their world ...
About code among cops blurring the line between good and evil ...
The plot is fast paced ... but some times a tad unrealistic ...
Almost every episode has got that over-the-top thing going on ...
Anyways ... all those guns, drugs, girls and all things bad ...
Make a good cop show ... a dark one that is easy to enjoy ...
I'm on the first season ... getting to know the team members ...
Hope this show makes it ... doesn't get canceled mid-season ...
Check out the show if you can ... you might like it ...
The title of this article is a tag line for the show ...
Laterx ...

Sep 4, 2009

The big cat roars in ...

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Hello ...
As you may have heard ... Snow Leopard is here ...
Every other blog I read has something to say about it ...
Most of the reviews say Snow leopard is generally good ...
Everyone agrees that its a quick, easy and a cheap upgrade ...
Naturally ... I'm thinking whether I should upgrade ...
So I ran a quick check to see if my MBP will fully support it ...
And yes ... my hardware will support Snow leopard ... somewhat ...
The problem is ... I have a MacBook Pro from late 2006 ...
It has an ATI RadeonX1600 Graphics card ... not Nvidia ...
Meaning I can't get openCL or quicktime hardware acceleration ...
Also ... ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi ...
Returns a "firmware-abi" = <"EFI32"> ... not "EFI64" ...
Which means I cant boot into full 64bit mode ... bummer !!!
Apart from these ... my MBP will run Snow Leopard just fine ...
So you can understand why I'm not all excited here ...
Anyways ... what do you guys think ... should I upgrade ???
Laterx ...

Aug 24, 2009

Do you know this guy ??? I don't ...

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Hello ...
Have you guys heard about www.iulaan.mv ... ???
Its a good local site with lotsa ads and announcements ...
I was browsing the site today when I found this ad ...
Apparently ... a resort is looking for a dive instructor ...
With a an instructor certificate ... thats OK ... right ...???
So far so good ... but what blew me away was that ...
The ad says the dive instructor should speak 9 languages ...
Yes ... 9 languages ... lets list them shall we ...
English ... French ... Spanish ... Japanese ... Italian ...
German ... Russian ... Chinese ... and Korean ...
I dunno about you ... but I've never even heard of a diver ...
Who can speak like 9 languages ... I dunno that guy ...
And I'm pretty sure you won't either ... cos its just not real ...
And the fact they are looking for 8 such divers ... awesome...!!!
They are just putting up ads ... just for the sake of it ...
How else can you explain this sorta stuff ...??? Hehe ...
Happy Ramadan to all of you ...
Laterx ...

Jul 30, 2009

Where we all call 'Home' ...

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Hello ...
Few days back ... on recommendation from some of my friends ...
I downloaded and watched a documentary called 'Home' ...
And I tell you ... it was awesome ... it totally blew my mind ...
Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a beautifully shot panorama ...
Planet Earth and the damage done to it by modern humanity ...
The film has breathtaking aerial footage from 54 countries ...
Showing the pure beauty of our planet with amazing facts ...
Glenn Close narrates the journey with very good original music ...
We are shown the history of Earth how everything came about ...
And how everything is interconnected and balance maintained ...
It shows us how we ... as the dominant species on this planet ...
Has been brutally drilling in to our natural resources ...
Without a thought about sustainability or future consequences ...
It shows how far the ripples of our industrial decisions go ...
It also shows us ... towards the end of the film ...
That there are cities ... regions and nations ... that have ...
Made some forward thinking investments in to the future ...
And how ... we too can be responsible towards our only home ...
I highly recommend this film to anyone and everyone ...
Who has ever had a thought about our planet ... our earth ...
Watch this documentary ... and be blown away ...
Laterx ...

Jul 19, 2009

Transform this ... transform that ...

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Hello ...
I was in KL a few days back ...
I had the chance to watch Transformers 2 on big screen ...
I was all excited waiting in line for an hour to get tickets ...
But it seems my excitement was short lived ...
The moment the movie began ... after 20 mins of ads ...
It went downhill from that point onwards ...
Let me tell you ...I really liked the first Transformers movie ...
But this Revenge of the Fallen could not have sucked more ...
The story with Sam brain sync'd with an alien map ...
Too many robots and machines introduced in too little time ...
Stuff blowing up for no apparent reason as if it just had to ...
About 30 mins into the movie ... I was confused ...
I didn't know which was which ... or who was fighting who ...
Who was good and who was evil ... just metal against metal ...
Megan Fox was there ... she was hot ... enough said ...
Sam saves the day with the sand in his socks ... awesome !!!
The whole movie was like one big explosion ...
They say they could stay hidden in plain sight ...
They should have stayed that way ...
Gonna have to watch this movie a few times to make sense ...
If you like Michael Bay and his bad ass movies ...
You'll love this ... if not ... welcome to the club ...
Food for thought ... all the cars in the movie was from GM ...
And GM went bankrupt long before this movie came out ...
Yes ... I know I'm gonna get flamed by the fanboys ...
Laterx ...

Jun 1, 2009

Enjoy .mkv movies in HD glory ...

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Hello ...
With several High-Def movies now available for download ...
I've been try to figure out a way ...
To watch these movies on my 37" Philips TV ...
The problem I was facing was with the file formats ...
As you may know ... most HD movies come as .mkv files ...
And most of the Multi Media players sold today ...
Do not support this format ... not even with latest firmwares ...
So the best and easiest way to play these movies on my TV ...
Was to connect a computer to my TV and fire up VLC ...
However ... connecting a computer to my TV ...
Just to watch HD movies ...was a bit of an overkill for me ...
And so the research began ... to solve this problem ...
My answer came from Western digital ... a reputable company ...
I've been using their products for several years ...
And they've never failed on me ... they've earned my trust ...
They've recently released their Multi Media Player ...
It's called WD TV Live ... and reviews were sprouting up all good ...
It was small ... good design ... sturdy build ...
It handles a whole lot of audio and video formats ...
The best part was it played .mkv files ... at 1080p resolution ...
It was available in a few shops in Male' ... I couldn't wait ...
I sold the Abigs divX player from Sarotech ...
Ran out and bought WD TV Li... cheapest was at Formax shop ...
Installation was simple ... power and HDMI cables only ...
Picture quality is good ... I mean really very good ...
User interface is nice ... and the unit is silent in operation ...
WD TVs have become very popular now ... no surprises there ...
And as with all other products that become popular ...
WD TVs are being hacked and modded for extra functionality ...
Check out www.wdtvc.com for more info ...
I wish I'll not regret my decision to by this gadget ...
May be I never will .. eh ... ???  ;)
Laterx ...

May 23, 2009

The Judas Strain ...

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Hello ...
Its sometime since i've blogged ...
But as some of you might know ... I've been really busy ...
When I was away from home ... I got some time to read ...
The book I read was ... The Judas Strain by James Rollins ...
Its about a terrible plague arising from the deep ocean ...
A disease that is unknown, unstoppable and deadly to humankind ...
The book had two time lines spread across the chapters ...
One was about Marco Polo’s return journey from the Far East ...
In which majority of the men fall victim to the plague ...
And how most of the ships of the fleet were burnt down ...
The second story set in the present ...
A cruise liner converted in to a well equipped hospital ...
In which Dr. Lisa Cummings and other Sigma operatives ...
Search for answers to the deadly affliction ...
While fighting off terrorists in islands of Indonesia ...
Far away, another operative ... Gray Pierce ...
Thwarts the schemes of a murderous assassin ...
A killer who may unknowingly hold the first clue ...
To the discovery of a possible cure threatening the world ...
Time is an enemy as Pierce and unlikely ally ... a pretty ally ...
Are drawn into an astonishing mystery hidden deep ...
Deep in antiquity and in humanity’s genetic code ...
The story is fast paced ...blending science and history ...
I really enjoyed the book and recommend it ...
To anyone who enjoys fast action-packed thriller ...
Laterx ...

Feb 7, 2009

Twitter is killing my blog ...

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Hello ...
I've been neglecting my blog ... and twitter is to blame ...
In the past ... I blogged at least a few times a month ...
But now ... its been almost 4 months since i blogged anything ...
This micro-blogging thing is more/better than I thought ...
I tweet several times a day ... I throw out my thoughts ...
I throw links to stuff that I find interesting ...
I find twitter to be an easy avenue to be connected ...
Also ... I feel a sense of participation when on twitter ...
Sometimes I even find it productive ... I get good feedback ...
I ask for an opinion ... I get several before the day is done ...
But i like blogging ... and I wanna continue blogging ...
I like the fact that I need time to think and compose a post ...
I enjoy doing a bit of research on the subject I blog about ...
It feels good ... almost therapeutic ... hehe ...
I'll try and blog more regularly now ... I'll really try...
Laterx ...Its an always open app ...