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Anuradhapura , Sri Lanka 20 Jan 2011

2011-02-01T10:52:00.000+08:00

RUWANWALISAYA

New World Order - Asia

2010-12-19T10:13:00.001+08:00

I found this interesting video from twitter and has been tweeted by Bill Gates 19th Dec 2010. Visualized presentation is very cool and fats too (I assume facts are correct). So watch by your self and see what is it about.

While most the western countries are benefiting all the resources people from many other countries are struggling to live.

Tell me you don't like this

2010-11-24T00:15:00.000+08:00

Dear Readers , I found this song about two months ago from one of my facebook friend. I really liked the rhythm of this song and listened over and over again. Then I looked for more songs of this singer, he is "Chris Rea" and one of the world’s best slide guitarist. And then I managed to find more songs of him, I have to say those are the most soothing songs I ever heard and very nice to hear while relaxing.

Now here is the song that I mentioned that I found.

Texas from Chris Rea

And here are some of my favorite songs from Chris Rea and my rating.

On the beach - 8.5/10
Loving you - 7.5/10
I can hear your heartbeat - 8/10
Josephine - 8/10
Its all gone - 8/10
Driving home for Christmas - 8/10
Winter song - 8/10
Nothing to fear - 8.5/10
The blue cafe - 9/10

There are many but these are some of songs that I like and hear often these days. Hope you would like too.

My First Prawn Curry

2010-11-17T12:14:00.000+08:00

Since I'm living away from my home country Sri Lanka some time I badly want to eat foods in sri lankan way. Since its difficult to find sri lankan restaurant unlike Indian restaurants all over I decided to make foods myself. So I made this and it came very nice, I enjoyed with the basmati rice I made perfectly (another achievement for me :-P and I followed this). Later I may explain how I made my prawns :-)
Its a different experience when you cook something good and eat rather than going to expensive restaurants.

My Curry

Basmati rice and Prawn Curry

TweetupSL

2010-11-08T20:46:00.000+08:00

New initiative to tweet about Colombo traffic. Good one, follow it and spread it and update as and when you stuck in traffic.

TweetupSL

Ad free windows live mail

2010-11-02T00:27:00.001+08:00

If you are using windows live mail you may already have experienced the MSN Ad appear in right side of screen.

Since I'm using my live mail account often this space taken by Ad was a headache for me. So today I found a solution to remove that Ad space from my screen (So dont have to close that Ad every time it appears).

1.)This works in Firefox only becoz its done by a Firefox add-on called Greasemonkey. I do not know much of the things that can be done by this Fierfox extension but I know that it can change the webpage layouts we load dynamically by configuring a script in it. So download this and install in your Firefox browser.

2.)Then you have to download this user script from http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8228. Down load this using Firefox and it will get installed in to Greasemonkey when you installing. This is the script that does the trick removing MSN Ad giving more space. Then load you live mail again, and it will look like this.(see the Greasemonkey icon in bottom right hand side corner of my browser screenshot)

Be careful using Greasemonkey becoz scripts add from unreliable sources can be harmful.And you can enable disable it by clicking on Greasemonkey icon on your browser.

Use your live mail with more freedom using full screen with out Ads and don't have to pay for upgrading too

;-)

Enjoy !!

Best App iPhone for Cricket

2010-10-31T21:36:00.001+08:00

The best iPhone app game to play cricket is CRICKET from SPINFAST. I have been playing this game for about one year now but still not fed up with it. Its super cool becoz of the way that we can play shots using touch gestures and how the game plays shots that we want (so natural). It behaves randomly sometime giving difficult time and we have to be damn precise with release time of short in order to hit a successful shot (I have purchased only batting).

And game has its own community area and which stores our statistics of each game, so we can check whats our statistics are and other people statistics too, for e.g. what is your position when considering average score of a batsmen from the games so far played. Users can play limited over matches like 3,6,10,20,50 over matches and if you win or loose a game the next match you play will have a target depend on the score that you scored in your last game. So for beginner it wold be easy. There are 4 levels of the game
1. Easy 2.Medium 3.Hard 4.Elite
if you are supper good with timing you can play Hard or Elite. But playing 3 over matches in Easy mode is fun and does not take much time too.

Here are some screen shots.

Play a shot with touch screen gesture ... its intuitive

Hit a 4 or 6 or run for scores

Apple beats Microsoft

2010-10-30T23:25:00.000+08:00

Apple recently became the USA's second largest company and this time Apple has beaten Microsoft from revenues earned in Q3.

Microsoft Revenue in Q3 - $16.20 billion
Apple Revenue in Q3 - $20.34 billion

Apple's main revenue stream becomes mobile devices like iPhone, iPad etc... while Microsoft's main revenue generation streams are from softwares. So it says Microsoft has bigger profit margin than Apple even though Apple's revenue is high.

Meanwhile Apple is the 4th largest mobile phone manufacture in the world now too. This is after beating R.I.M (blackberry) and Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson not even with in top 5 now.

IDC latest Mobile Phone Tracker Report

So more stories ahead from Apple to hear with iPhone CDMA , iPhone 5 ,and letz see what Jobs is going to next.

VLC for iPhone

2010-10-30T22:36:00.000+08:00

Downloaded VLC player App to my iPhone today. I have never ever watched a movie from iPhone because the process is not that straight froward, mainly becoz need to convert in to a another format and it takes quite a time. But after downloading VLC its easy , can drag and drop movies of any format in to iTunes (select your device -> Apps and go to file sharing ) , which takes less than a minute to sync (copy to phone) with phone.

Have to thanks VLC team for giving this kind of great App for free !!

VLC App details from Apple

iPhone Remove Background apps (ios4) at one click - Free App

2010-10-30T15:16:00.001+08:00

I had this problem closing iPhone ios4 applications running in background. Since ios4 supports multitasking even we close applications by pressing home button it runs in the background, so some times its a headache when forgot to close each application one by one after Double pressing home key. If there is a feature that can close application at once or feature that can kill background running application at once it would have been cooler.

So after I search through internet found this cool app from Cydia (of cause your iPhone need to be Jailbraked) call "Remove Background SB Settings".

After Installed application is look like this

It worked with my 3GS ios 4.0.1 fine. You have to set how the application could be launched like this

go to Settings > Activator and select a way you like. I used Short Hold.

So you may be able to save your time and resources to thanks to Cydia. (Do donate if you are capable)

Enjoy !!!

sources - iPhonehacks , iphonedownloadblog.

Education in Sri Lanka and JVP

2010-10-29T20:19:00.001+08:00

I red a good article in srilankaguardian.com about why we need private universities. Since I was following this issue in Sri Lanka about private universities and I had some thoughts about it too. I'm a person who believes we should have private universities in Sri Lanka. I saw the news now that one of the student union leader has been arrested due to some reason , what ever the reason is that if it is for the benefit for many I would not mind about that. Because we can not let less people control the benefits of many people. Because I believe by having private universities we can upgrade our education standers and give more opportunities to sri lankans while earning some foreign money too. Please read this article in srilankaguardian which I believe have good content and if you believing this try to spread your idea too.

Apple to Sell iPhones Online and Retail Stores

2010-10-28T22:02:00.001+08:00

Currently in most of the countries iPhones can be purchase only from operators with their package contracts. This is a big headache sometime if someone want to buy a iPhone and used with multiple operators. Now it seems Apple is going to introduce a SIM which can be used to activate the device - which mean unlock - and use with any operator we like. Not sure what operators impression about this news, but I think iPhone is too demanding now like people are flocking to buy a iPhone but NO STOCK. I would be grate if anyone can buy iPhone at a retail store or from online, many will be happy about this news for sure.

source - telecomasia

iBlogger

2010-10-28T08:34:00.001+08:00

I just downloaded iPhone app iBlogger and publishing this post using this app. Seems to be interesting and still learning it's features. But still I can't find how to insert a image if want. We'll see .. anyway I can blog anytime anywhere now :-)

Passing me by - Jamie Foxx

2010-10-28T00:06:00.001+08:00

I love this song ... nice lovely rhythm. I recently only started listening RNB music , its gives me nice cool feeling when listening them in night alone. Here is one of the song I like from YouTube.

Top 50 Sites 2010

2010-10-27T23:34:00.000+08:00

Still Number One position holds by Google.com. Yahoo and Facebook trailing no 2 and 3 respectively. The interesting thing to notice is Microsoft Bing.com is having significantly high percentage of growth in 2010 having 108% increase yearly. Bing has developed lately more providing more+ relevant search results and have interesting features when comparing with Google (one I like is video previews from search result it self ). This is the full list of 50 websites.

Source - TechCrunch

Bandula Padmakumara - Mul Pituwa

2010-10-27T20:16:00.000+08:00

I found this interesting post in http://www.gossip9.com. I'm staying in overseas but most of the mornings I watch Bandula's Mulpituwa using swarnawahini live steaming. And I respected the Presenter Bandula as a senior Journalist , but after seeing this I lost my respect on him. May be this is already well known news in sri lanka. In case if you don't know follow the link and read it. http://www.gossip9.com/2010/10/blog-post_27.html

Funny.. Crazy.. Cute.. Creepy.. Smile

2010-10-17T21:15:00.000+08:00

I came across this man's YouTube video couple weeks ago and see the smile of this Philippine man.

Seems to be he is been video blogging since 2006 and he is a artist in Philippine. I red some his profile and an interesting character.

stunning beauty of nature

2010-03-13T09:27:00.000+08:00

guess where is this

2009-12-04T13:15:00.000+08:00

I took this photo from table mountain in capetown. It was a nice shiny day , I went to visit table mountain first time. And I had my camera with me. I took so many photos at there and had a nice time. pls enjoy more of my photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pubudu/

my capture

2009-11-20T18:59:00.001+08:00

this is also taken at Capetown (actually suburbs of Capetown ). I went to a party at one of my friend who became friend with me at my working place. (I worked at capetown for sometime for a project). He also like very much about photography and I took photos at their event. they very much liked some of those photos and me too. I did some photoshop works to them and here are they.

My journey to southern tip of africa - Cape Point

2009-10-08T00:00:00.000+08:00

I have more photos in my fliker account , pls check and comment if you like :)

My trip to Robbins Island - Cape Town Sounth Africa

2009-08-11T02:01:00.000+08:00

While going to Robbins Island view of Capetown

Beautiful Table mountain view

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visit my fliker profile for more :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pubudu

cape town beauty

2009-08-06T02:32:00.000+08:00

cape town

mouse cottage

For more visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/pubudu/

My Stay in Cape Town

2009-08-06T01:15:00.000+08:00

I Like blue

3 doors

my cape town photos

2009-07-31T03:34:00.000+08:00

Hi all
Please check my photo stream in Fliker

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pubudu/
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