The Path...

Blogging ain't Slogging

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Well i might just be termed an hypocrite making that headline, but honestly blogging ain't slogging if you love to write then blogging can just be the most fun thing to do.. :)
Many a times it happens so that we come across lots of fun things to do, read or just absorb, well guess what each one of it is a potential blog topic if you were wondering what the hell do i blog about ;-) so just go ahead take the keyboard, sip your coffee and fire up Blogger or any platform of your choice and start typing...

In case you are still wondering what to write about then visit this site for the initial kick. http://bit.ly/Hvf5

If you have reached this far then i guess you seriously do not have the time or patience to blog, in that case i have something that will rack you brains and bedazzle you with simplistic philosophy

scan via Android Phone to unlock the mystery

~arshan

Virtual World Valentine!!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:38:00 +0000

Isn't that sweet!! we all think of various things of how to actually propose our valentines, what should we gift that would sweep him/her off the ground and more often than not it simply gets more complicated. Check out this story..

A melodramatic situation witnessed by many colleagues of the video game sound designer at BioWare finally proposing to his girlfriend Heather Rabatich makes me wonder how to actually draw the outline of creativity.

On February 13th 2011 Joel Green was considered to be the only person to engrave a marriage proposal in lava.

According to Edmonton Joel Green had spent 15 hours to build a Castle for Rabatich within a weeks time and revealing it to her in a mystifying manner.

Here's how Rabatich describes her Minecraft story:

I first encountered a bridge over a deep gorge, with a tower of stone bricks built into a mountain on the other side. The bridge was marked by a simple sign that read only: “Heather.”
An avid gamer by Nature, I breezed past the sign, not really bothering to read it.
“No,” Joel insisted. “You have to read these.”
On the other side of the bridge was a tall staircase. As I ascended the steps, lined with flowers, I discovered more signs. Combined they read: “We build worlds together. Let’s fill them with life.”
At the top of the stairs lay a balcony, looking out onto an expansive digital vista, where the words: “MARRY ME?” had been burned into a meadow using streams of lava.

Image courtesy: Shaughn Butts, edmontonjournal.com

I simply leaped off the edge of the cliff down a waterfall to reach the meadow, where Joel had also constructed a massive engagement ring out of minerals he mined in the game — iron for the ring, with a much rarer diamond set in gold at the top.

Diamond is rare, but the lava Joel used to fill the words he dug into the meadow proved especially elusive.

“I had to bring it up from the bottom of the world, bucket by bucket, to fill up the letters,” he said.

I turned to Joel, and he was holding a real diamond ring.

“And then I cried a lot,”

“I knew I was going to say yes, but I didn’t speak right away. I was kind of stunned.”

The Real Challenge they faced was to explain to some of their less nerdy relatives.

Heather Rabatich is an associate producer of Dragon Age II. DA II is set to release next month. Joel and Heather synchronized while working on Mass Effect 2 about a year and half ago.

Valentine indeed seems a day of surprises....Hope you fans have your own awesome stories to blog.. till then catch the interview of Heather Rabatich associate producer Dragon Age II by Gamespot.

Education cost stressed University.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:33:00 +0000

We have come across many claims and articles alike of the amounting pressures parents and students have when it comes to meet the semester fees, but never before was a single case highlighted where the university got the blues with respect to the education cost...

Nic Ramos is the economics student who instantly became a brow raiser for the University of Colorado when his time to submit the semester fees drew near and how? All he did was, pay his $14,309.51 fees in $1 bills form and a 50-cent piece, and a penny.

The intention Ramos had was to bring about the awareness to the University towards the education cost that Non-residents and Residents alike have to bear. According to his calculations, the class comes in at $65/hr.

The New York times highlights that it took three university employees an hour to count the money.

Facebook will NOT end on March 15th 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:46:00 +0000

There is no particular need to indicate the obvious HOT topic trending across the world wide web, but in order to complete this blog post i have to reveal this secret known by billions by now, yes you might have guessed it already Facebook.com is again making the headlines across the web but for all the weird reasons :S.
If you just head over to Google and type "Facebook will end on March 15th" you will get enlightened towards all the hullabaloo going around, Never have i seen a more better way to actually improve your pages analytic scores, the amount of traffic the site is generating with this one post is unimaginable and not to forget the advertisement revenues its generating. Nevertheless here is a screenshot of the post made on the site

Now the Real facts... sit back and think for few moments before jumping onto conclusions. Would a company like Facebook after announcing a funding, consisting of $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, on a valuation of $50 billion decide to shut down???? where is the logic in this?. in the meantime check this video that a simple search on Youtube revealed :D

~Enjoi

IPL Auction 2011 Results

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:01:00 +0000

Most awaited IPL auction status seemed to have caught most eyeballs, Few of the old players were barred from the "SEAL of SOLD" status, but the eyeball grabbers at the IPL Auction nearly blurred the attention towards it. Following are the list of players that boggled the minds of many at the IPL Auction held today.

Gautam Gambhir sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for a record $2.4 million.

Yusuf Pathan to Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.1 million.

Robin Uthappa to Pune for $2.1 million.

Rohit Sharma to Mumbai Indians for $2 million.

Irfan Pathan to Delhi Daredevils for $1.9 million.

Yuvraj Singh to Pune for $1.8 million.

Saurabh Tiwary to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $1.6 million.

Mahela Jayawardene to Kochi for $1.5 million.

David Hussey to Kings XI Punjab for $1.4 million.

Dale Steyn goes to Deccan Chargers for $1.2 million.

Muttiah Muralitharan to Kochi for $1.1 million.

AB de Villiers to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $1.1 million.

Cameron White to Deccan Chargers for $1.1 million.

Jacques Kallis to Kolkata Knight Riders for $1.1 million.

Ross Taylor to Rajasthan Royals for $1 million.

Angelo Mathews to Pune for $950,000.

Ravindra Jadeja to Kochi for $950,000.

Johan Botha to Rajasthan Royals for $950,000.

Dinesh Karthik to Kings XI Punjab for $900,000.

Piyush Chawla to Kings XI Punjab for $900,000.

Sreesanth to Kochi for $900,000.

Adam Gilchrist to Kings XI Punjab for $900,000.

Zaheer Khan to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $900,000.

R Ashwin to Chennai Super Kings for $850,000.

Ashish Nehra to Pune for $850,000.

Andrew Symonds to Mumbai Indians for $850,000.

S Badrinath to Chennai Super Kings for $800,000.

Praveen Kumar to Kings XI Punjab for $800,000.

Abhishek Nayar to Kings XI Punjab for $800,000.

David Warner to Delhi for $750,000.

Cheteswar Pujara to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $700,000.

Doug Bollinger to Chennai Super Kings for $700,000.

Kumar Sangakkara to Deccan Chargers for $700,000.

Dirk Nannes to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $650,000.

Tillakaratne Dilshan to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $650,000.

Kevin Pietersen to Deccan Chargers for $650,000.

Daniel Vettori to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $550,000.

Pragyan Ojha to Deccan Chargers for $500,000.

Rahul Dravid to Rajasthan Royals for $500,000.

Graeme Smith to Pune for $500,000.

RP Singh to Kochi for $500,000.

Manoj Tiwary to Kolkata Knight Riders for $475,000.

Morne Morkel to Delhi Daredevils for $475,000.

Brendon McCullum to Kochi for $475,000.

Ishant Sharma to Deccan Chargers for $450,000.

Brad Hodge to Kochi for $425,000.

Shakib al Hasan to Kolkata Knight Riders for $425,000.

Michael Hussey to Chennai for $425,000.

Brett Lee to Kolkata Knight Riders for $400,000.

Stuart Broad to Kings XI Punjab for $400,000

VVS Laxman to Kochi for $400,000.

Eoin Morgan to Kolkata Knight Riders for $350,000.

James Hopes to Delhi Daredevils for $350,000.

Ryan Harris to Kings XI Punjab for $325,000.

Brad Haddin goes to Kolkata Knight Riders for $325,000.

Callum Ferguson to Pune for $300,000.

Aaron Finch to Delhi Daredevils for $300,000

Amit Mishra to Deccan Chargers for $300,000

Shikhar Dhawan to Deccan Chargers for $300,000.

JP Duminy to Deccan Chargers for $300,000

Parthiv Patel to Kochi for $290,000

Naman Ojha to Delhi Daredevils for $270,000

Tim Paine to Pune for $270,000

Paul Collingwood to Rajasthan Royals for $250,000.

Steven Smith to Kochi for $200,000

Dwayne Bravo to Chennai Super Kings at $200,000

Davy Jacobs to Mumbai Indians for $190,000

Ramesh Powar to Kochi for $180,000

Nathan McCullum to Pune for $100,000

James Franklin to Mumbai Indians for $100,000

Wriddhiman Saha to Chennai for $100,000

The Unsold Ones: Tamim Iqbal, Chamara Kapugedera, Murali Kartik, Ajantha Mendis, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Dilhara Fernando, Luke Wright, Matt Prior, Mark Boucher, Graeme Manou, Brian Lara, Herschelle Gibbs, Jesse Ryder, Sourav Ganguly and Chris Gayle.

Source: espncricinfo.com

Opera 11 Path to Heaven!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:36:00 +0000

Opera 11.00

I guess opera will never stop at it. Innovations never seem to seize from the universe of browser evolution. As it is, The Legend of browsers share the obvious insight that opera has always provided the best packages out of the box, with its 11th edition it just goes ahead to prove its matter yet again.

Apart from their brilliant integration of security protocols in the browser itself other innovations include Tab Stacking, Extensions, Vanity address fields and new Visual mouse gestures.

So far, the things i can do with my opera with a single click are:

Take entire backup of my private data including my bookmarks.
Listen to music using my favorite player right inside the browser
Open various applications via the browser
View and browse My Computer (on other browsers you have to know the drive extension to browse)
Read Feeds
Browse Privately into multiple accounts at the same time
Additional stuffs using extensions.

...to name a few. To top it all Opera scores a perfect 100 on acid 3 test

Check out the video.

Gingerbread Gifts...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:55:00 +0000

Off late the Android Developer community are speeding up their paces to port the Gingerbread AOS on every Android phones available in the market. For now the Android 2.3 gets ported for the new Acer Liquid.

According to Roggin, a regular @ modaco shares his view that except for the Wi-Fi and camera other Features like GPS, all sensor, touch screen and 3G(data/voice) and camera preview seem to work brilliantly.

Users who want to grab the file to test it can fetch it @ Multiupload

To go through the entire thread you can visit the Modaco Board

Check this Android 2.3 Gingerbread Web API

CSI: Andheri

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:39:00 +0000

Legend speaks that Luck auto balances its riders through the pits and perils of life... all i have to say to that is An Arrow in Luck turns it into a Fuck.

The Day as usual started smoothly, seemed like everything is just gonna be perfect till the strong winds breezed across, i brushed the idea of peril striking off thinking its just more chilly today... little did i know what was in store for me for the journey ahead. It was moments in which i had missed my regular 8:30am train and awaited for the fatal 8:38am train, that maybe it wont be that rushy today...But Alas!!!! the train was ruthlessly sniggering at me with its over bloated compartments.. finally an idea grasped me and i bolted for the cancer patient compartment, since Dadar is the only station that comes on the side i climb to catch the train i thought "what the heck".... and then the TRAIN STARTED......

ok the thriller is yet to come.....

As the Train sped on its course into oblivion(churchgate), i seemed to enjoy the breeze which is sometimes a rare treat on the morning trains... the train seemed to loose its speed as it approached goregaon which is usually the case with all the churchgate fast locals, i simply didnt take the cue to jump of the train and catch the churchgate fast from goregaon itself... and then the FUN began....

Along came Andheri and the wobbly luck, RPF officers raided the compartment and escorted all fakers... i reasoned a bit but the person was smart to catch on and politely said "18 saal se yahi dialogues sun raha hu kuch naya bharo" :( i then gave in and began bargaining, the initial release price was set @ 1800/- which was reduced to just 500/- after the session court stint...but the entire episode was indeed a chilling experience, as i witnessed quite a lot of sad events, desperate people begging for mercy on their cases, since the conversations were in local tongue i could only connect with the emotions they were expressing.... it was saddening to see people in such a state in the most revered country in the world, i almost forgot about my own problems for that brief moment. there was another guy who was escorted from the same compartment and was pleading during the entire episode, trying everything possible to get to his destination, i couldn't bare to see the situation, he was literally going to wear the handcuffs the officer had and told him where to take him so as he could submit the sum imposed upon him, i just told him to hang on for a moment and finally after 3 long hours when the rates were dropped to 500/- i gave him the 400/- i had and told him to bargain with the officer, since help was already coming for me. it felt bit nice to help the guy but at the same moment it saddened me with the thought that there are yet so many unfortunate people who need to catch their time but get entangled in unnecessary vagaries...the western railways it seems has literally transformed into a cattle transportation rather than a travel medium. i really do hope that more people try and connect with others peril rather than their own if they intend to bring about a change.

A Poem from History

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:21:00 +0000

Browsing the web just turned an ignoramus patriotic.. a old poem written by Rabindranath Tagore.

Freedom from fear is the freedom
I claim for you my motherland!
Freedom from the burden of the ages, bending your head,
breaking your back, blinding your eyes to the beckoning
call of the future;
Freedom from the shackles of slumber wherewith
you fasten yourself in night's stillness,
mistrusting the star that speaks of truth's adventurous paths;
freedom from the anarchy of destiny
whole sails are weakly yielded to the blind uncertain winds,
and the helm to a hand ever rigid and cold as death.
Freedom from the insult of dwelling in a puppet's world,
where movements are started through brainless wires,
repeated through mindless habits,
where figures wait with patience and obedience for the
master of show,to be stirred into a mimicry of life.

The very first line reflects intellect of Tagore w.r.t his deep insight. If one pays attention to the line "Freedom from Fear", it will be evident that behind the smallest dearth of freedom, fear lies lurking. This Insight is the epicenter of the political,intellectual and spiritual triangle.
He disagrees with the fact of submission to destiny, comparing a life without freedom with a mimicry. His ideas show his patriotism, a tremendous intellect and a great understanding of the dynamics of human mind and society.

Since the Last Time

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:54:00 +0000

you guys checked the review of rockmelt melting all the other browsers in terms of social integration, here is some more good news to add to it. Due to constant reminders of various bugs associated with rockmelt browser like frequent crashes, abrupt hangovers and such. Rockmelt finally released a update to end most woes :). Here's a straight insight from the Rockmelt's Official blog.

Enhancements in Version 0.8.36.79
* New Gmail Notifier App to let you know when you have new email. To install, just go to gmail.com, sign in, and click on the “Add Apps” button at the bottom of the App Edge
* Tweet directly from the Twitter App using the new “compose” button at the top
* Update your status directly from the Facebook App by clicking on the new “compose” button at the top
* Search within the Facebook, Twitter, and News Apps by typing in the new filter box (Windows users press CTRL+F to invoke)
* Compose messages, write on walls, or go straight to a website through richer context menus when you right-click on a Friend or App in the Edge
* Faster, more consistent Twitter and Facebook feed updates and notifications
* Look for more invites and improved notifications in the enhanced Invite App
* Hide or show edges while in full-screen mode, just like in the normal view
* Upgrade to Chromium 7 for improvements in speed and stability and better HTML 5 support

Bugs fixed

* (Mac) Fixed keyboard shortcut so Command+K puts focus in the search field
* (Mac) Twitter App recognizes underscores in Twitter handles :)
* (Mac) Fixed issues with importing Firefox bookmarks
* (Windows) Fixed issues when adding new Twitter accounts
* (Windows) Enhanced the URL box and bookmarking bar
* (Mac / Windows) Fixed a bunch of bugs that caused crashes
* (Mac / Windows) Improved Share button functionality when sharing videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu and others.

To update the current version all you need to do is select "About Rockmelt" from the rockmelt menu.
Happy Browsing...

GAME turns i-"MAGE"

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:00:00 +0000

The rate at which the gaming industry is progressing is quite amazing. Literally if the status of the gaming industry would have been analyzed a few years back the only conclusion one would arrive at is there is no future in Gaming Arena. But the current scenario suggests otherwise, Recently Gamers across the world stormed the stores in order to build a record breaking achievement for Call of Duty: Black Ops by allowing them to rake in $360 million in just 24 hours of its release.

The game costs about $60 and according to the company, Activision Blizzard Inc. sold almost 6.1 million units the day the game was released. The predecessor "Modern Warfare 2" held a record of 5 million units in 24 hours of its release.

sometimes its really confusing as to where one is heading its best to leave it on time to make it evident as the matters unfold ;-)

till then enjoy this video :)

Browser that changed moi...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:33:00 +0000

Ok time for some browser review. i never imagined that there will come a time when i will have to literally think over to switch my preference over opera and firefox. i thought there can be no browser that might have the capability to blow me away in terms of features and social integration.. BUT i was wrong, There is one OTHER....

use a bar code scanner if you have a android phone

Ok enough of the suspense.... the browser that literally blew me away with respect to features and social integration is Rockmelt A.K.A The Social Media Web Browser. The browser was developed by Eric Vishria and Tim Howes and backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. According to RockMelt’s blog, Its fast, secure, and stable because it’s built on Chromium, the open source project behind Google’s Chrome browser.

Now for some sneak peeks :D

The Search bar gives you a option to view the results in a popup fashion or switch it to a tab. The app edge has integrated facebook in such a manner that the user never has to even open facebook.com for posting updates even if someone has commented on a particular update.All the user needs to do is collapse the notification and check its status. The chat feature is way awesome and has finally changed my perception of using facebook chat in a browser. not only can you see all friends who are online but when your chatting with a friend you can even post a update on his/her wall right from the chat window. The feed integration is the best i have seen till date in a browser it tracks which of the websites you visit the most and once it acquires this data it automatically provides you with the notification option to subscribe to those websites feeds.

The browser indeed is a revolution in social media browsing era where the internet is no longer shop stop of information. This tool has evolved into a world of personal networking as well. The web is now full of social media networking sites such as FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace, Friendster and more and this browser indeed serves all with quite some style :D

Now go check this video out

Happy Browsing :D

View 360° in Google Earth

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:36:00 +0000

Well in my opinion Google has become more synonymous with the word "Tease" as far the progress and updates is concerned.

Recently Google Earth shifted "360 Cities" from the “Gallery” layer in Google Earth to the new “Photos” layer. This layer contains images by both Panoramio and 360 Cities. The images sourced from 360 cities are marked red while the panoramio images are marked blue.

360 cities is a gigantic collection of panoramic images with excellent contributions from its community.
The result being instead of scouting for it you now get to view it "default" ;-).
and here is the preview :)

What next?!!!!!!!!!

Straight from the giants mouth

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:55:00 +0000

We all know that YouTube announced that it has exceeded two billion video views per day. It sometimes makes me wonder as to what can be the limiting factor for youtube or in a sense is there really any limiting factor for the largest video sharing website.

YouTube recently announced support for videos shot in 4K, meaning that videos will be supporting resolution from 360p to 4K. To switch to 4k resolution you just need to select Original from the resolution list. Note: the video needs to be shot at 4k resolution in the first place ;-)

Some general information on what exactly does 4K resolution mean.

The ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet; IMAX movies are projected through two 2k resolution projectors.
At 4096 x 2304 pixels, 4K is over four times the size of 1080p.
Superb quality :D

Check out the 4k resolution videos :D

Playlist Link

So how many competitors can match that?

Bing gets an Uplift

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:16:00 +0000

The 2nd most popular browser across the world has finally given the uplift to the 2nd most popular search engine. yea thats right... Firefox has finally included Bing search option in its 4th edition..

According to Mozilla, Google will continue to dominate the default search option, unless the users change it.(highly unlikely though..), Yahoo! will retain its second position for general search. since it has a loyal following and continues to provide a differentiated user experience, even as it integrates the Bing engine for its algorithmic search results. and finally the 3rd place is reserved for bing as a general search option for English language users.

As far as revenue is concerned Mozilla has claimed that it will be based on the amount of traffic bing will receive via Firefox.

The new order of search options in Firefox is
Google(default), yahoo!, Bing, Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia in that same order. :D

Bing Searchers rejoice.

Dainty Dishes?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:38:00 +0000

Food is a inevitable necessity of our lives. Living without it is not only unimaginable but can be coined as a totally preposterous thought, but lets consider certain facts that if given a choice when extremely hungry would we go for the following dishes?

• Deep Fried Tarantulas
In Cambodia, a full nutritious meal of protein consists of ping (cambodian for tarantula)priced at measly 50 cents this dish has a myth of rendering great beauty to those who consume it. So....Internet enthusiasts better have a control on your NetLingo if you happen to land at a cambodian restaurant totally famished.

• Balut
If the first one didnt grab your attention this one would certainly. In phillipines for only 35 cents you can gorge on Balut which is a fertilized duck egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten directly from the shell.

• Rooster Testicles
Ah the most favorite dish in Taiwan, Rooster Testicles. These are considered the best source of protein and they are either stir-fried or stewed and also are prized as a natural substitute for "Viagra".

and the final winner is....
• Deep Fried Insects
Thats right for just 33 cents/scoop you can enjoy these delicacies at local vendor stalls on the streets of bangkok. Available choices are grasshoppers,ants, maggots to name a few :) interested in hot chips in bangkok? think again

Finally Some eating in action..

Hope you enjoyed reading these delicacies and are already feeling your stomachs growling for food..

Cell phone Radiation the real killer?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Dr. Devra Davis strikes again. Apparently pretty stern this time around with the fact of cell phone radiation affecting the stable growth of children.
Current research indicates that cell phone radiation could result in damaged DNA, reduced sperm count due to presence of perfluorooctanoic acid(PFOA), memory loss, broken down brain’s defenses and may even increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. so whats your take on it? can there be an alternate solution to cell phones?