The Fourth Dimension

The Bold,The Beautiful..and The Brainless!!

2008-02-24T08:24:00.001+05:30

I came to realise the full meaning of the adage "Don't go for looks alone" after watching this video. I pity this pretty girl for the ridicule she'll be receiving after this.

Windows for download

2008-02-24T07:56:00.005+05:30

Bored of using XP or tired of using Vista? Go in for a version change then. How about getting the earliest version of Windows(just to see how far the OS has come)? These versions don't require tons of RAM(a mere 16MB stick is enough) or demand too much clock cycles(just 60Mhz suffices).
Take a look at these screenshots, you'll realise that the timelines of Windows OS and general technology are almost parallel.

And oh..these OSes should be installed from floppy disks :)

The first version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released in November 1985, lacked a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity, and was to compete with Apple's own operating system.Windows 1.0 is not a complete operating system; rather, it extends MS-DOS. Microsoft Windows version 2.0 was released in November, 1987 and was slightly more popular than its predecessor. Windows 2.03 (release date January 1988) had changed the OS from tiled windows to overlapping windows. The result of this change led to Apple Computer filing a suit against Microsoft alleging infringement on Apple's copyrights.
Microsoft Windows version 3.0, released in 1990, was the first Microsoft Windows version to achieve broad commercial success, selling 2 million copies in the first six months.It featured improvements to the user interface and to multitasking capabilities. It received a facelift in Windows 3.1, made generally available on March 1, 1992. Windows 3.1 support ended on December 31, 2001.

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68591153/Windows_1.0.rar

Windows 2.03

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68591249/Windows_2.03.rar

Windows 3.11

Download
http://rapidshare.com/files/68591730/Windows_3.11.rar

Stella Awards

2008-02-13T06:03:00.000+05:30

The “Stella Awards” are named after the 81-year-old woman, Stella Liebeck, who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald’s in New Mexico for 2.9 million dollars. Ever since, the name “Stella Award” has been applied to any wild, outrageous, or ridiculous lawsuits - including bogus cases! Here are this year’s winners…

7th Place - Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle when she tripped over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering that the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson’s son.

6th Place - Nineteen-year- old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s hubcaps.

5th Place - Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn’t re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, so Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the home owners’ insurance company, claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion, this is SO outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place.

4th Place - Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next-door neighbor’s beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owners’ fenced yard.
The award was less than originally sought, because the jury felt that the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

3rd Place - A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tail bone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

2nd Place - Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies’ room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.

1st Place (drum roll, please) - This year’s runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand-new, 32-foot-long Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game - having driven onto the freeway - she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go into the back to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually do that. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed its manuals on the basis of this law suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.

Timer to shutdown your PC

2008-01-19T05:44:00.000+05:30

Do you know that you can make your PC shutdown at a time you wish to?
Here is the trick!!

How To Make A Shutdown Timer!

METHOD-1

01. Right click on your desktop and choose "New->shortcut".
02. In the box that says "Type the location of the shortcut",
type in "shutdown -s -t 3600" without the quotation marks but include the spaces, and click next.

Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down.
So, 3600 secs = 60 mins = 1 hour

03. Make up a name for the shortcut and you're done.

You can change the icon by right clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse.

To abort the shutdown:

To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer, just create another shortcut and make
the "location of the shortcut" to "shutdown -a" without the quotes and save it with another name you wish.

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METHOD 2

Here is another trick to shutdown at a specific time, for example you wish to shutdown at 11:35am. Type this in start->Run

"at 11:35 shutdown -s" without quotes

To Abort, type this in Start->Run

"shutdown -a" without quotes

Note: All time are in 24hr, for eg., if you would like to shutdown at 8:30 PM, you should type

"at 20:30 shutdown -s" without quotes

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METHOD 3

You can use a batch file for that as well. It makes it easier to use.
Just run the file and enter the time at which you want your pc to shutdown.

To create the batch file, open Notepad,

Type this Code:

@echo off
title Scheduled Shutdown Batch Example by chacha1234
color A
echo Enter Time To Shutdown (example 19:30)
set /p stime=
cls
at %stime% ""shutdown -s -t 00"" >nul
echo Your PC Will Auto Shutdown At %stime%
echo Press Any Key To Exit
pause >nul
exit

Save the above file as "shutdown.bat" in your desktop.

Also you can add -c "desired message" at the end of the shutdown command
for example,
shutdown -s -t 60 -c "Shutdown PC"

Using this command you can also schedule your PC to restart.
for example,
shutdown -r -t 60 -c "Restarting PC"

To execute, simply double-click on the "Shutdown.bat" file in your desktop.

Cool, huh?

Test Your Antivirus Software

2008-01-14T10:55:00.000+05:30

Have you ever wondered if your anti-virus software is really working? Would you like to see what happens when it detects a virus? Here's a safe way to test your computer's virus protection that doesn't require you to have a real virus.

First, open Notepad. Then copy and paste into it, the text below. (It should all be on one line.)

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Then select File, Save, select All Files for the file type, then save the file as eicar.com.

Your anti-virus software may prevent you from saving the file as eicar.com, which is a sign that it is working effectively. If it doesn't raise an alert, try scanning the folder where you saved eicar.com. To see what happens if you try to run a file containing a virus, double-click eicar.com to open it.

Explanation:

The file eicar.com you have created is completely safe. It is not a virus. It is a standard test file developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR). All anti-virus products are programmed to detect this file as if it was a real virus. Therefore you can safely use it to test whether your anti-virus software works, without fear of infecting your computer.

Conclusion:

If your anti-virus product should fail to prevent you from running the file, it will simply display the text "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE" in a DOS box. No harm will have been done, but you should probably consider using a better anti-virus product, because if it had been a real virus, your computer would by now be infected!

PS. My antivirus - Zone Alarm Suite immediately quarantined the file as soon as I saved it.

Run multiple Yahoo Messengers

2008-01-08T07:03:00.000+05:30

You can log into multiple yahoo accounts on yahoo messenger using this simple Registry edit. Open the Registry editor (Start->Run, type regedit and hit Enter).

Before we proceed any further, its always better to backup the registry before you make any changes to it.
To backup, goto File -> export -> give a file name and make sure the "Export range" is set to "All" and click save.

Now, navigate to the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\Test

On the right pane,right click and select New-> DWORD Value. Name it as "Plural" (without the quotes). Now double click on the newly created DWORD to open up the 'Edit DWORD Value' window. Give it a hexadecimal value of 1 and press OK.

That's it. You're done. Exit the Registry Editor. You can now log into Yahoo! Messenger with multiple accounts simultaneously :)

And should you get the need to disable this, simply double click on the registry backup which you saved earlier.

Rahman's dream comes true

2008-01-08T06:55:00.000+05:30

The music wizard A.R. Rahman has made his 42nd birthday a memorable one. He has decided to offer a rare scheme to the music world. He has decided to launch a music conservatory that promises to offer a holistic training programme in music and music technology.

Rahman has been dreaming to establish such an institute for quite some time. The genius, who turned 42 on Sunday, was quite excited that this dream was taking shape. “All of us, musicians, have felt the need for such training. Most of us had to take the round-about way. This initiative will help aspirants move ahead faster,” he told in an interview on the occasion.

The KM Music Conservatory and Audio Media Education will start functioning at a place next to Rahman’s studio in Kodambakkam. He has plans to move it to a campus in the outskirts of the city. The programme will start by May, 2008, informs AR Rahman.

The courses include Western Vocal and Instrumental Performance, Indian Classical Vocal, Western and Indian Music Theory, Music Appreciation, Ear Training, Piano, Audio Engineering, an Apple certified course in Logic Pro, and a Digidesign certified course in Pro Tools. These courses will definitely help the younger ones to develop their skills.

“The KM Music Conservatory is an attempt to recreate a world-class orchestra for the enjoyment of India's people. Currently Indian composers must go abroad to find orchestras to record. The vision of KM Music Conservatory is to eliminate this obstacle and provide an exemplary orchestra here in India", said Rahman in a press released issued on his birthday.

The faculty will include professors from India and abroad, and other musicians who will train students in Indian and Western Classical music.

The school will soon audition students who play flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, double bass and percussion. Students also have the opportunity to audition for the professional KM Music Symphony Orchestra on completion of the programme.

The Boss is gonna be back!!!

2008-01-08T06:50:00.000+05:30

Digging for gold appears to have become superstar Rajinikanth’s favourite pastime. As if the Rs 80-crore blockbuster Sivaji, The Boss was not enough, filmdom’s money spinning hero has now signed up for India’s costliest movie.

Pegged at Rs 100 crore, director Shankar’s Robot, a science fiction film, will see Rajni replace King of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan as hero. London-based Ayngaran International, in which Kishore Lulla-owned Eros International picked up a controlling stake last July, is to produce the film.

Robot will be released in five languages for a global audience. This dream project of Shankar was also to be produced by SRK’s Red Chillies Entertainment. In fact, last year, the film had been planned featuring filmdom’s other cash king Shah Rukh Khan.

However, owing to differences between Shankar and SRK on the creative front, as acknowledged by the latter in recent statements, the film was dropped about two months ago. Observers say, given Shankar’s penchant for large canvas presentations the cost of production of Robot could even cross the Rs 100-crore mark, setting a new Indian record.

“Ayngaran and Eros Multimedia will be jointly producing Robot featuring Rajinikanth and directed by Shankar.

Shankar had originally wanted to do Robot with Kamal Hassan over five years ago for Media Dreams, the now defunct film arm of Chennai-based Pentamedia Graphics. Somewhere down the line, even Hritik Roshan’s name came up for serious consideration. But Rajini appears to have swung it yet again.

Waiting for The Boss to come back with a bang!!

dts? dolby? Listen this!!

2008-01-03T19:12:00.000+05:30

When the movie 'Speed' was released I was really amazed by the dts/dolby technology where the audio track was recorded in 6 separate tracks and reproduced in 6 different channels in theaters. I still remember turning back to the telephone ring, cursing the man/woman who had brought his/her cell phone to the theater, which actually was the effect of dts technology.

Now, lets talk about the actual intention of this blog. I got this accidentally while searching for mp3s. All you need is a pair of good earphones or headphones.

Seems this has been recorded using a technology called Binaural Sound Technique.

Quote Wikipedia:

Binaural recording is a method of recording audio which uses a special microphone arrangement. Dummy head recording refers to a specific method of capturing the audio, generally using a bust.

The term "binaural" has often been confused as a synonym for the word "stereo", and this is partially due to a large amount of misuse in the mid-1950s by the recording industry, as a marketing buzzword. Conventional stereo recordings do not factor in natural crossfeed or sonic shaping of the head and ear, since these things happen naturally as a person listens, generating their own ITDs (interaural time differences) and ILDs (interaural level differences). Unquote.

The only con is that you can experience the full effect of this in ear/head phone alone. Still you'll be amazed by this kinda recording.

Try these samples.

http://rapidshare.com/files/59248353/virtualhaircut.mp3.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/32598761/3D_sound.mp3

Listen and Be Amazed!!

My Home in Google Earth

2007-12-30T15:08:00.000+05:30

Off late, Google has updated its Google Earth with almost all places of the world and obviously I was interested to see if I can find my home in it. It was pretty cool to see even the road directions of Chennai. I was lucky enough to see the street of my home and now I've got a new address - 13 05'38.06 N, 80 13' 23.99 E

Search for your home and get a new address (you've to place your mouse in the approximate location of your home to get the correct location)

¿sıɥʇ s,ʍoɥ

2007-12-30T12:01:00.000+05:30

Turn your head/monitor upside down to read this :-)

˙(sǝʇısqǝʍ llɐ ʇsoɯlɐ) sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝpoɔıun sʇɹoddns ʇɐɥʇ ǝɔɐɟɹǝʇuı ʎuɐ uı sıɥʇ ǝsn uɐɔ noʎ ǝsnɐɔǝq ƃuıʇsǝɹǝʇuı sʇı ˙uʍop ǝpısdn 'pǝdʎʇ ǝɹɐ ʇɐɥʇ sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝɥʇ dılɟ oʇ ʇı ǝpɐɯ puɐ ʇı pǝʞɔɐɥ puɐ sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝpoɔıun ɥʇıʍ pǝʎɐld sɐɥ ǝɹǝɥʇ ʇno sʞloɟ ǝɯos ˙ƃuıʇsǝɹǝʇuı ʎʇʇǝɹd ʇı punoɟ puɐ ǝʇısqǝʍ sıɥʇ ssoɹɔɐ ǝɯɐɔ puɐ sʇuoɟ ɹǝuƃısǝp ǝɯos ɹoɟ ƃuıɥɔɹɐǝs sɐʍ ı 'llǝʍ

The unflipped version of the above:

Well, I was searching for some designer fonts and came across this website and found it pretty interesting. Some folks out there has played with unicode characters and hacked it and made it to flip the characters that are typed, upside down. Its interesting because you can use this in any interface that supports unicode characters (almost all websites).

Check it out here.

Try this in your emails, IM and make your friends go crazy :-)

Minesweeper Secret

2007-12-30T11:53:00.000+05:30

I started playing minesweeper after hearing from my friend CPK and found it really intersting and it certainly hooked me up, which made me realise that we dont always need a nVidia 8800 GTS monster to keep us entertained. I always search for tweaks/cheat codes for the games which I play and since Minesweeper was my latest game, I searched for a tweak for it and found this.

How to reveal Mines in the game:
1. First Minimize or close all running applications so that you can see your desktop wallpaper.
2. Start the Minesweeper game from the start menu.
3. Type ‘xyzzy’ and hold down the shift key for a couple of seconds.
4. Now move the cursor over a Minesweeper square. You will notice a tiny (too tiny) white pixel in the top left corner of your desktop screen. This pixel will change to black when your mouse moves over a mine. Cool huh?

Oh..and make sure you dont have a white or black color desktop!

PS. If you really want to play an intersting game, dont use this tweak!

Find Invisible friends in Yahoo Messenger

2007-12-30T11:45:00.000+05:30

Sometimes some of your friends who appear offline in yahoo messenger may not be actually offline,they may in the 'Invisible' mode. This maybe if they are trying to ignore you or are too busy to talk to anyone.

There is this small trick that you can use to find out what the truth is.

First, open your yahoo messenger main window and double click on the name of the person whom you want to check. The chat window will open obviously.

Click IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and click on Doodle.
After loading the Doodle imvironment there can be two possibilities

1.If the user is offline Doodle are will show this "waiting for your friend to load Doodle" continuously .

2. If the user is online (but in invisible mode), after few seconds (it can take up to one minute, depending on your connection speed), you should get a blank page So you know that the user is online.

Cool huh... :-)

Sivamani Rocks with Spoons

2007-12-30T11:32:00.000+05:30

Sivamani, one of the best Indian drummers gave a show to the staff of a restaurant(Tirupathi Bhimas) in California and he made an amazing music with spoons, plates and drums ........He rocked his own way........

Movies in Google Video

2007-12-30T11:26:00.000+05:30

If you prefer streaming to downloading when it comes to movies,Google Video is your destination. Google Video that allows anyone to upload, is a free video sharing and video search engine service from Google. Its as good as YouTube(which again is owned by Google!)If you haven't tried out Google Video before,head to www.video.google.com and try experimenting with it(no porn,of course).

As with every Google search,this has a hack associated with it that allows you to find full-length movies.
1.Go to www.video.google.com
2.In the Search box,enter "genre:MOVIE_FEATURE" without the quotes.

You'll get over 32,000 search results that are full length movies that have been uploaded to Google Video.

Here's the direct link in case you're too lazy:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=genre%3AMOVIE_FEATURE&hl=en

ARR - Composing Bombay Dreams

2007-12-30T11:13:00.000+05:30

I've always wondered how this genius composes and records music. I was lucky enough to come across this video in YouTube and thought I'd share it.The video shows a composing/recording session on the making of A.R.Rahman's theater-musical Bombay Dreams. Notice how Rahman points out a mistake in the arrangement and sings it himself :-) ARR forever!!

Make Orkut Dance

2007-12-30T10:42:00.000+05:30

This is a nice javascript I found on the net that makes everything in your Orkut profile(if you've one) dance. All that you've to do is:
1.Login to your Orkut account.
2.In the address bar(where it says http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=some_numbers),copy and paste this Javascript:

javascript:b=[]; a=document.images; for(wt=0; wt^a.length; wt++){a[wt].style.position='relative'; b[b.length]=a[wt]};j=0; setInterval('j++; for(wt=0; wt^b.length; wt++){b[wt].style.left=Math.sin((6.28/a.length)*wt+j/10)*10}; void(0)',1); void(0)

See all your friends and profile details do a jig!

My first blog

2007-11-02T04:00:00.000+05:30

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -- Confucius

Hello World!

This is my first blog. Honestly, i dont know what i'm gonna do with my blog.
Keep watching this place - you may soon find something that interests you.

Until then, bye.