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Slumdog rules Oscars with 8 prizes

2009-02-23T02:10:00.000-08:00

LOS ANGELES - "Slumdog Millionaire" took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle.
A story of hope in Mumbai, India, "Slumdog Millionaire" came in with 10 nominations, its eight wins including adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and both music Oscars (score and song).
"Just to say to Mumbai, all of you who helped us make the film and all of those of you who didn't, thank you very much. You dwarf even this guy," Boyle said, holding up his directing Oscar.
"Slumdog" writer Simon Beaufoy, who adapted the script from Vikas Swarup's novel "Q&A," said there are places he never could imagine being.
he epic love story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which led with 13 nominations, had three wins, for visual effects, art direction and makeup.
After last year's Oscars delivered their worst TV ratings ever, producers this time aimed to liven up the show with some surprises and new ways of presenting awards. Rather than hiring a comedian such as past hosts Jon Stewart or Chris Rock, the producers went with actor and song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman, who has been host of Broadway's Tony Awards.
"Slumdog Millionaire" went into the evening after a run of prizes from earlier film honors.
The film nearly got lost in the shuffle as Warner Bros. folded its art-house banner, Warner Independent, which had been slated to distribute "Slumdog Millionaire." It was rescued from the direct-to-video scrap heap when Fox Searchlight stepped in to release the film.

"Slumdog" composer A.R. Rahman,a dual Oscar winner for the score and song, said the movie was about "optimism and the power of hope."

"All my life, I've had a choice of hate and love," Rahman said. "I chose love, and I'm here.

Window’s Keyboard shortcuts

2009-02-19T21:31:00.002-08:00

90% of people’s are using Microsoft windows. We all are wanted to use Windows keyboard shortcuts. So these are the keyboard shortcuts to operate window’s operating systems.
[Esc] = Cancel the current task
[F1] = Display Help.
[F2] = Rename the selected item
[F3] = Search for a file or folder
[F4] = Display the Address bar list in Windows Explorer
[F5] = Refresh the active window
[F10] = Activate the menu bar in the active program
[Ctrl] + [C] = Copy the selected item or text
[Ctrl] + [X] = Cut the selected item or text
[Ctrl] + [V] = Paste the selected item or text
[Ctrl] + [Z] = Undo the last action
[Ctrl] + [Y] = Redo the last action
[Delete]=Delete the selected item and move it to the Recycle Bin
[[Shift]] + [Delete] = Delete the selected item without moving it to the Recycle Bin
[Ctrl] + [A] = Select all items in a document or window
[Alt] + [Enter] = Display properties for the selected item
[Alt] + [F4] = Exit the active program
[Alt] + [Space] = Open the shortcut menu for the active window
[Ctrl] + [F4] = Close the active document
[Alt] + [Tab] = Switch between open programs or items
[Ctrl]+ [Alt] + [Tab] = Use the arrow keys to switch between open items (Vista only). Hit [Enter] to select the program you want to switch to
[[Shift]] + [F10] = Display the right-click menu for the selected item
[Ctrl] + [Esc] or [Windows] = Open the Start menu
[Alt] + [Up Arrow] = View the folder one level up in Windows Explorer
[Ctrl] + [[Shift]] + [Esc] = Open Task Manager
[Tab]=Move forward through options

EASTER EGGS

2009-02-19T21:31:00.001-08:00

Easter eggs are there to lighten up the mood and they do so by shocking or making us laugh. Here are few ester eggs from some of the most popular software and games.
Notepad
Create a new Notepad text file and type in bush hid the facts. Save the file and close it. Re-open the file to see what you find. Even if you type this app can break, you will get the same results—garbled text. This is not technically an Easter egg, but an issue.

Windows XP

C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images. Enter this location in the address bar on Windows Explorer as it’s a hidden folder. The track is called title.wma. Double click on it to run it and enjoy the Windows Welcome music.

uTorrent
Start uTorrent and click on Help >About uTorrent. Click on the logo on the left top, and a sound will be played—something like the one used in THX trailers. An even more surprising Easter egg can be found in the same window. Press [Ctrl] + [T] and you will find a small Tetris game running. Use the arrow keys to rotate and to move the blocks into place.

Nero 7, 8
Help > About to see the credits. Double-click in this window and you’ll see the credits text flowing with different kind of effects. Here is also a very interesting fact about Nero that
Nero Burning ROM was named after Roman Emperor Nero, who is supposed to have been playing his lyre while Rome burned—though that’s apocryphal. And the process is called “burning.

Excel 1997 and excel 2000
Excel 97 had a flight simulator as an Easter egg, and Excel 2000, Dev Hunter
But after it Microsoft has abandoned using Easter Eggs in their products, including Excel, to avoid any security glitches or breaches as per their Trustworthy Computing programmed.

Adobe Photoshop CS3
Hold down [Ctrl] and [Alt] and go to Help > About Photoshop.
Instead of the default About information screen, you will now see one with a red pill on the left and text on the right saying Adobe Red Pill.

Firefox
You need to be connected to the Internet for this Easter egg. Firefox has a silly Easter egg, which can be viewed by entering about kitchensink in the location bar (note that there’s no colon). A kitchen sink made up of ASCII characters will open up with water flowing down it.

How to buy computer MEMORY (RAM)

2009-02-19T21:31:00.000-08:00

I am using window vista. I have 1 GB RAM. But for fast computing I decide to add
More ram.
Yesterday, I went to a shop for buying computer memory. These are the some steps I follow for buying a better computer memory. These steps helped me so I am sharing these steps with you.

DDR1 OR DDR2 OR DDR3

DDR1 is history now. It is very costly and not available in many stores because it is out of production. If your motherboard supports only DDR1 memory then change your motherboard or buy a cheap 2nd hand memory.
DDR2 is your best bet. It is cheap and high performance than DDR1.DDR2 is available in mainly three clock speeds 667,800and 1066 MHz .For a home user even 667 MHz is sufficient.
DDR3 promises to become the new standard in this year and coming years.DDR3 is available in many clock speeds from 1333 to 1800 MHz’s. Intel has announced support for DDR3 as a memory platform due to the increased bandwidth it provides (eventually, DDR3 will scale up to 2 GHz).But DDR3 is very costly.

Conclusion
Enough money = if you have enough money then buy a DDR3 enabled motherboard and DDR3 memory.
Less money = if you have less money like me and wants to be intelligent customer then buy a DDR2 memory or wait for 6months for drop in the price of DDR3 memory and their motherboards.
And, most important don’t buy unbranded or locally-branded memory. It’s a very stressed-out component in your PC, and the number one cause of freeze-ups and restarts.
Invest wisely—a few hundred bucks more for peace of mind.

Must have mobile applications

2009-02-14T03:47:00.000-08:00

All we have mobile phones, but we have not good mobile applications/software’s.
So these are the applications which are very useful and must have.
Office suite 4
This is the mobile version of office. It works on any symbian series 60 phones. It allows you to edit and view words, excel or PowerPoint document right on your phone.
There is no any advanced function but it has basic functions which work very well.
Platform: symbian s60
Buy from: http://tinyurl.com/2broyc
Handy zip
This is mobile version of WinZip. It is very useful in many situations. When you
Start the application. It search Archie and display them. You can also create Archie. You can choose between five levels of compression from none to maximum.
Platform: symbian s60
Buy from: http://tinyurl.com/38ptue
Blacklist
This application is very useful when you want to block unwanted calls.
You can choose if you want to block number from private numbers, recent numbers, unknown numbers and your contact numbers.
It keeps log of all blocked numbers for up to 60 days.
Platform: symbian s60
Buy from: http://tinyurl.com/33kd33
Opera
Opera is a fast browser. It has many advanced function. So if you are surfing on the internet by internet enabled phone. You can use this software.
Platform: symbian s60
Buy from: www.opera.com
Anti-theft
Let’s face it if your phone is stolen what you do, nothing!
But there is a solution anti-theft is software which alerts you if your phone is stolen. When you install the software it asks you for a mobile number and password and when phone sim is changed it sends you a message and locks the phone. To unlock the phone you have to enter the password which are only you have. It sends message on the number you given to the software. In the message it gives you the mobile number of the thief and area in which he is.
Platform: symbian s60
Download from: http://www.download.com/Anti-Theft-for-Symbian-Mobiles/3000-2064_4-10645438.html
So these are the some useful mobile application.
If you have better mobile applications please tell me. I include them also.

Piracy in India!

2009-02-14T03:46:00.000-08:00

Biggest problem of the film industry is piracy.
Piracy is causing damage to entertaining industry in World.
Piracy is in the every place of the world in huge amount.
In India piracy is in very big amount. There are many Reasons of piracy. To know them I visited many shops for information before writing on piracy.
The conservation between me and shopkeeper
” are you have the film chak de India?”(I love this movie which I watched in a cinema at Chandigarh)
Shopkeeper: yes, I have.
He shows me the pirated film.
” I want film in DVD” I say
Shopkeeper: “ok”,
He shows me shahrukh special DVD which have five films. Veer zaara, kal ho Na ho, chak de India, Om shani Om and rab ne bana di Jodi (Which is released only on cinema original DVD is not come yet.)
But this DVD is pirated. I say
Shopkeeper: “It is 40 rupees only“
Five films in a single DVD at a price 40. I shocked.
Original single film cost around 100-200 rupees.
Mp3’s at 20 rupees. Mp3 has almost 20 albums of latest Bollywood films. Where the price of every single album is almost 50-150(the price of album Om shanti Om is 130 which I bought at music world in Chandigarh.) I want to check the audio quality of these pirated mp3 so I tell the shopkeeper to play it
The quality of song is average if comere to original track (song is Dard- de-disco). There are also many adult films in same price. There is every
Blockbuster film from 1970-2008 and some films of 2009 which is released. But original films are few. He has not original blockbuster chak de India which is released last year. I refused the pirated films. I visited many other shops. But condition is similar everywhere.
SO, the biggest problem of success of piracy over original is pricy and availability. People buy pirated stuff because of these reasons
• Price (the pirated content is cheap)
• Availability ( original content is available on many website free)
• More films on single DVD.
• Many more
Many companies are giving original stuff at very low price. Like Moser Baer which is giving old blockbuster films at price 45 rupees. I buy original films by Moser Baer.
We all know that pricy is very harmful for us and film industry. So please stop piracy. Reject pirated stuff and bought original stuff.
Kill piracy.

Make Window xp looks like window vista

2009-02-14T03:43:00.000-08:00

It almost two years passed since window vista is launched. But many users still stick to window Xp for many reasons.
• Compatibility issue with vista
• High hardware required.
• Slow on old computers.
• Not enough many to buy vista
But many users want to change look and feel of their 6-7 years old operating system. There is some method to change xp to look like window vista and some features of vista. There is not to buy vista for its look and some features. I am going to familiar you with some well know program which can give you feel and features of vista.
Slide bar
You can use Google desktop for slidebar and search function.
It is easy to use, very good in features and free. Once you installed right click on the icon on the system trey and set it a slidebar. You can download Google desktop from http://desktop.google.com
Window media player 11
Window media player 11 comes out with window vista. But xp users also use it. To download it www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme-dia/player/11/default.aspx
Ready boost
In vista you can use a flash drive to add additional memory by using its ready boost feature.
Xp users can use a commercial program to use this function. To download its trail goes to its website www.eboostr.com
Flipping window
In vista, you can flip open windows in 3D by pressing
[Window key] + [tab]
You can also flip open window in xp by using a utility Top Desk (www.otakusoft-ware.com/topdesk/).
Taskbar Visual Tips
Visual tooltips are small visual previews of windows; they appear when you move your mouse pointer over an item in the taskbar. You can get Visual Tooltip from www.chrisnsoft.com/ visual-tooltip/.
Unzip the file and run VisualToolTip.exe. Now move the mouse pointer over the taskbar and you’ll be able to see previews of programs.
Vista Inspirat 2
This is software which given xp complete look of window vista. It changes taskbar, icons etc.
Internet Explorer 8
The default browser of the window xp is internet Explorer 6 which is slow. But you can download internet explorer 8 from Microsoft website. It is fast, more secure tabbed browsing and many more features.
So by using these software’s you can make your operating system better than before.

Increase the Performance of your Vista PC

2009-02-09T02:14:00.000-08:00

window vista is a heavy operating system.Many people face the problem of slow vista performance. so these are the some simple tips to
increase the speed of window vista.

Turn-Off User Account

1. Click the Start (Windows) button
2. Select the Control Panel
3. Type in ‘UAC‘ into the search bar
4. It’ll bring up a search result of ‘Turn User Account Control
(UAC) on or off’
5. Just follow the prompts from there

Disable Unnecessary Graphical Effects

Vista is “sexy” because of its new aero glass transparency effects.
Here is how to enable and disable this new eye candy.

1. Click Start (Windows) button
2. Select the Control Panel
3. Double-click Click Appearance and Personalization
4. Under Personalization, click Change the color scheme
5. In the Appearance Settings dialog box, click Windows Vista
Basic, and then click OK.

Shutdown Search Indexing

1. Click the Start button
2. Select Computer
3. Right-click on the C: Drive icon
4. Select Properties
5. Select the General Tab
6. Uncheck Index this drive for faster searching
7. On the next dialog box, select Apply Changes to Drive C:,
subfolders and files
8. Click OK

Disable Automatic Disk Defragment

1. Click the Start button
2. Select Computer
3. Right-click on C: Drive icon
4. Select Properties
5. Click the Tools tab
6. Uncheck Run on a schedule
7. Click OK
Clean Your System Registry

clean your system registry by any good registry cleaner software

Disable Automatic Windows Defender Operation

To disable:
1. Click the Start button
2. Type “services” into the Start Search box
3. Find Windows Defender in the list of programs
4. Double-click on Windows Defender
5. Choose Tools from the top menu
6. Select Options
7. Uncheck Auto Start at the bottom of the window.

Turn-Off Un-Needed Features
To Turn-Off Some Un-Needed Features:
1. Click on the Start Button
2. Select Control Panel
3. Under Programs click Uninstall a program
4. On the left side menu, click on Turn Windows features on or
off
5. Scroll through the list as shown below and uncheck from any
feature you do not want installed.
6. Click OK when you are finished making your changes. The
features will now be uninstalled.

so these are the tips to increase vista performance

window vista

2009-02-08T01:23:00.000-08:00

Window vista is latest operating system from microsoft. it comes with many versions. Windows Vista Ultimate, window vista starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, vista enterprise and Business Editions. vista starter has minimum vista features and vista ultimate has all the features of vista.
vista has aero look.
startup and shut down
The final functional change is to how Windows shuts down—by
default, it doesn’t. Vista goes into a low-power state, wherein your
work is saved to disk—the default behaviour is thus the Sleepmode
as seen under XP. This has been done to reduce startup times, as it
is much quicker to boot the OS from Sleep mode than a cold
restart. To access the traditional Shutdown command, you need to
dig a bit deeper into the menu by clicking on an arrow right next
to the “Lock” icon—this reveals all themethods for powering down
or locking your computer: Switch User, Log off, Lock, Restart,
Sleep, and Shutdown.
Windows Sidebar
The Windows Sidebar is a simple panel that gath-
ers several of these widgets—which are called
Desktop Gadgets under Vista—into a single interface
element.
Internet Explorer 7
The latest version of the most-widely used Web browser was first
made available under Windows XP. The browser brings several
changes and feature additions—long overdue—to the table.
introduces an RSS feed discovery icon
and a feed reader. The dis-
covery icon is greyed and
disabled while browsing a
site that doesn’t offer con-
tent syndication, while it
activates to a bright
orange if it stumbles
upon an RSS feed.
Others features added to IE7 include support for tabbed browsing,
page zoom which now zooms the entire page (and not just text as
in previous versions), quick tabs (thumbnail representation of
open tabs), a phishing filter, a pop-up blocker, and improved Web
standards support including support for PNG alpha channel And
tabbed browsing.Tabbed browsing is a new feature in Internet Explorer that allows
you to open multiple Web sites in a single browser window. To
open a new tab, click on the New Tab button inside IE, or press
[Ctrl] + [T]. You can browse between tabs by clicking on the tab or
by using the Quick Tabs button in IE. Quick Tabs provides a thumb-
nail view of all your open tabs and can be started by clicking on
the Quick Tabs button or by pressing [Ctrl] + [Q].When you click on
the arrow next to the Quick Tabs button a list of all the websites
that you have open is displayed. Windows Media Player 11
Windows Media Player 11 is another program that Microsoft has
released on both Windows XP and Vista. Under Vista, WMP11
offers a few additional features, including the ability to share your
multimedia library (playlist and catalogue sharing) with another
Vista user over a network. Generally speaking, WMP11 brings
along a new interface to catalogue, search, and play your media
content—music, videos, or photos. It also introduces an integrated
search feature that filters your content as you type keywords.
The Backup and Restore Center
Vista offers several routes to protect and backup
your data. As in Windows XP SP2, you can create a
restore point and then go back to it at a future date.
This feature offers the user options to back up relevant data to
a variety of media. A backup can be scheduled at periodic inter-
vals. Backing up is done incrementally, which means that succes-
sive runs of the software will only add information that has been
changed to the user’s data, minimising the space required for the
backup, as also the time required to make additional backups. Windows Mail

This is the replacement for Outlook Express under Vista. However,
some features have been dropped from Windows Mail such as sup-
port for WebDAV (a protocol that allows users to collaboratively
edit and manage files on remote web servers) and integration with
Messenger. The program also lacks integration with Windows
Calendar.
Windows Calendar
This is a simple calendaring and task scheduler
bundled with Vista. The program allows for simple appointments and tasks.
Windows Photo Gallery
The Photo Gallery is a photo management and retouching tool which
both catalogues and offers minimal and beginner-level photo retouching options.
Windows DVD Maker
This is a simple yet usefu
application that allows you
to quickly make DVDs out o
movies or photos to share
with friends and family. You
can simply drag and drop
files into the application
and Windows DVD Maker
will intelligently create the
necessary DVD menus.
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center was
earlier shipped as its own
operating system—the
Windows XP Media Center
Edition. It is now also bun-
dled along with Windows
Vista Ultimate Edition. The
program is primarily meant
as a home entertainment
hub, wherein the interface
is either a large monitor or
an LCD/plasma television.
Windows Meeting Space
As a replacement to NetMeeting, Meeting Space leverages peer-to
peer technologies in order to offer a single space to share applica
tions and arrange for online meetings.
Speech Recognition
windows Vista ships with a comprehensive suite of programs that together
offer an accurate speech recognition engine.
For consumers, Vista has an inbuilt speech recognition inter-
face. This is designed to allow control of Vista without a keyboard
or mouse. Moreover, the speech features extend to all elements of
the OS, and is not limited to Microsoft products. Vista also bundles
along a general-purpose speech recognition engine, which is quite
accurate in recognition and is also available in a variety of lan-
guages. Vista also includes the first of a new generation of speech
synthesisers to come out of Microsoft, completely rewritten to take
advantage of the latest techniques.
Speech recognition is vastly more complicated than synthesis. You
can imagine the scale of complication when you realise that the input
is essentially a sound wave that needs to be analysed and processed—
to understand everything from intent to placement within a statement
User Account Control (UAC)
There are generally two types of users in any operating system—
those who canmake changes to the system’s files and settings, and
those who cannot.Since UAC implies that even an Administrator doesn’t have access
to system resources by default, some older programs from
Windows XP days might have problems running under Vista. To
better understand why, let’s quickly take a look at exactly what
happens when an admin logs into a Vista system.
Windows Defender
To protect your system from malware in the form of spyware,
Trojans, rootkits and Web browser exploits, Vista introduced the
Windows Defender.
The Security Panel
Windows Vista’s Security Panel offers a unified place to access
and modify all the operating system’s security settings. It is also
the place to go if you want to check up on the security status of youros.
DirectX 10
DX10 is a set of APIs (an API is a layer of software that tells other
software and hardware how to interact with it) that enables next-
generation gaming; by “next-generation,” we mean beyond what
consoles would be capable of in the years to come. DirectX 10 will
offer a variety of new features and new tricks to old tasks which
will take the visual fidelity and the performance of games built
using the API to a new level. With DX10 in particular and Vista in
general, Microsoft has shifted the onus of graphics rendering from
the processor to the graphics card.

Apart from these features window vista faces many creticised by many customers because of
high hardware requirement , UAC, lack of captabilty and other things.
so , many downgrade to window xp and looking for the window 7.