Hello Humanoids . The month of October is a month of festivals and holidays ( yipee ) for people here in India . I don travel much due to my tight schedule but i did get some time and i went to a Navratri celebration.
So this is what Navratri basically is :
The festival of Navratri lasts for nine nights.According to the Hindu calendar Navratri celebration begins from the first day of the bright fortnight of Ashwin.This festival is fully dedicated to the worship of Goddess Durga Mata and her nine forms. These nine days are celebrated in all over the country with an ardent zeal and enthusiasm. The devotees all over India celebrated the last three days with much solemnity, calm and joy. But in the tenth day, Dussehra or Vijayadashmi is celebrated to commemorate the victory of Lord Rama over Ravana.
There was a big ground there in which people did a traditional dance called " garbha " and " dandiya " , but blah who cares ? I went to that place to eat variety of food from all over India , actually i did eat a lot .
But the most special thing about the place was the Paan waala stall , you must be wondering who actually is a paanwala ? He is basically the person who makes a paan , now dont make me tell you what paan is , sigh .
Paan (a juicy betel leaf stuffed with condiments) is very popular in India .
So what they did was that they gave us paan not in a normal way , but they did give us in a special way which is pretty uncommon , unlike the tradition long moustached paan waalas .
Actually the video i captured shows how people tend to enjoy their life in the festival days , people forget every tension thats been with them from the past , its just about celebrating and yes doing something special always ! This video also reflects a part of our Hindu tradition . And yes you get to see not just the paan making process , you also get to see the special effects ;)
Here is what i captured on my mobile , Note - This video may seem boring or even pointless to some people but i found this video unique and adorable enough to be on my blog and yes after this post i promise to be back to my traditional tech and internet related posts ,
Hope you enjoy the 4 minute 11 seconds video , remember you will enjoy the video if you keep watching it for few seconds :
Hello Humanoids . As i promised in my previous Dragon Ball The Movie Trailer Screen shot post , that i will keep you up to date with this upcoming movie and surprisingly for Dragon Ball fan boys , the trailer got leaked on DbThe movie .com
Here is the " Officially " Leaked trailer :
After watching this trailer , my thoughts became reality . This movie is the worst movie based on anime , THIS MOVIE Hasn't DONE ANYTHING TO BE LIKE THE CARTOON !
Goku looks so bad , the blazing fire from Picollo looks like an air wave ,the dragon ball doesn't have the traditional stars on it , , the characters made have horrible casting - None of the characters look similar , their clothes ,special effects, their way of expression look like just another Kung fu movie :-(
Here are selected 6 user comments on the video :
OMG THIS FREAKING ROCKS SOOOOO HARD. THE EFFECTS LOOK BEATUFIFUL! and all the eye-popping dragonball scenery looks to be there too! wow, i was just looking at the first audioless trailer and THIS comes!
If the teaser is how the movie will be, then this movie does NOT seems like the original DragonBall… I hope that it brings better things but the teaser disappointed me a lot
Im not going to complain…but eh. Looks pretty sweet, but Im not blown away. I think the music and dialoge was kinda meh but other than that this movie looks badass. I have a feeling that the haters will now hate this movie even more. But thanks for posting Adam, Im suprised it hasnt hit SHH yet.
i dont know about yall but as a fan of the series im a lil disapointed at the trailer. i hope the movie is better. this doesnt look bad though. but to be honest when it didnt have sound it looked better. but i guess well see right. one thing that was exciting to see was the fireballs it looks like it gonna be true to the series fighting wise. i just expected this to be better since they minused krillin roshi pervertedness and a storyline worth listening to.
anyway time for some actual pulling apart of the trailer… when we first see roshi he has a beard, im thinking this is a flashback or where the movie will start. And that is where we see the other dragon temple members. Goku recieveing his gi, I might be wrong as I havnt seen the episode in a while but didnt roshi give them there gi’s in a suitcase as well just before the martial arts tournament? then at 23 seconds we see goku and chi chi standing next to each other beofre goku looks at the eclipse. I think this seen is gohans funeral. at 37 we see a fight with scenerary that looks like it was taken straight out of the anime, looks fantastic, the person in the air is bald, It is possible that it is piccolo. Then we go to bulma looking threw a hole in the wall, followed soon by yamcha with a drill, most likely related. It would seem that they are trying to break into somewhere probaly to get a dragonball. Also in the second trailer we see bulma coming through some doors with guns out. the room looks futeristic, possibly piccolos hidout? Then we see some energy bolts from roshi, piccolo and explosions, a montage of some of the action. So I think from this trailer we get quiet a bit of whats going to happen in the movie.
People, seriously, I really cannot understand how you still like this movie after seeing that mediocre teaser. I think you either self-conditionated into liking it or you actually despise it but you haven’t enough courage to admit it after all those months of avid bootlicking. I’ve following the progress of this movie from the very beginning because I’ve always wanted a Dragonball movie. A nice one, actually. I’ve tried hard to see hope along the increasingly crappy advances. But THIS is not the thing I was waiting for. For those of you, with that nonsensical “realistic movie” argument, I have several things to say. Dragonball’s core appeal comes from its weirdness. Dragonball is not only about people flying and shooting energy and fighting lightning-fast, but the overall setting, unique characters and odd things happening all the time. I can show you how wrong you are. Most of the Dragonball features you called “silly” or “unsuitable for a live-action film” are already on American cinema. Actually, the majority of the films I’m about to reference are very respectable productions: - Flying human beings: The Matrix Trilogy - Unrealistic fights (including an aerial fight): The Matrix Trilogy - People with odd hair color/haircuts: The Fifth Element, A Clockwork Orange, countless others - Tailed human: Nightcrawler from X2 - Giant monkey: Peter Jackson’s King Kong - Talking animals: Men in Black films, Narnia films, The Golden Compass - Aliens come to Earth in human-sized pods: Spielberg’s War of the Worlds - Giant manned robots: Spielberg’s War of the Worlds - Anthropomorphic manned robots: Aliens, Iron Man - Dinosaurs in modern times: Jurassic Park films - People riding dinosaurs: Star Wars films - Flying land vehicles: Star Wars films - People shooting energy from his hands: any Sith - Anthropomorphic dogs: Chewbacca! - Old green man with pointy ears: Yoda! - Green man with antennae: Greedo - Green man: Abe Sapiens from Hellboy As you can see, those movies, particularly the Star Wars franchise, are very successful. But Dragonball, with all its rich mythology of wonderful beings and events, has been straight raped in front of you, loyal fans, to favor this awful piece of bad filmmaking and poor artistic licence. If you ask me , Wong just has not enough to manage the scope of what Dragonball really is. He had the opportunity to induce new, fascinating characters to American cinema, unlike Yoda (it’s a puppet, after all): three eyed men, talking cats, an entire fantasy army with badass weaponry… God, if George Lucas wants a fat, tailed bastard on his movies, he just do it and people proceed to love the result… …But suddenly, Dragonball must be forcefully adapted into Karate Kid but with B-movie-like special effects. You can make the difference. You can get a better Dragonball, because the box office has the power of telling the industry how to do things properly. It happened with Ang Lee’s Hulk, it happened with Superman Returns. Think about it.
I didn't like the trailer at all , but this trailer has mixed reactions like always , The only thing i like about the video is Picollo is Green !
Hello Humanoids . Sorry for the delay again , i cant get time out of studies , very sorry ! September again was full of studies , i have nothing new to comment on so never mind ! What about you ?
Lets leave aside what shouldn't have happened , lets take a look back at all the positive moments we have and we truly will be proud of September.
So lets take a look at what October has in store for us , and if you are an new old reader you should be knowing that this post is a traditional post which has all the scheduled stuff related to Music , Movies and Video Games . Yeah that's hardcore entertainment . Music related upcoming songs or albums :
6 October Monday
Oasis
Dig Out Your Soul
7 October Tuesday
Annuals
Such Fun
Attack! Attack!
Attack! Attack!
Bella Morte
Beautiful Death
Deerhoof
Offend Maggie
Jolie Holland
The Living and the Dead
Lambchop
OH (ohio)
Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos
Not Animal! CD/Digital release
Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos
Animal! Vinyl release
Sarah McLachlan
Closer Best-of
Megapuss
Surfing Digital release Sep 16
Oasis
Dig Out Your Soul
The Pretenders
Break Up the Concrete
Police
Certifiable Live CD/DVD - Best Buy Exclusive
Team Genius
Team Genius
Rise Against
Appeal to Reason
The Status
So This Is Progress
The Streets
Everything Is Borrowed
Team Genius
Team Genius
Tesla
Forever More
Travis
Ode to J. Smith
Michelle Williams
Unexpected
Rachael Yamagata
A Record in Two Parts ... Elephants and Teeth Sinking Into Heart 2-part album
Elliott Yamin
My Kind of Holiday
13 October Monday
Cranes
Cranes
Los Campesinos!
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
14 October Tuesday
Ashanti
The Vault
Boo and Boo Too
No Tempo
Nikka Costa
Pebble To A Pearl
Curumin
JapanPopShow
Jo Dee Messina
Unmistakable
Gojira
The Way of All Flesh
Keane
Perfect Symmetry
Ray Lamontagne
Gossip In The Grain
Lotus
Hammerstrike
Bill Madden
Child of the Same God
Menahan Street Band
Make the Road By Walking
The Secret Machines
Secret Machines
Sixpence None The Richer
The Dawn of Grace X-Mas album
Lucinda Williams
Little Honey
20 October Monday
AC/DC
Black Ice Wal-Mart exclusive
21 October Tuesday
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Dolores
Kenny Chesney
Lucky Old Sun
Brett Dennen
Hope for the Hopeless
Electric Six
Flashy
Hospital Ships
Oh, Ramona
Ludacris
Theater of the Mind
Matisyahu
Shattered EP
Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping
pH10
Well Connected
Matt Sims
Happily Ever After
Social Code
He Said, She Said EP
Super XX Man
Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds
Various Artists
All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash
Lee Ann Womack
Call Me Crazy
28 October Tuesday
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Cardinology
Bloc Party
Intimacy Digital release: Aug 21
Breaking Benjamin
[Title TBA]
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, and The Amorphous Strums
Dark Developments
Coolio
Steal Hear
The Cure
Dream 4.13
Cynic
Traced On Air
Deerhunter
Microcastle
Dragonette
Galore
Emery
While Broken Hearts Prevail EP
Tom Gabel Against Me! singer
Heart Burns EP
Kaiser Chiefs
Off With Their Heads
Toby Keith
That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy
JOhn Legend
Evolver
Lovedrug
The Sucker Punch Show
Pink
Funhouse
Queen + Paul Rodgers
The Cosmos Rocks
Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns
Lucinda Williams
Lu in 08 Digital only EP
Moviesto watch out for:
October 10
Body of Lies Body of Lies
City of Ember
The Express
Quarantine
Ashes of Time Redux
Happy Go Lucky
October 17
Max Payne
W.
Morning Light
The Secret Life of Bees
What Just Happened?
October 7
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (wide) • Role Models (wide) • Soul Men (wide) • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (limited) • Killshot (limited) • Repo! The Genetic Opera (limited)
October 24
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year (wide) • Saw V (wide) • Changeling (limited) • Fear(s) of the Dark (limited) • I've Loved You So Long (limited) • Passengers (limited) • Pride and Glory (limited) • Synecdoche, New York (limited)
October 31
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (limited) • The Other End of the Line
Note - Additions are exclusions are most welcome .
I hope this post proved to be useful . Get ready to sync your iPod and grab your movie tickets and of course ready to shell those extra money for those upcoming games !
Hello Humanoids . After so many tech related articles , its time to sit back , relax and learn . This time , i found a 2 month old video which was about one of the most discussed about topic of this month : Large Hadron Collider , yes you must have heard a lot about it but do you exactly know what its all about ?
I myself have little knowledge about LHC , so i did some googling , found tons of videos and articles which made me comfortable about this experiment . But not everybody knows about this , and what better way can it be to learn about LHC by listening to a song based on the LHC !
This rap was made by Kate McAlpine 2 months ago , which became immensely popular getting more than 3 million views on Youtube , i think this rap is just way too amazing , and yes if you just listen to the beats then you aren't getting what the main aim is : To Know what LHC does and how can people make a rap on it ! Here is the video
IF you have problems in understanding the lyrics , you can see the lyrics from here :
The Large Hadron Rap Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel under ground Designed with mind to send protons around A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride ‘Til in the hearts of the detectors, they’re made to collide And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum And then… LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find. The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head. We see asteroids and planets, stars galore We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core But even all that matter cannot explain What holds all these stars together – something else remains This dark matter interacts only through gravity And how do you catch a particle there’s no way to see Take it back to the conservation of energy And the particles appear, clear as can be You see particles flying, in jets they spray But you notice there ain’t nothin’, goin’ the other way You say, “My law has just been violated – it don’t make sense! There’s gotta be another particle to make this balance.” And it might be dark matter, and for first Time we catch a glimpse of what must fill most of the known ‘Verse. Because… LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find. Antimatter is sort of like matter’s evil twin Because except for charge and handedness of spin They’re the same for a particle and its anti-self But you can’t store an antiparticle on any shelf Cuz when it meets its normal twin, they both annihilate Matter turns to energy and then it dissipates When matter is created from energy Which is exactly what they’ll do in the LHC You get matter and antimatter in equal parts And they try to take that back to when the universe starts The Big Bang – back when the matter all exploded But the amount of antimatter was somehow eroded Because when we look around we see that matter abounds But antimatter’s nowhere to be found. That’s why… LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find. The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head. The Higgs Boson – that’s the one that everybody talks about. And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out If the Higgs exists, they ought to see it right away And if it doesn’t, then the scientists will finally say “There is no Higgs! We need new physics to account for why Things have mass. Something in our Standard Model went awry.” But the Higgs – I still haven’t said just what it does They suppose that particles have mass because There is this Higgs field that extends through all space And some particles slow down while other particles race Straight through like the photon – it has no mass But something heavy like the top quark, it’s draggin’ its *** And the Higgs is a boson that carries a force And makes particles take orders from the field that is its source. They’ll detect it…. LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find. Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall off your bicycle it don’t take long Until you hit the earth, and you say, “Dang, that hurt!” But if you think that force is powerful, you’re wrong. You see, gravity – it’s weaker than Weak And the reason why is something many scientists seek They think about dimensions – we just live in three But maybe there are some others that are too small to see It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker, here on our end. And these dimensions are “rolled up” – curled so tight That they don’t affect you in your day to day life But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they'd find you... When LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find. The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.
I hope you enjoyed watching this video , there have been rumors that these guys are going to make another video when the LHC experiment gets successfully over : Lets hope they do make another one !
Hello Humanoids , this definitely is the longest title ever , but there wasn't option left so , lets take a look at what updates have taken place :
Yahoo Messenger 9.0
Firefox 3.0.2
Windows Vista Extra : 3 Updates !
Lets take a look one by one ,
Yahoo Messenger 9.0 : Finally , thank the lord - Yahoo! messenger has finally risen from all the betas and is now stable. Here are all the features in Yahoo Messenger 9.0 from Ymblog :
Pingbox : Introducing Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox, a new application that once embedded into your blog, website or social network page, lets visitors IM you anonymously (or they can identify themselves) without needing to download or even sign into Yahoo! Messenger.The good news is you’re anonymous too; visitors to your page never see your Yahoo! ID. Pingbox is great for giving your site/page/profile visitors a quick way to chat with you , you can can make your own Pingbox from here !
New Skins : There are three new skins - Silver, Ruby Red, Mystic Black ( yay for Mystic Black )
Return of the (original) emoticons : Woohoo , thankfully the larger emoticons have now been replaced back to original Yahoo ! Emoticons :)
Download the Yahoo Messenger 9.0 by pressing the download button :
Here is my verdict :
Stability : Never seen before in any YM versions.
Speed : Better than ever .
Features : Very innovative , Hi Five !
Conclusion : The wait was worthy , its a must download !
Firefox 3.0.2 : The not so long but very much awaited Firefox 3.0.2 which seems good enough to fix the bugs found in Firefox 3.0.1
Major security errors and stability errors have been fixed .
Official releases for Sinhala and Slovene are now available. New languages are in beta : Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, and Thai
Fixed a number of minor issues with the layout of certain web pages.Fixed several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales
Fixed issue that caused some users with customized toolbars to have their Back and Forward buttons go missingAdd new Extended Validation (EV) roots to Firefox 3.0.2.
Fixed several hangs and crashes that occurred when using screen readers.
Good news for Mac users : Mac-specific issues have been fixed !
This version of Firefox hasn't been referred to as a perfect update , but yes you should without a doubt update your Firefox to Firefox 3.0.2 :
Download
Download Firefox 3.0.2 by pressing the download button :
Or update this from the browser itself :
Navigate to Menu Bar then go to Help -> Check for Updates , and then click download and install .
Windows Vista Ultimate : Most of the Windows Vista users must be knowing about this , while some wouldn't have noticed it but these updates dont come very often.
As you know these updates are called Windows Ultimate Extras , hence its only for people using Windows Vista Ultimate .
Here are the few updates :
Microsoft ® Tinker (TM): Microsoft Tinker is a casual game that provides players with short puzzle game play sessions set in a warm, calming environment. This game is not for action freaks , this is just a plain and a fun puzzle game !
Ultimate Extras Sounds from Microsoft Tinker: Based on the positive feedback we received from the release of additional Windows Sound Schemes in April, we've integrated the unique audio sounds from Microsoft Tinker into a new sound scheme.
Windows ® DreamScene (TM) Content Pack #4Windows DreamScene Content Pack #4 which adds three additional nature-setting Windows DreamScenes.
Download These Contents by going to :
Start - > Windows Update -> then click on Check for updates and you shall surely see them on your to be updated list !
So those were the massive updates , feel free to download them from the blog itself as they have been linked from the official server itself , so feel safe !
Thats all for the updates , its time to give me fingers a break and yeah i have been doing too much techno stuff these days , will post something different as soon as possible !
Hello Humanoids . You must have been aware of the release of T-Mobile G1 Google Phone Press Conference that took place yesterday . Yes , the whole bunch of media person were present yesterday covering the first mobile that runs on Google Android Operating System .
Lets first of all have a look at its features and then it shall be followed by some videos :
Display
The G1 has a 3.17" 65K color touchscreen that runs in HVGA (480×320) resolution.
Battery Life
Talk freely for 5 hours continuously, or keep the phone in standby for 130 hours.
Camera
A 3.1 MegaPixel Camera , definitely a step forward the IPhone .
Structure/Dimensions
4.60” x 2.16” x 0.62”; Weight: 5.6 ounces.
Colour Options Available
G1 is available in white, black and brown.
Storage / Memory
1 GB micro SD as a default Storage space which can be supports 8 GB Micro SD .
Google Maps
The coolest thing on G1 : Google Street View !
Dedicated Amazon MP3 Store
Amazon MP3 store will be pre installed on every G1 Phone and you can download the songs at 89 cents via your Wi Fi
Youtube Player ?
G1 has a dedicated Youtube Player , have fun .
What about the Price ?
The price is estimated between 175 - 180 dollars , will keep you all updated about the price !
Awesome , so when is going to be available ?
You have to wait till October 22nd !
Three very interesting features , as displayed by Gizmodo :
ShopSavvy : designed to help people do comparative shopping
Ecorio: developed to help people keep track of their daily travels and view what their carbon footprint looks like
BreadCrumbz : enables people to create a step-by-step visual map using photos; customers can create their own routes, share them with friends or with the world
So after the list of summarising features lets take a look at three of the most important videos related to Android release yesterday that is :
T - Mobile G1 Press Conference video :
T-Mobile G1 Google Phone Press Conference 1st Overview Video
T1- Mobile G1 the official overview Video :
So that was all about the Google Android Phone , it has a lot to prove and has lots of cool features , but will it kill the iPhone ?
Check out this interesting two line conversation :
Person A : If you walk around with a Google Phone, you're a geek. If you walk around with a iPhone, you're a hit.
Person B : Hey I don't mind being a geek if my phone does what I actually want it to do!
Well , the above conversation says it all , I bet its time for features over the look era .
Lets hope for the best for the Google Android ! I shall be covering this mobile in upcoming weeks ,
Hello Humanoids. This post is specially for Blogger / Blogspot users . I recently was succesful in creating a hack for embedding a Stripe Ad in Blogspot .
You must have come across website like John Chow , etc : they have something which is of multiple use , like :
You can add a notice informing about latest updates
You can post your ads and double your income and tons more !
Stripe Ad is one of the fastest growing plugin for Wordpress users , it was made by a person from Maxblogpress and you can view the stripe ad here .
Now , adding a stripe ad to the blog is pretty simple . Without an worries any user can do this if you follow the steps below :
Go to your dashboard and click on Edit layout .
Note - Remove inverted commas wherever you see them , please.
Now press Ctrl + F on your keyboard or manually search for : < " /b:skin " >
Now , search for the <" " body " "> tag which is just below , the <" " head " "> tag , Just after the body tag paste this code :
Click on this picture to enlarge it
And please Don't Forget to remove the inverted commas !
You can make it bold , italic , whatever you want , just keep the div class same and keep changing the alignment , the text , and lots more ! Its totally customizable :)
Now just click on Save Template and you are done !
Very easy right ? .. Very true . Start having fun with your stripe ads - Take it as an advertizing advantage or keep your readers updated , since it can be modified anywhere around easily , you can do this is easy steps .
Still have any problem ? Post it in the comment box and i shall be hopefully quick to reply !
, Wong just has not enough to manage the scope of what Dragonball really is. He had the opportunity to induce new, fascinating characters to American cinema, unlike Yoda (it’s a puppet, after all): three eyed men, talking cats, an entire fantasy army with badass weaponry… God, if George Lucas wants a fat, tailed bastard on his movies, he just do it and people proceed to love the result…
