Hotmail BETA

I finally got a chance to get my hands on the Windows Live Mail also referred to as the Hotmail BETA. It is pretty nice and the loading time is less that that of Yahoo and is less than GmaIl if you have loaded it once before on the computer. But it takes a lot of time to load if it is loading for the first time. You have a choice between three different layouts to chpoose from and also you have the freedom of choosing any color that you like. At first when you think that the website is loaded the screen looks something like this -

But actually a lot is left. So you wait onother 15 minutes and a screen shows up that has recently updated contacts, new mails, amount of space left and an ad of Windows Live on the right side.The inbox is pretty clean too. You have a pane on the top that shows the name, sender and dae of the email and stuff. Similar to outlook. And at the bottom you can actually read the mail. You have buttons for mark as read and stuff like that on the top. On the side there is another frame that allows you to choose stuff like - Mail, Contacts and Calendar and stuff like that.

In the contacts part you can see the names of all your contacts on the left side and on the right side you see there details including the photo.

The calendar part I haven't explored much but looks like this -

And then composing a mail part is pretty good to. It tells you your spelling mistakes exactly like it does in Word. And you can right click on it to see correct spelling suggestions.

Isn't it just great. I love it. I would give it 8.5 out of 10. Keep it up Microsoft. And I totaly appreciate the free 2GB inbox.

I do Dog Trix

Sorry I wasnt blogging for a long time now. It wasn't that I did not have time, the thing was that I could not get myself to sit on one win window and write something. Well I have found some things that I could blog about. So here goes.
I found this site somewhere and found it to be very amusing. It is not very elaborate but is good if you want some fun. The URL is http://www.idodogtricks.com/index_flash.html. In this a flash movie loads. And then there is a small text box to enter commands. And whatever you write the dog does. Some of the commangs that I tried and worked are -

• Jump
• Rollover
• Stand
• Lick
• Bark

If you write something that it does not understand then it gives a witty reply and barks. It is completely useless but is a little bit of fun. So do check it out.

Picasa Web Albums

I signed on on Google Picasa Web Albums(BETA) a few days ago. I tried it today so I am blogging about it. It is pretty nice, though you need to sign up and then wait for them to approve your request. Images are uploaded pretty quickly much faster as compared to Yahoo! Photos. The only downside with Google Picasa Web Albums is that it allows you to upload photos of only 250 MB which I believe that they will increase once it is open to everyone and is out of BETA testing. Uploading photos is very quick and easy. It changes the size of the photos automatically so it does not take as much space on there servers as they taking on your Hard Drive. Overall I would give it 8/10 I would have given it 9.5 but only 250 MB .... Come on Google

Close the Window(Vista)

Well...seeing my bad luck lately it was pretty sure that my dreams of putting Windows Vista would never come true. But I still tried - I put the CD inside and well it seems that I have a 498GHz processor. So well Vista did not work(bummer). So I have now installed Windows XP. This OS is pretty good as well. I have made 5 partitions -

• C: - OS - 3.5 GB
• D: - Paging - 1GB
• E: - Program Files - 8.5GB
• F: - Data - 10GB
• G: - Music - 14.2GB

So, right now I am pretty happy with the OS. Though I do wish to upgrade from Windows XP Home Edition to SP2. I will be installing Longhorn on the other PC on a VM so you can still hope for some screenshots.

Windows Vista

I have a very raddar kissim kaprocessor. But I was just going through the details checking if it is 800MHz or not so that I could run Vista. I always use to think that I have a 533MHz processor. Well I found out that I have a Intel Celeron processor and the minimum for a processor is 950MHz and the maximum is 2.8GHz. Which means that I can totally run Windows Vista on it. My dad has go the DVD of Windows Vista Beta 2 so I will be installing it instead of XP. Aint that great. If all goes as planned I will soon post more stuff about Vista.

Animator vs Animation

A great piece of work featuring a duel between a cruel Flash developer and his feeble stick creation.

Bill Gates Make the Switch Parody

Another Mac Make the Switch parody, this one starring The Borg himself.

Grow up, with a Mac

This particular Mac Switch TV ad parody features a baby telling how he switched from a PC to a Macintosh, and matured...somewhat.

Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Gone Awry

Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.

The Fast The Furious: Tokyo Drift

Yesterday I went with Avi to watch The Fast The Furious: Tokyo Drift. The newspaper here in India gave it only two stars. Well I think it deserves at least four. It is such a great movie. Great races. Mainly drifts as the name suggests but still great. It would have been better if there were just one drag. Mostly the cars were very small, as they needed to drift. No not much speed as there was technique while driving. The first race was the only one that had a lot of speed.

Blogger 4 Word

Blogger for word is a service from Blogger with collaboration with Microsoft Word. It allows you to write, publish and edit post on WinWord and then publish them whenever you like. All you need to do is download a small application that is of about 2 MB from the following link. And then you just need to install it and voila. You can now start writing your posts and publishing them without even opening a web browser. Only downside is that you cannot add pictures in the posts. But that is not such a hug problem….i hope.

LaunchCAST

Check this out people the LaunchCAST player. I really love it a lot. It allows you to listen to all kinds of differnt music for free and legally. It is a Yahoo service and therefore it is quite obviously GREAT. It allows you to donwload any number of songs if you pay them something like 5$ or Rs.250 which is pretty cheap as one CD costs around that much. All you need to have is the Internet Explorer and the Media player to listen to some great music. It has 35 predefined stations of different genres and moods. You can also make your own station by rating artists, songs and albums. There is a 30 second long commercial after every 2-3 songs but it is worth it. Here is a screenshot -

And the music quality is great too!

Songs....

Song list again –

• Rihanna – Unfaithful


• Rihanna – Pon De Replay


• FreshlyGround – DooBee


• Jessica Simpson – Boots


• Jessica Simpson – Public Affair


• Christina Augilera – Ain’t no other Man


• Madonna – Get Together


• The Raconteurs – Steady as She Goes


• Five For Fighting – The Riddle (You and I)


• Black Eyed Peas – Mas Que Nada


• Morcheeba – Rome wasn’t built in a day


• Vanessa Carlton – A thousand miles


• Fatboy Slim – Weapon of Choice


• Fatboy Slim – That old pair of Jeans

Pain in the Back-Up

After taking the back up on the other computer I thought that I would write every single file that used to be on my computer on 4 DVD’s. So I got 4 DVD’s and guess what??? The computer’s DVD writer is not working properly. So if I still plan to write on a disc then I will require around 21 CDs and writing on these 21 CDs will take ages. I don’t know what I will do. Changing your OS is a pain in the A$$.

UBUTNU

I had to reformat my computer so I decided that I will change the Operating System as well. I was thinking of changing to Windows XP but as the CD is not available at the moment I am switching to LINUX Ubuntu to be exact. So I took that back-up and decided to put the OS. But I want my sister to check the back-up just to make sure there is no data loss. But she says she has “work”. I mean it will take an hour at maximum and all she is doing right now is watching TV and roaming around. The computer is a shared resource and she needs to contribute if any help is required. But NO. This is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo unfair

Google on a Roll

Check out the Google Notebook and the Google Web Accelerator . They are so totally so cool and useful. Both of them run on your browser’s standard buttons bar and are only 1.5 MB downloads. The Google Notebook allows use to save snippets of data quickly on to something similar to a scratchpad. Then you can view edit and delete stuff from your notebook anytime you like. You don’t need to open a new browser to edit a small window opens in the website that you are already viewing and allows you to make necessary changes. You can even choose to open it in a completely new browser and there the User Interface is quite similar to that of Gmail. The Web Accelerator well is accelerates the speed of loading a web page similar to that of the download manager. It does not require any payment or anything and works nicely on your standard buttons bar. Check it out yo!

Sorry : I was Out!

Sorry people!! I had fever and I had to go from school after the recess. I took Crocin© and guess what? I am allergic to it.  My face got all swelled up. So did my hands and some parts of my sole. So I went to the doctor he has given me a long list of medicines to take. The swelling is almost gone. So I will be coming to school on Monday.

Songs I like

Here is a list of songs that you should check out -

1. Fort Minor - Remember the Name
2. Fast and Furious - Watch Your Back
3. Ludacris - Act a Fool
4. Sandi Thom - I wish I was a punk Rocker
5. Def Leopard - Rock On
6. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Tell Me Baby
7. Madonna - Get Together
8. The Feeling - Sewn
9. Dum Dum Project - Hold
10. Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
    

Matrix Ping Pong

This is a really funny video watch. I would suggest you to the whole thing. You can clearly see people in black overalls holding the ball and making the other people fly but still it is really funny!!!

Wise Cracks

Here are some stupid yet wise cracks

Why are they called apartments if they are all stacked together?

A sign on a butcher's window - "Let me MEAT your needs"

Why is it called rush our if nothing is moving?

There are only 10 types of people in this world - those who know binary and those who dont!!!

All that glitters has a high refractive index!!!