Entries from June 2007 ↓

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Irrespective of what others feel, I think Animation (NOT Cartoon) movies are for all kids from 6 to 60 to enjoy.

Do you know there are at least 6 animation movies in the IMDb Top 250 movies of all time?

Scott Adams of The Dilbert Blog asked a creative question. What creatures are left for the next animation movies?

The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption of the animation movie studio are Disney - Pixar and DreamWorks Animation SKG. But we have a problem. They ran out of creatures!

Let’s see the list of the creatures out of which we have blockbusters…

Toys - Toy Story 1 & 2, Robot (maybe)
Insects - A Bug’s Life, Antz (featured here)
Fishes - Finding Nemo, Shark Tale
Super Heroes - The Incredibles
Cars - Cars
Monsters - Monsters, Inc. , Shrek Trilogy
Birds - Happy Feet, Chicken Run, Chicken Little
Animals (of all kind) - Madagascar, Over the Hedge, The Wild, Wallace and Gromit
Pests - Ratatouille, Flushed Away, Stuart Little (if you can count this too)

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China along with some Gulf Countries (including UAE) block sites which they feel might be inappropriate. Some offices and educational Institutes even block sites.

Here’s a new way to bypass the ban. This trick WILL work for sure.

I’ve posted about Accessing Blocked Sites in UAE before. But this time, Amit posted a trick which is really cool.

Opera mini is the new mobile browser for your mobile phones. Now they offer a new beta version, wherein we can try out how good the browser. This also is the place where we’ll play smart and open blocked sites.

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I stumble upon a site MovieLens developed by folks at University of Minnesota. It was a cool site and instantly I liked the movie.

For movies, I used to visit only IMDb (of course) and Rotten Tomatoes before. Now I’ll start to use this site as well.

‘What movie should I watch?’

I’m going to tell the two biggest reasons why I like MovieLens and you might want to check it out:

Getting recommendations

This is all the site is about, give recommendation. MovieLens has shortcuts like Top Picks For You that provide you with quick access to common searches. You can use the Search tab to perform more advanced searches that filter by genre, date and save your favorite searches as personal shortcuts.

When you enter a movie, it recommends you a list of similar movie that you might like. Before you log in, you can try this feature (shown in the image below)

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India is touring Ireland and England this summer. 3 ODIs with South Africa and one each against Pakistan and Ireland.

As always, we have the links to the live cricket streaming for this series.

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India Tour of England, 2007 - Live Cricket Streaming

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Changing themes for your WordPress blog is a cumbersome task, right?

Wrong.

Although even scouting for a right theme for your blog from the thousands of themes is not easy, updating your theme with another one will make you think of sea of work that need to be done, checking and updating the files all over again.

Do you know I changed the theme for this blog for 4 times, though graphically it was only two?

Nirmal over Life Rocks wrote a article referring to the checklist that you’ll need to run through once you change your WordPress theme. I saw a many comments regarding how the bloggers forgot to add/edit some thing or the other in their new theme. Having changed a new theme myself, I wanted to share a simple but effective tip how to get things done the easy way.

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Sivaji: The Boss - Movie Review

Sivaji rocks. Sivaji is cool. Don’t miss it.

That’s the review of the movie if you want me to cut short the review that’s going to follow.

I liked the movie and it was the best I saw this summer. Spiderman was trapped by his own web, Pirates sunk, Oceans 13 were caught red handed. I agree with Sudhish (a great movie review blog) when he says Superstar films shouldn’t be reviewed. They’re the Superhero movies of India!

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Do you know that etisalat (Telecom Provider here) pays a company called Secure computing Dhs 9.5 million ($2.6 million) to block sites every year?

Almost none of the proxy browsing site works. The sites which claims softwares for proxy browsing are also blocked. Nor does some tricks like changes the URL to IP.

Yet to can take damage control measures.

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