1. At least one of the identical twins born is evil..!!
2. While defusing a bomb don’t worry which wire to cut, you will always choose the right one..!!
3. A hero will show no pain while getting beaten up, but will show pain when a woman (most probabily she will be the heroine) is trying to clean his wound..!!
4. A police can solve a case only when he is suspended from duty..!!
5. (Best of all) If you decided to start dancing on street, everyone you meet will know the step..!!

Indian Movie Rockzz!!

Recently I came to this page where a survey was made for the web developers. I attended it. It is worth a try. You could know what you are doing by attending it. Come on.. Take it!

Take the survey directly! Click HERE

Do you know? There are lots of tools that makes your life easier by configuring them in your Windows XP? But some of the cool tools are hidden by Microsoft for some reason, dont ask me why.. Anyway here are a handful of them..

To run any of these apps go to ‘Start’ => ‘Run’ and type the executable name (ie charmap).

1. Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)
2. Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe
3. Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)
4. Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)
5. DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)
6. Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)
7. IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)
8. Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe (appears to allow synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. Apparently undocumented).
9. Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic).
10. ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe (something to do with databases)
11. Object Packager = packager.exe (to do with packaging objects for insertion in files, appears to have comprehensive help files).
12. System Monitor = perfmon.exe (very useful, highly configurable tool, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about any aspect of PC performance, for upper-geeks only )
    
13. Program Manager = progman.exe (Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell).
14. Remote Access phone book = rasphone.exe (documentation is virtually non-existant).
15. Registry Editor = regedt32.exe [also regedit.exe] (for hacking the Windows Registry).
16. Network shared folder wizard = shrpubw.exe (creates shared folders on network).
17. File siganture verification tool = sigverif.exe
18. Volume Contro = sndvol32.exe (I’ve included this for those people that lose it from the System Notification area).
19. System Configuration Editor = sysedit.exe (modify System.ini & Win.ini just like in Win98! ).
20. Syskey = syskey.exe (Secures XP Account database – use with care, it’s virtually undocumented but it appears to encrypt all passwords, I’m not sure of the full implications).
21. Microsoft Telnet Client = telnet.exe
22. Driver Verifier Manager = verifier.exe (seems to be a utility for monitoring the actions of drivers, might be useful for people having driver problems. Undocumented).
23. Windows for Workgroups Chat = winchat.exe (appears to be an old NT utility to allow chat sessions over a LAN, help files available).
24. System configuration = msconfig.exe (can use to control starup programs)
25. Group policy editor = gpedit.msc used to manage group policies, and permissions

Please note that adding or editing any settings in these tools may harm your computer. Please make sure you know what you are doing..

Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.

In my case I love Firefox , its the best I think. Anyway its your choice, but please stay away from IE 6 or earlier. They are really waste to display modern sites.

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks.

1. More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.
2. Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box. Note : In newer Firefox you have to goto ‘Manage search engines’ then select ‘Edit Keywords’.
3. Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):
   • Spacebar (page down)
   • Shift+Spacebar (page up)
   • Ctrl+F (find)
   • Alt+N (find next)
   • Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
   • Ctrl+T (new tab)
   • Ctrl+K (go to search box)
   • Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
   • Ctrl+= (increase text size)
   • Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
   • Ctrl+W (close tab)
   • F5 (reload)
   • Alt+Home (go to home page)
4. Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control+L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control+Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there – like magic! For “.net” addresses, press Shift+Enter, and for “.org” addresses, press Control+Shift+Enter. Cool right?
5. Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
   • Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
   • Ctrl+Shift+Tab (rotate to the previous tabs)
   • Ctrl+1 to 9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
6. Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:
   • Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
   • Shift+Scroll Down (previous page)
   • Shift+Scroll Up (next page)
   • Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
   • Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
   • Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
7. Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why ). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.
8. User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you’ll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It’s a bit complicated to get into here, but check out for this tutorial soon.
9. Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You’ll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder. You can find custom built user.js file at techlifeweb.com.
10. about:config The true power user’s tool, about.config isn’t something to mess with if you don’t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser’s address bar.
11. Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.
12. Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:
    • Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
    • Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
    • Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
    • Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30.
      This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
    • Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”.
      This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
13. NOTE : I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEM OCCURED DUE TO CHANGING UNWANTED SETTINGS
14. Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.
15. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.
16. Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value:

• 0: Display a close button on the active tab only
• 1: (Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
• 2: Don’t display any close buttons
• 3: Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

Google always amaze us with its cool logos for occassions.. Here is my collection of them [50+]:

To my SMART friends,

This was developed as an age test by the R&D Department at Harvard University. Take your time and see if you can read each line out loud without a mistake. The average person can’t do it!

This is really difficult, not so easy, so be careful.

1. This is this  cat
2. This is is  cat
3. This is how  cat
4. This is to  cat
5. This is keep  cat
6. This is a  cat
7. This is fool  cat
8. This is busy  cat
9. This is for  cat
10. This is forty  cat
11. This is seconds  cat

Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down, and I bet you can’t resist passing it on.

Apple introduced its new iPhone as ‘iPhone 3G [S]‘, it’ll be available in the market from tomorrow (19/06/2009). With the revolutionary iPhone, Apple combined innovative hardware features with the world’s most advanced mobile operating system to redefine what a mobile phone can do. Applications work together seamlessly and they sync with your computer — whether you’re on a Mac or a PC. From its revolutionary Multi-Touch display to its intelligent keyboard to its smart sensors, iPhone is years ahead of any other mobile phone.

Some of the features listed on the Apple’s website are listed here:

The Fastest iPhone Ever!

The first thing you’ll notice about iPhone 3G S is how quickly you can launch applications. Web pages render in a fraction of the time, and you can view email attachments faster. Improved performance and updated 3D graphics deliver an incredible gaming experience, too. In fact, everything you do on iPhone 3G S is up to 2x faster and more responsive than iPhone 3G.

Video
Now you can shoot video, edit it, and share it — all on your iPhone 3G S. Shoot high-quality VGA video in portrait or landscape. Trim your footage by adjusting start and end points. Then share your video in an email, post it to your MobileMe gallery, publish it on YouTube, or sync it back to your Mac or PC using iTunes.

3-Megapixel Camera
The new 3-megapixel camera takes great still photos, too, thanks to built-in autofocus and a handy new feature that lets you tap the display to focus on anything (or anyone) you want.

Voice Control
Voice Control recognizes the names in your Contacts and knows the music on your iPod. So if you want to place a call or play a song, all you have to do is ask.

Compass!!??
With a built-in digital compass, iPhone 3G S can point the way. Use the new Compass app, or watch as it automatically reorients maps to match the direction you’re facing.

Cut, Copy & Paste
Cut, copy, and paste words and photos, even between applications. Copy and paste images and content from the web, too.

Landscape Keyboard
Want more room to type on the intelligent software keyboard? Rotate iPhone to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Messages, Notes, and Safari.

Messages
Send messages with text, video, photos, audio, locations, and contact information. You can even forward one or more messages to others.

Search
Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone, all from one convenient place. Spotlight searches all your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as everything in your iPod.

Accessibility
iPhone 3G S offers accessibility features to assist users who are visually or hearing impaired. These features include the VoiceOver screen reader, a Zoom feature, White on Black display options, Mono Audio, and more.

Internet Tethering
Surf the web from practically anywhere. Now you can share the 3G connection on your iPhone with your Mac notebook or PC laptop.

Voice Memos
Capture and share a thought, a memo, a meeting, or any audio recording on the go with the new Voice Memos application.

Nike + iPod
iPhone includes built-inNike + iPod support. Just slip the Nike + iPod Sensor (available separately) into your Nike+ shoe and start your workout.

Stocks
Stocks on iPhone shows you charts, financial details, and headline news for any stock you choose. Rotate iPhone to see even more detailed information.

YouTube
Watch YouTube videos wherever you are. Log in to your YouTube account to save and sync bookmarks and rate your favorites.

What are you waiting for?? Click here to buy one! In India it is available through Vodafone and AirTel

Here is what will happen if 1 Indian Rupee is valued at 45 American Dollars..$$! [FUNNY]

SCENE 1

Venue: Sun Microsystems, SanFrancisco , California, US

s/w engg 1: I’m with you man. My Visa is expected anytime. Soon I will fly to India

s/w engg 2 : Ohhh…. When is the party?

s/w engg 1: When I get it on hand.

s/w engg 2: Where will you be working?

s/w engg 1 : I’ll be working in Attingal

s/w engg 2 : Oh! Attingal. Great yaar. where it is…

s/w engg 1 : It is in Kerala.

s/w engg 3 : Fundoo place yaar. Nice climate Not like California. You’ll love the weather yaar. One of my friends is in Technopark, Trivandrum… He says it’s the ultimate place to live in. Cool maan.

s/w engg 2 : Who is the client yaar?

s/w engg 1: You know Attingal Municipal Corporation?

s/w engg 3 : Yeah. AMC. One of my friends is there in the Road Cleaning Division. Most challenging job yaar. People are working in the cutting edge of technology there.

s/w engg 1 : I’ll be writing software for the accounts department of the GCU.

s/w engg 2: GCU? what it means…?

s/w engg 1 : that is Garbage Collecting Unit.

s/w engg 3 : : Great yaar. That’s what I like about that country. You can get a job which requires all your skill. Not like here. See I’m writing software for the space shuttle remote control. I hate this.

s/w engg 1 : Don’t worry guys. I’ll give you my Hotmail id. You can send your resume to me and I’ll forward it to the HRD.

[Everybody takes down his Hotmail id.]

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SCENE 2

Venue : Microsoft Corporation, New York , US Some s/w (Software) engineers are seeing some photographs.

s/w engg 1 : What’s that?

s/w engg 2 : Bob’s photographs from India .

s/w engg 1 : Wow. Let me see. Which is this place?

s/w engg 3 : (Sees the photo) This is Airport  Road, bangalore

s/w engg 1 : Fundoo yaar! And what is this? He got Bajaj Pulsar also.

s/w engg 2 : Let me see (sees). This guy enjoys life maan…

s/w engg 3 : You know how much an Bajaj Pulsar costs? Nearly 70K….. Say it in dollars…

s/w engg 2: Oops. We can’t dream of such a thing here.

s/w engg 1 : Let’s go to India & try for a job.

[Everybody excited.]

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SCENE 3

Venue: IBM, New York, US

(Conversation between a Male s/w engg. and Female s/w engg.)

Male : Hi!

Female: Hi. You know. I’m planning to settle in India soon.

Male : What??

Female : Yeah. My marriage will be here in America only. He is doing his Ph.D in Bharthi University and he’s coming here for a month. His study will be over in 2 months. He’s already got a job in MSCB. We planned to settle in B’lore itself… I’m also planning to work there. Let’s see…

Male: Good luck… dont forget us & US…

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SCENE 4

Venue: Intel Corp. US

s/w engg 1: Great news guys. Our George has got admission in the St George College in Aruvithura with scholarship for B.A History. A great new field yaar…

All are excited…

George : Got my Visa yesterday. It’s all finalized now.

s/w engg 2 : Congrats yaar. So you are out of this country.

s/w engg 1 : B.A in Histroy…ohh. ..man, enjoy your life there?

s/w engg 2 : : Got full aid, eh?

George : Yeah. Got the UGC scholarship That will be 1200 Rupees per Year.

s/w engg 1 : Great. Enjoy.

s/w engg 2 : (Thinking loud): 1200 Indian Rupees…!

that means 1200 * 45 = 54000 Dollars… with that amount I can buy an three bed-room flat & a Mercedes here…!!!

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SCENE 5

A foreigner working in Bangalore as Software Engg gets a call from his Home ..

Father : What are you doing son ?

S/w Eng : Having breakfast ?

Father : what are you eating ?

S/w Eng: Cocunut Sauce and Rice Bread ie (Idli and Chutney )