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I have not posted a thing for a long time on the blog. I had saved two drafts on which I was working but a reinstall of XP and reinstall of Windows Live Writer and a little bit of dumbness from my part, lost it. So here I am with nothing to post. I may not write both of those posts again. So coming back to the main part, I have been bit by the twitter bug and I just can’t seem to ignore it. If you ask how it affects blogging, well I just simply put whatever I want to say in 140 or less characters and even get comments by many people on it. Twitter has even made me lazy and I hate to type too much now.
For all those people out there who always forget birthdays and anniversaries and even deadlines, Gmail has come for your rescue.
New! Gmail Custom TimeTM
Ever wish you could go back in time and send that crucial email that could have changed everything — if only it hadn’t slipped your mind? Gmail can now help you with those missed deadlines, missed birthdays and missed opportunities.
This feature is going to be the talk of the town for sometime.
Now you can be sure that all your emails will be sent in the past and you don’t have to meet any deadlines. Here is a testimonial by one of the user.
“I just got two tickets to Radiohead by being the ‘first’ to respond to a co-worker’s ‘first-come, first-serve’ email. Someone else had already won them, but I told everyone to check their inboxes again. Everyone sort of knows I used Custom Time on this one, but I’m denying it.”
Robby S., Paralegal
Then there is this clause that you can send only 10 mails per year because google thinks people will loose faith in emails. Here is what Gmail says about how many years back you can send the email to.
Is there a limit to how far back I can send email?
Yes. You’ll only be able to send email back until April 1, 2004, the day we launched Gmail. If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born — crazy talk.
If you couldn’t guess it till now let me make it clear. This was the april fools joke of gmail. Yes, and it seems it is quite good. Compared to the paper mail one which was done last year. I just love google’s jokes.
And yeah don’t lose your chance of being the first humans to colonize space http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
I am a very lazy guy and once I am on PC I don’t like getting up and searching through newspapers to find something that I remembered. We get "The New Indian Express"(it’s the Indian Express for South Region) here at home, though it’s not very good it’s bearable.
So back to the topic, since I hate getting up I wanted to see if they have a online record for their papers and to my surprise they have a very good online e-paper which works quite well. You can visit it by going here. It seems to have most of the news from the newspaper. I thought this was useful to people like me so posted it.
I would start getting "The Times of India" once they start publishing their Chennai Edition. I hope they are better than the rest.
I just love watching videos on my PC and sometimes even capture some video from TV such as music videos so that I can sit and watch them later. The main problem I face other than shitty quality of my TV signal(yeah never figured out how to capture video from my DTH and the cable is too small too.) is that the captured files end up being terribly huge. I can’t have such files taking too much of space since, I am a download junkie. The only way is to convert them to small avi files by encoding them. I am really bad at encoding and never understand a thing on how to encode video files. I use AutoGK to encode sometimes but I prefer to use it only for big files like movies as such.
I came across this encoder named Super. Super stands for Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. The thing I liked about it was it’s super simple interface. If anyone just goes around and tried it for like half an hour they would know exactly what to do. I really loved how all these different options helps you understand how to encode a big file to small size. I know hard core encoders would prefer Guardian Knot or Virtual Dub Mod over this anyday, but personally going through all these options is quite tough for me. It took me around 3 hours to figure out how to save a marked segment of a file(Yeah I am too stupid). So, I always prefer easy methods to do these things. I would recommend Super encoder to everyone since its really helpful and as it’s also free.
Download Method: This is the only problem I have with downloading Super from its website. I was not able to figure out how to download it from it’s website for a long time and found the answer on net somewhere, so , I am thankful to the person who had written about it. First of all go to Super’s website here. Then go to the end of the page and click on this text “Start Downloading SUPER ©“. This will take you to another page, on this page there is “download and use” written which you need to click. This will lead you to another page. This is fortunately the last page, here just go down and download it by clicking the text “Download SUPER © setup file“. You might say why not directly use the download link and download it but if you use it will directly lead you to first page so its totally worthless.
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So, Microsoft has finally made the Bungie Studios a stand alone and independent. I guess many PS2 or PS3 lovers who envied their Xbox counterparts might feel happy that they might get the most envied Halo series for PS3. But, from what we hear that is not going to happen. It seems Bungie would still be making Microsoft platform specific games only. This is some what a sad news but considering they have gone apart PS3 fans may get something to feel less envious of their Xbox counterparts.
