Karthik Chronicles

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.

Well I was thinking about all the things that had happened in the year 2006 and out of all this the only thing I could remember perfectly is the take-over of Youtube by Google and also the release of all the Next Generation Console.
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This has become quite monotonous but I really don’t complain. The messenger has recently gone under a UI change and that means it is looking a bit better now and when it’s a UI change pictures say more than words.

As I was typing this post I thought of checking with the Live site to see if I got any new invites and I was amazed to see that they have a new login page, I think it maybe because the Live messenger was on but I doubt that have a look.

I see that Microsoft is desperately attempting to make the Live messenger look perfect with Vista and with XP. The new UI is surely looking good but the header image of the UI reminds me of one of those Apple OSX wallpaper.

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Okay now some things go under slow development and some jump to advanced same thing happened to Live messenger it has updated itself now. The GUI is much better than the earlier one(though many people dont think so) but there is a problem all the colors are very light and it gives it a really bad look they should work hard on the colors and it also has someimprovments on the features side but not many big changes as of yet. So there is no need of a comprehensive review but only of some screenshots.

Yeah before I forget its no Hoax as i am using it.

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Okay I dont necessarily blog only Tech stuff sometime personal stuff is okay. So by the topic really I m gonna talk about something related to firefox but let me tell you something else also. Lastly I have been seeing that maximum of my crowd is from the topic i posted about rapidshare. Another one thing i noticed my blog has been getting dorect hits from I dont know where also some one searched Karthik Chronicles on net too. This makes me think do I have so many people coming and reading which gives me direct hit if they do read it everyday why dont they comment everyday i dunno why but also who has searched for Karthik Chronicles 2 times in past three months is someone thinking of buying a domain by that name?? I just dont know. Now lets go back to the topic.

Confessions of a Firefox user
I am very sure how came to use firefox browser. Actually if I m right Firefox was my entering to my Geek Life though i was a geek but only half with only bookish(that also not very much) knowledge. I had been reading about Firefox browser from Digit magazine and I saw many people using it by the look of it. I thought why Firefox and why not Internet Explorer. Though I always felt that IE was not the thing ,it just didnt give me what i wanted it to give me. Then when I came to chennai this year (i was transforming thats for sure; to a Geek) I asked my Dad to get me BSNL Broadband(yes I was specific I dunno why). Then when I got it i was totally unaware about intertnet and the want of the hour i thought why not i use Firefox rather than IE so thought of giving it a try digged into one of my copies of Digits magazine and found a CD with Firefox Installer, I installed it and fired it. But then waited for nearly 30-35 seconds for it to startup but after that it changed my way of browsing changed and everything became different. Though the first forum i joined was a GTA forum but in real terms it will be digit forums which I joined to become a full geek. I loaded the site and created an ID which I thought would be a nice one (Kato). Then on I became Kato realising the true power of computer and later true power of Internet. My story will go on but the confessions are of a Firefox user and not of a Internet or Computer Geek. Firefox changed lot of my thinking I installed some themes and checked out the top plugins to install(was not sure what they do but installed them). Later understood the real power of those extensions(yeah they were called extensions I came to know about that later). It was totaly Awesome. I learnt how to use the browser to its maximum. Meantime I made some friends who just increased my knowledge base(Firends:QwertyManiac a.k.a Harsh,The Incredible a.k.a Anindiya). Now I was completely a Firefox Fanboy. I loved following it blindly I just followed firefox. It was the one which has started my interest in linux(yes! as soon as I install a new hard disk I will also install linux maybe fedora core 4). I am still a faithful guy still faithful to the fox and I still belive its very cunning. But now i feel like i m being pulled to a darker side which I will reveal in one of my upcoming posts. For now this was the tale of a true Firefox fanboy.
Yeah last thing I got to say is that do expect a comprehensive Review from me on a piece of software I wont be revealing now but expect it soon…….

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Edited:for all the punctutations and I(I hate ‘I’) as said by Wilbur