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Sixth Sense !! Awesome !
Nov 25th
Have you heard of Sixth Sense , No i don’t mean the movie , I mean the actual sixth sense . Wikipedia defines it as
Extrasensory perception (ESP) involves reception of information not gained through the recognized senses and not inferred from experience.
Or in short you can sense or do stuff you normally can’t. Now here is a guy which is working on exactly the same thing . His name is Pranav Mistry and here is his project
SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. As you will see in these videos he can paint , make calls , grab pictures , sort them , read messages , check prices on amazon , see youtube on newspaper and a load of stuff just by using his fingers (that too without touching anything) . I have to say this technology is pretty amazing
The best part is It will be open source and currently the prototype costs just $350 bucks. So i am assuming if this comes out as a product in near future it won’t be costly (well i do hope it comes out soon)
Now you have to check out these videos as they are plain awesome
There are many other videos and pictures on the project page so do check them as well
House MD vs Friends
Nov 23rd
Well we all remember the about the popular TV series Friends . It ran for a successful 10 years before waving good by to millions of its fan base. But those were old days , these days the latest hit on the TV’s is the House MD . It is one of my personal favorites and currently in its Sixth season. Now i stumbled across a picture which made me think of the song by Bob Dylan (“The Times They Are A-Changing”) also featured in movie The Watchmen
Have a look at the pic and have your say in the comments
YouTube Mass Downloader
Nov 16th
If you ever wished to download a playlist from youtube even with some really useful firefox extension like Video Download Helper it is a pain in the ass. You have to manually visit each video in the playlist and then download it. Now i came across a freeware today that makes downloading youtube playlists (and videos of course) simple. All you need to do is give it the playlist URL and voila it starts downloading all the videos. The application is called YouTube Video Downloader .
Click the following screenshot to enlarge.
And best of all, this application is distributed thru torrents. mininova.org
It is produced by people from quack-ware.com and is currently in version 1.7.2
The program is compatible with all the windows version including Windows 7. It needs .net framework though
Developer’s Comments
New in 1.7.2
- Changed various GUI Elements to make the downloading process smoother.
- Fixed non-working downloads. Users now have a choice of a maximum of 4 different file types.
- Rewrote almost all the download code, program is about half as small now.
Online version available here!
Direct Download Available Here
FEATURES:
- Download YouTube videos in either regular quality .flv format or high
quality .mp4 format. All you need is the YouTube link!
- Extract the .mp3 directly out of the .flv files from the videos you downloaded!
- Generate a download link for any video
- Automatic file naming based on the video name
- Drag and drop urls directly into the text boxes.
- Multiple downloads at once and notification of when your download is finished.
- Progress Bar to see your download progress.
-Download videos from www.metacafe.com!
Any problems, suggestions, questions, or comments please contact me at QuackWare@gmail.com
I wrote this myself and I will continue to make easy and useful programs like this for free distribution so look forward to more. If you would like to be notified of what I am doing or donate to keep good programs like this coming click "Get Extras" in the Help Menu in the program.
Note: If you are getting an application error while trying to run this or any of my programs you need to download .Net framework. The download is available for free here:
.Net Framework
Notes:
- Give it the playlist URL such that nothing is following the string of letters eg. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=586D322B5E2764CF
- The program will hang after you click the download button. do not worry its normal. it’ll respond in a couple of minutes
- This program downloads videos one by one i.e no multithreading. but it is still a very useful program
Download Link – YouTube Video Downloader 1.7.2
2012 the movie is fucking racist !!
Nov 15th
Me and my friends went to see this movie this Saturday.If you are unaware of this movie (which i doubt you guys are) this concept of the movie is simple “The world coming to an end (in 2012 of course) , go save your asses !!” If you haven’t seen this movie please don’t read the text ahead as the post contains spoilers.
So this movie shows how an INDIAN scientist discovers that the neutrinos from sun are heating up the earth core, finally destabilizing and causing chaos throughout the world. This movie goes around how humans will save themselves and about how John Cusack will save his family. Seriously this guy is a fucking Superman and too damn lucky. All the stunts he pulled off in the movie, driving Limousine thru crashing buildings , driving Bentley out of crashing plane , staying underwater for like 10 minutes… unbelievable (not to mention he has a look on his face like he wants to give you a blowjob)
Anyways so in the movie the US President gathers all the Heads of the States to discuss this grave situation. But hey wait… where is the Indian President… okay never mind its just a meeting..
So the movies goes by showing some really neat special effects and other stuff. And when the world seems to be coming to an end they send a message to all the important people on earth (basically the ones who paid a billion dollars for the tickets and other important people on earth) to board their Arks , and well guess what yet again none of them is Indian . They have people from Russia , China , UK , Italy , France , the Gulf Countries etc. but yeah no Indian.
To this i would like to add , when the Indian Scientist says to his wife “Hamein hamara saaman pack karna hai” —-> wtf ? dude ? that is not how we Indians talk. The guy is an Indian why are you giving him the American accent ? and yeah he dies in the movie as well like the other Indians
Now to summarize you are giving no recognition to the guy or his country who discovered the phenomena and on top of that you are mocking the whole country by giving him a funny accent. This is not cool people , not cool at all.
Google vs Microsoft
Nov 15th
So Google and Microsoft are fighting with each other all the time now. With the upcoming launch of Google’s Chrome OS next week its like Google Dropped a nuclear bomb on Microsoft.
Not only that Google has also declared Microsoft to be the Devil . Don’t believe me… see for yourselves
But its just one side of the story. Microsoft seems to hate Google in the same way as well. Yeah people Bing (Microsoft’s search engine) preaches Google is Evil too.
Hey Wait… how can we forget Yahoo. Let us see what they say to all this.
Unbelievable !! Yahoo has only one thing to say –> Google You Rule
Well i think we finally have the answer. You know what i think Google and Yahoo are planning something. Google also says the same for Yahoo. i don’t know about you guys but i smell a rat
Google Doodle for Children’s Day
Nov 14th
Google has selected the Google Doodle for Children’s Day (the 14th nov). This Doodle was made by a 4th grader and seriously it is pretty good.
This doodle will be shown throughout the day at google.co.in . There are many other really great doodle’s submitted by students. You can check them here
Google is giving a Laptop as prize to the winner doodle creator and Rs. 100,000 as technology grant to the school.
Android Developer Phone 2 / GOOGLE ION
Nov 14th
Google gave away the new Android Developer Phone (The HTC Magic ) at the Google I/O Developer Conference at San Francisco . They are now also offering the same phone at the Android Marketplace in the developer section (you need to pay $25 to become a developer) .
Some of the features in this “unlocked” version of the phone are as follows in the following pictures.
Now all the features are almost similar to the original HTC Magic except that the Phone has a lesser RAM . The screenshot taken from HTC product page says the HTC magic has 288 MB RAM but Google ION has 192 MB RAM
Also some say there is a difference in UMTS frequency of both the phones. but it hardly matters to me.
But the most interesting features in Google ION / HTC Magic which makes it a must have phone
- Root Access to the Phone –> go ahead install the Cyanogen MOD and get the features you always wanted in your HTC Magic
- The capacitive touch screen
- No keyboard so it is sleek as compared to ADP 1 / HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1
- Better Battery Life than G1
Pricing : Google ION is available for $399 from Android Developer Center. Shipping is free for USA only. For other countries you need to pay shipping and tax as well. For example Total Cost of Shipping and Handling (including taxes) to India is $107 .So you need to pay $506 to buy the phone. On the other hand the HTC Magic(unlocked) is also available for Rs. 23000 ($500) from ebay india.
Final Notes : It is a decent phone and if you want an android phone that is not much costly this phone is what you are looking for
Please have your say in the comments.
Collection of funniest Digg Captcha
Nov 13th
So what happens when you submit a story to digg. well it asks you a bunch of questions and makes you fill a captcha to check if you are human… but are they really checking or they are sending you a hidden message… see the captcha images below and determine yourselves
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Do you have any more funny digg captcha to share. please post the link to image in comments or send me the image at anujtenani##gmail.com (replace ## with a @)
More Google Suggest Beat downs
Nov 13th
Okay so my last post was about the 5 Google suggest beat downs . But i think just 5 beat downs are a little less for something huge as Google. So i googled some more of them and posted them here. Do not forget to comment 
Please let me know what do you think !!
iPhone vs Droid
Nov 13th
SO i was in a dilemma a few day back which phone would be a better buy iPhone or Motorola Droid. Both have there own set of good and bad features. Droid has a better screen , has keyboard and runs Android , iPhone has a bigger App Store etc.
Now this comic from xkcd.com helped me make my decision
iPhone vs Motorola Droid. Which one it is going to be
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