Yahoo! IndiChat plugin rocks. From the first version that had only Tamil and Hindi support to the current one with support for as many as 9 languages. I am impressed!

Microcosmos

Microcosmos, a documentary about the insect life in our backyard. Similar in genre to movies like Baraka, The Qatsi Trilogy (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi), Microcosmos has only natural sounds (suitably amplified). There are just one opening statement & and one closing statement made by Kristin Scott Thomas on voice-over.

Remember Shakti Concert was simply awesome. Mind blowing. The concert should have ended with a display of fireworks. That would have been something. ;)
Only problem (as 'Ktk' pointed out) is with Shankar Mahadevan pronounced "Giriraja suta" (daughter of the king of mountains - Parvati) as "Giriraja sudha" (whatever that means).

Remember Shakti

RememberShakti
Originally uploaded by Ananth Narayan S.

Remember Shakti on an India tour is playing at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore today. A wonderful fusion of jazz, hindustani and carnatic music, with some really big names in music circles performing.
Go and savor the musical experience. :)

Google Video - Different browser, different page

Google Video throws me a different page depending on whether the browser is IE or Firefox. For what reason? I have no idea. It's bloody bullshit by Google!!
Take a look at the screen shots below.
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Observe the listings below the search box, viz Top 100, Comedy, Movies.. etc. Right next to the category name is a small downward arrow, a drop down list actually. Mouse-over on any name and a list appears.

On FF (below) the drop down doesn't show up. Why this 'differential treatment'?


P.S. Hope this not an issue with FF Javascript engine.

XGL

More on XGL....

Linutop and lost opportunities

Linutop is a Linux based diskless computer whose main purpose, according to the makers is to surf the internet. It got featured on Reg Hardware.
OK. So what's the big deal? Well... I had something similar (and bigger actually) in mind when I wrote this post back in August. I had just replaced a monitor with a TV as the display device and mentioned the whole thing in the context of Ultra Mobile PCs.

I feel like an idiot... and am jealous!! Wish I had a Venture Capitalist as a friend.

Y! Desktop Search doesn't seem to support Case sensitive, Whole word and Regex based query strings. I am impressed with the speed of retrieval though.

The new Yahoo! Desktop Search (YDS) is good. Much better than the (alpha/beta) version I had installed earlier. Couple of problems I saw were installing the extension pack seemed to mess up indexing of my Outlook folder contents. Might be just that some settings got changed.
Another thing is logging in with my Y! credentials failed. This is required to index Y! Messenger archives. I have no trouble logging into Y! services though.

YM Weather Plugin

YM_Weather
Originally uploaded by Anthroponym.

A really strange tool tip that popped up. Why is it showing Sunday's weather (according to the tooltip) on Monday?
Also, the tool tip has partly covered the forecast area. In that it shows forecast for Sunday and Monday. I would expect Monday and Tuesday instead.
It could be that the weather data server is in a different time zone. But the plugin must handle such minor things.

Lets do some cooking!!!



Well... the cooking in the video was on an XBox 360.
If you don't like to cook on a gaming console you can alternatively use the 'coolest stove in the world' - A MacBook.

Novell + M$

What does the M$ & Novell pact have in store for FOSS developers? How does the community, which doesn't necessarily love M$ view this? So far there doesn't seem to have been any opinions expressed by FOSS heavyweights like RMS, ESR, Linus etc. There don't seem to be any benefits to the community by this deal. Will this alienate Novell from the community?
Will SuSE be rechristened?

The Uniqueness of the Human Brain

XGL

XGL is an X server built on OpenGL. And it is impressive. :)

WOW!!!

Is it not possible for a Yahoo! or Google to show me online (on IM) whenever I am using any of their services? Well.. Must not be a problem. This is when I am actually not logged into IM using either the IM client (or mail as in GMail).
Now, first question : How will I receive a message sent to me when am not logged into IM? This is where toolbar can come into the picture. The toolbar can show a flashing icon when someone is attempting to get in touch with me. I can then (obviously) choose to either login to IM and respond or switch my status to offline. The default will be to show a person offline.
Second question : Usage model / Users. I have no idea who will find this useful or what usage models can be developed around this. If any readers of this post have ideas, leave a comment or blog about ur ideas. Don’t forget to leave a link. :)

Can web based email clients (Yahoo! Mail, Google Mail etc) split large attachments into smaller pieces on the fly when an email is being sent, and at the receiver's side, recombine the parts on the fly into the whole.
There's one feature in GMail that I liked a lot, multiple photo attachments in a single mail are archived downloaded as one zip/tar file. Was cool.

Is there any software that allows one to send SMS using their mobile phone connected to the notebook/desktop? It must allow me to type the message and the recipient's phone number on an application installed on the computer, and send the same using the mobile phone connected to it.
There are sites that allow one to send SMS, but those also allow unsolicited messages to be sent. In this case there is no unsolicited message, just that i type on my 102-key keyboard and not on one that has12 keys.

Suddenlee nostalgia.. suddenlee old post : Meese Mama.

Google Image labeler.. sequel

In my previous post I had termed Google Image Labeler as a great way to beat post lunch drowsiness. What I seemingly didn't realise is that I feel quite drowsy after lunch. Why? Well... Google says I am 19th in the all time ranking. Might drop, might rise. Who knows.

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I just hope my senior management doesn't see this. They will say "We don't pay you to label images for Google!!" .

As usual, emoticons courtesy Yahoo!.