Paa - Review

Vidit Bhargava

Rating : *** 1/2

Last week I had been very busy, 18th was the beginning of the exam stress, we had Science Practical that day....20th was SST UT ... 22nd Computer practical... 25th Maths Practical, the long list continues till the 27th when I have my Computer UT, they just don't get over :( , yet last night I got a chance to watch a movie!

Paa was one of the many movies, i didn't watch at the theater last year, it came in the busy season of December where every week a movie was released so I chose to skip the movie. Well now its on DVD and I've got a copy of that!

Auro(Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent and witty 12-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect callled progeria. Mentally he is 12 very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan) who is a gynecologist. Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan) is young, progressive and a full-of-ideals politician. He is out to prove to the world that 'politics' is not a bad word. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol's son however Vidya conceals this from him. When Auro does learn the truth however, he wishes to go to Delhi with his father. Auro tries to get his mother and father back together but Vidya resists, still hurt by the fact that Amol wanted her to have an abortion when they first found out she was pregnant. Amol realizes his mistake though, and proposes to Vidya, as he is still in love with her. He stays by Auro's side when he finds out that Auro is his son. Auro's health begins to deteriorate as he reaches his 13th birthday, his physical defects catching up. However, he is finally able to reunite his mother and father once again as Vidya gives in to her feelings for Amol and her motherly love for Auro. Auro, succumbing to his disease, dies happy, his last words being "Maa" and "Paa."

So thats the wiki version of the story of Paa, which is no doubt, different. Yes, its no copy to the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was one of the reason I didn't want to watch the film.

Paa is one of the rare films where the story doesn't matter much, the screenplay does though! It's only for the screenplay and the great acting by Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan that this movie survives! Amitabh Bachchan as Auro does an extraordinary performance playing a kid, you don't realize until the rolling credits appear that Amitabh Bachchan acted in the film. Paa never fails to touch your heart in the emotional sequences, thanks to Vidya Balan who after Bhool Bhulaiya has done her best in this one! Sprinkled with light comedy, the movie never loses the grip, even though its far too predictable and the climax is "announced" in the first half!

The worst bit comes in the form of casting, where Jaya Bachchan announces the names of each and every crew member! Perhaps I would have left the theater for a walk until that was over! Abhishek Bachchan is the Tata Jaago Re Brand Ambassador, he's playing the neta of our dreams! always working for the benefit of the people. This doesn't work! This ought not to be very obvious, but that's still fine.

The problem with London Dreams was that its story demanded a screenplay of not more than 1 1/2 hours but the movie was dragged to be made into a 2 1/2 long and boring movie, that has happened with the many disasters of last year. Paa doesn't work on that track, its just 2 hrs long and yet gripping!

Music from Ilaiyaraaja (he won the Padma Bhushan today) is good, it blends with the movie well!

Finally, I would still say "Watch the movie" because the acting from Amitabh Bachchan needs to be appreciated and its a very well made film with good music and good screenplay and editing. Add to it the light comedy. Yes, Predictable but still It is surely one of the finest movie!

It's not a copy of Curious Case of Benjamin Button, you can surely have it on home video if you've not seen it in the cinemas!

Consumer Electronics Show - Tech Giants go crazy

Consumer Electronics Show 2010 held in the first week of January was a complete let down if you look at Tech Giants like HP, Dell, MSI, Samsung and Microsoft. Google however launched their mobile device (manufactured by HTC) Nexus One, whose leaked pictures where all over the internet months back.

Starting with the craziest lot this year; The Tech Giants. Each company begins with a motive show something original, something new or even different sometimes but a few of them seam to have lost their path somewhere this year. The CE show is meant to showcase the new advancements their making to the technology world. However the laptop and technological device section was miles away from originality factor.

Microsoft was perhaps scared by the rumors of the Apple Tablet launch. They have for long cheated Apple's software but the point here is the rumored tabletmac which was confirmed by WSJ recently. Around time that Microsoft realises that their company was not made to copy Apple but to provide the world with good technology. Times have changed, everyone knows the inside news. Microsoft made a last minute announcement that they will be launching the HP slate. HP slate was just the beginning of this crazy ride of slates going on, apparently 'iSlate' is the rumored name of Apple's tablet device so all of them named it their slates.

Other companies were busy launching awkward devices all of them named some sort of slates and more prominently ebook readers or classwork books. The event seemed more to be an attempt to upstage the non-participating giant Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. wasn't only the CES target, internet shopping site 'Amazon's ' original book reader was redesigned by MSI, copied by Samsung and others merely gave this as a special feature to their 'slates'.

These were the let downs but HEY, not every one makes a slate.

Google's nexus one's images were leaked weeks ago. At this time if there is a phone which competes iPhone 3G S. It is this one. Google isn't like the NOKIA's or HTC or Windows Mobiles which just try to rip off iPhone capabilities and end up being Sued! Google did something different this time, perhaps the right way. They established their Android OS platform in the later half of 2009 and now have launched this mobile which has a stable OS, something different and something borrowed from iPhone. The phone is no sub - standard iPhone copy with these many features but you still can't tell about the 'touch' experience. Is it like HTC's or Apple's ? Only reviews will tell that.

TV was also running on the footsteps of Tech Giants. One company (can't tell which one, as every one launched the same thing together) came with an idea of 3D TVs & others replicated it. Sony, Toshiba, Onida all fall here. Had they thought in providing better services in Television rather than this crappy stuff, giving 3D glasses to people and showing them how their premature 3D television works. Almost everyone provided the same. The idea itself is astonishingly crap. Showing 3D on TV is nothing but showing off what you can do today. 3D can be appropriately used to make environments which make you feel you are at the very place itself, none of which I saw this year. Only place you feel here is the Pandora of Avatar on your Television or Computer screens. I won't like that myself.

Cameras also have started providing HD recordings (1080p) at cheaper rates but nothing much interesting was there.

CES 2010, Las Vegas won't last as a groundbreaking memory at all but as an attempt to copy each others work. The sincere use of technology was never on display. There was no attempt provide utilities rather they've provided nothing new.

Rubik's 360 - Requires a lot of handwork

I just got a new companion on my table yesterday which replaced the Rubik's Cube; Rubik's 360. While I write this article, I'm also solving my new Rubik's 360 for the second time. All around the world, there are still many people who find it difficult to solve the Rubik's Cube. Most of them might also think that it has been unsolved to such an extent that it is impossible to solve it back. Let me clear this first, any of the Rubik's puzzle (Cube, magic or even 360) is possible to solve from any situation of the game and all of them have only one solution.

It took me about 11 hours to solve this mind turning puzzle. Clearly the game requires a lot of handwork and angles. It is not the kind of the old & easy to solve cube, which I can solve in precisely 1 minute 51 seconds. The game looks simple at one go. You just have to tilt the 360 so that the balls in the inner sphere reach their slots but as soon as you take it in your hands you realize that this isn't easy at all. There is one more hurdle, a weight has been placed in the innermost sphere so that balls get attracted to that, and the it's whole is just opposite that. Clearly it looks impossible from this angle.

The game is tough but not impossible. If you work out the solution it will become more and more interesting. One more thing you need is concentration. If you don't focus on the game, the ball won't move out of the middle circle. It is also how you, use your skills to decipher the ways to overcome the forces applied by the metal ball.

I myself have now solved it 6 to 7 times, like the cube this one is also engaging and challenging but it's quite delicate to carry along any where. Even the size is large which makes it's handling for kids a little difficult. It's Always good to see the Inner sphere without balls!

Other than these few limitations of playing, it makes a good replacement to the cube which till date remains at our desk for anytime entertainment. The same magic however wasn't created by Rubik's Magic which was for some reason not launched in many places including India.

Rubik's 360 in India is very rare. In Delhi the only known place to have this game right now is 'Ram Chander & Sons Toy Shop' in D Block CP. (Quite tough to go there these days). You won't even find it on ebay. The shop is small but you'll be able to find any game for any console and any toy or puzzle.

Erno Rubik said in an interview "If you find Rubik's Cube tough you'll find this impossible". Surely it is tough. So you must have a lot of practice on the Cube before you begin solving the 360 puzzle.

A Lunch at Chache di Hatti (Chachaji ke Chole)

The Rawalpindi ke Chole Bhature Shop at Kamla Nagar, a.k.a Chachaji Ke Chole Bhature is the one place to be, if you are planning to eat chole bhature in North Delhi. Most of you reading the article will know about the place I'm talking about.

It's the cramped up shop in Kamla Nagar's bada golchakar area near the famous Baskin Robins. The shop is small, so is the area around it. There is no seating space, or A.Cs running (heaters these days), but only one big counter under which one big handi of chole is being cooked. The Chole Bhature are served to 2 huge lines of people until 3:00PM.

So how's it different from any other food shop in the DU(Delhi University)?It's perhaps the food you get here. These Chole Bhature are the best in the world (apparently you get them only in India!). The food here cannot be expressed in word but is to be tasted by you itself. The imli ki chatni and the special aloo ka bhatura you get here is invincible to any other, you'll get. The Chole's are to be mentioned seperately! I don't know much about the secret ingredients put in that but they mesmerize you to the core!

A place in Delhi that serves such great food is likely to be a hit in a few minutes of its opening but the fan following doesn't remain in the span of 5 years of college graduates from DU, who studied more than 20 years ago also come and eat here. That's the reason of the huge tide of people coming to eat here, till the very last. Dad was among the first to have discovered this joint in DU. He remembers the time, it used to be the same rush of people coming from every college & eating here. Then it was a DU oriented joint, now the scenario is much more versatile.

I've been eating here since my childhood & for long have been a fan of Chache di Hatti at Kamla Nagar. I remember the McDonald's & Dominoes employees coming here and have their lunch, when their shops once existed near the Hatti. While it might get tough competition from Sitaram at Paharganj and some eateries in the South Delhi, it remains my all time favorite!

I recommend all to go before 1 in the noon to be fortunate enough to feed yourself with the delightful feast of Chole Bhature, as they say "Good things come in small packages".

30 Reasons why 3 Idiots is not 5 point Someone

Recently we saw(& read) all that shouting going on the blogs, websites, and news channels, about this awesome film '3 Idiots' not giving credit for taking 5.Someone. I've found out 3 very useful items which prove the filmmakers right!

Perhaps, the newswalas read it and show us something else! please we need more important news than this fighting!

The much hyped agreement!
3o Reasons why 3 Idiots is not 5 point Someone
SPOILER ALERT : IF U HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM, PLEASE DON'T READ IT YOU WILL BE DISCLOSED TO THE AMAZING TWIST'S AND THE CLIMAX OF THE MOVIE!

The truth behind Apple's Tabletmac!

Every time an Apple event is about to come, there are lakhs of speculations about the new Apple Tablet or shall we say, the new 'iSlate' or 'iGuide' or 'Tabletmac'? Every now and then there are reports of domain names being purchased, people claiming to have seen the Tablet device, or even stating its release date (January 26th 2010 - The recent one!)

Last time before the September 9th event, all Apple fans had their hopes up for the new Tabletmac. Their hopes were shattered and smashed just after they saw this board! :D :Music Event! eh? You probably don't expect a laptop or Tablet PC to be released here! So again the 2 year long hope of a Tablet PC from Apple were shut in the box.

Come this december and again the rumors started flying. http://t.sina.com.cn/kaifulee ; This is the link to Kaifu Lee's blog! Who's Kaifu Lee by the way? He is the ex-chief of Google China. This person states in his blog that the new device will weigh less than half as much as a MacBook Air, though it was unclear whether the message was speculation or came from Lee's friend.

Having said that, Lee wouldn't have had any actual experience of the device he is talking about as Apple inc. is always very secretive about their products until the very end.

Some other rumors involve photos like this; with a caption : 'Proof of Apple iSlate's existance':

The Tabletmac in this case is my speculation of the new device coming from Apple. According to me if there is an Apple Tablet in there. This is the most likely version of the tablet.

Finally, we are at a point where nothing is sure. This isn't to say of the confirmation of the Apple Tablet but we still can't deny with speculation from media running faster than ever. The 26th January 2010 event exists & there will be a mac release in this(according to paterns).I suspect that Apple is decreasing its prices not that the economic recession has eased off & Apple will be upgrading the specs which are quite drowsy at the moment! Also I am hoping of a new product launch this month from Apple.

Avatar

Rating: *** 1/2

Vidit Bhargava

Welcome to Pandora, the movie is nowhere on Earth but a moon named "Pandora". Here a group of of doctors have set up a laboritory where the Avatars of visitors from Earth are created there DNA is mixed with the DNA of the Natives of Pandora but one of the members is dead! his brother who knows nothing but the manual about the project joins. Soon the Militants also reach there or he reaches

with the militants. Now this guy Jake Sulley is acting spy to Pandora natives.

Soon their Avatars are ready and Jake Sulley's brain is teleported into the brain of his avatar he controls the avatar when he is asleep. In his avatar he is meddlesome and gets into a lot of trouble with the animals there. Then he meets a Pandora native (can't remember the girl's name), he is tought by her, the rules of Pandora while her collegues don't approve much of that.

Here is when the story gets slow, and we start feeling why are we here.

James Cameron soon realises that and the actuall intention of the movie is revieled just

before the Intermission and we find, the US militants are here to take Unobtanium from Pandora which on a sacred tree, which is actually the home of Pandora vasies. They won't hesitate to kill the alien bread (like they ever did).

The war begin's and so does the most interesting part of the movie. The movie is such well loaded with gr8 backgrounds that you forget about the acting. Now Jake Sulley's mind changes and he starts helping the natives. The story is predictable and so is the movie. Its the extensively imagination of the writer and the way it is projected on the screen, which saves this movie from an ultimate wreckage.

I guess it is the entertainment value of the movie, not the base script which is more gripping here & ofcource not to mention the imaginative world spun by James Cameron. Like it for the experience of an outside world in the cinema. I recommend to watch it in 3D.

This is my favorite scene from the movie

Top 10 iPhone Apps

Top 10 iPhone Apps

The iPhone Apps which changed the shape of the phone we all love to use:

1.iVideo Camera for iPHone 3G.

2.ESPN Scorecenter

3.Paper Toss

4.Sketchbook

5.Smule - Leaf Trambone

6.Quick Office

7.Air Sharing Pro

8.Awesome Notes

9.Awesome Notes

10.Hatke Radio

Top 10 Green Cars Launched this year

T1.Citroen C1 ev'ie

2.Mitsubushi iMiEV

3.Toyota iQ

4.Ford Fiesta ECOnetic

5.Toyota Prius Hybrid

6.Volvo S40

7.Honda Insight Hybrid

8.BMW 318d Saloon

9.Vw Passat Bluemotion

10.Citroen C3 Picsso

Top 10 Mobiles

OK without talking much I will start with the Awards for the best mobiles this year.

-Basic Phones

Motorola leads here:

1.Motorola i335

2.MOtorola V195s

-Mid-Range Phones

Sony Takes the lead, which is closely followed by HTC:

1.Sony Ericsson Naite

2.HTC Star Touch

-Camera Phones

These are the camera cum phones which are, like 5MP Cameras, even 12MP cameras. Sony Ericson All the way.

1.Sony Ericsson Aino

2.Sony Ericsson Satio

-Smart Phones

The Apple iPhone wins it again. No beating to the smart phone, with every app in the pocket. While Blackberry still remains closest to the iPhone.

1.Apple iPhone 3G S

2.Blackberry Storm

-Touchscreen Phones

The HTC Phones this year wrecked the touchscreen competitors' ship.

1.HTC Hero

2.HTC Diamond 2

Top 5 Gadgets of the year

1.Sony Rolly

The Rolly from Sony is all about fun. It is essentially a robotic MP3 playing robot that dances to the music you play. It comes with Rolly Choreographer software to create your own motions and even share them online with others. But if you don’t want to create your own it comes with an Auto and Self Motion modes which will analyse the music and create the type of style dance you request.

2.Transparent Toaster

This transparent toaster allows you to see your bread while it is toasting so you can make sure you never burn toast again. This idea is based on a transparent heating glass technology. Although the glass unfortunately does not currently get hot enough to toast bread, the vendor explained with some research and development this appliance will be hitting the shelves by 2009. The concept was developed by the Inventables Concept Studio.

3.40" OlED TV

Currently your best bet for an OLED is the Sony XEL-1 which I also included in my top Christmas gadgets list. It’s not the best price screen per inch but certainly is the best looking on the market. But as with all good technology the price will start to come down and screen sizes will go up. Samsung have already prototyped early this year a 40″ Full HD OLED display with 1920 x 1080 resolution, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and is under 1cm thick.

4.USB 3.0

All you speed freaks out there look out for USB 3.0 coming soon. Apparently the connector, although looking very different, are back compatible - which is great news. The speeds we are looking at for this bad boy is 4.8 Gbit/s (600MB/s) which will make it the fastest consumer connector (Firewire S800T is a long way off). How does this compare to USB 2.0 that you will no doubt be using now? Well USB 2.0 can manage a rate of just 480 Mbit/s (60MB/s) - that is a 10 fold increase to USB 3.0.

5.Magic Mouse

Though not that impressive, as we expected to be from Apple but the Magic Mouse is still the beginning of the era of Multi-Touch Mouse. The Magic Mouse is the very Mouse, I have wanted to have.

Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year! - Review

Rating ****

Vidit Bhargava

This probably the dullest movie interms of sets that I have seen. 90% of the movie is shot in an office. At first glance the movie looks boring, it isn't. After Chak De India, the duo of Shimit Amin and Jaideep Sahni are back and with a completely different and unpredictable script.

The story is about Harpreet Singh(Ranbir Kapoor) who has almost flunked in his college finals but unlike Wake Up Sid! for the first time he knows what to do. He applies for a salesman job at a computer sales firm n' gets it. Nothing new, he is honest and is not able to tolerate the bribing that goes on in the 'sales world'. For that he is punished and humiliated, he begins his own firm in the firm, which is ofcource a secret known by too many people, he becomes successful doing that and ofcource he is not taking bribes, the rest is to be seen in theatres.... . Honestly the movie hasn't ended yet on his being successful.

The Script is gripping, the movie builds interest as it progresses, even if it gets boring when all that business talk starts, the movie still is my favorite this year!

Ranbir Kapoor is unrecognisable as a 'sardar', you only know him when he speaks and every sidekick also does acting very well. Nobody here is bad in acting!

Music of the movie is blended with the movie, there are 3 in the album and even less in the movie. "Pocket Mein Rocket" was conveniently removed but the rest of the songs are good.

The movie is full of one liners and gr8 dialogues like; "Risk toh Superman ko bhi uthana padta hai main to phir bhi Salesman hoon" and "Number kum hain par dimaag nahi!" exceptionally carried out by Ranbir and starcast.

In a nut shell, The movie teaches you to be honest and how honesty still works. It makes you clap. The movie is no moral science lecture and the boring background doesn't cause the exceptionally gripping and interesting story any hurdle.

8 reasons to rate it 4 Stars

Power packed Story	Acting
Music	Dialogue
Perfect Direction	Fluent Pace
Gripping and exciting	Honest Message

Water found on Moon

Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon.

The new findings, detailed in the Sept. 25 issue of the journal Science, come in the wake of further evidence of lunar polar water ice by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and just weeks before the planned lunar impact of NASA's LCROSS satellite, which will hit one of the permanently shadowed craters at the moon's south pole in hope of churning up evidence of water ice deposits in the debris field.

The moon remains drier than any desert on Earth, but the water is said to exist on the moon in very small quantities. One ton of the top layer of the lunar surface would hold about 32 ounces of water, researchers said.

"If the water molecules are as mobile as we think they are — even a fraction of them — they provide a mechanism for getting water to those permanently shadowed craters," said planetary geologist Carle Pieters of Brown University in Rhode Island, who led one of the three studies in Science on the lunar find, in a statement. "This opens a whole new avenue [of lunar research], but we have to understand the physics of it to utilize it."

Finding water on the moon would be a boon to possible future lunar bases, acting as a potential source of drinking water and fuel.

Apollo turns up dry

When Apollo astronauts returned from the moon 40 years ago, they brought back several samples of lunar rocks.

The moon rocks were analyzed for signs of water bound to minerals present in the rocks; while trace amounts of water were detected, these were assumed to be contamination from Earth, because the containers the rocks came back in had leaked.

"The isotopes of oxygen that exist on the moon are the same as those that exist on Earth, so it was difficult if not impossible to tell the difference between water from the moon and water from Earth," said Larry Taylor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who is a member of one of the NASA-built instrument teams for India's Chandrayaan-1 satellite and has studied the moon since the Apollo missions.

While scientists continued to suspect that water ice deposits could be found in the coldest spots of south pole craters that never saw sunlight, the consensus became that the rest of the moon was bone dry.

But new observations of the lunar surface made with Chandrayaan-1, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and NASA's Deep Impact probe, are calling that consensus into question, with multiple detections of the spectral signal of either water or the hydroxyl group (an oxygen and hydrogen chemically bonded).

Three spacecraft

Chandrayaan-1, India's first-ever moon probe, was aimed at mapping the lunar surface and determining its mineral composition (the orbiter's mission ended 14 months prematurely in August after an abrupt malfunction). While the probe was still active, its NASA-built Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) detected wavelengths of light reflected off the surface that indicated the chemical bond between hydrogen and oxygen — the telltale sign of either water or hydroxyl.

Because M3 can only penetrate the top few millimeters of lunar regolith, the newly observed water seems to be at or near the lunar surface. M3's observations also showed that the water signal got stronger toward the polar regions. Pieters is the lead investigator for the M3 instrument on Chandrayaan-1.

Cassini, which passed by the moon in 1999 on its way to Saturn, provides confirmation of this signal with its own slightly stronger detection of the water/hydroxyl signal. The water would have to be absorbed or trapped in the glass and minerals at the lunar surface, wrote Roger Clark of the U.S. Geological Survey in the study detailing Cassini's findings.

The Cassini data shows a global distribution of the water signal, though it also appears stronger near the poles (and low in the lunar maria).

Finally, the Deep Impact spacecraft, as part of its extended EPOXI mission and at the request of the M3 team, made infrared detections of water and hydroxyl as part of a calibration exercise during several close approaches of the Earth-Moon system en route to its planned flyby of comet 103P/Hartley 2 in November 2010.

Deep Impact detected the signal at all latitudes above 10 degrees N, though once again, the poles showed the strongest signals. With its multiple passes, Deep Impact was able to observe the same regions at different times of the lunar day. At noon, when the sun's rays were strongest, the water feature was lowest, while in the morning, the feature was stronger.

"The Deep Impact observations of the Moon not only unequivocally confirm the presence of [water/hydroxyl] on the lunar surface, but also reveal that the entire lunar surface is hydrated during at least some portion of the lunar day," the authors wrote in their study.

The findings of all three spacecraft "provide unambiguous evidence for the presence of hydroxyl or water," said Paul Lucey of the University of Hawaii in an opinion essay accompanying the three studies. Lucey was not involved in any of the missions.

The new data "prompt a critical reexamination of the notion that the moon is dry. It is not," Lucey wrote.

Where the water comes from

Combined, the findings show that not only is the moon hydrated, the process that makes it so is a dynamic one that is driven by the daily changes in solar radiation hitting any given spot on the surface.

The sun might also have something to do with how the water got there.

There are potentially two types of water on the moon: that brought from outside sources, such as water-bearing comets striking the surface, or that that originates on the moon.

This second, endogenic, source is thought to possibly come from the interaction of the solar wind with moon rocks and soils.

The rocks and regolith that make up the lunar surface are about 45 percent oxygen (combined with other elements as mostly silicate minerals). The solar wind — the constant stream of charged particles emitted by the sun — are mostly protons, or positively charged hydrogen atoms.

If the charged hydrogens, which are traveling at one-third the speed of light, hit the lunar surface with enough force, they break apart oxygen bonds in soil materials, Taylor, the M3 team member suspects. Where free oxygen and hydrogen exist, there is a high chance that trace amounts of water will form.

The various study researchers also suggest that the daily dehydration and rehydration of the trace water across the surface could lead to the migration of hydroxyl and hydrogen towards the poles where it can accumulate in the cold traps of the permanently shadowed regions.

EA Sports Cricket Series end

Just a Brief Announcement that EA SPORTS has finally finished making Cricket Titles

Apple iTablet

This is my take on the much rumored Apple iTablet, a netbook in between the price of iPhone and Macbook, say about $399 . These might probably be the features of iTablet :
Apple MAC OS X 10.6
Touch Screen 13"
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.00GHz
2GB DDR3 RAM
4MB L2 Cache
NVDIA 9400GT
Twistible Screen to provide a full size Keyboard - The one used in Macbooks
No CD Drive,
160 GB SATA HDD
2 USB 2.0 Slots and Standard ports.

Indian Helmet Patch

Bored of the Unlicenced kits in Cricket 07 and want to make a kit for your team?

Things you need:

BigGUI

Fshed

Fshed Graphic Importer Plugin

Changing the Helmet Logo

a. Open BigGui and follow:

File > Open > 'Cricket 07 Root Directory' > Data > data.gob

and Find file : '18e2ea3cae20e0960d8cbbd56392e731.fsh' and follow:

Edit > Export > 'Folder you wish to export it'

b. Open Fshed

(First you need to download the Fshed Graphic Importer Plugin and save the dll file in the plugins folder of Fshed root directry)

Follow:

File > Open > Folder you saved the image in > 18e2ea3cae20e0960d8cbbd56392e731.fsh

Object > Export > Click the button '...' > enter file name & extension (.bmp)

The file shood look like this

c. Open Adobe Photoshop and Open your file which you have saved

Take another picture of the BCCI logo.

Select the logo (choose the lasso polygon tool to select only logo"without background")

Paste it on the helmet image and resize it to paste over the lo

go already present there.

Your photo should look like this now

d. Open Fshed again and open 18e2ea3cae20e0960d8cbbd56392e731.fsh and Follow:

Tools > Graphic Importer > Open > 'the file in which you edited the helmet' > Update

File > Save

e. Open BigGui again and follow:

Edit > Import > 18e2ea3cae20e0960d8cbbd56392e731.fsh

It will ask you to change already existing file.

You are done!

EA Sports Cricket 09 - Pre Release Features

We all cricket game fans are keen and waiting for a new Cricket game to come from EA after their 2007 release which had lots of bugs.

I know we all have given are suggestions at the - EA Sports forum but how often do they consider the suggestion just 3 to 4% of the suggestions are taken in.

So, I have a list of features which will probably be there in this version:

1. More Shots for the 360 degree controller
   
2. Inclusion of Proper Free Hit and Powerplays
   
3. A new graphics engine
   
4. means better graphics and also because they have used the old for a long time now
   
5. Licenced kits and players from the Asian countries also (India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan). [Thought there is not much hope of it being correct]
   
6. More licences of Bats, and probably Helmets aswell
   
7. They also might get licence to names back.
   
8. Ashes 2006-07 Scenarios, and T20 Scenarios (Only for licenced teams)
   
9. T20 world Cups (2007 and 2009 with correct schedule)
   
10. Minor improvements in Create Player
    
11. Removal of the World Series and addition to multination tournaments (ODI)
    
12. Inclusion of T20 Special Kits.'
    
13. Inclusion of more stadiums, better whether conditions, larger grounds and day/night matches(right now they are either day or night), and better pitches
14. Other Minor improvements to bugs.
    

Though I still believe only a few will be there in the official feature list even though the expectations are very grounded.

EA Sports Cricket 09

Hello every one!

EA Sports Cricket 07 was quite good, but it has been 2 1/2 years Since we have heard any news about a new Cricket game though still there is no 'OFFICIAL' news

Just there have been a few indications which say that their might be a Cricket game on PC ONLY by EA for the T20 world Cup in 2009 latest by 8th May 2009. Some websites show that the game is going to be released by the name of EA Sports Cricket T20 World Cup 2009; while some claim there has been an official information of the game, by EA to them.

I don't whether this is true or not but I am also waiting for the new Cricket game.

MVDIT TECH BOOK

Hello friends it's been a long time since I posted my magazine on the internet. It has been added in the e-zine list of wikipedia but there are rarely any visitors on my website, and even less make an effort to download it...

No one even reads my blog these days, which i considered an option as an open e - zine but it went useless after i tracked my blog for a month. Would u believe it no visitors.

Please visit my magazine website : www.mvdittechbook.co.nr

and join the official - MVDIT TECH BOOK community on orkut :

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=59690690

School Sports Day

Today in our school there was a tug of war TOURNAMENT in which our class got to the semi-finals but lost.....(0-2).

Windows Without Walls

Apple's Ad

Windows Without Walls

I just saw some videos from Windows Without Walls! Now I have started wondering that who tells them to make such ads. Instead of explaining they are not stereotype, alone and they are proud of using windows, their explaination goes in opposite directions.

Those dum ads are not even worth watching once. They won't get any medals for copying Apple again and again and again........ . Just do something, sometime original dude. It's just irritating sometimes that they just rip off ideas from Apple and put them with their logo. Okay! If they ripped off the ideas, this time they even ripped off the actors looks. Waiting for next year when they even rip off designs of hardware and dialogues from ads!



In My view just be original, It won't look that bad if you just rip off ideas.... Take an example of Windows Vista even though a rip off of ideas, it is still in use by a few in this world rest of them either changed it XP or are using Linux or Mac.

Movie Review Rock On!

Starting Straight away this movie is going to be a hit worldwide. It's a perfect mixture of brilliant songs and awesome acting.

Story:

The movie rock is a story of a rock band which participates in a music talent hunt show and wins it but due to over coverage given to the lead singer and the other band members being underestimated the band breaks, every one goes into some other business. Ten Years later the decide to meet again when K.D (Purab Kohli the band's Drummer)incidentally meets Aditya's (Fahran Akhtar the band's lead singer) wife (Prachi Desai) in a jewelry shop. K.D. meets Rob (Luke Kenny the band's keyboard player) and makes a plan for a reunion on Aditya's Birthday. So they go and meet Joe (Arjun Rampal the lead guitarist) he also agrees. On Aditya's birthday they fail to talk to him properly. Aditya doesn't want to talk to them.

They again plan a reunion at the place of their rehearsals then both Aditya and Joe come and they plan to unite again and for MAGIK ( their Rock Band) again. They again register for a music talent hunt but Rob has a serious disease and he isn't going to survive for much more time. While Joe's wife Debby (Shobana Goswam) doesn't want him to join the band again. What will happen now? Will they be able to perform together again?

Performances

Arjun Rampal, Fahran Akhtar, Purab Kohli and Luke Kenny have done a great job and the way they have lightened up the MAGIK ! Nobody else good.

While Prachi Desai and Shobana Goswami don't have much to do in the film but both have done good work.

UNO a great Game to Play

I brought UNO last week and the game was really good

This is my test post with MS WORD

European English:

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as

replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

Bhool Bhulayaa

The movie is a good movie by Pryadarshan, good cinematography and playback, comedy, horror and nicely put songs. All these things together haven't been seen before! but this time yes we see all these together in Bhool Bhulayaa which was supposed to be a comedy movie according to the trailers but it's a comedy+ physcological thriller. The first time I saw a sycological thriller! and it is really a film where the suspense is mentioned till the end. We had seen some films of Vidya Balan where she had done an average job but this time she has done a gr8 work, Akshay Kumar adds Light to the Dark movie, Shiney Ahuja also does gud but Rajpal Yadav could be better.

The story is like this:

The story starts in an haunted Castle where Paresh Rawal is preparing the castle for the next owner of the castle i.e Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) He is the grand son of the king who studies in USA, and his uncle stay in a house near the castle. He arrives the next day with his wife AVNI (Vidya Balan) who is keen to know about the facts in the castle. They try to convence their uncle to stay there and they finally go in the haunted castle. There Avni while taking a round in the castle finds the haunted room.................. now she goes in with a friend of her and she sees the haunted room on the 3rd floor locked with some casted spells, She asks her friend to get the key her friend gets a duplicate of that and Avni opens that room she sees the photos of Siddharth's grand grand father the king of this castle next she finds a room inside that castle and sees the photos of the ghost she sees the ornaments she wore and goes back in the castle haul there she finds Siddharth's Friend Radha (Amisha Patel) who warns her about the room but Avni doesn't listen to her. In the great haul she sees that her friends parents are beetting her because she gave the key, After some time Misterious things start happening and Siddharth is forced to blaim his friend Radha then he approaches his friend and a sycaterist Dr. Aditya Srivastav( Akshay Kumar). He comes and sees the mysterious happenings around castle he comes to a conclusion that its a person at work. Next he listens a voice of a bengali singer who is probably dancing. He goes to the mysterious room and listens something thats feering he listens that the ghost is goin to kill Siddharth. Now he tries to find out whose doin that for that he finds a family member the brother of Radha who is now locked in a room as she was the most suspicious person. The go to Malkapur a village in central India. There in the castle the family members call a saint who comes to be the friend of Aditya. But till now Aditya, Siddharth and Sharad (A poet in the film) know about the truth and this is told to the saint also. All of them decide to keep quite and not tell any one.............................

So, on the whole the story is gud.

Bhool Bhulayaa is such film that you can watch it ones and even enjoybut ones you know the suspense its not worth watching.

I will give : 4 stars to the movie

Videora

I found a gr8 software this evening this one converts any thing 2 iPods gud one !

MVDIT TECH - Go Grab the Copy

The MVDIT TECH BOOK has come out with these 3 versions in the market click on their cover pages to download them:

Back to school

Yesterday the MANAV STHAlI SCHOOL opened!

So i am back to school

Safari 3

Safari 3 Beta version was recently launched the Browser browses faster than FireFox or Opera and yes definately IE

Its Really easy to use but the main problem comes wen it crashes it crashes maybe after every 20 browses!

Good Soft. but Should improve the Crash problem

5 Most incredible Jokes

5 most stupid questions people usually ask in obvious situations.
1. At the movies: When you meet acquaintances/friends...Stupid Question:-
Hey, what are you doing here?
Answer:-
Dont u know, I sell tickets in black over here..
2. In the bus:
A heavy lady wearing pointed high-heeled shoes steps on your feet...
Stupid Question:-
Sorry, did that hurt?
Answer:-
No, not at all, I'm on local anesthesia.....why don't you try again.
3. At a funeral: One of the teary-eyed people ask...
Stupid Question:-Why, why him, of all people.
Answer:-
Why? Would it rather have been you?
4. At a restaurant: When you ask the waiter
Stupid Question:-Is ! the "Butter Paneer Masala" dish good??
Answer:-
No, its terrible and made of adulterated cement. We occassionaly also spit in it.
5. At a family get-together: When some distant aunt meets you after years...
Stupid Question:-
Munna, Chickoo, you've become so big.
Answer:-
Well you haven't particularly shrunk yourself

Cricket 07

EA SPORTS CRICKET 07

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Gameplay

With the new option of select the gameplay difficulty in stars I started with '*'stars the game aftr 2 to three days became very easy to play in 10 Overs but difficult for 50 Overs. The game gets to difficult to play until you have a big mid-order partnership if its made then you might gain in points as your partnership made a base for other. The Powerplay facilty too is available and you have a licensed Twenty20 cup to play as well as a licensed World Cup schedule. Though the games easy but it's fun to play

Others

in game features are many and many But some drawbacks are EA has got licenship for the names, faces, likenesses and Stadia for 4 Countries other teams all have fake face, likenesses and names too but you can correct the names by going to MY Cricket and then squad mangement

The next is create player and I must say now when the've added loads of commentry names every one will get a commentry name near to his name.

The Commentry It's an OK job by Richie Banaud but flauless commentry by Mark Nicholas I Must say EA should add more commentrators

The Gameplay: 9/10 *********

The Others: 9/10 ********

Overall 99/100

FIFA 06

The Review:

FIFA 06 Germany Cup

*The Gameplay*

The gameplay is a solid won and you might think it's impossible to score a goal! but playing it for a week or 2 will make you comfortable

It's 3/5 good but lots to be done

*The Graphics*

The Graphics are improved and the players look the same as they were in the real game

That's 3.5/5 Still to improve

Overall 7.5/10 Make more improvements in d next

EA Sports NBA 07

US, November 13, 2006 - It can be difficult to measure the worth of a ported title to a newer, more powerful console. Inevitably, people will make comparisons to the previous version, gauging if the transition to the new system is any better (or different) than the original game or if any glitches or bugs have been fixed between versions. Most importantly, fans will want to know if they're missing anything by not buying the game again. In Sony's case, their first party basketball title, NBA 07 came out less than two months ago on the PS2 and PSP, and it's helping to lead the charge onto the basketball court for the PS3. But is this version of Sony's basketball title any better now that it's made the leap into the next generation, or should this game be benched for poor play?Getting Ready For the SeasonApparently, the athletes in NBA 07 paid attention in digital training camp when they made the transition from the current gen to the PS3. Simply put, both your teammates and your opponents are much smarter than they ever were on the PS2. Players now actively run their assignments as if they're actually playing basketball, closing down lanes and sticking tight to their man or their zone. A lot of the defensive issues, such as approaching an offensive player on an angle or immediately taking yourself out of the play on steal attempts, has been addressed. Now, your players will slide in front of the defender and either put a body on them or throw their hands in their face, slowing down or stopping fast breaks and making quick jump shots much harder. What's more, the AI will start to decipher what you like doing a lot faster than before, forcing you to change up your tactics during transition play. If you like perimeter shooting, they'll start doubling up on the wings, which will make you pass the ball inside

iPhone

• iPhone - Steve Jobs says today he is introducing three "revolutionary products" -- A widescreen iPod with touch controls, a mobile phone, a breakthrough internet communications device... All in one device.
New Apple device combines iPod, phone, internet communicator. "Revolutionary user interface." "Years of development." Touchscreen interface -- no physical buttons. Runs Mac OS X -- Apps, syncing, networking, multi-tasking, video, etc. Everything synced -- iTunes music and videos, Mac data, email, notes, etc.

1 Terabyte HDD coming soon

Seagate has been pumping out its 750GB hard drives since April 2006. Well apparently the company had enough of all the “when’s there gonna be a one-terabyte drive?” questions and sent out an e-mail to the media letting us know that a drive of that size will be coming in the first half of 2007.

Seagate’s 1TB hard drive will be our second generation 3.5-inch hard drive to feature capacity-boosting perpendicular recording technology, and it will use fewer heads and discs than similar-capacity products we expect to see from our competitors. It is clear that fewer heads and discs, along with our proven perpendicular technology, can increase drive reliability, and also reduce operating temperatures, power consumption, noise, and weight

A Super Computer

We have all been talkin about what are super computers I have a config. if it is put in a cabnate the computer will be be working faster than our eyes blink:

1 Thz (Tera Hutz) processor
Intel Core 2 Duo
3TBterabytes) RAM DDR2
100MRB(1024 TB = 1 MeraByte) Hard Disk Space
1024Bit 4d Accelarated Grafix Card with 1 TB vRam
Direct x 100 compatible sound card
USB 10.0 with 10 USB ports
x------------------------------------------------------------------x
Now what's a Fast Modem?
1TB per second
x------------------------------------------------------------------x
An updated Drive
Blu Ray Disk Re- Writable Drive
x------------------------------------------------------------------x
Cost :
INR 50,000

I'm Sure you'll be waiting to buy it if it's available at that cheep cost

It's just a joke

Access at Modern School Barakhamba Road

We had Gaming 1st Round Today i.e 23rd December from 10 am to 1 pm there no announcement made for gaming till 1 pm Then we talked to one of the organisers they said "We had gaming prelims yesterday and now you can't compete". We were shocked so we talked to Mr. Gautam Sarkar the head of the event he said the organiser to let me play and after that on FIFA 2006 I qualified for the finals but just when the finals were going to start the organiser said I can't play the finals and After they talked to my sir they said me to play from quarter finals again and they had send one of the biggest gamer sitting there for my re-quarter finals and they had even given him the Gamepad as a result I lost 6-o. Isn't that cheating

Back with EA Sports Cricket 07

EA Sports Cricket 07 released in India

Here are some Screenshots

EA Sports Cricket 07 Coming Soon!

EA Sports Cricket 07 will be released on 24th November 2006 in India!

Download A Pakage

Now Download the game made by me in a pakage!

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games unlimited

I have now brought u some more games after the success of hit the dragon and circle fight now we have

1 Tain tro train Wars

EA Sports Cricket 07

The release date for EA Sports Cricket 07 is announced the dates are as follows

1. India- 15th November 06
2. Australia- 16th November 06
3. UK- 24th November 06

The Wait is Over!

Now finally after a long term of the DECODE THIS quiz which started on 6th October 06 from day 1 their were 8 entries some through e-mails, some through comments and some through the chat. Wait for more fun to come on Virtuoso Vidit.

The answers are

1 Vidit
2. virtuosovidit.blogspot.com
3. iPod shuffle Clip
4. Zune
5. Zen Vision M
6. Electronic Arts
7. Counter Strike
8. Sims Pets 2
9. Need For Speed Carbon
10. Vista RC1

ANSWERS?

Well the wait is over now u don't have to wait any more for the clues and the answers
Search around the blog for some clues and try making answers.
And one of the biggest clue is in the Quiz Post
SEARCH FOR A CLUE!

DECODE THIS

DECODE THIS

Virtuosovidit.blogspot.cam has come out with its first computer quiz and these are no questions but toggle character codes decode them

Each code carries 10 points for correct answer and -10 for wrong
Results to be announced on: 10th October 06

Send your enteries before 12:00am 12th October

NOW PLAY THIS QUIZ ON YOUR MOBILE WAP BROWSER!

This is to inform u that if u have Net on Phone activated then u can play DECODE THIS on the web also just type this URL http://virtuosovidit.blogspot.com for playing the quiz on Mobile

The Quiz begins

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TIP: Start with an easy one!

You can leave your answers in the comments.

Vidit

How's the new template

Hi!
How is the new template
isn't it looking gud?

It was my blog's birthday

My Blog virtuosovidit.blogspot.com completed one month on 30th september
This was founded on 30th August 2006
please give him a birthday gift by sending comments on each and every post!(rofl)
And a card by visiting it every day
I will keep a good health of it by updating it freaquently
And u can make it's birthday party by reading the posts carefully.
That makes it very happy

Hey it's WarP & Exun

This year WarP 2006 is on 11th and 12th October &
Exun 2006 is on 11th and 12th November
Isn't that a co- incident?
Can any one tell me when is Access 2006?
May be 11th and12th December!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol

Blu Ray Experience

VCDs DVDs and Now Blu Ray Disks
These were launched at the recently held IIF 2006 in Berlin
A Blu Ray Disk costs Rs. 1001
A Blu Ray Disk Player costs Rs. 45,000

Zune By Microsoft

ZUNE VS iPod?
MIcrosoft Launches there counter part to iPod Earlier they introduced Zen Vision M with Creative arts bow they get their own mp3 player

Music is, of course, a deeply personal experience. But far more instructive of the human condition than that, music is all about sharing.
Ever since our species learned to communicate musically, we have been sharing music- in our celebratory and sacred rituals, to listening parties, through the "you got to come down to the club and hear this great band" invites many of us still extend to our friends and partners.
And if you drive by your city’s concert hall tonight, you’ll note that there are thousands of people inside. Most are either in couples or small groups-where one in that couple or group told the other(s) about this act, or this concert appearance.
And that’s what so cool about Zune, the portable music player that Microsoft formally announced earlier today.


Zune has a wireless-enabled, player-to-player sharing feature that, um, iPod does not.

Matrix Codes

I have made some matrix codes!
Have a look at them
Please! do send comments

Here they are: