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del.icio.us is very popular! Google also came out with Google Bookmarks. But I don’t think there is any need of such service from Google, just use del.icio.us.

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Yesterday, I watched much awaited movie Rang De Basanti. I wanted to see this movie mainly because of its star cast and off course music which is given by A. R. Rahman. Movie starts with a great line spoken by Aamir Khan “Jo desh ke kaam na aaye woh bekar jawani hai”. People respond to it with a great applause. Rang De Basanti is a movie like no other.
Like Sawdes RDB is not preachy. The first half is a joyride. Excellent cinematography by Binod Pradhan. I liked the night bike and jeep riding scenes too much. The music by A. R. Rahman is awesome. Though it is played mostly at background, the scenes couldn’t be as now without it. The scene when song Lukka Chhuppi played at background makes us cry.
Some movies enjoys us at theatre only, but this is the movie which makes us think for long time. I think all actors have done a excellent job. I thought Aamir would get more importance than other actors in the movie. But Rakeysh have considered all of them equally. Even Madhavan in a small role fits well. The scene of news of Flt. Lt. Ajay Rathod’s (Madhavan) death in Mig crash gives people a “jor ka jhataka”. Because the film was going fast with a great enjoyment until that scene, but after that film turns in a very different mood.
Atul Kulkarni has done a strong performance which competes Aamir. Aamir is incomparable. Scene at which Aamir is shown crying seems so real. Sharman dos his natural acting and makes you laugh at his every scene, even his last scene. Kunal Kapur as Aslam and Siddharth as Karan oth have performed well. Some scenes of Siddharth are too good. Soha Ali Khan fits in the role. I think it’s her finest performance.
The message it gives to people is that there are two kind of people in the world, one who accepts the reality and lives without complaining it, the second who fights against reality to make it good. This is the kind of movie which comes after many years. It’s too different. It really awakens the Generation. A must must must watch movie.
My rating *****

Yahan vahan saara jahan dekh liya
Ab tak bhi tere jaisa koi nahin
Main assi nahin, sau din duniya ghooma hai
Naahi kaahe tere jaisa koi nahin
Main gaya jahan bhi, bas teri yaad thi
Jo mere saath thi mujhko tadpaati rulaati
Sab se pyaari teri soorat
Pyaar hai bas tera, pyaar hi
Maa tujhe salaam, maa tujhe salaam
Amma tujhe salaam
Vande maataram, vande maataram […]
Artist: A.R. Rahman Album: Vande Mataram Title: Maa Tujhe Salaam

Hats off to A. R. Rahman! Excellent song! Excellent compositon! Great!!! ( I am a die-hard of A. R. Rahman)

This tip is designed for increased BROADBAND speed in Windows XP, but it should work for 56k modems too.

QoS Packet Scheduler is a method of network bandwidth management that can monitor the importance of data packets and depending upon the priority of the packet, give it higher or lower priority or bandwidth levels. It’s not very useful unless you’re using apps which are QoS-aware or running a server, so you can gain some network overhead back by turning it off.
Note: This following tip will not work on XP Home Edition.

1. Make sure you’re logged on as actually “Administrator”. Do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges.
2. Start > Run > type gpedit.msc (not available in home version).
3. Expand the Local Computer Policy branch.
4. Expand the Administrative Templates branch.
5. Expand the Network branch.
6. Highlight the “QoS Packet Scheduler” in left window.
7. In right window double click the “limit reservable bandwidth” setting.
8. On setting tab check the ENABLED item.
9. Where it says “Bandwidth limit %” change it to read 0 (ZERO).
10. Close gpedit.msc.

Effect is immediate on some systems, some need to re-boot.

Thanks Santosh for the tip

Virendar Sehwag has launched a website and a blog too. The website is an all-flash jazzy one and is most probably maintained by someone other else. But let us see what he blogs about.

Found this amazing link: Awesome firefox XUL example!
(What is XUL)

It searches amazon for various items with lots of details displayed in digestable form!
You must see it to believe it!
Of course, it goes without saying it has to be opened with only!
Cloned from Atul’s Blog

Here is a small process to upgrade your Hotmail account from 25 MB to 250 MB.

1) Login ur hotmail account and go to options.
2) Go to “Personal”
3) Click “My Profile”
4) Change Country to “United States” Wait for browser to load United states settings.
5) Change the state to “Florida” and zip code “33332″
6) Click “Save”
7) Sign out
Sign in, now your account size will be 250 MB.

[This post is constantly updated. Last Update - 15/1/2006]

These are the free essential softwares of my choice

Internet
• Firefox Browser
• Opera Browser
• HTTrack Website copier
• Google Earth Search through satellite images
• PuTTY Telnet and SSH client
• FileZilla Fast and reliable FTP client
• Thunderbird Excellent e-mail client

P2P

• BitTorrent Official BitTorrent client
• Emule P2P file sharing client
• Shareaza P2P client
• Azureus (requires Java VM)
• µTorrent Efficient BitTorrent client

Office
• Adobe Reader PDF reader
• Foxit PDF Reader PDF reader (smaller & faster)
• AbiWord Word processor
• OpenOffice Office suite

VoIP
• Skype Voip client
• Google Talk(beta) Call & send instant messages
• Gizmo Free phone for your computer

System
• Daemon Tools Virtual dvd player
• Sisoft Sandra Lite Information & dignostic utility
• EasyCleaner Registry & disk cleaning solution
• TweakUI Customize Windows
• PC Inspector File Recovery File recovery
• Copy Handler Smart, fast & reliable copying

Security
• Spybot Search & Destroy Anti spyware utility
• Ad-Aware SE Anti spyware utility
• Microsoft Antispyware Anti spyware utility
• ZoneAlarm Firewall
• avast! Home Edition Anti virus utility

Imaging
• IrfanView Image viewer
• Picasa Image Viewer
• The Gimp (Requires GTK+) Photo & graphics editor

Multimedia
• Winamp Multimedia Player
• RealPlayer Multimedia Player
• Real Alternative Play RealMedia files without Real Player
• VirtualDub Video Capture / processing
• DivX DivX codec & Player
• Xvid MPEG-4 compliant video codec

Compression
• 7–Zip Multi-format file archiver
• Winrar Archiving utility

Messengers
• Yahoo! messenger(Installer) Send instant messages
• GAIM all-in-one IM client
• Trillion all-in-one IM client
• MSN messenger Internet messaging service

Yahoo have started giving “dot” email addresses. Now you can have two Yahoo mail ids for one account. I had anildigital [at] yahoo.co.in as my email ID. But now I created anil.wadghule [at] yahoo.co.in a secondary email ID for the same account. This means if you mail me on any of both addresses, I get the mails on the same account. I can sign into my account with any of both email IDs. Here is the link for Yahoo mail beta announcement. So go here to get one !