Sachin In SAREES

Yes...For fancy dress competition in his college days.

cgTantra and Frameboxx organize seminar on animation & visual effects NEXT ON BANGLORE 17th May

cgTantra in association with Frameboxx organized a seminar on animation and visual effects in Delhi recently. The event saw a host of Animation Industry professionals descend upon Delhi, to participate and present in the symposium.

The aim of the seminar was to educate the nascent animators and animation aspirants about the bright career opportunities in Animation and to increase awareness on the intricacies involved in creating world-class, award-winning animation content.

The professionals present included PC Vikram of Big Animation Studios, the team from the Oscar winning Rhythm & Hues involved in the making of The Golden Compass, Uttam Pal Singh of Santa Banta Series and cgTantra‘s Abhishek Chandra.

The aficionados witnessed the making of some famous movies such as Oscar winning Golden Compass, Little Krishna and Santa Banta Series. As a result, the people present at the event were endowed with a theoretical as well as a practical insight into animation.

There was also a question and answer session which included questions on how much creative freedom one would get, and which fields animators can specialize in.

"The seminars were part of the all-India ‘Learn, Inspire, Grow‘ (LIG) series held by cgTantra. This series aims at spreading awareness among freshers who aspire to enter the animation industry and expose them to the aspects of animation," shared Chandra. The next seminar will be held in Bangalore on May 17, 2008.

FLASH GOES MOBILE..!

Adobe Systems Inc. says it will license its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices to help developers make mobile Internet experiences more closely resemble the experience on computers. The world’s fifth-largest software maker is launching what it calls the Open Screen Project with support from phone makers Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba Corp., from chip makers Intel and Qualcomm, and from content providers including NBC Universal, MTV Networks and the BBC, among other companies. With the Open Screen Project, Adobe said, it aims to improve Internet experiences on all electronics, including computers, TVs and digital video recorders. But mobile devices are a particular focus.

Many mobile applications have met with disappointment from consumers. And game and video developers have been burdened with cranking out numerous versions of applications for mobile devices, said Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s chief technology officer. “You have to make over 100 different versions of that game in order to actually make it work across all these different phones,” Lynch said. Notably missing from the list of industry supporters for Adobe’s project is Apple Inc. The iPhone maker does not use Flash on its smart phones, and Chief Executive Steve Jobs has publicly criticized Flash for being too slow. Adobe says it’s working on a version of Flash for the iPhone — now that Apple has released the information needed to custom fit the software to Apple’s operating system.

RED ALERT from Center for Disease Control

The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weary Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues, or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life completely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises.

Take two good friends to the nearest grocery store and purchase one or both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.

Windows XP SP3 Is Here - Well, not quite

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is here, according to Microsoft. The wait for the third and final service pack for Windows XP is now over, reveal resources made available by the Redmond company. And the fact of the matter is that not only is Windows XP SP3 here, but it has been here for quite some time. For no less than a couple of days. While there is absolutely no official word on the matter from Microsoft, the company’s official Support Lifecycle website offering information on its various products has managed to leak the small bit of info pointing to the delivery deadline of XP SP3. Nothing more and nothing less than the general availability date.

Hey! Group STaNDaLONE pre’d the XP SP3 finally :) Enough said about it actually so I wont go into any detail anymore now…

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system.

Note: Microsoft you lamers why release it on msdn AFTER general release, are you insane??

HTTP download available at:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/3/5/53519680-fcc0-4a00-86e0-e7d5cba84461/WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Microsoft_Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3_Final_d4323.html
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Windows-XP-SP3-Download-90001.html
http://digiex.net/applications/175-windows-xp-service-pack-3-rtm-build-5512-download-windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu-exe.html
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=4452eea


Enjoy

This is What "Computer Virus" look like...

Cyber threats like NetSky, Mydoom and Parite are the bane of IT departments around the globe, but artist Alex Dragulescu has found subtle beauty deep within the dangerous computer code that can bring down networks and bombard e-mail inboxes with murderous spam. Dragulescu has peeled back the code behind the world’s worst tech bugs and rendered stunning images from it. The Romanian-born MIT researcher and artist was commissioned to do fashion the artwork by MessageLabs, a computer security company that sought to put a face — or at least a shape — on computer viruses.

















Dragulescu found interesting, recurring patterns. “These types of threats are very smart. Very intelligent in design. Digital organisms, really, that adapt themselves and replicate. We wanted to capture some of that complexity and uniqueness.” The process of creating the art was like none other. MessageLabs carefully sent Dragulescu the once-harmful files after modifying them so his computers would not contract the viruses. Dragulescu looked for the frequency of certain occurrences in a virus, such as particular network sockets that it was designed to compromise. He fed the resulting data into a program he created with an algorithm to grow the viruses and Trojans visually. Dragulescu’s next project will be creating abstract portraits of people based on the contents of their blogs and the types of online communities they inhabit.

WATCH INDIAN PREMIERE LEAGUE LIVE ON YOUR MEDIA PLAYER..!

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LIVE TAMIL FM's - Listen While you work

Hi guys, IE is blocked?, other external sites blocked? bored to work without songs. The wait is over, you can listen to tamil FM radios from your media player itself.
All you need is media player and a internet connection. Go to run type --> wmplayer. Goto File-->Open URL-->[paste one of the links below]--->enjoy

Aahaa FM: mms://74.54.85.4/AahaaFM

Suryan FM(very lazy guys most of da days...they wont telecast): mms://66.180.172.91/suryan_fm

Shyam Radio(quality is a bit low): mms://st.malargal.com/shyamradio

LoverzFM(Germany): http://loverzfm.lo.ohost.de/radio/loverzfm.asx

mudhal Radio: mms://87.194.12.22:8000

Canadian Tamil Radio: mms://70.85.139.82/ctr24

if you know more...please do share friends...

Vodafone yet to introduce Apple iPhone in India

Vodafone India, the arm of UK based world’s largest wireless telecom company Vodafone, is likely to carry much awaited, versatile and Macintosh operating system based Apple’s iPhone in the coming September as per rumours spread in the country.

According to rumours, Vodafone India is going to officially introduce Apple’s iPhone, a combination of ipod, wireless Internet and mobile phone in India, while Vodafone has officially denied any such plan.

But, from the various internal official sources, Vodafone has signed a deal with Apple to carry iPhone in India ‘officially’, which is known as one the biggest market of mobile phones in the globe.

As per TRAI report, the number of mobile phone users will reach to 500 millions by 2010 and still have a critical market to exploit it for many companies. Apple has targeted to sell 10-millions mobile by the end of this year. It’s selling in European countries are slowly decreasing while China, the biggest market of mobiles have already denied to carry it. Initially, it would be in 8GB of capacity with price range of Rs 27,000 to 28,000 while its enhanced version of 16 GB model will be launched by mid 2009 after viewing the first version’s response. However, iPhone is already available in Indian grey market in the lesser prices of Rs 20,000 to 22,000.

But, its locking code does not allow to exploit its all functionality. It runs only one network and Macintosh Operating System. AT&T has been developed software for it.

Apple has already opened its first store in Mumbai while going to open its second and third showroom in Bangalore and Chennai very soon.

However, viewing its exception quality, the experts believe that it will gain immense popularity in the ever growing Indian market. Apple’s iPhone is an amalgamation of camera phone, iPod and wireless Internet system that provides visual voicemail and text messaging, local Wi-Fi connectivity, e-mailing and web browsing.

Winlockpwn: Unlock Windows without password

A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password. Adam Boileau first demonstrated the hack, which affects Windows XP computers but has not yet been tested with Windows Vista, at a security conference in Sydney in 2006, but Microsoft has yet to develop a fix. Interviewed in ITRadio’s Risky Business podcast, Boileau said the tool, released to the public today, could “unlock locked Windows machines or login without a password … merely by plugging in your Firewire cable and running a command”. Boileau, a consultant with Immunity Inc., said he did not release the tool publicly in 2006 because “Microsoft was a little cagey about exactly whether Firewire memory access was a real security issue or not and we didn’t want to cause any real trouble”.

But now that a couple of years have passed and the issue has not resolved, Boileau decided to release the tool on his website. To use the tool, hackers must connect a Linux-based computer to a Firewire port on the target machine. The machine is then tricked into allowing the attacking computer to have read and write access to its memory. With full access to the memory, the tool can then modify Windows’ password protection code, which is stored there, and render it ineffective. Paul Ducklin, head of technology for security firm Sophos, said the security hole found by Boileau was not a vulnerability or bug in the traditional sense, because the ability to use the Firewire port to access a computer’s memory was actually a feature of Firewire.

Adobe launches free online Photoshop

Adobe has released its Photoshop Express web-based imaging application as a public beta. Photoshop Express uses much of Adobe’s image editing technology and has been repurposed as a web-based application. Users can store up to 2GB of images online for free, make edits to their photos and share them online. Photoshop Express also allows users to download and upload photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook. The application provides ’standard edits’, such as removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping and resizing.

Photoshop Express also offers tricks like Pop Color which selects an object in an image, mutes the background colour of the photo and allows the user to swap the object’s colour so that it “jumps off the page”. Sketch effects make photos look like drawings, and a Distort feature allows users to distort facial features or objects for a comical or artistic effect. Adobe said that even users with limited photo editing knowledge can simply select what looks best from a line-up of sample photos with visual hints showing different variations of the added effect. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit user feedback on product features and functionality which will “continue to evolve over time”.

|| THATHUVAM ||

Nirkira bus-ku munnala odalaam
odura bus-ku munnala nirka mudiyathu

Nalla Kettukanga annaen...
Ticket Vangittu ulla pona athu cinema theatre,
Ulla poittu Ticket vangina athu operation Theatre...

Kasu iruntha call taxi,
Kasu illaina kall thaan taxi !

Enna thaan oruthan gundaa irundalum , avana gunla poda mudiyadhu

Tea cupkulla tea irukkum...aanaa world cup kulla world irkaathu..

TOMOTA DALL FRY - Easy to cook!

Name : Tomato Dall Fry
Type : Dall and Simple to cook
Cooks : Any Bachelor.

Method:

Take the things for a person

• 50 grams of Dall(Any Dall)
• 1/2 Big onion sliced into 2 pieces
  
• 2 Green chillies sliced into 2 pieces
  
• 1 Small piece of Garlic
• 1 Big Tomato sliced into 4 pieces
  

Take all these items according to the number of persons, put needed salt and chilli powder, necessary water and put them in a cooker and give as many whistles as needed (Don't worry nothing will happen if you give more, but make sure you have enough water). After, all the steam got cool down, take a vessel and put some oil, after oil got heated up put some mustard(கடுகு), Bengal gram (கடலை பருப்பு) and some Red chillies and fry those and put them in the Dall that we have prepared. Hurray! You have made Tomato Dall fry.


Important: Serve it to someone and check the results before you eat.

Why Managers are always like this?

A team of Managers was given an assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So the Managers go out to the flagpole with ladders and tape. They're falling off the ladders, dropping the tape measures - the whole thing is just a mess.

An Engineer comes along and sees what they're trying to do, walks over, pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lays it flat, measures it from end to end, gives the measurement to one of the managers and walks away.

After the Engineer has gone, one manager turns to another and laughs." See this idiot. We're looking for height and he gives the length!"

Moral: "No matter what good you do, Managers can always find fault in you".

How to enter into the hearts of Men & Women ?

Best way to enter into the hearts of MEN:
















Best way to enter into the hearts of WOMEN:

Old Man - A Korean movie.

Story:

Man who enjoys his life in his own style with lots of girls fell into a trap and he is not able come out of it for 15 years and he don't know why. During his 15 years stay in an unknown place, he gets his knowledge from TV and satisfies his needs in a general way. At last he gets his freedom and woke up in a place where everything has changed since 15 years including himself. Then he fell in love with a girl and he tries some smart things to get satisfies, but everything fails.

Then comes the story's beginning. He comes to know that he is being followed by the person, by whom he has been put up for 15 years. While tracking that person he comes to know about a girl who died when he was studying in school. And then he comes know about her brother, who is the person that put him out of the world for 15 years. At last he finds that the cause for her death is himself, and tries to kill the brother but could not succeed. Then comes the tragedy and movie ends in a bad but possible way.

• Love, Sex, Violence, Comedy, Tragedy - It has a mixture of all.
• The movie, the narration was really awesome.
• The screenplay is the highlight of the movie.
• Hero's job is an appreciable one.
• Starting from the first scene till the end no body can guess the movie's next scene. That is nowadays hard to be seen in an movie.
• Music has also given a hand to the movie's success.
• The climax is an understandable, though its not appreciated in some part of the world.
• Korean movies are not popular, but great to watch.
• Never miss to watch a Korean movie when you get a chance.