Rashomon Effect - It's Time to Get High on 70mm!

For those who know me personally knows that I am a movie-buff. Most of my weekends goes by watching movies, either on my laptop or in the theaters. So I thought why not write my own movie blog!

So very recently I started writing on my new blog, Rashomon Effect. It's named after the classic movie Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa which happens to be one of my favorite movies of all times.

You would mostly find reviews of latest movies like The Dark Knight Rises and Bhooter Bhabishyat, other than lists of my favorite Director, Actress, movie trivia, collection of quotes from my favorite movies, hot and sizzling trailers of upcoming movie and the likes.

For all the movie-buffs out there, who are a fan of The Chronicles of R, would ask you to head out to Rashomon Effect and Like it's Facebook fan page if you like the blog. Why? Because it's time to get high on 70mm!

Keyboard Woes

How often have you been bothered by the nuances of your ordinary keyboard? Even if it's a wireless one, spillage, dust et al ruins your online experience. Here's a simple solution. Buy a touchscreen keyboard from NMB.

The new COOL LEAF Keyboard is a beautifully designed, next generation input device. With a mirror like flat surface while turned off, this device comes alive when turned on, as the keyboard characters appear on the surface, lighted from beneath, as if floating. Designed by world renowned Dr. Kazuo Kawazaki, this product represent Minebea's state of the art backlighting technology, coupled with their keyboard manufacturing experience.

The mirror like surface of this keyboard panel makes it easy to clean, and ideal for any application where cleanliness, dim light or contemporary design esthetics are required. This beautiful piece of new technology is now available, buy it here.

Create a Wireless Home Network in 3 Easy Steps

Does you legacy broadband connection stops working every now and then without a good reason? Does it gives you way less speed than it actually promised? Does it goes down come a little rain and storm? Are you unable to use it on your laptop because the modem/router is fixed near your desktop where you don't have a place for your laptop? Well, if you have similar problems, I have a simple solution for you. Go wireless!

Here is the simplest way to go wireless in 3 easy steps:

1. Buy a Relience 3G dongle with a prepaid connection. It comes with a GSM SIM and you can recharge it for Rs 1300 for a 15GB unlimited connection. I have been using the same for almost a year now and it has given me no trouble at all. Even in remote areas, or inside buildings, I get a speed of 3.4 mbps! With this speed, you can download a 700 mb file in about an hours time.

2. Next, buy a wireless 3G router. You can try the TP LINK Portable 3G/3.75G Wireless N Router. It comes with a USB port for your Relience 3G dongle and hardly costs more than Rs 1700. Configuring it is pretty simple and you can do it in a breeze.

3. Configure all the devices that uses 3G network to connect to the internet, your smartphone, laptop, desktop, et al, so that they can connect to this wireless router. And voila! You have your home network up and running in no time.

If your house is like a penthouse, you can try buying a Cisco Linksys WAP 610N Wireless N Access Point.

Since this is a 3G dongle, you need not worry about whether the fiber optics cable would drown in the monsoon and your net connection would stop working. Its wireless, so take it anywhere you want, connect as many devices as you want. Wasn't that simple! So what are you waiting for, setup your wireless network today, and watch porn from anywhere :)

Collusion - Track Your Online Footprint with Firefox

Ever wanted to know who is tracking you online in real-time? Wanted to be able to choose who should be able to track your online footprints and who should not be able to stalk you? Mozilla and Ford Foundation has come up with a new add-on for their Firefox browser which would do just the same - Collusion.

Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers. Want to know exactly what I am talking about, here's a demo.

Interested? Download the Collusion add-on for Firefox from here. Click on the Add to Firefox button. This add-on does not require a restart, but to see it you might need to press Ctrl+'/' and then click on the Collusion icon from the add-on bar. On Mac, go to the View menu, then the Toolbars menu, then check "Add-on Bar".

After that all you need to do is keep browsing the web. As you do that the graph on the page on your Firefox browser would keep growing. Here each circle represents a website, sites with a halo are the sites that you have visited, site in gray are the ones that you haven't visited and an arrow from one to another means that the former site has set one or more third-party cookies to inform the latter site about your visit. You can hover over the circles to know more about each sites.

Firefox is working on adding more features, such as the ability to click on any node in the graph and tell Firefox to block third-party cookies to that site. Along with that they are also working on visualizing other methods of tracking besides third-party cookies. If you would like to keep an eye on their progress, file a bug, request a feature, or get a copy of the source code, please go to this site.

Now enjoy the visual sonata of Collusion. And don't forget to befriend us on Facebook.

Tips on Improving Computer Performance

After a certain amount of time, your computer may start to lag and not perform as it once did. When this happens to your computer, you don't simply have to accept the fact that your computer is slowing down. You also don't have to go out and buy a new computer to get the performance back. Instead, there are a number of tips that you can use to improve the performance of your computer. You may also want to check out solutions from Exar.com for Ethernet networking.

Clean Up the Disk

One of the best things you can do when it comes to improving the performance of your computer is to clean up the disk. Your operating system should have a disk cleanup tool that you can use to get rid of unnecessary files and folders. It will remove temporary Internet files, into the recycling bin and help you identify the files that you can delete without any problems. You can choose to delete all of the files that it recommends or keep some of them if you think you'll need them later.

Remove Viruses and Spyware

At some point, your computer may accumulate some viruses or spyware. This can happen over the normal course of surfing the Internet or it could happen when you download a suspicious file to your computer. Regardless of how the spyware or virus got on your computer, you need to remove it as quickly as possible. By doing this, you be able to help your computer run the way that it should run again. These programs have the potential to do real damage to your computer and make it run much slower than it should. Get a top-notch antivirus software program to remove all of these items from your hard drive.

Defragment

Another step that you can take to improve the performance of your computer is to run the disk defragmenter from time to time. Typically, your computer will be set up to run this periodically anyway. The defragmenter helps your computer run the way it should by helping get rid of fragmented files on your hard drive. This speeds up the computer's access to data so that it can run significantly faster.

Upgrades

When you're computer isn't running well, you need to continually download upgrades and updates to your computer. The operating system that you use typically has updates that are issued periodically to fix issues with your computer system. If you always put off downloading the updates and the necessary upgrades for your system, it can slow down the performance of your computer. Simply download the updates that your computer needs and it can help.

Install More RAM

Random access memory or RAM is one of the most important factors in how fast your computer operates. If the RAM that you have is being used up frequently, you may need to install some more so that your computer can run a little bit faster. Once you install RAM, your computer will have more processing power to handle common tasks. You should then be able to run multiple programs at the same time without slowing down your computer too much.

Read more about computer and performance issues at www.exar.com.

The Avengers (2012)

I was so waiting for this moment that I thought I would die before it came. I was waiting for the Avengers to assemble!

So all of you who were wondering about the existence of Nick Fury in all those Avenger movies like Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor et al, Director Joss Whedon has come to your rescue and repay you for waiting so patiently for the answer. He gave you The Avengers!

So Nick Fury from S.H.I.E.L.D. was headhunting, he was preparing for a battle. And he did prepare well. So when Loki, son of Odin and the adopted brother of Thor, came with his minions called Chitauri from the other world to destroy mankind, Nick Fury assembled a team of superheroes to fight back. And what a team it was, there was the Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and the sexy and suave Black Widow.

The movie was a visual treat, to say the least. The scene where the Hulk fights the Leviathan from outerspace would make you go *hoot* *hoot* inside the darkened theater. It was a great moment when the Iron Man said to the Hulk:

Iron Man: Hulk?
Hulk: Grrrrr!
Iron Man: Smash!
Hulk: Grrrrrrrrr (with a priceless smile).

And when Hulk smashed Loki calling him a puny God, that is sure to put a smile on your lips.

And finally, as with all good superhero movies, the Avengers won! Thor took Loki back to where he belongs, and the Avengers all went their own ways, only to return back if humanity is ever threatened again.

So what made The Avengers so different from other superhero movies? Well, to begin with this movie was not about one superhero. But X-Men did that too didn't they? Well, they did and they succeeded but, honestly, apart from Wolverine, which of the X-Men would you consider to be as popular as all of these superheroes from Avengers are!

But I don't think Marvel should stop here, rather they should venture on something more, something huge. How about The Avengers meet the X-Men? Or maybe, just maybe, you know high hopes, The Avengers team up with, say, Batman and Superman!

Anyway, who knows what the future holds for us. But for now, bask in the epic that Marvel has given us, enjoy The Avengers!

Oh! One more thing before I leave, Rest In Peace Agent Phil. We will miss you, and so would Captain America.

Watch Netflix and Hulu from Outside US

For all those who wanted to watch Netflix or Hulu but didn't get a chance because they don't live in the United States of A, or probably you lived in the United States of A and so didn't get to watch BBC iPlayer or 4OD, here's a simple and affordable solution. Get UnoTelly!

UnoTelly DirectDNS is a DNS-based system that utilizes the properitory DirectDNS technology to give you access to blocked websites. But unlike VPN or Proxy, which is like a big-net that catches every fish in the water but sometimes it is not desirable because you might not want some of the fishes! On the other hand, UnoTelly DirectDNS functions like a laser-guided net that only catches the relevant fish you want and let other non-essential fish pass.

And here are some of the best features of UnoTelly, which would definitely make you roll your eyes in disbelief:

1. It's FREE! Or atleast a part of it is. You can actually have a FREE account, although you would not be able to watch the Premium and Gold channels, but then you can use it before you decide paying for it.

2. UnoTelly supports all computer system, mobile devices, and home theatre devices. It doesn't matter if you want to use UnoTelly on Xbox 360 or WDTV Live, UnoTelly will work. In contrast, VPN solution only works on computer so you can't watch Netflix USA or Hulu on your TV.

3. UnoTelly offers a flat-rate with unlimited streaming in a 1000 MBit connection. There is no bandwidth cap so you can stream as much as you want. In contrast, VPN solution typically imposes a monthly cap which might not be sufficient if you intend to stream 1080P Netflix HD movies.

4. UnoTelly secures all transactions by Comodo SSL through "https" connection. Trusted by over 99.3% of current Internet users, Comodo SSL Certificates eliminate any risk because they carry a $50,000 warranty.

5. UnoTelly offers 100% money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with your purchase, simply ask for full-refund within seven days. It's that simple!

You can find a complete list of channels that UnoTelly has to offer here.

Try it and happy watching!