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The day Brajeshwar handed me the MBP, BG turned lecturer and taught me few basics of using Mac. Yes I had never handled a Mac untill few weeks. The first thing he taught me was how to launch a app. CMD+Spaebar is what he told me. For the next few days I believed that is how you launch a app in mac

Then while going through some forum I came across the discussion of App Launcher where I got to know, the CMD+Spacebar thing I use to launch a app is actually Quicksilver, a App launcher. A bit of R’n’D and I could gather Quicksilver is BAAP of all app launchers. In preference you can set your own combination of keywords to launch the QS, on my MBP its CMD+Spacebar.

And just start typing the name of the app you want to launch. For eg. I wanted to launch Opera browser, So I just typed Ope and it prompts me the suitable options. One care you must take is TYPE FAST!!

Other app launchers that might interest you:

Launchbar

Google Quick Search Bar

Though I haven’t really tried them out but I hear they are good.

Here is the list of Open source applications that you will need for your Mac. *Ahem* I won’t say this is the ultimate list since i have just started using Mac. Will keep on adding Links as and when i find any interesting applications that are actually useful.

Opera Web Browser- The ultimate browser you will ever need. Now you can have your own server hosting UPDATE: Though its not a opensource, but i insist you to download it

Mozilla Firefox- Just another browser

Adium- IM client- Connects to Multiple IM : gtalk, yahoo,AOL,jabber, MSN and more. Looks good too.

Quicksilver- Qicksilver lets you start applications (and do just about everything) with a few quick taps of your fingers.

VLC Player- VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. I don’t think you will need any other music player.

Audacity- Okay in windows we had voice recorder but anyways you used Audacity, dinchyu? Audacity on mac is ditto same as its in windows. Looks, features all copied

One button FTP- FTP client

GIMP- Photo editing tool. I haven’t really used GIMP on windows, so can’t say how different or same it is.

So far i have installed all these applications on my MacBook Pro. Of course @brajeshwar gave me other softwares installed too but i haven’t used most of them

I have worked on Windows specially Windows XP all my life that I have started actually using computer. I don’t count the school days where I just used to use Paint. I really hated computer Back then. Not now though, I am always in front of one these days J. Having started using Apple’s Mac these days has gotten me into soup. I really really like Mac! I am in love. But I miss my XP.

I have been using Windows Live writer for Blogging. So ever since I got hold of Mac, I started searching for a blogging software for Mac. Came across Marsedit, well that’s what I could find in FREEWARE.

Mac is known for good looking softwares. And boy I love everything that is good looking. But here I must say Windows Live writer beats Marsedit in every sense. Great GUI, great WYSIWYG editor.

What I like more is the plugins that you could add. I have added so many plugins that I use fequently. Sadly enough I cannot add any plugins to marsedit. Plus the UI is a HUGE turn off.

VS

The only thing I liked in marsedit was I could see the preview of what ever I am writing, like instand preview. For review in Windows live writer I have to change windows for that.

Verdict: Windows Live Writer Rocks the world

My chintars, yash and harsh(my twin cousins) started going to play school some 6 months back. They never spoke anything. Infact until now they havent. They are to complete 3 years this september.

Even at playschool they never did interact with anyone. But they are my badmash dudes :). Yash has always taken care of hiting someone for not giving his desire of toy. Harsh is a shy boy.. But notorious when he mixes with people.

Soon they’ll be joining actual school. I’m so excited and nervous.. It was their first day at school today, a introductory day.. actual school starts next monday.

Today, when my mami dropped them to school, Yash started crying.. Badly crying.. That is where Harsh consoled him saying “radtos kashala, me aahe na”(why are you crying, i’m there na).

i know they are going to be fine.. With other.. Facing the world together- Soon. Bless them.

Ever since i heard this song, just cant get it off from my useless head. duh. crap.

tu jo mila, chaand khila,
aaj naya rang chaane laga,
dil ne kaha, maine suna,
chupke se paani barasne laga
jhoom uta ye aasman,
man mera gaane laga,
jaag uta naya armaan,
jee mera machalne laga
dil diya hai tuje ko phir kya hai mujhe dar
jaane kyon hai fida bhi koyi koi bekhabar
na ja, na ja, na ja, aa ja

jaane kya hua kyon kho gaya,
dil mera sapney sajaane laga
khwaab naya dekha tera,
tu hi tu mujme samaane laga

tu jo mila, chaand khila,
aaj naya rang chaane laga,
kya hai raat aur kya hai din,
chein aaye nahin tere bin
raat guzaari hai meine taare gin
dil diya hai tuje ko phir kya hai mujhe dar
jaane kyon hai fiza bhi khoyi koi bekhabar
na ja na ja na ja aa ja
phir se kali phool ban gayi,

chori chori se baat ban hii gayi
tu jo mila, chaand khila,
aaj naya rang chaane laga,
dil ne kaha, maine suna,
chupke se paani barasne laga
aaj naya rang chaane laga

na ja, na ja, na ja, aa ja
tu jo mila chand khila
aaj naya rang chaane laga - 3

Hi All,

I’m helping out my friend Michelle. She’s looking for a room mate, and mind you if you get her as your room-mate you are maha lucky.

She’s super cool. As is the flat. The rent is 7K, no deposit and you just need to pay 7k broker’s fee. It’s a steal! So email her right now: punkpolkadots@gmail.com

If you know someone who’s looking, send them the info right away 

Always wanted a custom twitter background for my profile. And Bohoy it needs brains.!!

Here’s the PSD if you need to do the same and want to edit. Fell free to use it

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Last few days have been really productive and energized one’s. I should really thanks all my Yaygirls for it.

The long email thread conversations that we had over couple of days made me realise one thing. I haven’t really interacted much with girls for like 3-4 years. I TALK, have a girly chat only with 1 single female friend. With others i don’t ever talk!.. Don’t ask me why.

From being a person who was hesitant to talk to boys in my school/junior college days, i have now become hesitant to talk to girls. I have a real bad habit of keeping things to myself. Unless they(bad news) really need to be disclosed, i won’t say it. And talking to girls i’m afraid they might just try and crib it and then bitch about it, probably even disown me from their happening group.

I’m not sure if its the engineering college side-effect or i just turned out to be like this. Moreover the places i visit, with whom i work(more on this later) demands me to interact me a lot with boys. And i find it easy to interact with them. Maybe because i’m able to generate interest for them. And i enjoy it.

What would the world be like having only girls? I guess the jealously factor in girls wouldn’t exit then. I mean why to feel jealous? No one had any better/successful/ handsome/ enviable Man besides them.

Would we still care about beauty? And what would we gossip? Nothing to bitch about too. Scary. Thank god we have Men!

And thanks to my newly found friendship with these four awesome girls. I know i can again be back to girly talks. Thanks Mich, G, Rhee & Shaaq. You girls rock. Love you.

8x10 Tasveer

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Ayesha Takia, Sharmila Tagore, Girish Karnad, Javed Jaffrey, Anant Mahadevan, Rushad Rana and Uttara Baokar;
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

The story starts of with Jay(Akshay Kumar), who is a forest ranger in Canada. He stays with Sheela(Ayesha Takia) in a live-in relationship, since he doesnt approve his Dad’s(Benjamin Gilani) business. He is blessed with super natural powers by which he can get into the moment when the photograph was clicked. But this is highly dangerous to his life due to high anxiety caused by it, and so he can stay there for just one minute.

He helps solving problems with this superpower. He gets to know about his father’s murder and his search for the murderer goes on with the help of his superpowers. Happi(Javed jafffery) helps him with this.

Over all the performance by Akshay kumar is fabulous. The movie proceeds with a slow pace, but thats fine. And thank God Nagesh Kuknoor din’t add lenghty and unnecessary songs. Yay baby. Ayesha Takia was decent, dint expect much from her anyway. The sad part is sharmila Tagore’s performance is really forgetful

The twists and turns in the plot just before and after the interval are mind-blowing. Luckily, Nagesh dint fall for getting the typical happy ending Bollywood formula and had a decent ending.

Good try by Kuknoor for trying out typical hollywoodish plot.

Ratings: **1\2