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Archive for October 2008

Chrome and Firefox 3.1b Memory Management

Oct 21st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Featured Story

Which browser (only considering, Firefox and Chrome) manages memory efficiently?
Read on to find out what I discovered.
From the initial use of Firefox 3.1 beta, I did not experience the performance enhancements as affirmed by some of the fellow users. So I decided to checkout the memory usage of Firefox 3.1b1 against Chrome 0.3.154.3.
The tests were [...]



Mutton Grilled Revisited

Oct 18th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

I was taking a look back at what I’ve accomplished this grilling season, and through all the fond memories came a horrifying reality: I had failed to cook any lamb! Though totally not intentional, I could not come to grips with this omission and began plotting to get lamb on the grill the next time [...]



Fashion Movie Rated “Adults Only”

Oct 14th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: News

The Censor Board has refused to grant ‘U’ certificate to Madhur Bhandarkar’s ambitious film ‘Fashion’, which is due for release on October 29. 
The film has some intimate love making scenes between Priyanka Chopra and newcomer Arjan Bajwa and due to this it was deemed to be fit for viewing only by mature people above the [...]



Amitabh Bachan IN HOLLYWOOD

Oct 1st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: News

 
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Amitabh Bachchan is considering an offer from Hollywood filmmaker Paul Schrader of ‘Light Sleeper’ fame and if everything goes in accordance with plan this might be first Hollywood outing for the legend of Hindi film industry.
The coordinator of the filmmaker had approached Big B in Paris to work in a film, where Amitabh [...]



Hari Puttar Movie - A Comedy of Terrors

Oct 1st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Reviews

 Posted by: Shilpa Jamkhandikar (Reuters Blog)

Warner Brothers did get one thing right.
‘Hari Puttar - A Comedy of Terrors’ does have similarities to a children’s film - not ‘Harry Potter’, but ‘Home Alone’.
A child alone at home, two bumbling goons out to get him and whole scenes lifted from Chris Columbus’s very popular Home Alone.
Unfortunately, neither does [...]