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GFindster Released at 99 cents

Mar 21st, 2009 | By A Ash | Category: News

Current latest version is released for 99 cents only. A new version of GFindster  PREMIUM has been released. All premium users upgrades are FREE.
Prior to 1.6.5, the thumbnail images were not deleted by the application, only the references from the apps were removed.
With the 1.6.5 and above, the application will delete all the images downloaded by [...]



Chrome and Firefox 3.1b Memory Management

Oct 21st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Reviews

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 [...]



Dosa, India’s favourite food

Sep 25th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Featured articles, Talks

Here is the recepie for India’s favourite food.
 (Serves 2)
 Preparation time: 20 minutes
 Ingredients
100 gm rice
50 gm boiled rice
50 gm urad dal (black gram/horsebean)
5 gm channa dal (bengal gram)
1 gm methi (fenugreek) seeds
20 gm sugar
25 gm salt
15 gm rice flour
50 gm suji (semolina)
Prepartion
Soak rice and dals for 2 hours.
Blend it to make the batter.
Mix sugar, salt, suji [...]



Features that I would like to see in Windows 7

Sep 23rd, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Featured articles

These are some of the features that I would like to see in Windows 7, Microsoft, take a look at it..

Take advantage of multicore cpu’s without the developer changing any code (Eg. If I have a browser with many tabs, OS should run the processes under different core)
Take full advantage of existing memory (Eg. If [...]



CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA hindi movie delayed

Sep 22nd, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: News

According to Mid Day tabloid, CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA - the first Indian production by the Warner Bros, has been delayed due to faults in the film’s prints.
The film was scheduled to be released during the festive week of Diwali. Now it is planned to be released in January 2009 as the lead actor [...]



Onam meal in the Air

Sep 21st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks