Rajesh Prabhu Blogs!

I am in total agreement of not giving the Oscar for best film and director to Avatar  but at the same time feel unjustfied to give it to hurt locker. This was one of the film that I left of in the middle.

Avatar was too much concentrated on special effects and not on story. The entire story is very predicatable from start to end.

Hurtlocker is more like a documentary rather than a film and thats what made me not get impressed with this film.

Watchability Rating :- 7/10

Kaadhal Unarvu virumbihalukku oru iniya virundhu !!

Matra anaivarukkum.. Vinnai thaandi varuvaaya.. nichayamaha vara maatal !!

Update 3/4: Here is another video since the video was removed from youtube..

Update 2/26: Here is a much better video. Enjoy!!!

Sachin’s massive 200 score vs southafrica on 2/24/2010

Orkut was not that popular when compared to Facebook/Twitter at least in US. Even most of my orkut contacts started using facebook actively. I was wondering why Google is not showing any interest in promoting orkut.

They have responded with what is called as Google buzz. Imagine taking snippets of Twitter, Yammer, Foursquare, Yelp, and other social services, and joining them together into one package; and then putting in to gmail. Thats what is Google buzz.

The very smart move here is that instead of staring a new site or service, they have integrated in to gmail which already has more than 100 million users.  Lets see if it overtakes Twitter and Facebook.

Note: If you dont see Buzz in the left menu under Inbox, dont worry, you will soon get it. Google is installing this in waves of user base.

I dont need to explain more…. you all know about BOSE!

You dont want to do real crimes to go to the station. Do you? How to go to a station and at the same time avoid all paperwork with attorney and court? Here you go… If the cop thinks it is a real gun, you go to the cell, if he thinks it’s a dummy, still u get arrested for unnecessary panic.

Win-Win..

I dont need to teach on how to use the comb.. anyway… here it is…

8 Characters, 1 room, no explosions, no stunts, no fireworks, no big casts, no million $ sets. Just a fantastic screenplay and superb Movie…
Watch and you will appreciate too…

1. Versions 1.0 is always buggy.
The first version of any Apple product will be outdated soon. It’s the First Commandment of Apple consumers: Thou shalt not buy the rookie products.

2. NO Support for Flash
Oh! Are you serious? Apple iPad is designed to give you a better browsing, gaming and rich graphical experience but it doesn’t allow video streaming? You’re offering something that will replace netbooks and laptops and that something can NOT run videos and flash based graphics? And what is the use of unlimited data packages then?

3. NO Multitasking
Well, again! Apple iPad is replacement to Netbook and it cannot support multitasking? It makes iPad just another iPod.

4. NO Webcam, NO Video Calls
There’s no webcam in iPad, neither on back nor on front. So, you can’t have a video chat and can’t make a video call with iPad. You talk about photos and videos and there’s no camera?

5. NO Extension Ports/Adapters, NO Expandable Memory
If you wanted to plug your digital cameras, your external HDD or even a card reader, there’s no way you could do this with iPad. There’s even NO USB port in iPad that even an average Netbook or a cell phone would have. This means you will NOT be able to expand your Apple iPad memory, now that is huge deal breaker to me.

6. NO HD Video Out
Apple iPad could be wonderful tool for presentations provided there was HD video out support. This could also enable users to watch videos in HD on bigger screens.

7. NO Calls and NO SMS
NO! You will not be able to make phone calls and send/receive SMS with Apple iPad. Even in 3G, its data only tablet that doesn’t support phone calls and have no support for SMS either.

8. NO Handwriting Recognition
It would have been nice to have handwriting recognition for Apple iPad. Emphasis has been on artists and students, both would have loved the handwriting recognition in iPad but …

9. NO Fit
I have an iPhone and a Laptop, why should I buy an iPad? Is there a single reason for spending $500+ on that “revolutionary” device?

10. An E-Book Reader for $500
So, iBook seems to be the good reason to buy an iPad. But for whopping $500, why shouldn’t you rather go for Amazon Kindle then.

Apple iPad seems to be just another iPod, the bigger one that can’t multitask, doesn’t support flash, have no room for expandable memory, doesn’t let you attach your devices to it and list goes on. All this comes with an “unbelievable” price of minimum $500, doesn’t sound like a good deal.
I am not going for it…

Courtesy: comments, views from a lot of tech bloggers.

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