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3 idiots...hmm, by the time you are reading this, you may have watched this fantastic movie. Did you said... No ?? OMG, stop reading this and book a ticket now !!

Above must have made it clear that "3 idiots" is another blockbuster of this year, or decade !! Well, the story is about three students, though Amir (44) was really not looking anywhere to 20s but played the character of Rancho, or Ranchoddas shyamaldas jhanjhad (the humor starts from the name itself), Sharman (raju rastogi) and Madhvan (Farhan) of ICE, Imperial College of Engineering -(hmm...my college name resembles it). As we all know its an adaptation of FPS of Chetan bhagat (not a copy of it), the story is about the life in the elite engg. college like IIT and the immense pressure of parents, society to be a successful, good earning engineer.

The story revolves around these three friends aka Idiots. Where Raju and Farhan joined college to be a part of this education system and with the aim of getting a degree which can in turn give them big bucks, Rancho believed in getting the knowledge and learning from fun. He obviously can't fit into an Indian classroom, where all you have to do is mug up, to rise up. As the movie includes campus, a danger Director of college-Virus (Boman Irani) oops sorry sir, Mr. Viru Sahastrabuddhe & friends the fun and laugh ride is sure. Another character which needs a definite mention is (no no i am not talking about kareena), its Chatur (Omi) - 'Silencer'. His speech (remember 'chamatkari') and other scenes like the ragging signature made the three hours a laugh riot. And yes, the love masala was really apt in the movie and i really liked the role of kareena -short and apt. The serious and emotional moments and issues were all well fitted the scene and the screenplay deserves a hats off.

Such a serious issue of our Education system was really well criticized along with a great humor. The film is actually a fairly serious take on a cruel examination system that gets passed off for an education system in this country. Not surprising, this rote-learning, cramming and to just pass the exam, (as prof said "book me yahi definition hai, yahi likhoge to pass hoge") even from India’s best institutions, produces more a bureaucracy to serve the corporate and banking sector, than any original thinkers who could pick up a Nobel prize for an invention. But as all iz well, in the end.

Super packed performances could be useless, if there is no script. The core of the movie was script and Raju Hirani (along with Abhijat Joshi) has done a fabulous job. Raju Hirani is continuing to be a good film maker and proving Bollywood is no more leaner than Hollywood. Three cheers to him. Music moves well along with movie and "Behti hawa sa tha vo" as theme was a good choice, but my favourite : Give me some sunshine... Perfect performances by everyone, gr8 script, dialogues, cinematography, story presentation with an awesome blend of humor, emotions, morals, music, romance (a lil bit but in apt quantity), and a message to India's education System.

A must must must watch for everyone...do watch this as soon as u can !! I request Mr. Hirani if he could screen this movie for free after a month or so for Teachers n professors, so that they should watch this and the message must be forwarded to them !!!

All iz well !!

MyRatings : 4.5 / 5

P.S : Leave your review n ratings with the favorite dialogue/scene of the movie. Its always good to share !!!

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This post is dedicated to Sachin Tendulkar and his new landmark of 17000 runs in ODI cricket. If someone who don't follow Cricket here in India, also know Sachin very well. The man who made Cricket a religion in India and unites the whole nation, is definitely their God. Yes, this is what said about Sachin Tendulkar and i can proudly say, Cricket is my religion and Sachin is my God !!

05th November 2009, the day when a batsman serving Cricket for over 19 years was playing his 435th ODI match against Australia in Hyderabad, India makes another world record. It may be not a big thing for that man, but definitely for his fan and followers. This man was Sachin Tendulkar who now holds the world record of scoring over 17000 runs in ODI cricket. 17168 runs are now in his account and everyone hopes that when he will retire, i am sure after 3-4 years, has over 20000 runs. Well, we can hope this as this is start of the season and he is just 832 runs behind his 18000 ODI runs mark.

When he made his debut in 1989 (18th Dec 89), he scored a duck, yes a duck now holds the world record of highest total runs in ODI. What a character and a truly cricketer who knows to handle the situation as the team demands. Although the match against Australia in which he made this record was lost by India by a margin of only 3 runs.

In reply to Australia's a biggie 350 runs (for 4 wickets) India all out at 347. Its never easy to chase such a big total on any kind of pitch but every Indian was hoping that we will make it and the Indian audience glued to TV when Sachin started to make this happen. Masterstroke innings of 175 runs of just 141 balls with 19 fours and 4 sixes from the Little master helped India to reach near to the target. At once till Sachin was at the crease the run rate required was low than the current run rate. But the one man show and a poor performance from the rest of the 10 players can't help out India to bag this match. Anyways, he get the well deserved MOM.

The impact of Sachin's innings was so strong that Twitter, which has countable Indians noticed Sachin as the Trending Topic at 3rd place and that's in just in an hour. Some of the comments that is really noticeable about Sachin's innings and this match includes :

"when Sachin retires, the world will no long follow the AD/BC system for denoting years. It will be AS & BS (After Sachin/Before Sachin). "

"Commit all your sins while Sachin is batting, because even God is busy watching him."

"Team India lost to Australia and Australia lost to one man, Sachin."

"Sachin led the team to the door of victory but the rest of 10 players forgot to bring the key"

There are a lots of comments of sachin's praise and his heroic performance. The whole nation is saluting him and so I.

He is definitely the the shiniest jewel of India and i hope he will give chances to his fans and me to praise him with such post. Final words "Sachin is God" !!!

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Here is the First Day First Show Review of Latest bolly flick "London Dreams" released on 30th oct,2009. The show was house full as people believed that this movie has something. And yeah, they all were right !!

The movie is all about story of two friends, Arjun (Ajay Devgan) and Manu (Salman Khan) and their musical journey full of friendship tadka. The script of the movie is really fast and things happen within a song and so. The two friends, initially in punjab, separated as Manu moves to London. While Manu (sallu) is in punjab and having a life full of fun and masti (the gr8 part of the movie) Arjun is all set for his ambition of being the greatest popstar just like Mai -ka-Lal-Jai-Kishan errr Michael Jackson (as said in a dialogue). Then after some stage performances and good songs, Arjun brings Manu to London to join his band. Oh band, yeah comprise of VJ aditya and Ranvijay and Priya (Asin ,just for a face).

The movie goes on with Rock performances but the bolly-twist/turn is Manu starts overshadowing Arjun and now Arjun feels envious of him. Now the whole movie is paced about Arjun's jealously and how their friendship turned on again.

The movie is really good, the music smoothly goes on with movie. Salman is the heart of movie, certainly his comic timing is getting better in this movie with a bindass andaz. At the same time, Ajay has proved him once again that he can fit in any type of role. Asin has done her part fabulously. You'll definitely like the songs of the movie if you haven't earlier. I heard this from a lots of other people, so the music is really foot-tapping at times. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's music really make the pace of the movie. Director Vipul Shah has done a fantastic job after Namastey London and you'll notice some good camera work and screenplay too.

Now some floppy things about the movie, one is its unrealistic pace. Shah has tried to put everything in this two and a half hour long movie so you need to assume few things. Like their friendship still remains same after so long and the stadium packed with people really dont look realistic. The climax is over-stretched and the climax concert number is not up to the mark just like the earlier songs.

I got to know that this is inspired by an Oscar winning "Amadeus", and you may be not very attracted by Critics harsh comments but who cares about them?? This might you bring on memories of Rock On. So got and watch this one, thumbs up from me. Its definitely a watchable movie !!! A real fun and a complete bolly flick with every masala. [:P]

MyRating : 3.5/5

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This post is for the people who were using the proxy trick for Access point to run Internet/network based java applications like OperaMini, Google maps, ebuddy etc on their Nokia phones. In india, this problem was mainly faced by users of NOP , Airtel. Although, the solution to this problem was already on internet, specifying a proxy server associated with an Access point.

If you were unaware of it, go here and download the files, (for v2,3,4) be sure you first read the README file carefully. This trick is applicable to all the Nokia s40 mobile phones like Nokia 3110c, 5200, 5300, 6131, 6133, 5310 etc). Just follow the procedures and you are done.

But now, the problem arise with the new version, v5 of s40 OS of nokia phones. The above trick wont work in these phones like Nokia 5130 XM, 6300, 2700c etc. These need the individual parameters to allow the proxy settings to work. So here i am giving the solution to this problem which was initated by me and some of my friends of Digit Forum, amir.php and vista_noob.

I have made it more simple for you. Just download this (for v5) and again follow the instructions in the README file. And send the particular .prov file to your phone via bluetooth donlge or laptop. If you are doing this for the first time, i suggest you to have a look to the earlier files, old one first.

If you don't find your operator in the above file, leave your operator GPRS details in comments and I'll provide you the same. Also, leave comments if this is helpful for you and for any other queries.

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India, which is supposed to be the fastest growing/developing country of the Asia and the world. Well, apart from its economic importance worldwide the country is better known for its social n cultural diversity. Here one can see every color of life and mostly during the festive seasons.

We, here in India celebrate a lots of festivals making us happy and cheering for a good cause. When we celebrate a festival, it not only have some mythological or cultural importance, its because we tend to celebrate things with each other, with our family, with our guests, with our friends. During the daily race of being the superior, these moments cherish us and make us feel happy.

During this season, which is supposed to be the best time of year, a lots of festivals are celebrated like Navratres, dusshera, diwali, Id etc etc. Although, the whole year is full of festivities and there is a festival almost every month.

Here we do not only celebrate Id and ramzaan, Navratres too which is enough to show the unity in the diversity. During Navratres every day is full of spiritualism, worship, enjoyment. All nine days of Navratres people across the country celebrate it with different approach but with same intent. Where there is Dandia celebration in Western part (now in the whole North India), Durga puja is the biggest venture in Eastern India. At tenth day, Ravana which is the trademark, yes supposed to be the trademark of evil and bad is burnt along with his siblings. The burning is a message of victory of good over bad. Again this has a deep mythological meaning and relation but now still we celebrate it with full enjoyment and beleif.

This is all part of Colors of India, where people with full excitment and joy celebrate festivities. As soon the Dushrea will be over, the prepareness for Diwali, the most lightful festival will start.

What is recession? What is economic meltdown ? Who cares about H1N1 ? The world and the country too is highly distressed by these issues, but when its about people's faith n aastha nothing else matters. Guests, foreigners come India to see all this because they cant see all these happenings anywhere else in the world.

This is the uniteness and uniqueness of India and its people. I heartly wishes you a very happy festive season.

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OperaMini, the leader in mobile browser has just launched its next version. Opera Mini 5 beta is out now and you can download it from Opera's site.

I just had its first experience. And here is my review:

Tabbed Browsing : The first thing you'll notice is its tabbed browsing. As mobile browsing is increasing day by day with higher bandwidth speed through EDGE n 3G, a tabbed browser was indeed necessary. So good feature by Opera.

Speed : I thoroughly enjoyed surfing on this browser as the speed is really enhanced. It compresses your page by about 90% resulting faster page loading.

Password Manager : The next thing you may notice is its password manager, which is a very good feature introduced in this release. Now no more need to remember your username and password, let Opera Mini do it for you.

Scroll n zoom : Apart from viewing the mobile sites, you can switch to full version anytime and without any hassle. It has a really good point n zoom cursor. Go to a part of a page and zoom there to view. The scroller is also very nice and fast from previous versions.

Interactive Speed Dial : Just like the Speed Dial (bookmarks) in PC web browser, all Speed Dials are at the home page. So just click any one of them and go on.

Touch n Keypad : The new Opera Mini is suitable for both touch screen based mobile phones and normal screen keypad based mobile phones. So all touchscreen users now will enjoy more with this.

I really praise Opera for their new launch but one thing that i didn't liked was the new Menu which opens a new bar on top. I am more comfortable with the old menu. Although it is graphical and looks good but the menu should be at the bottom, atleast for me.

As this is the beta release so there were some features missing, like download manger, synchornisation etc. Hope the final version have all n more guddies.

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It was ONGC Nehru Cup 2009 final match played at Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi and won by India. India beat Syria by 6-5 in a thrilling penalty shoot-out to defend the cup.

Till full time both teams were at 1-1, streching the game to penalty shoot-out. And the penalty shoot out was also very much exciting as once it looked India almost captured the game by leading 3-1, but suddenly Syrian players made it 4-4. But the hero of the day, Subrata Paul, goalkeeper of indian team who showed his skills and saved the goal making the final score 6-5.

Its a very good feeling being an indian, when India win in such a game where we rank 156th worldwide and beating a 95th rank team. But its not about ranking, its about winning a game. Suddenly football also getting some fame, as the news came out of Salman Khan to be the next Brand Ambassador of Football Federation of India. He was also present in the stadium to view the live action.

Indian star Baichung Bhutia was named man of the Tournament. But i would like to point one thing, after the ceremony when the team was posing for the fianl photo, it was Indian Coach who pushed in the last row, ahead of them was the ministers and members of the federation, which is quite shameful. Neverthless, its India and these things should matter the least.

Heartiest Congratulations to the India Team. Hope they win more matches like this and make some remark till 2012.

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Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who was considered the root cause, atleast in India for the partition of India and Pakistan at the time of Independence - as taught in our schools in history, has once again re-lived by the unnecessary debate caused by Jaswant Singh's latest book on Indian partition : Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence.

We all know whats going on after the release of Jaswant's book- he was sacked from BJP, Mr. Modi banned his book in Gujrat etc etc. And over this, RSS redirected the matter to the so called "BIG" change of leadership in BJP. Daily media news coming out on this issue, and awaiting a big change in the top postitions of BJP, L.K Advani may step down from the post of Opposition leader and Rajnath too.

BJP, after the defeat in the latest Elections had almost collapsed and now the situation is that there is no strong opposition party to Congress which is not so good to Indian democracy and politics. There must be at least two major parties in country so that there will be no monopoly. Also, this whole issue is just crap, now does this really matters how much Jinnah, Gandhi or Nehru was involved. No one really cares, people care about jobs, good food and living, better education, good infrastructure, peaceful life.The time where other countries are trying to figure out the growth of the country, trying to overcome with the slowdown, we're stuck at the lower GDP and issues like this.

I am not saying that history has no importance, but it should not affect our growth. Country is seeking some good leaders now who really cares about the live people not the ones who are dead now. There should be healthy discussions on how can we fight with corruption, how we grow more, human resources. Half of the country is in the trap of Drought, and prices of basic utilities is just going high n high. They should keep track of these things not such useless issues. And I hope BJP re -evolve from the current scenario, i personally think that BJP should leave the RSS phenomena and so called their "vichardhara", then there must be a good situation for all of us.

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So, here is my review of Nokia 5130 Xpress Music.
Its the lightweight phone with awesome sound quality, having great look and low on your pockets as this is the cheapest phone available with all these features.

As, its from Nokia's XpressMusic series, there is no doubt about the sound quality and sound output and there are music dedicated keys on left side. Moreover, it has universal 3.5mm jack making it compatible with all standard headsets and can be connected to the your computer's speaker too, which is i think really fabulous. Also, it gives 21h continuous music playback time.

The phone has stereo FM radio with RDS. RDS is Radio Data System that means it gives information about the station frequency like Radio channel name, its frequency, info about current playing song. The feature, AF (alternative frequency) allows your phone to automatically switch to a (nearly) different frequency of the same channel providing more clarity than your current frequency .

This phone has 2 Megapixel camera (1600x1300 pixels) and can take videos with 15 fps. The camera quality is also enhanced with this model.

It has 240x320 pixels screen resolution with 256k colour support. It has a decent battery backup. Apart from GPRS, class 32 and EDGE, class 32 it has Opera Mini as the default web browser making your phone internet experience richer. It also supports Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP.

Now, one most important thing, it has phone memory of about 27 MB, but expandable memory is about 16 GB, yes 16 GB although there is still some conflict in that but 4GB support is guaranteed and it comes with a bundled 1GB microSD card.

Now some lags, i think, there are still some chances of improvement of bundled headsets, but with 3.5mm jack it overcome with it. Also, there is only one player for all media playback rather videos, mp3's etc...and you have to again select your music files. Initially, this might irritate you.

IMO, go buy it, the current street price is around Rs. 5.3K. With superb music features and other qualities, its going to be a great deal, and it is cheaper because it is manufactured in India rather than imported.

My Ratings : 4.5/5

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Ashes, needs no introduction to the cricket community, a war between Aus & Eng, a war between Bat & Ball, a war for nations pride for both Aus and Eng.

This year's Ashes has been so exciting, as always. In the 5 match series, its 1-1 and two test draws. So its the final for the Ashes 2009, and sheduled on 20-24 Aug 09 at the Oval, London.

We all know how exciting was this year's Ashes till now, and definitely will the last match. Both English and Aussies players are all set to fire the opponent and get their Ashes.

The first match drawn, but Punter showed that he is all set to get the trophy. This match was really a nail-biter, that last wicket of Eng made this an unforgetable end, although rain helped Eng a lot. Paul Collingwood played his part too.

The second test won by Eng, and this was a historic win as Eng won an ashes test first time at Lord's. Also, retirement announcement of Flintoff from test gathered news too. As a result he played exceptionally well and help Eng to lead by 1-0 and get the MOM.

In the third test, rain played superbly and almost washed the test and finally match was drawn.

In the fourth test, Ausssies came back strongly and allout Eng in just 33 overs with only 102 at the score board in first innings. Siddle was the hero with his 5/21 in just under 10 overs. This set the stage for Aussies to made 1-1. And they did it well by making this victory with huge margin. They won the match by an innings and 80 runs.

Now, this is the time, for both eng and aus to show up their strengths and powers. They are so exciting and so the viewers.

For me, i wish the best team win, but should be the most exciting match of the season.

Best of luck to both Aus and Eng. !!!

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Virus, worms, trojans, spywares.....etc..etc a headache for all computer users. Security is the most important concern for everyone, so programs developed to tackle with these, called Antivirus or antispyware.

These days everyone must have and actually had antivirus software installed as soon as one install windows. But most of us are using either pirated versions of Antivirus programs or outdated versions. If we legally buy any antivirus , it may cost you anything between Rs.700- Rs.2000 depending on the solutions provided by the suite and the effeciency of the program.

But you need not to worry, there are still some antivirus suites that are free and works no less than the paid programs. So, here i am going to list the three best free antivirus programs. You can install on your home computer and can update it regularly.

1. Avast Home Edition :
Avast is the first in my list, and the best of free antivirus. Avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users, non-commercial users. ALWIL Software a.s. offers avast! Home Edition free of charge, since in their opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention.

I have personally used it and its the best. It has some superb features like Web Shield, Virus chest, On boot scan which allows you to scan the system at the boot time.
For more info,features and to download click here.

2. Avira Antivir Personal:
Another superb and free antivirus software. You can try this one too, and it also has some brilliant features like a huge database to detect more than 15,000 viruses, Virus Guard feature, protection again trojans, worms and infact diallers too which eats up your internet bandwidth if your computer gets infected.

The AntiVir Personal Edition offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. The reliability of AntiVir is demonstrated in numerous comparison test and references featured in independent trade journals.

Its interface is easy and quickly adaptable, so give it a try and you can get some more info from here and directly download it from here.

3. AVG Anti-virus :
Last but not the least, perfect on this phrase is AVG anti-virus which is the first choice for most of the users. It is the most popular free antivirus program and its Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements).

It also has some unique features making it widely used antivirus program like AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, The AVG On-Demand Scanner.

I personally like its Virus vault feature very much, as being a free antivirus sometimes it is not able to disinfect/delete a virus, it moves that to the Virus vault, which is very effective. So, go and download it from here or get some more info from here.

There is a coincidence that the name of these three antivirus begins with letter 'A'.

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I am writing this post after watching Saina's current match of WBC (World Badminton Championship) going on in Hyderabad. The match was really very exciting and one should watch these sports too other than Cricket, although i am a big fan of Cricket.

Saina Nehwal, seeded No.6 in this tournament beat Petya of Bulgaria in a thrilling match. She lost first game to Petya by 18-21. But Saina came back strongly and won the last two game by 21-18 and 21-10 resp.

Saina(20) lost first game as she did some mistakes as she told to media. But the second game was really nail-biting for her fans and her coach P.Gopichand. Saina managed a lead of 18-10, but the bulgarian contender fought back brilliantly and made it to 18-18. But Saina kept her cool and won the game by 21-18.

The third game was quite easy for Saina but there were some long hiccups-n-samshes and outs and she managed the lead and won the game and the match. It was a perfect match, although a very few people watched this match on TV but i must say along with Cricket we must give some response to the other games, after all these are played in Olympics.

Now, Saina will take on second seed Chinese Ling Wang in the quarterfinal on Friday and i bet this would be the tougher one than today and so exciting. Indian mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju, 8th seed pair also entered into quarterfinals.

Watch the Live Telecast of the match on DD-sports. The DD-sports concerned people should include more cameras and new technology so that people watching this have gr8 experience, this is the difference between a Govt supported channel and private sports channel. But go on and cheer for her.
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In continuation with the previous post, here I'll tell you how to port forward for any application using Telnet, which is the second method to do so.
(This tut tested on Win XP with UT 300R2U, but i think may work on all systems.)

1. Go to run> (type) Telnet.

2. Open the host connection by providing your IP address like this: (type without quotes)
"o 192.168.1.1". This may be different for you.

3. Now this will prompt you for Login & Password. Type your one.
If you dont know, try "admin" for both login & password.
(Note: Password will remain invisible, so carefully enter your password.)

4. Now, after providing correct login detail, a menu will appear with Sr. No. You have to enter that serial no for selecting that item from menu.
Now here, we are concerned with NAT so type " 6 " . This will show NAT Menu.

5. Now, select option 1, i.e. virtual server (type 1). This will prompt Virtual Server Menu. And then select "Add " option 1.






6. Now you need to enter the details, which is quite similar like in my previous post.
Here are the details :

• Service Name : abc or xyz (anything you want)
• Protocol : tcp & udp (option 0)
• External start/end : 61000 (or any other number around 50-60,000).
• Internal start/end : same as above
• IP Address : your LAN IP address, check it from (run>cmd>ipconfig).

It may sometime take 30sec-2min to configure your IP Address, so keep patience.

7. Now check with option 3 (show) that your port no has been added or not. It should be there. Now exit from all menu and come back to the main menu.

Now save & reboot using option 12 in the main menu.
Thats it. Now enter this port no in your application like utorrent.
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