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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

How it would be?

How it would be if a music player application has a mini-embedded web browser (Context view)?
How it would be if such a dream music player connects through the mini browser to one of the open online lyric source and show the lyrics of the track that is being played?
How it would be if it pops up a notification automatically with the track's album art cover, track name and album name "whenever the playing track changes"?
How it would be if it shows the tablature of the song while playing the track?
How it would be if you can configure it to any of the zillion online radios and can switch the application to radio mode from player mode?
How it would be if there is an option given in the player which when you select, it connects to wikipedia to show the Album information of the playing track? Can i not read more about the album and artist of the playing track in just one click?

How it would be if there are applications called "Amarok" for KDE and another called "Exaile" for GNOME desktop already present with all these geek features? Dudes, you are wonderful ;)

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Thursday, April 09, 2009

I tweet!!

I tweet via twidge.

[metallicatony @ Dexter /home/metallicatony]$ twidge lsrecent
|kprav33n| The rain is here!
|metallicatony| Personas addon beautified my firefox! Themes for a
browser.. couldn't imagine!!
|kprav33n| 3G issues on my iPhone almost everywhere in the Bay
Area today. I had to turn off 3G to get any signal.
Battery is burning out too.
|atvelu| Web Trend Map
http://www.flickr.com/photos/formforce/3409362834/sizes/o/
|kprav33n| If I run packet capture to know more about a problem on
a host, the problem doesn't occur. If I don't, then the
problem occurs. What a fun!

[metallicatony @ Dexter /home/metallicatony]$ twidge update "@kprav33n, Skipping Gym?? Another Happy day for you! :D"

Its neat, fast and command driven! Script and play with twidge! :D

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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Favorite Movies

These are some of my favorite movies and the scenes that i liked the most. The list below is not in any order :)

The Good, the bad, the Ugly - Sergio Leone
The intro of Ugly and bad without any dialogues was wonderful. Eli Wallach's (Tuco) script, expressions and acting was unrivaled. No one could have done better than him (Joe Pesci??). Tuco running in search of Arch Stanton grave while the camera focuses just him was nicely taken. Ennio Morricone's Ecstasy of Gold soundtrack in that scene was simply superb. Metallica & SFO Symphony played cover for the same in their S&M album. Tuco's revolver buying scene, intro of the good, main theme and Mexican standoff scene were some of them that i can never forget.

Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
This is a film that changed my impression about Robert De Niro. Martin Scorsese's innovative way of filming was evident right from the first scene where RDN(Jake) shadow boxes in the boxing ring while the cast runs. Interestingly the last scene of the film also ends with RDN shadow boxing. The final fight with Sugar Ray Robinson where RDN punishes himself without fighting was excellently taken allowing me to watch RDN's reactions staying from Sugar ray's side. At the end of that fight, when RDN walks towards Sugar Ray and says "You never got me down". I liked his madness, aggressiveness and his violent attitude that was portrayed! I can never forget the scenes that showed blood dripping from the ring ropes and the wiping of wet sponges over the boxers' chest. The finest details were captured in such an elegant way. Martin Scorsese's father Charles Scorsese appears in this film. On the whole, I liked both RDN and Joe pesci's acting.

Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
The out of sequence story telling was very creative and made me to think much to order the events. The tense situation coupled with comedy while giving Adrenaline shot to Uma Thurman was the one i liked the most. The vulgar script through out the movie was simply awesome. The diner scene from Tim Roth and Amandas point of view continues with showing the cast. Later, the end of the movie again comes to the diner scene and was shown in Samuel Jackson and John Travoltas point of view in a very nice way. Connecting and relating all the scenes and characters together in the movie without any error was superb. [During the adrenaline shot scene, Travolta asks for a black marker but he will be given a red marker pen. Thats the only smallest error i found in the movie]. Samuel Jackson's cool way of handling Tim Roth in the end, his recite from bible, his outlook and his dialogues were all beyond any comparison. I loved this movie very much. Creativity was at its best.

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