Microsoft has unveiled the prices for Zune - The Ipod killer. We might have thought that it would be an Ipod killer, but no, Its price is same as an Ipod 30GB - $ 249.99. Zune is siad to be available from Nov 14th. Surprisingly Microsoft has some accessories too..

• Zune Home A/V Pack ($ 99.99 - AV Output Cable, Dock, Wireless Remote with Lithium Battery, Sync Cable and AC Adapter)
• Zune Travel Pack ($99.99 - Dual Connect Remote, Premium Earphones, Gear Bag, Sync Cable and AC Adapter)
• Zune Car Pack ($79.99 - FM tuner with AutoSeek and Car Charger

I am waiting to see what would be the customer response after using the Zune.

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I found this below information from the following link:

Innovation Technology 2006

It says -
"According to Brazilian prosecutors and other help groups, Orkut soon became a place where networks of child pornographer's, pedophiles, racist and anti- Semitic groups could meet, chat and worse share information or photographs. In fact Thiago, the president of Safernet in Brazil has said that in 45 days of Orkuts investigation, they had identified 5,000 people that had used the internet, mainly Orkut, to share explicit photographs of sex with children. These numbers were only of that description and not including racist, neo-Nazi and other hate groups active and that Safernet had found. "

I go to bangalore to meet my freinds, they ask me to create orkut, I get mails about (f)orkut, everywhere (fu)orkut...... Its the same in Chennai. Just for the sake of people, I created an account. And know what... nobody can find me in okut. Recently, from no where, all my classmates who used to hate every other person in the class, started talking about orkut and its scrap like "scrapping out" scrap them out". Everybody have made a group now, keep sending mails, go gaga about orkut. I hate Orkut, I donno why...?

Why not simply add everybody in a chat engine and start chatting, why not use a common blog, why is it famous only in India, search anybody, you will find hell a lots Indians, what the hell is wrong with these Indians. What is it to do with Orkut and Indians?.......... I go to an account by name Linux in orkut, It was created by some american or european nationals and was used by them. But now, you can see all Indians and only Indians, posting about free e books, some softwares, some non-sense... which can be available through simple google search. I hate orkut, I donno why...?

I have seen that many of the dumbest people using orkut. People who are busy never use orkut. Many of my colleagues in office, never care about orkut, they are so busy with their freinds, family, job, Movies, Cricket, Football, emails, chatting and more, that they dont dont even think about orkut. and employees who dont have bloody work, who dont watch movies, who dont have women or girls (or boys ;-) to f*ck around with, keep searching in orkut for some faces. I hate orkut, I donno why.......?

I guess I know why poeple like orkut so much... As I have seen, Orkut is famous along IT industry employees, and only them, nobody else... not even students.. I dont see much students in Orkut or using orkut. I think these are the people who may be in benches, or lazy, or cant do their job, are just using orkut and "scrapping out" on other's orkuts. I know why the hell I hate orkut.

I have to sleep now, had been very busy today...... oh yeah.. I hate orkut, and I will never login again in orkut.

I was watching Shawshank redemption while posting all these, I like that movie a lot. Anyway, the reason for posting this is that, to show you the way i use my Ipod on my desktop. I just dont use my Ipod for listening to songs while traveling, but I also use it on my desktop as a movie player for my small TV that you can see in the picture. People usually ask me everytime "why did you need an Ipod?", I really dont understand why poeple have hard time in understanding the use of an Ipod and what all it can do.

BTW, to update the songs on my Ipod, I dont use iTunes, but instead I use a Winamp plugin called ml_pod, which is very easy to use. All you ned to do is "Right Click" and select Ipod to transfer the songs that you have selected.
iTunes Sucks.. i keep loosing songs accidentally, either by me, or by my brother who uses my Ipod sometimes. So I have uninstalled iTunes both in my brothers computer and in mine. And its only ml_pod which I use now.

Above is a simple wired remote control for an Ipod. I bought this just for the sake connector, which is not available separately to purchase in India. So I blew it, to check the internal connections. No this is of not much use in as a dock connector. It should be used as a remote controller and nothing more than that. So I decided to use it to make an IR remote, instead of a docking station for Ipod. I will be doing this when I get some time to do. This thing is pretty good, uses a small microcontroller (May be a pic), 8 pin. its very simple to use and cheaper to buy.
Now a days very busy with writing up process for QA, which seems to be very tough task. So have scheduled to do this project after one month.

5 Years now, and I still remember the videos and pictures from media, I dont think anybody would ever forget those mements. Picture shows cross that was pulled out from debris at WTC, which is now a monument.
Photo surce: Flickr (somebody's)

Last weekend, when I visited Bangalore(My Hometown), there were frequant power outages, which made our emergency lights run out of battery power. So we were using candles. I just had some dice lying on the table and they looked beautyfull under candle light. So I immeadiatley grabbed my camera and shot above pictures.

While browsing the net, i came across a blog, where user tries to submit a bug to Microsoft, and then the story begins. Look here

This weekend, it was San Diego..
Maritime Museum is the famous attraction near port, and the famous ship in this Museum is "Star of India" where you can stay for a day paying 69 $. Sunset, as always beautyfull. Beaches were looking dirty. The above sunset
photo was shot in Ocean beach.
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