C'mon photo stealers ... take one from me !

C'mon photo stealers ... take one from me !, originally uploaded by Intrudēr.

Thousands of photos are stolen every day used here and there without permission .. most of them caught many of them goes unnoticed...

everytime i hear a news i just pray oh god .. let one of my pic be there in the list today ...

and the day never came ...

Why dont u guys steal photos from me .. am I that bad in photography??

Recently one Facebook community stole hell a lot of pics to make a video. It Incuded some 66 pics from one of my friend who is a pro ..

When we questioned them about the intellectual rights, they just banned us .. ye .. i was banned .. tat too for asking why did u ban the guys who stood with photographers ??

I wish i could take some action against those guys .. i am helpless coz none of my pics were in the video which had some 200 pics !!!!

:(

anyway .. next time someone steals a pic from mine .. please let me know ..i ll send u some gift !!!


Thank you !
:)

About the photo : Taken at Jew Street, Fort Kochi .. a collection of postcards for sale in street ... just check it . may have some of ur pics in it .. even it doesnt have any from me !!!!

god ! why dont they steal from me

How to see thumbails in windows for Camera Raw images

Microsoft has released Camera Image Raw thumbnailer which will enable your computer to show thumbails of Camera RAW images including that of Nikon and Canon Cameras.

Can get this from Microsoft website

Most Essential Firefox Addons

I tried to find a useful tool so can manage my firefox addons next time i happened to Reinstall my system or set it up freshly on a new machine... something similar to what the Foxmarks can do to your bookmarks.

Till some halo heads develop it for lazy guys like me, I thought I will keep this blog so I can come here back and install it .. all from one page !

Ok Here is Mozilla Firefox to install

These are my list of Favourite Addons



1. Foxmarks : Manage and synchronise your bookmarks effortlessly. Get it here
2. AdBlockPlus : these nasty Ads may bring in Trojans and viruses too. Block all Ads
3. BetterFlickr : I spend lot of time in Flickr so I need this :)
4. ColourZilla: Helpful to pick up colours from the webpage. Very useful for web designer . Get it here
5. Download Statusbar : This is cool stuff, You dont need Ctrl+J to know how ur download is progressing. Get it here
6. FireFTP: Cool FTP program that acn run from firefox itself. 99% working for me ..get it here
7. FireShot: screen capture addon. Capture add text and markings upload or email .. One of the most useful stuff ! Download
8. FoxClocks: Get world timing. sits on status bar . Get it here
9. Web Developer: Check where ur DIVs have gone wrong! Download from here
10. GreaseMonkey: No Monkey Business here

There are lot more stuff which can help you enable mail clients to music programs, Grease Monkey, Skype, Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight, SeoQuake, .NET , JAVA, stuff that you need to get later

Better Keep firefox light and dont add unnecesary stuff

ever seen a Md. Rafi Live show?

For those who love Hindi music.. there would be nothing as sweet as listening to Md. Rafi. To hear him in a live concert was one of the greatest thing that can happen for a fan. Unfortunately very less of us got the chance.
But we are thankful that there is youtube and there are some gentlemen out there who can put some of these great moments

so here are some of those moments :

MOHD RAFI LIVE SPECIAL RECORDING Madhuban mein radhika


O Duniya Ke Rakwale- Mohd Rafi live singing



mohd RAFI LIVE Man Tadpat Hari Darshan ko Aaj


Mohammed Rafi - live video - Baharon phool barsao


SUHAANI RAAT DHAL JUKI mohd rafi special recording LIVE


Mohd Rafi Live Show - Badan Pe Sitaare


Enjoy!

India unwired

Sometime ago while doing a Material for Aruba networks, I wondered if those kinds of things would ever reach our streets in India. A world where you can be check your mail on your system from a remote bus stop in an area which rarely had a vehicle on road !
But this has happened now, within one year.
Things are happening so fast that you can't know what world you will wake upto.

I was able to check my email, reply and forward stuffs through by mobile phone, login to cric-info for the latest cricket updates. Thanks a lot to Opera. Its was much like getting back to your old pals.

After Getting Addicted to Firefox, and having to carry IE as a burden, using a 3rd Browser was very difficult. I had to Quit using Opera. My pet browser which is still the fastest. It so painful to Uninstall it that I havn't dared to.

After Installing Mobile version of Opera, it was real browsing freedom.
The Gmail Mobile Stuff was buggy. I couldn't connect to my mail with it in My Sony Ericsson K300i. Always showed Java Exception errors. And the default browser in phone was too young to handle Gmail.

With Opera, I won my freedom. I'm grateful for Ranjit for his suggestion at apt time. I never thought that My phone was so smart to handle it. May be Opera is smarter, and Google has a challenge ahead.

And not to forget Hutch which gave the network coverage.

If you think browsing in the small screen of mobile is not fun, Get your laptop online on Reliance or Tata Indicomm Card. These guys are providing network card that you can connect to the Firewire port on your laptop and get connectivity anytime anywhere where there is mobile Network. And you needn't worry about the network coverage For Reliance mobile anywhere in India.

So if you are visiting India get a Hutch connection on your mobile as soon as you get here, and activate ur GPRS. BSNL is not bad, but I wont recommend it.

And If u have a Laptop, The Network card comes in cheaply at Reliance offices which are spread across the country in almost all streets and even under the trees on footpath !

some info on the wireless card

Note : it seems like an ad, and i swear I'm not paid for this! :D

Offline messages on Gtalk !

Google talk finally has offline messages !
i dont know why it took them so long for that

Just type to ur offline friends
they ill get at the next login.
similar to yahoo.
and with the advantage that this one will have it in ur mailbox too in hte chats section if u have enabled it.

I had lost some offlines of yahoo since i hadnt enabled hte archiving and messener crash/windows carash those occured sometimes durng hte startup of system.

its better coz they are archived in hte mailbox . safe and quiet.

"Better late than never".

This is where I had been all time

Where have I been all htese time ??
I was :
Planting Bomb at A !
Fire in the hole !
Enemy sighted !

yes i was on Counter strike !

CS - Cs1.6 - cz - cs:s - hamachi - all these had been the manthra these days.

I liked the new version of counter strike Coutner Strike: Source for its great graphics. But the gameplay has been a bit dull with hte bots. The bots appear to be rather weak and less competent when compared with the bots of the previous version. But to play it over lan is a different story, its a kind of no where to hide situation when the crate over which you take cover get broken into shreads by enemy fire and you get exposed.

The rolling of the oil barrels and hte bomb explosion has been fantastic. After all CS is made for LAN. And online too, yes if u have a very hifi new connection. if you have a 128kbps connection as wat i have better use your good old Coutner strike 1.6 or Condition zero, because the online performance of the Source is pretty pathetic when you have more than 2 players over a 128kbps connection.

The Firing accuracy has been updated and hence the guns are pretty sharp too. So More headsot and les time for every round. that makes hte game more tough. Real tough.

So I am still there and ill be ther for a long time.
Watch out the intruder dressed in Gurrella warfare
see you there.

Finally, something useful about Orkut

I had joined Orkut long time back, just because it was from Google.

You should always be in touch and updated with wat those guys do at Google. They are the current trend setters. No doubt about that.

But i never used it because i was not used to the community networks, i never believed in hi5 or somthing else. My view about them was always of spammers waiting to get a truckload of new email addresses.

It was later when someone else (sorry i wish i could name him/her , but for my memory :( )did some scrappy work, i rose to it. After that it was great fun. Lots of friends whom i knew, lots of them new .. strangers.. the forum stuff and everything.

it was so involving that i dint know i wasted one full week on it. And then I realised that I would waste my entire life there.

So I stopped: Paused, rather, it was later in short bursts that i visited Orkut.

Today something strange happened. One of my old friend came out of no where in my messenger window. we havnt met for last 9 yrs or so. She was lot of questions and thankfully i could answer most of them !

I went to her profile and added her as my fiend searched for her short friendslist and found another one !

The one i had lost a long before (11 yrs ago i suppose), my childhood friend, with whom i used to play in my schooldays and which i believed could have happened only though orkut. I always believed that i would get in touch with her once one day, honge kaamyaab ek din . My eyes had wandered everywhere when i was in Calcutta , everytime i went out, so that one day we will meet again.

Thanks to Orkut.
now i feel Nothing has been so useful to find lost buddies !
So happy today , a dream come true.

What celebrity do you look like ?

I saw this thru m.a.x's link in flickr.

It was amazed how it brings up hte result.
and i tired out mine






and it came out Orlando bloom and sania mirza .. !!
they look like me ?
i guess it doesnt need any algorithms and combinations to make such results.
just random will be better. :)
Anyway its a good start. may be the family stuff works better.

check it urself at http://www.myheritage.com/

Good

Gtalk - Know where to hide ! ? ! ? !!

Google is known for making thigs easyand simple.
But one thing i have to say about hteir messenger.
Gtalk was designed for voice chat may be.
But with no hiding feature , you are absolutely in NOWHERE TO RUN - NOWHERE TO HIDE situation.
Just cant hide. Everytime u acces ur gmail, everyone knows you are online.

At times you really need to hide. the way out: logout of Gmail.
C'mon, talk about somthing practical !
:)

Foxed at Box.net

Ugly ! Ugly ! really waste . useless...

I was cheated.
Box.net , Free sign up says you can store upto 1 gb free . heh.


The site looks glorious in a design that seems " more user friendly " as its a replica of Windows XP interface, and even better text boxes armed with beautiful images that are toggled on focus to get the real OS effect, Boy its great work.


heh !

. And they give you an applet seems a 3rd pary that supports drag and drop.What do you need more !


heh!

With beautiful looking folders (pre-cooked stuff available named Videos, Songs) , all you need to do is just login , click drang and drop (wait a few minutes for applet to load ) and just upload ..... so easy right ?

Splendid.

heh!

Wonder why i keep repeating the heh ???

I was eager to see the performance that i put a 35 mb file into the applet,which was waiting as a puppy for its Breakfast. And it came the applet java window that either they forgot to modify , or just couldnt due to some 3rd party license issue.

NO probs, i can manage with that, forget it... that seems no issue
I waited for long to get the file uploaded, may be my ISP porblem or my connection was slow. not their fault.

After 100% upload completion ,

it showed



You should register to premium account to upload larger files !

Why dont they show it first ? i lost my band width , will they pay for it ?
thank god i dint try 1 gb file . Is that mentioned anywhere before ?

Idiots. who ? me !
Never take ANYTHING by charm.

Get rid of Click to Activate this ActiveX control in Internet Explorer

Finally, some hope. But not a real solution.
Microsoft provides its patch to update a problem caused by its automatic update in April, which caused activeX controls and applets to be clicked on to activate it.
Due to this u need a click to activate ur menu in the website or the embedded media player.

To fix this MS has release a patch available at MIcrosoft webpage. And they mean to ask ur clients to download and install this, everytime they complain abt it. !

Wish u all the best.
Easy solution ! eh !

Ganapathy Artwork

Just showcasing my new Artwork done in Adobe Photoshop.
Wait for " How to do it" section.

Im a bit busy now :P

more of these u can find here : www.mohanraj.net/works.html

A step too far....

This was when some day before christmas this year. I tried on a new stuff. My goal was to send a new greeting card I did in Flash 8 to my friends. Last time I had sent them some images with my name hardcoded and got few requests, to remove my name from it so that they could forward it. So I had my idea so that anyone could reuse it.This time i wanted to implement this in my flash card.

So good of me, the Saint Intruder ?? Not really , that is just a marketing tool. I just want some publicity to my website. nothing I would gain from it though, but I love getting new visitors from places far and even mail :)

As ActiveX is not supported in email, it was virtualy impossible. But I broke through with help fo the HTML forms. I added a new page to my site www.mohanraj.net/greetings where I had an input form. You can enter your mail ID and your friends ID name and all stuff there, and it sends a mail to your friend with a 'click here to view your card'. This was not the one I wanted. Ideally I wanted my card there. The flashy one. BUt there was no way before me as flash was not loaded in email. This may be due to the security issues.


When your friend clicks in the link in email, it takes them to the greetings display page in my website (done in ASP)which also recieves the info about you and your friend to whom you have sent it. That is displayed in the greeting card.

Then you have a greeting card sent from your mail ID to you friends, where you have his/her and yours name dancing its ... so beautifully engraved.

oh... what a nice story. But this was not the thing that happened in hte real world.
I had a few mistakes from My part. May be I went too far adead of time to implement the Flash 8 based greeting card.

Problem no 1
I made use of all the filters and effects in flash 8. With the beautiful dropshadow and glow effects that are in no way visible , except in flash player 8, people without it would see just a blan red rectangle ! If I had published for flash player 7 or lower, they would have atleast seen their name and the greetings wordings !

And to add to that, it will take some time to load

Problem no 2
I made use of the form tags in hte HTML email I sent. If the user had seen it through an email client like MS Outlook or Outlook Epress or Mozilla Thunderbird,they wont be able to see the name from whom they had recieved the card. But those are present in the mail.

And more funny thing is , if they had disabled HTML mail or viewed the email in plain text mode, they could never see that! the mail looks like this :

Hello John Smith


Please do ensure that you have Macromedia Flash Player 8 installed! You
can get it from www.macromedia.com/go/getflash

- Mohan


Had I placed some alt text for the click ehre image, it would have been sensible!

Problem no 3
I had set the mail settings so that the email is recieved from hte sender directly, say you@yahoo.com send the mail to me@hotmail.com , the mail will be send as such. But it is using a mail server thats not from Yahoo.com !. So wat ? the mail will be treated as Junk by some, others like rediffmail, just ont accept it. As a result you cant send the mail to your friend@rediffmail.com. and your friend@yahoo.com will see the message, if he has a habit of seeing what all are there in the junkbox before he deletes it !


So there is still a long way to go to implement my version of flash card.
Is there anything to be taken as a Plus point in this ?
I dont feel so.

My sincere appologies to all of you whom i sent this.
Forgive me :D

Lets hope things will get beter by the New yr. Watch for it.

I promise

- No flash8
- No plain text email
- No mail server problem

for the new year edition

Launched !

Its done !

Check THIS out

Beta released

Hey, my website beta was released on the Diwali day !

The Onam release had to be postponded to Diwali release! I'm glad that I could host even beta now. The existing is beta2 at

www.mohanraj.net/beta

I have already made the changes from beta1 and uploaded to my new serverspace.

The domain redirection stuff will take 24 hrs. It has already been more than 12 hrs. now. THe Count down has already begun.

Please Note : hte asp support page on Beta will not work since its still on the linux server. All criticisms welcome. ;) This is a special previledge to those who accidentally fell into this page. :)

The earth is being shot at ! Now you are in the firing range. where ever you be.

This is my vision on Google Earth.
Lots of controvorsies. Its good or bad or ugly, doesnt matter. you can never stop technology. See the case of comupters, the mobile phones, cable TV, all were the same. Google this time brings another version of this.

The massiveness of our Earth was nothing that you have ever thought of, if you might have thought it then too, I'm sure you will realise it only when you see GE.

I spent a lot of time 'browsing the earth'. Navigation, as always with Google was so easy. And with the complete information avaialable, as presently in any state of US, Best thing I found was you just need hte address to find out the place. Just imagine how easy it would be when you are planning a trip to a place for the first itme. You can pin point the shops , can plan your stay, even show the cabbies the shortest way!. Thats ewhere it is going to reach.

Its really necessary when u are in some cities like Chennai, where the autowallas will take you round and again.

And if you dont have the address, go through the streets and find it out yourself ! :)

The Negetives : Terror attack. But I dont think banning GE will help this. You can get a good map, well enough for you to make a plan, and of course you are assumed to know your own targets for such an attack.

I dont think anything like that will be able to stop Google. Afterall we are familiar with their marketing skills. And those who oppose this move are all politicians.

F.E.A.R. fully Loaded

Wow !

That was the first impression.

Although it took a fair amount of time to load on my Athlon 2100, with 512 DDR and 128MB Radeon 9200 SE machine, The output was really worth the wait.
It could load only to medium level, but boy its really amazing , the quality of texture is wonderful.

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That was the second expression.

The little thing really wrecks ur nerve, yeh.. u call it a GIRL !.. its a monster !
well, I havnt been frightened by any monster in My PC like this. May be some creatures in Halflife had similar effect. but this is realy different.. a situation in which a soldier is made to fear by a little girl !

The most unforgettable experience was the occasion when I was on the Ladder, and there she stood in front of me. I skidded along to reach fast below so that I could arm with the best one I had, I looked up to see her vanish ... and the next frame I saw it just besides me.. that was a terrible effect. It was so effective tha it took my brother away from the system. Poor guy had stopped playing when he heard a window pane crashing. :)

The AI is great. HTe enemy soldiers look more real when they smashed the objects on the way.. hiding behind the tables. But one thing was missing - they came from hte same place, no matter how many tiem u replay. So the replayability of hte game is very poor. That was the only thing make me feel that SWAT is a lot more COST EFFECTIVE. U get bored even with EAs 15 Season FIFA 2005 !

And, as always, these HI-Fi games come as bulkier on Disk as it is on Processor. The Demo took lesser time to complete than to Install. They could have included much more in the mission with all hte files alerady loaded.. Imagine u dont have a DVD drive and have to install the game from around 6 CD's.

May be i can conclude here . the game can be given 4.5 stars outta 5.
I'll take the 0.5 for the replayability.
moreon fear visit : www.whatisfear.com

Rediscovering Opera

Yes.. the Old lady singing.

If u said that, i will kill you. Its Opera .. the Fastest Browser, that i am taking about.

I was using Firefox for some time now. You can always feel the weight of hte browser.. the scroling make us feel as if u were pulling the heavy cart, and there was of course the delay. The time taken for rendering. I donno if my hardware has to do much about that.

Recently I came back to opera. I felt the pace.. some effect that the Guyz in the TATA Safari Ad. tried to say. It is really fast, and that is the charm of the browser. I was rediscovering somthing.

Occasionally youu may need some tables to appear or scripts to run fine. So a Switch to IE is always necessary. Still, IE Opera and Firefox, they are different . None can ever be same, and Ever be an Opera.

Google TALK

FAST - thats wat it is.

strange thing ! i just can't say when i found this. i was really stunned.

1. I kept it open .. the Talk stuff..
2. typed TH .. to invite a friend of mine in the search window. The search window has the typical google dropdown of ur addresslist. The gmail account wasn't there.

3. I did ALT TAB where the Firefox had the gmail opened. i went to Contacts and added the gmail address there.

4. Again pressed ALT tab.

5. Clicked on search. Typed T... H.. and there came the name ! in the window.
the time may be 2 sec. max the data was retrevied !!!

is ther anything faster online ???
i cant say can u ??