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Unamed Poem.. written in Class 11.. I guess

She walked into my life like rains in hot summer, brought spring in mid of the cold winters. Days got lot cooler, nights became lot warmer. All i felt was pleasure in my heart, which melt like a cheese. Is this magical thing called love? If yes, I love love. Until one day, she walked out without any warning, like Tsunami taking everything away with her. Leaving my heart in pain, leaving lonely and distressed. Is this what you call love?If yes, God save me from love. --found it while cleaning my room..

Eclipse not able to Update/Install new softwares.

This is one problem which I have been trying to solve for a real long time with my Eclipse 3.5 Galileo. The problem was that I was not able to connect to the network to get the repository for the plugins. For long I have been doing the manual install of the plugins but it does not always works out. Like when I wanted GWT Designer plugin, I was unable to find the .zip file for the same. So, the solution: 1) First go to Windows->Preferences->Update/Install sites and for one of the sites click the Test Connection tab on the right. 2)If it takes long and does not connect to the repos site, that means there is something wrong with your eclipse setting or the the test site. Here, we assume that there is something wrong with your eclipse settings and try to retify it. 3)There must be a proxy server which your company must be enabling, so u need to give proxy data with Manual mode in Windows->Preferences->General->Network. Give it for all 3, HTTP,HTTPS and SOCK. 4)Again, go to s

How to use Rupee Font.

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Government has done its part ….. Now it is our turn to make it a success. New Rupee Symbol of Indian - How to use in Computers? Download the attached font. --> save to "fonts" folder of your PC : Location : C:/Windows/Fonts and then go to the C:/Windows/Fonts location and install(double clck) Open your word processor and select the "Rupee_forindian ” . Just select "Rupee" font from the drop down list of your fonts in your application and press the key just above your tab button. It will display the new rupee symbol of India. Try it. It also work with open office in linux(ubuntu)... just download it n click on it.... Download Rupee Font here

Tab browsing in Micromax Q7 EZPAD

Recently i got a new Micromax Q7 EZPAD Phone and found lots of bug with the inbuilt Opera browser and found it irritating... so what i did was to upgrade it to a new Opera Mini 5.1 which supported Tabbed browsing an very cool interface. It was a lil slower but much better then inbuilt Opera which came. To install it just point ur browser to http://m.opera.com and install the jar files. Its working fine for me till now. Just only problem which I saw ws the sensitivity of trackball. If you move the ball slowly then it responds well. If you move it very fast then the browser slows down. But like PC we always want to have more then one browser on our phone. So i found another cool browser after lots of searching. This one is called UC Mobile. To download just click the link here from your phone browser. I have installed many other softwares which are good and would share about them in upcoming posts.

A life in a Day: Youtube Movie

I usually don't write much here, but recently when I came across the movie by Amit Agarwal for a life in a day, Youtube project, I was not able to stop myself. It was mainly due to few reasons, one being that it was his blog, Digital Inspiration that inspired me to blogging. So would like all of you to watch this one first: Now, what is this Life in a Day project . Its an initiative by Youtube to gather all the videos generated by users on and around July 24th and make a full feature length documentary film from it. One can get more infomation about it here. What makes this project so inspiring? The experiment is to do with User Generated Content and it reaffirms my belief that future lies in User Generated Content. Does that mean production houses who roll out so much money to produce such content would go Bankrupt!! Obviously no!! They would need huge server space and intelligent softwares to figure out the type of Content people would like and it would be hosted on their serv

Converting an image to Statue/Stonify using Gimp!

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Here's a tutorial on how to turn a person into stone using GIMP. This cool effect lets you create a statue out of any person's photograph. It's not as daunting as it may seem. Try it out and let your creativity flow. How to Turn a Person into Stone Yeah, you can now petrify anybody you like, and it won't take you more than an hour to do so! Learn how to turn an image of a person to s tatue with this simple GIMP tutorial. Because this tutorial uses GIMP, you need to have either the Windows or the Linux version of GIMP installed. I did this using v2.3, though I guess the basic steps would remain the same irrespective of the version you have installed. Step 1: Choosing the Image It's not that easy to convert every possible image using this method. The best images are portraits with consistent background. If you don't have such an image, you can try removing distracting elements from the background and then apply this technique for the statue effect. The above imag

Rain!!

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Walking in the rain, to free my soul of all pain. Tears roll down, with smile on my face... Was it you who inflicted this pain, Or its my fate that defunct my brain. Thoughts, remembrance, whatever you might say.. Have made my body numb... Or is it the chilly rain water that had its way. Honking of the cars, abuses from rick drivers.. I hear nothing as I walk down the memory lane... Waking in the rain to free my soul of all pain...

How to selectively change colour of an object in GIMP?

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A very useful skill in Photo manipulation is the ability to selectively alter an area. If you can selectively colour an area you can use the same technique to apply a whole range of effects to very precise aspects of your pictures. Here we are going to use the Path tool to create a very precise selection and then use this to demonstrate how we can change particular aspects of an image using these selections. In this particular instance we will be changing the colour of an object, but the selection of precise objects is a very important skill to have when you are editing pictures; and the better you get at it the better you will be able to change photographs in more elaborate projects. Here we are going to colour the hydrant and leave the chains the original colour, using the Path and Layer Mask tools. Step 1 Duplicate the background layer and rename it ‘Hydrant’ or something similar. Now, zoom in very close to the image, I’m going in to about 200% here, and select the Path tool (press

How to do intelligent edge detected select in GIMP?

Following steps are useful to define edge detection using GIMP. Use scissor tool(i)  Continuously  click on the the edges. At the end click on the starting point.  Then finally click inside the perimeter to convert ur points into selection.  And you are done. TIP: You can invert your selection using the Select->Invert.

How to make cartoons Using Gimp?

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I am starting a new tutorials as i plan to learn gimp myself.. will share with u guys what i learn.... Today, let me talk about how to make cartoons or cartoonize an image using gimp... Layer->Duplicate LayerSelect the new layer, Filters->Edge-Detect->Edge, select Sobel, Amount should be 2.0, and Black should be checked.Invert the edge-mask layer, it’s in Layers->Colors->InvertBack in the Layers Dialog, change the Layer Mode to DividePlay around with Layer mode settings, desaturate the top layer, blur or otherwise mess up the bottom layer I did multiply for Overlay and Divide for bottom layer...

Untitled poem

Living on a hope, Hanging by a rope. My life is full of dope. Oh! God give me strength to cope. Oh!! God?? Does God exists or its another big hope.. Its something which i would have to miss, else my life is another big piss. Death is my last wish.

Joomla Module JTweetSearch.

I recently created a Joomla Module to search Twitter for a particular configurable query and display all the results of the matching query but without tweets having any link on them. The module is available on the link http://biplav.saraf.googlepages.com/mod_jtweetsearch.zip Its easy to install. And uses Jquery to give a nice fade and sliding effect. The demo of this module can be seen on http://www.vtunews.in . with the module on the right named VTU Tweets. This is just the version 1.0 of the module. Incase you find any bugs please report. Feature enhancement request can also be reported on the comment section of this blog. so happy tweeting or i can be reached on twitter @biplavs