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Hi all . winamp gtalk conflict solved!

2008-12-30T21:42:00.002+05:30

Hi all !

If you try to make g talk show the current playing track on winamp 5.5 and gtalks freezes its because winamp 5.5 uses some new playlist generation method. So the simple solution is as follows. Make sure you can see the full extension of system files.

To enable this select Tools->Folder Options->View (Tab) and uncheck the hide extensions for known file types and click Ok.

Then just create a new text file in "c:\program files\winamp\" and rename it to winamp.m3u.
Thats it! Now you can open winamp and gtalk and set your currently playing tracks on gtalk!

Waiting for the December season again...

2008-11-25T08:46:00.001+05:30

Just waiting for my exams to get over so i will be done with all my heavy subjects forever! well technically i have 3more subjects in the final semester but i am sure they wont be as heavy as the subjects that i have now. So i kinda have a feeling my college live itself is over with this sem. More over we will have college only 2 days a week!

Once the exams get over then i will get to attend all the carnatic concerts at Music adademy. Eagerly waiting for them to announce the tickets. Hopefully my dad doesnt ask me to do something else worthwhile rather than spending time with music! Fingers crossed!

I'm back!

2008-11-23T21:48:00.001+05:30

Hi all.
I am back after a long time. I hope i keep blogging from now. Well its december again. So i am waiting for the tickets to be issued at music academy this year also. In chennai if you want to listen to not just kutcheris but also someone into good sound well maintained halls, and i need'nt mention this but still... food! then music academy is the place for you this margazhi maasam.

Also you get to watch free kutcheri's by budding artists then you can drop by music academy every day during the season during the day times and its free till the main shows start at 4 pm.

Last year turned out to be very very boring without my kutcheri friend arjun . I am sure with him around this year is going to be super fun too!

I am new to all this kutcheri and stuff . Well this is just my 3rd year since i actually started listening to proper concerts. And i owe a lot to my friend who has been very patient in explaining all the intricasies and details about the concerts.

Looking forward for a great concert this year also.

Airtel's touchy AD!

2008-01-22T23:02:00.001+05:30

I just saw airtel's new TV AD....
Its abt two boys playing football along the line of control... I really like the theme of the song. And i heard that they got rehman to do the music for the ad! But i dont think it makes airtel any better...
What i feel is that airtel can instead concentrate in better customer support.
It takes them more than half a day for them to rectify a my broadband problem. If it takes so much time for someone like me who has pretty good knowledge on internet , computers and some basic electrical wiring , then imagine for people in big companies with less knowledge in the above mentioned areas.
And to make it worse the information put up in airtel's site is misleading. i shall write detailed information on that in my forthcoming posts...
here's the video...

My Day with Airtel

2008-01-22T22:35:00.001+05:30

Today was a very bad day for me. My airtel broadband connection suddenly stopped working. And my dad had to wake me up to call the airtel people and complaint to them. Although i was lazy and sleepy i woke up and called them and i was not very happy about the fact that i had to wait for a really long time for them to pick up the phone.And to make it worse i was not actually listening to a tring tring sound, instead i was listening to even more annoying airtel ads.
Then it took quite some time for me and the customer care executive to find out that either my splitter or my modem has to be faulty.And the person on the other end was pretty convinced that the connections was not proper.
By afternoon i got confirmed that the problem was surely not with the wired connections. Then i made a complaint about the situation again and had the airtel tech support guy come here. Only then we found out it was actually a problem with the modem.
It was 4 in the evening by the time everything was rectified.
Now the new modem, beetel 220BXI , looks exactly the same as the old beetel 220 BX except for the way the data led glows(in the new modem it glows only when the transfer actually happens.)

Just Dial Services!

2007-12-31T10:43:00.001+05:30

I still remember after about 7years how i used to find out addresses and phone numbers of what ever cinema theatres, restaurants.companies in chennai in less than a minute! Be it when we plan to go for a movie suddenly, or for reserving a table in a restaurant we plan to have dinner we always had only one number to call and find out. Yes, i am talking about just dial services .

You get phone numbers of what ever company,cinema halls,hotels,hospitals,etc in just few minutes.
To get the above mentioned inofrmation just dial 3999 9999. Its just a local call.

I believe this service is applicable for everyone in India..Atleast in big cities like chennai, bombay,calcutta,hyderabad,etc.

Until recently i thought thelephone was the only way to reach them. But only now did i realise that they also have an online portal in which one can actually search for contact numbers easily!
And thats not all! They even have this facility to send the information to your mobile or email!
They have got their own tool bar that comes in two versions , one for IE and for mozilla.

They also seem to have specific search engines for movies and dining.
For more information visit
www.justdial.com

Music Academy concert

2007-12-23T13:03:00.001+05:30

I attended Unni Krishnan's concert at the Music Academy and it was with no doubt an excellent concert. His notable renditions were from Thodi and a Ragam Thanam Pallavi in Bilahari.(If i am wrong somewhere please correct me!).

One wierd thing that i noticed today was that the crowd seemed less dense than what it was last year. And i have a lot of suggestions for music academy for which i will dedicate a separate post soon. Unni's concert got over at 6.45 sharp but i noticed that people actually left the premises at around 6.15 to 6.30 during the thani avarthanam . It was so rude that people actually leave in the middle of the concert. When will people realise that its such a disgrace to the accompanying artists?
As i started giving my opinion to the maami sitting besides me i got to know that the people are actually leaving so that they can still catch another kutcheri at another sabha...

Technorati Tags: Music Academy, Unni Krishnan

Lunch at Music academy ?

2007-12-23T12:25:00.001+05:30

Today was another normal day. I reached Music academy at around 2pm and i had'nt had lunch yet. Lucky for me i got tickets to Unni Krishnan's concert! I was so hungry and i wanted to have proper food. So i chose to have lunch at the canteen itself. The food by Padhmanaban and his team was good although the quantity seemed very less. I still cant believe how people actually get satisfied with just one small serving of sambar sadham or whatever! I mean, it was like as though they carefully counted the rice for every serving!
So dis satisfied with what i had at the canteen, i then went to hot breads near by to try something different for lunch. It was only after i reached there i realised that place wont suit my "Middle class Madhavan " budget! But nevertheless i knew no other better place there near music academy within walkable distance to have lunch.Well i guess if i start telling you about how dissatisfied i got there too! So to conclude, if you are a person who is very hungry and still want to finish your meal within 50-100Rs near music academy, then trust me music academy canteen or hot breads is most probably not the place for you!
But i should hot breads make really good pastries!

Microsoft quickly shut down Santa Claus

2007-12-11T15:26:00.001+05:30

Microsoft quickly shut down Santa Claus' web privileges after it found
out that the automated elf it created for kids to instant message with,
was talking naughty, not nice.

Vijay TV - Kadhalikka Neramillai

2007-12-10T22:35:00.000+05:30

Vijay TV - Kadhalikka Neramillai

Today i would like to blog about vijay tv's all new series and much talked about "Kadhalikka neramillai"

I normally hate the tamil serials . but never the less i always appreciate the title songs they generally choose for the serial's title song. Thats how i actually started watching sun tv's chithi. i likesd nithyashree's voice so much that i would make it a point to watch just the song everyday.

Similarly i came across this song "ennai thedi"(Title song for Kadhalikka neramillai) when i was just switching channels. It was the time when vijay tv started campaigning for the serial. Its actually different to see a tv channel spending for publicity for their soaps all over the city! Its something new to us chennaities. And it shows how much of viewers the channel actually expects and how good they are ready to actually make a proper soap.
I havent actually started watching the show but the song does seem very catchy.
The music for the song has been scored by MD VIJAY ANTONY. And i shd say the vijay an vijay combination has worked out pretty well. But its wierd that they do not put the name of the person who has sung the song.

The song sounded wierd initially and i felt it had too many unnecessary modulations . But now i just cant get the song out of my head.
I have the mp3 version of the song.click the following link to download it to your computer.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KMUR489E

Its a proper clear quality and its any day better that the quality you get in vijay-indya site.
its compressed in 128kbps and since my speakers suddenly producing stereo output , i am not sure if its mono or stereo.
Do leave me a feed back abt the song quality. I will try to equalise it to a better quality and upload it soon.

This reminds me of the serial "Anbulla Snehithi" in sun tv that was telecasted years back. The title song was sung by Chinmayi. That was one mind blowing song! The song is available at some sites but not of very good clarity. If any one has the better clear version please mail me at shankore@gmail.com.
The version i have is not very clear and the amplitude of the song suddenly varies few second after the song starts to play.

Here are a few snapshots from kadhalikka neramillai

BlogThis! ?

2007-12-10T00:09:00.000+05:30

Well people, its been quite some time since i posted my last blog.
With the next festive season fast approaching, every thing around me seems just as usual except that i have become more lazy and to make it worse the december month which is characterised by cooler and shivering niights , has with no doubt made all of us chennaities more lazy!

Over the past few weeks i have found out new ways to get more information from quite a few websites.Yes... now news.google.com is my start up page so i get to see all my recommended stories by google first.
Now with this site i get to see what i want.I am a gadget freak! Even if i actually dont buy lots of gizmo stuff i do atleast make it a point to know something about them!

And I found out only today that google tool bar actually has an inbuilt link "Blog this!" that enables bloggers to post their blogs at ease. With no doubt google is awesome! Now i think i will be able to blog more easily and especially for slow computers like mine that takes ages to just load firefox and not to mention the pressure on my processor to load all those java scripts for each site, i think typing blog into a simple pop-up window is such a boon for me!

Well thats all I have to say for now. Catch you guys later...