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Baby Laugh

April 13th, 2009 Rishi No comments

The best “Baby Laugh” video I’ve ever come across.

Babies, cute looking? Yes, always.

Adorable? Of course.

But the thing I can’t understand is their sense of humor. How can a baby laugh at some simple noises? What is so funny in it that when we grow up we stop finding it funny?

Is it a 6th sense which we loose as we grow cause we don’t use it or it is cause as we mature we perceive things in a different angle?

PS: What’s the most funny video you’ve come across? Please share….

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Why Photoshop Why?

April 10th, 2009 Rishi 2 comments

Photoshop, a very nice software indeed. Many want to have have the Full package from Adobe, that is  CS4 Extended (at time of writing) and keep wanting more and more and more and the new version as soon as it comes out.

When you stop and think about it, how much space does it consume on your PC/MAC? Do you make full use of the whole package? And how many other services get install in background, do you know about them?

I know many who will actually install the Extended version of Photoshop just to fix a few photos. I don’t understand why the need of using such a fully fledged package for such simple editing. Picasa does the job, but because it is free, many people think it is not worthy. Another rival (the way I see it) for Photoshop is GIMP. GIMP was initially developed for Linux systems, but now the windows version is available. It does most of the job as Photoshop (not extended version) will do and the good thing, it is free. It also support loads of plug-ins and ad-dins.

So, the question is, why so many people feel the need of having/using photoshop, when the only task they’ve got to do is nothing much that a simple photo editing???

Salesman

August 13th, 2008 Rishi 5 comments

I’ve just come across something funny on xkcd which reminded me of the nice time I had in PCWorld once.
I already made up my mind about which model of laptop I wanted after comparing the specs on the internet.
I stepped in, and asked the salesman, can I have this laptop please. He went to check his stock, and came back with a smile. So far so good.
Then, he asked: “Would you like any additional warranty or software with it”. I replied back, “No thanks”.
We when to the till point for the payment. Then he asked me again: “You would like Office with it?”I said: “No”. After a few second he said, “Well you need to buy anti-virus software with it, else your PC will not be protected…” I again said: “No, thanks”.
Now the funny thing happened. He stood up. And told me: “Sir, I’ll have to speak to my supervisor first, because I don’t think I can sell you a laptop if you are not willing to protect it with an anti-virus.” I told him: “Fine, go on.”
After a few minute he came back. He said: “Well, sir, you are lucky. My supervisor has authorised this transaction.” He took a few details and then my credit card. Then he tried it one last time: “Sir, I’ll give you 30% off if you buy antivirus software.” Now I was about to lose it. I told him: “First thing, that I’ll do, I’ll wipe the hard drive and get Linux on the laptop and for office, and I’ll get Open Office which is free of charge.”
He paused. Then said: “Sir, I don’t think you are allowed to remove Windows from the laptop. Also, Linux is a very bad operating system and it got loads of viruses that’s why all laptops we sell are shipped with windows. You’ll definitely have to buy an anti virus, install it on windows and use it to scan your Linux partitions to remove any virus.”
I’ll let you guess that I did after hearing that…..
Please add your guess as a comment below… Thanks!

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Create your profile!

July 7th, 2008 Rishi No comments

Ever wondered why is it that everytime you sign up for something, you have to create a profile of yourself!!!

In the end how many profile you end up creating? My point is: Who end up reading your profile?

Why don’t they provide a tracker to know who is reading your profile? :-)

The best will be if you can have a single profile and link that to any other new web 2.0 goodies that people keep making and the world keep signing up for.

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Bored with the Internet

July 5th, 2008 Rishi No comments

Have you spent days or hours in-front on the Internet, browsing and browsing but getting no-where.

Don’t worry you are not the only one:

And yeah… nowadays, Internet is becoming like an addictive drug for some. Mainly with all those social websites which try to manage our whole life and even better our friends. I wonder if in the future we will have to go to rehab for Internet overdose???

Hmmm…. All those clicks with the mouse and all those clucks on the keyboard. I wonder how’d that sound if I removed both:

I wonder if some real Internet addict do end up like this:

And mention not.. as if blogging is an easy thing.. well easy for the ones who write.. but have you ever wonder that your blog can look like spaghetti for some reader:

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Ballmer Peak

July 5th, 2008 Rishi No comments