Small steps to the Big Screen

Are you a movie buff? Do you love watching movies for more than just the entertainment? Do you dream of becoming an actor, director, film technician one day? Here is a group of special people who with only their limited resources, have created this little masterpiece. This is a very respectable piece or work and creativity but not the best, because I’m sure their best is yet to come!

Rochershake Productions presents “The Law”. The Law wasn’t planned under a scheduled meeting or taking ideas from experts. One day, this group of friends, all about the same age group of 22 years were hanging out with each other, playing poker and killing time during their vacation. It just occurred to them, that they could possibly make a movie, and from then on the idea just grew!

Were they worried about light setting, filming, editing? Naaa… they knew they had the talent and the will! What else do you need! As their game of poker carried on that evening, each of them were given a character casually, and slowly it began developing into into a story... and behold… The Law. Click on the following image to watch the entire film.

The Law was made was shot over a span of 3 days from 10pm to 4am every day and night. What’s amazing to me and I guess to everyone too is that they have used practically ‘nothing special’ to create this simple yet intricate film.  All what is used in this film is normal house lighting (tube lights, bulbs) and street lamps (for the road scenes). The total budget was 900 bucks, which was for the tripod they bought. For the video, a Cannon 8.1MP digital camera was used, without any expertise in acting, shooting or editing. All this… and Windows Movie Maker! Amazing isn’t it?

This is not uploaded on YouTube because then, the limit was just 10min, while the film is almost 15min. Currently Rochershake Productions are working on their next release “Citius, Fortius, Chronos – A boon or a curse”. I’m more impatient for this release than any other main stream movies like SALT or all the recent crappy Bollywood flicks! The minor problem they’re facing now is to condense the new film to 15 min which is the upload limit of YouTube. For now, watch the trailer of Citius, Fortius, Chronos and then I’m sure you’ll be awaiting the release too!

Aditya Aggarwal, Akanksha Shah, Daksh Bajoria, Karan Shah, Meghna Amin, Nishil Davawala, Parthiv Shah, Pulah Shah, Rushil Shah and Tulsa Bhatt constitute this amazing team. I applaud all of them for their amazing use of time in their vacation and for inspiring us. All the best to all their future creations and efforts!

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Get Kaspersky 2011 Free Forever!

Well don’t be so surprised that you can get such a marvellous antivirus software for free forever! All you need to do is spend just 5 minutes of your time every month! That’s Right! Well here’s how you can use the latest version of Kaspersky (I use Kaspersky Internet Security 2011) forever and ever:

1. Go to the official Kaspersky website and download the trial version of KIS 2011 (Kaspersky Internet Security) from here. Just enter your name and email and click Submit. Then, you can either download from the link send to your email or just by clicking the download link.

2. Run the setup file (with Internet on) and install Kaspersky. Finally you will get a screen which asks you to activate your license. Click on “Activate Trial Version”. Now you have the complete version installed, but just for 30 days.

3. All we need now, is after those 30 days, you still want it to be working rite? So follow these steps, to refresh the 30 day-trial period every month.

• As the trial is about to expire (2 days left), uninstall Kaspersky
• Type regedit in Run from the Start Menu to open the Registry Editor

• Right Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and Export to save your current settings of your registry (only if you want to)

 

• Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and select the Kaspersky Lab folder. Right Click and Delete it
• Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE go to Microsoft folder –> Cryptography folder –> RNG folder. To the Right hand side, if you find a file called “Seed”, delete it. If not, ignore this step.
• Again, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE go to Microsoft folder –> System Certificates folder –> SPC folder –> Certificates… Now Delete this entire Certificates folder
• You’re done! Now restart your computer and then reinstall Kaspersky again. The trial version will be set to another 30 days. Follow this procedure every month and use Kaspersky forever!

Now this may be irritating to some, but trust me I thought the same. Its not bothering anymore. And hey… its Kaspersky we’re talking bout here; so 5 minutes of tweaking per month is negligible! Also, this method can be used for Windows XP, Vista and Win7. Enjoy.

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Select All in Facebook

Are you a regular user of ‘Applications’ or ‘Causes’ in Facebook? If yes, then you must have found it really irritating to select all (up till the limit) of your friends from your list when you want to send them invites, messages etc. Well its not going to be a pain anymore.

First of all go to your application in Facebook and when you get the screen to invite all your friends what you generally do is click their icons, one by one.

Here, instead of clicking each one, all you need to do is copy the following code and paste in your address bar and you’re good to go:

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

Tell me if this works for you and if it has helped you. Again, you cannot select all more than the limit, but it selects all up till the limit. Hope you find it useful. If you've liked this post, click here for free updates.

Download any music for free!!!

Grooveshark.com is a famous web application which allows you to listen to ANY music and ANY song in the world. That's what they claim. And to a certain extent its true. I have found ALL the songs I was looking for and I think is actually has ALL the songs! Imagine if you could download this for free... that means you will be able to get any music of your choice any time, for free!!! Here's how you can do that:

Step 1: Go to Grooveshark.com and check out the site first. You can search for your song and play and listen to it online. If you have download managers to assist you, you can download the song with them. But the site however, does not allow you download more than once, or even once because of the usual HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Error! You may attempt to correct this or follow the easy next steps.

Step 2: If you have Mozilla Firefox (uptil 3.6* version only) then you can install the Video DownloadHelper addon. With this, while the song is playing on Grooveshark, the addon button on the navigation bar in firefox will glow on (Encircled in Blue in the figure below Step 3).You will need to click it and download it. But again, this may give an error. If it does, you can try the next step.

Step 3: If you have Mozilla Firefox (uptil 3.6* version only) then you can install the Orbit Downloader which looks like its designed just for Grooveshark. Once you download the setup file, run it and install Orbit Downloader on your system (its a very small software). Then, when you restart firefox now, it will prompt you automatically to install an addon called OneClick YouTube Downloader which you will not find among the addons in firefox. It installs only with Orbit. Once done, you can see it on your firefox panel (Encircled in Red in the figure below). Click on it and say "Download" or "Record" while the GrooveShark song is playing.

Step 4: This may still not work because of incompatibility of your Firefox version and Orbit Downloader Version. Now, what is going to work for sure is this. Install the latest version 4 of Orbit Downloader from here. During installation, Enable Grab-Pro on Internet Explorer and complete the installation. Thats it! Your done! It has to work now for sure. Go to Grooveshark.com and play a song. Grab-Pro will be highlighted and you can view the (music) files to be recorder perfectly. Now your just a click away to have the music of your choice!

I know IE is very irritating to many. But hey... when you have all the music for free just there, I think its worth it... isn't it??

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Why Digsby is the best...

Today, even though every email site, every social network site has its own chat application embedded within, we still prefer a desktop application, so that we have one universal access to all our friends on all our chats across Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, Gmail, Facebook, etc. And how can we forget Twitter! Now which is THAT application which can combine all of this? Digsby it is! Digsby combines all your email accounts, IM accounts, multiple facebook and twitter accounts!! It also manages your LinkedIn, MySpace, AOL accounts, etc. What better reason do you want to use Digsby! I have been using Digsby for more than a year now and my green pal just getting better! Well, here are the merits and demerits and "possible upgrades" of Digsby:

Merits:

• Brilliant and simple UI for all your IMs


• Can organize and reorganize all the chats and IM accounts, friend lists, etc


• Notifies new mails, can delete or mark them, even without reading!


• Pops the new tweet (with sound) at the corner of your screen, without you even bothering to open twitter!


• Pops all facebook updates (with sound), on which you can comment and "like" immediately just there, without opening the site!


• You can keep account icons in digsby panel, in the task bar or both! :-)


• These are just the basic ones. To know more go the official site of Digsby and its free!

De-Merits:

• For Facebook, it has got a bit-cluttered space


• The Twitter space is cluttered too, but it also has another UI which is the best and most simple! There's only one column for tweets, mentions and directs and you can also see a separate view of them.


• No Keyboard Shortcuts (especially needed for Twitter)

Improvements:

• Keyboard Shortcuts!


• 'Facebook Notification' Alerts (Not just status updates, application updates, other wall updates etc)


• Better and clearer UI for Facebook and LinkedIn. Twitter UI is good... just need a keyboard shortcut (than the double click!)


• Do not re-shorten the already shortened URLs

Why is it better than Seesmic , HootSuite , Sobeez , and the rest?

• For me, desktop clients are better than those on the web! Plus, HootSuite is comparatively much slower than any of these apps. So HootSuite is out of the window!


• I don't want to install two-three applications for various account types. Digsby manages EVERYTHING! Emails, IMs, Twitter, FB and many others!


• Seesmic and Sobeez are very good. I haven't used either of them extensively, however I have tried them once! Both are pretty good for what they have to offer.


• But they only manage Twitter and FB accounts, while digsby manages so many.


• Also, digsby is FASTER than all! The refresh rate is pleasant and whole functioning is smooth! The crude AIR interface of Seesmic Desktop and Sobeez is pretty slow!


• If we only compare the Twitter and Facebook accounts, then Seesmic can be better than Digsby! But as I said, I'm looking at the entire package here.


• Adding and managing of accounts is so simple and fast! All just in one window! No confusing multiple windows!


• Everything from font, to theme, to pop-up sound, to individual screen names are customizable!

These are my views. Its not that I have completely ignored the other apps. I have given a fair chance to all. But ever since I've started using Digsby I've never stopped loving it! Do try out Digsby and tell me what you think.

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