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Today I was kind of surprised when i got a mail from RapidShare

Dear RapidShare User, This is to inform you that your RapidShare Account, has been permanently locked. The Reason for this if that you have been downloading illegal \”warez\”. As you may have heard, RapidShare has faced several charges for our stored content. The suspension of your account will help RapidShare keep running. Please do not reply to this email as this email was automatically sent. And please do not send any emails to any of our email addresses. You will not get your RapidShare Account back. If you continue to pursue this subject and still wish to regain your account, you may find yourself facing serious charges. Downloading \”warez\” is illegal. Thank you, RapidShare AG

I have loved using RapidShare for other stuff .. like their remote upload feature…

WTF ?? I hate this .. I later saw on digg that RapidShare is being prosecuted

I want my money back !!!!!!!! or at least my account !

I am really excited that Forum Nokia is sponsoring the Mobile Monday (MoMo) event in Chennai.

The event is going to be held at Gandhi Nagar Club on Saturday Feb 16, 2-5 pm

So all you mobile folks in Chennai better don’t miss the action.

Checkout the momochennai site , if you are too lazy, here’s the direct link to the  – register page.

UI Development is getting cleaner and easier day by day.

I was impressed when I came across Yahoo UI library’s CSS patterns and ideas.

Personally I don’t like the idea of completely adopting any new framework when time is a major concern.

But YUI looked impressive ever since its launch.

Check out the example page of reset CSS

Its so easy to cook up websites rapidly using such frameworks. Just wow.

If you have not watched this movie . You are loosing something for sure. Anyone  be it a girl or a guy, son or daughter, father or mother.

You must watch it. It revolves around the life of a 8 year old boy who is Dyslexic. Parents expect a lot out of him and the boy’s elder brother is a topper which makes matters worse. He’s put in a Boarding school where a Teacher changes his life altogether.

This movie made me cry!

I want to buy a laptop and Dell XPS M1330 seems to be a model which has almost everything I’m looking for.

Core2 Duo 1.66 GHz
160 GB Hard Disk
2GB 667 MHz RAM
8X DVD Writer
13 inch screen

3-4 hours of battery life – up to 6hours on a 9 cell battery

Price is about 55000 rupees, purchasing it on EMI might help.

Worth Buying?

And the weight of this laptop is about 2kilos or less, so should be really easy to carry around.

I had written about this fact on TechQuack Can Search Engines understand flash atleast Google does

Jeff Muendel at news.com has written a nice detailed post about how Search engines like Google read text in Flash sites.

Stephan Spencer had interviewed Top Googler Matt Cutts and its now public that Google is using Adobe’s flash SDK

Now the problem is that Google can understand text and index it. How will they provide matching results?

What’s the context between a zillion flash movies with text?

So better put a lot of relevant text in your Flash movies.

Two of the biggest User information repositories in the web joined Data Portability Workgroup in a attempt to make cross-site information sharing across portals secure and more portable.

OpenID is getting some traction only now.

Imagine being able to access a scrap in your Orkut account from inside or Facebook and forwarding to your friends in a Yahoo group.

Sounds funny ? it might become possible soon. But will it be secure ? I don’t want to loose my accounts or get banned like Robert Scoble

2007 just flew past, at least for me. Hardly get time to update this blog these days.

Wish you all a very Happy New Year ! Hope to post more often here in 2008.

Somethings I wish I could do in 2008

Travel and read a lot more.

Spend lesser time in front of the computer (most difficult).

Watch more movies.

The drop in hardware prices is something really strange but welcome. Today I picked up a 2GB pen drive for 600 rupees which is almost 30 paise per MB.

No wonder no one uses CDs these days.

I recollect that the last time I bought a pen drive was in end of 2006 and the price I paid for a 1GB drive was about 1100 rupees.

Now I got double the space for half the price. The funniest part is whether the folks selling such stuff are making any profit?

I never withdraw cash in non-ICICI ATMs. But the other day when I had to buy some medicines , the shopkeeper did not accept a debit card. So I went to the nearby SBI ATM. I withdrew 400 rupees but my ICICI bank ac has 467 rupees missing.

ICICI tells me that they charge a small fee to withdraw cash from other ATM.

67 bucks for 400 bucks is day light robbery. what do u think ?