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VLC Keyboard Shortcuts to Fix Audio/Video Delay in Movies
YouTube’s crowd-sourced documentary premieres: Life in a Day
“Break In If You Can” – Real Online Hacking Contest from IIIT
InboxCleaner – Clean your Twitter Inbox messages in bulk
Sony Launches New Vaio YB series Laptop
Motorola Glam: India’s First Android Dual Sim (CDMA+GSM)
[Gmail Update] Desktop Notifications for new Emails & Chat

VLC Keyboard Shortcuts to Fix Audio/Video Delay in Movies

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:00 PM PST

One of the most irritating part while watching a movie on your computer is the delay between the audio/video streams! I see many friends often downloading a different print of the same movie. That’s a lot of work for most broadband users in India and many other countries.

But if you are using the VLC media player, then you can simply synchronize audio/video using keyboard shortcuts “f” and “g” as highlighted in the screenshot below. After some trial and error you will get the characters’ lip-synced.

On Windows OS, if “f” and “g” do not work, try “CTRL+F” and “CTRL+G” respectively. You can also edit keyboard shortcuts by clicking on “Change” button in same window (see following screenshot again)

VLC Preferences 1 VLC Keyboard Shortcuts to Fix Audio/Video Delay in Movies

Link: VideoLAN – VLC Media Player

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YouTube’s crowd-sourced documentary premieres: Life in a Day

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:29 PM PST

YouTube has created a snapshot of the entire world’s life in a day. This has been done through an initiative of YouTube in which anyone with a video camera could record a few moments of their life in a particular day and send it to YouTube.

The idea was for people to record and send clips on the 24th July, 2010 on YouTube. It was an experiment in which literally thousands contributed. Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald along with a team of editors went through over 80,000 clips and 4500 hours of footage to put together a 90-minute documentary about life in one single day across the world.

I am sure the documentary will be interesting and worth looking up. It premieres at Sundance Festival 2011.

If you want view the premiere you can check it out at YouTube’s Life in a day Channel.

You can see this live at 8.00 pm EST (6.30 am IST). That can be a little inconvenient for people outside the U.S. In that case you can catch its repeat broadcast is at 7.00 pm, 28th January 2011, local time where ever you are in the world.

Here is a short teaser of the documentary.

Do drop in your comments.

Link: YouTube’s Life in a Day

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“Break In If You Can” – Real Online Hacking Contest from IIIT

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:29 AM PST

“Break In If You Can” is official hacking contest organized by The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India.

This hacking contest is organized as part of Felicity, the annual cultural and technical festival, to be held from 18th – 20th February, 2011.

Real Hacking Contest!

Most hacking challenges creates a dummy site/scenario where organizers know in advance how far you can go! In most of those challenges, once you uncover security holes, you are often encountered with a lame message congratulating you.

But in this real hacking contest, you are expected to hack into IIIT Hyderabad’s website itself i.e. http://iiit.ac.in/

They have promised not to sue you but make sure if you break-in successfully rather than damaging and creating havoc, you contact organizers to claim your prize.

Prizes:

As per official site 1st Prize is Rs. 5000. But I personally feel that this hacking contest itself is bigger than any other prize!

Though, you can see complete list of prizes here.

Event Date:

The test run will be on Jan 29th, 2010 i.e. tomorrow and main contest will be on Jan 30th 2010.

Link: Break In If You Can

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InboxCleaner – Clean your Twitter Inbox messages in bulk

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:00 AM PST

One of the most active social networks along with Facebook is Twitter. Twitter usually helps us really share and comment on interesting topics with our friends, followers, celebrities and even complete strangers. One very useful feature of Twitter is the Direct Message. This way if two people are mutually following each other on Twitter, they can send each other a message which is private. This is something like email.

While I find it very useful to exchange messages once in a while on Twitter, I have quickly piled up a few messages on my Twitter account. Deleting them all is quite troublesome as there is no feature on Twitter which allows me to delete messages in bulk.

InboxCleaner is a great online tool which helps delete messages quickly and also keep your Twitter profile clean.

Just visit the InboxCleaner and login with your Twitter details. This takes us to a page with three options to delete messages. I could simply choose to Delete messages from a particular user or by content. In case you are not too picky a good option is to simply delete all messages.

I wish Twitter had this feature integrated within its website but I guess until then InboxCleaner is the best option.

Do drop in your comments.

Link: InboxCleaner

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Sony Launches New Vaio YB series Laptop

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:30 AM PST

With a Sony laptop priced so cheap at just Rs. 26, 990, the company has hit back at its competitors with its new launch – "the YB Series". Weighing just 1.46 kg and a 11.6" widescreen, the laptop comes with an AMD processor which shall allow the users to experience Online gaming and HD content at its best.

The new launch comes in three colour options – "Silver, Green and Pink", a stylish design and an user-friendly control. The launch has been announced however it is expected to arrive the Indian markets in the first week of February 2011.

At a Glance

1.6 Ghz Dual core Processor
Direct-x 11 graphics integrated with added AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6310 graphics card
Wireless 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 and EDR connectivity
LED display screen 11.6 inches
Comes with Windows 7 Professional edition 64-bit operating system
3500 mAh battery included for a longer battery life
Hard disk – 500 GB @ 5400 rpm speed and RAM – 4 GB (expandable upto 8 GB)
All general ports including USB, VGA, LAN and HDMI are present. Card reader and web-camera inbuilt.

Do let us all know if anyone owns a Sony Vaio laptop and how much excited you are about this new launch!

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Motorola Glam: India’s First Android Dual Sim (CDMA+GSM)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:30 AM PST

In an attempt to increase its market share in a country like India, Motorola finally appears to take steps towards some innovation and hence launched the first ever Android phone with Dual sim (CDMA + GSM) technology known as the ‘Milestone XT800′ or simply Motorola Glam. The phone is a touch-screen and supports almost all features a user might be looking for in a smartphone. The price tag is around Rs. 32000 which might look big initially though it’s a great new comer for users of both CDMA as well as GSM. However now, the phone will be exclusively sold by AirTyme Communications in India.

DW Motoglam1 Motorola Glam: India's First Android Dual Sim (CDMA+GSM)

Features at a glance

Camera: 5 Mega-pixel [autofocus, digital-zoom, dual LED flash]

Operating System: Android 2.1 [a bit disappointing though]

Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email (includes push email)

Storage: 2GB card [expandable up to 32GB]

Connectivity: USB 2.0, Bluetooth [wireless Bluetooth stereo included]

GPS: Assisted GPS support [Google maps included]

Multimedia: Video playback/capture/streaming [HDMI output included], Audio formats supported [includes WAV, WMA, AMR, MP3, AAC and lot more]

Office: Support for viewing / editing documents [Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF and ZIP]

DW Motoglam2 Motorola Glam: India's First Android Dual Sim (CDMA+GSM)

I think this is going to be a great buy for users who are not even willing to leave the strong CDMA network as well as want to have a nice Android phone. However you need to compromise on the Android version. Think and then comment, “are you gonna buy it?”

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[Gmail Update] Desktop Notifications for new Emails & Chat

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 09:30 PM PST

Google in its yet another approach to make Gmail more friendly has introduced Desktop Notifications for Chats and any new Email messages. Desktop Notifications are possible under the pretext of HTML5 and available only for Chrome users as of now. This is clearly another attempt to attract users to Google Chrome browser which already has a market segment of more than 10% worldwide. Even I activated the feature to see how this works and found out the following:

It did not send me any notification about a new 'Important' email even after 10 minutes of its arrival. Probably I need to check how it works exactly.
Chat notifications were immediately displayed.

Activation is easy and you will find the relevant settings under the Gmail Settings page in the General section with the title 'Desktop Notifications'. You can select what all Desktop notifications you want to receive like Chats, All new emails or only for Important emails. No doubt, you can always Turn off the notifications anytime in case you wish to do so.

I guess this is a great move and will make Gmail much more favourite among the users. Let me know what you feel about this update and how do you plan to use Desktop notifications further. Don't hesitate even if you have some queries about this.

LINK: Official Gmail Update

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