Are you Genuine?
Remembering the days 10 years back .. I was using all the latest version of software. I used to hack around the products and make sure they are cracked and available for me to use it. I dont remember so far that I have earned few bucks out of it. But now I feel guilty that I was not genuine. Do you feel what I am trying to say? Are my words pricking your mind? Till 4-5 years back I was happily using pirated software. No one in the world knows that I was using pirated software. No one managed to ask a question to me that I was using a pirated software.
The Lord my Saviour put a thought in my mind. It was kind of a question which raised in my mind. The question was “Are you Genuine?”. I have heard many people saying that Microsoft is a big company, they have lots of money and they are stealing money from people and it is not a problem if I use a pirated software. But the actual issue is not with the question people ask.. rather the genuineness people need to maintain.
I started to use genuine software and I am kind of feeling confident about the thing I am using. I feel I am genuine! It is really a great experience to have a genuine software. We are earning a decent amount for our living. We don’t steal clothes, we don’t steal food for living, we don’t steal money for spending rather we work hard to get all those. The same holds good for getting a genuine software for your computer.
There are great products available for Low cost. I am listing a few which will make your lives different from others. For Sound editing instead of getting on a costly gear you can go in for Ardour, Reaper, Audacity .. it ranges from free to very low cost. When it comes to video editing you can get premiere elements, Final cut express and so on … likewise for image editing you can use Paint.Net, Photoshop elements, gimp and so on .. there are lots of alternative for you to get genuine. Control yourself from this kind of lust and make yourself clean and genuine.
Happy Computing!… hope this blog would have a small entry in your heart. Leave me a comment if you want to change yourself. God bless you!
2010
Looking back at 2009
Year 2009 was quite challenging. I was able to do lots of new things at 2009. Here are the list of things I have learnt over 2009. First I have started with iPhone programming and for that I have bought a new macbook for working in iPhone programming. I had a Canon FS100 camcorder and I wanted to download my videos on my macbook. I was attracted by the iMovie and started to learn very basics on Video editing.
The passion for Video editing kicked off and I started to carve for more on video editing. I bought Final cut Express to get into editing. By the time I took few videos I understood that I need some good quality sound. So I went for an inexpensive external audio interface (MAudio Fast Track Pro). I did few Live recording of Audio. This put me a flare on Audio editing. I was not able to afford for a Mac pro / Macbook Pro for my video / audio editing stuff. I bought a Mac mini which is really helpful to accomplish my video editing tasks.
By gods grace I was able to edit 2 Christian Video Albums as a beginner and the outcome was so professional. I was wondering how I was able to make it and finally understood the person behind my work. The person is no one other that Jesus Christ. He was kind enough and by his grace I was able to accomplish great things with minimal resource available.
And on my spiritual side of my life I was bit slow due to some personal reasons which put me down always when I tried to come out of it with my strength I was not able to get out of it. However God didn’t let me go down. He lifted me up and gave me a new strength and his love. The turbulence in my life made me lose all my loved ones but by the end of 2009 things were back to normal and my loved ones came back to me and now I am happy and thankful to my savior who has done this work for me.
The promise that Lord has given me this year was “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. (Malachi 3:6 ~ KJV )“. Here is me wishing you a peaceful year 2010.