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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!
Google Chrome Extensions: Blog This! (by Google)
Posted by Abe in Tools / Utilities on December 9, 2009
I just happened to see the cool new Chrome extensions available online. Currently the extensions does not have too many extensions but it was really awesome to see the extensions at work and how it was placed on Chrome.
iPhone Development
Posted by Abe in Programming on March 1, 2009
After getting into the open source world of web (Drupal) which excited me a lot, I jumped into iPhone Development. It is more exciting than what I have thought and realized.
iPhone is a revolutionary phone from Apple which gives tons and tons of features for the gadget enthusiasts. Although I had to admit there are some cons in the phone, I am glad to say that the pros of the phone are 1000 times more than that of cons. Which in fact hides the dark side of the iPhone.
The next question I asked myself is what made it stand apart from the other phones that are available in the market. One of the simple answer to this question is the way the phone responds to the users touch. I have seen few touch screen phones and I do have one, but I have never seen and intuitive interface in any phones. However I am not a worshipper of Apple products, but an distance admirer of them.
The programming for iPhone got bit easier as it follows the same strategy followed in Mac development. The gesture programming is the coolest thing apple had come up. When I started to get into iPhone development I found it extremely straight forward and simple. And the best part is that at least majority of the iPhone developers are sticking to the human interface guidelines.
As part of my training I went through the videos available in http://developer.apple.com/iphone and I liked the way it was structured. Again it is my personal liking that I fell in love with the mac platform development. And if you want to become an iPhone developer I would recommend you to get an apple developer id and start watching the videos they have in order. BTW, it is not recommended to skip and video. Although watching lengthy training videos sucks at times.
It doesn’t make sense for me if I speak a lot about mac without owning at least one of the apple product. So for getting into the iphone development I need a mac. I have all my SDK downloaded from the iphone developers website.
Themes in Gmail
Posted by Abe in Tools / Utilities on November 20, 2008
It was awesome to see Gmail has now got themes. The dry look now has got more energetic. 
Also the themes are supposed to change as per the location to which the themes are set. It is one more wow from Gmail.
However there are some compatibility issues still left with some themes which was found when we activate some gmail addons like moving the chat list to the right and so on. I could also see a horizontal scroll in IE.
Have a look if you are lucky to get them on your email account. Try whether you have themes on your settings section. Have fun!
Trying the Windows Live Writer
Posted by Abe in Tools / Utilities on October 7, 2008
Just had a quick chance to see how the windows live writer works. When I publish and if it works perfectly then I am very much pleased by the work done by the Microsoft Guys on this regard.
Good initiative on creating this Live Writer by M$. It is fairly simple to configure as well for the novice users. The options also very straight forward and clear. It has got options of adding Videos as well to MSN Soap Box and Youtube. This is absolutely cool feature.
Like a regular XHTML editor, it works comfortably. It was really a feel at home experience using Microsoft Word. It also got a spell checker to check the blog which is infact super good.
Tiny MCE – Cool XHTML Editor
Posted by Abe in Tools / Utilities on March 17, 2007
I was astonished to see a cool open source editor Tiny MCE. I have heard about it sometime back. But, was exploring the capabilities of this cool editor. This Tiny MCE supports almost supports all browsers. I came across this editor via http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors which gave a good comparison of wide range of text editors available online.
Another great thing about this editor is that it is simple to integrate. it Just takes the <textarea> from your html code and creates it as a html editor. Just wondering about the days where these type of editors costs a big mountain. Now it costs nothing. There were lots of features and themes available with this Editor. Most people would need only a simple editor which is really cool. You can check the home page of Tiny MCE Editor on its homepage. http://tinymce.moxiecode.com