I know 2010 holidays are three quarters away but EA’s announcement and this promo video forced me to force about Crysis 2. Crysis 2 is coming to PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 platform by end of this year. Crysis has been a benchmark for the enthusiast PC gamers pushing the graphics to the limits and challenging the GPU capabilities. Here’s the video for you, that made me jump out of my chair.
For more information, see the official Crysis site Site: http://www.sosnewyork.com/en_US
On extreme public demand and other fellow bloggers’ continuous request, I’ve moved the blog to WordPress. I’ve tried to make it all transparent. Let me know if you see any problems with the new site.
Summer collections are driving advertisers crazy and getting them good business but these fellows actually ended up putting this ad upside down 🙂 . Could’nt resist posting it.
Pakistan Day, 23rd March 1940. The day when this amazing country’s freedom movement was formally started by passing the Lahore resolution. On this day, I pray that may this country prosper and progress and God bestows this land with peace and harmony.
I also appeal my fellow bloggers and every other individual that continue to post content online, that please do celebrate this important day with the same zeal and festivity that we do for the other non-national days ( take an example of Valentine’s day? ). 🙂
All my Pakistani brothers, please work hard in whatever capacity you work and wherever you are in the world. Each small achievement by any Pakistani does count towards the progress of the country.
For my foreign readers, Pakistan is a magical country not only in terms of its natural resources, geography, its history or its politics, but also in terms of its loving and talented people.
I love my country, Pakistan.
Pakistan Zindabad! (Long live Pakistan!)
This is quite interesting to notice that my Facebook profile found at http://www.facebook.com/basit.ali has PR 3 out of 10 in Google’s books. I’ve always been curious about Google’s behavior and this one is one of the interesting things that I’ve found so far.
This means that for Google, my Facebook profile is as important as greenwhite.org or my friend Imran’s blog ? Any comments?
I don’nt know if it is of any interest to most of my readers but all the Java lovers must have this of significant interest to them. Right from the early days of Servlets and JSPs, I’ve been using Tomcat as my preferred server. This image on Tomcat site draws my attention today. Apache tomcat has turned ten years old 🙂
Are you a Fan of something on Facebook?
Facebook privacy policy has been creating some stir out on the web already. Like every Facebook user, I have been trying to be careful when posting things on the Facebook. Moreover, I have created friend groups. As I have pre-defined access levels assigned for each of these groups, all I have to do is to add all my friends to the appropriate groups. Moreover, I make sure I do add new friends to a group too. In this way, everyone has an appropriate access level in my friend’s list.
Pages are your friends and they have all the access
I was shocked recently when I figured out that all the pages I am a Fan of, are showing up in my friend’s list. Wow, what is that supposed to mean? Well, anything that is posted on those pages are posted on my profile and everything I post on Facebook will also appear on that page’s feed too. So if you think posting your family photos is safe because you know who has access to that post, you are mistaken. The photos will actually get posted onto the Page you are a fan of. Facebook does give you an option of adding a newly added friend to a group, but ironically when you Fan a page, there’s obviously no reason of adding the page to a group. Hence all your posts are visible to the Page you are a fan of.
How to fix that? From your Facebook home page click on Account -> Edit Friends . You will see the list of your friends. You will be surprised to see that the pages you became Fan of, are showing up as your friends. You can either click the small cross next to the name to remove yourself from being the Fan of that page, or you can add this Page to one of your Friend’s Group to give similar access level.
Now it adds one more step for me, if I become a fan of a page, I should go set its privacy setting too to make sure my content dont openly get posted to these pages.
Everything you post is visible to everyone in your Networks
Then you have Networks that you have joined. Your college, school, locality, city networks and so on. By default, your posts and content are public to these groups as well. That means, everyone from your old school whose group you joined, can view your content. Crazy, is’nt it? Make sure you revoke this access from Account->Privacy Settings-> select each of your online item and set its access level. Yeah, I know its tedious but that’s how Facebook wants it. They want it all to be public.
Posting and Privacy Guidelines
In general, one should follow these guidelines to ensure you are not compromising your privacy:
Happy social networking. Keep your private content private!
Do you love Google Earth? Now it is available on your android mobile phone as well. Google earth has already been available on iPhone but obviously for a Google powered android phone, it’s a must have product.
I was happy to find out that Google earth is avaiable on Android phones. I immediately pulled out my android phone and tried to install it but figured it out that its not going to work on my phone. Then I dug further to figure out that the software is available for only iPhone and Nexus one and it will be available soon for Droid.
To download Google Earth on your mobile go to http://m.google.com/earth from your mobile.
This sounds too good to be true but things are moving in that direction. To promote the use of text messages on cell phones in my country, I remember cell phone operators were giving free SMS to subscriber around a decade ago. Once they started using it, it has never been free.
Today I will tell you a very simple method of sending free text messages to any phone, anywhere in the world. There’s no restriction how many messages you send but I recommend you use this service wisely and don’t lose the duck that lays golden eggs.
This is not going be surprise for some that this free world-wide sms service is being given by nobody else but Google. Free text messages is one of the feature of Google Voice that has not been talked about much. If you succeed in getting a Google Voice account, you can send out international text to your friends and family. Following are the steps that allow you to send free SMS to any number in the world.
Free SMS for Life
Step 1: Google Voice is still invite only. Goto http://www.google.com/voice and request an invite.
Step 2: You will have to wait for some time till you get the invite email, but it’s worth the wait. Once you have the invite email, sign-up for the service immediately. 🙂
Step 3: Log-on to the service and send free SMS. This apparently is your free outgoing text message account for life.
If you are outside US or Canada
Google Voice is available for US and Canada users only for now. If you are living outside US/Canada, you can read this tutorial to figure out how you can sign-up for Google Voice outside US/Canada.
Remember electrolysis from the chemistry class? Yes, the process of separating oxygen and hydrogen by decomposing water. Dan Nocera, an M.I.T chemist claims that he has found a way of using sun-light to perform a photosynthesis like process to generate energy. Nocera’s method will use carbon-dioxide, water and sunlight to convert it into oxygen and energy. The amount of energy generated from one bottle of drinking water is expected to power a whole house.
Watch this video uploaded by US department of energy and hear Dan Nocera himself expliaining this process:
If things actually start working this way, the day is not far when every house will generate its own power and the concept of power grids will be found in the books of history only.
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