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Archive for March, 2008


Video/Audio Encoder for Apple Mac

My search for a Video/Audio Encoder for my Apple Mac finally ended with FFMPEGX

Its a brilliance lies in its simplicity. Lets take a look at what it can do.

Upgrades/ Disruptions

My apologies to the readers who have been visiting Chillpilgrim, the last few days. I’ve been upgrading my backend wordpress engine and I’ve had some screw-ups. Actually I was expecting a lot more and at one point I was in danger of losing all my data. It was scary and painful.

Enjoy your digital music on Sony’s Latest In-Car CD Tuner

Sony has come up with its new addition to its In-Car CD Tuner Range… Catch the rest of the story here

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How much can happen in 10 Days!

1) American Stock Market is on the verge of collapse… Bear Shearns bank goes down to being sold for $2!!
2) One of my favourite actors Raghuvaran is no more. I’ll remember him by when I see Baasha on TV.
3) Prashanth has been gifted a building which houses one of biggest gold showrooms(like Joy Alukkas) in the world by his Dad, Thiyagarajan. Something to keep his out of work son, no doubt.
4) Salman Khan makes a dash for some latin-american bimbo, leaving his now gf, tomorrow ex-gf Katrina Kaif’s love life in tatters.
5) A colleague at work who has abstained from alcohol, cigarettes and meat is finally gorging on all three after Easter Sunday. Crazy Bugger!! God would love you more if you were yourself.
6) HCL Opens new offshore development centre in Egypt. I knew these cut throat IT Companies would not hesitate to move jobs from India to another country if need be.
7) Some dandy tollywood telugu dude who used to be one of TN’s former minister’s sidekicks has died.
8) Gold reached a record high of Rs.1300 per 10 grams and came down 140 bucks just 3 days later. Man, markets ARE volatile.
9) People are finally talking about India’s Impending Slowdown on Economy. Would Real Estate prices fall so much so EVEN I could afford a house?
10) Last but not the least Rakhi Sawant competes with Shah Rukh and Hritik Roshan on an Item Number in Krazzy 4! Each have their own item number in the movie… that makes it 3 songs… what do the other actors in the movie do?

Dilly Dallying with Adi P K AKA Adi Da PunK

Yeah, so there’s this guy! He calls himself Aditya!! I know him like my second cousin. How? Cuz I go through his blog regularly. I know he loves diss’ing people with his unrelenting humour. Of course he loves interviews. He sees it as a great platform to get on stage and really perform - only thing being that the person who wanted to interview him would end up looking like a silly, old fool. So THIS is what happened to a guy who wanted to interview him the good old normal way and put it up on his blog. After reading that, I was in splits going through the interview but I also felt bad for the sucker who interviewed him too. So I plotted.. slowly but cunningly. I thought I’ll interview him. But not too soon. Cuz he might smell the rat!! I let a nice few weeks pass by before approaching him very decently

Boys will be Boys!!

The Title says it all

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The Honda Unicorn - Q&A Session

Attitude@HondaUnicorn was impressed with his vehicle’s performance in my Honda Unicorn Post. At the same time he was not really happy with the mileage component of the Honda Unicorn.

He had a question

Apple Mac .MKV to .AVI Converter

Here’s a quick mac tip. If you’re from India, the chances of you using a Apple Mac are remote. But there are other aliens who exist in this world. So for those poor guys out there I have a Mac Tip. You might have downloaded a stunning Movie from the Internet via some not so nice methods. Now, the movie is a .MKV file. It plays perfectly well on a VLC Player as the suckers who use mac always use. But you wanna port it to an iPod, DVD or better still … our good old .AVI file. So for those people, heres the Video Converter.

Nissan’s 1 Lakh Car - The Moco?

It is common news that Nissan has started work on a car which would be more or less priced at $2500. The news was first published by forbes last june 2007. Now, speculations are rife that it might indeed be the Moco which might be tweaked to become Tata Nano’s competition. Here are the pictures of the 650CC Car…

Will You Be Receiving A Bonus For Your Job Performance?

Everybody looks forward to a nice, healthy bonus on top of their salary, but not everyone warrants it. In most workplaces bonuses are distributed on the basis of work performance, so it’s important to think well ahead and plan out how you can earn the type of bonus you…READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE