I am dieing for a balaclava. Where can I find it in Pune. Does anybody know any really good biking apparel shop.

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Photo shoot

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Recently Jai came to pune. He is a hell of a photographer. I have used many of his amazing photos on my blog. Here are few shots from his Cannon 1000D with Cannon 50mm prime lens. If you are unsatisfied … Continue reading

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Firefox Sync

Firefox Sync. formally weave. I always wanted that I can continue my Firefox session from one place to anther. You don’t need to save password, you don’t have to save you history through Google Toolbar. You wont need bookmark addons. This is simply great. How many times did you left your computer at work on/hibernated because you thought you will loose your tabs(currently open sites). Sync currently supports continuous synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs. Continue reading

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Quiz o Twist

Do you think you can trick the quiz. Really! lets see.

Please give your answers through mail [mail (at) shishirsharma.com].

This round is called as Questions to the Answer. You are given one answer and four option, you have to choose the correct question for which you are given the answer.

1. Answer: Tokyo

Que1: which city has the largest population?
Que2: which trade city was atomic bombed in 1945?
Que3: which city has the largest area?
Que4: which city has the highest air traffic in terms of passengers?

2. Answer: 12

Que1: How many man have walked on the moon till date?
Que2: Which number is considered unlucky in popular culture except in Italy?
Que3: How many miles is the marathon race?
Que4: How many countries played the first Olympic in Athens?

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Restore Gnome Default Panels

Many times we screw our gnome desktop panels accidentally. I found a very easy solution to revert them.
Just open terminal and type.

gconftool-2 --shutdown
gconftool  --recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

But remember this is not the case when gnome panels get scrambled automatically (Which seems to be a consistent case in Ubutnu 10.04). You can simple refresh you gnome panels by doing.

killall gnome-panel
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Lucid Lynx – Free man’s Mac

No matter how much I hate Apple and Macintosh for their marketing strategies, but I always appreciate innovation and consistency. Although price is also a factor.

No matter how much you bid to pay but you could never estimate the price of universal compatibility and top class user experience with the availability of option at every stage and still rock solid consistent performance that what is any GNU/Linux system is about and Ubuntu is a star team.

With their new star performer. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS aka Lucid Lynx is out and I can safely say that no matter how difficult is seem at first but impossible is nothing and Lucid Lynx is Free man’s Mac.

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Urban Terror

This is a one great game. I tried it and I loved it. To all the counter-strike lovers who got shifted to GNU/Linux this is a life saver. I think there should be some variable to adjust the wall jump, power slide, and inhuman speed. I hope to find some good player skins colors.

Things I like:

  • GPL
  • Great maps
  • All OS support. :)
  • Realistic guns and limited ammo magazines.
  • Primary, secondary and side arm weapon slot.
  • Variable damage system.
  • Wounds/Bandage, Medikit
  • Wounds affects performance
  • Stamina system.

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Gimp – The ultimate

I am not new user of gimp, but I am also not a power user of gimp too. Recently I was creating a poster for a office event. I used script-fu -> alpha-to-logo scripts. I have to say that gimp is ultimate. I created a animated blinking neon light GIF of my name.

Gimp is more then enough for any casual user. There is no reason it cant be used as a professional tool.

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