Archive for May, 2008

Tag! You’re it!

by Devesh on May 29, 2008 in General with 14 Comments

So I landed on Suzie’s blog this arvo to see if she’s updated and found out that not only has she updated, but she also had one of those tag posts and had tagged me.

It’s been a while since I’ve played this game. Last I remember was Iris (Urvi) who tagged me years ago titled seven.

So here goes – a tag about 4 things:

4 Jobs I’ve Had (in chronological order)

  • Worked at a Pager (Beeper) company (MobiLink) taking messages from people who wanted to page, while I was in college (Bombay, India)
  • Web Designer/Developer @ KAZ Technology Services (Syd, Aus)
  • Marketing Manager / Creative Designer @ New Horizons Learning Centre (Syd, Aus)
  • Retail Operations Exec @ A.C. Nielsen (Syd, Aus)

4 Movies I Could Watch Over and Over

4 Places I’ve Lived (in order)

  • Santacruz, BOM-IN
  • Chatswood, SYD-AU
  • Burwood, SYD-AU
  • West Ryde SYD-AU

4 TV Shows I Like

4 Favorite Foods

  • Pizza (who doesn’t love pizza?)
  • Porterhouse Steak :)
  • Twix Chocolates (Mars come a second close)
  • “Vada Pavs” (has a link to Wikipedia for those who don’t know what it is)

4 Places I’d Rather Be

  • Bombay
  • Venice
  • A planetarium
  • In a 5-star luxury hotel room by myself just relaxing and indulging in simple pleasures :)

4 People I’m Tagging

An S.O.S full of good intentions

by Devesh on May 28, 2008 in Movies / TV / Videos, Music, Quotes / Wisdom with 2 Comments

Every once in a while you come across a song that as when you’re listening to it the first time, you kind know that you won’t be listening to it for a long time to come. And then by the time it ends, you find yourself putting it on repeat just to hear the words once again.

And thus, it grows on you.

I came across this really nice song which I’d like to share here. I’ve pasted the lyrics after the video below – pay attention to the words. They’re simple, yet profound and will leave you with a good “feeling” :)

I tried to fight the feeling, the feeling took me down
I struggle and I lost the day you knocked me out
Now everything’s got meaning, the meanings bring me down
I’m watching as a screening of my life plays out

Every day I fight these feelings
For your sake I will hide the real thing
You can run all your life, all mine I will chase

You should never fight your feelings
When your very bones believe them
You should never fight your feelings
You have to follow natures law

I’ll live with never knowing, if knowings gonna change
I’ll stop a feeling growing, I will stay away
Like a broken record, stuck before a song
A million beginnings, none of them the one

Every day I fight these feelings
For your sake I will hide the real thing
You can run all your life, all mine I will chase

You should never fight your feelings
When your very bones believe them
You should never fight your feelings
You have to follow natures law

I wrote her letters and tried to send them
In a bottle I place my hope
An S.O.S full of good intentions sinking
Will you give it to me, don’t make me wait
You built me up, knocked me down
But I will stand my ground
And guard this light that I’ve found

You should never fight your feelings
When your very bones believe them
If you let them show, you’ll keep them
I know your hurt but soon you’ll rise again, again, again

Get more from that stick!

by Devesh on May 27, 2008 in Techy / Geeky with 1 Comment
  • Have you ever been over to a mate’s place and got stuck opening up a PDF/Word/Excel file just because they don’t have the appropriate Adobe PDF Reader or MS Office?
  • Do you carry your laptop just because it contains all your programs, settings and data as you’ve set it up?
  • Do you miss your bookmarks on your browser, firefox extensions you’ve gotten used to, Or your offline email reader when you’re on your work computer?

Enter PortableApps :)

PortableApps, it is a collection of portable software designed for use from a flash drive or external hard drive. Usually, when you install software on your computer, it can only be used on that particular computer even if you install it on a portable drive because the system registry is utilised. The difference with PortableApps is that it stores all the files on the portable drive, letting you take your favorite software and its settings with you. Just install it on a portable drive and then plug it into any computer you like and you’re ready to go. (It really has nothing to do with backing up or transporting your personal files.)

Get yourself a decent size USB stick and you can have a plethora of your regular applications, conveniently packaged in! Next time you are sitting in front of a computer that doesn’t have your favourite software, simply plugin your USB stick and fire it up. Best part – it doesn’t leave any trace whatsoever on the host machine – whatever you do, works only from and through your USB!

According to their website:
A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug, none of your personal data is left behind.

Consider the Possibilities:

  • Carry your web browser with all your favorite bookmarks
  • Carry your calendar with all your appointments
  • Carry your email client with all your contacts and settings
  • Carry your instant messenger and your buddy list
  • Carry your whole office suite along with your documents and presentations
  • Carry your antivirus program and other computer utilities
  • Carry all your important passwords and account information securely

Consider the Convenience:

  • Have your favorite websites handy to recommend to a friend or colleague
  • Have your presentation AND the required software ready to go for that big meeting
  • Have your password with you if you want to bank online while traveling
  • Have utilities handy when visiting family or friends that are having PC problems

Head over to http://www.portableapps.com to get started.

You can get more portable software from other places (start off with http://www.portablefreeware.com) – And yes, there are ways to get the whole gamut of Adobe CS3 suite of applications, Nero burning suite, heck you could have a whole operating system in your USB stick – just plug it in and boot from your USB!

However, you will have to rely on your Google-search skills to dig deeper on that ;)

On a second note, I recently came across http://www.mojopac.com – which claims to do something similar, yet different. It creates something like a Virtual Private Machine – your own customisable “Windows” that runs as a shell from a host machine (the computer you plug it into). Apparently, When you plug it into either one of your machines, you can use whatever printers you already have installed on them. You can install the productivity software you commonly use like Microsoft Office etc.

However, I’m yet to try this one out.

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