Monday, January 04, 2010

My blog Moved. http://suresh2blog.wordpress.com/

Got bored with blogspot, I moved my blog to a wordpress. http://suresh2blog.wordpress.com/ See you all there.

Monday, February 02, 2009

Nice video about Agile

Just watching this video about agile methedologies by venkat subramanian. Really worth to spent some time with this video, if you are a good developer.

http://codemash.org/Mads/VenkatPragmatic.wmv

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Twitter in Tamil - எளிய தமிழில் ட்விட்டர்

yesterday i helped twitter to translate its Twitter video "twitter in plain english" which is found in the main page of the twitter from english to tamil . you can click on watch a video link found on the main twitter page.

Actually http://dotsub.com/ is the website which is similar to youtube. but it has intresting features. you can translate any vidoeo script into any language. Twitter use this site to host the video.

CommonCraft is the company which creates this video. They have also otehr intresting videos.

Take a look at the twitter video that i translated. Hope my english to tamil translation is not bad. Choose Tamil from the drop down found at the bottom of the video.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Google Chrome - New Browser by google

Waav. Great news. Yet another powerfull browser by google. its releasing tomorrow. waiting to test it. Read more about google chrome here.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Store All your Chat Messages ( Yahoo,MSN,Skype,AOL....) and Your SMS Messages in One place

Just read about this cool site. You can archive all your chat messages and your SMS on your blackberry phone into this website. Later you can search it and comment it,group it. What a cool idea. Only thing worried about is the privacy. Take a look at it




https://www.dexrex.com/Tour.php

Monday, June 23, 2008

How to download Movies and Games using Utorrent ( Torrent ) and Torrentz.com site?

Often my friends asking me how to download movies and games using torrent. Just now I had a lengthy conversation with my friend about the same. I just want to share the chat with my readers of my blog so that they can also know about Utorrent and Torrents. Here's the conversation.

[11:56] Friend: ok
[12:30] Me: still not sleeping?
[12:30] Me: wat r u doing da
[12:30] Friend: watching movie on hulu.com
[12:30] Me: oh
[12:30] Me: i downloaded *****
[12:30] Friend: *****
[12:30] Me: still here on theator its full show on week ends
[12:31] Me: use torrents da
[12:31] Me: u can watch all english hinidi movies in dvd quality
[12:31] Friend: we saw the movie here in a theater 2 weeks before
[12:31] Me: i watched almost all 2008 release movies
[12:32] Friend: i am not comfortable using torrents daaaaaaaaaaa
[12:32] Me: y?
[12:32] Me: dont know how to work with that?
[12:32] Friend: i dont know how to use it
[12:32] Me: spent some time with that
[12:32] Me: its simple
[12:32] Friend: and look for movies
[12:32] Me: www.torrentz.com
[12:32] Me: u can search everything here
[12:33] Friend: lemme try
[12:33] Me: once u find there's a file with .torrent extension
[12:33] Friend: ok
[12:33] Friend: then
[12:33] Friend: ....
[12:33] Me: u must install utorrent
[12:33] Me: this utorrent application open the .torrent file
[12:34] Me: and it will download the file into your computer
[12:34] Me: .torrent file knows where the movie exist in the internet
[12:34] Friend: where to install utorrent from ?
[12:34] Me: http://www.utorrent.com/download.php
[12:35] Me: once u used to know torrent
[12:35] Me: then u never stop using it
[12:35] Friend: ok
[12:35] Friend: there are 2 downloadables
[12:35] Friend: which one to install
[12:36] Friend: ?
[12:36] Me: stable one
[12:37] Me: here u know the full details of torrents
[12:37] Me: http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/
[12:37] Me: read it in u r free time
[12:37] Me: take print out and read it
[12:39] Me: this one more technical
[12:45] Friend: ok....download complete
[12:45] Me: install the application
[12:45] Friend: done......
[12:45] Me: go to torrentz.com
[12:46] Me: click 2008 dvdrip
[12:47] Friend: done
[12:47] Me: u can see lits of movies
[12:47] Me: can u see the ruins on the first?
[12:48] Me: The Ruins[2008][Unrated Edition]dvdrip-aXXo » aXXo » movies horror video
3 days ago 701 Mb 20,819 49,046
[12:48] Friend: yes
[12:48] Friend: i can see
[12:48] Me: now i explain this
[12:48] Me: THe ruins is the name of the movie
[12:48] Me: movies is the type
[12:48] Me: Horror is cateogry
[12:48] Me: it added to torrent 3 days ago
[12:48] Me: and size is 701 MB
[12:48] Me: now comes the important part
[12:49] Me: 20,819 means seeders
[12:49] Me: 49,046 means leechers
[12:49] Me: u must understand this seeders and leechers then u know abt torretns
[12:50] Friend: so who are they
[12:50] Me: seeders are those people who is having the movie in their hard disk
[12:50] Me: leechers are those people who are all downloading them
[12:50] Friend: ok
[12:50] Me: torrent normally split the file and download it from different location
[12:51] Me: if the number of seeders are more it split the file and download very fast
[12:51] Friend: ok
[12:51] Friend: in this case is Ruins fast ?
[12:51] Me: once u started download the movie, u can also become seeders.
[12:52] Me: yes
[12:52] Me: bcz no of seeders are high
[12:52] Me: just clickt that one
[12:52] Me: u can see the list of places where the torrent file is available
[12:52] Friend: so...a leecher automatically becomes a seeder
[12:52] Me: yes
[12:52] Me: because u also have some files portion once u started downloading
[12:53] Me: so other people take that file portion from ur computer
[12:53] Friend: ok
[12:53] Me: but if u want u can be a leecher alone
[12:53] Me: normally its like, i want to take the file but i dont want to share it to any one.
[12:54] Me: i will explain that in detail later
[12:54] Me: now click that link
[12:54] Me: the ruins
[12:54] Friend: i clicked
[12:54] Me: i already watched that movie
[12:54] Me: reall horror movie
[12:54] Friend: and i can see many links now
[12:54] Me: clear dvd quality
[12:54] Me: ya choose
[12:54] Me: wait
[12:54] Friend: which one to choose ?
[12:54] Me: b4 choosing any one
[12:54] Me: go down and see the comments
[12:55] Me: people tak abt that movie
[12:55] Me: bcz some times bad people upload virus as movies
[12:55] Me: or some times some crap as movies
[12:55] Me: so better to read the comments at the bottom
[12:55] Friend: ok
[12:56] Me: okay now click mininova
[12:56] Me: this is where the .torrent file is uploaded
[12:56] Me: torrentz site search the torrent file from different site and give it to u.
[12:56] Me: understood?
[12:57] Me: Mininova is one of the torrent site
[12:57] Friend: ok
[12:57] Me: now can u see the comments and thanks tab
[12:58] Me: their also u can see the comment about that movie
[12:58] Friend: yes
[12:58] Me: now click the download this torrent link
[12:58] Friend: ok
[12:58] Me: it will download and open the file in utorrrent
[12:58] Friend: yes
[12:59] Friend: do i need to save it
[12:59] Me: no just open it with utorrent
[12:59] Me: no need to save it
[12:59] Friend: ok...its downloading
[12:59] Me: is it opening in utrroent now?
[12:59] Me: good
[13:00] Me: in the downloading section
[13:00] Friend: .....in progress
[13:00] Me: right click and select open containing folder
[13:00] Me: in your hard disk here only the movie get downloaded
[13:00] Me: can u see the seeders and peers
[13:01] Me: down speed and up speed?
[13:01] Friend: yes
[13:01] Me: so down speed is the speed in which movie is downloading into your hard disk
[13:01] Friend: upon right click
[13:01] Friend: i get an alert message
[13:01] Me: upspeed is the speed in which others copying the files form u
[13:02] Me: what message?
[13:02] Me: u must right click on the movie name
[13:02] Friend: now the message has gone
[13:02] Me: can u see the folder where the movie downloded?
[13:02] Me: can u see the file?
[13:03] Friend: yes
[13:03] Me: okay
[13:03] Me: whats the download speed?
[13:04] Friend: 45KB/s
[13:04] Me: good
[13:05] Me: once the movie downloaded u can stop it by right click and stop.
[13:05] Me: that means others can not download it.
[13:05] Friend: how do i know how much has been downloaded
[13:05] Me: u can see the status
[13:06] Me: ETA
[13:06] Me: in DOne u can see the percentage
[13:06] Friend: oh...3 hrs 12min
[13:06] Me: all those details will help u.
[13:06] Me: yap.
[13:06] Me: the speed will increase once it find the number of seeders
[13:07] Friend: can i start watching the movie in parallel
[13:07] Me: in the seeds can u see 50(4500)?
[13:07] Me: 50 is the currently available seeders out of 4500 seedrs in total
[13:07] Friend: 24(8900)
[13:07] Me: ya that means 24 seeders only now available.
[13:07] Me: because people will stop the file once they download it.
[13:08] Me: their interent speed will be slow. because others dowloading the file.
[13:08] Me: so better to download the move once it get posted.
[13:08] Me: so u will get more seeders and speed will be fast.
[13:08] Me: understood?
[13:08] Friend: so...i can start watching the movie only after it has been completely downloaded right ???
[13:08] Me: yes
[13:09] Me: now come one more thing u must know
[13:09] Me: normally windows media player wont play this file
[13:09] Me: so VLC media player is the best one for watching movies form torrent
[13:09] Me: u can download it here
[13:09] Me: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
[13:09] Me: download and install it
[13:10] Me: this vlc player is really good which can play any format file available on the net.
[13:10] Me: its same as windows media player.
[13:10] Friend: ok thanks a lot man....i will save this chat for future reference
[13:10] Me: you are welcome.
[13:10] Me: enjoy the movies on torrents.
[13:11] Me: keep searching for Torrenz site for new movies.
[13:11] Friend: only 6% downloaded
[13:11] Me: its free man. why u worry about the time its takign?
[13:11] Friend: ok.....
[13:11] Me: just leave it every night. next day morning u will get movies to watch
[13:11] Friend: is there a chance of virus attack ?????
[13:11] Me: u can download as many as number of movies
[13:12] Me: ya read the comments b4 downloading any movies.
[13:12] Me: some people ask u to install some software to play the movies.
[13:12] Me: dont do that.
[13:12] Me: vlc player is the best
[13:12] Me: if that player can not play that movie, just delete that movie.
[13:13] Friend: ok
[13:13] Friend: is there any chance of spyware attack ??????????
[13:13] Me: nope
[13:13] Me: it depends on the file u r downloading.
[13:13] Friend: ok
[13:13] Me: u can also download latest softwares also.
[13:13] Me: not only movies
[13:13] Me: games also u can download.
[13:13] Friend: wow
[13:14] Me: u can search it in torrentz.
[13:14] Me: but make sure those are not viruses
[13:14] Me: read the comments b4 download
[13:14] Me: if the file is suspecious dont run it.
[13:14] Friend: ok
[13:14] Friend: can i stop the download in between ?
[13:14] Me: yes u can
[13:14] Me: if the net speed is slow
[13:15] Me: u can stop it and start it any time u want.
[13:15] Friend: will it start from the beginning or from the point where the download was interrupted
[13:15] Me: it will start from where it stops not from the beginning.
[13:16] Me: but if seeders will be less, then speed may be slow.
[13:16] Me: understood?
[13:16] Friend: ok
[13:16] Me: okay send me 100 USD for teaching u abt torrents
[13:16] Me: lol
[13:17] Friend: give me ur a/c number
[13:17] Me: lol
[13:17] Me: just kidding da
[13:17] Me: enjoy the movies
[13:17] Me: i am going for lunch
[13:17] Friend: I will use the torrent to dowload dollars from ur a/c into mine
[13:17] Me: tak to u later.
[13:17] Me: lol
[13:18] Me: ya i will write program, and will send it to u
[13:18] Me: got to go buddy. hungry. Bye.
[13:18] Friend: ok bye ttyl

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Multiple Users Working on Same Excel Sheet at the same time.

we often come across this situation, when one person opens the excel sheet, other person can not open the same one to edit or view it. This can be avoided by using share work book concept in excel sheet.

Use the following Link to know how to do it.

How to use shared workbooks with different versions of Excel

You cannot share an Excel workbook that contains an array formula that is linked to another workbook