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Archive for June, 2006

Spiderman 3 Trailer

You can watch the official trailer of spider man 3 at apple.com .

Judging by the trailer the movie promises to be better than the 2nd part . The trailer shows footage of some of the enemies or maybe even a darker side of Spider man , i wont be revealing more , check it out your self .

Elisha Is HOT

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For more her High resolution pics , visit my flickr page which i will be updating regularly .

World Cup 2006 : Knockout Begins

The World Cup Round of 16 negins today and from now on there is no room for error . The most notable matches include France Vs Spain and Portugal Vs Holland . Last week we had some surprise and some Bloopers as well . Ghana played some very good footbal and qualified for the next round . Everyone expected France to deliver this time but they played poorly and managed to qualify last night . Spain , who are considered as Underdogs have played some Wonderful football and can be considered as favourites . Italy who have an easy route to the Semifinals now can also be considered as favourites as they have got a very good team spirit among them . Ronaldo who answered his critics by scoring twice against Japan have made the Brazilians look more powerful . There was an incident which will go then in History , when refree Graham Poll booked a player thrice before sending him off .

So lets hope for some best football and some surprises over the next week .

Hard Disk Trouble and Recovery

The Last week was quite an eventful one for me . Was too busy with my Computer Problems that didnt find any time to post on this blog . Well , lemme go in a little bit of detail here .

Last week while watching a movie on my Computer suddenly i was confronted with the “Blue Screen of Death ” . After the restart the computer became dead slow and after more than one hour i noticed that one of my Partitions have disappeared . I restarted the Computer and it failed to boot . This was something of a shock to me as most of my data , including my projects were in it and i didnt want to lose it . I took the Hard Disk to a Computer vendor and when he plugged it in a computer , it showed only a single partition and the rest as unpartitioned space . When i told him about the problem , he didnt beleive me and said i must have accidently deleted the partitions ………….wtf………I really hate these type of people , they dont know anything and will try to pretend that they are genious . Anyways he recommended that if the data was important , he may send it to some data recovery people but i refused as it was too expensive . After Coming back i formatted the disk and reinstalled Windows , the hard disk was fine . I had lost all hope when my friend called me up and on hearing my problem , he told me of a data recovery software that he uses to recover the data . Initially i was not pleased , i have always beleived that Data Recovery was some expert job and was not possible by us , but still decided to give it a try . I got the software “Get Data back ” from him and voila ……..after 15 hours ……….i managed to recover almost 70% of my data which i transferred to my new Hard Disk which i purchased . The data loss was basically of my Music which is not such a big deal .

Still i am unable to figure out why this problem occured , was it a Hard Disk problem or was it because of “BSOD” . I have faced BSOD before and have never faced such a problem . Anyways if you have some ideas , do tell me about it …Still A happy Ending to a bad incident .

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  • World Cup Update

    The First Round of matches for all the teams are over and it was really good to see teams like Angola , Ghana , Ivory Coast and lots more performing well on the big stage . It has also been disappointing to see teams who were considered as favourites under perform . First of all lets take a look at England , although they won there match , they didnt show that flair and attack that is needed to be the champions . Even Holland and Portugal didnt show much potential till the final whistle . But we saw some good performances from Italy , Argentina , Czech Republic , Australia , Spain . The best team performance which i saw from a winning team was that of czechs 3-0 win over USA . Now after that win , they could be considered as one of the favourites to reach the last four . The most impressive performance from a first timer was that of Trinidad and Tobago . Despite of playing almost the entire 2nd half with 10 men , they managed to get a draw with Sweden thanks to the wonderful goalkeeping of Shaka hislop . Even the Croatian team played well against the mighty Brazil and could have managed a draw . Now the next round of matches are about to begin and we can expect some more of this Wonderful action and lets hope we do see some surprises . That is the beauty of the beautiful game . According to me the favourites stand as (in order)

    1. Spain
    2. Brazil
    3. Germany
    4. Argentina
    5. Italy
    6. Holland
    7. Czech Republic

    I have added a ” results page ” which you can refer for the results and the top scorers .

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  • Winamp 5.23 released

    Winamp recently released there new version i.e 5.23 . It is available in 2 versions to download . One is pro and the other is basic which is free. The new feautures thay added is

    • Enhanced Media Liblary
    • Capacity to Burn CD/s faster
    • Faster Ripping
    • Encode music to aac/wma/mp3

    But most of these features are available in the pro version which is priced at 20$ . But still the memory usage is quite high . So i dont think i will be using it much as Foobar gives me much better option while playing games .

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