My valentine with cricket Aseem N wrote this at 11:56 pm • Filed under General •

What better than spending all your day this valentine with your most loved sport! Was kinda holidaying last week…and on the top of the cake here comes a cricket match India Vs Sri Lanka @ Goa’s Fatorda stadium. Just the second one I have been to… and as expected it was pure fun! Howling and screaming slogans, obeying the Mexican waves, waving at cricketers who would field at the boundary line, posing with ppl wearing weird costumes just to catch the attention of the cameraman…yea it was all there!

Though we missed so much Dhoni’s big hits… and a high scoring game but the cricket fever was pumped up all day. I missed nothing, it was just a perfect Valentine’s Day!

What did you do on your Valentine’s day?

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Irritating SMS beeps Aseem N wrote this at 1:37 am • Filed under General •

While an SMS beep would infill excitement in you with the thought of your near and dear ones trying to get in touch with you, for me its getting increasingly irritating now. Thanks to the tonnes of messages Idea Cellular sends me all day. Idea Dhamaka…. Gadi jeeto, Sona jeeto… Ek lakh rupaye jeeto… Bollywood quiz… Number collect karo…uh! Can I tell them that I am not interested in making quick money like this? (Or may be lose balance quickly with every call for such offer charged a minimum 6rs!).

All my family members have Idea connection… so imagine how much irritating its getting for all of us.

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10 most funny car commercials Aseem N wrote this at 2:44 pm • Filed under WOW, General •

Was browsing my friend Maltesh’s blog and found an amusing Porsche commercial video. Certainly my best of this pack. In a few moments after watching the video, I was crazily youtubing and hooked to watching more and more car commercials on youtube. After running down about 50 odd ones… here are my Top 10 videos :)

10. The irresistible VIOS – You will want one
A really funny car commercial. So the next time you see a VIOS… just beware!

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Welcome changes on Orkut.com Aseem N wrote this at 9:48 pm • Filed under Tech •

Its been a long journey for Orkut and orkuters. Orkut has grown to be a popular networking service worldwide with about 12.95% of its users in India in the last 3 years of its net presence.

Google has constantly strived to maintain and augment the quality and value of Orkut, often integrating it with some other services in its pack.

Google has already integrated Google Talk into Orkut. Often when you login, a list of friends online on GTalk appears in the sidebar. It wont take time for Google Talk to be the most popular chat client with this addon. The only glitch in it is, you cannot integrate your Google Talk id into it until you have configured it with orkut.com. You have to register a new one. :(

Also while visiting profiles, showing mutual friends list was a welcome change. Replying back instantly to any scrap without visiting the scrapbook of the person who scrapped you saves so much time. Earlier while scrapping back one would tend to follow scraps to newer profiles. Ok now saves a lot of time! :lol:

While the above features have been around for quite some time now, Google is integrating new and interesting features into Orkut.

NEW FEATURES:

Google Video/Youtube: You can now add your favourite videos from Youtube or Google Video (both services owned by Google) into your orkut profile. As India is becoming broadband ready, this add-on will certainly pick up fast amongst the Indian Orkut users.

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Review: Aapkavideo.com – A desi video sharing service Aseem N wrote this at 12:18 pm • Filed under Aseem Reviews, Tech •

This is a paid review of the product: www.aapkavideo.com

Now does that mean I have been paid to write nice and sweet lines about Aapka Video??? Certainly Not! This is completely an unbiased review and only reflects my evaluation of this free online video sharing service. Keep reading to know of how I rate this service.

Aapkavideo.com is in its beta stage right now and been the talk of the Indian cyber space for about 2 months now. Log on to their website and the first thing that will please your eyes is the clean and simple interface. Simplicity does not pause here. Right from creating an account to uploading videos you don’t have too many things to bother about. However when I tried to view the videos in Firefox, they just refused to play. So I had to use IE. Guess, this should be fixed once the site is out of its beta period.

So isn’t this just a desi version of Youtube? Hmm… YouTube has been insanely successful, and I don’t see a reason why something as remarkable as Aapka Video should not. Infact this is one of the best Indian Video Sharing Services I have seen around. A prominent feature on the site is their “Specials” - a series of videos related to a hot topic in news, sports or bollywood, is certainly a unique idea. Infact, the very next moment when Sachin Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 100 against West Indies, his 41st century in ODIs, Aapka Video was quickly up with a special on his most prized hundreds.

However their USP is a quality collection of the latest desi videos. All videos that matter to India and Indians. Be it bollywood videos, hot stories that have hit the news, cricket, videos from the Indian television screen, and every content that is true to being Indian. In fact I could not resist myself clicking on every next video that popped up in their similar videos section.Users can not only share multiple videos with their near and dear ones but also upload their own videos in all types of video formats like .wmv, .mpeg, .mpg, .avi, .mpe, .mov, .movie, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .qt, .mpv2, .mp2v, .mpe, .asf, .asx, .avi ,.wm, .wmx , .3gp , .mp4, .rm etc with filesize of upto 100MB. That’s what their tagline says “Director Ban Jao”.

One thing that impressed me was that the video streaming was really neat and fast. You can also view the videos in a larger size at the click of a button. While tags, category listings and search can be used to discover new interesting videos.

SUGGESTIONS:

• Videos on Aapkavideo.com can be marked as offensive if the content is inappropriate. Presently, this feature can be accessed even if you are not logged in. Just a suggestion to them, that this feature be available to only registered users.
• Also they should incorporate some rating system for the videos.

With broadband penetration in India pacing up, this service seems to be just bang on to be launched and grow bigtime. I have already got addicted to viewing videos on AapkaVideo.com. And now its your turn…

Rating: 4/5

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