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8 Free Alternatives to existing products that you use

1. Operating System:

Instead of downloading pirated copies of windows and living with the guilt, download Linux and relax. If you are new to linux and want a user friendly interface, but also some eye candy, your best bet would be Linux Mint. Ubuntu is the next safest option, but mint has quite a few codecs and applications to run out of the box. You can also run it off a live CD if you want to test it out before you use it. Do remember to backup your data first!

2. Office Suite:

MS office is another software that makes you feel shifty isn’t it? Well there’s an alternative to be guilt free there too. Openoffice.org offers a free office suite that can replace MS office for you. Don’t worry it is compatible with MS office documents, so you don’t have to worry about files not opening.

3. Programming:

Always wanted to learn code? Don’t have time to join classes? Want to learn from the comfort of your office or home? Codeacademy teaches you how to build websites games and apps right in your browser. It’s fun, interactive and you can easily keep tabs on your progress as well as friends’s.

4.  CD Burner:

Nero license expired? Want a free alternative? Give Ashampoo Burning Studio a try. Its interace is quite similar to Nero, making it easy to navigate. It also features Blu-Ray support in case your require it.

 5. Photo Editor:

GIMP boasts of features to rival that of Photoshop, while at the same time requiring you to pay nothing. As it is a volunteer developed beta software, the interface is not all that flashy, but it is more than dependable once you look beyond that.

 6. Video Editor:

Windows Movie maker is the best solution here. It’s already built into most Windows editions. If you are still not satisfied and want an alternative,you can try out Wax, AviDemux,  or Blender if you are into 3D rendering as well.

7.  Antivirus:

While there are a lot of options here, I found Microsoft Security Essentials to be the most light weight and user friendly. Avast and AVG are excellent alternatives which offer a few more options.

8. Video Calling:

While you might be loathe to relinquish your hold on Skype, you could also try out Google Hangouts. You could use it to schedule webinars, take classes or work on some documents with your colleagues. This require you to have an account on Google+ though.

There you have it! 8 alternatives for stuff you use every day and now don’t have to spend a single penny on. Of course, our blog is also another rich source where you can get information on social media marketing, social bookmarking, tips to increase productivity, tech reviews and a lot more for free. Hope this article helped to enhance your productivity. Feel we left out an app that should have been on this list? Do let us know.

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Movie Review – THE DESCENDANTS

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*ing George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller

Before posting the review, the figures first:

The movie has grossed $ 51 M (Rs.270 Crs) as on Jan 22, 2012 in the US since its release in mid-November 2011.

It has been nominated for the Academy Awards in the following categories

• Best Picture
• Best Actor in a Leading Role, George Clooney
• Best Director, Alexander Payne
• Best Adapted Screenplay, Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
• Best Editing, Kevin Tent
• It has won the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Drama) & Best Actor in a Leading role – George Clooney (no surprises here!)

Source: Official website – The Descendants

The Story:

The movie revolves around a hot shot Real Estate agent Matt King (George Clooney) with a thriving legal practice business in Hawaii. His wife meets with an unfortunate accident and the movie is all about how the agent brings his family together – He has his younger daughter aged 10 years (Amara Miller) to take care of and his eldest of 17 (Shailene Woodley) is away at a college and not exactly on friendly terms with her parents. Its about how the family comes together and copes with this real time crisis and also about certain skeletons that tumble out of the cupboard during the process.

My view:

The movie released in India on January 26, 2012. I spent my Saturday night i.e. 28th January 2012 watching this movie at Big Cinema at R-Mall (not to mention the 180 bucks that I shelled out for the theatre ticket and Rs. 170 on refreshments!)

One would expect any movie with such a star cast boasting of the ever green George Clooney and with the number of awards/listings pinned to its chest to be a houseful one for atleast the first week if not for an entire month. However reality hit hard when the 3 of us (which can be read as 3 Idiots – hey no offense guys who were with me) reached the theatre at 10:45 pm for the 11 pm start. Once the movie started till the end, there were only exactly a dozen who were present!

The reasons are not hard to imagine.

The movie seemed more a portion of the numerous Saas-Bahu operas running on Indian television all week long with no beginning no end. George Clooney seems to have put in quite a lot into this role what with Penguin style walk(remember the Batman movies) and his Forrest Gump like scene when he runs to his friends place to check out on a piece of startling information provided by his daughter (Don’t want to spoil the fun for all those Descendant & Clooney fans!). Every time they came up with a close up shot of Clooney, It seemed that I was staring into the face of Mr. Wagle (Anjan Srivastava from Wagle ki Duniya!) ace cartoonist R.K. Laxman’s Common man epitomized on television. The movie just about wanders along predictable lines with a little bit of forced buffoonery in a supposedly serious picture. It has the usual parenting scenes wherein Clooney does not seem to have his daughters under control and how they seem to be in a state of constant disagreement.

However one needs to give full marks for the performances of Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller for doing full justice to their roles and playing them out well.

Last but not the least, My award for Best Actor in The Descendants would be for Patricia Hastie in the character of Elizabeth King, Clooney’s wife who plays the role of a comatose wife to be taken off life support!

I thought the movie to be a one time watch. Do share your reviews and opinions with us.

With Social Media Marketing racing into our daily lives through friends, peers & those wonderful first time virtual friends, advertising online received an amazing adrenaline rush with millions of dollars being spent by big Brands on social games for an ad spot, brand reach and the most cherished word for this decade “connect”.

All of the Big Brands seem to want a part of it. Right from Bing, Mc Donalds, The movie   – Megamind, Strauss Groups Peanut bar, 7eleven and more are racing to acquire “fans” & to further increase their brand reach by putting up sponsored ads on the worlds most addictive social game of Farmville by Zynga with over 80 million users online playing it.

MC D's Ad On FV

The wonderful aspect of this whole social gaming and reaching the audience was also when for causes like HAITI relief, Farmville game contributed a wonderful cause by bringing users together, connecting, being a part of this concern and in real terms making a huge positive contribution and difference to them globally.

Haiti Relief from Farmville

7 eleven Ad on FV

Strauss Ad for Peanut bar on FV

Farmville Worlds most Socially connected Social Gaming

No wonder the ad-spend on social gaming has crossed over $200million already worldwide.

What does the future look like for brands and products to connect with their consumers in unique way for a global reach?

Share your views with us on this!

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Over 1,500 hard print copies distributed across Corporate’s globally in the last 15 days with splendid responses so far.

The first free online version is now available to all our members across platforms (Facebook, Orkut, Forum, Blog, Website, Microblog sites etc….)

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Core Contents of the Magazine:

• Social Media Marketing: More than Metrics: Humanize Your Brand
• Social Media Quotient: Where are you?
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• Marketing: From wall to wall
• TechNoLogic to TechKnowLogic: Microsoft MS Office Powerpoint 2007 tips for Pro’s
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Dear Friends,

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Advertising

Favourite Ads

Dear friends,

This blog post is long overdue from my end. Finally after a quality survey in the last 2 weeks, I am writing this post on ADVERTISING as requested by many of our readers from India.

Its been just over 7 years and across 18 Brands that I have divided my time between both the worlds of advertising and marketing. But luckily the new age techniques got added and with that I always realized that in today’s scenario, what is needed is a combination of a real time connect with the audience.  Only then will we  be able to touch base at varied levels with the today’s consumer. There is a long journey ahead and as I finally pooled in the survey results yesterday conducted with scores of members of TECHDIVINE Creative Services, the results were simply splendid.

A brief Introduction of this post:

Advertising, what it meant before: ‘A form of communication with an intention to persuade the viewer to buy or consume a particular brand or product’

Today: Advertising is “Information with quality entertainment to build a strong appeal and generate immediate response”

There are too many types of advertising methods & techniques that have been developed over centuries.

Right from the time when kings and queens ruled, walls and rocks were inscribed, painted propagating the merits of the rulers.  Soon, people themselves started delivering messages and advertising the rulers by saying out aloud the success of the rulers to its masses.  Then came the time when boards and people holding boards with messages were popular.

But the whole scenario changed with the introduction of print media entering the scene. Soon there were printed advertisements and flyer’s all around.

Advertising was evolving quickly. Radio, broadcast, Product advertising using guerrilla advertising techniques, infomercials, online advertising, mobile advertising, social media marketing and so on.

The highest recorded spot individual advertising spent was in the year 2009 wherein during the super bowl football game, an average single 30 second TV ad during the event cost around $ 3 million. Whoa!

What has changed the scenario so much?

As we looked into many different aspects of it, lot of our members gave their views of their favourite ads seen in the last 1 year  (India).

The message was clear. The viewer today needs more than just flashy content.

The audience today needs:

• A clear message
• Brand appeal touching base with the product characteristic
• Strong relevance and message to product association
• Strong concept
• Easy Brand recall
• A possible legendary icon if it could create  that the viewers can relate to
• Lots of quality entertainment

Few of the favourite ads (All medium – Print / Video / Online….) as chosen by our members & our views on the same too:

Closeup Revolving door:

Our Views: Superb ad. Nice blend of the right tone and style of message across. Fresh and it works!

Airtel Ad:SRK

Our Views: Superb Ad. They could not have chosen a better man to endorse the same. SRK, the King himself connecting with a humble message “Akele hum kuch bhi nahi…”

Incredible India:

Our Views: Probably the best from the lot. Personally, our First Favourite. All stars!

Vodafone Zozoo ad: International Roaming:

Our Views: ICONIC. Superb ad(s). All the ads are simple, humorous & have a clear Message. The character is LEGENDARY! Connects with audience of all ages.

Center Shock ad:

Our Views: Good Ad. Appeals to the product’s target audience.

“Old Ad”: But still listed as favourite: Fevicol:

Our Views: Superb Ad. Personally, our second favourite.

Cadbury Dairy Milk Silk:

Our Views: Superb Ad. Clear, precise and connects. As most of the Cadbury ads.

Bajaj Pulsar Ad:

Our Views: Good Ad. Flashy but a little overdone.I guess they are right, definitely a  male!

Tata Docomo: Ganesha

Our Views: Superb Ad

DLF IPL 2010:

Our Views: Superb Ad. Jut as the brand, a powerful appeal and an amazing visual connect. Just like the game, larger than life.

Coca Cola Ad1:The Library

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKV0kR6Ih0s

Our Views: Superb Ad. Visually and in terms of the message. A perfect combination of Brand and appeal.

Coca Cola Ad2:

Our Views: Good Ad. Nice connect.

Max NewYork: Cricket

Our Views: Good ad.

Pepsi:

Our Views: Ok Ad. Ranbir at his best so far. But the appeal could have been a much hard hitting message than what is. The connect somewhat seems to be missing here for a beverage drink especially for the ‘YOUNGISTAN’.

Union Bank of India promoted the running of joint bank accounts with a print advertising campaign featuring one of India’s most well known couple: Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi on India’s 100 Rupee note: M K Gandhi Ad campaign

UBI: M K Gandhi Ad: Joint Account

Our Views: Superb Ad.

Aseema Childrens Trust:

Aseema Ad

Our Views: Superb Ad. Powerful and gets the message across clearly.

That wraps it up for this post……….

Do give me your views and comments on the same.

Would love to hear from you.

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Ananth V

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Welcome to the 82^nd Annual Academy Awards. The night we all have been waiting for.

The red carpet began like always with all its glory and glamour.

As the celebrities drove in, the background simmered with the glitz with scores of fans screaming out their names, the red carpet flew into the majestic cinematic magical wonder that it is.

The stage was set as Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin introduced the lighter moments and yes, the nominees too. Most of their introduction was revolving around the ravishingly gorgeous Meryl Streep, who was attending her 16^th Oscar nomination.

Then began the magic of the amazing golden statuette, the night of the 82^nd Oscar.

Penelope cruz looking stunning as usual, gave the Oscar for the best actor in a supporting role – Won by Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds) – This is his first nomination and Oscar. Wow! Congratulations.

Pete D won the Oscar for UP (Animated Feature) who quoted, “I never thought, my high school flip book story will lead me here…..” Well, it did. It must have been an amazing flip book because it was a wonderful animated feature.

The Oscar for the best Musical score was won for Crazy Heart.

The night had just begun.

Tina fey and Robert Downey Jr. gave the Oscar for best Original screenplay. The nominations were simply splendid and the winner was Mark Boal for Hurt locker.

John Hughes was honored for his contributions over so many decades and the legacy that he had left behind.

Best animated short was won by Nicolas Schmerkin for Logorama. You should really watch this movie. It’s simply brilliant.

Music by Prudence won for Best Documentary short by Roger Ross Williams.

The New Tenants won by Joachim and Tivi for Best Documentary.

Ben Stiller made a superb entry in the form of Avatar character and gave the Oscar for what else, for best make up. The winner was none other than the galactic wonder, the ‘Star Trek’ – Barney, Mindy and Joel took the Oscar.

Best adapted screenplay was won for Precious by Geoffrey who gave an emotionally charged acceptance speech just like the marvelously heavy hitting brilliant movie.

Queen Latifah introduced the Governors awards for 2010.

And, yes, then came the man himself, Robin Williams, who presented the award for best actress in a supporting role. The Oscar went for the brilliant performance by Mo’nique in Precious. You have got to see the movie! It’s precious. No pun intended.

The Oscar for best Art direction was won by Avatar, no guesses here (The team – Rick, Robert and Kim)

The Oscar for best costume design went to, The Young Victoria, costume by Sandy Powell who won her 3^rd Academy award.

Best sound editing was won by Paul Ottosson for The Hurt Locker.

Best Sound mixing went yet again to Paul Ottosson and Ray Beckett for the Hurt Locker.

Outstanding achievement in Cinematography went to Mauro for ‘The Avatar’.

The Oscar for the best visual effects went to none other than Avatar. There was no doubt here. (The Team – Joe, Stephen, Richard and Andrew)

The Cove by Louie won the best documentary.

Best film editing went to, yet again The Hurt Locker won by Bob and Chris.

The Best Actor Male went to the legendary Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart and the best Actor female, went to gorgeous Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side.

The surprise of the red carpet’s evening was when both the Best Picture and Best Director went to Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker.

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FarmVille (FV) is a real-time farm simulation  game developed by Zynga, available as an application on the social networking website Facebook and through their own Zynga Farmville Website.

Farmville today has over 80 million users worldwide and the number is only increasing.

Zynga has created a game larger than life, an idea cloned from Slashkey‘s very own Farm Town. But today, FV has surpassed every other possible game across the globe on such a wide platform. The magic is the amazingly enormous regular updates in the form of holiday related celebrations, applications, freebies, gifts, social gifts and so much more.

Gameplay:
Create a Farmer (Male / Female) Avatar: Use the default 6 plots of land and start your farming.

As the game grows, your level grow, you get to buy more stuff for your farm from the MARKET like, seeds, animals, decorations,trees, buildings, expand farm etc. and earn Higher Experience points (XP) with more harvesting and plowing and increase your FV coins or cash through more levels. One can even buy actual FV cash from Zynga by paying through online funds transfer.

With more levels, more market purchases, visiting others and helping others farms, achieving more ribbons etc. the game goes on and on with levels around 70+

Farmville Harvest

Today Farmville is undoubtedly one of the most popular games in the world wherein Microsoft‘s MSN games has also launched FV to it’s website where users can login using their FB connect.

Happy Farming.The power of social gaming is here!

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DC & MARVEL COMICS

I am a man of action. I love the power unleashed by DC Comics and Marvel Comics. I love all the gadgetry, the car chases and even the increasing ingenuity of the villains that come with the thrills of watching an action movie. However it is the superheroes segment of the action movie business that I like the most. Like many of the movie buffs, I have been out shopping for the latest Spiderman series starring Toby McGuire and the Batman series starring Christian Bale.

I have to confess that I have been to various places starting from flea markets to the many shopping malls in search of the DVDs which can provide me the complete series of these superheroes. However my efforts have come to a zilch. Another reason being there aren’t too many legally selling superhero combo movies in a three or five dvd set. Let’s face it. What’s real should stay real. I just hate Piracy!

Hence it was with great interest that I finally got to watch BATMAN: The Dark Knight courtesy HBO who were the first to premiere it on television a few weeks ago. A fantabulous movie for all its action sequences, pyrotechnics, stills, drama and the concept, it also set me thinking. A thought that appeared has materialized into this write-up.

Somehow my mind started making comparisons of the Bat with another of my favorites Spiderman. The more we thought these super heroes were different, the more they appear as long lost brothers or as the saying goes brothers in arms. The following comparisons may seemingly be different in nature at the beginning but by the very end, you will be convinced that Batman and Spiderman are two sides of the same coin!

Batmans parents were killed by a mugger named Joe Chill when he was just 6 years old and was raised by their loyal and trustworthy butler Alfred.  A young Batman swore revenge on the enemies plaguing Gotham city and sought to protect it from crime.

The Spidey did not have much knowledge of his parents who are supposed to have died in a plane crash. He was raised by his Aunt May & Uncle Ben ever since. However the accidental death of Uncle Ben at the hands of a burglar turned Peter Parker from a shy, emaciated boy into the Spiderman who fights crime in New York city.

Both Batman and Spidey did not have friends and felt lonely most of the time. I guess that stands true for any true superhero.

The Bat was a millionaire living in a city that had much of Bruce Wayne – The industrialist, playboy, only heir to the Wayne family and last but not the least being Batman to thank for. Thus deemed to be far superior and wealthier than any of Gotham city, the Bat mainly found himself alone with an on and off relationship with Rachel Dawes, his childhood friend.

BATMAN

On the other hand, Spidey and his family lived a hand to mouth existence with Peter Parker doing odd-jobs and landing a temp job as a reporter with the Daily Bugle (Well Superman was a reporter too in his alter-avatar!!!). He loves Mary Jane, supposedly a neighbour for 20 years but is afraid to tell her and also since she has had more success than he has (so he thinks) leading to an on and off relationship as in the first case.

How much truth does the phrase “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” hold

Both have had the ignominy of turning friends into enemies:

Batman’s friend in Dark Knight – Harvey Dent turns into “Harry Two-Face” hell bent on revenge for thinking that the Gotham city police and Batman were responsible for the killing of his girlfriend.

Spiderman’s best friend Harry, son of wealthy industrialist Norman Osborn turns against him when he comes to know that Spiderman was responsible for his Fathers death.

SPIDERMAN

The enemies too sound pretty similar –

Catwoman and Scarecrow for the Batman and Lizard and Chamelon for the Spider

Clayface and Sandman – Both beings one a treasure hunter and the other a petty thief, converted into villains by willingly or unwillingly becoming a part of an experiment they were unaware of

Dr. Freeze and Dr. Octopus – Both scientists whose lives changed after failed experiments

Both wear capes so as to not reveal their real identities in public

The creators of Batman were Bob Kane & Bill Finger (B & B) whereas Spiderman was created by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko (S & S)

For the movie buffs, it may seem as an amazing coincidence that the characters of Rachel Dawes enacted by Maggie Gyllenhaal and Mary Jane enacted by Kirsten Dunst look fairly similar in appearance.

I guess my super powers of drawing conclusions on two of my favourite superhero characters is closing in. What’s your say?

Readers are welcome to add to the list and to comment on this write-up.

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3 IDIOTS – *ing Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi & Kareena Kapoor

***Give Me Some Sunshine, Give Me Some Rain, Give Me Another Chance, I Wanna Grow Up Once Again***

and so the story unfolds………………

Written by:

Credits:

Writing credits
Chetan Bhagat -  book “Five Point Someone” (After reading the book and watching the movie, its probably just about 10% that’s been taken from the book)
Rajkumar Hirani     –    story
Abhijit Joshi      -   writer

Original Music by
Shantanu Moitra

Cinematography by
C.K. Muraleedharan

Production Design by
Acropolis
Rajnish Hedao

Art Direction by
Rajnish Hedao

I watched 3 IDIOTS at PVR Cinemas thereby making my long & lovely Christmas holiday have a wonderful end. How? Well, I watched it with my friends, my high school friends.

My verdict – Ensure that you have a ‘dhekko’ of this movie. It is absolutely worth the moolah. This movie is definitely one of the finest produced this year.

The concept of the movie takes off from where Aamir left off in Dil Chahta hai. It is the story of three guys (3 Idiots) who meet at an engineering college, become room mates and then become the best of friends. One of their less illustrious friends Chatur Ramalingam reminded me of a friend in school days. So did few others too.

This very feature of the movie wherein the audience can relate to the characters and the situations is what works in making this movie the hit of the year.

The Characters & Plot:

Aamir Khan, if he can make it to the Education industry, he can well transform the entire education delivery system in the country by the intelligent ideas portrayed in Taare Zameen Par & 3 Idiots system of teaching and learning. Nevertheless, the beauty is, we will only get to watch these beautiful teaching techniques only in a movie, as our Indian education system will never change.

Boman Irani has given a great performance as usual again proving to one and all that he cannot become an effective Principal/Headmaster – All his students tend to get the better of him in his movies. First Main Hoon Na then Munnabhai MBBS & now 3 Idiots. He has again done it with ease.

Madhavan and Sharman have under acted and done it amazingly well. Their characters are definitely not the main catch of the script but the end scenes and performances given by both of them, takes the story and those characters to a totally new level.

The story begins with two friends Farhan (Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman) trying to hunt down their old friend Rancho (Aamir) 10 years after they completed their engineering. This journey leads them through many a twist in the midst of which we are given a detailed account of their years at the engineering college. They manage to even gate crash Kareena’s (Aamir’s love interest) marriage in their search.

I would like to divulge the details rather the entire movie but do not want to spoil the fun for those who are yet to see it.

So Watch it and come back impressed by Aamir’s performance coupled with Sharman & Madhavan playing the perfect foil.

My advice: DO NOT miss the first 10 minutes of the movie.

Movie Rating:4/5

To bolo: All isz Wellll……………………….

Regards

Mani S (A.k.a Ananth S) & TD