Windows dance as Savage Garden Play in Amarok

Posted on July 30, 2010 by phoxis

We just started to play Tears of Pearls by Savage Garden in Amarok just when the windows in KDE environment started to dance with the rhythm, we were stunned and first thought that it was either some feature of Amarok or of the some kind of desktop effect. My friend quickly recorded a video with this Corby Mate, have a look at it:
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Hilarious Physics Practical

Posted on July 27, 2010 by phoxis

I was almost at the end of my 2nd half of the Physics Practical final examination, when a guy came to start his 2nd half, and asked me : “Is this the Bridge Rectifier?” , I told “yes”. Next question “Do you know how to do it?” I told “yes” , he replied “Please tell me how to do it” . I informed him that I was busy with my one and could not provide any help at that moment. Minutes passed by, the teacher came and tried to guide the guy through the practical. The teacher almost did everything of the practical and instructed how to do it. I was not paying attention much but the real story started when I went to sign my copy.
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Valve Portal Gameplay Video : TestChamber 10 to 14

Posted on June 25, 2010 by phoxis

valve_portal_logoHave you played the Valve Portal game ? It was the most different and probably the best after HalfLife2 . After completing Valve Portal, I to recorded my gameplay videos. It was difficult to determine how to play when recording. A level can be played in more than one ways. I tried to be a bit slow on the game and give the viewer a chance to enjoy the videos. Here are mode videos others are yet to be uploaded. And i also think some needs re record, as some of the gameplay looks clumsy. I will post the game play 5 videos a page. Below menu will be updated with new posted videos.

Yet another set of 5 videos. This post contains TestChamber 10 to 14
See the gameplay videos of TestChamber 10 to 14

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The Cake Is NOT A Lie

Posted on June 24, 2010 by phoxis

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The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
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The cake is NOT a lie ! (confirmed by The Regent Bakery & Café in Redmond, Washington)
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Valve Portal Gameplay Video : TestChamber 05 to 09

Posted on June 21, 2010 by phoxis

valve_portal_logoHave you played the Valve Portal game ? It was the most different and probably the best after HalfLife2 . After completing Valve Portal, I to recorded my gameplay videos. It was difficult to determine how to play when recording. A level can be played in more than one ways. I tried to be a bit slow on the game and give the viewer a chance to enjoy the videos. Here are mode videos others are yet to be uploaded. And i also think some needs re record, as some of the gameplay looks clumsy. I will post the game play 5 videos a page. Below menu will be updated with new posted videos.

This post contains TestChamber 05 to 09
See the gameplay videos of TestChamber 05 to 09

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Valve Portal Gameplay Video : TestChamber 00 to 04

Posted on June 21, 2010 by phoxis

valve_portal_logoHave you played the Valve Portal game ? It was the most different and probably the best after HalfLife2 . After completing Valve Portal, I to recorded my gameplay videos. It was difficult to determine how to play when recording. A level can be played in more than one ways. I tried to be a bit slow on the game and give the viewer a chance to enjoy the videos. I am able to upload some videos and some are yet to be uploaded. And i also think some needs re record, as some of the gameplay looks clumsy. I will post the game play 5 videos a page. Below menu will be updated with new posted videos.

This post contains TestChamber 00 to 04
See the gameplay videos of TestChamber 00 to 04

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WordPress.com IRC Channel

Posted on June 5, 2010 by phoxis

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Support is one of the best features in wordpress.com . The official documentation, the email support and the mainly volunteer driven forums make a very strong and fast support system. Except these three there is another support system in wordpress.com which almost no one is aware of. The freenode IRC channel of wordpress.com .

IRC is a text-based chat system that allows millions of people around the world to communicate in real time.

The IRC chat will enables you to communicate with other people in the chat room and get direct support, discuss about topics and a lot more.
Read more to know how to configure wp.com IRC

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Do Really ALL of us want to Reblog ?

Posted on June 3, 2010 by phoxis

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After a huge wave of excellent features and themes from wordpress.com in the last months, wordpress.com included a new feature what they call “Reblogging”. At the fist look i thought it was something like the facebookish “Like” button on the top for bookmarking, or subscribing it in readomattic, or like in StumbleUpon. But it read like this :

If you decide that you want to share the post with your own readers, you can click the “Reblog this post” link and you’ll be taken to the new QuickPress tab on the WordPress.com home page. This will auto-fill a snippet of the post text, a link back to the original post, and a link to the blog. If the post includes any images we’ll also automatically add a thumbnail image to the reblog post. Finally you can add your own comments to the reblog post then select which blog you’d like to post it to (if you have more than one).

I thought okay, wordpress.com is trying to get “social” (were we unsocial or anti-social before?), but i discovered the feature was like this:
Continue reading my view about the wp.com Reblog feature

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Code Quality Measurement Unit : WTF / minuite

Posted on May 31, 2010 by phoxis

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Code Quality Measurement Unit : WTF / minute


The only Code Quality Measurement Unit
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WordPress.com Top 10 Features

Posted on May 27, 2010 by phoxis

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WordPress.com is a free web-blogging service which uses WordPress CMS software as their blogging platform. Here are the free blog feature list : http://en.wordpress.com/features/

Before starting a blog in wordpress.com , I tried some CMS softwares offline. I used Joomla, Drupal, Vox, Plone, etc. WordPress CMS matched my exact needs. Self hosting was a tedious task with the work of creating content as well as an extra burden of administration. I decided to go with the free blogging services. I registered with blogger.com and spent some time testing it. Although it is feature rich with allowing editing theme XML, CSS, allowing JavaScript, Flash embeds, but somehow it was not a match for me. At last I finally tried wordpress.com . After starting it felt a bit bad as there was no manual theme customization options which became a habit that time, no free CSS editing, no JavaScript, and had limitations. As time passed, I was getting into wordpress.com the more I discovered the features and adjusted myself, and started to post more content. At last I am now fixed in wordperess.com, and mapped a domain with their domain upgrade feature.

Continue reading to get the Top Ten

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