Proxmate - Accessing video/music content sites exclusive to USA

How amny times it has happened that we have had to wait for latest episodes of some famous american sitcoms to available illegally on the internet? Many a times we have used the much maligned torrents to illegally download series and movies. The irony of all this is services like hulu or even youtube (For US users) has many episodes available instantly. Even CBS provides free episodes on its sites but it is not available to users outside USA?

So after much thoughts people started using proxy servers but again the age old problems started cropping up : advertisements. malware's, flash not working etc. I felt at times to pull out my hair. Why in India or in many other countries across the world we are not able to view due to some stupid licensing issues. Even if I have to access sites like pandora,turntable.fm which are indeed very good sources of music I can't.

So enough of beating around the bush and crying. I recently came across a plug-in for chrome and firefox which goes by the name of PROXMATE.  And it is simply a wonderful plugin because it uses the proxies of a US based software without the user having to do anything and magic happens. Now I have unhindred access to hulu, pandora and what not but its a amazing piece of work. Simple yet effective. Now I don't have to hunt for proxies or download stuff illegally from the torrents.
The home page of the plug-in is http://proxmate.dave.cx/  and please donate generously to keep this wonderful plug-in alive.

Bleachbit - open source alternative to CCleaner in Linux and windows platform

Most of us on day-today, face a  problem of accumulation of various temporary file that can occupy a major space of your hard disk. This may, not only slower the over all performance of your PC, installed with Linux or Windows OS but may also may leave you with a little memory over a long run. (Few thing takes times friend).
So my suggestion would be for you will be keep removing these unwanted files from time to time.Currently , if you are looking for such kind of software, then  Bleachbit.  is what you will be looking forward too.

Flickr - give a one Terabyte huge smile to its user with 1 Terabyte space

This is awesome. Now you can take upload of all your pic/images on flickr, which recently announced to offer 1 terabyte of space to all it  user ("with a smile") , and that to absolutely free. Loyal users have been waiting a long time to see some major updates at flickr and as of yesterday their wait is over. Now, Flickr has completely new layout, the Android app for the service has been redesigned, and the amount of free storage has been increased to an outstanding 1 TB!

Internet Explorer 10 new add campaign "The browser you loved to hate"

Recently I came cross the add campaign "the browser you loved to hate." for Internet Explorer 10 @ http://www.browseryoulovedtohate.com . The campaign is theme around, to surpass the negative image around the browser "internet explorer". Some of the  campaign video are quite funny and you will definitely will gonna like.

Chekout more video from the campaign.

New Stat release by facebook for month Aug 2012 - May 2013

 Today facebook release the various stat figures on it official page. These stat cover 12 different aspect of this social media site but few of them caught my attention specifically,  one as the end user

1. Likes
2. Item shared
3. Monthly active user
4. Daily active user
5. Mobile monthly active user

The revealed number show a strong relationship between sales of smart phone and percentage increase of mobile monthly active user (54%, 751 million) .

6 Techniques to Reduce Camera Shake - by Natalie Norton

In this post, photographer Natalie Norton explores 6 ways you can hand hold lenses at low apertures and low shutter speeds and still avoid blurry images caused by camera shake.

She says..."I’m a mover and a shaker in general, and this is particularly true when I'm on a shoot. I'm twisting and turning, climbing and jumping and to top it all off, I DO NOT have a steady hand, plain and simple."

Here are 6 options for avoiding camera shake and achieving crisp, delicious images no matter the length of the lens, no matter the shutter speed.


1. Elbows In

As often as possible pull your elbows in to your body and exhale completely before depressing the shutter. When you’re working with a wide aperture or low shutter speed (or both), even a breath can introduce shake. Pulling your elbows tight to your body can really help keep you steady. I also press my elbows firmly into my chest for even greater stability.

How to use external HDD or a Pen drive across the major OS' like Windows, OS X and Ubuntu without formatting ?

This post arises from my initial struggles of using a MAC ( At the time of writing I have managed to blow up my macbook pro and back to  linux system and an occasional Windows user). I always had a ntfs partition on my HDD's and also my pen drive because one fine day I realized that the FAT32 file system which is so popular can't handle files of sizes greater than 4 GB. Yes i know that's atrocious in this age of blue ray and HD videos. So I converted all my disks to NTFS. All was hunky dory till I met my nemesis.

I got my MAC and transferred loads of file from windows and linux to my new sweetheart. After I decided I needed to create backups of some photos and other mundane stuff and to my utter shock I couldn't write anything on my HDD. I panicked thinking my HDD's are dead and with that my data gone. But I again plugged in my HDD to the old faithful Linux system lying in the corner. and to my surprise it was working just fine. I went back to my mac (yes I am ungrateful but you got to admit mac looks cool and the hardware is the best optimized for the software) and fired up my browser and looked at the issue. NTFS being a windows proprietary file formatting system was despised by Apple and Apple used something called HFS file system . And we all know that Linux also uses ext4 file journalling system. And HFS file systems were not supported on windows . I was sad at the turn of events and then saw complicated solutions to enable ntfs mounting on MAC and they were highly unstable.

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - to say good-bye with dignity to your social life.

If you are grown tried of your social network on twitter ,linkedin or myspace .If you think that you are spending too much time on these website or consider yourself an internet addict , unable to give ample time to your creative thought and feel that deactivating your account/profile , then this website can be of your great help - suicide machine.

Vi editor help sheet for beginner for basic operation

If you are new linux user or planning to migrate to linux then it is required for you to know the basic of Vi. text editor .(For programming, I think sublime is better.)
Vi editor , is one of the most common editor used in linux, to do file operation, apart from pico and nano or various command like less and more.
Some of the command to can make your task easy and fun to do and you can also pipe it with other linux command to to basic file operation.
Here is under below beautiful cheat sheet, for beginner by gosquared for new Vi user. Check out the link : gosquared

how to create a strong password that you can easily remember?

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months." ~Clifford Stoll

Information technology  has impacted more than anything else around, in the current century. Now, you can  share your thoughts without barrier and censorship, get in touch with lik- minded people and  follow your interest through these available  technological toys and sharing forum.
Same, has create a new ground and opportunity,  for few people to exploit these technology for there own malicious benefits (cyber crime) . The few things, these unethical hacker do is to guess or steel your password for identity thefts on social media or take advantage of this information hack to make monetary transaction.

So to prevent us scenario, it would be best to make strong password and keep changing it regularly (at-least twice a year) . It might be easy to create a strong one , but how to remember it can be difficult task.
While making your password always keep the following point in your mind.

sublime-text ! a fantastic programming editor for Window/Linux/Mac

Programming editors are one of the most personal thing for a coder. This choice may vary as per the language he/she be taking up for the current project. Switching of editor may be also due in availability of the same in the other OS environment.                                               I started my coding in window environment in C and in few days become the fan of Notepad++.Later on as a Bioinformatics, I had to change the Operating system environment for my project and had  to program in Linux (Ubuntu).

As the  notepad++ was not supported  (still not supported) , I started looking for a nearest option . I started with gedit (the default text editor in linux), then I switched to Kate,  to Vi and then to geany. Geany was easy and some of the feature made me very comfortable  eg displaying of all function on side bar.

Lets celebrate Mother's Day with google

I just want to thank you .....
I love u mom!

print "I love u mom!";     #in perl and python 
puts  "I love u mom!";     #in TCL

Gmail Blue - I cant believe i waited this long for years

One of the funniest video, I have ever came across of all google pranks.
Hope you will love it. Its blue in the end.

How do I make a machine “blank screen” for a period of time (as a penalty) if certain noise levels are reached?

Riding a new height.This is what we call the hight of geek attitude and sharing your problem with like minded people.

code.org - an initiative to teach and popularise programming in US

Recently in the past month (april) a new intiative code.org was started to popularise programming in the young people in US. The initiative has been headed by Hadi and Ali Partovi  (an early investor and  advisor for company like Google and Dropbox).
The website show a video that has snippets shots of the interview complied, showing Bill Gate (Co-founder Microsoft), Mark Zuckunberg (facebook Co-founder), Drew Houston (Co-founder Dropbox), Jack Dorsey (Twitter Co-founder) and other top notch of the industry.

A cheat guide for Software Licensing

'''This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>'''

Most of us have encountered these above lines or  term like  GPL,Apache, MIT, Monzilla licensing etc, in regard to software, one way or other in our life.Do you have ever give a thought about why do they exists and which may be the best one for the code or software you are pushing over the free subversion repository (I also, do not care much about licencing term for my personal code too!But for now I have decided to go for "copy left").
So, if you have really spent some hundreds of lines of constructive coding , and had made a some good product out of it or you want to clear  the mist around this various term follow few more line under below.

Ghost - new blogging platform get funded within 12 hours of lunching @ kickstart

John O’Nolan's (web designer and former deputy head of the WordPress User Interface group) new project has caught  every one eyes at kickstart. (Check out the line" Just a blogging platform!")

John want this platorm relatively simple and away from complexities ,which current wordpress has evolved into. He promises this will be just a great blogging platfrom acting like a ghost writer publisher for your blog

major sunset that impacted me most

Sunset can scenery for photographer or a painter, but in tech world, this jargon is used for the product that may be or will discard.(Rest in peace) . Till date , touch wood,I have used many web product or website services and they are actively running  and growing.
Though there are few names  that has become bygones of the past, which crossed my memory while I was preparing this small post.

The earliest memory is of Yahoo briefcase ! The closing down of the briefcase did not  impacted me much , as I was just got an introduction to internet, at that time .(I still donot know what the product was  meant for?). Internet speed was really cruel during that day ... along with prices we had to pay. (256Kb  for Rs.799 for unlimited plan) (Now the same applicable for water supply connection, if you living in some metro city) and the maximum from this speed you can manage was to do, was of make e-ticketing for railways, checking mail account and very popular social networking site orkut (still alive!) in India.

How to make money on internet?

This flow chart explain it all.Apart , Google addsence  there are many other resource you can exploit to make more money.

philosophy behind the name - ideapaste

The new of closing down of posterous(posterous.com) was sad as I have maintained all my blog on that service.It was last day, and took  backup all my data and my mind started racing about what to do now.
Will it be blogger or wordpress this time.
I donot want create my blog again on any service that has cloud of shutting down in near future for about 70 years (As I am in my 20s and expect to leave the plant earth in about other 70 years)

It was again a new beginning....1 may (labour day) for a labour wishing to become an independent entrepreneur.

What is the easiest language to start with for a computational biologist?

Most of the student have this question to me multiple times which is the best and the easiest language for a computational biologist to start learning programming.
Common suggestion of the old programmer will be in

• C
• Perl
• Python
• Java
• R