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Monday, February 28, 2011

How to train your dragon(movie)

How to train your dragon!
another disney animation. What is this really about? humm.. starts with some strange place on the latitude of 'mysery'
the story starts with the attack of dragons, who aren't actually fierce but really cute looking,on the viking village for the cattles. A boy 'Hiccup' who is not that strongly built as the other boys in village, is the protagonist as the next scenes suggest. He is weak,not that quick and maybe a bit unlucky too. Later it turns out that chief of the tribe is his father and he is not being able to live upto his expectations. Though Hiccup is ambitious and he shows this by attacking the 'night fiery' dragon, which is the most feared of. He later finds out that he injured the dragon and it is in the valley, near the lake. He adds a fin to it's tail and during oncoming days he starts riding it. It becomes his pet and he learns the behaviour of the dragons by this Night Fiery dragon named 'Toothless'. Hiccup impresses the whole tribe by taming all the dragons which had been kept to teach the new kids. During this episode his father was out with many warriors to find out the nest of the dragons.
Now Astrid (Hiccup likes her) finds out about the Toothless and then Hiccup takes her to a fantasy ride in the clouds on the back of his astonishing pet. Right at that moment she gives her heart to the hitherto pariah boy,Hiccup. Then during the finals of the dragon learning course Hiccup's father saves him from the attack of a dragon and then truth comes out when Toothless comes to his rescue. Pet is captured and Hiccup was given rest. The chief now moves to the nest with all the warriors and imprisoned Toothless. There they were caught unaware by the great dragon and were about to be killed by it.
Then Hiccup comes with many of his friends riding over different dragons, then Hiccup frees Toothless and eventually kills the great dragon; during this effort he looses his one leg but wins the faith of his father. The tribe domesticates the dragons and story gets a happy conclusion !!



This story is very much similar to other animation movies in the past but the fight scene in the start and the mystry sorrounding the night fiery dragon grows the interest. Children get a lesson to be nice to the animals and tu pursue their dreams and so on...
This movie is good atleast better than ice age series, in my opinion. But nowhere near the other four leading SHREK movies of dreamworks animations. Laughs are rare and maybe it is more towards the young kids... haha

Sunday, February 13, 2011

What is to be expected from your 2G connection

Your 2G connection promises to give 136 kbps connection speed and it comes to around 15kbps for downloading the contents.

see my connection results :

So far I've used IDEA, Aircel, Airtel as well as Vodafone. Airtel gave the most reliable connection. With all the download speed being constant at 15 kbps, I was able to surf internet comfortable. It took around 5 to 7 minutes for a single mp3.

Using airtel internet was rather breeze when compared to others as there were lesser disconnections and regular updates of data balance. It works well in the roaming also, just few signal blanks in the Maharashtra railway tunnels!! ;-)

It was hard at first to consume 2GBs in one month using just a mobile phone but because of frequent music and video downloads it started looking short of the need.

Skype:- for skype calls, on the basis of personal experience I can say that 128 Kbps is sufficient if the internet connection is steady. Mobile networks are signal dependent so it's hard to keep the calls interruption free. Although in cities where network is fine, there are fewer call drops on skype.

For gprs settings for different network operators:-
vodafone sms ACT VL to 144
DO co Mo sms INTERNET to 52270
Airtel sms MO to 2567
IDEA just insert the sim and start the phone, settings are received automatically!

if doesn't work, just restart the phone again and try.

Monday, February 7, 2011

How I got my BRICKED android phone back !!

To get rid of the ads in angry birds program, I installed adfree in my lg optimus one. But since the phone didn't give the root access I had to install the z4root and titanium backup. Titanium backup also allowed me to remove some of the default applications given by the manufacturer.
This is when I uninstalled my home screen as well as the launcher. I got stuck because now I couldn't access the internet to install any launcher and couldn't go to the settings. luckily the gprs was working and I used search button and voice search to get to the marketplace and installed launcher pro. It was nice and helped me to get the full access to the phone menu. Then I upgraded to go launcher.
I am uploading the pictures in case you are curious!!!