Archive for March 26, 2009

AR Rahman, Pussycat Dolls team up for Jai Ho English version

Posted: March 26, 2009 in Entertainment, News
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AR Rahman, Pussycat Dolls team up for Jai Ho English version

The Pussycat Dolls have teamed up with two time Oscar winner AR Rahman for an English interpretation of the song Jai Ho from Oscar winner for Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire.

Rahman and Pussycat Dolls’ English version of Jai Ho will feature Nicole Scherzinger and will be called You Are My Destiny. Rahman tied up with Interscope Records CEO Jimmy Iovine to make a remix for the Oscar winning song Jai Ho with the lead singer of Pussycat Dolls Nicole Scherzinger.

Producer Ron Fair produced the lead vocals for Nicole Scherzinger, whose voice blends with that of Rahman.

Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle won eight Oscars including two for Rahman.

Facebook chat client

Posted: March 26, 2009 in Computer, Desktop Enhancements, software
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Facebook chat client

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Seesmic for Facebook: Get Facebook on your Desktop

Listen to your friends and update your profile from Seesmic for Facebook desktop.

this is Based on the technology behind Twhirl, Seesmic for Facebook lets you keep track of your friend’s Facebook status and easily update your own.

DOWNLOAD
You can download Seesmic for Facebook from:
http://d.seesmic.com/fbdesktop/seesmic-facebook-0.3.air

PLEASE NOTE
You will need Adobe AIR installed on your computer – available free from http://get.adobe.com/air/ open the Seesmic air file with Adobe Air when installed

10 Twitter Clients For Linux

Posted: March 26, 2009 in Desktop Enhancements, Downloads!, software
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10 Twitter Clients For Linux

if you use twitter and only use it via web you should be glad to know that there are a number of desktop clients available for us Linux users which makes using twitter a lot easier.

(Some of these clients are OS independent)

1) twhirl: Thanks to Adobe Air deploying applications over multiple platform is easier than ever. twhirl is one of the most widely used twitter desktop clients out there. It supports multiple accounts over multiple social networks with a decent user interface.

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2) twitus: A simple GTK+ twitter client with several distribution specific packages.

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3) gtwitter: Inspired by twitterrific and written in Mono/C#, this is another good GTK+ based Linux client.

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4) Qwit: Native KDE users will appreciate this twitter clients developed with Qt4.

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5) Mitter: A light weight python twitter client which can also be also used from the console.

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6) Gwibber: Another python based client that supports multiple microblogging network.
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7) KickTweet : A simple Kicker applet for KDE.
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8 ) TweetDeck: With more than 1 million active users, this is perhaps the most widely used twitter client available. Installs with Adobe Air.

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9) BLT: For the fearless among you, BLT is a perl scripts that integrates twitter into bash. It updates new tweets into your console which you can reply to from the console.

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10) Spaz: A slick Adobe Air client with many option with emphasize on user customization
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China ‘blocks YouTube video site’

Posted: March 26, 2009 in News
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China ‘blocks YouTube video site’

China is reported to have blocked the YouTube video-sharing website because it has been carrying video of soldiers beating monks and other Tibetans.

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The date and location of the footage, posted by a Tibetan exile group, cannot be ascertained.

A Chinese government spokesman would not confirm whether YouTube had indeed been blocked.

China has a history of blocking websites which carry messages it views as politically unacceptable.

In most of China, YouTube has suddenly become inaccessible.

The site has been carrying a graphic video released by Tibetan exiles, which shows hundreds of uniformed Chinese troops swarming through a Tibetan monastery – a group of troops beat a man with batons.

In another scene a group of men, including a monk, are beaten, kicked and choked, while they lie on the ground. Some have their hands tied others appear to be unconscious.

The date and locations of the footage cannot be confirmed. Beijing maintains that it dealt lawfully with last years protests in Tibet.

On Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that China “is not afraid of the internet”. However, he was unable to confirm if YouTube had been blocked.

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