Sunday, April 27, 2008

Pursuit of Happyness


Pursuit of Happyness is one of my all time favorite movie now. I saw this movie two months back and was amazed how one can change his/her life with only one thing dedication and hardwork. Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a poor family man
struggling to make day to day needs. Despite his valiant attempts to help keep the family afloat, the mother (Thandie Newton) of his 5 yrs old son Christopher (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) is buckling
under the constant strain of financial pressure. No longer able to cope, she reluctantly decides to leave. Chris, now a single father, continues doggedly to pursue a better-paying job using every sales
skill he knows. Finally He finds an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm, and although there is no salary, he accepts, hoping he will end the program with a job and a promising future. Without a
financial cushion, Chris and his son are soon evicted from their apartment and forced to sleep in shelters, bus stations, bathrooms, or wherever they can find refuge for the night.
Despite his troubles, Chris continues to honor his commitment as a loving and caring father, using the affection and trust his son has placed in him as an impetus to overcome the obstacles he faces. Story is
written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This is a very emotional movie, i recommend you to watch it if you love emotions.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Point Reyes, CA


Last month me & my group of friends went to Point reyes. Point Reyes is a prominent cape on the Pacific coast of northern California. It is located in Marin County approximately 30 mi west-north of San Francisco. In Point Reyes you will feel connected to Nature, it has full of redwood trees, lots of hiking trails. It also has a light house. Near the light house this place is very foggy and even during summer noon time it was difficult to even stand there. It was so windy & foggy that we could hardly spend time outside our cars. By official records too, this place is the windiest and foggiest on the Pacific Coast.Point Reyes Light Station is one of the District’s outstanding tourist attractions. This place is good for Hiking, picnicking and Kayaking. You can check out Point Reyes photos at my flickr

Nokia N95



Nokia N95 was unveiled in September 2006 and was released at the end of March 2007. N95 runs on Symbian OS Series 60v9.2. This phone has some of very compaling features.

GPS - N95 has integrated GPS and loaded with Nokia map navigation software. Also these maps are free and can be downloaded for your country from Nokia website.


Multimedia - N95 is a music player with a slider dedicated for music controls. This phone supports WMA, MP3, real audio, midi, MP4 formats (There might be other formats as well, but i have not tried them).
Another great feature of this phone is TV-Out control. TV-Out allows user to connect the phone using supplied tv out cable to any TV. This helps phone owner to watch videos on big screen, see Photos on TV and user can also use internet, music, games too on TV screen.
Phone also has FM Radio, Videos recoding can be done in VGA (640X480) format.

Camera
N95 has integrated 5 MP camera with autofocus. It has Carl Zeiss optics. Phone also has front video call camera

Internet
N95 has build in WiFi (802.11b/g), it supports UMTS, EDGE, and HSDPA network for fast internet connection.

Other features
USB 2.0, 4GB or 8GB variant, two way slider

Overall this is very good camera with tonns of loaded features. Only negative points i find is, it does not have QWERTY keyboard. If you are not a too much email or SMS savvy on mobile then this is a must have phone. Actually i would rate it better than iPhone

Saturday, April 12, 2008

iPhone a super hyped phone


I don't understand what is so much exciting about iPhone. If you compare iPhone's feature with Nokia N95 then you will find, iPhone has less to offer. More over there are some problem which are basic in nature, iPhone battery life is poor, the battery can't be replaced. It has no voice dialing, no hardware keyboard and you will make tonnes of mistake while using soft keypad. Over that you pay recurring premium every month. So what is there in iPhone which inclined people to by
iPhones, there are few good things about iPhone it's elegance, sexiness, ease of use and the user interface. So i am not against iPhone and i want an iPhone as badly as the next guy, but iPhone is much hyped than it's features set. I am waiting for 3G iPhone to come out to store....