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{May 17, 2008}   Rockbox on Ipod 30GB

Are you bored up with your same theme of Apple in your Ipod. You wanna have change in your taste? Try this new one

Introducing the Rockbox version of Ipod

Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players. It has been in development since 2001 and receives new features, tweaks and fixes every day to provide you with the best possible music listening experience. Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device’s stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customizable. We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently. We also believe that you should be able to configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want, pertaining to functionality. It is written by users, for users.

Download Rockbox

Take you ipod in disk mode.

Install Rockbox. And Enjoy.

If you need to go back to your original settings of IPOD just click “Restore” in your itunes.

There are plenty of themes available in RockBox . Some of the best looks like the pictures shown below.

To install themes get themes from the RockBox Theme site. Get the .zip files , unzip them to Root:\.rockbox and Use folder names when you extract the files.

You can also play games in your RockBox Ipod.

Some other features are

  • Bookmarking – allows you to resume playback where you stopped listening not just for one audio file but for lots eg: audio books, music, podcasts etc
  • MPEG video support – to play video files which take up much less space than Quicktime MOV etc
  • 5-band fully-parametric equalizer with lots of pre-sets
  • Support for over 15 Sound Codecs, including OGG, FLAC, MP3, AC3, WMA, WAV etc
  • JPEG image and text-file viewing


{May 9, 2008}   Armageddon

Recently I got a HD print of the movie Armageddon. I have just one thing to tell the Action , Special Effects directors and the Story writers , If i had been in your position I would have done less mistakes than you have done.
The Revealing mistakes ,goofs,factual Errors,Error in geography,Continuity Errors are

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{May 1, 2008}   Mac or Vista

Live Preview of all files...be it jpg,avi,pdf,txt...etcLive Preview of the window in the dockbar
1.Dock present in Desktop with full of Widgets from Vista itself
2.Live Preview of Every file Including avi,mpg,3gp,mov,pdf,txt,doc,rtf,html,ppt,pps,odt..and many more.Play the video then and there.Get a idea of the audio you are clicking.Read your pdf here.view your webpage and browse through you presentation file.No need to launch the required Software.
3.A beautiful Dock.

Same as Previous oneStart Menu Any whereMac Like Task Switcher
4.Animated Minimize up and down.
5.Start Menu anywhere.
6.Mac OS X like Task Switcher when you bring your mouse to any corner of the Monitor.

Mak Like Minimization...However this has Video Wallpaper which is not available in this pictureMac like dockbarAnother Dockbar style
7.Animated Minimize down.Background is a video wallpaper.Yes it HD 1080px video.
8.Mac OS X like Dock bar.Background is a video wallpaper.
9.Mac OS X like Dock bar.

Task Switcher in dockbarLogon Screen and Boot ScreenDesktop Switcher
10.Mac OS X like Task Switcher in the dockbar.
11.Self created BootScreen and Login Screen.
12.Animated Desktop selector.having 4 Independent desktops.
13.Animated Desktop selector.having 4 Independent desktops.

Desktop Switcher

All of these takes a Maximum Memory of 550 MB along with Vista Ultimate Running with NVidia Graphics card.So why do you require a Macbook of 4GB Memory at all. Vista can Rock itself.Comment Here know all the software details.I will try to combine all of them to make a single Installer.That will for Vista with SP1 only.

Machine Details
Toshiba Qosmio F30
160+465 GB Harddisk,
1.66GHz Centrino Duo,
4GB Ram
128+256 MB NVidia 7600 Graphics Card
Windows Vista SP1



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