Shiv Kumar

All of us in our life face a telemarketer from ‘n’ number companies. I know that they are not bad people but usually their pestering causes us to get upset and give away foul words. well, there are ways to pester them and get rid of them. I am sure atleast one of this will work out best for you.Just go on read them

# 1:

When they ask, “How are you today?”

– tell them something like… “I’m so glad you asked because no one there days seems to care,and I have all these problems; my arthritis is acting up, my eyelashes are sore, my dog just died….”

You get the idea.

# 2

If they say they’re Shiv Kumar from XYZ Company, ask them to spell their name.Then ask them to spell the company name. Then ask them where it is located.

Continue asking them personal questions or questions about their company for as long as necessary.

# 3:

Cry out in surprise, “Shiv! Is that you? Oh, my goodness, Shiv, how have you been?”

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Firefox is one of the most popular browser and rapidly gaining popularity. One of the important factor which drives this popularity is its active team of developer and huge support base.

The team of developers have made firefox customizable to such an extent that each installation of firefox is unique and different from other in looks, performance and functionality.
Over a period of time of using firefox, I have understood that firefox is beyond one persons understanding for its features and functionalities. However, using my limited knowledge of firefox, i thought of sharing my experience on customizing, my firefox.

I have already written a post on Top 10 plugins for firefox and this post will help is customizing and enhancing firefox to another level.

Apart for browsing and checking webmail, firefox can also do a lot of added functionality. I have noted a few of them.

1. Firefox as Mail client:
You need not install a seperate client for using pop3 mail services. Simply install Simple Mail [URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5593] and you get a simple working mail client in your favorite browser. Enjoy

2. Firefox as RSS reader:
We all subscribe to various RSS feeds of news, blogs, articles and much more. People end up having numerous RSS feeds. Just install Wizz RSS news reader [URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/424] or Sage [ URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77] and you get a very good RSS Feed reader within your browser. Both of them support customization, arranging as per your preference, grouping the feeds and so on.

3. Firefox as FTP client:

FireFTP [URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684] is amm excellent FTP client which support normal FTP as well secured FTP and various other file transfer protocols, with option to customize proxy and many more features is perhaps one of the best light weight FTP client and as it is integrated to firefox, it eliminates need of a seperate software.
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Well there are so many similar list on web, so whats the meaning of one more top 10 plugins for firefox.

Firefox is an versatile, secure and fast browser in itself and when supplemented with addons, it becomes great. Here are the best 10 addons for firefox.

The fact is that I am just sharing my perception as a common user, whose primary interest is to browse at faster speed with easier downloading of files, without being annoyed by intrusive pop-ups and other ads and of course discover new sites of mmy interest.

So here is my top 10 plus a bonus 1 plugins. I have just put them in alphabetical order. I have downloaded and saved the plugins (*.xpi files) and install them locally as when required. In order to locally install firefox plugin is Coming Soon.

1. Adblock Plus:- (URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865)

Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

This plugin is very efficient in blocking all the common pop-ups and banners which usually divert our focus from the content to the ads. It has available preset settings suitable for most users. Advanced users can fine tune the settings, add more banners in the blocked list by a simple right click and do much more.

2. Bug Me Not:- URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349)

Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via www.bugmenot.com

Time and again while browsing we come accross such sites which allow bots to browse the content but restrict common users. Usually all major forums on the web operate in this way. So, whats the solution, register on the site to see the content. But, not any more; A simple right click in login password box will log you in using the user submitted login and password. In case, the combination of login password fails, it tries with multiple sets of login and password.
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I just happened to watch this movie last Saturday and after watching I feel this movie needs to be there in my blog.

Start with Rating: 9 of 10

Team:
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Music: Bapi-Tutul
Background Music: Debashish Mishra
Lyrics: Prashant Pandey, Sandeep Nath
Cinematography: Amit Roy
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Tanisha, Rajesh Shringapure, Dilip Prabhawalkar

Story:

This is the sequel of the movie “Sarkar” (2005), where a new angle of power politics is shown. Anita Ranjan (Aishwarya) of a MNC Shepard Power Plant wants to set-up a huge power plant industry which will solve all the power problems of Maharastra. Sarkar (Amitabh) is not in favour of the project as it will displace 40000+ villagers from their land, but Sankar (Abhishek) is able to see the long term profit for the state.
Sankar convinces Sarkar to support him and goes to village to gain support of the villagers. But Somji (Rajesh Shringapure) has other plans and things are not that simple. Lot of dirty politics is in the play to displace the Legacy of Sarkar and as the plot unfolds, one realizes that the things are not as it looks but everything is being played as a master game.
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I don’t know if any one of you have noticed. Orkut for India is now orkut.co.in and besides adding new features like customized apps and option to invite friends from Hotmail, AOL and Rediff. They have made option of changing themes available to the Indian Users. In the initial phase, this will be available for selected Indian users and later extended for all Indian Users.

Here are some snapshots of the few of the new available themes

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Now this make me think whether orkut is trying to become similiar to facebook. May be or maybe not, but with added feature, its definitely delight for the users for orkut users, specially Indians for whom by large Orkut is the only social networking site.

BTW you can add me as a friend. My orkut link is here.

Just few days back on 12th of May 2008, we had our 1st marriage anniversary. With few of my colleagues, we went to our favorite North Indian Dhaba in Cochin and had a custom made dinner. The dinner was delicious, while the environment was also calm. With all the regular customers of the dhaba gone, it was all for us. Having dinner in traditional dhaba style was fun. Though no hungama and sound but still it was memorable and sweet.

Here are photos from our first anniversary

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An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and…..

Prof : So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is this God good then? Hmm?
Student is silent.

Prof: You can’t answer, can you?
Let’s start again, young fellow. Is God good?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From…God…

Prof: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?
Student does not answer.
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I have been trying to host personal website consisting of few static pages, a blog and a gallery time and again. I didn’t want to spend any money directly in this task. Bring a non computer guy and with little knowledge of programming except in HTML, C, C++, VB, I was faced with really a tough task. I made numbers of sites using DreamWeaver and finally settled on 110mb.com with shivkr.110mb.com but unfortunately they went paid for Database and my site become defunct. Again the search for a free web site initiated. I tried number of them, including x10hosting.com (good one), freehyperspace.com, freejoomlas.com, directspace.net, awardspace.com, free-space.net (application rejected), free-web-hosting.biz, iifree.net, sitewith.us and many more … I also tried www.freehostia.com but it had one database in free account so, i couldn’t have both blog and gallery on the site and i didn’t try at the first stance.
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