Sunday, January 13, 2008

JalliKattu Video

Jallikattu is an ancient heroic sporting event of the Tamils from Tamil Nadu which takes place during the Pongal festive season. Jallikattu is a South Indian celebration involving bull taming, somewhat similar to the Spanish running of the bulls. It is held in the villages of Tamil Nadu on the eve of Mattu Pongal, one of the four days of Pongal festival (usually January 15 on the Western calendar). The one held in Alanganallur, near Madurai, is the most popular. This ancient Jallikattu sports is also known as "Manju Virattu", meaning "chasing the bull".
According to legend, in olden days the game was used by women to choose their husbands. Successful "matadors" were chosen as a hero among the girls and will be considered as a eligible bachelor to approach the girls for marriage proposal.

Here is a video recorded at Alanganallur in 2007.

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Friday, January 11, 2008

Top Firefox Extensions

Below are my favorite firefox extensions.
Tabs Open Relative
Did you get annoyed seeing your new tab opened at the far right end of the tab bar? Then, it is the extension you would definitely going to like. It makes all new tabs open to the right of the current tab.
IE Tab
Embeds Internet Explorer in tabs of Firefox. This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox. Still not happy? How about this. This add-on along with SplitBrowser to compare pages in IE and Firefox side by side. Isn't it a killing combination?
PDF Download
This extension, every time you click on a link, checks if the target is a pdf file and in this case let you choose what you want to do (open pdf file inside or outside Firefox, download it to the filesystem or view it as HTML).
Split Browser
This splits the content area of the browser window as you like. It will help you in various cases. For example, to compare multiple webpages, to show a calendar always, and so on.
PicLens
Piclens instantly transforms your browser into an full-screen slideshow experience. With just one click, PicLens makes photos and images come to life via an immersive presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional Firefox browser window.
Download statusbar
I love this add-on.View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the annoying download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
Adblock Plus
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.
Download Helper
The easy way to download Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Oldest Photograph of 1840



In 1814, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photographic image with a camera obscura, however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre is considered the inventor of the first practical process of photography in 1837. That's what the history of still photography says.
The above photograph was taken somewhere in 1840 and it is archived in the oldest photographs documents now. So, this can be called the photograph that was taken in first phase in India. The ladies in this photograph were temple dancers (devadasis) as mentioned in a brief description along with this photograph.

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Monday, January 07, 2008

Interesting Condom Song in Telugu

This is an entertaining and educational video in Telugu on Condom usage, to prevent from sexually transmitted infections and HIV, from Nrityanjali Academy, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

This video has subtitles too..

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Sunday, January 06, 2008

Watch movies online for free

Here are couple of sites to watch TV shows, english movies online for free.

www.joox.net
www.mytheater.org

Updated:
Watch most of the Indian TV channels,includes hindi, telugu, tamil, kannada so forth, latest hindi movies, live cricket for free at www.bhejafry.net.

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Thursday, January 03, 2008

Popular Deals Sites

Looking for best deals sites in US?
Here goes the top popular deals sites(courtesy probargainhunter site) based on the web traffic information provided by Alexa.

slickdeals.net
fatwallet.com
anandtech.com
deals2buy.com
dealnews.com
techbargains.com
bensbargains.net
dealsea.com
gottadeal.com
dealcatcher.com
edealinfo.com

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