Google Page rank 4, wow!

We have been working hard for our travel guide to India, and it was an amazing feeling to see that google has given it a page rank 4. Very unexpected, but pays well for the hard work put into creating it. The site has everything from details on India and its states, to its tourist locations, to detailed road maps with distance calculator, live weather and climate conditions, hotel bookings with amazing discounts, etc.
Some might say, PR is no longer a sure shot tool for google rankings, but I don't care for now. I am way too happy to get the rank 4.

Can Plecos, cat fish live in saltwater marine aquariums

No.

They can only tolerate a very small amount of salt in their water. If you put it in saltwater tanks, it will die within a couple of hours. The salt content in the marine water aquariums, it will slowly burn its gills and dehydrate it by preventing their normal osmotic drinking behavior.

Ramayan on NDtv Imagine & Mahabharat on 9X

I am really amazed at how bad the two epics, Ramayan & Mahabharat look on Ndtv and 9X, resp. The acting is mediocre, the characters all wooden, background music is awful, and the sets are so unreal. There was so much that could have been done with these serials as we now have technology and digital effects to use. If done properly, these serials have the story to surpass any big Hollywood movie or ABC serial as well. The old serials were so good and genuine masterpieces, and if the new one's had taken even half of it, it'd have been worth watching them.
The only thing common in the two serials coming on 9X and Ndtv Imagine is that they have both been made equally pathetic.

quickpwn-gui.exe failed to initialize (Upgrading iphone)

I have been waiting for Zibri's tool to get my iphone upgraded to ver 2 from my current 1.4, howeve since Zibri is ttaking some time, i decided to go with his competitors, the dev team , this time. They recently came out with a windows based GUI to help you jailbreak and activate the iphone ver 2.02. All you need to do is fiirst upgarde your iphone thorugh itunes to ver2.02, then download another copy of the original ver 2.02 (around 240 MB's) and put it in the same folder as dev team's quickpwn tool. Start quickpwn-gui.exe and follow the on screen instructions. If by chance you get an error message saying, quickpwn-gui.exe failed to initialize, don't worry, just upgrade your comp's .net framework to the latest version (version 3).

Also, when it's all done, you'll have a jail broken iphone which you can use to install various applications, but if you are not a legitimate network user, you still won't be able to use the iphone as it's not unlocked. For this what I did was to use QuickPwnRC3, along with bootloaders BL-39 and BL-46. Another 5 min process, and it's all done.

But do it all at your own risk as the software is still in beta mode, and although it worked for me, it does not giv3 any guarantee that it'd work for you as well!

popsloader to play PS1 Games on PSP

Well, I got a few game files of tombraider and when I tried loading them on my custom PSP firmware 4.05, The games did not show. The reason was they were not normal cso or iso files, but EBOOT.PBP files. But searching on google and various forums, I got this solution which works! But make sure you are on a custome M33 firmware or this won't work.

1. Extract yout EBOOT.PBP file into a folder and copy the folder in the /PSP/GAME folder in your PSP.
2. Download popsloader. Search google for it. there are several versions available, so download what's closer to your firmaware version. Like I first downloaded popsloader for M33 3.71, but it did not work, then I downloaded a popsloader version which worked for all 3.xx firmwars, and it worked for me.
4. When you have the popsloader, you'll see that it has a folder named seplugins. Drag this folder to the root of your PSP. DO NOT PUT THIS FOLDER INSIDE ANY OTHER FOLDER ON YOUR PSP.
5. Now reboot your PSP is recovery mode It's very simple. Just close your PSP and hold the right button while starting the PSP.
6. When inside the recovery mode, choose the plugins option and activate popsloader.prx option using the X button on your PSP.
7. That's it. Now goto your games menu , scroll down to your game and play!
Try different versions of popsloader if it does not work for you!

The three mistakes of my Life

Just finished reading the book and must say the book is predictable that you know for sure what's coming up next! But wait, do not take this against the book. It's actually the best compliment you can give to the writer. The characters in the book are so well developed and created so real to life, that you can easily relate to them. Few chapters in the book, and you know that the central character Govind and his friends Ish and Omi are thinking exactly like you and your friends do. So, while you know what's going to happen next, you also feel satisfied because you thought correct.

The only drawback that the book has is that all major incidents happenes by chance, like the earthquake comes during the exact time when Govind books his store space, or Omi's brother dies in the same Godhra incident where so many people were affected. Also, the third mistake is considered as Govind's inability to prevent harm to Ali's hand, while in my opinion the third mistake had to be the circumstances created leading to the death of Omi. It could even have been Govind calling Omi to the fateful place on the night of the riots. Loosing Omi, a great friend, is far bigger a loss than hurting Ali's hand.

In ways more than one, I feel Govind's story similar to me.All these apply to Govind and me: I am the one came up with the business idea and got two of my friends involved, I am the one who comes up with the money making ideas and believes it's my duty to get things going well for my friends. I also met a foreign friend online and now our relation is so strong that he is inviting us over to his country, Spain, just as Govind and his friends go over to Australia. I also took wrong decisions because of which we lost money in business, like booking a wrong store place, trusting a wrong person and buying 2nd hand furniture, etc.

Overall, the book is good and gives immense satisfaction to read. The end is very fast and you are left wanting to know more about what would have happened next....Probably a part II of this will come out!

The mummy tomb of the dragon emperor

The first reaction which you get once the movie is over is Wow! What a total waste of something which could have been made so good. The new movie has absolutely nothing in it, no scary moments, animations are shoddy, actors have no expressions, the storyline is non existent and the comic part, which used to be integral part of the mummy series, is no where. If you remove Brandon Fraser from the movie, one would think it's a B or C grade Hollywood flick.

Don't know why Brendon Fraser and Jet Li decided to do this movie? Money might be the only reason as I am sure they'd have seen the movie is going no where. Jet Li has just got a bit role to play, as in most of the scenes he's the animated rock bodied mummy. One of the major let downs is the acting by Brandon's on screen son and his new actress wife, yes, the old charming Rachel Weisz has been replaced by someone called Maria Bello (the one in the World Trade Center movie of 2006) as Brendon (O'connell's) wife. This just adds to the woes though, because one does miss the charm of Rachel Weisz. Anyways if she was to be replaced, why did you had to bring her back from the dead in the end of mummy 2 ? O'connell's son is played by Luke Ford who more than to the frill factor, adds to being irritating with his bad acting. What irritates more is that in the first half the movie focuses more on him and not Brendon.

The movie could have been made so good, because the story was there, the actors were there( I mean if they included Rachel Wiesz as well), and the audience expectations were there. Just that it was never allowed to develop properly. Movie moves in two parts, you just get a rush of action for 10 min and then another 20 min, it goes all very slow, then again 10 min of fast action and then 20 min very slow and it goes on and on and on.

At the near end of movie, O'Connell's wife asks Brendon , " Did you regret anything?". Well, my answer is , yes, I regret wasting my money, my friday night's around 2 hrs and above all I regret seeing a movie from the Mummy series, which I used to love immensely, fall so bad.

(Note: for all Delhi and NCR people, do not visit the Imax Theater in Pacific mall ghaziabad for night shows, the ticket rates are around 20 % more, they did not put the air conditioning on for around 20 min, there were huge cuts in the movie length(which they did in almost all night shows I have been there) and in the middle of the movie for around 15 min, the sound became squeaky, audience shouted but no one cared)