Play Things
  Location via proxy:   HOME  
DOWNLOAD
& save video
flv mpeg
mov avi
avi 3gp
divx more..
Your Ad Here
Still Stuck? Try Our Proxy Network  LegalSurf   JumboProxy    NewJumbo

Home
Strategy Muse
Mint Water Cooler
Play Things
OneWayTicket
Pinch Hitter
Mappings
Down South
Lab Rats
A Big Write Off
Incubator

The essential guide to becoming a superhero

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
With The Dark Knight setting box offices on fire all week, this is a great time to look deep within ourselves and see if we have what it takes to be a super hero. Can we fight crime? Stand for good in the face of gruesome evil? Fill out a catsuit and cod piece in the right places? A Scientific American Q&A feature investigates the possibility of...

More>>

Want the music on your friend's ipod? Here's how to copy it all without iTunes!

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Last weekend a dear friend called up to say how his laptop had crashed and how he can now never take a backup of the music on his iPod. That's because, and most iPod owners know this, there is no way to actually copy back the music on your iPod. It only works one way: PC to iPod. Apple has deliberately created a convuluted database structure that...

More>>

Your mobile talk plan may hold a nasty surprise

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
There is no denying it. The economy is in tatters. The sensex is in doldrums and my mutual fund investments evoke two words: Bear Sterns. Good times, though, for HR people everywhere who can't wipe the smirks off their faces as they begin long, sorrowful all-employee emails with the line: "Now that ICICI Bank has slashed bonuses we have decided...

More>>

So how much is the iPhone 3G really going to cost in India?

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
That is the question on every mobile-flouting, credit-card-maxed-out, gadget-obsessed, marriage-in-doldrums-due-to-wife-not-getting-enough-attention tech geek's mind of late. Now upfront I will confess that I have no idea myself. Friends keep calling me and to ask what the "business media" thinks will be the price of the "God's...

More>>

Five Firefox plugins (with one bonus) you must have

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
As you may have gathered from my last blog post, I am a big fan of software apps that are portable and installation-free. Especially when they are light, bloat-free and do what they do without a huge hue and cry. If someone asked me "Which bollywood star would most resemble the software you like?" I would have to say Irrfan Khan. (Did I get...

More>>

Does your office IT villains not let you install anything?

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Pardon the blase headline. I am trying to experiment with blatantly obvious headlines to see if that helps create more traffic and perhaps a few more comments. (Serious guys. I could use some dialogue in these parts. Comment is free.) Okay so how bad are those villains in your IT department? Do they make you send an email to the "IT helpdesk"...

More>>

Copy Cat(ch)

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
It's been two weeks or so since my last blog and I am entirely at fault...but not really. The IPL completely hogged my time. Around 4 PM everyday match fever overtook the newsroom, most notably from the corner which houses the desk of the right honourable Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, cricket scholar, opinion pages editor and coconut water addict sans...

More>>

God will roast their stomachs

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Today we have both food for thought and food for err... eating. Turn back time, oh dear reader, to the very beginning of the latest US invasion of Iraq. When the Americans rumbled into Iraq with several "Mission Accomplished" banners in their backpacks ready for the unfurling. One of the highlights of contemporary television media at the time...

More>>

Tipping Mondays - 2

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
I know it's a Wednesday (two-days to weekend!) but why fret over the day of the week when we have such spectacular things for you to do in the office for utter criminal timepass to enrich value in your organization. Well not entirely. This blog always to strives to dilute its fun quotient with some utility as well. "Just enough utility to satisfy...

More>>

How to make friends, mix drinks and pass out

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
I don't know about you, but a lot of people down here in Mumbai are loooking forward to the holiday tomorrow. Time to kick up those tired feet, load a Ram Varma Gopal ki Aag DVD and throw back a few mid-week cocktails. But I am guessing that you've been tippling on those same old cocktails you learned to mix way back in college on that hostel...

More>>

I am a Guitar Hero

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
The missus recently brought home that Guitar Hero 2 game for the PS2. It costs some 5000 bucks for the whole set, little guitar and game DVD, and is completely NOT the sort of thing she'd buy in the regular course of affairs. But, as regular readers are no doubt aware, the birthday is around the corner. And that is as good a time as any for some...

More>>

Wifi hacker tera mooh kaala

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
What hot-blooded youth with a bent for technology has not wished a wireless network for himself at home? Exactly. All of us. Including me. So almost a year ago, after much research and development, I decided to install one of those cute little Netgear wirless modems at home. (They look white and nice. Exactly like set dosas when you order them by parcel...

More>>

This day that year... look here

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Ok I am not trying to put what they call in Mumbai "ganda senti" or anything. But we all must remember that in just two weeks an event of epic proportions will unfold: my birthday. Not that birthdays have ever been particularly awesome for me. I always get some form of tummy upset or the other and once in a while I forget that its my birthday...

More>>

Espionage for dummies

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Today we will depart a little from our usual agenda, unproductive timepass in the office, and instead look at how to keep a tab on all those pesky co-workers you have sitting around you making your life fairly painful. Now let's, first of all, face a few facts. Coworkers, even if some of them are harmless, ultimately are a threat to our career development...

More>>

Tipping Mondays - 1

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
What better way to start off the week than with a couple of tips that could save you a lot of time, bewilderment and general workplace headaches... 1. WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS A DOCX FILE? WHY ARE PEOPLE SENDING THEM TO ME! Ans. Chill. If I had one dollar for every time someone asked me how to open a .docx file I'd have a lot of rapidly devaluing...

More>>

More Posts Next page »
Your