For those who doesn't know about Star Trek, it is a sci-fi series involving space exploration that started back in 1966 and has over 6 series - the Original Series (1966-69), the Animated Series (1973-74), the Next Generation (1987-94), Deep Space Nine (1993-99), Voyager (1995-2001) and Enterprise (2001-05), and has 12 movies about it - last one being Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).
And now for those who know about Star Trek or don't, the recent movie - Star Trek Into Darkness, the crew that to work with lasers... and so they had to use special neutron cream to avoid any tissue damage... as per Scotty, and with him being the chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise, it is a safe bet to trust him on this... for more information watch the video!
Courtesy: The Mary Sue
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Slickdeals.net!
Slickdeals! Oh, Slickdeals.net! Slickdeals.net is an awesome site filled with slick deals (duh!), coupon codes, and forums filled with threads by the users, moderated by super-duper awesome moderators, working around the clock making sure people who visit the site don't come across spam or fake deals.
On Slickdeals.net there is no actual buying or selling, just a collection of deals from various sites that'll save you (tons of) money, like for example let's say you want to buy a hard drive or clothes and not sure if there is any deals out there that'll help you save some extra bucks, or want to find and keep tracks of coupons for your favorite meal place!
I've gotten couple of good deals such as 50% off Papa John's pizza, Synology NAS, Seagate RED drives, free $5 and $10 on Audible.com, and oh! a free Doctor Who episode!!!
Also I came across this video today where the most awesome and daring Slickdealian, Finzz, goes on Mission Slick Possible on the night of Black Friday in 2010, enticing and dragging people into the world of Slickdeals.net by with awesome Slickdeals t-shirts!
And for more videos about Slickdeals.net from reviewers and people who use the site click here.
Oh! Did I mention you can lay traps for deals and coupons of your choosing and get email as soon as a deal arrives on the website? Well check out deal notification/alert page after signing up! And oh there are daily giveaway prizes!
And a shout out for all the amazing people behind Slickdeals.net! Special thanks to Finzz & widgit for the help :P
On Slickdeals.net there is no actual buying or selling, just a collection of deals from various sites that'll save you (tons of) money, like for example let's say you want to buy a hard drive or clothes and not sure if there is any deals out there that'll help you save some extra bucks, or want to find and keep tracks of coupons for your favorite meal place!
I've gotten couple of good deals such as 50% off Papa John's pizza, Synology NAS, Seagate RED drives, free $5 and $10 on Audible.com, and oh! a free Doctor Who episode!!!
Also I came across this video today where the most awesome and daring Slickdealian, Finzz, goes on Mission Slick Possible on the night of Black Friday in 2010, enticing and dragging people into the world of Slickdeals.net by with awesome Slickdeals t-shirts!
And for more videos about Slickdeals.net from reviewers and people who use the site click here.
Oh! Did I mention you can lay traps for deals and coupons of your choosing and get email as soon as a deal arrives on the website? Well check out deal notification/alert page after signing up! And oh there are daily giveaway prizes!
And a shout out for all the amazing people behind Slickdeals.net! Special thanks to Finzz & widgit for the help :P
Monday, September 2, 2013
Netflix Original Series
So couple of my friends and a friend recommended the show House of Cards and Orange is the New Black to me respectively, both of which are Netflix Original Series.
So first things first. Orange is the New Black is about the life of Piper Chapman, a woman from Connecticut, living in New York City, who was convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for Alex Vause (an international drug smuggler and Chapman's former lover) and was sentenced for 15 months to women's federal prison in Litchfield, NY. The series follows life of Chapman and that of those around her at the prison.
Next up House of Cards. There is two versions of House of Cards - UK version (3 series released in 1990, 1993 and 1995 - 4 episodes in each series) and US version (1 season - 13 episodes). I have watched both, and it is roughly the same plot style, and roughly the same name for the antihero!
The antihero of the BBC version is Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party. The plot follows his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The antihero of the US version is Frank Underwood, a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th Congressional District and the House Majority Whip who, after getting passed over for appointment to Secretary of State, decides to exact his revenge on those who betrayed him.
So first things first. Orange is the New Black is about the life of Piper Chapman, a woman from Connecticut, living in New York City, who was convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for Alex Vause (an international drug smuggler and Chapman's former lover) and was sentenced for 15 months to women's federal prison in Litchfield, NY. The series follows life of Chapman and that of those around her at the prison.
Next up House of Cards. There is two versions of House of Cards - UK version (3 series released in 1990, 1993 and 1995 - 4 episodes in each series) and US version (1 season - 13 episodes). I have watched both, and it is roughly the same plot style, and roughly the same name for the antihero!
The antihero of the BBC version is Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party. The plot follows his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The antihero of the US version is Frank Underwood, a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th Congressional District and the House Majority Whip who, after getting passed over for appointment to Secretary of State, decides to exact his revenge on those who betrayed him.
Plex
So my last post was about setting up a NAS to store and access your files from the Internet, and in this post I shall bring to you Plex. Plex is multi-platform application that can arrange your (ahem! messy maybe?) media libraries and host them and so that you can watch them from anywhere and it also gives you the ability to share it with family and friends.
For every movie and TV show it gathers information from imdb and tvdb for every episode and also each TV show it also downloads the theme song and plays it on the background when one accesses the show.
For every movie and TV show it gathers information from imdb and tvdb for every episode and also each TV show it also downloads the theme song and plays it on the background when one accesses the show.
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
In this digital media age, people have tons of photographs, videos - movies, TV shows (if you are anything like me), and music. But to store them we resort to space on the drives in our computers, some go for external hard drives (hopefully keep multiple copies of them across different drives to safe losing them if a drives fail - yes that happens!). Now accessing these files when touring or from outside home/work or on a trip can be a hassle with setting up dns, web-server, etc. for non-tech pros.
I found a simple and quick solution for this problem - a network-attached server. There is plenty of network-attached servers out there now for household use such as Synology (I just bought one!), ReadyNAS by Netgear, QNAP, Buffalo, etc.. Don't forget when purchasing drives make sure you get a NAS drive, and yes there is a difference - the typical drives are not meant for 24/7 usage whereas NAS drives are meant to be abused for 24/7.
Now if you have a Synology NAS with the drives, here is the setup instructions for creating a folder to store and share files and here is the setup instructions for making your server accessible from the Internet. Make sure you have your firewalls up!
I found a simple and quick solution for this problem - a network-attached server. There is plenty of network-attached servers out there now for household use such as Synology (I just bought one!), ReadyNAS by Netgear, QNAP, Buffalo, etc.. Don't forget when purchasing drives make sure you get a NAS drive, and yes there is a difference - the typical drives are not meant for 24/7 usage whereas NAS drives are meant to be abused for 24/7.
Now if you have a Synology NAS with the drives, here is the setup instructions for creating a folder to store and share files and here is the setup instructions for making your server accessible from the Internet. Make sure you have your firewalls up!
Terminal Customization
Step 1: For those on linux has the package manager can proceed ahead! For those on mac, I highly recommend getting Homebrew and oh, check out iTerm2!
1) Fortune - A random fortune/saying spouting program.
2) Cowsay - A program that creates ASCII art of animals with some expressions.
3) Separator between commands - Helps to distinguish the starting and ending of command and it's output.
4) Colors and Prompt - While most terminals comes with properties and abilities to change color of text and background, this will help in customizing how you view files, folders, scripts, etc.
Few other examples of terminals and tweaks customized by others:
1) Battery capacity - for those working from laptop.
2) Background image - instead of monotone background color.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Original British Drama 2013
It is almost time for the fall seasons to begin! BBC has already released a compilation of their original drama series - Sherlock (starring Benedict Cumberbatch + Martin Freeman), The Musketeers (starring Peter Capaldi), The Escape Artist (starring David Tennant), The Great Train Robbery, Quirke, Ripper Street, What Remains and By Any Means.
Sherlock - Series 3 Trailer:
Sherlock - Series 3 Trailer:
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