Monday, December 28, 2009

NATRANG Theme for Windows 7

Natarang (Marathi: नटरंग) is a forthcoming 2010 Indian Marathi movie directed by debutant Ravi Jadhav starring Atul Kulkarni, Sonalee, Kishor Kadam,Vibhavri Deshpande,Priya Berde.The film is scheduled for release on 1 January 2010.Veteran music composer duo Ajay-Atul is scoring the music.
The film portrays the struggle of a creative mind that dares to think different. The story is adapted & based on the novel by Dr. Anand Yadav named as "Natarang ". Natrang is set to release in India 1 January 2010.



Download Link for Natrang themepack for Windows 7: Link

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Who is Responsible?

A few days back on Monday 21st December 2009, Sant Meera School in Angol (Belgaum) received a call at 2.25pm about a bomb being kept in the school and immediately the school was made empty and the dog squad searched for any bombs or explosives. But nothing of that sort was recovered. My niece is studying in 1st standard in the same school.

Though the school was emptied immediately and students were sent back to their homes, the school authorities didn't inform it to the parents. My niece goes to school daily by auto rickshaw. Her school time ends at 4.00 pm. Since this incident happened at 2.25pm her regular auto driver was not present in school at the moment, hence she started walking home alone. While coming back, once she forgot the way to home and after roaming for some time she found a familiar landmark and fortunately came home safely..

Surprisingly, school authorities let only 1st standard students to  go where as many other students were in school and they went home at regular time. This is an example of poor administration in Sant Meera School. We are fortunate that my niece came home on her own. If something bad would have happened, who is going to take responsibility of the incidence. At least school autorities should have informed the parents to come and pickup their children.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Keys to Successful Life (यशस्वी जीवनची सुत्रे)

I found a very good article in December 09 issue of Hitguj - (Marathe Pratishthan). I liked it very much and thought I should share it with you all.




Friday, December 11, 2009

INSURANCE TROUBLE


I owned Bajaj Discover 125 which I purchased in Year 2004. When we purchase a new vehicle, we have to get it insured. I insured my vehicle from Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company by paying approximately Rs. 1000/- as first year premium.


The premium payment process worked well for next two years and every year I paid some reduced premium amount (Insurance premium amount should decrease every year because the value of the asset reduces every year because of depreciation). But in 2007, Bajaj Allianz person told me that we have to pay a premium of Rs. 1000/- because company has increased the prices. I blindly agreed and paid. In 2008, again the same issue, and I paid 1000/-.


This year I went to pay the premium and surprisingly they asked me to pay 2000/-. As I knew the premium amount should decrease every year but in this case it was reverse in this case. Above all Bajaj Allianz has discontinued all the notification (like premium due date, premium amount etc.) being sent to customers. This means customer has to check when the insurance period is going to end, and before the period ends he has to go to Bajaj Allianz office and pay whatever amount say.


Later I visited websites of ICICI Lombard, Reliance Insurance companies to calculate premium amount for a 5 year old vehicle. The calculated amount came around Rs. 800/-. I found that whatever being said by Bajaj Allianz people was completely wrong and without any document, letter proof from company or government, they are charging huge premium amounts to their customers.


After getting a bad experience from Bajaj Allianz I went to National Insurance Company and purchased a new policy from them. The premium amount I paid was only Rs. 682/-.


Thus when you purchase any policy, do verify the policy details by comparing similar policies of at least two companies. Private companies may charge extra without any reason, just what happened in my case.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Firefox 3.6 beta 4

I love to use Firefox as a portable browser. It helps me carry my settings, forms, passwords etc stored in a pen drive and use it on any computer.

Almost every 15 days - 1 month a new version of Firefox is released (3.5.0, 3.5.1 --- 3.5.5). The latest version is 3.5.5. Yesterday I downloaded Portable Firefox 3.6 beta 4. Whenever a new Firefox beta is released it doesn't support many add-on extensions which we have been using in old Firefox. Thus when we install beta it in our system, we see all the extensions are disabled saying that it's incompatible with new version and we left no choice than reverting back to stable version.

But this time there is an extension which will test the compatibility of all extensions with new beta release. Here we can check whether the extension is working in Firefox beta or not. In either case we can report its functionality to Firefox team.


In portable Firefox we just have to copy the 'Data' folder from older installation directory to new one and we can start using new beta with all preferences, themes and extensions of old Firefox.


Except a few, almost all extensions are working fine in my 3.6 beta 4. I found that CoolPreviews extension is not compatible with Firefox 3.6 Beta 4, so i reported it to Firefox and disabled the extension.


You can download the Add-on Compatibility Reporter 0.4 from the link below.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003

Also visit the following link to download some very useful Firefox extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/a52ffb1a-40c4-ee7c-4a7b-6cdd1bce7b49