2010 in review
January 2, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 23,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 5 fully loaded ships.
In 2010, there were 15 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 85 posts. There were 94 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 23mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was May 13th with 1 views. The most popular post that day was Essential Softwares for Ubuntu!.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were stumbleupon.com, dailygyan.com, ubuntulife.wordpress.com, hodiho.fr, and ifreestores.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for nokia 5800 firmware v4, elementary theme, elementary theme ubuntu, docky, and softwares for ubuntu.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Essential Softwares for Ubuntu! May 2010
10 comments
Nokia 5800 firmware v4.0 – Finally Kinetic Scrolling is here January 2010
3 comments
Elementary Theme and Docky! December 2009
3 comments
Transform Ubuntu into OS X July 2009
33 comments
Docky in 3D background mode – Awesome! December 2009
Movies this week
November 15, 2010
1. Dog day afternoon
One of the best movies based on bank robbery. Al pacino looks too good in the movie. Though ending is very sad. By the way its a real story
2. Insomnia
Its sad to say its the first Christopher Nolan that i didn’t like. I never knew in alaska it never gets dark, such a boring place. This is the main reason movie is called Insomnia 
3. Machinist
One more movie based on Insomnia. Good movie, but you can guess the plot before the climax.
4. American Beauty
Life is complicated
5. Escape from Alcatraz
Typical Clint Eastwood movie, not much of a talk. Its based on a true story. Not bad for a prison break movie.
6. Full Metal jacket
One of the best War movies. The first part shows the training of corps and its intimidating. Second part about vietnam war.
7. Juno
College drama. based on a stupid concept! you gotta watch disaster movie to understand how stupid it is
8. Time Cop
Time travel movie, my fav genre. Cops to protect time continuum, not bad!
9. Snatch
Funniest crime movie. The british accent itself will make you laugh
Movies this week
November 8, 2010
1. Aeon flux
Nothing new here, usual human extinction theory!
2. Wild Things Foursome
Oh boy this is becoming one of my favorite trilogies. Its the only movie where you’ll be shocked to notice the twists when movie ends.
3. Armored
what a waste of talent. Its got best actors, but the storyline meh. Don bother watching it, its torture.
4. Back to the Future Part III
The final part of Back to the future. One of my all time favorites. You wanna know how time travel works, don miss this.
5. Inception
This was the second time i watched this movie. Couldn’t believe how much i missed the first time. One of the best and complicated movie ever made. Nolan is the best! is planning to watch again
6. Zodiac
Based on true story about a serial killer. Movie is very long at times quite boring. But was shocked to hear they haven’t still found the killer. Impressive!
7. Gone baby Gone
The movie is good. But ending sucks..
8. Burn After Reading
Its damn funny! man its confusion all around. Brad pitt and george clooney at best..
9. The Big Lebowski
Another comedy movie. If you wanna know how crazy people are, you have to watch this. This guy tries some white russian cocktail in the whole movie, it looks yack
10. Lost Highway
Its becoming a habit! all the time i have to read the plot to understand david lynch’s movies.. Lost highway total freaked me out! Still i did not understand the movie. 
Movies Next Summer 2011
November 5, 2010
Next summer sure is crazy! Superheroes, Sequels all lined up for a bloodbath.
I’m Waiting for Transformers and Kung fu Panda 2
Green Lantern
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
X-Men: First Class
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Super 8
The Hangover 2
Rise of the Apes
Animation:
New Winnie the Pooh
Cars 2
KungFu Panda 2
Smurfs
Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World
Movies This week
November 1, 2010
Well its been a long week, with long weekend! So list is quite long
1. K – Pax
Great performance from Kevin Spacey. But i felt story was little weak especially the ending. We are glued from start something miraculous will happen but nothing happens.
2. Daybreakers
Oh boy this was a scary shit. Some epidemic which makes humans vampires and they survive on nothing but human blood. great idea, and its executed quite well. Humans becoming minority, you gotta watch it.
3. The Pianist
One of the top IMDB 250 movie. Its based on a true story of a jew who survives the extermination of jews by hitler’s germany. Movie is quite heard breaking!
4. The Crazies
Sci fi movie based on a virus which gets released to a town by accident and makes people go crazy.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
Its quite oldie. I have been trying to read the novel by same which movie is based on but in vain. So decided to watch it. Im a great fan legal thrillers, and it didn’t disappoint me.
6. Dead End
This is short and nice movie. Its got awesome twist at the end, don wanna ruin it for you. Go watch it
7. CandyMan
Here comes the stupid movie of the week. Only the initial plot is good, other than that god knows whats happening. The villain looks utterly disgusting
8. Donnie Darko
One more movie which totally freaks you out. Time travel movies are always crazy!
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Its quite different movie. If you like comics, im sure you don wanna miss it.
10. The Deaths of Ian Stone
Here comes a new vampire which feeds on people’s fear and pain.
11. Vacancy
Nothing new here. ain’t scary also.
12. Dead silence
One of the best scary movies i have seen. Got scary damn scary scenes. watch it in a dark room with 5.1 sorround sound, you’ll get scared to death Got awesome twist at the end!
13. Wild Things
Oh boy, its got lotta twists. It keeps you guessing. Denise Richards is damn hottt
14. Back to the Future
One of my all time favorites. Its the 25th annivarsary of the movie.
15. Back to the Future Part II
The best part Back to the Future trilogy is they are so well connected.
16. Wild Things 2
Not behind wild things, got lotta twists. keeps you guessing who might die next.
Movies This Week
October 24, 2010
1. Mulholland Dr
One of the craziest movies i have ever seen. Had to watch it twice and read the plot online to understand it. Every piece fits together so well. Have David lynch’s fan now
2. Blue velvet
One more master piece from David Lynch.
3. Shaun of the dead
One of the best brit comedies. Its got bit of sci fi story in it. If you have seen hot fuzz, you’ll find the same charecters here. Loved the scene where he explains the plan to rescue his mother and girlfriend. Damn so funny
4. The Final
Well its kinda of a stupid story. I don think any high school student would do this violence. Got some really bad violence scenes that would remind you of saw.
5. Dead Again
Its more of a mystery movie. Got awesome Twist at the end. Worth the watch.
6. Star Gate
Its a sci fi movie, based on kind of gateway between worlds. Honestly i had never heard of this movie, until i saw it. Decent movie.
7. Altitude
The most stupid Movie ever. Period. Watch it if you wanna waste you 90 minutes.. well i did
8. AdventureLand
Its a romantic comedy. Nothing new here. Usual love triangles
9. Alien
I know know, im watching after freaking 30 long years. I don know why, but i didn’t feel like watching it. anyways got blue ray one, so decided to finally watch it. Its amazing for a movie made in 1979 to have such a nice graphics on space ships. Not as good as rating says. Might be its just me
10. Senior skip day
Its a college comedy. I don know, no college movie ever disoppoints me. Might be because i loved college
Movies This Weekend
October 17, 2010
Well i have finally decided to blog about all the movies i watch over the weekend. I will not reveal any plot details, it will be just simple good or bad. Thats it. lets get onto it
1. Scream 3
The mystery of costume killer continues. The good thing about scream trilogy is it always keeps you guessing who might be the killer. Not as good as 1 or 2, but good watch.
Well its kind of a movie which has all the elements of blood in it. Its got some scary fishes eating humans, trip wire cutting humans, and worst part is its set in a spring break basically all skin This ones a 3D movie and thank god i didn’t watch in it.
3. Dabangg
Its been a while since i watched hindi movie. But after lotta good reviews about salman khan starer movie decided to watch it. Its got good comedy, definitely a must watch.
One of the After the dark horror fest movie. Movie is very slow but its got mystery in it. Not much scary, but good one!
5. The ugly truth
Well im not a fan of romantic movies. But this is kinda different. You gotta watch it sorry im bad at these
6. The Game!
If you watch this movie, seriously you would say God thats some twist at the end..
7. Election
The stupid movie of this weekend. God knows whats the story about.. and who the hell game it so much rating. definitely not recommended, if you don wanna waster 2 hours of your time.
8. Hot Fuzz
Well its been a while since i watched movie like this. Its got comedy, mystery, thriller and everything. This is a kinda movie you don wanna miss it.
First one hour seems like boring but after that its got some awesome twists to mesmerize you.
10. Red
If you like die hard, you’ll definitely like this. and why don bruce willis get old? its still like watching him in Die Hard!
All the images are taken from IMDB. Im too lazy to give my own ratings. Hope imdb doesn’t sue me for this
Enjoy the movies!
Hotot – Sexy Native Linux Twitter app
October 16, 2010
Hotot is one of the lovely apps that got me impressed. I mean you should see it to believe it. Its like app is perfectly designed. feels like you are on iPhone in linux. It supports twitter and indenti.ca microblogging service with multi-profile support.
The app is pretty basic. Single window interface with separate tabs for home, replies and so on.
The Main Window:
The mentions window:
Its the only app which have seen which implements replies perfectly. It shows to which tweet, it was replied. There is also an option where you check all the tweets in that conversation. neat!
Extensions:
Yes you are right. It supports extensions. Currently there are very less number of extensions. But im sure as the development moves along there will be a lot. The one extension i like most now is picture preview.
Installation:
If you are on Ubuntu, there is PPA for both stable and daily build. I use daily build since its under constant development.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hotot-team
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install hotot
The Bad:
Hotot is still in alpha, there are lotta hiccups here and there. Only thing that is missing for me is Facebook support. Hope it comes soon
Moving from Eclipse to Intellij Idea
September 24, 2010
Initial Struggle:
I have been Eclipse user for almost 2+ years. Suddenly one day i stumbled upon intellij idea. Courtesy of my team mates.
Initially moving from Eclipse to Idea was overwhelming. Neither i had patience nor time to learn new IDE with its own set of shortcuts.
Still after lotta of good reviews about it, decided to give it a try. Well at first i failed at it. The reason i was still using eclipse as primary IDE, since Idea shortcuts were completely different than eclipse and they were quite strange that time.
Somehow decided to give it one more shot, and this time it did click with me. I struggled initally but survived. Believe me its worth the struggle. It surely is a most intelligent IDE, especially if you are working with Javascript. Eclipse has worst Javascript support and its pain. I know there are plugins for it, but they are useless.
Idea Ninja:
No one can use IDE efficiently without mastering the shortcuts. Idea has excellent reference for shortcuts. I suggest you look into the complete idea keymap from here
If you are eclipse user, here is the small idea keymap with corresponding eclipse shortcuts.
| Action | Eclilpse | Idea |
| Code Completion | Ctrl + Space | Ctrl + Space
Ctrl + Shift + Space Ctrl + Alt + Space |
| Reformat code | Ctrl+Shift+F | Ctrl + Alt + L |
| Optimize imports | Ctrl + Shift+ O | Ctrl + Alt + O |
| Delete line at caret | Ctrl+D | Ctrl + Y |
| Replace | Ctrl + F | Ctrl + R |
| Find in path | Ctrl+H | Ctrl + Shift + F |
| Replace in path | Ctrl + Shift + R | |
| Step over | F6 | F8 |
| Step into | F5 | F7 |
| Step out | F7 | Shift + F8 |
| Resume program | F8 | F9 |
| View breakpoints | Debug View | Ctrl + Shift + F8 |
| Go to class | Ctrl + Shift + T | Ctrl + N |
| Go to file | Ctrl + Shift + R | Ctrl + Shift + N |
| Go to line | Ctrl+L | Ctrl + G |
| Recent files popup | Ctrl + E | Ctrl + E |
| Go to declaration | Ctrl + Click or F3 | Ctrl + B or Ctrl + Click |
| Go to implementation(s) | Ctrl+T | Ctrl + Alt + B |
| Type hierarchy | F4 | Ctrl + H |
| Show usages | Ctrl + Shift+G | Ctrl + Alt + F7 |
| Generate code… (Getters, Setters, Constructors,
hashCode/equals, toString) |
Alt + Insert | Alt + Shift+S |
Tips:
1. Learn to use Ctrl+J
Ctrl+J brings up the Live Template options based on where your cursor is. If you’re in Javadoc then there will be some Javadoc intentions, if you have code highlighted then there will be some surround intentions.
2. Learn to use Ctrl+Alt+T
Highlighting code and pressing Ctrl+Alt+T will bring up the “Surround With” menu.
3. Increase Your Heap Size
IDEA critics (rightly, in my experience) complain that it is slower than Eclipse. Well, your first step should be to increase the heap size. Locate your idea.exe.vmoptions file and open it with a text editer (IDEA works fine). My file is in C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.2\bin. Change the -Xmx line to allow a bigger heap. Mine is set at -Xmx512m.
Links for 16/09/10
September 16, 2010
Very handy. Just do Ctrl+shift+C and text is copied without any formatting info
Nice article if are suffering from insomnia.
Boot time of 10 seconds. Way to go!!
If you are new to Linux, must Read!
Thought for the Day
“Do not fear death so much,
but rather the inadequate life.”
~ Bertolt Brecht
