With a little help from my friends

Oh no! It's not yet another list of 'best free software'.

Umm, well, perhaps it is:)
Here are some tools which I have been using for quite some time and they come quite handy. Just sharing the information for general knowledge.
Bye the way, I am assuming that you use firefox, and not IE. Otherwise your place in hell is reserved :)

OK. enough bakwaas.



1. Firefox addons - IETab - with this you can sign into two gmail/ymail accounts simultaneously in 2 different tabs. link - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Another useful addon will be All-In-one sidebar. link - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027 Use the gtalk sidebar along with this. That requires no gmail/gtalk sign in, you can chat in a sidebar, and close it as and when emergency arises. Yeah Bitsians, you know what I mean.:) link for it -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4708

2. Many a times when your terminal gets incapacitated due to the wrath of viruses, you can't access task manager or registry editing tools. For this you need following software. It's just some 96kb and worth a shot. Download it from my google site http://sites.google.com/site/tronixcept/Home/Scanner.doc?attredirects=0 .After downloading - rename it as .exe file (reason - I can't upload .exe file so just changed the extension)

3. To protect your usb from some kind of virus transfer use http://realtrix.blogspot.com/2009/01/usb-virus-protection-stop-usb-pen.html . Sometimes it happens that you are unable to delete some file. It says ''some process is using this file blah blah" But you don't know which process/program is using the deleterious file. Use unlocker.exe, it finds out which process has locked the file and shuts down the process. Download it here - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/unlocker1.8.7.exe

4. If you are a die-hard note taker, and don't have MS one note, which is one of the rare good software by microsoft, you can use Google Notebook. Also download firefox extension of it. http://www.google.com/notebook/ . If your work includes reading lots of IEEE type papers better use Foxit reader, and use it to the fullest. You can comment/color/underline or do anything you want with the document. Link - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_in

5. And last in the list would be the 'Bookmarklets' . There are so many of them. Just visit the page to know more. FYI I use their hide all image bookmark, which hides all image on any page by just clicking on the bookmark (see figure below.)

from XKCD

Why Do People Hate Nadal

I have some friends who follow Tennis quite religiously. There is one thing I have noticed while watching 'Federer &/ Nadal' matches with them. All of them always cheer to the shots by Fed, all of them always loathe Nadal. Whenever Federer hits a good shot, it's his class. Whenever Nadal hits a good shot he is a machine. Nadal scores because of his physical power, Federer scores because of his greatness. It all seemed so biased to me that I decided to trawl the net and see what people all over the world are talking about them.

BTW there are more google results for the search entry "why people hate Federer" than for "why people hate Nadal".


These are some of the comments I saw on a forum -

"wow… so many reasons for disliking the antipathetic topspinmonkey !!! i’ll start with his disgusting behaviour on the court…
i can’t bear this flow of negative expressions he’s showing… this ugly kid has something “evil” in the eyes…… this is visceral : i can’t bear his permanent fistpumpings (OMG when he does it while jumping or rising his leg… that’s the worst !) "


"1. Main reason. It seems to me that he doesn't respect GREATs. When he strikes some successfull shot he starts jumping, making some gestures with hands, starts looking at opponent with an anger as at enemy, as if this young kid wants to say " Look, how I have f..d you".

I imagine myself in his situation. How could I behave if I'd play against Agassi or say Federer. I think very modest. With big respect.

Concerning Agassi every player must understand in the first that he doesn't play against real Agassi, but against 35-years old Agassi. Agassi could teach such a player as Nadal if he were at age 19. Even against 35 y.o. we must recognise that Nadal won him with big difficulties.

2. Second reason. Don't like his tennis. Very primitive tennis based mainly on physical condition of the player, on his youth. Despite so many words about his bright future I tend to consider that with every year his position will worsen because his tennis is based on running, trying to get every , even impossible balls, on youth."

"I hate Rafael Nadal because he is arrogant and he pisses me off."

That's enough I think, you get the picture.

It's all illogical, don't you think? What's this 'respect' thing? Everybody has his own style of playing. I have a hypothesis about why people hate X player. It's not the only reason but It's one of the main reasons.

____People who express their thoughts are hated. [e.g. those who do 'YES!!' every two minutes] People who show their emotions - especially aggressive ones - are hated.____

I mean, C'mmon, it's a sport after all. Not a chess game, where you remain stoic.

PS - Want to know 'why people hate'? go to http://www.kuufnh.org/whyhate.htm or

An unrelated but interesting quote -

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose." - Darrin Weinberg - [who the heck is he anyway?]