Archive for September, 2007

Vishy won the Chess Championship

September 30, 2007 at 12:29 pm · Filed under Chess ·Tagged , ,

Anand

Our Chennai Chess Hero Vishwanathan Anand won the World Championship 2006 again. The 37yr old was crowned World Chess Championship after a draw against Hungarian Peter Leko in the 14th & final round in Mexico. Eight worlds top chess stars played for the title and Anand won four of his 14 games and drew 10 games. He was the only player who remain undefeated in the 14-round event. Anand has been in world’s top-three for the last 15 years and now he is officially rated No 1 in the FIDE rankings.

Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the former champion, won his last round game against Levon Aronian to finish in a tie for second with Boris Gelfand of Israel who could only manage a draw against Alexander Morozevich of Russia. The final standings goes like this

1. Vishwanathan Anand = 9 points.
2. Vladimir Kramnik = 8 points
3. Boris Gelfand = 8 points
4. Peter Leko = 7 points
5. Peter Svidler = 6.5 points
6. Alexander Morozevich = 6 points
7. Levon Aronian = 6 points
8. Alexander Grischuk = 5.5 points

With this massive victory he took home a cheque of US $390,000. This is the second time Anand won the World title. Anand had previously won the title in the year 2000 which was held in India & Iran but at that time some top stars including Kramnik didnt participate in it.

If you would like to know more information about the tournament and the final standings of the championship check out the official Web site. Also Click here to view the games.

I used to play lots of chess games online(thanx to Yahoo Chess) which I mentioned earlier here. If u are an ardent lover of chess check out the chess resources here and here.

After the Twenty20 cricket world cup celebration its time to give a wonderful reception for our champion :)

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Ahhh Google presently is finally out.

September 22, 2007 at 8:27 am · Filed under Google, Google Pdts ·Tagged , ,

Techcrunch reports that Google is going to launch a new product at Techcrunch40 and as expected the much awaited and loong rumored Google Presently is launched at the event and changed the name as Google Docs which was Google Docs & Spreadsheets earlier.

If you look at the Google Docs “New” pulldown menu you’ll see a new entry for creating presentation.

You can do collaborative development of presentations, meaning you can share and do collaborate editing with ur friends & collegues. Also you can chat with your audiences who are watching your slideshows.

There are many issues/missing features in the current release

1. You can import presentation files lesser than 10MB of size and there is no way to export ur presentation.
2. External objects cannot be embeded into ur presentation and there is no way for cool transitions and sounds.
3. You can insert images which should be less than 2MB
4. Right after the release, InsideGoogle found a vulnerability.
5. Login page still says “Google Docs & Spreadsheets” eventhough they renamed it as “Google Docs”
6. I have created a presentation about the latest buzzword Ajax :) but there is no option to embed it into the webpage :( But if u wanna check out click here to view my presentation

Im wondering how a big company took so loong time to ship a half baked product ;)

Let me stop complaining here :) If you wanna try other online power point tools check out Zoho Show, Preezo, Slideshare.

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Playing RealMedia file in Linux

September 15, 2007 at 5:43 pm · Filed under Linux

If u are in Linux platform and would like to play .rm file, then RealPlayer will be the right choice. Follow the below steps to install RealPlayer 10.

1. Go to the shell konsole
2. Login as a root user by using “su” command (or else use sudo command if you dont know root user password).
3. wget url
4. chmod a+x RealPlayer10GOLD.bin
5. ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin

Once the installation is done, when u execute the program, it will ask for License agreements and other stuffs for the first time. After successful execution u can use RealPlayer to play .rm, .ra, .rv, .rmvb files. Also it can be used to play .mp3, .3gpp files(mostly used in cellphone cameras) and the open source Audio format Ogg file.

RealPlayer 10 for Linux is FREE and if you like to view the official download site click here .

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