Potpourri!

Er, this is actually the title of a book by Chetan Bhagat. The IIT/IIM grad's third book deals with the typical problems faced by today's youth in India. The three principle characters of the book are Govind, Ishaan and Omi, the 3 boys from Ahmedabad who start a cricket shop to earn their bread.

The story revolves around the struggles which these youngsters have to surmount in order to pursue their dreams. The plot includes the real life events such as Bhuj earthquake which rocked Gujarat on the Republic day, the Godhra train massacre and the subsequent riots which resulted in loss of life and property and the historic Indian Cricket team's victory against the Australians at Kolkata.

The 3 boys also find a promising cricketer in the neighborhood. They take this boy, Ali to Australia so that Ali can train along with the world champions. However things begin to take the turn for the worse as Govind falls in love with Ishaan's sister Vidya which brings their friendship to a grinding halt. As the story moves at a frantic pace one of the primary characters gets killed and then the story reaches its predictable conclusion.

Although the book is peppered with romance, struggles and aspirations of modern day youth, this books comes a distant second when compared to the phenomenal "Five Point Someone". But having said that its definitely worth a read. Priced at 95 rupees it does not leave a big hole in your wallet.
Truly yours,
Cosmic Freak

LCD TV GOES ON A DIET!!!

Samsung’s New LCD TV goes on a diet - just 1cm thick -
Samsung has taken the wraps off an anorexic 40in LCD TV with a 1cm thin waistline

Just weeks after Sony kicked launched its first skinny OLED-based TV – just 3mm thin - Samsung is out to prove that existing LCD technology can be placed on an extreme diet too. This 10mm panel uses an LED backlight to provide what Samsung claims is 92% of the NTSC standard for colour saturation - almost as good as a CRT TV – but with a low power consumption of under 90W. Just WOW isn it???

Unlike the Sony OLED panel, which is restricted to just 11in and is not HD-ready, Samsung’s super model is a HDTV, displaying Full HD (1080p!!!) video. When we will actually seecapable of them in shops is anyone's guess. Well many tech geeks say its abt to hit shops in 1 or 2 yrs.....Till then keep dreamin!!!

FUTURE OF BOOKS!!!
With everything turning towards technology, we have adapted the out with the old, in with the new mentality. Designer Kyle Bean has created a design that illustrates the issues with “technology and the Internet, and the effect it is having on the way we source information”. We are becoming a society that is more virtual. We download music rather than purchase CD’s, we research on the net, rather than going to the library and reading books. According to Kyle, “Books also have personality - they have textures and smells which the internet can’t offer”. Kyle wanted to illustrate this issue by using a book turned into a laptop. The object is made from a book purchased at a discount bookstore for only £1.50, as well as a few electrical components to illuminate the screen..








The book/laptop, has a CD-Rom drive complete with CD, a keyboard that can be removed so as to access the battery, and a switch that turns off the screen light once the book is closed. The book when closed, looks just like a regular book until opened. The words, “The Future of Books” is inscribed on the spine. I think Kyle did a wonderful job expressing the changes the world is facing regarding technology.

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Will keep updating more!!!Till than keep surfin!!!
Bladezz!

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His team mates fondly call him 'the TIGER' for his inherent battling qualities and the cricketing experts have been long wondering how this run machine with the fussiest of techniques which contradicts any coaching manual, has never ceased to roar!

Hailing from Guyana this fragile looking bloke is better known for frustrating oppositions of the highest standards! Chanders is one of the few players to have gone 1000 minutes in Test cricket without conceding his wicket. He has done this three times, and is the only player to have done so more than once. Its natural for any opposition to cede watching someone occupy the crease for such immeasurably long periods!


This is the man to whom the team often looks to and he's been ceaselessly happy to bury himself at the crease to rescue his team out of peril.
With his colleagues failing far too frequently,
he often runs out of partners... but never has he frowned to wage a lone battle...

His stance and technique have long baffled his counterparts and here's the great McGrath citing his team's difficulties with Chanders:
"You're waiting for him to face up, and he already is... Warney wanted to go out to square leg and bowl to him from there. It obviously works for Shiv. He's a class player and the position he gets himself in to play the ball, there's no problem there. But it's a little off-putting running in to bowl at someone standing front-on with the bat behind their shoulder."


If your into the notion that this guy's fit only for tests gobbling up as many overs as possible, wait a minute.... hes capable of shifting gears at ease! His last ball six against Sri Lanka (precisely 10 runs of the last 2 balls) will remain etched in history... His small blitzkriegs at the final stages of the innings are testimony to his versatility! He has been the lynchpin of the team and has earned great respect for his inspirational performances!
Shiv kissing the pitch following each of his centuries is a sight to behold!

Standing tall amidst ruins, he lends spirits to the distant hopes of a Windies resurrection! Even the legendary commentator Tony Cozier quotes Chanders as "the most immovable object in the game at present"




Wat else proof do u want of the fighting abilities of the Tiger! Lying numb on the ground after a thunderbolt from lee... a few moments later celebrating an inspirational century! Hats off Shiv... Nothing more could be asked of you!







No words can praise this fragile little man's perpetual services towards Windies cricket! Hope he continues to inspire!

Hi visitors of 4freaks this time the game tat i am about to review is Prince Of Persia-The Sands Of Time.......

Hearing the name u would have got some idea tat this game will be based on some magical tale, sure it does!!!This game is presented by Ubisoft and u got to say the company gives good gameplay to its name!!! This breathtaking 3D sequel to creator Jordan Mechner's classic titles(WELL HE IS THE CREATOR!!!) is very faithful to its predecessors and simultaneously new and innovative in remarkably creative ways. It bears some resemblance to other outstanding adventure games such as Ico and yes, even Zelda, but mostly it's a spectacular extension, in, fact, the evolution of the Prince of Persia franchise. It's also one of the very best titles of the year 2003.

It was almost 20 years ago that the original Prince of Persia shipped and dazzled players. Here is a smart and stylized action-adventure game during a period of relatively primitive, shallow software. This title featured elegant and challenging environmental puzzles, deadly traps, brutal swordplay and astonishing acrobatics. It had an intriguing premise, a Persian Prince on a quest to rescue his princess(Well its "A Princess" and not his princess!!!) from the evil Vizier Jaffar and with only an hour to do it time clock counted down to zero during the entire quest. Fun and intuitive, it defined a genre and became a classic.

Ubi Soft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the 3D grandson of the original, is every bit as clever, as well made, as wholly entertaining and enjoyable. This long-in-development sequel not only retains the established play mechanics and charm of its 2D predecessor, but it actually betters them by a considerable amount. A commendable accomplishment given that the first is considered by many to be one of the greatest videogames ever created(Its coz of its great and stunning puzzles and gameplay!). The title features a very intelligent, thoughtful presentation. Prince's story is told through a variety of crisp, ambient full-motion video cut-scenes and witty in-game dialogue. The character talks to himself, yes, and he even acknowledges this oddity sometimes, which is amusing. This direct method of storytelling works tremendously well because it never breaks us from the action. Plus, because the story often unravels from the very lips of our hero, we always know what he's thinking and feeling and it makes him more real and more likable.

Prince, as it turns out, is real hero(not the real one!!!). He wants to please his father. And it's this ambition that starts all of the trouble. The game begins in medieval Persia shortly after the Prince and the king have defeated the Maharajah and looted his palace. When the Prince takes a mysterious dagger he accidentally unleashes the Sands of Time, an evil force that infests the kingdom and transforms its inhabitants into demonic beings(On the word Of the Vazir~~~Minister of the Prince's Father~~~he does this). The character's quest is, ultimately, to set right his own stupid mistake and reverse the dark magic. No easy task.The quest seems just as insurmountable from a purely gameplay perspective. Prince will travel through the entirety of the palace, a huge, hulking thing that stretches up, down, and all around. He'll use his wits, his acrobatics, and his sword, avoid traps and kill enemies, engage in high-rise platforming, balance on beams and swing on poles, climb and hang, dangle and flip, shimmy and slide, run, summersault and fight, fall and rewind, slow time and… fall in love? Well, he does meet a beautiful princess along the way and an intriguing sub-story unfolds. As to just what happens, our lips are sealed(in one moment their's too!).

It's this phenomenal sense of freedom that surrounds movement and the way in which it can be used to interact with the wholly giant, but still linear 3D world that makes the experience so exceptional. Prince can run across a wall, reach its end, jump from it onto a ladder, slide down to a ledge, shimmy across it, leap outward onto a post and then to a pole, swing and flip outward, bounce back and forth between two structures, land swiftly on the ground and keep running, and the entire amazing sequence can be executed easily and with little practice.Meanwhile, malfunctioned processes in other games feel smooth and intuitive in this one. Just as Lara Croft struggles to move a crate, Prince can easily push it in any direction. Just as Kain can only shimmy to the end of a corner, Ubisoft's warrior can go around it and continue onward. It's all so good that it makes almost everything else out there feel archaic and wrong.As ever, the puzzles in Sands of Time are always environmental based and usually involve getting Prince from Point A to Point B. It's important to remember that Point A might be the ground floor and Point B the highest palace peak. There are some thrilling challenges in place and a great degree of satisfaction gained upon successfully completing them.The puzzles, sometimes downright intense, are almost always logical; they make sense. And because of that they can be understood and solved in a logical manner, which again is refreshing when so many adventure games throw logic directly out of the window~~eg. , Resident Evil. Prince might be required to move a series of mirrors around a room to reflect beams of light in a particular path or he might simply have to figure out how to get across an abyss without dying. Both are engaging for different reasons, neither less important. The puzzle elements seamlessly mingle with the control and are perfectly brilliant throughout the entire adventure.

Prince can get through most of the game in slow motion and even rewind time. These two abilities arrive as welcomed additions to the original title, which often forced us into unavoidably dangerous situations and then made us retry again and again after failing. In Sands of Time if the hero accidentally takes a fall to his death, all we need to do is hold the rewind button and the unfortunate mistake can be rewound on the fly only stipulation being that we haven't wasted all of our Sand power. The Prince can find and refill this magic sand throughout the world. This addition makes what could be a frustrating experience far less so, and it also allows us to be more daring and more experimental in our methods of puzzle solving and platforming.

Well the game ofcourse has good graphics, excellent screenplay, harder enemies, good story mode, etc.And also the game has mindblowing puzzles which are little bit easier but u find it more difficult to find it later on the game.....Well

tats wat is needed!!!

U WOULD CERTAINLY FEEL VERY BAD AFTER PLAYING THIS GAME COZ U WONDER WHY U HAVEN COME ACROSS THIS ALL ALONG!!!!!!!!!!

And there is gr8 news to all the POP fans coz a film based on the game is about to be released next year!!!! Jordan Mechnar has written the story in order to please the film viewers and not take it into a gaming type of film!!!Well awaitin the movie tat is produced by WALT DISNEY!!!!

TO THIS GAME I FIND NO GLITCHES AND DISADVANTAGES..........and FIND ALMOST ALL ASPECTS AS A ADVANTAGEOUS ONE!!!!

MY Rating accordin to the gameplay: 9/10

See u soon with another review!!!!

Bladezz

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Heres a contribution from 4freaks to mark the occasion of World Anti Tobacco Day (31st May)!







So........

The world is changing everyday and we got to change accordingly. We have Personal computers and Personal assistants. Now we have a different Personal gadget- The singe seat Helicopter. Mama would have shown you a helicopter in air, when you are a child and you just go dumbstruck seeing that. But its now time that you buy your kids, a chopper.

GEN Corporation of Japan has developed the GEN H-4, a compact single seat chopper. It weighs 75 Kg. It has four 125 cc engines and it’s able to fly for 30 minutes with a maximum speed of 90 km/hr. It has 2 sets of coaxial, contra-rotating rotors- this eliminates the use of the tail rotor. You can park it anywhere and don’t need license to drive it. The developers say that you need only 2 hours to learn to drive this chopper.