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Archive for July, 2009
You’re Watching Disney Channel – Bumper videos
Jul 29th
“Hi! I’m NiSh, and you’re watching Nishant’s Blog!” 
Alright just bumped (pun intended) into these bumper videos on Youtube, also luckily found a combined video with (almost all of) them in one. I personally enjoy these bumpers shown before the start of a show, especially the different ways they show the stars draw the Disney logo and all is so much fun (I kinda wanna do it once myself ). And if you notice, the background music played in them are also pretty cool, a few are their generic ones that they even make use of in the ‘Coming up next’ show bumpers.
My favorite bumpers would be of Selena Gomez ♥, David Henrie, Jake T Austin (alright I’m biased here being a WoWP fan 
), Tinkerbell Fairies, Georgie Henley, Kermit the Frog
Anyway.. enjoy! Might as well bring some nostalgia for a few
*Thanks to xSonnyFanx for the uber compilation*
Also check this one out, it’s one of the few not included in the above combined video, but it’s really cool, I love the bgmusic in it. Watch below.
For more individual bumper videos, click here to Search Youtube.
Download 10th Anniversery Freebies for Windows Live Messenger
Jul 23rd
My favorite IM client over the years, Windows Live Messenger finally completed it’s 10th Anniversary recently. Since MSN Messenger version 1.0, it has currently reached (at the time of posting this) Windows Live Messenger version 2009 (build 14.0.8064.206). On this occasion, Microsoft is offering an anniversary gift pack with free themes and emoticons for download.
Hit the button above to download the theme pack. The content is from the US anniversary website.
Also check out the UK website for the same below, where you can also play some games and win prizes.
Microsoft has also compiled a five-minute video for the tenth anniversary of Messenger, featuring the Buddy icon mascot. Do check it out below, it’s fun.
Google Solar Eclipse 2009 logo
Jul 22nd
![eclipse09[1]](http://blog.nishant.me/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/eclipse091.gif "eclipse09[1]")
Ok I rarely get to notice the Google.com homepage, since I always prefer the Search boxes in my browsers for a quick G search. But just accidently got to the homepage today and noticed this Solar Eclipse 2009 logo for today, so thought of sharing it over here for those like me who might let it go unnoticed.
For those not aware of previous exclusive Google logos for specific events and holidays, check out: http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/holidaylogos.html (I wish that page had an RSS feed for new logo notifications, would make it easier for us, lol)
Get Free Colgate Total Samples
Jul 21st
If you’re bored as I was when I ordered my sample, then go ahead and click here: http://www.colgatepromotions.co.in/colgate_total/special/try-for-free.php
I received mine like after a month of submitting the application, though it might vary for others. You can also try the Colgate Sensitive toothpaste samples here: http://www.colgatepromotions.co.in/colgate_sensitive/colgate_sensitive_sampling.php
I might be applying for that next when I’m completely bored with nothing else to do, lol.
Here’s a photo of my delivery that I received yesterday via BlueDart.
So order the free samples right away.. It’s a freebie duh, what goes.. Lol. Will keep you’ll updated for any more freebies to come. Stay subscribed to my RSS via FeedBurner (button on the sidebar).
Get Indexed within 24hrs – Free Ping list for your blog
Jul 16th
Here’s a free Ping list for your blog, that will help your posts get indexed within 24 hrs. I know many think Pingomatic is enough, but well the more the merrier, eh?
To input these in your Wordpress blog, simply navigate to /wp-admin/options-writing.php and paste these below the Pingomatic url.
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
Hope it helps
Random Facts about Indians
Jul 15th
PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN, eh? 
Well just a short list of fact I just bumped across in a forum post, thought of sharing.. although most of us already know it.
(P.S. again: This is NOT written by me)
- India invented the Number system….(infact the very first number ZERO "0" was invented by Aryabhatta)
- Co-founder Sun Microsystems- Mr.Vinod Khosla – An Indian
- Who invented the Pentium Chip – Mr. Vinod Dham – An Indian
- Third richest man is the world – Mr.Azim Premji – An Indian
- Founder and Creator of HOTMAIL – Mr.Sabeer Bhatia – An Indian
- President of AT&T- BellLabs (guys who invented C, C++, UNIX) – Mr. Arun Netravalli – An India
- General Manager of Hewlett Packard – Mr. Rajiv Gupta – An Indian
- Decimal system was invented in India in 100 BC
- Worlds first university was in INDIA – Takshashila (and u uneducated pale white guy calls us idiots)
- Which is the worlds largest democracy – INDIA
- 1.5% of total US population is Indians YET – 38% Doctors in US are Indians
- 1.5% of total US population is Indians YET – 12% Scientists in US are Indians
- 1.5% of total US population is Indians YET – 36% of Nasa Scientists in US are Indians
- 1.5% of total US population is Indians YET – 38% Doctors in US are Indians
- 1.5% of total US population is Indians YET – 34% of Micorsoft Employees in US are Indians
- 1.5% of total US population is Indians YET – 28% of IBM Employees in US are Indians
- 1.5% of total US population is Indians YET – 17% of INTEL Employees in US are Indians
- 1.5% of total US population is Indians YET – 13% of XEROX Employees in US are Indians
Anyone played Commander Keen?
Jul 14th
OMG randomly remembered this game out of nowhere! Any of you reading this played this version? And possibly the newer versions, which I’m not sure if I did completely. This was back in the DOS era of gaming!
Need to play this NOW! AGAIN! Let’s see if there is any way to play it on my Nintendo DS via Homebrew.
Suggest me a domain
Jul 13th
So I’ve been wanting to work on my own Technology + bit of Gaming blog, that you might have seen around.. mostly during Re-Tweets and all. It would suffice my urges to share my tit-bits of news with others, as well as fetch some revenue out of the 2nd column ads in the 3-column WP blog on it 
Now even though I already own this domain named Techkut.com, and have a small blog on it, I really don’t think it has that much of a potential to have an identity of its own, due to the ‘-kut’ suffix that would make it obvious as yet another Orkut name clone. So no plans for that domain as of now, I want a unique name that would fetch high traffic gradually with a good amount of subscribers.
The domain has to be decently short, and not too long, and only on a .com extension. So I chose to have either ‘tech’ or ‘geek’ in the name, followed by another word; for e.g. GeekGuy, GeekLad (try the site), GeekKid, GeekPlanet, PlanetGeeks, etc. OR the same with the word Tech. Most of these are all taken, yet no site implemented, just purchased for parking purposes… Waste!
Now I hit upon something interesting. GeekPuppy, GeekDog are taken and surprisingly GeekPup is still available. Now this is quite a unique domain that would make itself stand apart from the hundreds of other tech blogs. How? By having a doggy touch to it. Being lazy, I could pay someone to make us a nice mascot logo with a puppy holding a macbook or something, sort of a geek look to it. The blog design could also have a hint of dog footprints or bone patterns, etc. This would surely make it truly unique, and appeal to most of the animal lover tech-heads that visit the place.
Now if you are reading this, and have been linked here by me, then you’re supposed to be helping out in suggesting some names yourself, and also your votes on the GeekPup name. As well as everyone is welcome to join in as a regular contributor on the site, and the credits & revenue will be shared accordingly between all of us.
Post your feedback below, or you can contact me on IMs.
P.S.: DO NOT share this post anywhere. We don’t want anyone stealing ideas.
New blog logo
Jul 9th
I finally worked on a decent logo (hope so) for the blog. The inspiration came from another logo I came across that had the ‘ ‘ quotes and one square block besides them. So ultimately I came up to this piece of randomness, modifying each of the elements i.e. font, quote positions, animated multiple blocks, gradient colour scheme, etc. The fade away block animation didn’t really turn out as I wanted it; to seem moving from L to R and R to L accordingly; nevermind though.
I think this will be it for now, so that I can dedicate more time on making some good posts instead of the designing, and then spread the blog around once there is a decent amount of new posts.
Comment back your views on the logo, and any suggestions are welcome.
P.S.: My brother thinks the blocks resemble the NDTV Imagine logo, lol.. Maybe my brain did use that inspiration as well, don’t know really.
Pokemon Heart Gold & Soul Silver Pre-order Goodies
Jul 8th
BLAH NOT FAIR!! >=( Hmphh!! First I pre-ordered Pokemon Platinum earlier this year, as early as 2 months before the game released, from Play-Asia, yet I was deprived of the Giratina figurine that was offered alongwith pre-orders BUT to those living in the US and buying it from participating stores like Gamestop or Toys R Us.
Once again, I’m all set to pre-order Pokemon Heart Gold (I’d prefer Soul Silver colour-wise, but Ho-Oh’s my favorite so…) and I’m not going to get the priviledge of owning these pre-order figurines that will be sold to buyers in Japan.
Ho-Oh goes to those buying Heart Gold, Lugia to ones with Soul Silver, while those pre-ordering both shall get both as well as Arceus.
We pay the SAME! Or even more, plus the shipping in some cases. Then WHY aren’t online stores like Play-Asia given the chance to participate in these goodies give-aways 
On a separate note, one of the reasons me considering buying this Japanese game is just for the sake of the Pedometer device bundled with it. I wouldn’t normally pay this high amount of $60 for a DS game, atleast not Japanese. Infact, I’m faced with the torture of bearing 2 weeks after the game release to be waiting for my game to be shipped and received here, while looking at other players happily playing away on emulators or the ROMs on their consoles (which I could, but it’d spoil the fun if I am already getting a paid cartridge of the same).
Anyway, if you’re interested in booking your copies of the games right away, don’t hesitate to do so. Play-Asia is very quick in shipping pre-orders, my experience being during the Pokemon Platinum release earlier this March. Below are links to help you reach the purchase pages.
Pre-Order Pokemon Heart Gold now! 
Pre-Order Pokemon Soul Silver now! 
First Game Trailer (with Pedometer preview)
