I installed RSS Graffiti on my Facebook apps today. It is an amazing Facebook application that takes the fuss out of keeping my Facebook friends and fans updated with the latest news from my blog. It periodically checks the RSS/Atom…

When we were talking about Maid-sama and Gokusen (the anime series), Vicki posed a question,” why are the male leads so overpowering?? Can’t they be just another guy?” Hmm.. well I replied with these exact words “Girls love their fellow…

Here’s my list of the best 10 movies of 2009 that I have watched. 1. STAR TREK Genre : Sci-fi Now this is the first movie I saw in IMAX, since the first time Imax opened in Kolkata. I am…

I am so excited with my new notebook that I just had to write something about it. The machine itself is a 14.1 inch widescreen, HP Pavilion dv4-2123tx model with scratch-proof outer cover and many niche stuffs to boast. It’s…

Have you ever wondered how did the Chinese form Kanjis? Just like the Egyptian heiroglyphs, kanjis were formed observing the nature and its surroundings. Later the Japanese borrowed these ideograms from China for writing their own language. The Japanese language…

On 23rd of May this year NKK and the Japan consulate (Kolkata) organized the 12th Nihongo quiz contest. It was mainly based on our text book unlike last year’s quiz which had many GK rounds. The 12 pairs of participants…

Aw, an adorable puppy, a green-eyed kitty and a hamster in a ball. When I first saw the preview for Bolt, I had already decided, I have to see this. And boy when I did get to see it last…

MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under…

Spring which starts in March and stays till May is a very busy period in Japan. It is also the season when the most beautiful festival Hanami is celebrated. The Sakura trees (or the cherry blossoms) all over Japan come…

This is a simple tutorial on how to make any program to start up by default in Ubuntu: Start up the program you want to add in the startup. Open a terminal window and type the following command: xprop |…