Mirage

"O Poor unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate. We cling with both hands to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood, until regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into the snares of delusion all over again. "

                                                                                                                                - Rabindra Nath Tagore


its a short post...there really isn't much to say........

Icing for your Firefox

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Note 1: This is my first "geeky" post. Pre-requisites for reading this post - you should be aware of what 'Mozilla Firefox' is. If you are not, please close this page RIGHT NOW, you are embarrassing me. :P

Note 2: The list below is only suggestive and for the "normal" junta. Certified geeks need not read it (and hence I save myself from curses from some campus junta through this disclaimer. Phew!)
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You've reached thus far. Congratulations! You've heard what Mozilla Firefox is. But probably you need to know a little more to exploit what Firefox really is. Even if you are aware of the so called 'plug-ins', the list below might help you a lot in enhancing your browsing experience.

Some plug-ins, which I think everybody wants to use, does not because they are not aware, and will get addicted to once they get used to it:


1. Video DownloadHelper

Ever visited youtube.com, or for that matter any site that offers video streaming capabilities, and you pulled your hair off your head because you were unable to download it.

Head straight to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

After installing the plug-in, just visit the site you want to extract video from, click on the DownloadHelper icon, and Voila!


2. TinEye Reverse Image Search

Yup! You read that right. Always wondered what that image was? Try reverse searching the image on the web through this plug-in. Try it. Its amazing. Was looking for something like this for a long long time. This would help you figure a lot about the mysterious image that you had all along.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8922

3. EchoFon

Just registered for a twitter account? But it is a pain logging into it every time to check for updates? Well, there's a plug-in for it. If you keep your browser open all the time (as we like to do), this would help you keep a track of your tweets, and post tweets as well, right from Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5081



4. Personas for Firefox

And finally, whats Firefox to you if it isn't you own. Head on to http://www.getpersonas.com/ to get a cool new look for your window to the internet, and make it your own. Check out the cool gallery on http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/All/Popular


So, that's all folks! Until some other time, when I feel "geeky" enough to make a geeky post.
And by the way, I use some cooler plug-ins too, but they are too nerdy to write about here. If you are interested, let me know in the comments.


PS: For those who in the dark about 'plug-ins', you've got to INSTALL them to use them. :P


Icing for your Firefox...

The Things We Do.

So, ahem....ok......I'll just ....cut to the chase - FAKE CONVERSATIONS
Isnt there something really fun about them, oh-so- thrilling? More so if carried out in public? What if you get caught? - the phone begins to ring or it suddenly switches to loud mode? (!!) What excuse can you possibly give for chattering away merrily when no one else is on the line?!

But I bet you are willing to risk it when situations like the following crop up.
Akward Situation
You are talking to your best friend. Right in the deep end of it..bang! One of his/her friends (who is no friend of yours - yeah Murphy's Law pal!) comes along. Worse...they both talk in their vernacular language.(Aaaaargh!!) So you can either:-

1. Stand around giving polite listless smiles (which only lasts for that long before someone mistakes you as suffering from facial palsy.)
2. Look for an opening so that you can swoop into the aforementioned conversation which never comes (they are chattering away in vernacular, remember?)
3. Unless ofcourse you are willing to try something really outrageous like.... "I've always wanted to learn Telegu/Bengali/etc. Teach me. NOW!" Trust me, thats guarranteed to ensure instant attention - of the medical kind!

OR
You could simply flip out your cellphone

1. "Hello? *get up from the chair*
2. "Hie!!!" *move away from best friend and interrupting jerk*
3. "Right now?" *look for the nearest exit route*
4. "Ok." *keep walking*

:D

Why-Am-I-Talking-To-You? Situation
" And then finally my tonsils got inflamed and I ended up having a runny nose. (No shit! Really?!) I would wipe it with a handkerchief cause when I do it with a tissue I blow so hard, the phlem seeps through the paper and then it comes on to my fingers which is really gross (Seriously? Grosser than this story you insist on narrating me?!) So that's why I use a handkercheif of towel material but then then the fabric hardens because the phlemn dries (I can't hear a thing! LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!!) and then my nose gets a rash........."

To ESCAPE all of the above and fast!
Simply flip out your cellphone and repeat steps 1-4. Oh! and skip steps 1-3. :P

Please-Notice-I'm-So-Cool Situation
Finally...not very sure how this is gonna look. But..what the hell!
So this hot girl/guy is totally checking you out (By the way - Hypothetical Situation. Hot people are usually too self-absorbed to be checking out anyone except themselves) How do you show you are totally checkable? (Did I just invent a word? Did I just deviate?)

Flip out your cellphone and walk back and forth gabbing in English (always in English!), raise your volume, laugh a lot (not like a hyena) and spout all sorts of cool sounding phrases like :-
"Puhleeze!"
Whatever!"
"Awesome!"
"Totally!"
P.S. : These almost never work. Yet its entertaining to see people try (oh-so-hard!). Personally I would rather a person flirt right back rather than jump verbal hoops with his/her cellphone. Bleh! But then, thats what I think! :)