Saturday, February 20, 2010

Free anonymous email now for security

If you want to register in a website which is untrusted and you are not intend to reveal your identity to them, but the website need your email ID and it is mandatory. What do you do? In such cases it is good idea is to have a temporary email which lives only for few days or months and will expire. But for some instant access, it is necessary. You are allowed to read incoming mails till the account expires.
Go here.
You just need to make your account by entering your user name. password is optional. you also need to specify the date which the account expires. Nothing more and you have done.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Yo Frankie: Open Game Project from Blender

Do you remember Big Buck Bunny?

'Big Buck Bunny'(Code-named Peach)is a classical animated short film entirely from Blender platform which is open source. The video reveals the power of Blender of course, and also contains a neat story with full of fun. If you didn't see this short film yet, you are too late, but here is the chance to download. The hero in this film is a big Buck. Other characters are some naughty animals named Frank, Rinky and Gamera. I personally like Frank's acting than others. I think many people realize that secret, that is why the rise of new open game named Yofrankie (Code-named Apricot). The name came from Frank's name and hero is Mr. Frank. You need to download the game (~120MB) which will run on a Blender engine or Crystal space. Another good side of YoFrankie is that you can develop it in your way wince it is open source. A number of good tutorials are there published in the official website. Both Big Buck Bunny film and YoFrankie are released under Creative Commons Attribution License. Watch a video of Yofrankie below:

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Let's have fun during festivals!

Festivals are not only for entertainment. You can do some cool things. I have just made a fire powered car using commonly available things during festivals. See how:

The things you required:Now, make the things done.
Unfortunately, I can't capture pictures and videos of running the car, because, my mobile phone did something wrong while capturing. Sorry. I don't have another sample to do once again. I will try it next year!

Car after launching.I got everything fine. Even though you think this type of stuffs are gibberish, people like me find entertainment by doing so.

Warning: use a metal or card board plate above toy car in order to avoid over burning. Don't do it in you room. Do it away from your home as well as from inflammable things. Don't launch while you stand behind the car.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Kolibri : Just 3MB size for this OS!


I am a fan of small operating systems, because, I really suffered the problems of bulky operating systems. I used puppy Linux (It's something great), Damn small Linux etc. Damn small Linux is only 50MB in size and works much fine. Some floppy Linux comes in 1.44MB but it has no GUI at all. A normal user need GUI with some office applications, media player, internet browser, email client, need some programming, and games. But all of the listed above is not included in the floppy linux at all, but almost all are covered by Puppy Linux and DSL. Average of 50MB is happy for me, but for some users, it is too high!. This is what the reason of development of ultra small OS with a size of only 3MB.
The 3MB sized OS is named 'Kolibri' which means humming bird- world's smallest bird. Kolibri is moderately fare OS for eyes with very high performance. In order to increase efficiency of code, OS itself is written is assembly language. I installed Kolibri in my pen drive. The boot up time is less than 3 seconds. I really shocked while seeing the stuff included in just a 3MB. About 30 classic games, text editor, image viewer, text based internet browser, hex editor, assembler,music player, of course a shell and many more. kolibri argues that, it is not windows, linux or anything. It's shell which can accept only 20 commands. But I found all are linux/unix cmmands. There is a bunch of 3D demoes which are excellent.
Go to Kolibri official wesite.
How to install?
You can download iso image and write it to a CD. But I felt ashamed to write 3MB sized iso image to CD. So I opted my pen drive. Installed it using windows XP. It can be installed using linux also. Download image for floppy/hardware first and unzip it. You probably need 7zip for that. Then copy Kolibri.img into thumb drive. Before copy, you need to fromat your thumb drive/pen drive to FAT32. After copying, go to HD_load->USB_Boot directory and run inst.exe then, run setmbr.exe. You need to reboot now and boot from usb. If you don't know how to boot from usb port, you need to read my old post: Booting from CR-ROM or USB devices
Sometimes, you need bulk operating systems to get your job properly done. But this type of efforts of developers seems really appreciable.