‘Raavanan’ cinematography nominated for APSA award

Ace cameramen Santosh Sivan and V. Manikandan have been together nominated for the Best Cinematography Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) to be held in Australia on December2.

The nominations for the fourth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards to be held in have been announced and India has received five nominations, including three for Marathi cinema.

The breath taking visuals of ‘Raavanan’ were hailed as poetry on celluloid. Though the film received mixed responses, the cinematography of Santhosh Sivan and Manikandan was unanimously admired by both critics and the masses.

Their closest competitor in the category will be Sudhir Palsane for the Marathi film Vihir, produced by Amitabh Bachchan.

APSA is an initiative of the Queensland government, Australia, in collaboration with UNESCO and FIAPF - International Federation of Film Producers' Associations.

RGV Announces Raktha Charithra Release Date

Raktha Charithra is a two part film made by Ram Gopal Verma. The movie is based on a real story in which Surya is pitted against a local underworld gang leader and seeks revenge on the character played by Vivek Oberoi.

The film is reportedly five and a half to six hours long and hence will be released in two parts within a month’s interval from the release of the first part. Furthermore, Raktha Charitra is a trilingual made in three versions Tamil, Hindi and Telugu.
Ram Gopal Verma made an official announcement on the release date of the film. As mentioned above, the Raktha Charitra will be released in two parts and the first part will be released on October 22, 2010.

1 GB 20 years ago and 1 GB now!!!

See the difference between them !!!!

New iPod Nano brings music at your fingertips - New iPod Nano

Apple has always been known for its awesomeness. Everything that Apple designs can be called clean, simple and intuitive. iPod started getting Apple out of its rut almost a decade ago. The new iPod Nano seems to show that Apple has not forgotten the iPod

brand in the era of iPhone and iPad.

iPod Nano is 1.61 inches wide with 1.51 inches of it being a multi-touch screen. It’s almost 1/3rd of an inch when it comes to the depth of the device. This tiny iPod Nano has been redesigned completely and that probably has given it a new lease of life.

iPod Nano Features

* It comes in 6 different colors. Will also have 24 hr playback battery life.
* New iPod Nano will have multi-touch screen to basically browse music files and photos.
* It will support storing photos, play mp3 music and also support FM Radio.
* The storage space on this iPod device will be 8 GB.

Here is an advertisement video for the new Apple iPod Nano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-prgju1L8&feature=player_embedded

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Nokia's new mobiles E7,C7,C6-01-must read

Nokia has launched 3 news phones at Nokia World 2010 in London.The devices announced are the E7 , C7 and C6-01


Nokia E7

The Nokia E7 pictured on the top is the latest Business smartphone with both a touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard. It packs a 4 inch touchscreen and a 4 row keypad.It is slightly thicker than N8 and packs a 8MP camera, HDMI and more . We would be covering this device in a separate post !

Price – 495 EUR before taxes or 638 USD approx or Rs.29500 approx.

Nokia C7

C7 pictured on the top-right is a slider touchscreen phone, sports a 3.5-inch AMOLED display and 10.5mm thin. It packs a 8-megapixel camera and can shoot HD video in 720p . It has 8GB of inbuilt memory and microSD card slot which supports cards upto 32GB and comes with free global walk and drive navigation and a digital compass.The battery life boasts of 9.5 hours Talktime (in GSM) and standby time of 27 days (3G). Other features worth mentioning are active noise cancellation and social networking

The price of the C7 is 335 EUR before taxes and expected cost Rs.20000 approx or 431 USD

Nokia C6-01

The C6-01 is a variant of the C6 sporting a 3.2-inch AMOLED display with Clear Black displayfor improved outdoor visibility. It packs a 8MP Camera and capable of recording 720p HD video.

Battery life is 17 days standby time and up to 11.5 hours talktime

The price of the C6-01 is 260 EUR before taxes and expected cost Rs.15600 approx or 335 USD

All these devices run on Symbian^ 3 operating system

Solid Interview--- Infosys(must read this)

Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.

Candidate: I am Rameshwar Kulkarni. I did my Tele Communication engineering from BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology. 

Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology? I had never heard of this college before! 

Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before getting an admission into it .. What happened is - due to cricket world cup I scored badly! In 12th.I was getting a aid seat in a good college. But my father said (I prefer to call him 'baap') - "I can not invest so much of money".(The baap actually said - "I will never waste so much of money on you"). So I had to join this college. Frankly speaking this name - babanRao Dhole-Patil, can at the most be related to a Shetakari Mahavidyalaya.

Interviewer: ok, ok. It seems you have taken 6 years to complete your engineering.

Candidate: Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4 years. But you know, these cricket matches and football world cup, and tennis tournaments. It is difficult to concentrate. So I flunked in 2nd and 3rd year. So in all I took 4 + 2 = 7 years.

Interviewer: But 4+2 is 6. 

Candidate: Oh, is it? You know I always had KT in maths. But I will try to keep this in mind. 4+2 is 6, good, thanks. These cricket matches really affect exams a lot. I think they should ban it. 

Interviewer: Good to know that you want cricket matches to be banned.

Candidate: No, no... I am talking about Exams!! 

Interviewer: Ok, What is your biggest achievement in life?

Candidate: Obviously, completing my Engineering. My mom never thought I would complete it. In fact, when I flunked in 3rd year, she was looking for a job for me in BEST (Bus corporation in Maharashtra) through some relative.

Interviewer: Do you have any plans of higher study? 

Candidate: he he he... Are you kidding? Completing 'lower' education itself was so much of pain!!

Interviewer: Let's talk about technical stuff. On which platforms have you worked?

Candidate: Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say Andheri is my current platform. Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was my platform then. As you can see I have experience of different platforms! (Vashi and Andheri are the places in Mumbai)

Interviewer: And which languages have you used?

Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet in German, French, Russian and many other languages. 

Interviewer: Why VC is better than VB?

Candidate: It is a common sense - C comes after B. So VC is a higher version than VB. I heard very soon they are coming up with a new language VD!

Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly Language? 

Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess, this is the language our ministers and MPs use in assembly.

Interviewer: What is your general project experience? 

Candidate: My general experience about projects is - most of the times they are in pipeline! 

Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?

Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata InfoTech ltd. Since joining BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining BIL, I used to think that Bench was another software like Windows.

Interviewer: Do you have any project management experience?

Candidate: No, but I guess it shouldn't be difficult. I know Word and Excel. I can talk a lot. I know how to dial for International phone call and use speaker facility.. And very important - I know few words like-'Showstoppers ' , 'hotfixes', 'SEI-CMM','quality','versioncontrol','deadlines' , 'Customer Satisfaction' etc. Also I can blame others for my mistakes!

Interviewer: What are your expectations from our company?

Candidate: Not much.

1. I should at least get 40,000 in hand.. 
2. I would like to work on a live EJB project. But it should not have deadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects natural talent.
3. I believe in flexi-timings. 
4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so I would like to wear t-shirt and jeans.
5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest Wednesday off also, so as to avoid breakdown due to overwork. 
6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short term preferably 1-2 months) assignments. Personally I prefer US, Australia and Europe. But 
considering the fact that there is Olympics coming up in China in the current year, I don't mind going there in that period. As you can see I am 
modest and don't have many expectations. So can I assume my selection? 

Interviewer: he he he ha ha ha. Thanks for your interest in our organization. In fact I was never entertained so much before. Welcome to
INFOSYS.. 
The fellow was appointed in a newly created section 'Stress Management' in the HRD of Infosys.