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I had written earlier about Microsoft Surface, but today I got a chance to play with it in person for sometime. I am in Redmond, WA this week and was visiting one of the Microsoft offices where they had kept a Surface computer for demo. Surface is one cool technology that you got to use for getting a good feel. It definitely has great potential of changing the way we interact with computers.
Even if you have a hard disk with hundreds of GBs, you will run out of space soon. At that time you want to see what is taking most of the space. Using Windows Explorer and going to each folder is a time consuming job. Several years back I got introduced to a tool called "Tree Size" that displays chart like bars against each folder so that you can easily see the usage. Today I found a free tool to do the same thing better – WinDirStat. Apart from bars, it displays a beautiful squarisish picture of the usage based on file types. Check it out. I was in our US office today and at the end of the day I had few hours to kill and a few Mbps of Internet pipe. So I made the best use – watch some videos in Hulu.com. For those of you who are outside USA, Hulu is promoted by NBC and News Corp media houses, that has only legal videos and tons of it – including popular TV shows like "The Simpsons" & "The Office". These are supported by naturally advertisements.
While browsing I came across this movie "Casino Royale (1967)" which was said to be a spoof on the original James Bond movie. I didn’t know this was a real movie, I assumed it to be a short fun clip but it turned out to be a 2 hour full movie. This is an all-star 1967 spoof of Ian Fleming’s 007. David Niven comes as the aging Sir James Bond, called out of retirement to take on the organized threat of SMERSH. After watching the movie which was fun I learned about its creation – which involved 5 Directors, 6 James Bonds and one of the James Bonds’ Peter Sellers leaving in between. Note: Hulu I guess is accessible only in North America due to geographical limits of its copyright reach. |
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