Saaket Unadkat – Blog

You Can Build A Website Too!

// September 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // My Reviews, TechBytes, Tutorials

Its been 3 months since I bought this domain, and ever since, people around have been asking me, “How do you do all this?” or “How did you do it ?” and the likes. They think it is some herculean task, only worthy of the geeks to achieve. But it isn’t even remotely as complicated as people tend to think of it. So here’s my own nifty little ‘tutorial-y’ post about it.

Everyone I know started their online experiences with websites by staring their very own blog using the numerous services available on the web today, the most popular being Blogger and Wordpress. Just create an account with them and select a theme to suit yourself, and you’re ready to go with your first post. All in a matter of minutes. Sounds simple ? So, why would anyone want to anyone want to take the trouble of setting up their independent site and maintain it ?

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How To Watch HD Movies Without Blu-Ray Player

// July 9th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // TechBytes, Tutorials

Ever since the successful triumph of the Blu-Ray disc format over the HD-DVD, all the new movies now have DVD and a Blu-Ray releases. Since the latter offers almost 10 times the storage compared to the average DVDs we use, the picture quality can be scaled up to very high levels and still make it possible to store the entire movie on one single disc. But getting that awesome quality not only requires one to buy a Blu-Ray copy of the movie, but also needs special hardware in terms of the video player. And those don’t exactly come cheap.

A standard DVD today costs around Rs.12-15 and unbranded ones come for Rs.10. But a bland Blu-Ray disc  come for Rs.250. Steep. Also, to make a custom disc, one would again need a Blu-Ray writer. But there are people who have amazingly fast internet connections or those don’t mind waiting for a couple of days for the download to complete, make use of the numerous torrent sites and get the High Definition rips of movies/TV shows, but end up watching them on their computers.

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Google Chrome OS – My Viewpoint

// July 8th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // OS's, TechBytes

Awesome. I’ve read countless number of times all over the World Wide Web that the only thing where Google is yet to foray into is the world of Operating Systems. Many people had predicted that the day was not too far. And not surprisingly, a formal announcement from Google came in yesterday on the official Google blog. It will be quite interesting to see what the guys at Google think an OS should be like. And also, it has been named after their quite successful browser, Chrome.

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How And Why I Got The Domain

// June 16th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Life's Happenings, My Reviews, TechBytes

As you people have noticed, my blog is now www.justsaaket.com from the earlier wordpress sub-domain. I’ve seen quite a few people on the web opt for a personalised domain for their blogs, and they do maintain it regularly, something which I need to imbibe from them. Also, the free version of wordpress had very limited options as far as modifying the appearance and site-content would go. Put it in simple terms, I could not personalize it to suit my taste.

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

// December 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // TechBytes

Hello, I am a Mac, and I am a PC.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs comes on stage jointly discussing the history and future of the digital revolution on May 30 with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher for seventy-five minutes. PC World has the entire conversation jolted down in text. I like the part where Steve Jobs said:

“When Bill and I first met each other and worked together…generally, we were the youngest guys in the room.” Today, “I’m the oldest guy in the room most of the time.”