Google Sketchs your house and universe

Google Skechtup is one blasting tool from Google which allows you to create your 3D universe. Installation is pretty simple and works pretty fast on my system compared to other 3D authoring tools such as AutoCAD.

With Google Sketchup you can create your dream house in minutes , you don't need to have an advanced designer background to get started.

I made the house pictured above within 15 minutes and that too on first try , so shouldn't be difficult for anyone.

Whats even neater is that you can export your house on google earth, giving your google earth map 3D diagrams which is absolutely mind blowing.

Category: Mauritius,Google,Google Earth,Google Sketch Up

Awesome flickr photos

Its amazing how photos uploaded on flickr can be such a delight to the eyes. As a picture is worth a 1000 words I leave you with 5000 words to understand what i mean . ;)











Category: Mauritius,flickr,Photo

Extortion Virus Code

This is the weirdest ..(and most intelligent) virus I've seen so far.Named Archiveus this virus combines all files in your My Documents folder and you can't open any of them unless you have the proper password. The virus actually asks for a "ransom" !!! You must give money to the extortionist so as he sends you the password to regain access to your files.

The full story can be obtained from slashdot .

Someone fortunately did actually crack open the password which is : mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw."


Category: Mauritius,Virus,Windows,,Archiveus

Quatres-Bornes.com has your address!!!

Guess what I was surfing the net when a friend of mine (who will stay annonymous as he is a secret agent) ,we will call him agent 000 , discovered a site called Quatre-Bornes.com , I told him :"Hey I already know this site"...which i did!

Agent 000: "Did you know its got the address of everyone above 18 living in Quatre-bones".

me: "....huh?.????????????"

So he gave me the link : http://www.quatre-bornes.com/address/az_index.php . This link really had the names of everyone living in Quatre Bornes and who were above 18 on top of that it had the residential address of these people.

Agent 000 saved the world again!!

It should be noted that this is very sensitive information and should not be made public I will contact the people behind the portal and see why they have done so without the consent of the people concerned.

Meanwhile you can verify if your name is on the list .

Topic still under investigation ...;)

Note to myself: revise my french i wrote Quatre with an s ..hmmm.

Category: Mauritius,Quatre-Bornes

I saw an N91

Am still trembling from the experience of seeing an N91 , Nokia's new mobile phone of the N series which actually has a hardisk that can store thousands of songs , now mind you I have been waiting a long ,long ,loooooooooooooooooooooong time to see the phone in Dodo country . My techno-geek prayers were answered when i went to Jumbo (Phoenix), there I saw the phone..my first impression was ... "woww" followed by .."huh?"... then i said "damn its big"!

Thats the most boring thing ever, in all adverts you see the phone small in the palm of a hand then the phone actually comes on the market and magically grows in dimensions , this is so lame ... shame on you Nokia !!!

'N' thats not all its really expensive Rs30,000 , man at that price i prefer buying myself a hardisk with a casing , a monitor , a keyboard , a mouse and a p4 3Ghz processor , not to forget a Voodoo Video Accelerator Card and I would still have some money to watch Fanaa at the cinema :P.


Category: Mauritius,N91,Nokia,Phone,Javed Mandary,Fanaa

Okkaz.com rectification letter

Got a mail this morning from the owner of okkaz.com which is an FREE online auction I made a blog entry/review on this site :

----------Letter Transcript---------------------
Hi,

I'm the owner of OKKAZ.COM service.

I just want to reply to your post
(http://javedmandary.blogspot.com/2005/08/okkazcom.html)

OKKAZ.COM is a totally free service , It is not a Mauritius site but a
French site (that's why the prices are in euro)
And I made it alone. I made the entire software ( as I made others more
complicated)

So, I did'nt buy any software or licence for that. I just wanted to
offer free stuffs .

I'm an independant developper and my society make other free services.

Unfortunatly, okkaz.com is not yet used by lot of people, and there is
few submissions. But I hope it will be more popular and used by more
people.

One time, a man say me that people witch come to okkaz.com think there
is a problem because it's totally free.
He said : "It's suspect ! None enterprise provide free services ! Maybe
it's a trap !!"

No !
It's not a trap !
Nothing to pay, just fill the form, join an image and let's go . Your
email is crypted in the source code of the page. No newsletter, no spam,
I don't sell or transmit any personal information to other society . And
I don't use your personal information for something else.

About servihoo : it's a service provided by wanadoo ( probably not
free!)
And servihoo is not the same system as okkaz.com : I'm not working for
wanadoo .
----------------END-----------------------

Well wish you luck buddy and hope that you get a better audience in the days to come.Let us know how we can help you get started ;) .


Category: Mauritius,Okkaz,Auction

Chup Chup ke

Got the album its brilliant love it and here you get the review from my friend Gianysh Toolsee (his the expert on desi flicks n songs). My favorite song is Dil Vich by the way ;) .

Category: MauritiusMusic,review,Gianysh Toolsee,Bollywood

Preparing for the weekend

This weekend am going to rock the roads in my car , drive through the Mauritian landscape at 10km/hr .. I know thats not very fast but hey how fast can u drive on Mauritian roads without having to stop at a traffic light , round-about or having an idiot motorcyclists (they are my worst enemies now!!) who rides just in the middle of the street in front of you ...or even worst than a motorcyclist a LEARNER (described as an idiot who drives a car with a big L sign and spends all his/her money to another intelligent and diaboliq car instructor).



Well thats my plan for the weekend , whats yours ? ..heuh what did i hear ..watching cartoons on MBC 1 .. what plan ..awesome!

Anyways happens that I found another cool blog Nienke 's blog , really nice from which i got the Which Sport Car are you Quizz ? and guess what am a Chevrolet Corvette , at first i was so happy man god have you seen a chevrolet corvette ... well obviously you haven't but its a really wicked car. Then I saw the result of all the results so far for the quiz:

Ferrari 360: 155015 (10%)
Lamborghini Murcielago: 105598 (7%)
Mazda Miata: 101095 (6%)
Honda S2000: 38601 (2%)
Dodge Viper: 88255 (6%)
Chevrolet Corvette: 421804 (27%)
Porsche 911: 232253 (15%)
Mazda RX-8: 95460 (6%)
Porsche Boxster: 23402 (1%)
Audi TT: 35460 (2%)
Mercedes SLK: 68389 (4%)
Ford Mustang: 140061 (9%)
Lotus Elise: 42007 (3%)
Nissan 350Z: 40514 (3%)

Damn it hit me , there are so many people like me out there 27% are chevrolet corvette ..thats so common ..brrr .. wish i was a Porsche Boxster.

Category: Mauritius,Javed Mandary,blog

XMen 3 Last Stand

They are back for a final battle against ...god knows what they fight against... and they will win .. hopefully on the 26th of May.


In the meantime you can preview the trailer or visit the official website .

Category: Mauritius,XMen,,Movie

Windows Media Player 11 download

Windows Media Player 11 is to be out this week and is expected to bring more goodies to Windows' star entertainement unit.

I use media player a lot so its gonna be fun trying something new for a change. Anyways if you are in a hurry to get your hands on media player 11 , you can download it from softpedia here .

Get user comments and reactions from here .

Category: Mauritius,Windows,Media,Mp3,Music,Rock,Vista

Da Vinci Quest

I never read the Da Vinci Code but am sure gonna watch the movie coming out this year with Tom Hanks , Jean Reno and Audrey Tautou.

Meanwhile there is a game on Google's personalized portal called the Da Vinci Quest you need to add it by clicking on add Content.

Its a puzzle game , kind of neat and is sure to provide good advertising for the forthcoming film .

Category: Mauritius,Google,Da Vinci Code

Download uTube movies

Here is a site that allows you to download uTube videos its called KeepVid.com. I dont know if thats legal though :S but whats good is the site is clean from any popups and other crap.

All you need to do is enter the link to your movie stream in a textbox and click download , then a download link will be displayed on the site , click on it to start downloading.

You would require an flv player to view your downloaded movies.


Category: Movies,KeepVid,uTube

Mauritian Desi Music reviews

Some have friends who love rock others have friends who love slows , well i have friends who love rock , slows , reagge and hindi music.. which i love too by the way ;) .

So let me continue my story .. well my good childhood friend Gianysh Toolsee is actively participating for the moment in reviewing some of the latest musical scores on the market I thought i would share his review with you guys:

1. http://planetbollywood.com/Music/36ChinaTown/

2. http://planetbollywood.com/Music/PyareMohan/

I personnally like only one song in each album.

Category: Mauritius,desi,Music,Review,PyareMohan

National candle light Mauritius

I dont know whether i should laugh about this or praise the initiative around the national candle light Mauritius program brought to us by Association Civique Midlands which has been circulating a lot through emails lately.

The slogan says :
------SLOGAN----------
Turn out your lights for just two hours
Do something special...

Read a book with your child by candle light
Enjoy a quite dinner with a special person.
This night can mean many things for many people.
A time to save energy, to think about peace,
To think about people in distant lands who share your planet.

Pulling the plugs opens the window to anew world
Awakens us to human freedom and diversity,
It's a process of discovery about our potential

However you spend them, for just tow hours, join us.
Turning off the lights, and help us spread a gentle wave of candle light around Mauritius
----END SLOGAN---------

I dont know if turning out your buld lights will increase your potential but it will surely sore up the sales of candles.

I think the main idea is to take it slow and spend more time communicating with others ... at least i hope thats the idea.

Anyways its good to know that the Mauritian youth are active and using the web as means of communicating their ideas , thats definitively worth a big clap ....CLAP CLAP CLAP!!

The event is to take place the 2nd of June 2006 from 8-10pm . All those of you willing to show your solidarity are kindly welcomed to turn off your lights and go to sleep ;) .

Category: Mauritius,Energy,Midlands

Reading Monster Nation from your IPOD

Damn this little piece of junk which i absolutely dont understand the craze is really finding various uses . Its just an mp3 player as any other sure its got a big storage capacity but so do many other mp3 players .The new release from steve-job-land is the video ipod but i guess that apple goodies will still take a while before landing on our shores.

Anyways there are some cool free books which you can actually read from your ipod or just read in a browser online. The one that caught my eye recently is Monster Nation by David Wellington (which comes as a triology), who also posted latest book Thirteen Bullets on the net too.

The book is about a couple having special powers and zombies infesting ... (well read the book am not gonna read it for ya will i ;) ).

You can also order the book from Amazon . Help David before he turns into a zombie.

Category: Mauritius,iPod,Novel,Zombie

Week in an entry- Chagos , Blogs , CPE

First thing well done people of Chagos , they were able to go to Chagos after many decades to see their island which is now occupied by the Americans and turned into a military base.

Found a couple of nice blogs
1. Amina : just started blogging so hope you will all encourage her.

2. humeriah : an islamic blog

3 Dan : nice one really cool each entry is marked with funny images and the fact of the day is replaced with Chuck Norris fact of the day

e.g Chuck Norris fact of the day: In ancient China there is a legend that one day a child will be born from a dragon, grow to be a man, and vanquish evil from the land. That man is not Chuck Norris, because Chuck Norris killed that man.

I have also been looking at many cars and gosh every week i see some really cool beauties and one thing i learnt so far is that the longer you wait the better the car you get and the more the chances that their price will go down.

One cool utube movie : Here comes Dr Tran really worth watching.

The frech gov finally decided to get rid of the CPE (Contrat Premiere Embauche) that made college kids who had been protesting since a couple of weeks through-out the french territories go back to college (START LEARNING KIDS!!!!.. they never miss an opportunity to protest!) and complete their exams. In Reunion island it made them dance to Sean Paul music on campus. Please note that we in Mauritius got rid of our CPE a while back :P.

Category: Mauritius,blog,Chagos,CPE,France

Goowy + IM + Virtual Storage

Goowy is back with a vengeance 2 new sleek features which are to rock up mail city , integration of Instant Messaging an Virtual File Storage.

I was kindly allowed to checkout out these neat features which is really just great , although i did have a few problems with the virtual file storage.

The IM features works like a breeze , you can connect to not only people having goowy accounts but also MSN , Yahoo , AIM , ICQ users , etc..

Below is an extract of an interview I had with CEO of Goowy Alex Bard:

1. What is the maximum capacity for the File Storage feature?

We are offering 1gb free with premium services in the near future to upgrade to more space.


2. To which IM networks would the IM client be able to connect?



You will be able to connect to AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Goowy to Goowy and shortly all other Jabber networks.


3. What features would the IM client have apart from text e.g Voice , file sharing , emoticons , etc..



Take a look and you can see – some of the main features are:

1. emoticons
2. individual themes for windows
3. pop windows in and out of the browser
4. sounds
5. and in the near future full integration with file storage and email


4. When is the official launch for both services expected ?



We are rolling them out over the next few weeks in phases. The official launch is coming inside of the next 30 days. If you want your account enabled just email us at comments@goowy.com


5. How is goowy thinking of competing with the giants such as GMail , Yahoo and Hotmail ?



We have been doing it ever since we launched goowy in early 2005. We are competing by providing a better experience and a more dynamic, interactive environment. Additionally we integrate with all of the major players whereas they do not play so well with one another.


6. What other cool features could we be expecting in the coming months ?

We are working on a lot of really cool features, including more enhancements to our core components - email (tags, more folder support, multiple views, rules, etc.) contacts (better integration, synch) calendar (synch, public events, mobile notifications). Additionally we are working on opening our APIs for external development and some other stuff we are not quite ready to share J

-------END INTERVIEW ----------------

So do look out for Goowy in the coming days ;) it rocks...

Category: Mauritius,,Review,Goowy,MSN,IM,YAHOO,Mail,Storage,Interview,Alex Bard

Car Hunter

Hunting for your Car is so tiring but it does also have its share of excitement. I browsed though the newspapers for weeks and endless months to find the rare pearl that I could possibly buy but thats really painstaking and if you are someone like me who has really few spare hours per week to go check out second hand vehicules from particulars it soon becomes a never ending journey.

So i shifted gear and decided to check out re-conditioned vehicules , now like most developing countries Mauritius has an arsenal of car centres specialised in these. Cars usually start at Rs 400 ,000 onwards and can reach up to Rs 600,000 (thats the case for Honda's and Toyota's even saw a Mitsubishi 2003 at such a price).

Most of these specialised shops provide payment facilities via leasing and they do all the registation work for you which is really good.

Advantages of a re-con is that the car is definitively newer , right now there is a law which has just been passed which forbids car older than 3-4 years from being imported to the island this ensuring that our roads are not filled with wrecks that could be potential hazards.

I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel , but hey the hunt is not completely over yet ;) .

Category: Mauritius,Car,Reconditioned,Toyota,Honda,Second-Hand

fancy a car ?

My good friend Avinash just booted up his website fancyacar.co.uk. The site started as a project for learning php and has ended into a brilliant car portal that allows uses to search for used cars and provides useful information on getting driving theory , car insurance and buying-selling advice.

He is adding new functionalities every week and the site promises to be a really cool tool if you want to get your hands on the cars that fit your budget.

The services offered are free so do check it out !!!

Category: Mauritius,car,,portal,UK,Used Cars,Second Hand,Tip

Diwa Cyclone and Zee cine awards

At the time of writing of this article a cyclone warning class 1 is prevailing in Mauritius in other words our weekend is gone for good , damn i love DODO land.

All is set to make people stay at home and watch the Zee Cine Awards , one of the biggest shows todate in Mauritius. Performs will come from bollywood direct to our little island for a 5 hour show broadcasted live to many stations through out the glode tommorrow.

Tickets are really expensive the lowest being rs 7000/- something to rs 20,000 for the VIP ticket which lets you sit with the Shah Rukh and Amithab Bachan. Its making big noise here almost outclassing the Chikunkungha epidemic which is just around the corner with the cyclonic rains that awaits us.

So i would be expecting many mauritians clustering in front of their TV sets on Saturday nite watching the show whilst Diwa makes her show outside and people getting themselves suck and bitting by mosquitoes on Monday... not a very rosy perspective but thats how nature gets it way with you when stars fall on your head :p
Category: Mauritius,Bollywood,Diwa,Cyclone,Zee Awards