Fonts For Designers

I have been lately busy with some works related to our Z-bit Labs where I came across the need for good fonts for both web and graphics designing purpose. So I decides to find some fonts which are helpful in designer works, on which we don't have to apply too much effects to get that catchy feeling on the fonts. I have got a feeling that apart from our graphics effects, the fonts we use always makes a difference.

Here are some of the fonts which I have selected after doing some sorting out in different font sites. Click here to download. So my blog readers, try out and post your comments.

Thanks.

Windows Media Player 12 Beta 1 (Review)

I lately got my hands on the new Windows Media Player 12 Beta 1, which now have been circulating for a while in most of the downloading sites and torrents. Is it true that Microsoft released such a version without much announcement?? or is this a fake version??....Some say Microsoft released it for beta testing, but there is no sign of such release in the MS website. The truth is, its a fake version developed by some programmer for his on reasons. There is a rumor that programming groups which shows affinity to Microsoft argues them to produce an Ultimate Media Player that can stand up to iTunes from Apple, which is currently dominating the Digital Music World. This must be the reason that MS is keeping quite even though it is getting popular in torrent sites.

Anyway I downloaded WMP 12 Beta 1 and installed it to see how much it is worth to the hype that is given to it by all torrent clients. But unfortunately I got a version provided by the h33t file sharing group which is not in English language. Since I am familiar with WMP 11 interface, I decided to go on with the testing process. And so does my confidence paid me the price. I was surprised to see the same UI provided by WMP 11!!! There is no difference in WMP 12 UI except some smoothening or polishing look given to it by its developer. But there is a change for WMP 12 desktop icon, which gives a better impression than the icon of WMP 11. Take a look at the "Now Playing" page of WMP 12 beta1.

After the first "not so good" feel given by WMP 12, I decided to play some tracks to see how good it is when it comes to the real stuff. So I put some of my best Rock music tracks to the play list and selected the Equalizer settings for Rock generic, and to my surprise it completely beats WMP 11 in playback quality. The Bass has improved a lot, the noise level when playing either the high quality or low quality tracks also has improved. I tried some soft music too.They seem like a pleasure to hear. After all, I slowly began to think WMP 12 is worth its fame given by all torrent sites.

Next I noticed that the Media Library of WMP 12 seems a little more easy to use than the one in WMP 11. It looks like a more intelligent version than the former version. It detects automatically all the media files in your system and adds it to library according to various generic. You don't have to explicitly specify each and every generic tracks. And as a cool feature it automatically finds appropriate Artist/Album informations from audio file properties or from internet, including an Album pic to represent media files in Library.

The video playback has given some improvement. The clarity has increased, all hiccups in playing high resolution videos seems to have no problem to go on with WMP 12. Even the low quality videos can be seen vivid in WMP 12 compared to poor visibility provided by WMP 11.















At the end of the day, I can't tell you whether WMP 12 is a great work done by some third party developer, but it has got some elements that makes you use this version over the genuine WMP 11. I am not telling you that this is a media player that can stand up to the "easy-of-use" and "cool to hear" iTunes, although WMP 12 has made some changes in handling External Media players and devices. Now I have a nice feeling towards WMP when using along with Gtalk for music history status, which I was earlier used to feel ashamed of when compared to Winamp. But WMP 12 is not anywhere near Winamp, the all-time favorite for audiophiles. And when I am talking about Winamp, Nullsoft has released its Winamp 5.52 version at its 10th anniversary. I will be trying to come up soon with a review on Winamp 5.52 with its new revolutionary "Bento" interface.

When Linux disturbs your Window Boot Manager

All Linux distributions come with their own boot managers, usually LiLo or Grub. When you install any Linux OS they overwrite the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the hard disk. If you want the familiar Windows boot manager back, you will have to repair the boot sector with the Windows setup CD.

Boot from you Windows CD( you can do this only if your OS CD is a bootable version) at the start up of your computer, and select "Recovery console" at the first menu. There enter the command 'fixmbr'. In most of the cases Windows recognizes the Linux partition and adds it to the boot manager. If that doesn't happen, start the recovery console again and enter the following commands( assuming "C:" is the Windows partition) :

1. cd..
2. fixboot c:
3. fixmbr
4. bootcfg/rebuild

With this rebuild of your boot sector, the Windows boot files will be written back again, the MBR will be repaired and the file "boot.ini" is recreated. And you are back to square one......with your favorite Windows boot manager back you will feel relaxed even though there is a Linux box along with your Windows habitat.

Another Milestone for Z-Warr1orZ clan........

Z-Warr1orZ clan gets the top spot in Resplendous Counter Strike gaming event at MCE on Mar 12th. Being myself a member of this clan, makes me proud of thinking about this significant event in the history of Z-Warr1orZ clan. This was a 3-on-3 match event, and all members of the clan was not able to participate. So XIII,DRACULA and vegeta_zw were the team formation for this event. Neme$i$(thats myself) was the Admin of the CS server for the event as the coordinators have invited us, and dOm1naTOr was not able to attend the event because he met with a small accident in the morning of this event day. And this news was very hard on us, to miss out one of our clan member at the heat of an event like this, moreover that day was his birthday too.

There were teams from STC, AJC and 4 teams from Saintgitts. But even though this was the home ground for us, the situations were always against us and team mate missed the presents of dOm1naTOr badly. In spite of this gloomy atmosphere the boys played so good that all other clans dare to play with us. We were damn good both at tactics and fragging the enemies.

The match limits were 8 rounds each as CT and T, so the total of 16 rounds in a match. The team that gets 9 out of 16 rounds wins the match. Z-Warr1orZ won the two pre-final matches at the score 9-7 each. In the final we humiliated Saingitts team in the score 9-1.

This is going to be an ever remember able event in the hearts of Z-Warr1orZ clan members. I give full credit to all clan members for this joined work out, and greetings to Z-Warr1ors fans.


Z-Warr1orZ clan :

dOm1naTOr (Aravind N.)
XIII (Amit T.)
DRACULA (Shawn T.J.)
vegeta_zw (Rahul, from AJC)
Neme$i$ (Jinsu M.)

.....its time for a new start now.

All the 5th sem exams are over and its time to start a new sem at its full swing. Now its time for mini project and will be busy to come up with our Z-bit Labs' online hardware site. And apart from this, the ambition to work in an industry makes me try my best to get a placement a MNC. But the unsatisfied method of selection process made by MNCs make me and my friends to think about starting a company of our own, with our own innovative ways of thinking and doing things. We guys now started working hard to make our dream come true. The Z-bit Labs, thats what the dream of every Z-Warr1orZ clan members now..........

hey.......I too started blogging.