Thoughts of a semi-nerd

According to me, a movie should make us think, laugh or cry. Here is the list of English movies that made me cry: Cars The Game Plan Black Swan Glory The Pursuit of Happyness Marley and me 300 The Sixth Sense Schindler's List The Fisher King Children of Men Saving Private Ryan The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Requiem for a Dream I Am Sam The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Cinderella Man Million Dollar Baby Real Steel Forrest Gump Enemy at the Gates The girl with the dragon tattoo The greatest game ever played I hope these movies give you the same feeling as it did to me. :) The above list can be accessed in  imdb as well.

My first post in 2012. Happy new year to all my readers. :) This post is the second in 'My Software Pick' series. First part can be accessed here . This list too contains useful utilities. As usual, only legal and legitimate softwares - no crack or pirated copies. 1. Shaplus Bandwidth Meter This is a free tool to track your internet usage.  This tool tracks every KB you download. I have been using this to track my internet usage, for over 5 years. This is a must have for us broadband users to keep our download limit in check, so that we are not surprised seeing our internet bill. Also, this occupies less than 200KB of your disk space after installation and less than 2MB of memory when runs in the background. 2. vlc media player vlc media player is one of best media players out there and it is free. It plays almost all formats. Till date, I have not seen vlc returning errors for a video. In my system, it even played corrupted avi file which was abando