If you haven't got the gist of it by the title, here are a few more to get you thinking.

YES! ITS OSCAR TIME AGAIN!

It has always been one of my dreams/desires to make a movie. To see how this amazing industry works to bring so many stories to life. I would love to find out the different elements that brings life to the story, and the story to the masses. I like award ceromonies a lot. It is one of the few platforms to see the happenings inside the industry.

I know you are wondering why I am moving away from the central theme of this blog (which is technology). Well the reason why Oscars is a part of this blog today is because of www.oscar.com I like a lot of different sites for a variety of reasons. I like this because it encompasses the essence of this amazing night.

The first thing that you see is a video with all the dialogues from Oscar winning movies. I thought this was amazing. They always have something new every year on their site. I used to wait for the papers to tell me who the nominations are, but now all I have to do is wait for it to be uploaded on the system.

They have a brilliant countdown timer to 25th of February when the Oscars will be aired. A great video section where you can find all the nominations for the year. They have a huge database of old Oscar information. They also have a dedicated page for the host every year, highlighting their achievement.

Here are the nominations for the Best Movie... Can't wait for the results.

Babel



The Departed



Letters From Iwo Jima



Little Miss Sunshine



The Queen

A special reference to Dreamgirls for a whopping 8 nominations (which is closely followed by Babel's 7 nominations)

I've got my money on Babel this year ... What about you?

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So we don't like terrorists. We don't like violence. We dont like anti-social behavior. We think we are peace loving people. But ask yourself, given the knowledge that you cannot be killed, given the knowledge that you are the master of combat and that rules can be broken, would you continue to remain a peace loving non-violent person? You might want to believe that you will. But video game statistics show otherwise.

I happened to go through the Times list of top 10 games of 2006 and I noticed that violent games stood out. Violence thrills and sells. This is why gaming is a 100 billion dollar industry. You play a game with the knowledge that you don't lose your life in the real world when you die inside of the game, unlike the matrix. Hence it thrills you to have a complete inventory of weapons like Rocket launchers, plasma guns, machine guns and shot guns. The feeling of obtaining a kill without damage to yourself, the sound of the reloading gun, planting the bomb at the right place, sneaking up behind someone and hacking him - it all sounds thrilling. Is this any indication of what we would really do in life lest there was no law to stop us? While some could argue that we are on the right side of this violence fighting aliens, communists, terrorists or simply your wife's kidnapper, you still might be the kind who wouldn't even consider picking up a weapon in real life.

I truly am a sucker for guns. I love the sound of the reloading shot gun and the bass generated by the firing plasma gun. My favorite games are Quake, Doom, Hitman and Half Life. Some of these happen to be the most popular gaming franchisees. I love the mayhem. I am a sadist who shoots bodies until they no longer are there. But does this feeling extend to the real world? I wouldn't mind playing around with a sniper rifle. I wouldn't mind lying in my balcony all stretched out with the barrel pointing out from the gaps in the balacony railing. Some fried chicken and coke on a tray on the side, while I target whatever seems appealing. Keeping the ethics of killing aside, all these years of violent gaming have definitely increased my love for weapons and damage. Is this what I would do if I was placed in a lawless world?

I was recently listening to some demos by engineers of top game development studios. They were showing off the graphics, the gameplay and the technology of some of games their companies are going to release later this year. What stood out was the focus on destruction. One of them said "There is no element in the game that you cannot destroy if you have the right weapon". Unlike the previous generation of games wherein you could only shoot at certain objects and destroy there, we move on to fully built cities that become a desert of rubble within minutes of playing the game.


See the demoes to believe:


1) World in Conflict:



2) Enemy territory: Quake Wars



Games like Grand Theft Auto and Carmageddon truly exemplify violence. These games are on the wrong side of the law. You win by looting people, stealing cars, damaging city property, dealing drugs and running over people. These were also the best rated games when they were released. Even games that look as simple as Need for speed instill anti-social behavior. Driving over-speed, banging cops, indulging in illegal street car races are an integral part of the game. While roads in India might not be as inviting as in the games, could these be responsible for exploitation of any small stretch of good flat road in the country?

Is it just me or do others feel this way as well?

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So you have a new laptop for which you shelled out good money or got lucky and got one as part of work. And then you decided to check out what gaming is all about and why everyone seems to be addicted to some game or the other. You decided to indulge and check it out for yourself. So you went to a store to pick up a game or perhaps sourced a pirated copy from somewhere. Titles like Hitman Blood Money, Doom 3 and Half Life 2 appealed to you. Or maybe you belong to the class of racing freaks and decided to check out the latest Need for Speed Carbon. Now you have the game and all that you need to do is install it and start indulging.

But this is where things go wrong. You start seeing error messages like "This game requires a Direct X 9 graphics card" or maybe "This game requires an Nvidia GeForce 5x00 series or the ATI X8xx series of video cards with minimum 64 MB Video RAM. Please check the system requirements on the box of the game". A lucky few of you might not get to see these error messages, but once you start playing, you feel like you are dodging bullets like Neo in Matrix. The game is very slow, not responsive and seems to flicker on the screen. This is called framing, the gaming nightmare. Now you curse yourself for having spent the moolah and wonder why you paid so much for your new laptop when you can't play a silly game which everyone else seems to be. You wonder why your latest Core 2 Duo with 1 GB of RAM and 80 GB of hard drive space stutters and stumbles. Welcome to the world of poor graphics cards being tortured by graphics intensive games.

Games are the most computationally intensive applications that a consumer can run. It can stress every component in the computer all the way from processor to memory to hard drive to network (multiplayer or online gaming) to graphic cards. Now, while you might have the best of the breed hardware for everything but the graphic card, you still won't be able to play that uber looking game which you have been dying to experience. The graphic card is the most important hardware factor in gaming. All the jazzy graphics you see on screen are mathematically intensive. Billions of mathematical operations are done every second to generate what you see on the screen. And to put it mildly, all that a graphic card does is do maths. The subject you probably dreaded all through your education. And now its back to haunt you when all you want to do is play a game. The reason we need a graphic cards to do the math, while you wonder why you have a processor which is supposedly intended to do math, is that a regular processor has other important things to do other than the math and hence gaming needs a dedicated maths processor. To be more specific, a floating point maths processor.

Laptops are designed for portability with focus on battery power saving. So they do not come with fancy hardware like powerful graphic cards (this excludes high end gaming laptops that we commonly do not see around us) that not only occupy space, consume power but also generate a lot of heat, burn your lap and kill the portability of your laptop. So now you have spent the money on the laptop and don't want to sell it. But you want to game as well. What do you do? Fear not, technology is hear to help.



Introducing Asus XG Station EN7900GS - The world's first external graphics cards that plug into your laptop. Now you can go out (very soon) and buy a graphics card that sits outside your laptop and plugs into the the express port and does all the maths you don't care about. Inside this box resides the Nvidia 7900 GS graphics chip that pumps your frames for a smoother game play. Also integrated into this device is a Dolby Digital headphone Jack support along with an LCD display that gives information on the current GPU (the 7900 GS Graphics chip) temperature, GPU fan speed and master volume. Plug this into your existing laptop (ensure you have an express port to plug it in) and say good bye to cheap graphics in your laptop. Enjoy gaming at its best on a portable device. The product is expected to start shipping starting Q2 of 2007. Once this is launched, expect other companies to launch similar devices and make your computing experience cheaper and fun. Enjoy!

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Here is a quick quiz. How are the below three pictures related? Read the article to find out more.

Imagine in the future your identity is your number. Just so that if you get amnesia (like you would if you were in one of the many terrible, terrible soap opera's), it has been conveniently tattooed somewhere on yourself to remember all your details (like the man in Memento)? This is not sci-fi, its a real possibility with RFID.

RFID is Radio Frequency Identification. This chip can be incorporated in product or animal to keep track of them by using radio waves. This chip has been used to track supply chain management in shipping of military equipment.

Somark Innovation of St Louis have discovered a way to make ink like RFID which is biocompatibe and this will be printed on the bovine to track the e-coli spread, namely the Mad cow discease. This brand has been tested succesfully.

This is really exciting news for me. In the world where we are identified by SSN and Passports it will be more easy to recognize us with a tattoo on our body. We will end up as bar codes in a large database. All we'll need is one of those IR decoders to recognize us. We will be swiped like groceries in the supermarket. Doesn't that sound like fun?

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Through the ages we have tried various methods to get organised. We had the diary era, where all our important meetings, our thoughts, our calendar was put in this book and it was all we needed to carry. In its absense we would be lost. 3M's brilliance got us to the post it age where those little yellow chits started appearing in our cubicles in our diaries.

The age of desktop organisers is here. We have the google desktop which will provide you with everything you need, from To do list to a Photo Organiser, to a Virtual Flowerpot. I like Google and their products, but I was a little disappointed with Google Desktop, it requires a lot of space and sytem resources, which renders your system to run at snails pace spoiling your online experience.

Recently I came across Rainlendar which can be downloaded from here. It is easy to use, takes very little space and can be used on both Linux as well as Windows. It is feature rich and easy to use. It can be customizable according to your desktop design.



There are 3 applications that come together in Rainlendar, they are the To Do list, Calendar and the Events list which is can be integrated with your regular calendar. It will pull events and meeting from your outlook and show them on your desktop.

The events list allows you to see your long term events and day to day events on the same page, so you can plan that special anniversary or birthday with class. This also allows you to have your deadlines there to remind you when you need to submit that important project or papers, to remind you there will be an alarm. Its brilliant because its right there. The To Do list can be divided into several different parts, personally I have divided it into home and Work which helps me organise the mess in my head.


I really like this application. It really works for me. I have had mixed reviews on this so I can't say its the best application for everyone. The reason why I like this most as compared to the other desktop organisers is because it doesn't slow my system down, its right there on my desktop and i needn't open any special application on which it is parked.

This is a must have for all those scatterbrains out there.

Moo Score - MOOOO/MOOOOO (4 out of 5)

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I remember my first video game was a Nintendo. Dad bought it for us two girls to spend some time fighting evil instead of each other. I had games like Looney Tunes something and the Goonies. Not to forget Super Mario Brothers. Still a classic with the youth as I still see my younger cousins fighting over who gets the magic mushroom in this round. My old Nintendo is now well packed and in some corner somewhere gathering dust. I am sure someday it'll be an antique, there will be people wondering how people played with the little controls and what the wires was for.

The new age commands new changes. One of the new changes that we'll see coming soon is that of the Wireless age. I am certain that day isn't far, oh hell we're almost already there. People want less congestion these days. They see congestion in most part of their lives and don't want to see it in their house. Isn't that why we comfortably moved from the age of long cords for phones to the wireless phones? It makes life simple.

In the same manner, when we are fighting terrorists in Counter Strike, wouldn't you rather sit in the ease of your bean bag with your munchies and drink on your side and shoot them terrorist butt till eternity? Sounds much more fun then that dingy parlour I was talking about doesn't it?

Let me show you how to connect 2 systems that have wireless capability. We will try a Peer to Peer (P2P) network. Its fairly simple to make a P2P network. You'll need the following

1. 2 systems with wireless capability running Win XP.

(Note - if you want to connect more than 5 systems you'll need Win XP Pro - Win XP Home allows only 5 systems to connect via Wireless connections)

Yup that's it, that's all we need. This is how we make the connection.

Step 1. Assign a local IP address to each system.

Start --> Control Panel --> Network Connections --> Right Click Wireless Network connections --> Select Properties --> Select on Internet Protocol(TCP/IP) --> Click on Properties --> Now you will get 2 options a) Obtain an IP address automatically or b) Use the following IP Address. Both are fine, but if you are using option b, please ensure you use an IP address between 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254.

Step 2. Switch on the Wireless adaptor on your system.

Step 3. The host computer will have to assign a name to the network name by clicking on Setup a new Network under Wireless connection and following the steps.

Step 4. Refresh to find list of Wireless Networks in Wireless connection. Once you see your Network name, you'll be good to get your guest computer networked.

Step 5. The guest computer will now be able to see your wireless connection. (Note- the guest computer will have to follow step 1 and not have the same IP address as that of the host)

With this we are done setting up the wireless connection. Happy gaming guys.

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A survey conducted sometime last year revealed that notebook computers accounted for more than 50% of sales for computer manufacturers. Desktops were overthrown for the first time and laptops became common place.

There are two main reasons for this mass adoption:
1) People find it convenient to use a portable rather than sit in front of a clunky desktop.
2) Competition in this space and advent of new technology has crashed prices making notebooks more appealing and affordable.

Upcoming technologies for portable computers will make computing in notebooks more appealing than it is now and this will eventually lead to increased market adoption.

The first of these technologies that I will talk about is the Solid State Drives (SSD). SSD have been around for a very long time now and many of us have used it as a part of our daily computing experiences. Some of us are glad to have this technology eventually replace the dreaded and unreliable floppy diskette. I am talking about the USB Flash drives aka USB Memory keys aka Thumbdrives aka USB Pen drives. All that these miniature devices contain is a chip or two that provide space to store data. Not only are they small and reliable they are also independant unlike floppies which need a separate drive in the computer to work.

A modern day computer has only one permanently attached mechanical device: The hard drive. Still very similar in its technicalities to the first one ever invented, data on this device is stored on the surface of a magnetized platter which is made to spin all the while the computer is powered on. And a spinning device implies the presence of a motor that is constantly running and consuming power. An average hard drive consumes about 9W of power for an 8 hour usage and accounts for 7 to 15 minutes loss in productivity per day due to its slow speeed.

The magnetic platter based hard drive (MHDD) has been the single biggest technology bottleneck in modern computers simply because we have seen significant changes in all other electronic components that go on to build a computer. Every device other than the hard drive is bottlenecked by the hard drive's inability to deliver data at a faster rate compared to the other devices. The reason for this relative lack of growth in hard drive technology arises from the higher cost of new technologies trying to replace the MHDDs thereby killing adoption. It is simply difficult to beat the cost per GB (GigaByte) that a hard drive provides while at the same time providing the best possible data transfer rates.

I recently purchased a 250 GB hard drive for 3500 rupees. That would be around Rs. 14/GB. Compare this with the cost of a floppy which costs around Rs. 14 for a 1.44 MB disk and this excludes drive cost. A Blank DVD of 4.4 GB (true storage space) costs around Rs.30 which is about Rs. 7/GB. However a DVD is a read only media and the rewritable versions are more expensive, extremely slow compared to hard drives, and have to undergo a painful burn process to achieve data writes.

Then we saw the influx of USB memory keys in the market. At the time of this writing a 4GB Flash memory key costs Rs. 3000. That is Rs. 750 per GB. Inspite of this price barrier the technology has caught on and is commonly used for data transfers between computers. This is mainly driven by the convenience of using the device.

Technically, Solid state drives that use mostly what is called as NAND Flash chips provide very high read speeds compared to hard drives. But these chips are not available in huge capacities to be able to replace hard drives. While we now have hard drives in the market that have 1 Terabyte storage, we are still counting in tens of GBs for flash drives.

However all this is about to change. The biggest selling factor of solid state devices as replacement for hard drives is the lack of mechanical parts. What this simply means is that if you drop a notebook computer having a solid state hard drive, the chances of you losing data in the hard drive is very very less. There is no scenario of the read-write head in the magnetic hard drive scratching the platter and data being lost. There are no moving parts. All data is stored on silicon chips which are designed to withstand shocks. Also because there are no motors the power consumption is dramatically reduced. A SSD uses 200 milliwatts during read/writes, and 0 watts when not being accessed. This amounts to signifant savings in power consumption especially in notebooks. As silicon chip manufacturing technologies improve, manufacturers are able to cram in more and more data into a given real-estate size of a semiconductor chip.

At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, PQI announced their 2.5" 64 GB Solid State Hard drives capable of doing 100 MB/sec data transfer rates. While this may sound a lot less than SATA MagnHDDS that are said to be capable of 300 MB/Sec, the SATA specs are merely the theoretical maximum for the interface and do not reflect the actual transfer speeds which is around 20-80 MB/Sec on an average. Also an important point to keep in mind is that in an MHDD the rotating disk and the moving read write head implies different speed of data transfers for data stored in different parts of the platter. Data transfer is higher at the outsides of the platter than on the insides. In a SSD Drive that takes data from silicon chips, data transfer is instantaneous from every storage point and hence the transfer speed is fixed and is not an average calculation.



Now factor all this and see how this fits into a notebook computer. Most notebook computers these days have magnetic hard drives of capacity 80 GB. These are smaller and slower parts than what is commonly found on desktop computers and they are designed to withstand shocks better than their desktop counterparts. They also take a major share in the power consumed by the notebook. When portability is the key for adoption, the lowest power consumption is the goal. Any technology looking to replace MHDD should be able to match its capacities, transfer data at higher rates, use lower power and take the same or lesser physical space. Solid state technology is all set to replace these MHDDs in all these aspects very soon.

If you thought 64 GB was not enough space think again. I have been working on windows Vista for about 10 months now and a hard drive installed with Vista, Office 2007, commonly used applications and a couple of games occupies around 30 GB of space. That would leave a 64 GB hard drive with 34 GB free space that should easlity store 137 Audio CDs ripped at 128 kbps quality along with 20 High quality compressed movies. With the advent of portable music and video players you are more likely to push all this content into these devices or perhaps do live streaming from a media server (another new technology on the horizon). Even better you could buy an external hard drive of higher capacity if need be and use it only when you need to transfer data. You save power the rest of the time. You still have enough storage space for productive computing minus the entertainment in a worst case scenario.

If you feel the insufficiency of a 64 GB, behold. Manufacturers have announce Hybrid hard drives that have the usual magnettic platters for high capcity storage in addition to flash chips. This way the most commonly used applications and the operating system are stored on the flash memory and used from there while the magnetic platters are shut off to save power. When user data needs to be accessed in huge quantities from the magnetic platters, only then are the platters spun and data transferred. Recent trials of this technology report boot times for Windows XP at 10 seconds and resume from hibernate at 3 seconds.

With such benefits lurking around in the corner and Samsung all set to announce 128 GB NAND Flash chips by 2008 for lower cost than todays 64 GB, we should see this technology take off well in the next couple of years.

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I have never been a sucker for the fancy mobile phones out there, never owned a phone in my life, never paid for any of the phones I have used. And losing my phone is an integrated part of my life and it really doesn't worry me much because I have never had to pay for the phone. Everytime I have lost a phone, I have conveniently chosen to not have a phone. And out of the frustration of not being able to reach me, people around have gifted me phones from time to time.

The reason I never owned a phone is, I never liked any. I just didn't like any of the phones. Yes, thats true. If there was something about a phone I liked, it definitely had to have something in it that I didn't like. I don't like keys. I like on screen keyboard, but I hate the stylus. I would prefer a simple user interface when it comes to using a mobile phone. Something or the other would always be wrong.

And for a long time, I have been waiting for the right phone. And I think it is finally here. Steve Jobs finally put all rumors into the grave after announcing Apple's new iPhone yesterday at the Mac World. Here are the pictures from the expo for you to look at and drool.





















And here are the specs:

Screen: 3.5-inches, 320 x 480 @ 160 PPI
Storage: 4GB or 8GB
GSM: Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera: 2.0 megapixels
Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing; Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight: 4.8 ounces / 135 grams

Thats the hardware aspect of it. What kicks ass is the software:
1) Portable version of the Mac OS running on it.
2) Safari Web Browser from the Mac OS
3) Widgets found in the Mac OS Dashboard
4) Play widescreen videos
5) Play music and obviously has iTunes
6) Google Maps
7) Yahoo IMAPI Email

The only downside I can see as of now is the pricing of 500$ and 600$. But it is definitely not a deterrent for me. My biggest concern is that it is expected to launch in Asia only in 2008. I hope to get myself a subscriber unlocked version sometime later this year from outside the country.

For more drooling check out The Apple iPhones Website

**wipes the drool**

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Wondering why I used this title? Well all your doubts will be cleared as you read the post. Google has come up with amazing gadgets you can use for your website. There are about 2730 odd gadgets to choose from. They have been divided into several categories like finance, communication, tools, news, fun and games etc.

Using these on your site is really easy. Search for the gadget you require on your blog either by going through the various topics or by using the search bar on top and then just click on add to your website, you will be lead to a page where you can customize it according to your blog, depending on the nature of the tool and then you just click on get the code and voila, you gadget is ready to be added to your blog.

Here are a few interesting gadgets.

This cool tool will help you locate any songs lyrics that you want. How will it be useful you ask, imagine you are listening to Pandora and you come across a song that you really like. Simply type the name of the song and artist and you have the lyrics right there infront of you.







Here is a good gadget for a travel blog, a currency converter.



This tool helps you get recipes from the web. A nice addition to your recipe site.



If you are not that great with colors or colorblind, you can use this next tool to pimp up your blog.



And for those still wondering what the title means, here is the hint - Weightloss. It doesn't get easier than this. This tool is awesome and can be customized to your individual height and weight and if you excercise or not and will tell you how many calories you need to sustain.



Well I like the gadgets, I don't know why Google hasn't provided a better way to customize it according to your site. There are so many options to choose from and each one is slightly different than the other. It's very easy to use, 3 steps and then you have a gadget on your site. I haven't faced any issues with these gadgets on my other sites. All in all a good experience but I still can't get over the lack of customization options.

Moo Score: MOOO out of MOOOOO (3 out of 5)

Is the title still vague? Well here is a video that will explain it to you. Please listen carefully to resolution number one.

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Ever visited a page on the internet and come across this icon or this one or maybe ? Perhaps wondered what these icons meant but never bothered to click and find out why they were there? Thought that you would check on the icons later?

Welcome to Web Feed aka Web Syndication aka News Aggregation or simply subscription.

1) Are there a collection of webpages (Blogs, News, Howstuffworks etc.) you regularly visit?
2) Do you wish to be updated if there was an update to the content of any of these webpages?
3) Would you like to preview the new content in your regular website before you decide if you actually want to check out the page and read the content?
4) Would you like to see updates to all your frequent websites in a single location?

Web feed is for you if your answers to the questions above are a YES. Web feeds provides a method for you to aggregate information from your preferred websites in a single location. To make this happen there are two requirements:

1) The website you want the information from should provide a feed service. Look for any of the above logos or keywords like ATOM, RSS, FEED, XML, Syndicate etc. you can click on. Most popular websites and blogs have this option. Scroll to the bottom of this page to find the option to subscribe to the feed from WORD FROM THE WEB. Clicking on this icon or link should bring up the default Feed reading software installed in the system to configure it to read content from this website.

2) You need a Feed reading Software which collects information from websites of your choice. Some of the popular feed reading services are:

SharpReader
NewsGator
RssBandit
Feedreader

Opera, IE7 and Firefox web browsers have feed reading service integrated into them. Another alternative is Google Desktop's Web Clips gadget. This is my preferred feed reading service as its already there on my desktop.

Download and install Google Desktop and find the Web Clips gadget already present in the Desktop Toolbar. Click on the down pointing arrow to the right of Web Clips title and select options. Current web clips lists the currently subscribed feeds from which you can add or remove entries. To get feeds from a new website, locate the RSS or ATOM or XML or the relevent feed keyword with a link. Right click on this link or icon and choose to copy the link address or the shortcut. Paste it into the Add box and click on the Add button in the options. You should now be subscribed to the web page from which you will get updates.


Some of my subscriptions:

1) Dilbert Blog: Scott Adams Blog on events in the world

2) Ctrl+Alt+Del: A geek comic

3) DailyTech: Daily dose of technology

4) Reddit: Social News network

5) Slashdot: Tech news

6) the INQUIRER: News, Reviews, Facts and Friction

7) XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

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Have you ever dreaded having to reveal your email address every time you had to sign up for a service on the web because you weren't sure if this would lead to lot of spam flooding the inbox? Have you been sick of having to sign in to your mail account to confirm registration for a web service that you signed up? If so, 10 minute email is the solution to your problems.

How would you like a mail service which gives you a Email ID that exists only for 10 minutes? How would you like a mail service for which you don't need to remember a password? How would you like an Email address that doesn't require you to sign in? This is exactly what the 10 minute email service does for you.

And here is how you do it:

1) Visit http://10minutemail.com/

2) Click on "Get my 10 Minute Mail e-mail address.

3) Copy the Email address in the page. I got mail430344@fificorp.com

4) Copy this mail address and put it into the service that requires an Email address for registration confirmation.

5) Refresh your 10minutemail.com page after sometime (less than 10 minutes), read your mail, click on the link, confirm your details and get your new web service.

Hassle free, no spam mail account in less than 10 clicks . And if you thought that 10 minutes wasn't enough, you can extend the life of your mail by another 10 minutes by clicking on "Give me 10 more minutes!"

Wish you all a happy spam free new year.

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