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Archive for August, 2007

Shoaib Mansoor

19 Aug

Many in Pakistan believe that Shoaib is one of the best director, producer, composer, writer to come out on the Pakistan’s electronic media scenes, he has directed/produced many TV plays, you can get a list of those from Wikipedia.  I will not lie, I admit that when i was young, around 15 years old, I really did like his plays, I don’t remember much of them now but now that I have had much more exposure, I have come to this conclusion which only be best described in the Urdu phrase: “andooN main kaNa raja”, but this phrase is only for his director and composer sides, I don’t think any one can even think of Shoaib as even a good writer, those who think so probably don’t know the kind of writers the sub continent has had.

 

Creative Zen Vision M

12 Aug

I bought a Create Zen Vision M 30 GB last week, though I had been thinking about buying a mp3 player for quite a while, it wasnt until I compared the prices of Apple Ipod and Zen that I decided to buy a Zen, the experience so far has been really good, I like the crisp display, the videos are sharp and I was actually able to see a movie on it while commuting to work and back, the interface requires getting a bit used to it but after that its pretty easy.

 The two things that I didnt like about this player were

  1. The proprietry interface, I guess creative wants to sell accessories for Zen so they decided to have a proprietry connector, though a mini usb connection would have just rocked, my qtek, my camera both use mini usb, that would have saved me some pain. Zen can act as a USB drive as well, but then you have to carry the connector with you, which I dont want too.
  2. The headphones that come with it are just so so, not that good but then I guess its the same with all the players out there.

Other then that its feels solid in hand, has a FM radio which is a big plus, although its not the best looking but it gets the job more then done, CNet gave it a good rating too.