Screenshots of NFS Pro-Street on my PC…..

And more pics…..

Need For Speed; Pro-Street takes us back to the NFS 5 Porsche Unleashed days, which also featured better simulation, gameplay and damage model compared to later titles. And NFS-PS also features all the bling bling, which allows us to customize and tune cars found on versions after NFS Underground. Except cops, coz this time we have to race on tracks not on streets, so its legal racing now.

Graphics powered by my Nvidia 7600GS

The lazylaces 56K modem emulator brings the old-skool joys of the dial-up connection to the modern day broadband user. Happiness is a squeaky analog connection tone. *Joy*

56K Modem Emulator (A.K.A. Sounds Broadband Users Never Hear) and a real dial-up emulator.

But am still hearing

I have always preferred not to use “WWW.” for urls to my sites (on links, site promotions …etc), I dont even type “WWW.” on my browser’s address bar. Because I have always realized it’s an unwanted part on a domain.

World Wide Web:
Abbr. WWW
• The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
• A collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.

By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the ‘http://’ onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.

Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

But am not redirecting site traffic from www url to non-www url. But if you want to do so, add the following code on the ‘.htacccess’ file on your site’s root folder.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Above code (301 permanent) redirects all requests on ‘www.domain.com’ to ‘domain.com’, but it is better if you also make sure to edit all inner links within the site to be non-www.

http://no-www.org

Seems like Gmail is offering more storage space for random accounts. And it is 9030mb, a FREE 7GB increase. Google is trying to catch up with Yahoo.

Also they are offering additional paid storage, which can be used for any of their services, for prices given below.

6 GB ($20.00 per year)
25 GB ($75.00 per year)
100 GB ($250.00 per year)
250 GB ($500.00 per year)

Additionally bought storage would be added to your current usage.

Anyway Google Rocks !!

Picture portraying, Gmail Paper prank, Google played on their users on last April 1st