Aleksander's Blog

A Little Journey

2011-04-06T18:54:00.002+05:30

Had an English exam recently and had to write about my proudest moment, that seems like quite a nice and interesting thing to write about here.

I Alex who have been playing guitar since June 2007. I remember the time my dad gave me my first guitar it was an acoustic Yamaha F-210. The moment I got it I asked my step mom to tune it as she had some guitar experience. So being pretty much a self-thought guitarist, used ultimate-guitar.com for guitar notes. At first they made no sense to me, but after searching a little bit I learnt how to read tabalature and started making music with my fingertips. Was a great feeling. I asked my friend's guitar teacher Mr.Pankaj to teach me so he thought me how to read and play chords and also thought me how to sing in key. In the school's guitar classes, knew how to play everything and hence people knew about the fact that i played guitar. That reminds me of taking part in playing Christmas carols with the school's choir. I used to browse youtube for artists. Rock and Metal music caught my eye and that was the moment when I said to myself that I want to sound like that.

My dad got me an electric guitar it was an Ibanez RGR321EX along with a Marshall MG30DFX amplifier and a ZOOM G2.1u effects processor. The moment I got it I started playing songs like "Breaking The Law" by "Judas Priest" was really nice to be able to sound the same as my favorites and was a great achievement. Well playing alone I realized that it would get me nowhere so decided to form a band, after trying to find interested people in my school I found my classmates to be interested. Yugendu a friend who had prior drum practice and Karan who played guitar and sang. The common thing between us was the same music influences and preferences which made it it easier for us. We practiced with the school's drumset and got to play live at school. So we played easy songs like "Paranoid", "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams", "21 Guns" people seemed to like them and was great fun and a sense of achievement. Yet I wanted a bigger audience and wanted more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1wgUJM8z8

I met two of my friends through other friends as they gave them my mobile number and knew about our common interests. Tanveer a guitarist and Harsh a drummer. Harsh has been a big influence for me as I have learnt a lot of things from him. So we usually jammed at Tanveer's house, we also involved other people in our jam sessions, along with the music we had a lot of fun. But we weren't getting anywhere. One day Harsh and I were supposed to go to Tanveer's place to jam but we apparently did not go, instead we recorded a soundtrack. We simply used the effects processor as the audio interface (Zoom G2.1u) and I had some little prior experience on how to use DAW's like Audition and FL Studio which all together came in handy. So by midnight the recording was done and was uploaded and was named OFS and on the same day we named this project Rain Stealer. Thanks to facebook, youtube and other such networks our music was shared and people heard our tracks, not that people liked them but we were in the spotlight.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rain-Stealer/189618284106

Things were going nice we managed to record 4 soundtracks along with vocals. But then came a moment where our ego's clashed and we ended all the ongoing work. What was done is still out there but no more work was done on the project. Now that I had no one to play with, just played songs and tried composing on my own. One lovely day I remember getting a message on facebook from my favourite Ahmedabad's band's guitarist Sheldon which read :

hey. our band needs a guitarist to play with us for mirage gig... if u know any 1 who plays metal pls lemme know.. also if u wana play u can..

So before jamming together for the first time, the set-list was already decided, so I practiced the songs well. The moment we plugged in our gear we were playing the songs really well. We practiced songs by "Iron Maiden" , "Judas Priest" and "Metallica" for an upcoming show in less than 2 weeks time. But that was a plenty of time for us.

http://www.facebook.com/MMSBand

It was the day to get on stage, so we met at the drummer's place for a final jam and were on the way to the event. We arrived there and were watching other bands perform. My friends from Tritone Events; Ian, Sid and many others are the ones who contributed in making this amazing show. It was a big thing for the city as there were not many other ongoing Rock or Metal shows around. We were the third band to go on stage, the moment the bands name was mentioned "Murder My Sweetheart" all the Metal music fans came charging to the front of the stage. As everyone was getting ready I played some famous solos and riffs that made the crowd happy. It was about time to start playing so we started off with the sound-check track which was "Living After Midnight" by "Judas Priest". As soon as the drummer started hitting his set, the crowd started headbanging. That is what you get for not having Metal music in town for a while. We started our set with "Aces High" by "Iron Maiden" which really uplifted the crowd's mood, some of them even started a mosh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD3rDgB8QDc

The on-stage effects like the various lights and smoke, a very lively audience and the loud sound from the monitors all this together made this an unforgettable experience. We continued the live show with "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by "Metallica" and "Breaking The Law" by "Judas Priest". Later the crowd demanded us to play "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by "Iron Maiden". All you could hear was everyone screaming "Hallowed". It was nice to see many of my friends in the crowd, many people taking pictures and others simply enjoying themselves. This makes it the proudest moment of my life and would like to thank everyone for letting me experience something like this especially "Murder My Sweetheart" for letting me play with them and everyone else who supported me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De1xQrG9kCQ

Maxis vs DiGi

2010-06-10T09:36:00.006+05:30

I am going to compare the wireless 3g broadband speed services by the 2 providers Maxis and DiGi. I have used both the services.

Maxis's Plans are as follows:
1.5 GB - RM 48
3 GB - RM 68
6 GB - RM 98
12 GB - RM 178
Source - http://www.maxis.com.my/personal/broadband/wireless_allplans.asp

DiGi's Plans are as follows:
3 GB - RM 68
10 GB - RM 108
16 GB - RM 158
Source - http://www.digi.com.my/internet/broadband/packages_contractfree.html

From this it is clearly shown that DiGi is more affordable but there is a catch to it on Maxis's service you will get a speed of 3.6 Mbps and on DiGi's you will get 700 Kbps so on Maxis's you will be able to achieve download speed of higher than 500 Kbps but on DiGi you will only get slightly higher than 100 kbps so that is the reason why you get DiGi's service cheaper.

Now let's talk about their contracts, modems, etc.

DiGi
1.You pay RM 50 or RM 100 if you are a foreigner upfront and this amount is not refundable.
2.You will get RM 20 discount for 4 months if you subscribe to either 10 or 16 GB Plans
3.The modem costs RM 80 once you buy it, it is yours.

Maxis

So if you care about very high speed then get Maxis, but if you want more GB's then get DiGi and it's speed is not bad at all.

Jailbreaking An iPod/iPhone and Installing Cracked apps on it.

2010-03-10T23:00:00.003+05:30

The tutorial has been based on 3.1.2 version of iPod Touch and is supposed to work with other versions too. Here I show you how to transfer the cracked apps from pc to iPod without the need of SSH or other hard methods.

1. Download blackra1n from http://www.blackra1n.com

2. If you are not on XP then run the application in compatibility mode by right clicking on it and finding that option in properties.

3. Connect the iPod/iPhone, run blackra1n and click on make it rain , your iPod will reboot being jailbroken and having an app called blackra1n on the list (springboard)

4. Run blackra1n from the springboard and download cydia by connecting to wifi.

5. Run cydia, go to manage and tap on sources there add a source/repo http://cydia.hackulo.us

6. Tap on search and search for installous, download and install that app. You will be now be able to download apps openning installous and there downloading the apps you want while connected to wifi.

7. But wifi is not always available and slower than broadband and may get disconnected so you might want to download via PC. Download the apps from websites like http://apptrackr.org/

8. Download a program called DiskAid http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid and install it.

9. Run Diskaid, connect iPod/iPhone and there navigate to “/Private/var/mobile/Library/Downloads“

10. Click on copy to device and select the ipa file you downloaded and hit ok the file will be sent to iPod, notice that the file might have a .ipa.zip extension so you have to rename it and remove .zip and only leave .ipa in diskaid itself after copying.

11. On you iPod/iPhone open installous go to downloads and there you will see the copied application(s) and tap it to install it.

12. Now enjoy your cracked application.

Get Any Sound You Want From Your Guitar Multi-effects Unit

2010-02-18T04:12:00.006+05:30

A few days back my Zoom G2.1u got kind of damaged, the stomp pedals were not working, once pressed the patch did not change so for my previous gig at my school i used Guitar Rig 4 on my laptop and meanwhile as i was searching for patches of guitar rig i found this website http://guitarpatches.haax.se/ which has 920 user contributed presets for my processor i got my processor back today and have already programmed a few patches, the processor allows to program 40 presets, these are a few patches i programmed

b0 - vocals

c0 - paradise city clean

c1 - slash distorted - My Michelle, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child o Mine, etc.

c2 - 21 guns intro

c3 - 21 guns distortion

c4 - smells like teen spirit intro

c5 - smells like teen spirit distorted (grunge)

d0 - clean+nr (no effects)

d1 - breaking the law

d2 - boulevard of broken dreams

d3 - paranoid

d4 - joker & the thief

d5 - pull me under

d6 - symphony of destruction

d7 - dave murray (iron maiden)

d8 - livin' on a prayer

d9 - sweet child o' mine

if your processor is on the list you should try the patches, so have fun with replicating the sounds of your favorite artists.

ROCKBAND and Guitar Hero on Your PC

2010-01-21T02:21:00.003+05:30

U probably enjoy playing these games on consoles like PS3 or XBOX 360 but for a change you want to play on your PC or you might not be having a console or maybe not have the controller but u can all do that on PC

1. You have to download a program called fofix from http://code.google.com/p/fofix/downloads/list

2. You should download rockband or guitar hero themes from http://www.fretsonfire.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=24976 you will have to be the member of fretsonfire.net

3.You will have to download song packs

ROCKBAND + ROCKBAND 2 + DLC from here http://www.fretsonfire.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=30926
All Guitar Hero series from here http://www.fretsonfire.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32009 (except World Tour) and for World Tour http://www.fretsonfire.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=42258&hilit=guitar+hero+world+tour
You might also want to search for the songpacks on thepiratebay.org

4.Once installed create a folder called songs in the game directory and paste the song packs there and themes in the themes folder

5.You can also connect your game controllers like the drum set or the guitar in case you are using xbox you will have to install xbox 360 drivers as i am running by xbox 360 drum set on it. You can get the drivers from here http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/download/download.aspx?category=Gaming

6.Start the game in the settings select the theme set up your controller and start playing.

Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools

2009-10-06T01:44:00.002+05:30

For those dying to find the left 4 dead authoring especially to convert sketchup to .vmf or hammer formats, they can download it for free from here http://fps.garena.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=601935

Some New Band Called Rain Stealer

2009-10-06T01:28:00.003+05:30

I have heard some new 2 songs my a band rain stealer they uploaded their songs on youtube, their songs had a feel of death melodic metal and thrash metal, being such a new band with no label signed they managed to record it without any studios. The links are below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYeEDiRjUUc - OFS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkKQlFlS3KA - Blood Heavenrain

Turn Your Room Into A Disco Using Free DJ Lights

2008-07-13T19:38:00.007+05:30

You must have seen the video representing how the lights work So they almost work on anything on a windows, linux, mac, mobile, tv, xbox, ps3 all for free so to do so you need to download the program that i made using flash.

4:3 Standard Displays
This version is mainly for TV's where you have to write a CD i would suggest write using nero and play it on a DVD player or a console that supports viewing of avi films such as ps3. It will work on any OS which supports avi even a mobile which supports avi and you must also have the repeat function so simply select the color pause set repeat and play. Currently only avi is available if any other formats needed please request me.
Download
Mirror

16:9 Widescreen Displays
Same thing but for 16:9 Widescreen Displays
Download
Mirror

Mobiles
Will Work on mobiles and you need the mobile flash player installed
Download
Mirror

Windows
The exe application only for windows. To make it work open the color you want and press Ctrl+F to make it full screen.
Download
Mirror

Linux
This is an SWF file which can open on any OS which supports swf files. But for those who have no flash player on pc they must have a flash player in the web browser so once downloaded open the color you want using the Firefox or any other web browser and press F11 for full screen.
Download
Mirror

Mac
This is an only mac .app file which will work on mac only so to make it work open the color you want and press Command+F to make it full Screen
Download
Mirror

So if you want any more formats or colors please write in the comments or in the shoutbox or mail me at aleksander100@gmail.com

A Good program for mixing songs is Virtual DJ so if you have multiple Displays on one of your pc's you can mix music and others will act as DJ lights. If you don't have more displays let the music play in the background using windows media player and turn dj lights on so it will still work.

So Let The Disco Begin

Thank You For Watching Hope You Liked It

Stay Tunned Once We Tell You About The Disco Ball And Lava Lamp And Bring You Back To The 70's

Runescape

2008-07-01T22:53:00.003+05:30

How cool Runescape new homepage with a high detail support and full screen support for members anyways beta available for free ones so test it out and now a bad news for players is that the price of member subscription will increase from august 4

Electrolysis Of Water

2008-04-19T01:45:00.001+05:30

Electrolysis Of Water - The most amazing bloopers are here
Splitting up of water(H2O) into Oxygen(O2) and Hydrogen(H2) at the positive(anode) side where the bubbles are forming slow are oxygen and negative(cathode) side where bubbles come fast is hydrogen

428 Traffic In One Day

2008-03-14T00:17:00.004+05:30

Wow this is cool my website http://appleiphone.110mb.com reached traffic upto 428 in one day i earned $1.81 from Adsense yet i am aiming for 1000 people a day anyways my website is only 3 days old so i hope more traffic comes all i did is posted the theme on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=376796

iPhone Theme Version 6 For Pocket PC !!!!!

2008-03-10T23:30:00.009+05:30

iPhone theme version 6 for pocket pc I know you all have been waiting for it and here it comes now all pocket pc users can convert their phones in to iPhones so u can see the video how it works here and to download visit http://appleiphone.110mb.com/ here you can discuss all the queries here i have made some videos showing u how to set up the theme Part1 and Part2 please support my work by clicking the adz.

Frets On Fire : Guitar Hero III Mod review

2008-03-03T21:36:00.003+05:30

I have been playing the frets on fire with the guitar hero III mod it's fun. U can play drums and u have a multi player version I've been playing with my friend he playing on a bass guitar and me on guitar and with my other friend he on drums me on guitar it's been really fun.

Frets On Fire

2008-03-01T21:32:00.002+05:30

It's a cool game that is a clone of guitar hero and is really cool u play it with your keyboard u can download it here and download songs for it from here and mods from here .Here r some pics comparing the original frets on fire on left and frets of fire with a guitar hero III mod on right you can it download from here and another thing this mod only works with Frets On Fire v1.1324 which can be downloaded here