After the amazing “Phoenix Beverages” advert, Circus Advertising is back with a new one which will soon be the talk of the town. May be I am wrong since that simply won’t be enough. In fact, I can even find it among the best adverts ever till now, and why not The best advert 2010?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7BTqilkcHI

From a colleague who saw the ‘advert live : All the dahi’s’ in the girl’s box were distributed to the people in the hall, “while stock lasts” lol

This concept really deserves a big round of applause. Hats off to the team.
Through this advert, Circus Advertising has clearly positioned itself far ahead anyone else here. Having reached over 41,000 views on Facebook, the Phoenix Beverages advert is one of the most watched local adverts

pss : This blog post was written on Saturday night.

Your impressions?

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How you ever wondered how many of your friends joined Facebook by accepting your friend request?  I must say that it would be pretty interesting to know these numbers, don’t you agree?

So, during my nothing-to-do-time-on-facebook, I just clicked on this link out of curiosity :

***drum-roll***

I just discovered a new thing on facebook yaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Ok. After a click on Google, I found (to my dismay) that this feature was introduced months ago and I came to know it only right now. Anyways, there’s nothing bad about sharing things I come upon with you people, isn’t it? I guess that’s one of the reasons why some of you keep tuned to this blog, right?

400 invites sent…

The “Impact” page also lists some of your friends who brought in the most people.

However, out of these 400 invites, only 80 of them joined Facebook through my mail invitation. You can get this information by having a look at this page : “Invite history”, accessible at http://www.facebook.com/invite_history.php.

As it says : “[...]see all the people you’ve invited to join Facebook and check who has already joined. You can also review and manage the contacts you’ve imported into your Facebook account but not yet invited.”

We are already at the end of this post, hope that you are now convinced that Facebook is tracking every single of your moves since Day 1.

Anybody wants to share their stats? How many people did you drag to Facebook?

Bon weekend everyone!

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As usual, the monthly price update

If you follow the trend since the last months, you will notice that there’s some “yoyo price” theory  (Fek invente sa mot la )

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It may sound fairly easy to add your watermark(logo or name) onto 1 or 2 pics but how will you achieve this if you have to share 100 or 200 pictures? You may have your own technique, but let me show you mine, just discovered this feature a week ago on Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Today, I will be using  the “Actions” of Photoshop CS2 to add a watermark and also resize the image before uploading it to Facebook for example.

Step 1

Open an image and click on the small icon to open the small window shown.

Step 2

Then type in the name of the action, here defined as “Resize-Watermark”.

Step 3

All actions performed on photoshop will now be recorded. Once done, these actions can be replayed on one or a set of pictures for executing the exact actions.

As you can see above, the “Record” button has been activated.

Step 4

Now, you can add a text layer onto your picture. Additionally, you can change its position or style it.

Step 5

Above, the picture is being resized to a width of 720pixels. All these actions will be recorded accordingly.

Step 6

After you are done with the modifications, you can now click on the stop icon. So, here ends the initial set up/recording of our action(s).

Applying the watermarks and resizing (Actions) to other images.

Now, your life is going to be so easy!

Let’s say for example, you have a folder full of pictures that need watermarking and resizing before the uploading process onto Facebook.

Step 7

Go to “FILE > SCRIPTS > IMAGE PROCESSOR”

Step 8

If you wish to process files from 1 specific folder or images that are currently opened in the Photoshop workspace, this is where you should select the right image source.

Step 9

Choose the action you recorded earlier

Step 10

Click “Run”.

That’s all

No more additional steps required.

You might now witness a matrix-like effect during which the pictures will be rapidly opened and processed. These pictures will be saved at the location specified in the previous window. After all the processing is done, you can have a look at them.

You want a preview of the results?

All the shots displayed on the Infotech blog post were watermarked and resized using the same technique. As you can see, all the watermarks are exactly positioned at the same location.

Whether you have 1 or 100 pics, it will now take a few seconds to get everything digitally signed

This technique has been tested on Adobe Photoshop CS2. I haven’t tested on other versions but it might work. Anybody, please confirm.

I am sure that some of you might have other techniques as well, do you? Please share how you do it and also, don’t hesitate to share this blog post with others

Thank you for your visit

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Intelligent Mauritius… That was only the motto just like C’est un plaisir!

The only development I could notice while going to Swami Vivekananda today was the Ring Road being built. Else, everything was as the previous years : DULL.

Here’s the complete series of Infotech blog posts : Infotech 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

Anyway, here’s the pics :

The entrance to the fair

The Career area, rempli r l'air...

The Apple corner

Cash and Carry, 100% promotion, all year round

Emtel, nice stand but not as attracting as the previous years

They know how to animate their stand. Always 'full'

Radio Plus Stand, too many flowers in my opinion

MBC, les gros moyens

Oops, did someone notice that there is an error here?

It took me roughly 15minutes to go around the stands…

May be you have done it quicker?

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Good morning all!

Happy raksha bandhan to every brothers and sisters reading this.

My sister and 2 cousins just tied my rakhee a few minutes ago after which we exchanged gifts.
Point to note : It is common practice for cousins to celebrate rakhee among themselves, especially if the latter do not have ‘brothers’.

Facebook siblings

However, this hindu festival brings a question to my mind…

Do these facebookers really tie all the holy thread to all their ‘siblings’?

In my opinion, this should not be a joke…

What do you think about this ‘practice’ on the web… And finally, which rakhee do you prefer? The traditional hand made “sutha” or the more fancy one on sale ?

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Ti Vegas is closing down tonight since its permit has been revoked(?) by the authorities. From what I managed to hear from the MBC news bulletin, the casino has 14 days to bring forward valid reasons for winning back the permit.

This fight has been on since long, especially during the last months. Most (if not all) inhabitants of this region of Quatres Bornes have been dreaming to see one of the biggest casinos of the island to cease its operations.

How do you feel about this? Will they have their permit back? Should the casino start working again? And above all, should casinos be allowed to operate in highly residential areas?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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So, the good news is that yashvinblogs.com and dhaneesha.com got engaged today (15th August 2010)….

Bad news? none yet!
Finally, I think yes, perhaps one : The weight of the ring

While waiting for the once-upon-a-time blogger to give a detailed post about this special day, keep tuned for the pics on Facebook.

So, happy engagement to Dhaneesha and myself

To all those batteur bis and ti-purris eaters : Keep waiting lol.

LIKE this new relationship? Click on the button below lol

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Les photos prises à Grand Port pleuvent sur Facebook depuis les derniers jours. Tout le monde veut partager ce moment passé dans cette expo ouverte au public pour célébrer le bicentenaire de la Bataille de Grand Port. Point à noter : Toutes les photos (presque) se ressemblent comme deux gouttes d’eau lol.

L’état a misé gros sur cet événement en essayant de faire revivre ce moment historique datant 1810 aux Mauriciens ainsi bien que les touristes. Les médias en parlent beaucoup même à l’étranger car plusieurs pays participent à cet événement. Le calendrier semble bien rempli jusqu’à la fin de ce mois : Concert, danse, expo, régates, etc.…

Comme je ne sais pas encore si ça vaut vraiment la peine de me déplacer de Triolet à Grand Port, peut être que vous pouvez m’aider à me décider ? Alors, c’était comment ?

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A few days back, a friend told me that he once ate 10 pairs of one of the widely consumed fast food of Mauritius, commonly known as “dal pourri” or “dhol pourri”…

I was kindda astonished! I never ate more than 3 “dal pourri” or even “roti”.
Wow, I can’t imagine me eating more than that! I simply won’t be able to do that without getting sick!

So, this brings me with this blog post, trying to find out about the habits of some of the Mauritians reading this

How many pairs of “dal pourri” or “roti” can you eat?

Note : The numbers here refer to the number of “dal pourri” eaten consecutively over the minutes, not during one week or month…

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Pics googled from http://lai-mauritius.com/Mru/Food.htm

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