IPL T20 is one of the biggest and costliest event of the world and without doubt the biggest cricketing tournament of the world.

In IPL T20 session 4, there are 10 teams participating to face each other in 70 twenty20 league matches to book their spot for quarter finals. Through out this phase, for the fans and followers, the points table and team standing statistics are  very important factor.

Teams would be ranked as per their points and when points are same, then via their Net run rate. The run rate is a big factors for all team since we have seen in previous years, teams losing their spot because of the low run rate.

Teams,

• Pune Warriors
• Mumbai Indians
• Kolkata Knight Riders
• Rajasthan Royals
• Deccan Chargers
• Chennai Super Kings
• Royal Challengers
• Bangalore
• Kings XI Punjab
• Kochi Tuskers Kerala
• Delhi Daredevils

IPL T20 2011 season 4 team standings and Points Table
update -> 30/04/2011

Every time we install or reinstall our operating system (Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7), we  find our self in need to install some software, without which, we cannot run our computer properly and with ease. There is a clear distinguishing between the must install applications and the ones with your choice. So here is a list of the must-installed apps, which are, to me unavoidable.

Device Drivers

As a first step of computing you should be able to run all your hardware properly. To do so all, your OS requires device drivers for all the present hardware.

Where to find your device drivers ?

Generally it comes with the hardware you buy as CD / DVD but in order to extract better performance from your hardware or when you are changing your OS (eg, Windows XP to Windows Vista), you may need to visit  website of the device manufacturer to obtain the latest drivers.

Run-time libraries

Runtime libraries enables us to execute applications developed in different development platforms. For example, you may need Adobe Flashplayer to view/ execute flash content which is the building blocks for most of the websites.

Which runtime libraries do you need ?

Few must install Run-times along with their download links would be, Adobe Flash Player / Sun JAVA / Microsoft .NET Framework (1 / 2 / 3.5) / Microsoft VM / Silverlight / Shockwave Player.

Security software (AntiVirus / AntiSpyware / Firewall)

As its a Windows installation hence there are hundreds of Malware (Virus / Worm / Spyware / Adware) waiting to infect you unless you have proper protection to save your Windows installation.

Where do you get security software ?

There are many security companies offering AntiVirus (AVS) and AntiSpyware software solutions. For example, Norton Internet Security / Kaspersky Internet Security / ESET NOD32 / McAfee Anti Virus Solution / Trend Micro PC-Cillin / Bit-Defender / Microsoft Live OneCare / Avast (Freeware) / Grisoft AVG (Freeware).. Find more @ Wikipedia / Microsoft Knowledge Base

Multi Media Player / Codecs

As a default application, every windows (apart from the “N” versions) comes with an integrated media player, the famous Windows Media Player. But in today’s media standards it lacks the ability to play all the different codecs.

What is Codec ?

A Codec is a software / technique that  can compress a large media file for different platforms and enables us to decompress it later on as a playable format. For example, in the mobile platform, 3GP codec is widely used for video playback, where as in PMP (Portable Media Player) MP3 is a very popular audio codec.

By default the WMP cant play popular codecs like XVid / DivX / AVI / MKV / MP4. However if you can provide the WMP with decompression information (Installing the proper codec packs) about these codecs, then it can play any available media.

Where to find codec packs ?

Couple of most popular codec packs are, K-Lite Codec Pack / CCCP.

Alternate Mediaplayers !!

Apart from codec packs there is another option for playing media files created with different codecs is to use alternate mediaplayers. Players like VLC / Media Player Classic / Real Player can play virtually any type of  media format.

Windows XP users please note, in case of  WinXP SP3, the popular most OS nowadays, comes with WMP 9 series by default which you can update either by downloading the latest version WMP 11 or via Windows update service.

Office Applications

For office productivity suites the Microsoft Office can be the automatic choice. However another great free option would be OpenOffice.org. One can also try the MS  Office 2007 free of cost.

Internet Browsers

By default Windows comes with its own integrated internet browser, the Internet Explorer, however, MS has just come up with its latest version IE8.

Off Late the internet community is focusing on alternate browsers like: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, Apple Safari

IM (Instant Messaging) Clients

These are the software tools that help us communicate with others users (having IM Clients) over the internet.

One can stay in touch with friends and family from any part of our world via Text / Voice  / Video Chat, that too free of cost (ISP charges may apply). Some popular IM Clients are Windows Live / Yahoo Messenger / Google Talk / or any universal chat clients like Pidgin.

Via these services one can also do file transferring.

PDF Reader

PDF is a file format by which most of the documents over internet are exchanged. This types of files are un-editable so provide more security.

The file format is developed by Adobe and one can obtain the Adobe Acrobat Reader for free.

Download Manager

We always have a default download manager that comes with every browser installation but that is not just enough with download speeds and download handling. So getting a download manager or download accelerator to increase the download speed is much needed. These applications also let us pause the downloads for a while and resume it later on according to our needs.

Some useful Download Managers are DAP / FDM / IDM / Flashget.

Maintenance Software / Applications

Conducting an uninterrupted computing obviously involves maintenance of the system. That let us free up hard disc space, clean unused Registry files, Tune up the PC, optimise the settings to increase the computing speed, performance as well as stability.

So apart from OS and software service packs / updates, one needs to have some Maintenance Software / Applications for performing these tasks at ease, one of which sis, CCleaner, a single click maintenance software along with Defraggler for defragmenting your hard drive.

One may also tryout these Softwares / Applications : Advance system care, Tuneup Utilities, System Mechanic Professional

That wraps up our 10 must install Software list but still one may feel some important apps missing, like CD DVD burner (Nero) / P2P Clients (uTorrent) / HTML Editors (NotePad++) / Compression Tools (WinRAR) / Blogging Tools (Live Writer) / Remote Support (Team Viewer) / Virtual PDF Creator (doPDF) / Gaming Utilities (Demon Tools) / Multimedia Apps and  editing tools  (Adobe Creative Suite).

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Its no longer a dream anymore. First, Indian Railways with their Railtel high speed Internet service and now its TATA, who are planing to roll out their fiber to home pilot  project “Power Launcher” by which they are planing to offer speed upto 100mbps at end user.

Although no detailed information is available at this time but TATA has claimed to have 1500km of OFC (Optical fiber cable) around Mumbai city by which they are planing to offer 100mbps connections at Rs. 10,500/- per month.

At a first look, it is expected by many to believe that for an end user, it would be impossible to afford Rs. 10,500/- per month for an ultra high speed service but it is a boost for small and medium enterprise and businesses, for example, running your own hosting firm and data center at your own premises in Indian is no longer a dream as with these services, one can certainly achieve these goals.

The Cricket world has lost its innocence as in an attack on the Srilankan team’s bus by gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan. As we can see the cricketers have now become the soft target of terrorists. Gunmen attacked the team’s convoy near the Gaddafi stadium with rockets, hand grenades and automatic weapons, triggering a 25-minute gun-battle with security forces.   

Now the question is will any team want to play in Pak soil after this massacre? The ICC abandons this test match. This incident has thrown a massive question mark over the future of the game in the troubled nation — a co-host for the 2011 cricket World Cup.

But the questions playing in our mind are just like:

• Why the reinforcement didn’t come when the gunfight was going on?
• Why not a single terrorist even get wounded or arrested (not talking about “Suspects”)?  They just escaped by Bikes, Running.. so simple na!!!
• Will Pak Govt will take the necessary steps to find out who or why?
• They are still trying to defend the terrorists but what would they say if pak players faced this same kind of situation here at India???

The incident just sounded like the group of terrorists (12 men) came with their bag packs loaded with guns, grenades, Rocket launchers had their feast or funtime whatever you say and escapedwithout even getting hurt (As we have seen in the news that one attacker parked his bike and waited for the others, they came very soon and had their fun ride.. thats how three of them escaped). Well managed-well planned isn’t it? Could not the Pak govt be a little like them to avoid such circumstances!! Or they did not want to be or resist the attackers?? Well the answer is the thing that we are not going to get from their side.

But the obvious question is “WHO’S THE NEXT“?? Or “WHAT ELSE LEFT” to happen?????…..

If you want to view the news footage/videos,, here you go>> http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/02/pakistan.srilanka.attack/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEd0lSgHLqA

Just watch them escape effortlessly>>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/mar/04/sri-lankan-team-attack-cctv

Although I wonder why would some one wants to guest blog in a small blog like Choto Cheeta Online.