http://thealienworld.com An effort to understand the real world! Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:17:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thealienworld.com/2010/03/11/home-media-automation-%e2%80%93-part-2/ http://thealienworld.com/2010/03/11/home-media-automation-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:52:16 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/home-media-automation-%e2%80%93-part-2/ In my last post, I showed how to use Apple TV & iTunes to see all you movies on you LCD and listen all your music on your home theater. Wireless played an important role for syncing the media, but you can also use wired connection. Now let’s take this a step further. There was [...]

]]> http://thealienworld.com/2010/03/11/home-media-automation-%e2%80%93-part-2/feed/ 0 http://thealienworld.com/2010/02/10/home-media-automation-part-1/ http://thealienworld.com/2010/02/10/home-media-automation-part-1/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:25:06 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/home-media-automation-part-1/ Gadgets are men’s best friends, aren’t we all fond of them! :) We, men, always want simplicity in life. Somethings are in your hands, of which you can be proud of. Automating your home media is one way to achieve it. Sexy and expensive home theater system are for the rich, but that should not [...]

]]> http://thealienworld.com/2010/02/10/home-media-automation-part-1/feed/ 1 http://thealienworld.com/2008/12/08/jethro-tull-anoushka-shankar-concert-in-hyderabad-3rd-dec/ http://thealienworld.com/2008/12/08/jethro-tull-anoushka-shankar-concert-in-hyderabad-3rd-dec/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:42:42 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/?p=296 Well I have not heard Jethro Tull before, and this was the first time.  I went there more because of Anouska Shankar. The show started with performance of Anoushka and her group which also had Tanmay Bose on tabla. She performed for around 40 minutes based on two ragas one from south & another from [...]

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]]> http://thealienworld.com/2007/12/14/taramati-sound-dance-festival/feed/ 2 http://thealienworld.com/2007/02/25/ruhaniyat-sufi-and-mystic-musical-festival/ http://thealienworld.com/2007/02/25/ruhaniyat-sufi-and-mystic-musical-festival/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:41:08 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/ruhaniyat-sufi-and-mystic-musical-festival/ Music is a way to reach God. India is truly an amazing country, with amazing culture. All these cultures have their own signature style of music. Ruhaniyat is a Sufi and mystic music festival, which is been organized by Banyan Tree for last 6 years. Yesterday I got an opportunity to attend the festival. It [...]

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