Shafqat Amanat Ali Debuts with Album TABEER in India

Tabeer Launch Party – Tabeer, Shafqat Amanat Ali’s Debut Album in India

ITC Grand Central, Ball Room, Mumbai, India 20^th September 2008 evening 7.30 PM – 11.00 PM

Shafqat Amanat Ali, the former lead vocalist of a Pakistani pop band known as “Fuzon” today released his first solo album TABEER with a big bang and huge media presence in India. Strongly supported by Mr. Mahesh Bhatt and under the flagship of Music Today (part of India Today Group) launched this album. The launch party was a fun-fan-fair at the Grand ball Room of the ITC Grand Central in Parel, Mumbai.

The room was jam packed with fans standing all around the ball room mesmerized by the scintillating performance by Shafqat. In a very friendly approach Shafqat interacted with audience well and kept moving all around the room and involved the audience by asking them to sing with him and even to the extent that he brought couple of people on stage to sing.

JK Tyres, India Today, Antiquity, Rajshri.com were some of the key sponsors of the event. Interestingly the rajshri.com which was the digital partner is also promoting this event heavily through Tabeer contests on their website and facebook campaigns. Much credit goes to Roli Chaturvedi the Marketing and PR head for Rajshri.com.

Shafqat belongs to the Patiala gharana of classical music. The gharana is famous for its concentration on intricate taan-patterns and sargams. With his family, he has been part of the Pakistani classical musical tradition for eight generations.

Shafqat Amanat Ali – the Rockstar Ustad (A term coined by Bollywood music director Salim Merchant who couldn’t be present at the launch function) promises to be the biggest singing sensation to hit the subcontinent in recent times. He is highly respected among music circles due to his classically trained voice and his command over modern music as well. While he is one of the best current singers in Pakistan, Shafqat is also highly respected in India after performing the vocals for the song Mitwa from the Indian film Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. Interestingly this song was performed live in front of the audience on a special request by a female fan from the audience and the entire crowd just swayed on the tunes of their favourite song. The songs were well received by the audience as well as the critics. He was also the voice behind the critically acclaimed song Yeh Honsla from the Indian film Dor. The songs – “Mora Saiyan” and “Tere Bina” are also featured in Nagesh Kukunoor’s Hyderabad Blues 2.

The music is a beautiful mix of classical vocals with music that fuses classical influences with modern instrumentation. yes there’s electric guitar riffs, but there are also layers of classical percussions and winds.

You can DOWNLOAD Shafqat Ammanat Ali’s Tabeer the entire album here from a torrent file or you can listen to the entire album online below:-

01. Khairheyan De Naal – Play Now
02. Naina
03. Dum Ali Ali Dum
04. Rang Le
05. Bulleh Shah
06. Pagalpan
07. Rohi
08. Kartar (Darbari)
09. Manqabat (Ya Ali)

Play Online Rummy or Chess – JHATPAT Tournaments – Day 1

32 Seats gone in 2 Seconds

The magic of Jhatpat Tournaments has just started and the day one saw a blazing response with just 2 seconds to fill up all the 32 seats!

Indian online gaming space has never been the same. With www.games24×7.com launching the JHATPAT Tournaments which are the real cash tournaments to Play Online Rummy and Online Chess in a skill based competitive gaming setup people have started rushing to grab a seat in the tournaments. WATCH VIDEO…

With people getting excited about the tournaments and where they want to compete and win cash prizes there is a lot of buzz all around now!

Every one is asking me these days…. What are the Jhatpat Tournaments?

Well JHATPAT tournaments are the real cash fast paced tournaments where people play skill based games like Speed Chess and Rummy and Real Cash prizes.

Below is the detailed tournament scheduler and prize money to be won in a week!

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Tournament Scheduler
Chess
Day	Registration Start Time	Start Time	Players	Tournament Type	Prize Money
Tuesday	8:00 PM	8:30PM	8	Qualifier	800
Tuesday	9:00 PM	9:30PM	8	Qualifier	800
Rummy
Day	Registration Start Time	Start Time	Players	Tournament Type	Prize Money
Tuesday	8:30 PM	9:00PM	8	Qualifier	800
Tuesday	9:30 PM	10:00PM	8	Qualifier	800

MEGA Tournaments
Day	Registration Start Time	Start Time	Players	Tournament Type	Prize Money
Sunday	12:00 Noon	1:00PM	16	Mega	10,000
Sunday	3:00 PM	4:00PM	16	Mega	10,000

Log on now … www.games24×7.com

Games24×7.com launches free Jhatpat Tournaments – Play Online Rummy and Online Chess Tournaments for cash prizes!

Games24×7.com launches free Jhatpat Tournaments – Play Online Rummy and Online Chess Tournaments for real cash prizes

Exciting new Indian online games group www.games24×7.com has announced the launch of its Jhatpat Tournaments (15^th September – 15^th October) in Online Rummy and Online Chess. The burgeoning popularity of the online gaming market in India is being reflected by the intense activity in the start-up space and the latest entrant is www.games24×7.com.

www.games24×7.com presents a unique skill based competitive gaming model. They have added two very unique dimensions to the space of competitive gaming. First, all their games are played in a knock-out tournament format adding a level of excitement to online games not yet seen in the Indian space. Even more significantly, they are the first and only online games site to offer and payout real cash prizes to their tournament winners.

Recently they launched an online real cash tournament campaign called Jhatpat Tournaments. These tournaments were launched with a JhatPat Tournament funny teaser Video 1 the day before and received over 10,000 hits the same day.

Details about JHATPAT Tournaments – With these tournaments, www.games24×7.com have launched what can only be summarized as a “cash prizes to all” campaign. Jhatpat tournaments are fun and fast-paced competitions with real cash prizes paid out and No Entry Fee! Tournaments are offered on a daily basis at pre-fixed times with registration for these tournaments often closing in seconds. There are over 100 Jhatpat Tournaments a month with Rs. 40000 in cash prizes offered every week.

At www.games24×7.com, in addition to cash prizes in the daily free online rummy tournaments and free online chess tournaments, top players qualify for the weekend MEGA Tournament with Rs 20000/- in cash prizes.

In sum, over Rs. 1.5 Lakhs is being given out in cash prizes in the 1 month long Jhatpat tournaments and the best part is there are no entry fees! So players can have fun, compete, and make real money every day by just playing online rummy tournaments and online chess tournaments, and the winners receive their prizes in cash!

Keep Winning!

Games24×7.com launches free Jhatpat Tournaments – Play Online Rummy and Online Chess Tournaments

Games24×7.com launches free Jhatpat Tournaments – Play Online Rummy and Online Chess Tournaments for cash prizes

15^th September 2008, Mumbai – Exciting new Indian online games group www.games24×7.com has announced the launch of its Jhatpat Tournaments (15^th September – 15^th October) in Online Rummy and Online Chess. The burgeoning popularity of the online gaming market in India is being reflected by the intense activity in the start-up space and the latest entrant is www.games24×7.com.

www.games24×7.com presents a unique skill based competitive gaming model. They have added two very unique dimensions to the space of competitive gaming. First, all their games are played in a knock-out tournament format adding a level of excitement to online games not yet seen in the Indian space. Even more significantly, they are the first and only online games site to offer and payout real cash prizes to their tournament winners.

Recently they launched an online real cash tournament campaign called Jhatpat Tournaments. These tournaments were launched with a JhatPat Tournament funny teaser Video 1 the day before and received over 10,000 hits the same day.

Details about JHATPAT Tournaments – With these tournaments, www.games24×7.com have launched what can only be summarized as a “cash prizes to all” campaign. Jhatpat tournaments are fun and fast-paced competitions with real cash prizes paid out and No Entry Fee! Tournaments are offered on a daily basis at pre-fixed times with registration for these tournaments often closing in seconds. There are over 100 Jhatpat Tournaments a month with Rs. 30000 in cash prizes offered every week.

At www.games24×7.com, in addition to cash prizes in the daily free online rummy tournaments and free online chess tournaments, top players qualify for the weekend MEGA Tournament with Rs 20000/- in cash prizes.

In sum, over Rs. 1.5 Lakhs is being given out in cash prizes in the 1 month long Jhatpat tournaments and the best part is there are no entry fees! So players can have fun, compete, and make real money every day by just playing online rummy tournaments and online chess tournaments, and the winners receive their prizes in cash!

Keep Winning!

Update 1 – Is Google angry with Facebook?

Facebook Applications crash on Google Chrome. Is this just a Google Chrome Beta nuance or a dirty tactic of google? Well many Facebook applications are apparently not working on Google chrome and facebook users who would wish to try and use chorome are getting annoyed. 

This has left me wondering if Google Chrome left these issues unhandled in the BETA launch deliberately? Some time back Facebook with it’s popularity and a strong product as well as a high performing team attracted  many people from Google. Even though no one could do anything about it but does that mean google played dirty this time?

After the BETA launch yesterday over 100,000 users have downloaded the Google chrome and people have started testing various website compatibilty on Google Chrome. However, many websites are facing issues with Applet loading, pages being skewed, security settings not customizable etc.

Well few simple examples: 

Auto cleanup of the browsing data feature when the window is closed is not there.

Popup enable feature is not there.

Favourtites folder is not there. 

Yes may be Dynamic Bookmarks is the next level of browsing but can we customize our browser or do we have to go by Google’s Verdict?

Well, Google Chrome is here to WOW the users and I am sure they are listening….

WOW Google Chrome – Why don’t Google Make Operating System?

WOW Google Chrome – Wonderful | Ossum | Wooing

When Google gets down to making Internet Experience better there is nothing which compares to their expertise in making MOST user friendly applications. One of the biggest steps after capturing the majority search engine space, yesterday Google launched it’s WOW browser – Google Chrome. The way their marketing team built an entire Google Chrome storybook of How the entire Google Chrome browser came into existence is Ossum. The FRESH Technological approach adopted in Google Chrome has brought out some Wonderful features.

Google’s official blog reported on 1st September about the launch of the Google Chrome story book and other details about the browser and now Google Chrome is available for download.

Right now in it’s BETA stage, tweaking features is mostly restricted. Very few tweaks are available to users till now. Also, auto clear-up of private data once you exit from browser is not available. There is an interesting feature of Incognito Browsing which ensures that webpages that you open and files you downloaded won’t be logged in your browsing and download histories; all new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window.

Search while you type URLs – Google brought it’s search prowess to google chrome by providing you the feature of showing popular site results and other historical data from your search tracks while you type a url.

Application Shortcuts, Dynamic Tabs, Favourite web pages in quick launch, Crash Control and Safe Browsing are some additional features added and surely they will WOO the new and existing users of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari.

Technically one of the biggest advancements is Handling each Tab as an individual process/thread which helps you in case one of the process is non responsive. Sandboxing and Crash control really ensures smooth working of the browser application. 

One thing which I monitored was that the CPU usage and Physical memory usage was a little higher than firefox / IE while running multiple tabs in Chorme as the number of Application is ONE but the number of processes were equal to the number of tabs so more load on the processor and memory.

Let’s see if the full version of Google Chrome really WOWs the audience or not….And well this also makes me Wondering, WHY Don’t GOOGLE make an Operating System?