Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Cheat Codes

While playing the game or at the pause menu, enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function. If you entered the code correctly, a message "Cheat Activated" will appear.

Result	Cheat Code
Health [Note 1]	aspirine
Armor	preciousprotection
Weapons (tier 1)	thugstools
Weapons (tier 2)	professionaltools
Weapons (tier 3)	nuttertools
Raise wanted level	youwonttakemealive
Lower wanted level	leavemealone
View media level when over two stars	chasestat
Better driving skills	gripiseverything
Dodo cars (flying) [Note 2]	comeflywithme
Rhino tank	panzer
Faster game clock	lifeispassingmeby
Faster game play	onspeed
Slower game play	booooooring
Destroy all cars	bigbang
Pedestrians riot	fightfightfight
Pedestrians attack you	nobodylikesme
Pedestrians have weapons	ourgodgivenrighttobeararms
Pedestrians enter your car	hopingirl
Change wheel size	loadsoflittlethings
Only wheels visible on cars	wheelsareallineed
Bikini women with guns [Note 3]	chickswithguns
Heavy traffic	miamitraffic
Pink traffic	ahairdresserscar
Black traffic	iwantitpaintedblack
All traffic lights green	greenlight
Romero's Hearse	thelastride
Love Fist Limousine	rockandrollcar
Trashmaster	rubbishcar
Bloodring Banger (style 1)	travelinstyle
Bloodring Banger (style 2)	gettherequickly
Caddy	betterthanwalking
Pedestrian costumes [Note 4]	stilllikedressingup
Lance Vance costume	looklikelance
Ken Rosenberg costume	mysonisalawyer
Hilary King costume	ilooklikehilary
Jezz Torent (Love Fist) costume	rockandrollman
Dick (Love Fist) costume	weloveourdick
Phil Cassaday costume	onearmedbandit
Sonny Forelli costume	idonthavethemoneysonny
Mercedes costume	foxylittlething
Cars float on water	seaways
Engines are faster	getthereveryfastindeed
Engines very fast	getthereamazinglyfast
All cars are faster	gettherefast
Tommy groupies [Note 5]	fannymagnet
Ricardo Diaz costume	cheatshavebeencracked
Tommy smokes cigarette	certaindeath
Tommy is fatter	deepfriedmarsbars
Tommy has thin arms and legs	programmer
Good weather	apleasantday
Great weather	alovelyday
Sunny weather	abitdrieg
Stormy weather	catsanddogs
Foggy weather	cantseeathing
Reguard target	airship
Commit suicide	icanttakeitanymore

Note 1: If this code is enabled when there is damage on your car, the meter will be reset to zero without changing the visible effects of the damage.

Note 2: You will not be able to fly a helicopter correctly when this code is activated.

Note 3: The women will drop guns when they are killed.

Note 4: Repeat this code to cycle through the various pedestrian costumes, including a cop.

Note 5: Aim your gun at someone and they will attack your target.

By Harman 

harman.king@yahoo.com

Football or Soccer Quotes

Soccer is not just about scoring goals – it’s about winning.

We lost because we didn’t win.

If they are going to win this match, they’re going to have to score a goal.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Soccer is the ballet of the masses.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

If you don’t concede any goals you’ll win more games than you lose.

If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.

As long as no-one scored, it was always going to be close.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as a God.

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in soccer.

Soccer is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

A million wouldn’t buy him, and I’d be one of them.

If you don’t believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.

It’s why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

We were a little bit outnumbered there, it was two against two.

I’ve never wanted to leave. I’m here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

We didn’t underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought.

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it
does.

He’s one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

My legs sort of disappeared from nowhere.

The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.

Sometimes in soccer you have to score goals.

Every defeat is a victory in itself.

Soccer is the opera of the people.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

If we played like that every week we wouldn’t be so inconsistent.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Winning doesn’t really matter as long as you win.

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

Intel vs. AMD

Intel vs. AMD: Today's generation compared

I SUPPOSE YOU COULD SAY we've conducted plenty of CPU reviews in our time, but we just can't bring ourselves to slow things down. The release of Windows Vista and a round of price cuts by AMD prompted us to hatch a devious plan involving Vista, a new test suite full of multithreaded and 64-bit applications, fifteen different CPU configurations, and countless hours of lab testing. That plan has come to fruition in the form of a broad-based comparison of the latest processors from AMD and Intel, ranging from well under $200 to a cool grand, from two slow CPU cores to four fast ones, from the lowly Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and Core 2 Duo E6300 to the astounding Athlon 64 FX-74 and Core 2 Extreme QX6700.

So, how do the latest processors stack up in Windows Vista? Will a sub-$200 CPU suffice for your needs? Have price cuts allowed the Athlon 64 to catch up to the Core 2 Duo in terms of price-performance? What about power consumption and energy efficiency? Can any of these processors stand up under the weight of killer new games like Supreme Commander? Can I possibly squeeze any more questions into one paragraph? Keep reading for answers to all of these questions and more.

The matchups
The setup for this one is fairly simple. We're directly comparing processors from Intel at AMD at a range of price points. Intel has had a lock on the overall performance lead since the Core 2 Duo first hit the scene, but AMD has made clear its intention to maintain a competitive price-performance ratio. To do so, AMD will have to meet or beat each of the processors in Intel's current desktop lineup, which looks like so:

Model	Clock speed	Cores	L2 cache (total)	Fab process	TDP	Price
Core 2 Duo E6300	1.83GHz	2	2MB	65nm	65W	$183
Core 2 Duo E6400	2.13GHz	2	2MB	65nm	65W	$224
Core 2 Duo E6600	2.4GHz	2	4MB	65nm	65W	$316
Core 2 Duo E6700	2.66GHz	2	4MB	65nm	65W	$530
Core 2 Extreme X6800	2.93GHz	2	4MB	65nm	75W	$999
Core 2 Quad Q6600	2.4GHz	4	8MB	65nm	105W	$851
Core 2 Extreme QX6700	2.66GHz	4	8MB	65nm	130W	$999

Intel does offer lower cost options like the Core 2 Duo E4300 and its Celeron value-oriented processors, but our list includes the meat of the lineup. AMD, on the other hand, offers a dizzying array of Athlon 64 X2 models, from 3600+ to 6000+, generally in increments of 200 (or is it 200+?). Not only that, but AMD often sells multiple products under the same performance-related model number, just to keep smug members of the general public from becoming overconfident. For instance, the Athlon 64 X2 4400+ comes in a 90nm "Toledo" flavor that runs at 2.2GHz, has 1MB of L2 cache per core, and is intended for Socket 939 motherboards. The X2 4400+ also comes in the form of a 65nm chip code-named "Brisbane" that runs at 2.3GHz, has 512K of L2 per core, and slips into Socket AM2 mobos. Several of these features—fab process, clock frequency, cache size, and socket/memory type—may vary within the same model number.
With that said, we've chosen the following members of the Athlon 64 lineup as the most direct competitors to their Core 2 counterparts. Because we live in the now, all of these are newer-style Socket AM2 processors:

Model	Clock speed	Cores	L2 cache (total)	Fab process	TDP	Price
Athlon 64 X2 4400+	2.3GHz	2	1MB	65nm	65W	$170
Athlon 64 X2 5000+	2.6GHz	2	1MB	65nm	65W	$222
Athlon 64 X2 5600+	2.8GHz	2	2MB	90nm	89W	$326
Athlon 64 X2 6000+	3.0GHz	2	2MB	90nm	125W	$459
Athlon 64 FX-70	2.6GHz	4	4MB	90nm	125W x 2	$599
Athlon 64 FX-72	2.8GHz	4	4MB	90nm	125W x 2	$799
Athlon 64 FX-74	3.0GHz	4	4MB	90nm	125W x 2	$999

As you can see, AMD has a fairly direct answer for most members of the Core 2 range. Things start to get shaky at the high end, where the Athlon 64's lower performance takes its toll. The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ sells at a discount versus the Core 2 Duo E6700, and AMD has no answer to the Core 2 Extreme X6800, Intel's fastest dual-core processor. If you match up the two product lines against one another, the results look something like this:

Model	Price	Model	Price
Core 2 Duo E6300	$183	Athlon 64 X2 4400+	$170
Core 2 Duo E6400	$224	Athlon 64 X2 5000+	$222
Core 2 Duo E6600	$316	Athlon 64 X2 5600+	$326
Core 2 Duo E6700	$530	Athlon 64 X2 6000+	$459
Core 2 Quad Q6600	$851	Athlon 64 FX-72	$799
Core 2 Extreme QX6700	$999	Athlon 64 FX-74	$999

So the comparisons are remarkably direct, by and large. These things are never entirely simple, though, so we should roll out some caveats. One of the big ones involves those FX-series processors. You'll need two of them in order to populate a Quad FX motherboard, so they're priced (and listed above) in pairs. However, there's currently only one Quad FX motherboard available, and it costs about $350, which throws the value equation out of whack.
The value equation sometimes goes off-kilter the other way when AMD employs guerrilla price-war tactics like selling the Athlon 64 X2 4600+ for $125.99 on Newegg, well below the slower 4400+. AMD has several of these "Crazy Hector" deals going at Newegg right now, and none of them seem to involve the Athlon 64 models we've identified as direct competitors to specific Core 2 Duo models. That's probably an intentional facet of AMD's strategy. This practice throws a wrench in our nice, neat comparsion, but there's little we can do other than tell you about it.
One other thing we should tell you about is why we've included two versions of the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ in our testing. Regular readers may recall that we've already tested the 65nm version of the 5000+ against its 90nm predecessor and found that the 65nm one had lower power consumption. But the 65nm version also has a slower L2 cache, so we've tested the 65nm and 90nm chips head to head to see how the slower cache affects performance.

INTERESTING IT FACTS

1. The first computer was almost 2.5 metres (8ft) high and weighed nearly 30,000kg – more than 600 times heavier than an average computer today.
   Source: ‘IBM's ASCC introduction’, IBM Archive online
   
2. Programmer Charley Kline sent the first computer-to-computer message in 1969; only the first two letters got through before the system crashed.  Today, over 80 billion emails are sent a day worldwide.
   Source: ‘Behind the Net - The untold history of the ARPANET’, Michael Hauben, Columbia University
   
3. American inventor Douglas Engelbart created the computer mouse in 1964, made almost entirely out of wood.
   Source: ‘The computer mouse turns 40’, Benj Edwards, Macworld
   
4. Just one gigabyte (GB) in computer memory is the equivalent to storing a stack of documents that would reach around the height of an average two storey house. The average computer has around 100GB of memory.
   Source: AOK Networking
   
5. More than 37 million Brits regularly use the internet – enough to fill Wembley Stadium almost 5,000 times over.  The number of internet users worldwide is 200 times the population of London.
   Source: ‘Internet Access’, Office for National Statistics 28.08.09; ‘Worldwide Internet Users Top 1.5 Billion’, Computer Industry Almanac
   
6. The first spreadsheet program available for personal computers, called VisiCalc, is often considered the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool.
   Source: ‘The First Spreadsheet - VisiCalc - Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston’, About.com
   
7. The QWERTY layout used for English language computer keyboards is 135 years old.  It was originally invented for a new form of typewriter.
   Source: ‘Consider QWERTY’, Darryl Rehr
   
8. A group of artists in Berlin created ‘Powerpoint-Karaoke’ in 2006, a spin-off from traditional Karaoke where, instead of singing songs, participants had to present a random improvised PowerPoint slide show.
   Source: Spiegel Online 01.02.06
   
9. The first portable computer, the Osborne I, weighed 11.88kg (1stone 12lbs) and three ounces, and measured 52 cm (20.5 inches) wide.
   Source: Osborne Computer Corporation
   
10. A group of Cambridge University boffins invented the webcam in 1991 so they could check when their coffee pot, in another room, was empty.  This has since been spoofed in video game Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and the pot was auctioned on eBay for £3,350.
    Source: ‘The Story of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot’, Quentin Stafford-Fraser
    

HTC Sensation 4G smartphone with HTC watch vedio ..

 
 
HTC Corp. has introduced its new "superphone," the HTC Sensation 4G featuring a new "HTC Watch" video service which let's users access movies and TV shows on the phone's 4.3-inch qHD display. The latest HTC Sense user interface is on board, as well as an 8-megapixel camera which shoots full HD video in 1080p resolution at up to 30 frames per second, with full stereo sound. HTC has also incorporated a useful Video Trimmer tool that lets you crop video clips before sharing with friends. The HTC Sensation 4G multimedia smartphone is powered by a 1.2-gigahertz, dual-core, Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
HTC Sensation 4G is scheduled to be available in the U.S. exclusively from T-Mobile USA this summer. Pricing was not announced.

posted by Harman site owner

IPL bowls over football! ..... wuhu!!

Now, IPL bowls over football!

Calcutta: The difference between cricket and soccer may be as wide as the Grand Canyon, but the Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to bridge the gap! Though not directly, Indian soccer is ready to take inspiration from IPL’s popularity and prosperity to revamp the status of the game in this part of the world. The Celebrity Management Group (CMG), who gave the city one of its proudest moments when they hosted Diego Maradona in 2008, has joined hands with the Indian Football Association (IFA) to launch the Premier League Soccer (PLS) — an IPL-style franchise driven football tournament. Though the idea is not unique, the initiative surely packs a promising potential. In a bid to plaster the worn-out reputation of Indian soccer and infuse professionalism, the Bengal-based PLS has been planned to add the much-needed zing to the game. And if one is to believe the organisers, players of international repute and high-class coaches will be fine-tuning the X-factor. For the league, initially, six franchises will be chosen through competitive bidding for a period of 10 years. The six franchise towns selected are Calcutta, Howrah, Barasat, Asansol, Midnapore and Siliguri. The duration of the tournament, which is approved by the All India Football Federation, will be around seven weeks and the maiden edition will be held in January-March 2012. With names such as former Dutch World Cupper Edgar Davids and Japanese icon Junichi Inamoto doing the rounds, football’s own IPL will certainly not be short on star power. Among the coaches, Philippe Troussier, who has managed Japan, Nigeria and South Africa at the international stage, is ready to add his expertise to the project. Each team will have one icon player and three other overseas players. The icon player, according to the organisers, will preferably be a World Cupper or should have represented his country successfully. For the Indian players, the PLS will, however, look beyond the I-League with a view to promote new talent. An overseas coach with a Fifa/Uefa ‘A’ License will look after each team. For the franchisee license, bids will be invited from corporate houses with a minimum net worth of Rs 10 crore. According to Bhaswar Goswami, executive director of the organising group, they already have eight interested parties willing to buy a franchisee. “At the moment there are eight business houses interested in the project… It will only increase with time as it’s quite a lucrative business proposal. Entrepreneurs beyond Bengal are also interested,” he said. Much like the IPL, it will be mandatory for the teams to include a player from its catchment area. Also, the matches will be played on a home and away basis. All the matches (four days a week) will be played under floodlights and will also beamed live by a regional television channel. Asked whether proper infrastructure was in place in the districts, Goswami said: “We will look after that… From temporary floodlights to proper dressing rooms, everything will be taken care of.” On the sidelines of the Rs 25 crore project, development of youth football and a referees’ academy are also on the cards. And with a revenue sharing plan in place, the organisers assure the franchisee owners of profit. Franchisee bids will take place tentatively in July, but before that the organisers want to finalise the foreign player pool to attract prospective buyers. Sixes are a must for IPL. But let’s hope that the PLS plans are not hit for a six!

Top Ten Mobiles and prices

Top 10 Mobile phones till now are ::

Nokia N8 Mobile Phone Price – Rs.22,900 

Nokia C3 Mobile Phone Price – Rs.5,900

Samsung Galaxy S Mobile Phone Price – Rs.27,500

Nokia 5230 Mobile Phone Price – Rs.7,100 

Samsung Wave Mobile Phone Price – Rs.17,500

Nokia 5233 Mobile Phone Price – Rs.6,150

Nokia X2 Mobile Phone Price – Rs.5,499

Samsung Champ Mobile Phone Price – Rs.3,550

Nokia E5 Mobile Phone Price – Rs.10,990

Nokia C7 Mobile Phone Price – Rs.18,999