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It's Ear not Ir

—devadutta @ October 11, 2009

This guy who looks very happy with a cat(not his, I guess) here, ironically has a dead cat with tire marks on it as the icon/logo for his super famous freeware software. Which software?

me2

Here’s the logo IrfanView_Logo

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, emrohit, raklodramA, shenoyvarun86, krudebox, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, Amarendra Kumar, xtremevarun, shrik, Dibyo, yaksha, prateekbhatt, Debasish, Suhel, Keerthi Kiran M, varuns88, joe, jackandlagoon, Vaishnavi, Ananth, Logik and Martin


Yes or no?

—srikanth @ October 10, 2009

Identify the device and its famous inventor.

Some other inventions of the same famous chap:

Hint, he’s not famous for his inventions.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rogi and shrik


Just a sec

—devadutta @ October 9, 2009

Simple one for the weekend

Connect and tell us whats missing

300px-Lord_Kelvin_photograph225px-Ampere_Andre_1825

150px-Candleburning180px-Close-up_of_mole

Cracked by: udupendra, Rogi, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, Raghuvansh, prateekbhatt, Logik, Dibyo, shrik, sidsen, Ananth, shenoyvarun86 and xtremevarun

Show Answer

Kelvin, Ampere, Candela, Mole, Meter, Kilogram and Second – The basic SI units.


Photoshop This!

—devadutta @ October 8, 2009

Guest question from Karthik (do you have a blog dude?). Thanks a lot!

Whats happening here?

ps2

another example

ps1

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, shrik, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, RahulN, krudebox, insufferablejake, Yadhu, Logik, Ananth, wanderlust and emrohit

Show Answer

PhotoSketch takes your sketch and makes an image out of it. Currently, no online demo is available, but you can get its source code and rig one up yourself :)


The pen is mightier?

—srikanth @ October 7, 2009

Rabid fans of recently-released much-anticipated game. What game?

Cracked by yeveryone.

Raghuvansh, shrik, Rogi, krudebox, Dibyo, udupendra and HuhaBanda


Islander

—devadutta @ October 6, 2009

Connect

dolphinmustangtiger

mantishoppermerlin

ladybird

Apologies for the delay folks. We are working to resolve this out of phase posting and we hope to get back on schedule asap. Question will be up longer. As usual.. (well.. almost :) )

Only Dibyo, Rogi and sidsen got it! Awesome!


Stop following me!

—devadutta @ October 5, 2009

Guest question from Logik. Thanks dude!

Identify the rickroller.
1 is the conventional way.
2 is the method that he co-created.

rickroll

  1. bucket_1 2. bucket_2

and oh.. question will be up much longer.

Cracked by: Logik, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Dibyo, shrik, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, sidsen, Yadhu, insufferablejake, Sourya, Vaishnavi and anupcshan


Sad :-(

—srikanth @ October 4, 2009

English philosopher and member of parliament below, coined a term that is very popular in the world of sci-fi. Who, what term?

Clues:

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Dibyo, krudebox, sidsen, Rogi, nishansolo, shrik, achyuth, Logik, Goutham DL, Praveen, insufferablejake, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, Yadhu and byslexia


Burning Jack

—devadutta @ October 3, 2009

This company was originally supposed to sell what you see in 1. They made small “demo clips” to show 1’s might but it had no buyers. The company later evolved into something totally different. Which company?

pixar_image_computer

The first few “demo clips” has a reference to 1 in the beginning, but, later one of the demo clips became so famous that the company started using that instead of 1 in other things it did.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi and Mihir Rege


printf($x,39,$x='printf($x,39,$x=%c%s%c,39);',39);

—srikanth @ October 2, 2009
  1. images
  2. jvn

Identify device (1) and connect to (2) and (3).

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Logik, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, Debasish, Adhi, prateekbhatt, udupendra, Rogi, shrik, p vs np, byslexia, yaksha, sidsen, Rahulk, daspar, shenoyvarun86, Ajay Parasuram and Sri Harsha