Check the usage of your G-Mail account

There are reports people hacking in to e-mail accounts and sends mail, which cause legal actions towards the account owner, who is innocent. 

Best way is to have strong passwords, not sharing passwords, always use log off button, use Incognito, clear the history etc.

If you are using G-Mail, there is a way to check whether your account is hacked.  Follow the below steps :

1.                  Login to your G-Mail account

2.                  Go to the bottom of the screen, where your Inbox is displayed.  You can find a line as “Last account activity: xxx hrs back…..” and a link “Details” (as shown below, marked in Red circle )

 3.  Click on this, and you will get a similar window (IPs of my usage are removed)

4..                  Check for any discrepancy.  ie : if you are accessing your account only thru browser, you should see Account Type “Browser”.  If you see access type is POP3, Mobile etc, you can be sure that some one else is access the account.  Also, check the IP.  If the account is accessed from some unknown IP Address, be on alert and take the necessary actions.

            If  you have found some unknown IP address, use some on-line tools (eg: http://www.arin.net/whois/  or http://aruljohn.com/track.pl or http://www.dnsstuff.com/ )

Some of the best practices :

a)     Always sing out/logout from your session

b)     Clear the history, cache, Passwords, cookies etc, especially  when you are accessing the account from shared computer

c)      Do not click on “Remember Me”, when you are accessing the account from shared computer

d)     Never share your password

e)     Use complex passwords (ie: password and user name should not be similar, use extra characters.)

     eg: Use combination of Cap, Small letter, extra characters.  Butremembering such a password is painful.  So, make your own logic. ie: instead of “a”, always use “@”, or instead of “s” use “$” or always typethe third letter in capital etc

Film Festival - Status Yo!

Status Yo!
Director : Till Hastreiter

It was crazzzzyyyy.....I thought i am not going to understand this film. Lots of different things happening in different places, couldn't find the relation. What the silver train got to do ? Why people are running all around ? Why some one is chasing someone ??? Lots of questions!!!

But in the last 30% of the movie, all the puzzles solved, and it turned out to be a great movie. A new experiment, which i consider as success. It was like “Pulp Fiction”. But in this movie, events happens chronologically.

Visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/flm/gfw/spf/en3541710.htm

Film Festival - Distant Lights (Lichter)

Distant Lights (Lichter)
Director : Hans-Christian Schmid

Lot of human lifes, and so lot of stories. But director handled almost 6 different stories with great discipline and presented in a wonderful way.

Visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/flm/gfw/spf/en3535384.htm for the story line. But, this has only 10% of the movie

Film Festival - Cherry Blossoms - Hanami

Cherry Blossoms - Hanami
Director :Doris Dörrie

This is one of the BEST love story that I have ever seen. The chemistry between Trudi and Rudi is great. Very touching story, it wetted my eyes. The way husband and wife loves each other, and going to extremes that they take for each other is …don’t have words. You got to watch this classic.

Please visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/flm/gfw/spf/en3541545.htm for the story.

Film Festival - Four Minutes (Vier Minuten)

Four Minutes (Vier Minuten)
Director : Chris Kraus

I watched this wonderful movie in yesterday(11th Aug 08). A great movie. The director was able to show the strong human emotions, with wonderful support from the Actors and Camera. I give +10 to camera, a wonderful job. Perfect casting and both ladies do 100% to the character.

The climax shot is a classic one, which I seldom saw. Great brains and touch of a creative genius. The piano is at its best, I never knew piano could talk.

Below is the story line (From http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/flm/gfw/spf/en3541524.htm)

80-year-old former pianist Traude Krüger has been driving to the same women’s prison almost every morning since 1944. She teaches her female students – thieves, frauds and killers – how to play the piano. Seeking out new talent, Ms. Krüger meets lethargic, violent and volatile Jenny von Loeben. As a teenager, she has brutally killed a man, and is therefore considered highly dangerous. However, she used to be a ‘wunderkind’, performing at big concert halls at the age of ten.

When the uncontrollable Jenny beats the living daylights out of a prison officer at her trial piano lesson, she is put into solitary confinement. Still, Traude wins Warden Meyerbeer’s approval for an experiment. Traude is allowed to train Jenny at the piano so that she can participate in a contest for young talents. Little by little, the two vastly different women, Traude and Jenny, form a bond over the struggle with their opponents and the prison’s bureaucracy and approach one another. After another violent incident involving Jenny and a fellow inmate, the warden prohibits Jenny’s participation in the piano contest finals, but Traude smuggles Jenny out of the prison for the final. When she is on stage the police arrive to take her back to the prison.

Jenny doesn’t have much time: four minutes only. But she uses her time wisely, doing something that no one, not even Traude, would have expected.