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Indian Express
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Remember Windows XP? This site lets you experience it all over again
Windows XP is undoubtedly one of the most popular versions of Microsoft's operating system for PCs. Launched in 2001, Windows XP became famous because of its modern-looking user user-friendly interface and improved performance. While it's not that hard to get Windows XP up and running in a virtual machine, the process is time-consuming, and you can't use it to browse the web or run the latest apps. If you are yearning for the days of Windows XP and want to take a trip down memory lane, there's a website that lets you do just that. Shared by a Reddit user on the Windows subreddit, the user has shared their effort to get Windows XP running in a browser with the boot-up animation and loading screens. You can experience Windows XP and relive your nostalgia by visiting the website ' The developer also made a somewhat modern-looking version of Microsoft Word, and while not all but most features work as intended in the app. The operating system not only includes nostalgic pre-installed games like Pinball 3D – Space Cadet, Solitaire, Minesweeper and others, but also features a full-fledged file system that lets you store files, run and install third-party applications. The developer of this project has also included the original music tracks and sample videos that Microsoft bundled with a fresh Windows XP installation. And while Adobe has abandoned Flash Player, the web browser version of Windows XP still lets you play all your favourite Flash-based titles, which you can download from the internet. Since this is not the actual operating system and is emulated in a browser using web technologies, some apps might not run as expected. Overall, the user interface and the features are really impressive, and you might even forget that it's not the real thing. However, there are some minor inconsistencies, as pressing some buttons won't do anything. The website may not be able to replace your current system as you cannot do things like browse the internet or install some apps, this is a really good way for those who want to re-experience what is often remembered as the most popular version of Windows.
Sydney Morning Herald
24-06-2025
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
Soft furnishings provide cold comfort
'My wife went shopping the other day for a new doona and came home with a comforter,' reports Bryan O'Keefe of Kembla Heights. 'I'm guessing the same marketing gurus were behind a dummy becoming a pacifier.' 'Geoff Turnbull's creek-side cubby tale (C8) reminded me of our visit to Burra (a fascinating town) in South Australia,' says Anne Kirman of Wilton. 'In the 1850s, some 1800 people lived in 600 dugouts excavated in the side of the Burra River. Sadly, flooding forced most of the occupants to leave, with only three dugouts surviving to the present day, albeit unoccupied. Life was tough back then.' 'In a makeshift room of a run-down old house in rural NSW, I watch as my son has two dental wires replaced,' writes Debbie Knapman of Nubba. 'A glue is being applied and needs to dry. For heat, a purple hairdryer is used, for water, a pink plastic spray bottle. When the yellowed autoclave machine becomes too noisy to speak over, it is intermittently turned off. I imagine I'm dreaming but just then, confirmation is torn from a carbon copy receipt book and handed to me. The year is 2025 and this is orthodontics in the country.' 'The Lone Ranger (C8) and Tonto were surrounded by tribesmen,' explains Duncan McRobert of Hawks Nest. 'The Lone Ranger turned to Tonto 'What should we do if the Indians attack?' Tonto was quick to reply 'What do you mean by we, white man?'' John Ure of Mount Hutton recalls that 'when I was a police detective at Toronto, Lake Macquarie in the 1970s, I would regularly assume the persona by declaring to my offsider: 'Off to Toronto, pronto, Tonto'. Groans all round.' You know, Granny was pretty sure that readers had had enough of radio serials back in April, with endless Blue Hills and Argonauts Club chat, then along came Anne McCarthy of Marrickville: ' Lone Ranger reminiscences (C8) brought to mind after-school radio serials of the '50s. These included Hopalong Cassidy and his horse Topper, and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, a trainee at the Space Academy hoping to become a Solar Guard on the spaceship Polaris. Do any other C8'ers share these memories?' 'Lone Ranger fan Mickey Pragnell will no doubt remember the fastest mouse in Mexico,' says George Manojlovic of Mangerton. 'His name was Speedy Gonzales and I think he ran a carpet business called Arriba Underlay.'
The Age
24-06-2025
- General
- The Age
Soft furnishings provide cold comfort
'My wife went shopping the other day for a new doona and came home with a comforter,' reports Bryan O'Keefe of Kembla Heights. 'I'm guessing the same marketing gurus were behind a dummy becoming a pacifier.' 'Geoff Turnbull's creek-side cubby tale (C8) reminded me of our visit to Burra (a fascinating town) in South Australia,' says Anne Kirman of Wilton. 'In the 1850s, some 1800 people lived in 600 dugouts excavated in the side of the Burra River. Sadly, flooding forced most of the occupants to leave, with only three dugouts surviving to the present day, albeit unoccupied. Life was tough back then.' 'In a makeshift room of a run-down old house in rural NSW, I watch as my son has two dental wires replaced,' writes Debbie Knapman of Nubba. 'A glue is being applied and needs to dry. For heat, a purple hairdryer is used, for water, a pink plastic spray bottle. When the yellowed autoclave machine becomes too noisy to speak over, it is intermittently turned off. I imagine I'm dreaming but just then, confirmation is torn from a carbon copy receipt book and handed to me. The year is 2025 and this is orthodontics in the country.' 'The Lone Ranger (C8) and Tonto were surrounded by tribesmen,' explains Duncan McRobert of Hawks Nest. 'The Lone Ranger turned to Tonto 'What should we do if the Indians attack?' Tonto was quick to reply 'What do you mean by we, white man?'' John Ure of Mount Hutton recalls that 'when I was a police detective at Toronto, Lake Macquarie in the 1970s, I would regularly assume the persona by declaring to my offsider: 'Off to Toronto, pronto, Tonto'. Groans all round.' You know, Granny was pretty sure that readers had had enough of radio serials back in April, with endless Blue Hills and Argonauts Club chat, then along came Anne McCarthy of Marrickville: ' Lone Ranger reminiscences (C8) brought to mind after-school radio serials of the '50s. These included Hopalong Cassidy and his horse Topper, and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, a trainee at the Space Academy hoping to become a Solar Guard on the spaceship Polaris. Do any other C8'ers share these memories?' 'Lone Ranger fan Mickey Pragnell will no doubt remember the fastest mouse in Mexico,' says George Manojlovic of Mangerton. 'His name was Speedy Gonzales and I think he ran a carpet business called Arriba Underlay.'
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kid Koala Talks Processing Grief Through ‘Space Cadet' as His Debut Feature Sells Wide: ‘People Keep Telling Me it Made Them Cry' (EXCLUSIVE)
'Space Cadet' is ready for launch. The animated feature – screening in Annecy's Contrechamp section – has shot for the stars in multiple territories for Urban Sales, selling to BAC Films (France), Filmin and Vercine (Spain) Benelux – Periscoop (The Netherlands), JEF (Belgium), Eksystent (Germany), Filmladen (Austria), Folkets Bio (Sweden), Angel Films (Denmark), Fivia (Ex Yugoslavia), Alfazbet (Japan), Hope Content (Taiwan) and Aeon Entertainment (Vietnam). More from Variety Miyu Backs Bittersweet Coming-of-Age Tale 'We Are Aliens' From Music Video Maestro Kohei Kadowaki (EXCLUSIVE) 'Odd Taxi's' Baku Kinoshita on His Melancholic Feature Debut 'The Last Blossom,' Premiering in Annecy Sentient Acorns, Badass Grandmas and Underwater Knights Feature Among MIFA's 2025 Feature Pitches 'People keep telling me it made them cry,' admitted director Eric San, better known as Canadian scratch DJ Kid Koala. The story is based on his own graphic novel, which he wrote back in 2009, following his grandmother's passing. 'She enjoyed Charlie Chaplin films. That's one of my fondest childhood memories: watching Chaplin with her. She would come visit us in Canada and didn't speak a word of English. These were the only movies we could share together.' At the time of her death, he was also expecting the arrival of his first daughter. 'My brain literally went in two different directions. I kept reminiscing about the times I'd spent with my grandparents and my parents, these special moments that really shaped my personality and my outlook on the world. Then I was also thinking about my daughter and the things I could share with her,' he recalled. 'When people talk to me about the movie, they mention sadness, but I feel it's more bittersweet. I value that I got to spend all that time with my grandmother and all the profound things she taught me.' Funnily enough, in a film dedicated to 'our grandparents,' they are nowhere to be found. Instead, little Celeste spends her days with a kind guardian robot. Her mum is an astronaut, away on dangerous missions. When Celeste grows up, she also decides to reach for the moon, but her old robot needs to stay on Earth. 'Watching Chaplin with my grandmother inspired me to learn about film production and art, but it also made her laugh, and I'd never seen that before. She was quite stoic, or maybe just a little shy. Even at six years old, I remember thinking: 'When I grow up, I want to create this kind of energy in a room.' My career has taken different courses, but at its heart, there's this idea of sharing fun and emotion, and creativity, and bringing people together.' As Kid Koala, he has toured with Radiohead, the Beastie Boys and Arcade Fire, he's contributed to soundtracks for 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Baby Driver' and composed music for Cartoon Network, Sesame Street and Adult Swim. Music is also important in his dialogue-free film. 'It deals with cycles of generations, and there are flashbacks allowing you to understand the special bond between Celeste and her guardian robot. I wanted them to feel nostalgic. I went back to my first instrument, which was piano.' In the past, he accompanied the original graphic novel with an album as well. 'My daughter had just been born, and her crib was just six feet away from my piano. I recorded it with headphones: these were essentially lullabies. I remember writing it with my right hand and holding her in my left, trying to soothe her. A lot of these musical cues were brought into the film.' He felt the songs in 'Space Cadet' needed to be 'comforting moments,' and came up with new versions of some established classics. He also had some help. 'I reached out to literally my shortlist of favorite singers on the planet. Karen O, Emiliana Torrini, Trixie Whitley, Martha Wainwright, Meaghan Smith and Ladybug Mecca from Digable Planets.' Celebrating life's little moments was a priority in the story. 'My older daughter just graduated from high school this week, and I was so glad I could be there for that. It was a big milestone. But looking back on my childhood, it was some of these days that my parents don't even remember that really stand out.' He added: 'The idea of every moment being a gift is something I've always tried to remember, but the operative word was 'space.' I'm a scratch DJ – it's easy for me to fill every second with noise. But I needed to give space to the story and music, and space to the viewers for them to think about their own childhood.' The film marks a 'full circle' moment for San. After graduating from high school, he applied to NYU, thinking about pursuing animation. That dream had to wait. 'I was accepted, but it was very expensive for us at the time. I chose not to pursue it. Instead, I studied to become an elementary school teacher. Later, even when I signed my first record deal, I would still draw my album covers and create comic books.' Ginette Petit, who produced 'Space Cadet' for Les Films Outsiders with Nathalie Bissonnette – with Mylène Chollet writing the script – came to his tour and bought the book. 'Two weeks later, she reached out, saying: 'I want to turn it into a movie.' I never expected it to happen.' San is currently showing the film at Annecy, where 'all these sensitive, introverted animators finally get to cut loose, yelling and throwing paper airplanes at the screen.' But it might not be a one-off experience. 'I would like to maybe follow a different character within the same universe. So many of my stories seem quite fantastic – a mosquito plays clarinet, moves to the big city and tries to join the orchestra – but I was also thinking about 'Space Cadet's' delivery bot. It delivers parcels every day and gets an insight into so many lives.' Before that happens, he hopes his film, and the story it tells, will help people process grief. Just like it helped him. 'When I was teaching, our class pet bunny had passed away, and the whole class was just wrecked. Everybody was crying. We decided to write, or draw, what that bunny meant to us. The kids were able to grieve through this project. That's in the DNA of the film,' he noted. 'My daughter had a fish once, and at one point, it started to swim strangely. I basically told her: 'I don't think it's gonna be with us for much longer.' She grabbed her little digital camera and started taking pictures of this sick fish. She said: 'I need to remember. '' 'Kids have high emotional intelligence: when it comes to things like death, they understand it. It's the adults who get nervous, because they don't want to rain on the parade of childhood. But death is a part of life.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? 25 Hollywood Legends Who Deserve an Honorary Oscar
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kid Koala Talks Processing Grief Through ‘Space Cadet' as His Debut Feature Sells Wide: ‘People Keep Telling Me it Made Them Cry' (EXCLUSIVE)
'Space Cadet' is ready for launch. The animated feature – screening in Annecy's Contrechamp section – has shot for the stars in multiple territories for Urban Sales, selling to BAC Films (France), Filmin and Vercine (Spain) Benelux – Periscoop (The Netherlands), JEF (Belgium), Eksystent (Germany), Filmladen (Austria), Folkets Bio (Sweden), Angel Films (Denmark), Fivia (Ex Yugoslavia), Alfazbet (Japan), Hope Content (Taiwan) and Aeon Entertainment (Vietnam). More from Variety Miyu Backs Bittersweet Coming-of-Age Tale 'We Are Aliens' From Music Video Maestro Kohei Kadowaki (EXCLUSIVE) 'Odd Taxi's' Baku Kinoshita on His Melancholic Feature Debut 'The Last Blossom,' Premiering in Annecy Sentient Acorns, Badass Grandmas and Underwater Knights Feature Among MIFA's 2025 Feature Pitches 'People keep telling me it made them cry,' admitted director Eric San, better known as Canadian scratch DJ Kid Koala. The story is based on his own graphic novel, which he wrote back in 2009, following his grandmother's passing. 'She enjoyed Charlie Chaplin films. That's one of my fondest childhood memories: watching Chaplin with her. She would come visit us in Canada and didn't speak a word of English. These were the only movies we could share together.' At the time of her death, he was also expecting the arrival of his first daughter. 'My brain literally went in two different directions. I kept reminiscing about the times I'd spent with my grandparents and my parents, these special moments that really shaped my personality and my outlook on the world. Then I was also thinking about my daughter and the things I could share with her,' he recalled. 'When people talk to me about the movie, they mention sadness, but I feel it's more bittersweet. I value that I got to spend all that time with my grandmother and all the profound things she taught me.' Funnily enough, in a film dedicated to 'our grandparents,' they are nowhere to be found. Instead, little Celeste spends her days with a kind guardian robot. Her mum is an astronaut, away on dangerous missions. When Celeste grows up, she also decides to reach for the moon, but her old robot needs to stay on Earth. 'Watching Chaplin with my grandmother inspired me to learn about film production and art, but it also made her laugh, and I'd never seen that before. She was quite stoic, or maybe just a little shy. Even at six years old, I remember thinking: 'When I grow up, I want to create this kind of energy in a room.' My career has taken different courses, but at its heart, there's this idea of sharing fun and emotion, and creativity, and bringing people together.' As Kid Koala, he has toured with Radiohead, the Beastie Boys and Arcade Fire, he's contributed to soundtracks for 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Baby Driver' and composed music for Cartoon Network, Sesame Street and Adult Swim. Music is also important in his dialogue-free film. 'It deals with cycles of generations, and there are flashbacks allowing you to understand the special bond between Celeste and her guardian robot. I wanted them to feel nostalgic. I went back to my first instrument, which was piano.' In the past, he accompanied the original graphic novel with an album as well. 'My daughter had just been born, and her crib was just six feet away from my piano. I recorded it with headphones: these were essentially lullabies. I remember writing it with my right hand and holding her in my left, trying to soothe her. A lot of these musical cues were brought into the film.' He felt the songs in 'Space Cadet' needed to be 'comforting moments,' and came up with new versions of some established classics. He also had some help. 'I reached out to literally my shortlist of favorite singers on the planet. Karen O, Emiliana Torrini, Trixie Whitley, Martha Wainwright, Meaghan Smith and Ladybug Mecca from Digable Planets.' Celebrating life's little moments was a priority in the story. 'My older daughter just graduated from high school this week, and I was so glad I could be there for that. It was a big milestone. But looking back on my childhood, it was some of these days that my parents don't even remember that really stand out.' He added: 'The idea of every moment being a gift is something I've always tried to remember, but the operative word was 'space.' I'm a scratch DJ – it's easy for me to fill every second with noise. But I needed to give space to the story and music, and space to the viewers for them to think about their own childhood.' The film marks a 'full circle' moment for San. After graduating from high school, he applied to NYU, thinking about pursuing animation. That dream had to wait. 'I was accepted, but it was very expensive for us at the time. I chose not to pursue it. Instead, I studied to become an elementary school teacher. Later, even when I signed my first record deal, I would still draw my album covers and create comic books.' Ginette Petit, who produced 'Space Cadet' for Les Films Outsiders with Nathalie Bissonnette – with Mylène Chollet writing the script – came to his tour and bought the book. 'Two weeks later, she reached out, saying: 'I want to turn it into a movie.' I never expected it to happen.' San is currently showing the film at Annecy, where 'all these sensitive, introverted animators finally get to cut loose, yelling and throwing paper airplanes at the screen.' But it might not be a one-off experience. 'I would like to maybe follow a different character within the same universe. So many of my stories seem quite fantastic – a mosquito plays clarinet, moves to the big city and tries to join the orchestra – but I was also thinking about 'Space Cadet's' delivery bot. It delivers parcels every day and gets an insight into so many lives.' Before that happens, he hopes his film, and the story it tells, will help people process grief. Just like it helped him. 'When I was teaching, our class pet bunny had passed away, and the whole class was just wrecked. Everybody was crying. We decided to write, or draw, what that bunny meant to us. The kids were able to grieve through this project. That's in the DNA of the film,' he noted. 'My daughter had a fish once, and at one point, it started to swim strangely. I basically told her: 'I don't think it's gonna be with us for much longer.' She grabbed her little digital camera and started taking pictures of this sick fish. She said: 'I need to remember. '' 'Kids have high emotional intelligence: when it comes to things like death, they understand it. It's the adults who get nervous, because they don't want to rain on the parade of childhood. But death is a part of life.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? 25 Hollywood Legends Who Deserve an Honorary Oscar
