• Review: Kata DR 467i Camera Laptop Backpack

    I had been itching to get my hands on a comfortable backpack that could accommodate my camera with the additional lenses, cables and other stuff that I like to carry on me with my camera, in addition to a standard 14 or 15 inch laptop. I researched on the internet for the right bag for quite some time. I really didn’t want to go overboard with this selection since I don’t plan to increase my camera gear by any sub...
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  • Starting my own Photo 365

    Update: The photo blog is up and running!!! You can visit it here or use the menu on the top of the page to go to the Photo Blog. The concept is slightly changed though. It's no longer a 365 type of project, rather more of a One Photo a Day kind of project. The time is now ripe for me to commit to a project that will require me to take one photo every day for the next 365 days. Today is the 31st of December 2009...
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  • Working on your Holiday Photos with Digikam

    This is the holiday season and you expect to take a lot of photographs. If you are not planning on taking a lot of photographs, you are at least planning on taking more photographs than you usually take. Just past the new year you would probably realize that you have a lot of photographs and not so much time to work on them, especially if you are in the “occasional photographer” category. The number of photos that yo...
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  • Sony Alpha 300 Sensor Cleaning

    For the last couple of months I have had to do a lot of cloning and fixing of most of the day time photos that I have shot due to dust stuck to the sensor of my Sony A300. I spend a lot of time post processing for dust specs removal to otherwise perfectly good images. The reason that I have so much dust on my sensor, is probably because I like to change my lenses a lot, in the field. That's what happens when you...
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  • Carrying Out Batch Actions in digiKam

    I have written about digiKam in the past. That was more of an overall review of a great piece of open source software. Recently, I have had the opportunity to use the individual features of digiKam more in detail. One of the features that I use most frequently is “Batch Editing”. Honestly I used to use Phatch for all my batch editing needs until a few weeks ago. However, since the time that I have started using dig...
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Archive for November, 2006

W. A. F.

Nov 8th

Posted by Abhilash in Life |

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I was reading an article in the newspaper regarding the growing trend among couples to buy electronics and such articles only if both the parties are in concurrence. This, is now being called the WAF or the Wife Acceptance Factor.

I have faced this almost everytime that I have tried to buy something electronic for the house. So, I usually get to decide the item and my wife gets to decide the colour that best goes with the walls or the curtains or some other thing in the house that has nothing to do with the electronics in question. So I More >

Review: Philips HTS5310S

Nov 8th

Posted by Abhilash in Hardware |

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Features: The Philips HTS5310S is a not so distinctive home theatre system. It has all the bells and whistles that a home theatre has to have like, 6000W PMPO, multi-band tuner, multi-format playing (DVD, VCD, SVCD, SACD, DVR-R/RW, CD, MP3, WMA, Kodak Picture CD, picture files on CD-R/RW, MPEG4, DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x), custom sound levels for all 6 speakers, lots of input and output slots at the rear and of course, a full function remote control. It also had tower type speakers and a very sleek main unit.

Review: This particular piece is a really nice looking and affordable 5.1 channel home theatre system. More >