• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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Archive for May, 2008

Aftermath of 26 July 2005

May 24th

Posted by Abhilash in Life |

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After the record breaking rains of 26 July 2005, I had set out with my camera to capture the city’s face in the wake of this unprecedented event. 2 pictures:

1. An overturned taxi.

Mumbai: My Views

May 24th

Posted by Abhilash in Life |

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All in all this city sucks. There are definitely good things and there are bad things. But in the end the bad outweighs the good. Therefore, after all the votes have been counted, the city loses to many others. Some of my top reasons to judge the city Good, are:

  1. Career: there are so many job opportunities here that there is no way that the you can stop the influx of people from the rest of the country. I myself moved here 4 years ago and can definitely testify to the ease and speed with which I could find a job More >

Review: i-mate K-JAM

May 23rd

Posted by Abhilash in Hardware |

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Features:

  1. Windows Mobile 5.0
  2. Quad Band GSM
  3. 65000 Colours, TFT LCD Touchscreen, 240 x 320
  4. Slide out full qwerty keyboard.
  5. 200 mhz TI OMAP Processor
  6. 64mb SDRAM, 128mb ROM
  7. WIfi, Bluetooth
  8. SD Card Slot
  9. 1.3 megapixel camera
  10. Software: Office Mobile, and lotsa other stuff.

Review:

I have been using this PDA for more than a year now. I bought it because I was not comfortable with an only-stylus PDA and definately wanted a keyboard and touchscreen. The processor seems a little slow some times, however during those times I overclock it to around 300 mhz. Thats enough for most programs that run on the device. Its still a little slow compared to More >