• 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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  • 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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Archive for June, 2008

How I use my Mobile

Jun 29th

Posted by Abhilash in Hardware |

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Well… technically it’s not a mobile. It’s a PDA. Here it is below.

I have had the KJam for about a year now. What you see in the photograph is the KJam with a music dock / handsfree docking station from Mobile Brando. I use my KJam for a lot of things.

  • A mobile phone: The sound quality is actually quite good and I can also record converstions if I want to. The built in handsfree is also good, but now I use the dock as the handsfree.
  • Storage: I keep my frequently used office files in the phone. I think the memory More >

Talking while Driving

Jun 27th

Posted by Abhilash in Life |

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In most cities in India, it is illegal to talk on your mobile while driving or riding. This law is enforced strictly in some cities, loosely in others and not at all in some. Many states in the USA are now on the way to banning the use of mobile phones while driving (Yes it is legal in most states). Now some states are putting into place a law that will prevent people from using their cell phones while driving unless they use a handsfree device. That is something that we already do in India.

However, research is suggesting that its More >

Superbikes in India

Jun 14th

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If anyone has seen the Yamaha Motorcycles website recently, they have decided to bring in to India the first really large capacity motorcycles. The largest capacity motorcycle in India is the 500cc Royal Enfield motorcycles. There was the BMW F650; but that was a big flop mainly because back then no one would have liked to pay Rs. 500000 for a 2 wheeler.

So what does Yamaha have lined up for the Indian market. They are bringing in 2 big capacity (by Indian standards) motorcycles in to India. This is after the government removed restriction on the import of motorcycles of More >

Mumbai Police and Speeding

Jun 12th

Posted by Abhilash in Life |

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I read this morning that the Mumbai police is acquired 2 new speed guns at a cost of 11 lakhs each. These are also fitted with an 8 megapixel camera so that you can take a shot of the offending drivers. So now, you would expect them to fine more people who are gonna be caught speeding, right? NO, they say that they are not gonna fine anyone, but they are straightaway going to suspend the license of the person caught speeding.

A bit excessive I say.

To aid the mumbai police in this activity there will also be an RTO official More >