Abhilash
Abhilash is a part time blogger and blogs about photography, technology and travel. When not blogging Abhilash is either selling outsourcing solutions to companies or indulging in marathon episodes of various science fiction shows and movies.
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Posts by Abhilash
Android Apps: ColorNote
Apr 11th
There are a lot of note taking applications available in the Android Market. Most of the ones that I tried were either too simple or had just too many features that I would never use. ColorNote solved that problem for me. ColorNote by Social & Mobile is the best application that I found that is not only easy to use but also has the right amount of features so as not to overwhelm you, add to that the very neat and clean interface, and you have a real winner of an application.
ColorNote is an application that does exactly what it More >
Sony Alpha 300 Sensor Cleaning
Apr 5th
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 have multiple lenses and very little experience in using the camera. You don’t worry More >
WPtouch – A Mobile Theme for your Blog
Apr 2nd
With all the fancy phones that are coming out all the time, I think that its a good idea to have a mobile version of your blog also available so that people with mobile devices are able to get the full experience of your website even if they visit through a mobile browser. While the browsers, that are already present in these new devices, are quite capable of showing your blog to the visitor, there is always content on your blog that can’t really be rendered properly. Some elements tend to look out of place and in some cases even More >
Bandwidth Exceeded
Apr 2nd
I have been maintaining this website for a few years now and never have I faced the problem of going over bandwidth. However, between yesterday and today, my website was overwhelmed with traffic owing to a combination of a comment on Lifehacker and the online frenzy that has been seen in people trying to find April Fool’s easter eggs in all our favourite online haunts.
Around afternoon of the 1st of April I found the 3D view feature appearing in Street View in Google Maps. Obviously I went ahead and put up a post about it with a few screenshots, in case More >
Updated: Google Maps: 3D Goggles View
Apr 1st
I am frequently on google maps, looking at interesting places and whenever possible I go down to street level to roam the streets of an interesting looking city. This morning, I noticed that while in street view, there is now a new icon on the left below the zooming bar which seems to enable a “3D movie” type mode on the image shown in the street view. I don’t have 3D goggles to see if the effect is really the real thing or this is just another April Fool’s joke by google. You decide and if you have 3D goggles, More >
How To: Getting Screenshots of your Android Phone
Mar 29th
When I used to use my Windows Mobile device there was this awesome application available called MyMobiler. This application allowed me to access my WM5 phone on my desktop and control everything on the device. It also allowed me to take screenshots of the device, which was very useful when I was reviewing applications available for the WM5 platform.
For the Android platform, there are a few applications that are available in the Android Market and also at other sources that allow you to take screenshots of your Android device quite quickly and easily. The only catch is that they have More >
Android Apps: WordPress
Mar 25th
This post had a dual purpose. Firstly, since i have been ranting a lot about Swype all over the internet, I wanted to see if I can actually do any real articles on the phone of any decent length. Secondly, I wanted to also write about WordPress for Android. That’s what I am writing this post on.
WordPress for Android allows you to connect to all your blogs that are using WordPress, and view the posts, comments and pages that are present in that blog. You can manage these, choosing various actions that you can carry out on the same.
The functionality More >
Android Apps: Swype Beta
Mar 25th
Data entry on my touch screen only phone can be a pain sometimes. Unfortunately the Samsung Spica’s on screen keyboard is not as good as the iPhone’s. The on screen keyboard lacks the speed that I would want and my stubby fingers don’t help. Text entry in portrait mode was a real task since the buttons became quite small. Although over time I learned to use the on screen keyboard with great accuracy, there were always times when I didnt feel like answering a mail or posting a tweet or updating my FB status since I felt that I would More >
