Context photgraphy [ Cyclops /Bruce Dickinson ]

Once again, I come up with more pictures to share, taken by my trusty mobile phone. No, I am not here to promote the unique strength of the super-ferrari-N95-8GB, but to promote the thought that our every day scenarios do offer some amazing moments which can be captured if we just open our eye to the possibilities. The snaps are taken from my office -just beside my room. All of them focuses on the under-construct building near the place, but also integrates the surrounding in to it.

Besides the first two pictures also gives a sort of zooming effect Check them out and let me know what you think. Sometimes you have to be a one-eyed cyclops to get a knack of these things. Look all around you with a different eye and you will see what I mean. Maybe, this is the miracle of life. Bruce’s Cyclops have no relation with photgraphy however

Ugly /Bon Jovi [ Panaroma's of Meghalaya ]

I admit it. I am new to this stitching panaroma things. Still I can’t help sharing these two I have made of the snaps taken in Meghalaya. The one on top is of the Shillong City, taken from the Shillong point (which is inside an airbase mind you) and the other one is from the outskirts of the Sacred forest of the Khasis (the local ethnic tribe that lives in the region).

As you can see, there is a local football field being developed at the side of the Sacred forest. But there are also prehistoric stones and stone furnitures (dolemons, chairs, markers) at the far side of the field. Enough chit chat -on with more practice to get the panaromas right. Thats why I am naming this ‘ugly’ -which it is not, if you get what Bon Jovi is trying to say.

If you are interested in making these panaroma’s, I would like to direct you to use Autostitch and Hugin -both softwares are wonderful in their work. Autostitch does most of the work for you, but the end result may not always be as big as you would have liked it to be. While Hugin can make Big Big pictures, but there are lot of options that needs to be tweaked, otherwise you will have a messy picture in your hand. My advice? Go for Autostitch for quick and dirty job -and handle the good ones the pain-staking way in Hugin.

Go the distance /Michael Bolton [ Go Firefox 3 ]

Flaunt It! That’s what the guys at Mozilla are saying. Flaunt It! And I am With over 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours, a new world record for the most downloaded software in a single day. Then again, I think the folks at Mozilla knew that it was a sure win. With all the break-neck die hard fox fans out there, there was no way the new record would not have been made. Although the records are taking a week to verify and validate it -we know its for sure!!! And thus we can Flaunt It!

Flaunt What? How about this bright glossy certificate you can see below? Or about this awesome Olympian cute fire fox?

Flaunt It! if you are one of the 8.3 million foxfans - if not, just dig it here.

Empty Room /Queensryche [ Badges ]

I have decided to organize things a bit here in the blog before things go out of hand. So, you will find these small badges in any post indicating which category the post belongs to, so that you can zoom in to the post of your choice. This will be a visual clue -i.e, the badge on the left hand side with Dark Clouds with angry thunderbolts represents the Blog itself -the General category.

Please note that the Icons placed within the red-circle-with-vicious-cloud and lightening are noy my artwork. I scoured the net and found them. Most, if not all, are free for non-commercial use. If not, let me know and I will pull it down.

Empty room is one of my favorite tracks, with its awesome guitar work -well, I guess my room and blog would be best organized if it was empty…but its not, so have to make do with what I have.

Computerized God /Black Sabbath [ Firefox 3 Download Day ]

 

Firefox (read: the best web browser in the world) has just released their third version for free today. For the uninitiated, this means more flexibility, speed and power fulfilling all your web browsing needs. Its legions of extensions can enrich your browsing experience to pure pleasure. With firefox beating the rest of the browser competitors in all catagories (speed, performance, resource utilization, customization…) the web browser wars are nearly over. On this note, Opera has released its 9.50 version, which is a decent upgrade giving Internet Explorer no chance in this competition whatsoever.

The firefox team at Mozilla, encouraged by the support of the community (read: the whole wide world), has decided to take a stab at setting a world record of most downloaded in a day. Commendable and feasible I would say, as more thousands upon thousands have already pledged to download it today . Current download figure is 2,928,382 (June 17, 3:31 GMT). To know more about the event (Hurry, time is running out ) go here.

I believe that actions speak louder than words, why don’t you go ahead and download a copy yourself? You can get it here and at least change your whole perception of web browsing and be a part of history.

In a different tune, have you noticed how computer centric we have become? It seems Black Sabbath’s Computerized God is coming to town -sooner or later.