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Lalbagh Flower Show - August 2009
Aug 10, 20092 min read

Lalbagh Flower Show - August 2009

One of the reasons why I visited was to make sure I know what it takes to click flower macros using a SLR. While I did get a few good snaps, I was in for a very different treat when I visited the f...

Trip to Gopalaswamy betta and BR hills
Jun 30, 20093 min read

Trip to Gopalaswamy betta and BR hills

We went to and last weekend. The main intention of the trip was photography. We left Bangalore on Friday night and reached Mysore early morning. There were some adhoc changes to our plan; we were s...

What I dislike about Google AppEngine
Jun 22, 20093 min read

What I dislike about Google AppEngine

When I built the ' ' application, one of the things I had in mind was to see how quickly an application can be built in the most economical way. While the application is working like a charm, a day...

My weekend hack - Twitter Trending Topics
Jun 21, 20091 min read

My weekend hack - Twitter Trending Topics

I got this idea of building an application which pulls all the pages mentioned in the trending topics on Twitter. Why would that be useful? Well, it's the simplest replacement for Google News, but...

Experiment with Delicious and Python
Jun 18, 20092 min read

Experiment with Delicious and Python

Once in a while, I look at my Delicious bookmarks to get an idea of what I have been upto in recent time. The ' ' tool was written with exactly that in mind. I began to wonder if my bookmarks can g...

Warming up your images using GIMP
Jun 15, 20092 min read

Warming up your images using GIMP

Cameras allow you to adjust the white balance setting in your images, but, I prefer to have an original version with me just in case I want to experiment with the original image. Now let's say you...

Early morning in Lalbagh
Jun 14, 20091 min read

Early morning in Lalbagh

So as part of the weekend photoshoot series, I visited Lalbagh today. Over the past several weeks I realized the importance of in the photos and I felt that a full manual mode gives me a lot of con...

Color level editing with GIMP
Jun 13, 20092 min read

Color level editing with GIMP

If you want to change that: to that: you need to understand something called . The original image is overly underexposed, and the edited image has the brightness and shadows better than in the uned...

Startup City 2009 - Event highlights
Jun 06, 20097 min read

Startup City 2009 - Event highlights

As planned, I had been to Startup City 2009 today. I reached at 9am sharp and was surprised to see the place filled with people. I found it hard to find a parking spot and there were quite a few ca...