This is just my attempt to put down ‘requirements’ for my own photo management needs. I am currently evaluating various photo management software tools. Since I got my first digital camera, the amount of photos I take has soared. On a week long trip I’ll typically shoot thousands of photos. It becomes a major chore…
On September 15, 2010 Nikon announced a new high-end consumer camera, Nikon D7000 DSLR. I placed my order on October 1, on Amazon.com. The camera started shipping sometime in late October but I did not receive it until middle of December. In early December 2010, we went on an Australia trip but I could not…
My wife and I attended a presentation arranged by Custom Trips, Pasco, WA and delivered by Mr. Cameron of Sun Travel Systems in Embassy Suites Hotel, Portland, OR on the May 27, 2010. Sun Travel Systems presentation Presenter – Mr. Cameron (Never provided last name, never presented business card). Brief Bio (as narrated by him):…
In the world of desktops everyone is talking about Linux market share (non-existent to negligible) but Linux is becoming omnipresent in other segments… from Supercomputers to Smartphones to embedded devices. In fact many of you are running Linux at home (sometimes even unaware that you are doing so!) If you have: And you use Linux…
Windows 7 is out today. But I have been using it for a long time now. On my home PC and also on my work laptop. Yes my day to day work is all about Linux but for office connectivity and productivity work I use my office laptop with Window 7. Here’s a short list…
I bought a new camera a couple of weeks back. Nikon D90. This is a follow on to the popular D80 model Nikon released two years ago and I bought in October 2006. In terms of features this is an incremental upgrade from the D80: 12MP sensor, better high ISO performance. Menu system is now same…
This is a simple blog just to see if I can push a blog to my own site and at the same time post a link to Facebook. Blogged with the Flock Browser
I came across this article on Cnet today. At least for me speed is not the only thing. I use Firefox exclusively (at home and at work too). I like Firefox because of all its features and all the add-ons I get with it. Firefox has such a huge collection of add-ons. Some of them…
I have been trying flock from time to time to see how it is progressing. It has now become very very impressive, with Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, Delicious, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail integration. And it still has all the earlier features like posting to a blog etc. Here’s a quick screen-shot with people sidebar open. Blogged…
Do you sometimes wonder what’s taking your disk space? If you have thousands of files like I do, it can get very difficult to quickly see what is consuming all the disk space. There is a nice program called WinDirStat (Windows Directory Statistics) that shows you visually with color coded proportional blocks arranged according to directory structure,…