Nifty tidbits
Nifty tidbits and random thoughts on technology and anything else that catches my fancy
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Drip…
Water droplets – dipping a toe in macro photography
he he – so I have a canon S3 IS – got it last year since it allows enough manual control while also having family friendly thingies like video 
. Also, with the chdk hack, the S3 IS is good enough for me to experiment.
So, one of these long time itches has been to take a water droplet splash – you know, the immensely close up snaps where you see a single drop splashing…
Here’s the snaps after two evenings of trial and error (mostly errors though) – feeling quite smug myself
Free subversion hosting – What’s the best?
All – I’ve just signed up for an Assembla account – these folks provide free subversion hosting with a 500 meg space and unlimited spaces.
Will see how it goes.
Firefox 3 beta 5 released. Yahoo Mail is still broken.
Firefox 3 Beta 5 release today. Release notes and downloads here.
Installed it as soon as I got to know today morning and the first thing to check was whether Yahoo Mail still crashed. Initially, Yahoo Mail seemed to work alright for all of 50 seconds – quickly moving over items in inbox caused Firefox to crash 
Guess will wait for some more time. I’m sure there’s a bug report somewhere on this – Yahoo mail was broken on Beta 2, got fixed in Beta 3, then was broken in Beta 4 and is still broken on Beta 5.
Will wait for it to be fixed – Any idea if this is a firefox issue or a Yahoo! issue? Seems odd that script can cause the browser to crash so badly.
