Nifty tidbits

Nifty tidbits and random thoughts on technology and anything else that catches my fancy

Archive for April, 2008

Drip…

Posted by Raghu on April 30, 2008

Drip..

IMG_3370_crop, originally uploaded by Raghu Rajagopalan.

Drip….

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Water droplets - dipping a toe in macro photography

Posted by Raghu on April 30, 2008

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 :)

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Free subversion hosting - What’s the best?

Posted by Raghu on April 2, 2008

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.

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Firefox 3 beta 5 released. Yahoo Mail is still broken.

Posted by Raghu on April 2, 2008

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.

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