Soon this will be updated

The images you see on the display are resized to 1280*853 from 4752*3168 maintaining the aspect ratio.

The unscaled images can be downloaded from Here

I just bought Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 II lens.. So you may expect shallow depth of field images sooner

Off course when you go around and spent a hefty amount like $700, it would be for a purpose. I had my (subjective) reasons to chose this. And how often you all fell into a massive ambiguity of selecting a one between D5000 and 500D. Thing is both of them are great “mid-entry” level cameras. And one would literally have to be really comparative to select either of them as both just knocks off each other by very minute amount.

Here are my reasons why I bought Canon Rebel T1i.

• With photography in mind and when you are with that zeal in taking the best images possible, you have to certainly consider to upgrade your lenses later or sooner. Though both of the cameras offer a decent enough kit lens, but they are really bottle-necking the juices that either of the cameras give out. Canon had a vast variety of lenses and are really cheap as well sharper compared to their competitors. In fact one of the lens just start at $99 (EF 50mm f/1.8).  Another thing that inclined me towards Canon Rebel T1i was the fact that its compatible with both EF & EF-S lenses. So if you get a deal of those primitive EF lenses, they will work on this camera.
• Amazing LCD, For a mid-entry level DSLR this is the only one which offers 3″ 920 K dots LCD screen.
• View finder with a magnification factor of 0.87x
• HD video recording capabilities 1280×720 @ 30 frames per second compared to Nikon D5000 @ 24 frames per second. Also Canon Rebel T1i offers Full HD video recording capabilities but at slower frame rate of 20 fps.
• Better live view when compared to Nikon D5000

As well D5000 has its unique features which 500D lacks and hence it was really a subjective choice to select 500D.

But taking a peep into my 1st camera buying selection it appears really amusing how my choices kept on changing from time to time.

And hence this is “How” I bought Canon Rebel T1i.

The announcement came directly from T-mobile forum.

As one of the T-mobile forum’s user says

This seems like good news…in a way. At least they’re acknowledging that the upgrade is not yet released and is still to-be-released. At least it’s better than “decided not to” or “what upgrade?”

certainly this is good news for all the T-mobile Touch pro 2 users as now there seems to be “positive” chances of getting windows mobile 6.5 upgrade.

The delay for the release has been titled not to HTC nor T-mobile but to Microsoft which has recently updated its Windows mobile upgrade release page.

Till then lets cross our finger & hope T-mobile Touch pro 2 as well as Dash 3G users may get the upgrade soon

- Amen

Mesa Arch Sunrise, originally uploaded by

In Canyonlands National park, Mesa Arch stands at the head of a cliff. Beyond the arch is a shear wall dropping about 600 feet to the Colorado River canyon below.

Many magazine themes have been released from topwpthemes.com. If you are not aware of Magazine themes then you should probably browse the themes shown at Topwpthemes.com or just google for “Wordpress Magazine Themes”.

Many of the Magazine themes released I’ve seen don’t have justified mini posts.

Professionally judging it doesn’t looks good to have some thing like the example shown on the right.

Today’s post will be on how to justify these mini-posts and give them a professional look.
Click on the image to zoom

Well this can be solved by just adding a simple css text alignment property.

But first you need to find the class of these mini posts as this will vary from themes to themes.

A good and very easy approach to find the class of any content on a web page would be installing a add-on for firefox – Web Developer

Just install this add-on and open your websites home page From the web developer toolbar option select CSS > View Style information (or you may press Ctrl + Shift + Y ) then point towards the mini-posts.

At the top bar you will see how the pointed material is linked to which CSS class as well as Id. Check the image shown at the left

Click on the Image to zoom

For those of you who don’t use Firefox, then you will have to go by the traditional approach by checking the Source information (For most of the browsers just right click and “View Source”) & then search for the part which belongs to your mini-posts.

For eg. One of my mini-posts has written in it “With the recent implementation of“. So I would probably search for this code in the source and look for its class. Image below illustrates what I meant.

So once you have known the class of the mini-post, you have to go to the theme editor to edit the style-sheet of your theme.

You have to then look for the class and in that class add a css property : text-align: justify; Click on the below image to zoom.

Well thats all. Now you can have justified mini-posts like this.

If you are having trouble finding your  mini-post class then please leave a comment below indicating your theme and I’ll tell you the class as soon as possible.

Have a good life ahead and best wishes for your future.

USB Linux helps during travel

Most of us like listening to music, watching movies, and some like reading books while travelling. You travel in train, bumpy buses, cars or airplanes. During this time, your major concern is battery life (for longer travels) and safety of your HDD.

USB Linux solves both your problems, you can copy your files into your pen drive along with linux and work on those files while you are still moving. Distros like Puppy Linux(<200MB) are small enough to not take up much space in your pen drive and loaded enough to play any movie (almost all formats including divx, xvid and x264), or listen to songs (mp3 support pre-installed), or read a book or do all at once . Additionally, to save battery life and more importantly save your hdd from shocks, you can put it to standby explicitly by using commands like hdparm.

Recovering your production machine

As most people say, “Shit happens” and you might also face problems like partition tables messed or for some reason(mostly) windows not booting. Or your system might be affected by deadly virus that your pirated(mostly) antivirus cant handle. Again distros like Puppy Linux come with GUI based partition managers like GParted which have the capability to create, delete, resize partitions(even NTFS), fix them and what not. You can access partitions in your HDD and backup files from your windows partition before formatting it(again mostly done). If your bootloader is messed up, you can install that too. Infact, if you have urgent work and your HDD is dead, you can use your USB based linux to do the work.

I will soon be creating a tutorial for installing Puppy Linux on USB and customizing it to meet your needs.

Benefits are – you may now watch the your favorite actress/actors with very fine granulated details.

Here are the sample images which shows the difference between 720p & 1080p. Click on the images to zoom.

Now you certainly require a decent internet service with capability of high quality streaming [minimum 2Mbps] to stream the video in real time (which is also too optimistic to ask for), or else wait minutes till the video buffer enough to be played.

Another important thing that YouTube brougth to us is Auto-Captions & Auto-Timing.

Yup, if you are thinking that you may now see the subtitles then yes you are thinking it right. With the new Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology from google YouTube will be able to captions the video to its very best level.

Auto-Timing: Upload a transcript (a simple file with the text of what’s said in the video), and through speech recognition technology we’ll turn it into synchronized captions. Timing is the toughest part of creating captions, but now this should be much easier. The technology works best for videos with good sound quality and clear spoken English.

Auto-Captions: We use the same speech recognition technology to create machine-generated captions (which can then be translated into 51 languages). You can see auto-caps in action right now on a range of educational channels, such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCLA, Duke, UCTV, Columbia, PBS, National Geographic, Demand Media, UNSW and most Google channels, including YouTube’s. Click on the menu button at the bottom right of the video player, then click CC and the arrow to its left, then click the new “Transcribe Audio” button. In time, we hope to expand this feature for many more YouTube videos

– article on YouTube Blog

Google has been really innovative with its products like YouTube, Picasa and also the much more promising Chrome OS. Also worth checking is the new google translate feature.

Heres the sneak preview about what Chrome OS Would be, & this is the link for the 1080p YouTube video. Enjoy – I’ll be back with more wordpress tips & Theme Customization

Pointed by one of my reader, it was impossible for some of the themes to show the list of all pages, say if your pages list is quite huge.

The remedy for this would be either make the top page menu small enough to accommodate some extend of pages or rather have all your pages listed at the bottom of your blog in the footer.

I will show how to list the pages at the footer.

1. You will have to add this code in your stylesheet.css (Add it at the bottom or your stylesheet)

#footer-menu ul {
 clear:both;
 display:block;
 border-top:1px solid #dedad9;
 padding:15px 2px 10px 2px;
}

#footer-menu li {
 display: inline-block;
 margin: 2px 10px 2px 2px;
 color:#1575A9;

#footer-menu li.current_page_item a { color:#e3b44d; text-decoration: underline; }
}

Change the color of the class li to match your theme. Also You may change the border-top color.

Next you need to add this code to your footer.php

The position you add this code is important. It will be totally your call, whether you want to add the code to the bottom of your wrapper or inside the wrapper but just outside the post/page container.

Since Michel wanted it to be specific for the iBusiness theme of Topwpthemes I positioned the bellow code in the wrapper but outside the page container.

This is the code that you need to add in your themes footer.php

<div id="footer-menu">
	<ul>
		<li class="page_item <?php if(is_home()): ?>current_page_item<?php endif ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
		<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=');?>
	</ul>
</div>

For iBusiness Theme this is where I’ve positioned the code as shown in the image

This is how the result would be.

That it is all. Enjoy.

If you have any doubts in applying the code to your theme please give me a knock. Also if you have problems regarding wordpress themes, or implementing your ideas in any theme, don’t hesitate to contact me.