— is the blog of Amit Karmakar about photography & life in Sydney, Australia
Streaming sunrays in the morning — love watching ‘em entering the kitchen and the dining area. Simple I know but does magic to me. 
Hope you like it. Oh yeah ignore the mess… am working on a set of photos that go upon the wall to the left Did you know even the most advanced digital camera as of this day is not capable of handling lighting difference that are more than 8-stops in the one frame! Yes you guessed it, digital photography is at its infancy — after all these years!
Chris started coding on his iBook 2 months back and look what he has come out with… CoconutBattery — a beauty app written in Cocoa. Download it and have a play. It tell you a lot more about your battery’s health than just a lit up progress-bar. And why on earth is that important? Well, the answer is simple if you know how your battery health better you’d surely be able to utilise it more effectively. It even tells you the load cycles! Wow. Well done Chris. Oh do send him a little donation as he is saving up every bit to get a flat panel display I am not too sure about his coconut fetish but hmmm he seems like a beach person. Well done Chris. CoconutBattery rocks!
UPDATE: Version 0.8 onwards it also tell you the age of your mac! CoconutBattery was previously known as myBattery
The weather has been glorious, the sun shining bright and just right to give you that soft winter warmth, the sky — blue with little or no cloud, the breeze slightly chill, gentle and soft… its been such a beautiful day — such a beautiful weekend indeed! Catching up with friends, spending time with few treasured ones, going for a walk in the lovely comforting sun soaked winter day reminds me of my childhood… I don’t know the corelation but it makes me reminisce the nostalgia of the once less complicated life of a boy named Amit. That doesn’t necessarily imply life is any bad now, maybe just not as simple as it always used to be.
It’s been a while I printed some of my own photos that I’ve been taking over the years. Only this time, I am doing it for myself. Eventually, it would also be nice to make my very own photo-book(s) from some of the good prints. Thank you Maxine for inspiring me! Post Maxine’s sojourn to Japan she has made 2 absolutely gorgeous photo-books. Maxine, if you are reading this I hope you put some of those photos online. Having had the pleasure of seeing them I can clearly vouch that every photo in there stands out unique. So there am I, working on framing photos here’s a start.
Yeah well, I though I’d better… Chumki has started blogging in earnest…for now its just a profile page but I hear rumours about podcasting… well you never know… do check it out…
A funny visual went past my mind just then… imagine you lived in a high rise building in a populated city.. .well hence the high rise… real estate was a premium and obviously you lived close to the train station… just that in crowded places you rather commute by train than your own wheel-barrow. Now think that the station was really close by… probably so close to the building, no scratch that… it was right under the very building you lived in… so every time a train went past you’d hear the noise… just enough to let you know of approaching and departing trains… hmm, wow doppler effect comes to mind… alright… you were having dinner with your buddies hmmm well with people… strangers… you had picked up off an internet chat.. and … a train came by and the building shook up a little bit… like a tuning fork on low frequency… and while at the table, well I hope, seated with your honarary strangers — stuffed plates in front… and the plates moved in a synchronised bouncy twitch and went on over close to the person on your right… hmmm… okie I am going nuts! But.. it was funny… *cracks up*.
BetterSearch: An extension for Firefox which enhances Google (all international flavours, too), MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, Answers.com (web results), AllTheWeb, del.icio.us and Simpy.com by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images and info (type, price, rating for US/DE/UK/CA/FR products), a quick preview feature as well as “Open in New Window”, “Site Info” and “Wayback Machine” links to the search results.
A Firefox Extension For Enhancing Search Engines with some raving testimonials and screenshots for your consumption. If you like BetterSearch, please rate it at Addons.Mozilla.Org! My Question though: Why is Technorati missing?
I’d have to admit — nothing beats Inquisitor on Safari though. Live, predictive search extension for safari ~ visit developers blog. Although you require Mac OS X 10.4 tiger.