TariqAyad.com

This was on the front page of Digg yesterday.

Its pretty good, the section on composition and portraiture is really informative. This is the first time I've seen this material presented in a concise and yet very explanatory tone.

url: http://www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php

Tags: Photography, tutorial

Craig Tanner (whom I have tremendous respect for) did a podcast on process of creating the RadiantVista Podcasts.

In the podcasts Craig mentions that he/they use an open source tool called Audacity for their audio editing.

I tried Audacity today and it's pretty good. I am not an audio guru so have no in depth knowledge of what to expect of an audio editor, but as far as I am concerned, audacity lets me do all the basics, select, play, cut, copy, paste, loop.

Tags: Radiant Vista, Podcasts, Craig Tanner, Audacity, Open source

Woah! The last 2 days have been bloody nuisance to me all of which was caused by bloody red-tape from should I say Sri Lankan government departments.

A word of precaution, if anyone one wants to ship a wireless device to Sri Lanka like a wireless router, or a remote control, or any ballyhoo that is termed wireless, beware you would need TRC (Telecom Regulatory Commission) approval to clear it.

The process of getting TRC approval is one where you are totally subjected to everything that can go wrong with 'process'. You will be directed and misdirected from one department to another with copies being made of the documents you are carrying and then being stuffed into files.

Basically a lot of hassle for no reason as wireless routers are available off the shelf in any computer shop.

All of the hassle caused could have been avoided if the government appoints a TRC representative at the customs department.

Tags: Red-Tape, Sri Lanka, Customs, Wireless

Quite a few folks raved on the blogging feature within Word 2007. See here for a run-down of this neat feature.

So I gave it a swirl and found it pretty awesome and so moved away from Live Writer. However with Word lacking the Add Technorati tags feature I thought of dabbling my feat in VSTO and writing a something similar (yes I am ashamed to admit that I've stayed away from VSTO for so long).

The fruits of my effort can be downloaded here.

Of course to install this you need the .NET Framework 2.0 and the VSTO runtime.

Additionally post-install you would need to grant full trust to the assembly.

Lesson learnt from this venture: Stay away from the Word OM if possible, deciphering and coding for it is a PITA.

Tags: Wordorati, Technorati, Blogging, Word 2007

From Downloadsquad.com

Synaptics have released a set of toys for your laptop touchpad.

Pretty cool.

Link: http://www.synaptics.com/support/utili.cfm

A friend gave me this link, which shows off the Vista Yahoo Messenger.

Doesn't that UI look sweet?

At CES ATI has lifted the covers off of their first external graphics card. This gives new hope to laptop users who want to be l33t on some of them games J

I remember plans along these lines being announced sometime last year.

Heres the link: http://pcexposure.com/2007/01/06/asus-unveils-xg-station-the-worlds-first-external-graphics-card-for-laptops/

Diig it