SE outage :(

Cloud thinking

Google maps

The app always amaze me. And on a bigger screen it looks more better.

I'm back

Again after a long break I am back to scribbling my piece of mind. And yes I am just trying. I have my presence in twitter as well.

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 HSM EX DC HSM

Yummy. I finally got one in my wish list. The best thing I liked about the camera was its HSM motor. Its so freaking smooth. I wish it had a manual auto focus override switch considering that I use a D40X. But still a good investment for my street and portrait photography.

Hong Kong

I had the fortune to visit Hongkong few months ago for 10 days. I had read and heard many a things about Hongkong and wanted to try out the best of the place when I was there. Hongkong is visual treat for photographers. The place is the most sought out business hubs and also a buzzing tourist destination. In order to promote all these the government provides a visa for 14 days on arrival.

Few places that I visited during my stay:
Stanley Market & Murray House
Repulse Bay
Temple Street Night Market
The Symphony of Lights at Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront in Kowloon and Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai.
Victoria Peak
Victoria Harbour
Avenue of Stars

One of the thing that impressed me the most was the Symphony of Lights. The show happens all day for about 10 mins. It is said to be the world's largest permanent light and sound show. Each show is based on 5 themes talking about the heritage of Hongkong and many buildings from each island take part in this.

Few of the places are best visited at night. The Temple Street Night Market at Kowloon only opens after 6PM. The place is filled with vendors selling everything from souvenirs to electronics. The place has few good places to eat where you can try authentic chines seafood.

Share your mouse and keyboard using Synergy

I finally got a desktop loaded with Windoze. This desktop is purely for running some proprietary softwares which I dont know why these cant be ported to open source. The problem of running two desktop is you are going to have two mouse and two keyboards. And that's when synergy comes to the rescue. The best part of synergy is that it is coded for multi-platform meaning it can run on Linux, Mac OS or Windoze. The site has details on how to configure it and also you can get it up within 10-15 minutes.
The best thing about synergy is that it allows you to copy text from one box to another. This is really helpful if you have to copy contents from one application running on one platform to another.