screwtape letters

“screwtape letters” is a small book written by CS Lewis that has a series of letters from a demon named Screwtape to his nephew named Wormwood on how to seduce christians to commit sins.. to make things easier, a 9 cast member, 2 hour play based on this book is now being held in manhattan [...]

pivot grid

pivot table sounds cool, right? so does lamborghinis and beethovan compositions.. just kiddn.. this was something i came across today…
pivot tables are used extensively by people in the financial sector… there are mainly 4 parts to a pivot table…
1. filter fields
2. data fields
3. row fields
4. column fields
pivot tables are basically used for multi [...]

times square church…

went to times square church today…. first time…
the times square church is in the heart of the big apple… with around 8,000 members… David Wilkerson ( author of the best seller “cross and the switchblade“) is the founder of the church.. tby the way, he was there too… there are other pastors and minstry leaders [...]

remote desktop connection

Windows Remote Desktop connection sucks for the fact that only the remote viewer can view the desktop and the local user is allowed only to see the login screen
DualDesk is really good. No monthly licensing fees. Run a listener on ur computer and ask the person on the remote computer to run the <200kb file [...]

bronx zoo

today went to the bronx zoo.. around 250 acres… largest urban zoo in the country… it was good but not great… theres a lot of shade there, so u wont be easily tired out… couple of things that i liked…
1. the skyfari ( a cable car that takes u from the northern end to [...]

wireless connection…

i really dont think the world is ready for a completely wireless based system.. wireless connectons are unpredictable.. at one moment at a place u might see the wireless signals as “excellent” and then couple of min later at the same place u’ll see the lil icon on ur task bar burping with “limited connectivity [...]

plugin development

here are some plugin frameworks to do plugin architectures in delphi
1.TMS plugin product (formerly UIL System)
2.Dragon Soft Plugin Manager
3.Remobjects Hydra
4.Athrasoft SmartPlugin (.net support soon)
I am now working with Athrasoft SmartPlugin architecture. Stay tuned to here more!!

naturally fishy!!

hurricanes build up where there is warm water… that is why there are more hurricanes in the area of florida… so if the water in ur area is starting to get warmer, BEWARE!! (and NO, the warm water in ur backyard pool will not cause a hurricane!! but checkout the nearest lake though.. )) [...]

digi cam & hdr

DIGICAM
some requirements i had for a digi cam were that it should be:
-around 5-6 MP
-10X – 12X optical zoom ( not digital.. digital just zooms the existing image.. not of much use)
-image stabilisation
-provison for both automatic and manual settings
-low shot-to-shot time
-low image noise
2 cams that met the requirements were the canon powershot s3 (arnd $440) [...]

photoshop filters

i always knew that adobe photoshop was powerful but never tried to learn the sophisticated things about it. i was happy with the tools in the toolbox. lately i came to the realization that filters are something that had immense potential to create some awesome graphics. today was the first time i messed around with [...]