EOS Ground Zero

Finally got me some time to compose this post, the first post from a distant ghost town of Branchburg, United States of A. Well its been quite a bad weather since i got my Eos Rebel T2i. These pics are just some indoor experimentation with the camera and you can just consider this as a trailer of things to come. Shot with a 18-55 & 18-135 mm lens. Click to enlarge....i mean the pics...

Breakfast Area @ Residence Inn

Keyboard close ups

 

 A color correction tip - Taking flat pictures like the one below preserves all the data in the shadows & highlights and prevents the camera from deciding how to deal with the colors in the picture....

...then using photoshop the data can be stretched to give a much better flexibility at grading / correction than the one shot with the standard settings. Stretched this one too far..

Not exactly a Rolex, who cares..

 

...the photoshop version...

The cam at work

Until next time....

A FireFox Tip

This is a small Firefox tip that will come pretty handy. Say you have a lot of bookmarks, saved passwords, saved web page urls, lots of shortcuts in the Firefox window, installed extensions like StumbleUpon, UnPlug etc. This Firefox with all your surfing history is on your desktop system. You installed FireFox on your brand new laptop and now you want your laptop's FireFox to be configured exactly in the same way as your desktop. Now its pretty difficult to manually feed in the information to your new laptop. It could take hours (in my case days) and most of it is totally not transferrable. So, here is a way to get all the glamor from your desktop to your laptop with a few clicks a USB stick and no network connection.

1. Open the FireFox on your Desktop.

2. Click on Help -> Troubleshooting information.

3. This opens up another tabbed window displaying all the FireFox preferences and settings. Here under the Application Basics section, for the profile directory Click the Open Containing Folder button. If you observe the address bar you can see that this window can also be brought up by typing about:support in the address bar.

4. This will open an explorer window showing you the location where FireFox keeps all its important data. This information is the brains of FireFox. It will usually be found in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[somecharacters].default directory.

5. Copy all the contents of this [somecharacters].default directory to your USB stick.

6. Open the FireFox on your laptop and this time open the support page by typing about:support in the address bar. 

7. Just like before click on Open Containing Folder to view the contents of that folder on your laptop.

8. As a safety means backup that data you see into a temporary folder somewhere else on your drive.

9. Shift + Delete the contents of that directory and Paste the contents of your USB Stick that you just copied from your desktop into this directory.

10. Close the window and restart FireFox.

11. If all the steps above were followed then bingo !! Your laptop's FireFox will be configured just like the FireFox on your desktop.

This technique can also be used to backup your entire FireFox in case of a new install or some other purpose..

Happy Surfing....