For a while now, I have noticed that some times, inexplicably, I would type in one URL in the URL entry field in Firefox, but I would end up at some sort of a search page at http://www.iwsearch.net/l/<some-part-of-whatever-url-I-typed>. For the longest time, I thought I had some malware, but no amount of search showed up [...]
Just got my Pentax K-x DSLR yesterday (read about how I ended up buying the Pentax K-x) and have been playing with it (some samples below — shot as RAW, but no image processing done other than to save in JPEG format and reducing the pixel width and height). My current impressions: I like the [...]
I started seeing a black spot or splotch on pictures previewed on the LCD screen of my digital camera (Fuji FinePix F30). This was ruining all my pictures since the white or light-colored portions of my photographs would show this black splotch. It appears that this is due to dust on the camera’s sensor and [...]
One day, I decided that I wanted to get into stock photography. This blog post inspired me to consider this. So I went through the hundreds of photographs I had taken over the last few years and picked out what I thought were a few great photographs. Then I signed up on iStockPhoto and uploaded [...]
` The iPhone and the iPad (as also the Motorola Droid and all the other Smartphones with their fancy virtual keyboards on the touch screen) do not support all possible keys in their virtual keyboards. A case in point is the backtick character. This makes it a problem when you need to enter the character [...]
Though in general it is true that you should simply leave C code optimization to the compiler, it sometimes is useful to provide hints to the compiler. This is because when optimizing the compiler has to make a few basic global assumptions so as to generate correct code in all situations, but these assumptions may [...]