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Independence Day – August 15th 2009.

pradeep — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:13:01 +0000

I woke up to the sweet tune of the Indian National Anthem today morning. The Indian Tiranga was hoisted by the apartment association at sharp 8am. This was shot from the 5th floor balcony of my apartment complex.

I also bumped into this nice line today somewhere on the web…..

” Vijayi vishwa tiranga pyaara Jhanda uncha rahei(n) humara” which loosely translates to

“Let our Tiranga hoist high in the air and symbolise our country’s freedom to the world”.

Indian Tricolor

JAI HIND!!

Not A Phone Booth, Belt them in the car!

pradeep — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:00:06 +0000

I was on my way to office when I saw this on one of the cars. I found it funny but educative. Nice one isn’t it? I always ask my family and friends to wear seat belts. It’s a good habit.

Belt Them In The Car!

My Advice: Always wear seat belts! There might be people like me driving on the roads. And of course, you might come across many phone booths with tendencies to shift lanes haphazardly!!!

Spread this message.[And, make my blog popular;-)]. No, seriously, spread the message around, Wear Seat Belts and have a safe commute. And, forget the phone while you have the steering wheel to play with:)

Mustang Revisited!

pradeep — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:42:44 +0000

Sometime back I had written about the Ford Mustang in my office campus. Then, I had taken the photograph with my mobile. This time around, I took permission from the owner and had my camera. Thought I will share some of the photographs here.

Ford Mustang Logo.

The Classic Mustang Logo!

As I had remarked earlier,Mustang,must surely be one of the finest that Ford has built!

Broken!

pradeep — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:38:40 +0000

I put my favorite pendant for a quick wash, it wasn’t intentional though. I had the pendant in one of my trouser pockets and this is how it came out of the washing machine:(

Broken

Rest In Piece…oops peace!

NFS Route – Bangalore will lose this in sometime!!

pradeep — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:48:36 +0000

R.V Road is one of the roads in Bangalore where you have trees, age old trees, some of them probably more than 50-60 years old. If you are traveling on that road (the term boulevard suits perfectly here) you would find shade through-out the strip with very little sun penetrating the thick canopy. Even on hot summer days, it is a very pleasant walk/drive/ride on that strip.

Recently, with the Namma Metro being sanctioned, this is one of the roads where the Metro is planned. All, all! of the trees on this road will be cut to accommodate the Metro Rail. Not only that, the parks which line up the entire stretch will also take a beating.

Currently, this is how it looks from above. It is known by several names -R.V Road, Nanda Road, Rose Garden Road. I call it the NFS Route( there was a route in the computer game NeedForSpeed which looked exactly like this:)).

The Green Strip you see in the photograph below is R.V Road!!

If you want to see it on the map…

http://pradeepclicks.com/gpsapp/rvroad.html

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GPS And Google Maps – Routes, Locations made easy!

pradeep — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:13:46 +0000

I have a GPS phone (a Nokia 6110 Navigator) from quite sometime now. I haven’t done much justice to the internal GPS unit in the phone (free for lifetime). But, whenever I traveled, I made sure that I logged the co-ordinates of the important/key places I visited. I started mapping them on google maps and sharing them with others. Here is one such map of my Ladakh Bike Trip 2008, done on a Royal Enfield Bullet 500cc. I had logged the co-ordinates during the trip of some key places and the others I manually marked them on the map. I am using google maps on my website.

http://pradeepclicks.com/gpsapp/ladakh.html

Now, I also have an application running on my phone which can, in real time, log coordinates either on my phone as a file or log it directly on my website as a KML file. I read the KML file on my website and use googleMaps to map it in realtime. My location can then be viewed in realtime, with a maximum time resolution of 15seconds. I can also use the KML file with googleEarth and view it.

One more application is GeoTagging. I have the KML file with the timestamp-coordinate logs which I can later use with some other tool/application to GeoTag all my photographs. I will then know where the photographs have been taken, again with a location resolution of less than a few tens of meters!

You can view googleMaps here.You can download googleEarth here.You can download and know more about the phone application here.

Playing with the Desktop….

pradeep — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:03:00 +0000

This was something which I wanted to do for sometime now but never had time to do it.

For this I used,

1. Rainmeter

2. Rainmeter skins – HUD Vision, 10 Foot HUD, Enigma, DWH Reveal.

3. Objectdock.

4. The wallpaper, one of my own, from the Rajasthan Trip.

All the software are commonly available on the web.

For more visit Lifehacker.

Steel Birds Stealing The Show? Not Quite!!

pradeep — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:53:30 +0000

AeroIndia Show has been happening at Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bangalore, India from 1996. It happens every other year, except that instead of 2002, it happened in 2003. That meant, the 7th edition was to be held in 2009. And it was held between 11-15th Feb 2009.

Here are some glimpses from the show. I should admit that it was not as great as I had expected it to be this time around…See for yourself here.

Collage I

Collage II

Striped Predators…Ranathambore National Park, Rajasthan.

pradeep — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:47:29 +0000

They call India, The Land of the Tigers. All these years, I never believed in it! That’s because, I have traveled many places in India in search of this elusive striped predator right from our very own national parks like Bandipur/Nagarhole in Karnataka to the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala to Kaziranga National Park in Assam. But I never sighted one in the wild!. But they always said, Ranathambore National Park in Rajasthan is the place to be, if you want to spot tigers in the wild. I heard the news that 14 cubs were born in Ranathmabore NP, I was just back from Kaziranga NP in Assam then. I was in a dilemma, to go or to skip, but I couldn’t wait! I somehow managed to get leaves and headed to Ranathambore NP. I was lucky, I got some 10 minutes with a tigress and it’s two 12month old cubs in one of those Jeep Safaris. Some moments shared here….

Tigress at Ranathambore National Park, Rajasthan,India

Save Tiger!

A Trip to North East…

pradeep — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:41:02 +0000

I had been to Assam and surrounding areas for christmas (From 20thDec to 28thdec 2008). Some pictures are shared here…