For those who use the command prompt a lot on Windows...here are a bunch of shortcuts for you -

• start . - will start up an explorer window with the current working directory.


• start cmd . - will start up another command prompt with the current working directory.

Been a long time since I updated the blog...and received a nudge from one of my friends today. Thats the reason for this post ;)

Anyways...heres a nice link for someone who is looking to buy a digital camera sometime in the near future.

I already have a Canon Digital Rebel XT - highly recommended from me for some serious photography. Canon also has a nice set of tutorials to get started with the camera.

Earlier it was Flash animations, games...then audio, video and now documents.

Relative size of our world.

Also an interesting video - Powers of Ten (on YouTube).

"Eventually, everything connects" - Charles Eames.

http://www.thanksno.com/

- A friendly one page site that you would send to someone who sends you chain letters, jokes, pictures, videos, or other crap. Great idea!

The Gallery now points to the Flickr slideshow flash application instead of the photo blog. Time to upload some of my experiments with the camera.

With Google SketchUp. In the news here.

Theres a new kid on the block for graphics enthusiasts or ui prototypists - a visualization language called Processing. Seems to be used by many graphics artists these days for creating visualization programs.

And Chalksite makes it easier, or so they claim. From the website -

It's the quickest, simplest route to expanding your classroom onto the internet. Chalksite is a total web package designed just for teachers, giving you a personal website and tools you actually need without requiring an IT degree to use them.

The site looks good though.

I have not seen many people use this cool mode in PowerPoint. I used this for my thesis presentation and thought might be useful to be put it here.

PowerPoint 2002/2003 has this extremely useful mode called the "Presenter View". This mode allows one to set-up the laptop (or a desktop with two video cards) to show the presentation on the monitor/projector the audience can see, while it allows the presenter to see notes view, small thumbnails of the slides and a few other useful options too. More info here or type "presenter" in the PowerPoint help file.