Found this cool image on the happening acquisition of Hutch by Vodafone

Mozilla announces the release of the Firefox 3 codenamed Gran Paradiso. This in no way represents a finished product.

There are still major issues. I haven’t had any stability problems, but there are bad memory leaks. Gran Paradiso, as Firefox 3 is code named, launches using about 33mb of RAM; after ten minutes of browsing that number jumped to 100mb and after a couple of hours it was close to 400mb — and that’s with no extensions installed.

Gran Paradiso Alpha 2 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and testing community. Please use at your own discretion.

Victoria Memorial
Originally uploaded by haobam.

This is a little experiment with HDRI (High dynamic range imaging) achieved using Photoshop. I’d used this old picture of Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, India, which I shot with a Nikon analog SLR on a visit to the wonderful city.

I’ve simulated multi-exposure shot through duplicating the same image, treating with different levels to suit the various areas. The shot originally shot on very low light, I haven’t concentrated much on the trees, in the foreground.

Every person, at some point of a time, as a kid, dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Well I ended being a Web designer is another story ;)

Some people like Anousheh travel to space to realize that dream. I followed every entry of her space blog while she was up in space. But then she, reportedly, paid huge amount to book her seat.

Now the good news even lesser mortal, who can shell out a cool $200,000, will be able to experience space, with the new Virgin Galactic – THE FUTURE IS NOW: Booking Open.

And if you heard renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is planning a ride to space, the news might just be true.

As for me I’d to wait till the next celestial rendezvous and hit a jackpot. Wish me luck. And after all, a 2 hr trip is not my liking. Yuk! the grape is definitely sour today ;)

Our band Sonic Flare performing live one of our original “Still”. I wrote the lyrics based on a riff composed by Neeraj.

Great plug in for Firefox, to switch between different version of Flash players. A must tool for any web developer.

I face some initial hiccup but after a while its smooth sailing. Sometime, it takes a little while when changing Flash player versions. And it normally work after restarting the browser. So please use it at your own discretion.

Download Switcher here

Whipped up a super fast flash animation for the 7th Anniversary of E-Pao! Thanks for keeping Manipur online.

Have a great New Year 2007 everyone !
View it here

The CS3 icons released. If you ask my opinion, I like the earlier version… ohh I’ll miss Venus. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006
/12/the_other_cs3_icons.html

Just in case, if you’re wondering what I’m blabbering about. Adobe is getting ready for a Spring ’07 release of the CS3 Suite. Yup, that includes our sweet Photoshop. You can tryout the Beta version here.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/

Jeff Han a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, for the first time publicly — his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.

Jeff Han on TED Talks

http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&flashEnabled=1

Wow… what a year… 2006 surely flies fast. And I even got some mail saying that people indeed enjoy my blog. Looking back the year, one of the remarkable things to happen is my lovely wife. And while I keep off the blog, some of the stuff that are suffering are my portfolio site, my band site and of course my photography. I guess 2007 I’ll be regular.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.