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Photography: The New Complete Guide to Taking Photographs, From Basic Composition to the Latest Digital Techniques

John Freeman / 2005

August 17, 2006 book

This is a great (as in size) book. It tells you something very fundamental on how to take a good picture. It tells you how a photograph works (no, not from a physicist’s but from an artist’s point of view). [more]

Java Strings

August 15, 2006 blog code

I learnt something about Java’s string over here. [more]

FireFox File Selection Dialog

August 7, 2006 blog system

In my Debian box, the GTK-style file selection dialog of FireFox is damn slow. Here is the way to improve it by getting back the old dialog. [more]

Thunderbird on Debian

June 8, 2006 blog system

Recently, I switched from Mozilla suite to Thunderbird and Firefox (reason: be realistic, Moz Team really abandoned the suite). [more]

Nokia 6270

May 17, 2006 blog system

I retired my old phone (I’ve been using it for last 3-4 years) and get Nokia 6270. Color display, built-in media player, radio, and allows a mini-SD card for expansion, which are all good things. However, I found that there are two bugs: [more]