Diwali - When Gods Killed Demons

Through out my childhood I have spent most of my time studying Amar Chitra Katha comics on our mythology. They were amazing! Even after so many years and after reading reading several versions of our epics, they are still very appealing!

Narkaasura being killed and people celebrating the death of a Demon in the hands of a God thousands of years ago, we still celebrate with lot of pomp and hope. Some pictures of my diwali this time.

Bird's Eye View

Birds have all the fun. Reuters has put up some great aerial shots together. Breathtaking. Birds which enjoy this view all the time must have one exciting life. Only wish they had more evolved brains to think beyond eating, nesting, surviving and predating. Click here.

Some more pics of Nagarjuna Sagar

Unfortunately, we started very late in the afternoon from the city and hence did not go till the dam. We just went till very outskirts of Sagar and returned back. Actually we all wanted a long drive and we had a fantastic drive, so not really complaining.

Speeding towards nature's lap

Sony DSC-H5, Shutter Speed - 1/15, Aperture - Auto

Last weekend, I went visiting Nagarjunasagar with my family. It was absolutely fantastic experience. I have been to Sagar several times before, but the experience is always exhilarating. I tried capturing the speed of drive in the picture, and this drove my mom crazy. She even threatened to get down and take a bus back. Obviously driving with one hand at 130kmph and shooting pictures on a single lane was not her choicest way of having fun.

Some E71 Shortcuts

Here are some of the most useful shortcuts on the E71. Some of the shortcuts from E61 have been changed or have become verbose due to the change in keyboard layout. I still think Nokia should give us a key re-mapping tool for the QWERTY keyboard.

Toggling Bluetooth
Press and hold '*' key

Toggling between General and Silent profiles
Press and hold '#' key

List of applications running (something like a Task Manager)
Press and hold 'Home' key

Kill a process
Press and hold 'Home' key to get a list of running apps
Select the app with up or down of D-Pad
Press backspace to kill the process

Mark a single item
Shift + center D-Pad

Mark multiple items
Shift + up or down on D-Pad

Copy to clipboard
Ctrl + C (E61 and E61i)
E71 Option 1: Press Fn and release, Press Ctrl and release, Press C
E71 Option 2: Press and hold Shift key, left soft key becomes 'Copy', press it to copy

Paste from clipboard
Ctrl + V (E61 and E61i)
E71 Option 1: Press Fn and release, Press Ctrl and release, Press V
E71 Option 2: Press and hold Shift key, right soft key becomes 'Paste', press it to paste

Launch browser from standby screen
Press and hold '0'

Bring up Input Options Menu
Press and hold 'Fn' and press 'Space'

Browser Shortcuts (Do not press 'Fn' key)

0 - home page
1 - bookmarks
2 - find text
3 - previous page
8 - page overview
9 - enter web address
* - increase zoom
# - decrease zoom

Camera Shortcuts
T - Autofocus
Center D-Pad - take a picture

Hard Reset of the phone (Backup your phone before doing this)
Type in *#7370# at the standby screen. It will ask for a lock code, default lock code is 12345

One-sixth Sense

Really good article Chidanand Rajghatta. The author succintly touches upon our need to buildup a media frenzy over even the smallest of reasons.