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.

Water is precious

Water is precious.
Save it. Save Mother Earth. Lets leave a blue planet to the coming generations.

Blocking and blotting our skyline

David Ogilvy, considered father of advertising, in autobiography said "I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard."

President Eisenhower declared, "I am against these billboards that mar our scenery, but I don't know what I can do about it."

Advertisers continue to block our skyline with ever increasing number of hoarding virtually blocking all the beautiful azure sky with beautiful white cotton clouds flitting across, in the day. In the night we have the garish display of ads with bright lights and flashing neons, which effectively blot out any stars in the sky. The pollution compounds this problem and "starry sky" is something of elusive concept for most the kids. We don't see any stars except for the brightest of them that too on a lucky night.

This provoked me to take the following pictures of both the beautiful sky (for most of which I had to go out of the city or find specific spots like the tankbund) and also the hoardings blocking the beauty.

I will keep posting to add more pictures of the city skyline blocked by hoardings as a series.

Now for some beautiful unblocked, unspoilt skyline visible only from some specific places in the city or by traveling away from the city.

Makes me wonder, what kind of world are we leaving for our children?