Renaming Photos with DateTime key

After many a trips, I will have photos from all the shutterbugs – covering A-Z of the trip.

Having photos from various sources, all pertaining to the same context, event or trip, how do I view the photos with out loosing the flow?

There are various software, using which I can store, manage these photos. Software album makers like Google’s Picasa and ACDSee are excellent photo managers, but how do we tackle this flow problem?

Time is the key!! All digital cameras store EXIF information along with the JPEG header. I wrote a small C code to extract the DataTime EXIF tag from my photos using the libexif library.

Using another script, I can now rename/copy images in proper order. It is assumed that there is no time difference/lag between the camera sources.

What ever you do, it will be a good idea to sync Date/Time field of all cameras before shooting or starting the trip. Alternatively, time difference +/- can be adjusted by adding 2 more lines to the script to incorporate this allowance.

This code uses libexif Exif tag parsing library.

Hike from Chopta to Chandrasila peek

I went on a short hike to Chopta last weekend. Dehradun – Rishikesh – Srinagar – Rudraprayag – Ukhimath – Chopta (260KM mountain drive) – Tungnath (one of Panch Kedar’s) – Chandrasila (4.5KM hike, 4k+ mtrs msl).

We were 8 in 2 cars, Polash’s family in his Wagon-R, Amol Shyam, Deepak Sareen with Akul and me in my Indica-Xeta.

The hike was not very difficult one, with well layed stone road by PWD. But we made it true hike bypassing the roads and cutting the hill across. We spend the full day climbing up, staying on top and returning, yes full day, but well spend

Our Mussorie hike

Five some, big gang; Deepak Sareen, Churasia, Rajesh, Polash and me were on a warn up hike to Mussorie hills. We started from Rajpur and took 4 hours to reach gun hill.

Polash got fond details on the hike at his blog

Few snaps from the hike..

Various desktop blog clients for Linux

Drivel
With Drivel, I am able to connect to my wordpress.com account using following settings
Journel Type: Movable Type
Server Address:     http://wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php

But posting doesn’t work

Flickr
Just I found that Flickr can be linked and used with various Blog backends, I could login with above settings and start blog from with in Flickr !!

Performancing
XMl RPC is really cool
Do this to increase the history listing

1. New tabe in Firefox, type about:config
2. Search for performacing
3. Change default value of performancing.display.history.numbertoshow to what ever you like
4. Thats it it – rock man!!

Performancing is good, except for the fileupload part.

powered by performancing firefox

Driving Xeta, tips & tricks

I joined the elite (rather rare – in that context:) Indica V2 Petrol – Xeta owner group on 8 July 2006. I still believe that Xeta is the best car in B+ segment.
Let me blog some tips and tricks on driving her in a better way.

My mobile phone; past, present & future

First mobile with a little antenna was a Motorola (well I do not remember the model name), then a Moto C330, SE T110, now a Phillips Fisio 860, for over 3 years now.

Now the market is full of models A-Z, how do I go about one?

Here are some points which will decide my next phone, but I don’t know when After seeing it all, I got a feeling to wait for the next one

I like my next phone to have ….