Satpal Sharma

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It’s such a long pause here…

Tilt-shift Photography

Tilt-shift lenses sit off-center of the film (or sensor) plane of your camera to produce photos with extremely limited depth of field, giving the effect of a macro shot of a tiny scene. When the effect is matched with the surreal speed boost of many stills strung together into a time-lapse movie (here by Keith Loutit), we get the other-worldly privilege of seeing real Australian beach goers as an elaborate Playmobil scape. Or Sydney Harbor in a bath tub…

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Bathtub III from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Playing For Change

From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.

This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. The producers took the mix from all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones.

Official Website: http://www.playingforchange.com

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Jonathan Jarvis has done a beautiful job in making something complex very understandable. Amazingly Informative. Super easy to follow.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Make Free Calls to US & Canada

There is a short advertisement you’ll hear when you dial the number plus there is a 3 minute limit to the call length after which your call gets disconnected BUT you can again make a call after that.

So that means Unlimited Calling(3 minutes length) to US & Canada for FREE.. Enjoy…

Steps to Follow:

• You’ll see a message wherein Adobe Flash Player wants you to give access to your Microphone and Camera.. Click Allow.
• Next, Click on ‘Start making free calls’
• You’ll see a number pad and you’re good to go.. self explanatory.
  • If you don’t see the number pad, check your connection and firewall settings.

• Enjoy & have fun…

Dil Chahta Hai…

A Trip to Coorg with my friends compiled in the original soundrack of Dil Chahta Hai.

Verbs on Labels

Sometimes you notice simple things which can greatly enhance your user experience.

While using Windows if you try to close a document after making some changes to it the dialog box that appears shows a error message of this kind:

You’ve to read the whole message to be able to answer. Seems normal, right?

Now notice the same kind of Dialog Box in Mac OS X:

So, what’s the difference?

The answer is the use of verbs in labels (‘Save, Don’t Save’ instead of ‘Yes, No’). You wouldn’t even need to read the message to understand what the options are and which action to perform. All the information that a user needs to be able to make a decision is contained in the button labels .

iPhone Spaces – Is there a Possibility?

Usually in iPhone’s User Interface, if you need to move an application from one screen to another you’ve to drag it across. Let’s say you’ve 4 Screens in your iPhone, to move an application from 1st Screen to the 4th Screen is a pain, you’ve to drag it across all the screens in between.

It’s just like to listen to 4th Voicemail you’ve to go to all 3 of them above it. Apple eliminated that pain by introducing Visual Voicemail. So why not try something with arranging the apps.

I thought it would be helpful if somehow Apple implements Spaces in iPhone, just like it did in Leopard.

Here’s a mockup of how it’ll look like… please read through and click ‘Next >’ to proceed further.

‘Leopard’ mocks ‘Windows’ in Cover Flow

This I accidentally found out when I was browsing my mac and went to the Network Browser Area. I usually view it in the column mode but since my Cover Flow option was on so I saw a Big Icon of a windows machine connected to a network when I visited that area and I realized one fine detail…

The Icon is designed to show a connected Windows Machine and the screen of which displays a version of the famous “Blue Screen of Death”.

I just loved the Apple’s subtle humor…

Apple Awarded Patent for OS X Dock, Nine Years Later

If you’re a PC, you may be unfamiliar with The Dock, the bar of icons that sits at the bottom or side of a Mac and provides easy access to Apple applications. But don’t count on it becoming a standard on the PC.

Nearly nine years after filing for a patent on the Dock in OS X, it’s finally been awarded to Apple. Steve Jobs is listed as one of its three inventors. Besides the general idea of a userbar with “a plurality of item representations” that consolidates features like “launching and managing running applications,” the patent focuses particularly on the Dock’s magnification feature that makes icons bigger as you sweep by them with a cursor.

reference: gizmodo | slashdot