Archive for June, 2010

African Big Five

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With so many pictures from our Tanzania trip I wanted to something different than my usual wildlife photography style. I have tried to compile a series of five pictures which I call “Animal Portraits”. Each of these animals are from a group referred to as the African Big Five. Tweet

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

@lazygarfield You went on a romantic drive with a boy viz: you in reply to lazygarfield # @lazygarfield touche' you score in reply to lazygarfield # #nowplaying Chha Rahi Kali Ghata by Begum Akhtar from Farmaaish – Ghazals & Geet # #nowplaying So What by Pink from Funhouse # @Fitehal Bikers or Cyclist? in reply [...]

Lion lessons!

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On the morning of our departure from Kirawira, western Serengeti it was cloudy and we had almost given up all hopes of seeing anything but then as it can happen with any jungle safari our luck changed. Just 20 meter form the road was sitting a part of a lion pride three lioness with two [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20

@Ramblinggeek From development POV there isn't but you have to provide a different UI for iPad. cc @sukhi_c @palewar in reply to Ramblinggeek # @geetanjalid Well considering the number of times my friends have retweeted this I don't see much of a problem in reply to geetanjalid # @geetanjalid Ah! mostly taken by some extremely [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-13

#nowplaying Cat People [putting Out the Fire] by David Bowie from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds # #nowplaying White Lightning by Charles Bernstein from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds # RT @zeldman Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks http://bit.ly/96cEhi # @tdinkar If you have the money buy it in reply to tdinkar # Using #iPad [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-06

@anid I find wikimapia to be fairly accurate for #nagpur in reply to anid # @anid combined with a GPS it failed!? in reply to anid # http://www.flickr.com/photos/t…..655535940/ Great white pelican. #photography # @tweetdeck is there a way to prevent Flickr URLs being shorteded to flic.kr URLs? # @richardbarley Thanks for that life-saver in reply [...]

My top 10 iPad gripes

It is heavy and does not lend itself well to being held in a single hand due to the smooth metal back – I remedied this by ordering a silicon rubber sleeve. Safari for iPad does not offer search within a page. This can also be remedied by following the instructions here Screen should have [...]

Vulture on stilts!!

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As we drove towards the Central Serengeti plains a head bobbed up from behind a rising – I immediately exclaimed – Vulture!! But as the bird continued to come towards us it became apparent that the bird was taller than any vulture I know of, as the legs came into view they were more like [...]

Lake Manyara: GPS trails, Geotagged photos and more….

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Lake Manyara was our first game drive destination on our 9 day travails through Tanzania. After landing at Nairobi we traveled for nearly 7 hours before we could reach here. Even though we were very tired the abundance of birdlife and wildlife made up for everything. Tweet

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