About time! I hope this begins the process of correcting the Indian Real Estate Markets.

Of course, they allow only one blog RSS. In the simplest case, I have 3 RSS feeds, one for my photo blog and two for this blog [entries and comments]. I added my photo blog first - then changed my mind and added my text blog next. I wasn’t sure which of the two blogs I want to link to my account.

I wasn’t satisfied with this setup, so I wrote a Yahoo Pipe to link these 3 RSS feeds into one and used the RSS feed of the Pipe in my facebook profile.

Now, I didn’t realize two things.

a) Facebook’s RSS aggregation is stupid. Instead of fetching the last 20 [or 10] results alone, it fetches all the entries from your blogs the minute you add them.

b) They don’t really think that anyone would have more than one blog and if they did, they would have to experiment till they get it right.

So I got a warning message in facebook saying that my actions were in ‘violation’ of facebook’s terms of use and my account might be disabled.

Of course, I was curious enough to find out what the heck I did wrong, so I hit the ‘Notes’ page in my facebook profile.

Now I get a nice popup which says my Notes is blocked and the block will be removed whenever they deem fit. That dialog had a link to go back to the home page and a ‘Close’ button.

Of course, I hit the ‘Close’ button and I saw that my notes page was intact.

I should have probably left it there so that only my notes page was blocked but my profile wasn’t.

Of course I didn’t.

I tried to delete a note. I wanted to see if there is a way to delete all my notes and unblock my note page :).

That caused facebook to log me out and disable my account.

So much for that new feature.

If anyone knows how to get back into facebook, let me know

Here is a comparison for a landscape image, shot earlier in 2008 in Yosemite National Park.

NX camera standard

LR Camera Standard

NX Neutral

LR Neutral

NX Vivid

LR Vivid

NX D2X Mode1

LR D2x Mode 1

NX D2X Mode 2

LR D2x Mode 2

NX D2x Mode 3

LR D2x Mode 3

LR Landscape

My verdict. It is very close again. I really do not see much difference in using either LR and NX now.

I tried resetting the password. It did not work.

I tried to delete the ichat plist files. It did not work.

I then created a new user in my mac and tried to login. It did not work.

I then tried from 3 different macs. It did not work.

I then tried from a mac where I know other usernames works. My username did not work.

The same username and password worked from Adium, which confirmed that it was definitely not my password which was the problem.

After lots of trial and error, I figured out how to get it to work.

In the iChat window, choose me.com as the ‘provider’. So if your mac.com address is foo@mac.com, try to login as foo@me.com and use your password. It goes past the ‘invalid password’ stage.

Next, it will present you with an AIM login window with foo@aol.com email address. Change that email address to foo@mac.com and enter your password again.

If you do both these hacks, your old mac.com username and password works again. Looks like Apple did screw up my account when they did the me.com thingie.

This cost me a bunch of time. I hope it saved a few minutes of yours!

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/08/the_dng_profile_editor.html

Here is a comparison of the similar profiles in LightRoom and Capture. Clicking on these photos opens up a slightly bigger version in a new window.

Capture NX standard profile

Lightroom Standard Profile

NX Neutral Profile

LR neutral profile

NX Vivid profile

LR vivid profile

NX D2x Mode 1

LR D2X Mode 1

NX D2x Mode 2

LR D2x Mode 2

NX D2x Mode 3

LR D2x Mode 3

My verdict. LR is very very very close the NX profiles. This is a boon for someone like me who uses LR for most post processing but is very unhappy that the default profile is not close to NX. NX is going to get used less and less from now on - which is a very good thing

I have uploaded photos to my blog and gallery.

Gallery:

- Juneau
- Whale watching
- Sitka Ferry
- Sitka

Panoramas:

- Whale flip 1
- Whale flip 2
- Whale flip 3
- Juneau ferries and mountains
- Mountains of Juneau

Yes, it makes a huge difference.

First, the photo edited through LR with the default settings:

Edited through lightroom:

The same photo edited through Capture NX with default settings:

Edited through Capture NX.

Capture NX and D300 handle high contrast scenes very very well with Active D-Lighting set to on.

Check out the following posts.

http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=565
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=564
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=563
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=562
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=561

I used AF-C and dynamic area AF / Auto Area AF for these shots with a 70-200 VR and 1.7 TC. I had great light, but that lens + TC combination is not the fastest focusing kit.

I shot about 600 exposures at 6-8 fps over a 20 min period. I was stunned to find 500+ in focus exposures.

I touched upon this a little bit in the d80 comparison post, but I had the most luck when I left the camera handle all the decisions for itself.

D300 totally rocks!

The iPhones do NOT work on 802.11n network. If you are like me, who has an all mac household and runs a 802.11n network, this is very bad news. I have an Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11n / Gigabit edition, an iMac, a Macbook Pro, a Macbook and an appleTv, all happily working on the 5 GHz, 802.11n network, until the iPhone puts a spanner in this setup.

Thankfully, I was able to work around this issue by setting up a secondary network with my existing hardware. If you are interested, read on.

- Setup your airport extreme to 802.11n only network.
- Wire one of your mac desktops using ethernet. In my case, my iMac was connected through the ethernet.
- Enable internet sharing by System Preferences - sharing - internet sharing. Choose share ethernet connection to airport. Enable WEP protection for airport sharing.
- Restart iMac. [trust me]
- Now your iPhone sees the secondary wireless network and can use that to browse.

You can also connect other legacy windows computers using this method, however, it just doesn’t work for me, windows sees the network, it connects, but it never gets an IP address. I am free of windows machines, but there is some great help here if you need it.