Beauty behind cages

Mysore zoo

Precious to my precious

Pearls from Hyderabad

Snowy desert

From Rohtang

Shelter perfect

A houes in Manali

Shimla in the night

Loner

Rohtang Pass

The view towards Kashmir :) One day i'll make it to there too!

Rohtang and me

Rohtang Pass

Rohtang pass during may. Its not possible to reach upto there in any other time of the year. The roads will be covered with now. the places is a 50km 'bumpy' ride from Manali. If you dont start early to the place you'd have to climb up in proportion to the hours you're late. We reached there around 7:30 am as i remember. The wind was chilly, its better to carry a leather gloves and something to cover your face if you're not accustomed to such a climate. But at the end of the day, i can say, its worth all the effort!! The place is awesome. The sky is amost dark blue! No clouds and you'll have lots of space to roam around over there.

My wallpaper

The white one attracted me. Found this one in Shimla

An experiment with light

Wrote on the wall with my phone. The minimum shutter speed allowed by my cam is 15s. But chdk helped me reduce it further to 60s. :)

Idol in Stone

Pondicherry / Mahabalipuram

The east coast cusine

Mahabalipuram Beach

The shore temple

Shore temple

Arjuna's penance

Beach outside our hotel : St james court resort

Matri Mandir, Auroville, Pondicherry

On our way back from Paradise beach

Scenes from pondi streets

Joan of Ark, Rue dumas

Facebook Image slicer

Something entirely new to my blog. This is a linux shell script which will generate sliced images from a bigger image. (nothing great as such). But if you upload the pictures in facebook in the order of their filenames, your album will look a little interesting!! Below is a sample which i made for myself :)

Below is the script. Its a linux shell script (sorry to those folks who use a windows m/c. I hope to come up with something for you guys soon) Copy and paste it into a text editor and save it with a .sh extension.

# facebook sliced image album creator

# (c) najeem muhammed ; www.idling-mind.blogspot.com

clear

echo "Enter the name of the image file you wish to slice"

read mf

rm facebook_slicer

convert -resize 704 "$mf" "$mf"_resized.jpg

mkdir facebook_slicer

mv "$mf"_resized.jpg facebook_slicer

cd facebook_slicer

myvar=`identify "$mf"_resized.jpg | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/.*x//g'`

htcount=$((myvar/138))

for h in `seq $htcount`

do

croptop=$(((h-1)*138))

for w in `seq 4`

do

cropwd=$(((w-1)*181))

convert "$mf"_resized.jpg -crop 161x120+$cropwd+$croptop "$(((h-1)*4+w))".jpg

done

done

rm "$mf"_resized.jpg

echo "Slicing Done! Check the folder facebook_slicer. Upload the image in the order of the filenames."

exit 0

Copy your image into the same folder as the script. Open a terminal window in the above folder and enter the following command. 

sh your_script_filename.sh

You'll be prompted to enter the filename that you want to slice. Give the image name (with extension) that you want to use for your album. If the script worked fine, you'll get a message telling

Slicing Done! Check the folder facebook_slicer. Upload the image in the order of the filenames.

Do let me know if it worked for you. Post a comment with a link to your album! :)

Enjoy!!

PS: If its not working, check whether you have imagemagik installed in your linux system. 

I've been idle!

I've been idle for a lil while now! Have taken a late new year resolution that i'll make one post every week from now on!!