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Below given instructions are what I used to copyright my images on my Apple MacBook Pro running OS X v10.5.x and these may very well work for you. However, please note that you are using these instructions at your very own risk and this website, sgowtham.net, is not responsible for any/all damage caused to your [...]

It has been a couple days since most of the mankind, including myself, went through the pains of updating to the latest and greatest iPhone software yet, and I have had some time to play around with some of its new features and try out some of the free cool apps. What follows below are [...]

Belonging to the kind of neophiliacs who just can’t prevent the itch for new things as well as cannot rest until trying it out, I too connected my iPhone (the 2G version) to iTunes and hit the Update button. Things looked slow yet promising but then came a series of dreaded error messages (I should [...]

Disclaimer
These instructions/steps worked for me in CentOS and MacBook Pro. It may very well work for you on Red Hat-like or other and Macintosh distributions. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.net, nor [...]

Ever since I moved away from the other Operating System (a.k.a. Microsoft Windows), there have been many hours spent searching for Kannada fonts - on both Linux and Macintosh. I had satisfactory amount of success on Linux in this regard with hatch-patch approaches. The release of KannadaLaTeX (which has the most sensible transliteration rules by [...]

As mentioned in the previous write up along similar lines, most of us take photographs and many of us post them in this vast, nearly infinite internet. Inherent to this process is a desire to put our name on the pictures - either to protect them from plagiarism or to feed our ego or whatever [...]

Most of us take photographs and many of us post them in this vast, nearly infinite internet. Inherent to this process is a desire to put our name on the pictures - either to protect them from plagiarism or to feed our ego or whatever other reason. There are many software and multiple ways to [...]

I am quite sure that you know by now that I received my MacBook Pro (affectionately called My (New) Baby a while ago. I couldn’t be any happier as it was making my life lot more simpler and easier - effortlessly running Photoshop, Firefox, Terminals, Nikon Capture NX, … at the same time (thanks to [...]

Like I had mentioned in my previous entry, much of last week was spent in anticipation of my new baby. It did take some heroics on my part (driving up to the airport, getting delivery of my baby from a location that usually does not do such things, and such) but it was all worth [...]

This was another long, intially boring but interesting later. As usual, I got up early, did somethings I had been meaning to do for a while (no, nothing special - just laundry) and headed towards the BCC. After a couple of talks, it was about time to feed myself. So, I headed towards Burger King [...]

Like yesterday, I woke up quite early around 5.30 am and having an early start to the proceedings was fun. Much of the morning was spent in attending talks/presentations and many were pretty good. Some, however, were quite dull and put the audience back in Monday Greys (yeah Grey - Blue is a bright color [...]