More One - Ways in Bangalore

 

I was out for a ride Sunday night, and almost got a ticket, because I didn't know they had converted the two lane either way traffic to a two lane one way in Madiwala.

To decongest traffic on Hosur Road, the city police have put some restrictions on the traffic flow at Silk Board and Madiwala junctions from Sunday.

While motorists will be allowed to go from Silk Board Junction to Sarjapura Road Junction and Madiwala check-post, movement of vehicles going to Hosur Road from Madiwala check-post will be restricted.

Vehicles coming from Sarjapura Road junction can go up to Krupanidhi College junction, take a right turn and join Madiwala Santhe Beedi to reach Madiwala Police Station junction-Total Mall junction, Silk Board junction to proceed to Hosur Road.

Motorists going towards Maruthi Nagar can take a right turn at the Koramangala water tank junction, take a right at the Kendriya Sadan and proceed further.

Traffic going towards Madiwala and Silk Board from Koramangala BDA Complex by taking a left turn at Koramangala Water Tank junction, reach Krupanidhi College junction and reach Hosur Road via Madiwala Santhe Beedhi.

 

Pencil Sharpening is a Serious Business

 

Its amazing what you run into on the internet. Today I found out that somebody has opened up a very active business on the internet with the sole intention of sharpening…you guessed it, pencils ! I still don't recall how I landed there, but one thing led to another, and I was on David Rees's website: http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/

Here is a guy who sharpens pencils for a living. And he dead serious about it. You can mail him your pencils, and he will mail you back the sharpened pencils as well as the shavings !

Check out this video.

 

Here's another one.

A Better Windows clock display

 

The Windows system has always had an alway on, clock display on the task bar. By default, it displays only the time. You can customize this so that it diplays more details. For instance, here is what my clock displays:

The top line shows time in AM/PM format. The bottom line displays the day and date in detail format. Even the date display in Explorer reflects this detail display.

Here is how you can have this display format your Windows machine:

1: Left click on your clock and choose "Change date and time settings". After that, click on "Change Date and Time" button.

2:  Click on "Change Calendar Settings", and choose these settings for Date:

Short Date: dddd, MMM dd, yyyy

Long Date: dddd, MMM dd, yyyy

3: Click OK all the way back.

Thats it ! You may have to resize the controls on your taskbar to break the clock display into two lines.

Sync Whatsapp Images & Videos to Dropbox

 

If you are like me, you probably get lots of forwarded Images & Videos via Dropbox, and don't have the time to view them and delete unwanted ones. I have been using a system of syncing the Media folder to my Dropbox folder, so the images & video show up on my laptop. Since I have enabled two way sync, deleting them from dropbox will delete them from Whatsapp folders too.

Here is how to set up the sync in Android.

1: Install Dropsync on your Android device. The free version of Dropsync syncs only one folder , but this is all you will need.

2: Start Dropsync, and login to authorize it to access your Android device. After that, set up the sync in settings.

3:  Sync this folder as source:

This is the parent Media folder, it will contain all images and videos in different sub-folders.

4: Create a new Dropbox folder as the target.

5:  Set up a Two way sync to control the folder from Dropbox. If you don't want to delete files from Whatsapp, select One way sync.

6: Thats it ! Start the sync process, and you will see new Sub folders getting created in Dropbox for Images ,Videos and Wallpapers.

ShapeCollage - Remove Watermark

 

ShapeCollage is a small and fantastic little utility to create quick collages from multiple pictures. Perfect for sharing on social media and other sites. The free version lacks only a few features like custom shapes, which are only available in the paid version. I wanted to quickly make some collages from a  recent trip, and the free version of this little devil was just right for this.

Only one problem.

The free version generates the collages, but also plasters the text "ShapeCollage.com" across the center.

Like this:

 

This was annoying. I wanted to get rid of this.

I found a way, by editing the exe file directly.

 

1: Take a backup of the shapecollage.exe file.

2: Then open up the original shapecollage.exe file in an editor, like Notepad++

3: Now search and replace the text "shapecollage.com" with a string of 16 spaces.

 

4. Save the modified exe file. And run it.

Any collage generated by this modified exe will not have any watermark across it.

 

That's it !