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  • Archive for March, 2008

    Exploring Illustrator!

    I got to work with Adobe Illustrator today. And here is what I created. Illustrator has templates and tools, lots I should say. Getting my hands dirty with all the tools.

    Here is a sneak peek into my work.

    Raasukutty_Design

    It is a 1 MB file. Could take some time to load. Please bear.

    Sherlock Holmes

    Among all the detective stories read worldwide, there is one character that remains on top. Sherlock Holmes. A tall, lean man, with a smoking pipe and used to cocaine and playing solo on violin from Baker Street in London that is how Sherlock Holmes is described by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle’s tells the adventures of Holmes in the voice of his roommate Dr. Watson.

    Sherlock Holmes

    I started reading from the novel ‘The Study in the Scarlet’, where Watson, Holmes are all introduced to the readers. I liked ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ the most among all other stories. The style in which Doyle narrates the stories make the reader believe that there was a man Holmes who lived and solved the mysteries.

    The approach is analytical and logical. Holmes was such a character that when Doyle decides to put an end to the character, he was forced by his readers to bring the character back to life. The address No.7, Baker Street in London where Holmes was told to reside has become a landmark.

    Holmes still lives in the minds of his readers.

    I am now a proud owner of HTC Touch!

    On Feb 28th, I got a new mobile. A HTC Touch smart phone. It is a Windows based mobile. I gave my one week old mobile K770i for a best price to my friend and got this.

    It looks nice to touch, use  Touch. More about my usage of my new mobile in future blogs. Down below I have listed the specifications of my mobile.HTC Touch

    Specification

    Processor

    TI’s OMAP™ 850, 201 MHz

    Operating System

    Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

    Memory

    ROM: 128 MB

    SDRAM: 64 MB DDR

    Dimension

    99.9mm (L) X 58mm (W) X 13.9mm (T)

    Weight

    112g with battery

    Display

    2.8″ LCD touch screen with backlight

    240 X 320 dots resolution with 65,536 colors

    Network

    GSM/GPRS/EDGE Tri-band: 900, 1800, 1900 (The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network.)

    Device Control

    HTC TouchFLO™

    5-Way navigation control

    Connectivity

    Bluetooth® 2.0

    Wi-Fi® IEEE 802.11 b/g

    HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one)

    Camera

    2.0 megapixel CMOS color camera

    Audio

    Built-in microphone and 3-in-1 speaker

    Windows Media Player supported formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, WAV, QCELP, MPEG4, AMR-NB, AMR-WB

    Battery

    Rechargeable Li-lon battery

    Capacity: 1100 mAh

    Standby time: Up to 200 hours

    Talk time: Up to 5 hours

    Expansion Slot

    microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

    AC Adapter

    Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60Hz

    DC output: 5V and 1A