Last year during my short visit to the down South of Sri Lanka, I took a photo of a random guy jumping off a cliff near the Galle Fort. I submitted this photo to Mashable’s “10 Risky Photos That Will Inspire and Terrify You” and it was short listed in “Our 15 Favorite Photos of the 2012 Mashable Photo ...
Lee Bazalgette (@razaldazal) a Refresh regular will be talking at the November Meetup The November Meetup of Refresh Colombo is happening tomorrow at 5.30pm. I have been out of Refresh during the last couple of months, but back at it again. I can’t seem to get out of it. If you are into Information Technology and New Media, Refresh Colombo ...
My interest in photography dates back to 2006 when I first got my camera phone, a Nokia 6230i. My first compact digital camera was a Sony Cybershot W55 which I used for a good 4-5 years and with that fame I moved onto a Sony Cybershot W380. Yes, they say its not about the camera. But at some point you ...
My blog is like 8 years old and in the recent past I have been updating WordPress more often than writing blog posts. Twitter is where most of the updates go. There are few posts left under Drafts which I have failed to complete. Today, my blog gets a new theme, the all new Twenty Twelve released by WordPress which ...
Nothing much to say, but inspired by Himal‘s blogging from phone business, I just installed the official WordPress application for Android which is really cool. Hopefully this will improve the rate of my blogging. Really hopeful.. Posted from WordPress for Android
The October Meetup of Refresh Colombo will be happening this Thursday, 20th October 2011 at the Royal College Union Skills Centre. We have lined up a set of very interesting topics for this month as well. A lot has happened in the Tech industry since our last meetup and to sum it up all, we will have Bud and Chanux ...
The day I decided to make a move towards an Android based device is so significant because the world was in tears for the loss of Steve Jobs. Though the events don’t co-relate, it took me a very long time to give up on my long lasting love towards Nokia / Symbian. I was disheartened to hear the news that ...
If you didn’t notice or really didn’t care, October 1st 2011, tomorrow, seems to be a day that has been marked to bring quite a few changes in to effect. At least the changes that I have some interest over.. Facebook announced to it’s developers that starting from October 1st, all apps must migrate to OAuth 2.0 for authentication and ...
A Facebook Page is a vital part of Social Media Marketing. One of the key features in a Facebook Page is the ability to add a custom Tab. Page owners can use a custom Tab to provide valuable information. On these Tabs, most of them provide content/information only to the ...
In just over a year, Refresh Colombo has gained popularity among the tech community in Colombo. As I keep saying it every time, the meetups keep getting better and better. The topics for this month’s meetup have been finalized and according to the FB event page, we will have ...
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I’m just all excited.. That’s what this post is all about. It would be wrong if I don’t share it here. It’s time to upgrade to WordPress 3.2 From the WordPress.org Blog Here in the U.S. we are observing Independence Day, and I can’t think of a more fitting way to mark a day that celebrates freedom than by releasing ...
This post is more of a note to self. A canvas page in an FB app has a height of 800px. There won’t be any issues if the content of the page is within that limit. If the content is dynamic in nature and can grow above 800 pixels, only ...
Recently I was developing a Facebook iframe application using PHP and all was good until I got few complaints that the application wasn’t functioning as it’s supposed to on IE8. I was using the Facebook php-sdk and I have tested this app successfully on Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11. ...
Here goes my all time favourites from Flickr, picked amongst my contacts. Enjoy!
By now you would have heard about the Refresh Colombo meetup which happens every month. In a nutshell, Refresh Colombo brings all the technology, Internet, Web, Mobile and Social Media enthusiasts into a place where they could share knowledge and ideas. We have been live tweeting and streaming the ...
Due to the unavailability of proprietary drivers for my VGA card since Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), I have been using Hardy as I couldn’t give up on working with dual screens. Though I tried upgrading when ever there was a new release, I had to revert back since neither proprietary ...
Photography is an art that you have to be born with. If your eyes doesn’t capture the beauty of what you are about to click, its hard to imagine that your camera will. Some may argue it’s the quality of the camera that makes the difference. If you ...
