To be, or not to be, that is the question!!

No no, the question is not about my existence, but about my this blog!!

One task which I have tried a million times and failed is to continue my Blogging.
Somehow due to the work and all other things which can stop a person from blogging, I have to admit I haven't been able to give enough time for my this small personal blog. During the course of last 6- years, lot have changed - both in my personal/professional life and also in internet eco system.

Personally and Professionally I have added couple of years to my experience, moved many location inside and outside India, inclination towards personal diary keeping reduced to nil, found new hobbies and interest to keep me active, which include Photography. And very recently found one more activity to explore the creative side of me - Videography.

Internet have also come a long way from Blogger to Facebook and Twitter. And even I have jumped the bandwagon as and when it came and went. It is more like saying internet have moved from 1000 characters to 140 characters statuses. I liked it all, but somehow couldn't be active in both world.

Even now I am not sure if I will be able to take this blog any further, whether I will be able to record my memories here as I used to do before 2008. The question asked to myself in the title of this post still holds true.

Till I find an answer to my question, you can can still find me active at:
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The year gone by...

What an year it was which had gone by. A lot of travel and lot of place newly explored. Better way to remember the months gone by should be by the places i had visited. Some which i could remember where :

January - Varahi, Karnataka
March - Ernakulam and Cochin, Kerala
April - St Marry's Island, Udupi
May - Kodachadri Peak Trekking, Kollor
August - Backwaters of Alleppey, Kerala
September - Bekal fort, Kasargode, Kerala
October - Calungute, Goa
November - Kumaraparvatha Trekking, Subramanya, Karnataka
December - Neeleshwaram Backwaters, Kerala

Hope to have a better and fulfilling year ahead too....

Kumaraparvatha - Ya was a tough one

Great weekend getaways from Bangalore, India

Happened to see this really good list of great weekend getaways from Bangalore. Really a great and lengthy list :

No. Place Rating Type Dist. Direction Road Food Lodge Food/
Lodge

1 Sri Ram Betta * Piligrim 50 Mysore - - Good No No
2 Rangasthala * Piligrim 60 CB pura + Good No No
3 Savana Durga * Hill 60 Mysore - - - Poor No No
4 Ghati Subramanya * Piligrim 70 DB Pura + Good No No
5 Nandi hills * Hill station 70 CB pura - Good Yes Yes C/B
6 Revanasiddesh betta * Piligrim 70 Mysore - - Good No No
7 Shiva gange * Piligrim 70 Tumkur - Good No No
8 Antharagange * Piligrim 75 Kolar Good No No
9 Chikka Thirupathi * Piligrim 75 Kolar - No No
10 Kanva reservoir * Dam 80 Mysore - Good No No
11 Mekedatu *** Ravine 80 Kanakapur+ Poor No No
12 Kaivara ** Piligrim 85 Kolar - Good No No
13 Sheebi ** Temple Paintings 90 Tumkur + Good No No
14 Devarayana durga * Piligrim 100 Tumkur - Poor No No
15 Kokkare Belluru ** Birds sanctuary 100 Mysore - - Good No No
16 Kudumalai * Piligrim 100 Kolar + Good No No
17 Melukote *** Piligrim 100 Mysore - Good No No
18 Muththathhi ** River 100 Kanakapur + Poor No No
19 Vidurashwatha * Piligrim 100 DB Pura + Good No No
20 Sri Rangapatna *** Piligrim 120 Mysore - Good No No
21 Bheemeswari ** River 125 Kanakapur + Poor Yes Yes A/A
22 Karighatta *** Piligrim 125 Mysore - Good No No
23 Shivasamudram **** Water fall 125 Kanakapur + Good No No
24 Ranganathittu *** Birds sanctuary 130 Mysore - Good No No
25 Adi chunchanagiri * Piligrim 140 Hassan - - Good No No
26 Lepakshi * Piligrim 140 CB pura ++ Good No No
27 Mahadevapura *** River 140 Mysore - Good No No
28 Mysore *** Historical 140 Mysore Good Yes Yes B/A
29 Shravana Belugola *** Piligrim 140 Hassan - Good No No
30 Hogenakal *** Water fall 150 Salem - Good No Yes C/B
31 KRS, Balamuri ** Barrage 150 Mysore - Good No No
32 Mudukuthore *** Piligrim 150 Kanakapur + Good No No
33 Talakadu **** Piligrim 150 Kanakapur + Good No No
34 Chunchana katte ** Water fall 160 Mysore+ Poor No No
35 Kadiri * Piligrim 160 CB pura ++ Good No No
36 Nanjanagudu *** Piligrim 160 Mysore + Good No No
37 T. Narasipur *** Piligrim 170 Kanakapur + Good No No
38 Sathanur dam *** Dam 175 Krishnagiri Good no No
39 Somanathapur **** Archeology 175 Kanakapur + Good No No
40 Hemagiri ** Water fall 200 Hassan - - Good No No
41 Ramanathapura ** Piligrim 200 Mysore+ Poor No No
42 Tiruvannamalai *** Piligrim 200 Krishnagiri Good no No
43 Halebeedu **** Archeology 210 Hassan + Good No No
44 B. R . Hills **** Hill station 220 Kollegal + Good Yes Yes C/C
45 Bandipur **** Wild life 220 Mysore + Good Yes Yes B/B
46 Gopalaswamy betta **** Piligrim 220 Mysore + Good No No
47 Harangi **** Landscape 220 Mercara - Good No No C/B
48 Nisarga Dhama **** Landscape 220 Mercara - Good Yes Yes C/B
49 Kabini **** Wild life 230 Mysore + Good Yes Yes A/A
50 Nagarahole **** Wild life 230 Mercara - Good Yes Yes C/B
51 Belur *** Archeology 240 Hassan + Good No No
52 Mudumalai **** Wild life 240 Mysore + Good Yes Yes B/B
53 Yercaud **** Hill station 240 Salem Good Yes Yes B/A
54 Bababudangiri **** Hill station 250 Hassan ++ Good No No
55 Irpu **** Water fall 250 Mercara - Good No No
56 Kemmannugundi **** Hill station 260 Hassan ++ Good Yes Yes C/B
57 Kudrehabbe *** Landscape 260 Chikmagalur Good No No
58 Talakaveri **** Landscape 260 Mercara + Good Yes Yes B/B
59 Bhadra **** Wild life 270 Hassan ++ Good
60 Manikyadhara *** Water fall 270 Hassan ++ Good No No
61 Muthodi **** Wild life 270 Hassan ++ Good Yes Yes C/B
62 Subramanya **** Piligrim 275 Hassan ++ Good Yes Yes
63 M. M. Hills **** Piligrim 280 Kollegal + Good Yes Yes B/B
64 Bisle **** Hill station 300 Hassan + No No
65 Gajanur ** Barrage 300 Shimoga + Good No No
66 Horanadu **** Piligrim 300 Hassan +++ Good Yes Yes B/C
67 Mandagadde *** Birds sanctuary 300 Shimoga + No No
68 Shringeri *** Piligrim 350 Hassan +++ Good Yes Yes B/C
69 Ulvi Birds sanctuary 300 Shimoga ++ Good No No
70 Nagar * Archeology 320 Shimoga ++ Good No No
71 Ooty **** Hill station 320 Mysore ++ Good Yes Yes A/A
72 Coonoor **** Hill station 340 Ooty + Good Yes Yes B/B
73 Ikkeri *** Archeology 340 Shimoga ++ Good No No
74 Keladi *** Archeology 340 Shimoga ++ Good No No
75 Dharmasthala **** Piligrim 350 Hassan ++ Good Yes Yes B/C
76 Hampi *** Historical 350 Good
77 Hampi ** Archeology 350 Bellary Good Yes Yes
78 Kudremukh *** Hill station 350 Hassan +++ Good Yes Yes B/B
79 Mantralaya ** Piligrim 350 Bellary Good Yes Yes
80 T.B. Dam ** Dam 350 Bellary Good Yes Yes
81 Varadahalli **** Landscape 350 Shimoga ++ Good No No
82 Agumbe **** Hill station 357 Shimoga ++ Good No No
83 Moodabidiri *** Archeology 360 Mangalore - Good No No
84 Gudavi *** Birds sanctuary 375 Shimoga ++ Good No No
85 Humbucha ** Archeology 380 Shimoga ++ Good No No
86 Jog **** Water fall 380 Shimoga ++ Good No No
87 Karkala *** Archeology 380 Mangalore - Good No No
88 Kaup *** Beach 380 Mangalore + Good No No
89 St. Mary's Island *** Landscape 386 Good No No
90 Katil ** Piligrim 387 Mangalore - Good No No
91 Devarahole **** River 400 Sirsi + Good No No
92 Magodu falls **** Water fall 400 Sirsi + Good No No
92 Mrudeshwara **** Piligrim 400 Honnavar + Good Yes Yes C/B
93 Satodi falls **** Water fall 400 Sirsi + Good No No
94 Udupi *** Piligrim 415 Mangalore + Good Yes Yes B/B
95 Honnavar ** Piligrim 425 Mangalore ++ Good Yes No
96 Gokarna ** Piligrim 460 Honnavar + Good No No
97 Maravanthe **** Beach 467 Mangalore + Good No No
98 Badami & Aihole **** Caves 500
99 Kollur *** Piligrim 500 Shimoga +++ Good Yes Yes C/C
100 Kollur forest **** Wild life 520 Shimoga +++ Good No No
101 Yana **** Landscape 580 No No
102 Gokak falls ** Water fall Good
103 Varaahi **** Landscape
104 Koravangala ** Archeology 200 Hassan+ Good no no
105 Ridge ** Landscape 250 Hassan+ Good no no
106 Mosale ** Archeology 200 Hassan+ Good no No
107 Doddagadduvalli ** Archeology 200 Hassan+ Good no No
108 Munnar **** Hill station 550 Erode+++ Good No No A/A

Awesome Kodachadri Trekking

After a bit delay, Now its time for me to jolt down why my trek to Kodachadri was Awesome. A perfect place, a perfect sky, a perfect weather, and a perfect team that’s the ingredient needed to call your trek a perfect one. Rather then pointing out how was our trekking trip to Kodachadri, this time I will write about how can you make it a memorable one.

What's Kodachadri ?
Kodachadri is a mountain peak (altitude - 1343 m above sea level) in the Western Ghats in South India (Karnataka State). [ map here]

Where is Kodachadri ?
Nearly 160 Km from Mangalore, towards Kollur. Kollur is a place famous for its Mookambika temple and Kodachadri is considered to be the peak where 'Shankaracharya' did meditation.

How to reach there ?
Take a bus from Mangalore to Kollur (2 hrs journey). And for the people coming from Bangalore, the best way will be getting a bus from Bangalore to Kundapur (a night journey) and from there getting a bus to Kollur (45 minutes).

What to carry and what not to ?
Enough water for two days to survive, Packaged Food item, Torch, salt to get ride of leeches, and also a good pair of jacket/sweater. Avoid heavy luggage .

My Experience ?Day I:
10:00 am
The most ideal time to reach Kollur will be 10:00 am. After getting down at Kollur, Give a visit to Kollur Mookambika temple and also if possible to have a meal from the temple itself. As we reached Kollur it was nearly 11:30 am.

01:00 pm
Take a bus(Hanuman travels) which goes towards Shimoga. Make sure you don't miss this bus. Just a 30 mins journey and you are at the start of your journey. Get down at Kodachadri Gate, the starting point.

2:00 pm
The awesome trekking experience starts now. On the right side of the road you can find a mud/stone road which is the path which leads to your destination. After trekking for around 4 - 5 kms we reached a small school and a village surrounding it. This initial trekking is very mild and can be easily completed in 1 -2 hrs. From here starts the actual trekking. As we reach there the sight of the peak got cleared and the road leading to it became harder. Make sure you ask the route and also fill your water at the Santhosh hotel at the village. The Most breath-taking scenes of the trekking starts from here. As we walked up through the narrow route the sky stared clearing and the clouds started moving so close to us that we stopped many times to take snaps. And as we moved from one peak to the other the destination became clear, the Kodachadri guest house becomes visible.

5:00 pmAfter an overall 8 kms trekking we reached the Kodachadri guest house, build by government for the trekkers and devotees who comes here. Also there are 2-3 other shops which cater food. We had our evening snacks from one of the shop beside the guest house, and set for another round of trekking towards the ultimate peak, Sarvajna Peetha, Where Sakaracharya did meditation. This last 1 km trek was really great picture perfect path. Through out this 1 km, we felt like we are walking towards the sky and clouds are all below us. The sunset was really amazing. With the sky turning redish and sun slowly setting into the Arabian sea.

7:00 pm
After 45 mins of mild trekking, we reached the very top most place on the peak, the Sarvajna Peetha, a small temple like structure build of stone, a best place to spend rest of the night. After the sunset, its time for a campfire. We collected some fire wood and setup a very small camp fire. With the wind blowing it was really a great work.

09:00 pm
After hours of hard work on setting up campfire and lots of singing exercise, its time for some appetite pooja. The water was boiled and the noodles was more delicious then ever. The night was chilling cold with wind blowing from all the direction. For me atleast the sleep came fast, as soon as l moved inside the sleeping bags.

Day II :
8:00 am
Even though the clock says 8, the sun was not at all in the sight. The whole environment was surrounded by Cloud and mist. After a hour of hide and seek with sun, we decided to trek back. The trekking back to the guest house was very much refreshing and really great with the morning mild wind lashing the face with fresh monsoon smell. At the guest house there are places to get fresh also the cook at the guest house prepares some breakfast snacks.


9:00 amAfter a good breakfast and refilling our water bottles, we decided to descend down the Kodachadri to wards the place we started, After a walk for 2-3 hrs we reached the same road where we had got down from the bus yesterday. It all went as per the plan, We reached the road by around 12:00, and after a wait, here it is the bus to Kollur. And the end of a lovely and perfect trekking.


Note: For the people who want to avoid staying on the peak in the night, can book the guest house in advance and plan to come down to the guest house after the sunset.

** Updated :Mr.Rajendran is the person who looks after the guest house, So in case more info needed the weather and other details regarding Kodachadri you can contact him at 9242892299 and 9242647805.

** Updated Photos too:

Awesome Kodachadri

Kodachadri Trekking, originally uploaded by sainathkm.

Cool Virtual HairCut Audio

This is a really cool 3D/Binaural Recording. Please Use a good earphone for proper effect.

For those people who doesn't know what Binaural Recording is, here is a small info :

Binaural recording is a method of recording audio which uses a special microphone arrangement. Binaural recordings consist of capturing the sound of any given type by employing a realistic representation of the human head and ears in a recording setup. The binaural recording concept is elegant: place closely-matched microphones near the ears, and record what the ears actually hear. The details may be fascinating and esoteric, but the results speak for themselves; what your hear on this site was essentially recorded this way.

Enlightened

During our trekking between Donigal and Yedukumeri

“The Great Green Route” – a memoir

Donigal to Yadakumeri Railway track trekking

So at last I am back after the most beautiful trekking experience of my life till now. I had been for many other lovely treks, but this one didn’t miss anything associated with the word trekking. It had everything starting from truck safari, scenic beauty, dangerous bridges, dark tunnels, up and down the hill, forest inhabited by elephants, food prepared at track side, night stay in the open station, campfire and ending with crossing the flowing river without knowing how to swim.

It all started with small plan to arrange for a get together with my friends who had studied with me at Manipal. And that too a plan for a 25Km, 10hrs trekking at Donigal – Yedukumeri Rail route or more famously known as the Great Green Route. Donigal station is situated around 4-5 hrs journey from Bangalore and 10 Km from Sakleshpur. The date was fixed and tickets where booked all in advance. The date was 16th December, just some days before the train route will be busy with increase in number of trains. We where 7 old friends, 6 from Bangalore (Nimesh, Rejo, Varun, Sajid, Alka and Ashwini) and me, Sainath alone from Mangalore (planning to join them at the spot).

I reached the meeting spot, Donigal tea shop “Hotel Picnic” at around 2.30 am. It was a chilling cold over there. 4 cup tea and 1 cup coffee that’s what my body had to take to withstand that cold morning hours till my friends joined me at 4.30 am. After finishing our morning needs and small breakfast we decided to start our journey at 5.15 am.


The Donigal station was again 5-6 kms from the spot we had got down towards the Mangalore side. We got a truck pickup till the Muthapan Temple on the highway. From there its now our way ahead. After walking about 1km in dark with the torch in hand we reached the Donigal station by 6.00 am and decided to start the trekking through the railway tracks. The first 2 kms we couldn’t find any major bridges or tunnels. The game of Anthakshari also accompanied us and even Rejo, who doesn’t like Hindi songs started chipping in with those blockbuster songs, along with the singers like Ashwini and Alka. Crossing the first bridge/tunnel was electrifying. But the thought of bigger and dangerous bridges and tunnels still waiting for us on the way made us walk more exciting.


Some of the tunnel which we crossed where dark and as long as half km, where filled with bats. Even those small water drop flowing through those stones and the hard blowing breeze inside those tunnels sounded like even they where joining us in the Anthakshari. The long bridges across some of the small streams where really photogenic and one would really try imagining how many days and how many peoples hard labour would have been used to build the mammoth structures.

After completing 12 Km, 10 -12 dark tunnels, nearly 15 bridges, posing for many more photos which we couldn’t count, we stopped for refilling our stomach at 12.45 pm. Made a temporary arrangement for boiling the water and preparing the Noodles. We succeeded in preparing a good noodle which was more then enough for our hungry stomach. During that course, Alka even had some small nap just beside the track.

As our energy was back and still some kms to complete we started the walk again. But this time everything was not as easy as it was earlier. There where 2-3 bridges with no proper iron planks for walking and where as tall as 5 storied building. Crossing those bridges took some courage out of me and a sense of achievement when we reached the other side.

Again walking for nearly 6kms we reached our trek destination Yedukumeri, a small station build for just passing the signals between Kukke Subramania and Donigal at about 3.30pm. We had a chat with the so called Station Master, one Mr. Lingeshwar (a chap wearing college volleyball jersey, never looked more) for a train lift till Sakleshpur. He was not ready to help us in any case. He told us that he can’t let those goods train drivers to take us back to Sakleshpur. Sad to say that how these types of bigheaded people spoils the name of Indian Railways.

After some useless negotiation with the station master, we decided to cross the jungle by our own and find the way out to the highway nearby. With very little information about the way out, we started to climb down the hill and crossed the small stream ending up finding a so called damaged road. But my instinct and the echoing sound of winds betrayed me and we started moving in a wrong direction. The walk become creepier when we found those elephant foot marks and dung all around and the sun started setting, increasing our shadows as we walked. It took us nearly 1hr to realize that we are on the wrong way. The only best thing we could do was return to the station and sleep for the night there. As all of us agreed for that, we started to walk back before the sun sets fully. To return back (climbing back up the hill) it took hardly half the total time of climbing down the hill. And at last we are again on the top of the hill at the Railway station.

After returning from the tiring and unsuccessful walk, we sat at the platform figuring out what went wrong and thinking “What ever had happened was for good”. We had our bread and jam packets opened and gobbled as much as we could. And made arrangement for a good sleep, which we couldn’t get the whole night because of the heavy cold and high wind which lashed every now and then making it tough to sleep. After struggling much for a good sleep we left the hope and got up by 5.00 am with the intension of making a campfire for getting ride of the cold. Collected some wood and successfully created a campfire.

We where joined by other 3 group of campers, who had come from Bangalore. We decided to move together and find the way out to the highway from there. After a bit of refreshment we all set out to find the way out. We all, around 18 of us climbed down together the hill and started walking in a pursuit to find the river which we couldn’t find the other day.

Walking for another one and half hour through the forest we where hearing the sound of trucks and busses together with the high flowing river. Ya we could even see the trucks and busses going through the highway just across the river around 400 meters away. The bridge was broken and only one way to reach the other side of the river was by stepping on the slippery stones which had formed a natural path for the trekkers. With all courage and withstanding the pressure of the flowing river all of us successfully reached the other side. I couldn’t resist the clean and crystal water for a long time, so as soon as we reached the other side I took a dip in the water and that refreshed my whole body. It was like whole pain had washed away with that one dip in the chilled water.

As soon as we climbed up to reach the highway out of the water, there it is, a KSRTC bus coming from Mangalore towards Bangalore. That was the time to say adieu to the great green route. Looking through the windows of the bus towards those green mountains which we had trekked, at least I felt like I had conquered that whole mountain range. But rather it will be better to say that the beauty of nature have conquered me.

tag : Donigal, railway, trekking, yedakumeri,Yadakumeri, yedukumeri,green route bangalore

Did you know : Bangalored

Bangalored is a neologism and used as a verb. Bangalored is used to indicate a layoff, often systemic, and usually due to corporate outsourcing of the business function to lower wage economies. The word is derived from Bangalore, India, which houses many outsourcing centers for Western economies.

It refers to people who have been laid off from a multinational company because their job has been moved to India (outsourced — a business practice designed to save money that is arousing passions in some countries, especially Britain and the United States). Bangalore is cited in particular because of its reputation in the USA as a high-tech city, and widely regarded as the Silicon Valley of India that has benefited significantly from such outsourcing.

Bangaloreophobia refers to fear of Bangalore or fear of losing jobs to Bangalore.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalored

Is World still not flat enough !

Ya, its official news now, Google have gobbled yet another dot com startup (rather a giant in its field), YouTube famous for free video sharing which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. A company just started just in 2005 at San Mateo, US with a small sum of money and innovation done by just three people.

This success story leads me to a question,"Why can't we Indians come up with such an Innovation ?" Its said that "the world has gone flat" which allow anyone anywhere in the world to fight with even the giants in the same level. We are able to access same material which any US innovator can through the World wide web, we are able to communicate between each other on web in the same way how an US innovator does through IM and phones. Still why are we not able to come up with these type of innovative product based startups. What are we lagging in ? Is that world is not still flat enough ?

One of the problems which I find is that Indian companies are not supporting innovations in our country at that magnitude which is required to. Let’s take an example of supportive innovation of Google, Google has something known as Google Labs which comes out with new new product at a frequent interval of time. It support the new ideas which comes out of its Employee and try to incubate it with moral and monetary support. As a result the new products of Google comes up.

Why can’t an Indian company like Infosys or TCS or Wipro come up with its own incubators or Labs ? Why can’t they come open into the product based business rather sticking itself with the Service oriented business culture. Infosys, TCS and Wipro each have huge employee strength of 65,000 each. Only thing they need to do is to give them chance to think and express their ideas. Surely from this 65,000 employees each company can get enormous number of practical innovative ideas. Which can be latter incubated and nourished. If they, then India is going to see a sea change in the scenario in the near future. Hope the next startup which Google is going to gobble be from India !

News which lead to this thought: Google Buys YouTube for USD1.65 billion

Me the WinneR

Yes i am the winner of techtribe.com "the iPod winner for last week".
Check out it here : http://promotion.techtribe.com/

New Yahoo! Mail Beta

New Yahoo! Mail Beta is out and Rocking.
When i first tried it, i just felt like i am at home with my microsoft outlook. The new Yahoo! Mail is a sleek, finely wrought piece of interface design. The overall look is an Outlook-styled, three-pane window with folders in the left vertical pane, headers top right, and a message preview pane below the headers.
Also some of the other addons are its right click enabled menu and the Tab interface for getting several message/folder on the screen at a single time and reading it latter.
They have made use of AJAX in the most stylish manner...

Happy Birthday Google

Google turns 8 today..
Thanks google for making "World Flat"..

A long rainy season..

After a long time, i just thought again about my blog.. Poor little blog, no updates from a long time.. Lot of thing happened in my life, A city change, A company change, A new house,.. and lots more... But nothing had happened to my this beautiful page.. For me it was an eventful long rainy season.. Hopefully its ended and i am well settled for a while. Hope to post soon regarding a lot of thing.. See you soon my blog..:)

Snap search

Snap search -An AJAX based search..
Surely google is going to follow this.. Nice interface and UI design.
Check it yourself

ipod shuffle

Bought an ipod shuffle yesterday.. a 512MB one...

Barca, the winners. ( Champions League Update )

Barcelona fought back from a goal down to beat 10-man Arsenal 2-1 and win their second European Cup in the 50th anniversary final at the Stade de France on Wednesday.
Late strikes from striker Samuel Eto'o and substitute defender Juliano Belletti cancelled out a first-half header from Arsenal defender Sol Campbell.

Full story here

Flickr Goes Gamma

Ya, Flickr have added some new features and changed its look to name itself as Flickr Gamma. The features that has been added are minimal but the layout change which has been made will take some time for a flickr user to be accustomed with. The menu have been relocated and the photo set have been shifted from left to right side of the page. Flickr blog says :

New Navigation, New Search, New and Improved Organizr, and the Person Menu. All of these improvements have been designed to help you navigate the site with less effort and organize your photos more efficiently.

it's for my mom..