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Lately I neglect my web a little bit and I add photos only to my Google+ profile. If you want to see newest photos, add me there . I’ve decided that I’ll add the photos here too and do a little experiment with linking them to Picasa, so I don’t have to upload them twice. Picasa is connected to Google+ and whatever I add there, it’s added to Picasa and the other way round, ingenious.

Königssee, Germany

Almbachklamm, Berchtesgadener Land, Germany

Neuschwanstein, Germany

Almbachklamm, Germany

Paris, France

Near Hadrian’s Wall, England

St Andrews, Scotland

I’ve decided that I will bite the bullet and actually write something after a long time. As you’ve probably noticed, there isn’t anything new lately. It is because I am in Munich for whole summer, where I work as an Software Engineering Intern in Google (you maybe know that company ). I won’t try to describe what a wonderful experience this is, I will reserve another post for that. Unfortunatelly I don’t know when this post will be come up, because I working late over the week and on weekend I often travel somewhere.

Huge advantage of Munich is, that it is about 50km from the Alps, so you can jump in a car and you are in beautiful nature in a while. But the weather is against it – most of the time it rains or there are at least grey clouds, which make ugly photos… But so far we were lucky and when we were going somewhere, the weather was quite nice.

I’d like to add some photos, but as I’ve written before, I don’t have much time. To be clear, I have some to make photos, but I don’t have time to process them. Also I am lacking proper computer. My old laptop takes quite a long time to do anything. Because I shoot everything to RAW and I like to play a bit with nice photos, there won’t be many updates as long as I am here. I put not processed photos to Picasa regularly, so you can see them there. They are also visible on my Google+ profile.

I add some photo in the end, without it the post wouldn’t be complete It is my historically first attempt to create HDR photography. It is created from one RAW, which was then processed 5 times with one-EV stops. I’ve used Luminance HDR (former qtfpsgui). I think the result is not that bad, see it for yourself.

Brauneck, 1555 m

I watch HDR photography for some time, but until I haven’t tried it. Approximately two day before I’ve ran into a known HDR photographer Trey Ratcliff‘s profile on Google+, who’s photos inspired me to actually try it too. You should definetely see his blog StuckInCustoms.com, where is a new photo from his travels every day. And he travels a lot.

If you have any questions about Munich, Google, internship, HDR, leave me a comment. PS: Sorry for the messy structure of this post….:)

Recently I had to customize tabs in one Android application. It wasn’t anything nice. There is no easy way to do it – one would expect some kind of property which sets a background of the tab etc. Funny thing is, that last week on Google Developer Day in Prague someone (Reto Meier or Roman Nurik or maybe someone else ) have said to us:  ”Don’t use undocumented APIs”. I believe this is not “API”, rather it is playing with UI layouts – so we should be cool about that

Basically there are two ways to customize tabs in Android. One is easier, but rather dirty than clean. I will try to describe both of them and point out some advantages and disadvantages.

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