Monday, February 23, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Automatic Backup and Version Control on Windows

While working on a project that requires a lot of writing - like coding, or authoring a book - it is a good idea to make backups or even better, maintain a sort of version control so that you can go back in time to see changes you’ve made to an article.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE)

Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE)
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution. The stitched panorama can be saved in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom.


Features
State-of-the-art stitching algorithms automaticaly place source images and determine panorama type
Advanced orientation adjustment view allows planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections
Support for different types of camera motion
Excellent exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm
Automatic cropping to maximum image area
No image size limitation - stitch gigapixel panoramas
Native support for 64-bit operating systems such as 64-bit Vista
Output in a wide variety of image formats: HD View Silverlight Deep Zoom TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and more