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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

[-] Photosynth- the next wizard in web

We all know that the online photosharing made a remarkable change in the way common people began to use the internet.The internet has now become a galactic empire inhabited by trillions of images from all over the world.But the mere bidemnsional digital dreams now will be transformed into the elated 3D ones.The hidden labs of the software titan, Microsoft, is forging the wizadry.Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change the way you think about digital photos forever.Microsoft's Photosynth takes collections of images, analyses them for similarities, and then displays them in a reconstructed 3D space.The system builds a 3D model just from a raw collection of photographs.

The technology works by scanning collections of photographs, which can be taken from different cameras at different times. It picks out distinctive features in each image and cross-references them against the other photographs, checking for similarities. This allows it to pinpoint a feature's 3D position and to also calculate where the position of the camera would have been when the picture was taken.

One of the questions we’re often asked is when people will be able to create their own 3D collections. This is something we’re absolutely committed to but will not be available in our first external release. Photosynth currently requires a large number of CPU cycles to perform the matching between images and for larger datasets this can take hours or sometimes days of processing. We are exploring a number of methods for drastically reducing this processing time but want to ensure that people realize that we’re a technology that is evolving in real-time and we want to incrementally build towards the vision of a world of interconnected images through collaboration and participation from the online community.

says their blog

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[-] HTTrack Website ripper

I use HTTack to rip websites :) .Its fast and light.Most of ripers available are not free.But HTTrack is a free and open source website copier and offline browser by Xavier Roche licensed under the GNU General Public License. It allows you to download one, or a set of World Wide Web sites from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. Its available for linux and windows. 

HTTrack uses a web crawler to download a website. Some parts of the website may not be downloaded by default due to the robots exclusion protocol. HTTrack can follow links that are generated with basic JavaScript and inside Applets or Flash, but not complex links (generated using functions or expressions) or server-side image maps.

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Friday, August 18, 2006

[-] Writely
Writely is taking new accounts now. It had stopped taking new accounts after the buyout by Google.
The speed is very good and the interface is really smart.
Some features include the ability to post to a blog directly.
Saving is done automatically like while composing in Gmail.
Wait for a full fledged review.
Right now, check out the comparative review by Cnet.

edit: Writely has some issues while accessing the blog...especially for a user like me who has multiple blogs...
[-] 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection
Charity organization SOS Children released 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection with the help of Fixed Reference.org, aimed at improving awareness of the world around us amongst 8-15 year olds.The CD has 2011 articles, more than 8000 images and over 3.5 million words .These articles have been hand-picked from Wikipedia, tidied up , checked for plausibility and suitabilityand put together in a form suitable for publication on a CD.The zip file may be downloaded HERE and the CD can be viewed at Fixed Reference.
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