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http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/asiaquiz.html

Test Exhibit

Failed inserting and displaying. Although Managment is not bad (upload,delete, rotate, thumb)… asy version had a bad error so i used 1.1d. Seems the error is with the database.

Now trying PhotoPress…

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Not bad..

Lazybrowser… Nothing

IImage Browser…
Onclick not working, images not showing

Pic Glue..
TOo much trouble

What I need.
1) Batch Uploads
2) Thumbnails (small/mid)
3) Batch insert into post.
What I can do
a) found a plugin which does that… failed
b) modify plugins - i) modify photopress ii)modify fckeditors plugin
c) write plugin

Serious Photo Stitching - Surgery?

We standed in a circle around the camera and hand-held shots were snapped quickly at Cameron. It would be a great panoramic photo but lets see how we would create it.

1. Cannon PhotoStitch.
You are likely to come across it if you have cannon product as it usually bundled together. Assuming you used the panoramic feature on your cannon camera carefully, this program would be really simple to use. Arrange your photos, out come the pararoma stitched. However, without enough overlapping parts, PhotoStich wouldn’t work for me in this case.

2. Hugin.
The Free/Open source, Cross-plateform GUI tools would give you lots of options and features to play around with. Using Autopano would detect Control Points and auto autooptimise, Calculate FOV (Field of View) , Optimal size and get your stitch. Really powerful and all sorts switches you can change so go ahead to ??, read the tutorials, try out and have fun. Too bad for me again, some photos could not stitch at all because there werent any overlapping parts. Sometimes all the control points were on the scenery, distorting the faces. Have to try something else.

3. Adobe PhotoShop.
Photoshop would be all you need if you know how to use and want all the control. I seem to read Photoshop CS can do merging of photos automatically but without CS installed I cant try out. There is lots of articles but this link seems to does what I need - in short- adjusting, adding mask, brushing, crop and get your stitch. Since all other methods failed, this would have to work for me. Tata, something is out after sometime.

4. Showcasing the paranoia.
The best way would be to place it online, and let java, flash, or javascript technologies do the job. For me to test out quickly, I uploaded to Gallery 2 beta, with its panoramic module- we now can enjoy the scene with its java applet. If you are using dhtml, dun forget to try this link.

Pararomics is old field of photography that fascinates me even though I have 0 experience. Those all around views from the photos NASA take from MARS by the rover “Spirit”, MOON is so nice. I will forget about stereography and videography for now…

Whose Online (fixes), and intersting Stats

I kinda like McMike’s Who is Online plugin.
http://www.mcmike.nl/english/?p=16

Its really small and simple, however there needs some (maybe small) fixes, so a little poke into the code. Its quite fun because the variables are named in Dutch which however is still programming and to a extend I should be able to understand it.

Here’s the link to the modified plugin.
http://www.lab4games.net/zz85/blog/wp-content/wieonline.phps

Then to remind me, I found wp-shortstat  about 4 days ago and installed it.
http://jrm.cc/archives/blog/wp-shortstat/

Its really cool, but as I gave a comment, would be cool with stats of users too.

No matter what, here is some stats that interest and impress me.

Browsers:
Firefox 1.0 is top of my list (34%), followed by crawlers(spiders!?!) 21% then IE 16%

Referers:
Lots of them from google (and their localised domains), other blogs I visit  and ping sites.

Search strings:
This is very cute. I didnt know these would be what people use to come to here. eg. "kepo can", "ajax 554", "installation package debian knoppix feather".

Countries:
In Decending order,  SINGAPORE (SG), UNITED STATES (US), SPAIN (ES), UNITED KINGDOM (UK), GERMANY (DE), NEW ZEALAND (NZ), AUSTRALIA (AU) ,Indeterminable, CHINA (CN), JAPAN (JP), NETHERLANDS (NL),ITALY (IT), LEBANON (LB), SWEDEN (SE), CANADA (CA), HUNGARY (HU),EUROPEAN UNION (EU), BULGARIA (BG), QATAR (QA), ICELAND (I,S), FRANCE (FR),TURKEY (TR)    BELGIUM (BE),RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU),MALAYSIA (MY),ESTONIA (EE),GREECE (GR),EGYPT (EG),PORTUGAL (PT)    ,DENMARK (DK),LITHUANIA (LT)    ,TAIWAN (TW),AFGHANISTAN (AF).
Wow, I didnt know a little fly like me can get so much attention. (And a friend now in China even mentions this site get blocks there!?)

Languages:
Most of them relating to their countries listed above but here are some of the more interesting ones.
Latvian, Serbian, Korean, Turkish and the funny ones!? nl-NL, hu-hu, el-gr!

I sure other would have much more interesting stats, and its suprising so much without me publicise my blog (and many of my friends still dun know i have a blog i think)

And ya, here’s a installation guide and comparision for awstats and level10 hit counter (both quite nice, picks of the crops) and wrote sometime last week.
http://www.lab4games.net/zz85/blog/wp-content/awstats.txt

And come to think of it, my blog is going to be 1month old! I wonder how much is its lifespan.

Pictures of Tree Top Walk

A copy and paste of part of my entry in yaf blog.  Enjoy the photos.(I like the flowers, bee and monkey) Continue reading ‘Pictures of Tree Top Walk’