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Sunday, 22 November 2009

  • An easier way to share files on the Internet

    https://www.dropbox.com/
    Dropbox - dropbox is an online backup web site that is integrated with software. What you do is make an account on their site, then download and install their software and connect it to the account you created. After that everything you need to share files is built into Windows Explorer through the newly created My Dropbox folder in the My Documents folder (on Windows XP). Whenever you want to share a file, whether its a picture some other kind of file, you simply drop it in the Public folder inside the My Dropbox folder and right click to get the Dropbox context menu and click Copy Public Link to copy the shortcut (you can email it or paste it in a blog entry or whatever). The public address is copied to the clipboard. The file is actually being served up on their server.
    Things to remember are:
    • any file you put in the dropbox folder is automatically uploaded to the dropbox server, so if you use dial-up the upload time for large files can take some time.
    • only files in the Public folder are available to other people on the Internet
    • you can use dropbox on other computers and connect them to a common account - so a file is you uploaded from one computer is automatically downloaded to the others connected to the same account
    • the limit for free users is 2Gb
    http://home.live.com/
    Microsoft Live Spaces gives you 25Gb of space with their skydrive service if you are in need for more space than what dropbox gives you. There are shell extensions that are similar to drop box available for skydrive, however, I find myself using the Web interface more than anything. You have to create a LiveID for yourself (or sign in using the one you use for Windows messenger) and click on the Skydrive shortcut. There you'll be given a skydrive interface to upload download and set permissions. Keep in mind that skydrive has a 50Mb file size limit - so if you have files that are larger you'll have to use something like 7zip to break the file into 50Mb chunks.
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Sunday, 15 November 2009

  • Photomesa - a new way for browsing digital photos on your system

    http://www.windsorinterfaces.com/photomesa.shtml
    OK, you bought a new digital camera last year and you've been taking tons of photos. So many, in fact, that its turning into a real pain to locate that one single picture you took a few months ago. Photomesa is the answer for most people. Based on a University of Maryland project, Photomesa allows a user to browse the photos saved in a folder easier by providing a zoomable interface to that folder and all subfolders (images only). While that really doesn't impress most people the first time they consider it, the interface has been a great time saver for me in the past.
    There are two modes: zoom and scroll. The zoom mode works best for me as I prefer to have a nice one look overview when I start out on my quest for the almighty pic. Its a full zoom interface that takes you from an iconic thumbnail view of your pictures in the folder, to groups of photos, to a single photo, and even to zoom in on the photo (I always hated the fact that Windows opened up a separate image viewer to zoom in) (I personally feel that it should be built into explorer).
    For me its perfect as I've always hated typing just to classify an image. When I have a need to type something about an image - I do. But when that need is just to tag it for later retrieval I get annoyed and slightly frustrated because I feel its a waste of my time.
    Photomesa is free and I highly recommend it to anyone with a large amount of digital images on their system. Try it out, if you don't like it uninstall it. I can say that I haven't had a negative experience with it (no crashes or errors - and no uninvited internet connections either). Good free software that makes your life a little easier.
     
    WWMX Location Stamper
    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/eadb6a33-b1b8-4c4d-b713-64fae728f74f/
    A Microsoft Research project that allows you to geotag your photos (get a location on a map). Its good if you don't have a camera that geotags the EXIF data of the photo.

Friday, 06 November 2009

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