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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
What: Autopano (registered version @ 99 euro)
Verdict: totally awesome.
Pros:
- Very fast, reliable stitching of images together
- Excellent colour and exposure correction, even if you don’t lock your exposures
- Supports HDR imaging! Create panoramas out of raw format files and then use tone mapping software like Qtpfsgui
- Excellent barrel distortion compensation on wide angled shots
- Qt4! (and cross platform)
Cons:
- It’s not free software 
- Expensive
- User interface could use some work
Example:
Panorama created out of 8 individual raw images, then tone-mapped with Qtpfsgui. I can’t get a larger version because Qtpfsgui runs out of memory - the resultant panoramic raw image is over 130MB!
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
I’ve been playing way too much of Frets on Fire lately. If hacking becomes too much, just lift up your keyboard and use it as a guitar and thrash it! Infact, I’m enjoying it so much that I’ve stopped rebooting to play Bioshock. The default package comes with just three obscure songs, but you can import songs from Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II, which is great. For those of you without the game, I’m sure you are resourceful enough to get a copy of the data.
I’ve discovered that my fingers can hit the keys faster and in stranger patterns than I’ve ever thought possible. I think that I should slow down a bit on the axe-grinding since my vision becomes distorted after playing it - a frequency modulated effect as objects quickly drift up and down in front of my eyes!
Eric Clapton - I challenge you to a duel!
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
The last week has been really busy, in that really great and satisfying way. On Saturday Mish and I went for a hike in the Royal National Park, on a wonderfully sunny day and we spent the day running along cliff edges. There were fishermen (no doubt fishing) off ledges a good 20m above the sea water, and you’d know why if you saw: the water was chaotic and smashing along the rock walls.
Sunday morning I went for a surf with Tony and Dani - great fun at Bondi beach until disaster struck and Tony has his board snapped in two :(. In the afternoon I found some time to fix my KDE4 build and got into some Amarok hacking again, working on the new-and-totally-cool context view. We’re using QGraphicsView which is so yummy and fun to work with.
Yesterday I spent the day at work and was totally surprised when the Tomcat/J2EE application that I’m working on “just worked” when I threw it onto Linux. I was shocked that it worked since the webapp was compiled under Windows, and with a different version of Java. Still very slow, but it worked.
Finally, last night I went to the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, which was fantastic. Great music, and a much greater ‘funk’ in their live versions of the newer song releases. The only really terrible thing was the support act, Har Mar Superstar, an overweight hairy man who is convinced of his “sexiness” and did a striptease down to his underwear. I thought it was hilarious however, and was laughing the entire set :).
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Last.fm is seriously cool. The coolest ever. At the beta site, there are two new features which are coming out in a couple of weeks time.
taste-o-meter
The taste-o-meter shows a correlation between yourself and the particular user which you are viewing.
concert calendars
In my opinion one of the strongest features to come to last.fm is the ability to add concerts to global and user calendars. Users are able to create events, announce their attendance, submit reviews, pictures and videos too! Next, imagine a page which lists a whole set of upcoming events within x kilometers from where you live! Amazing!!!
Seriously cool. I’m imagining browsing my Amarok context browser and listening to RHCP and a little box is shown: “Hey, seb! the RHCP are playing in Sydney in April!”
I think i’m in web 2.0 heaven.
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Tonight was the yearly Oktoberfest at uni! Lots of fun, with great beer and music. Infact, a band which I really like played tonight, 78 Saab, for free!
I love uni!
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