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Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
5 Ways to Create Your Own Panoramic Photos
Enter Rsizr
All of the above methods to create your panorama require that you take multiple overlapping photographs. But it is very likely that in the excitement during a vacation, creating panoramas was the last thing on your mind and you only shot a single image of a great scene. Enter Rsizr.
One of the intelligent things this free website allows you to do is to stretch a single image into a panorama, without distorting any objects in the scene. The flash-based site is very easy to use and lets you stretch and resize JPG, GIF, and PNG files using a technique known as seam carving.
All of the above methods to create your panorama require that you take multiple overlapping photographs. But it is very likely that in the excitement during a vacation, creating panoramas was the last thing on your mind and you only shot a single image of a great scene. Enter Rsizr.
One of the intelligent things this free website allows you to do is to stretch a single image into a panorama, without distorting any objects in the scene. The flash-based site is very easy to use and lets you stretch and resize JPG, GIF, and PNG files using a technique known as seam carving.
Clevr is a website that allows you to upload your overlapped photos, sort them in order and automatically stitch them together. The site works with your choice of Adobe AIR or Java. Clevr allows you to zoom in, pan, save, and to share your panorama read our in-depth look at Clevr here.
allows you to easily create slideshows and panoramas from photos on your computer to stitch your photos automatically, and its viewer lets others ‘look around’ the panorama. Though you need to use Internet Explorer to create, viewers can use any browser/platform to view your panoramas. You can geotag and embed the panoramas in your own website.
allows you to stitch panoramas automatically simply extract the files from the zip archive and run AUTOSTITCH.EXE. Though it offers a plethora of options, you do not need to use them by default. Autostitch works only with JPEG files
takes a set of overlapping photographs and produces stunning panoramas easily
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The single most amazing scene from Sir David Attenborough's "Life of Birds"
The Australian Lyrebird may be the most amazing mimic in the world.
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Create Your Own Book Online
Add photos, art, or text. You have creative control. Order one book or any number you want, starting at $4.95. That's quite a deal for the aspiring poet/author/photographer. AND a contest too!
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
The ultimate body piercing
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Men all over the country are urging their wives and sweethearts to get this ‘chic’ procedure. The going rate on the east coast now exceeds $10,000. Many men feel it is worth it. The Happy spider
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
airplane changed to a home
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clipped from www.news.com.auclipped from www.news.com.authe suite costs between approximately $410 to $720 per night clipped from www.news.com.authe Hotel Costa Verde salvaged the airframe, piece by piece, from its San Jose airport resting place. carefully transported the pieces on five, big-rig trucks to the jungles of Manuel Antonio where they have been resurrected into a unique jumbo hotel suite clipped from www.news.com.auclipped from www.news.com.aun 2000 Hotel Costa Verde purchased the abandoned Fairchild, disassembling and shipping the pieces of the Iran-Contra relic, and finally hauling all seven aircraft section up the hill to its current cliff-side resting-place.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Top Photography Composition Rules
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Incredible HDR Photos of Rome
Another great one from abduzeedo.com. go check out the rest.
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Tilt-Shift Tutorial
tutorial which is faster & easier then doing masking/ gradient tool / time consuming tutorial will work in Photoshop Elements or the pro version.
Second: Apply a Gaussian Blur to the duplicated layer Third: Depending on the image, adjust the radius of the blur, make sure you can still kinda tell what is going on in the background. Fourth: Select the eraser tool and adjust your brush opacity. Make sure that you are using a brush with a soft edge as it will blend better opacity at 100% with a small brush size, maybe the size of a dime, then as I make the brush bigger, I decrease the brush opacity. final image. As long as you keep thinking to yourself "what would this look like if it was a model and I was using a macro lens?" you should be in
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
poem THE HAT
he scratched his strangely shaped hat
it gave him such great grief
above all else he had no hair
time had stolen it, that
inevitable thief.
And the itching...well it never stopped
and winter never went away
and that hat fitted like a glove,
it should, for his dad
had made it that way.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
a dog earns his stripes
in accordance with Dogsylvania’s cherished military tradition, on a brisk autumn morning of September 17, and in the presence of an observer from the neighboring nation of Walkiestan, seven members of the 101st Bean Battalion paid tribute to Corporal Gorbschobble with a 21-poot salute
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
a friend..gone (humor)
LOSING A FRIEND
This is a very touching
story about life,
death and friends.
It's certain to strum your
heartstrings and
touch your soul.
I'm still choked up
over it:
What planet is Terry McCrann on? we don't want another rate cut?
The oligopoly banking cartel is just making a blatant grab for the cash. For the ten year period from 1997 to November 2007 the margin the banking oligopoly could get away with charging struggling home loan customers over the official cash rate was always less than 1.82%. This was due primarily to the non bank lenders having access to funds and providing 'real' competition to the banking oligopoly. Unfortunately, now the non bank lenders and the competition they provided are gone, so the banking cartel who can source their funds at AAA sovereign guaranteed rates, have been able to increased their margin to 2.74% or nearly 1% more than they were allowed to charge prior to November 2007. You can see the figures here at infochoice; http://www.infochoice.com.au/loans/home-loan/educationarticle.aspx?articleId=22007&SelectedTabCode=&ArticleTypeId=6&MajorCategoryIds=2 The latest cut would have the RBA Official Cash Rate at 3% , Bank Standard Variable Rate at 5.74% , a margin of 2.74% going into the banking cartels coffers. Oligopolies and monopolies should be strictly regulated
THIS is essentially it. You are unlikely to get much more in the way of rate cuts.
towards the end of the year, we could start to watch these monthly RBA statements for the first hint of coming rate increases.
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the banks greed
the banks have been given support and everyone has flocked to them due to gov't protection...they have to reciprocate, alas GREED and the stockholder obligation BS knows no bounds
...first home buyers, now comprise almost 27 per cent of new borrowers.
...first home buyers, now comprise almost 27 per cent of new borrowers.
cut their variable home loans by just 0.1 per cent - or just $18 a month on the same loan.
"Lenders are finding it hard to get funds, which they have to increasingly get from deposits and the wholesale markets (overseas)," standard variable rate of 5.74
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atf cleaner and a good online scanner
for a regular pc check
go here and download ATF cleaner. Use it to remove all Temp Files, Cookies and Temp Internet Files, Java Cache and any others that you would like to remove. If you also use Opera or Firefox, also click on the cleaning options for each browser.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Hugh jackman V Mick jagger crossroads
all for ..........a woman...good story though
HUGH Jackman has revealed his wife turned down a night on the town with Mick Jagger to be with him in their courting day moment came when he invited , Deborra-lee Furness to his house for a dinner party. in 1995 and Jackman was harbouring a crush on his co-star "She's very cool. I had a huge crush on her,"
clipped from www.absolutenow.comclipped from celebgalz.com
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best brown tongue award
goes to the "we need to have a scandal" NEW NO IDEA magazine they know how keep in the good books
LLEYTON Hewitt has proven himself to be a tough man when it comes to litigation, so we're wondering what he makes of an apology running this week in New Idea following the controversy over the "family manny".
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
jamie oliver's 3 girls
Jools, gave birth to Petal Blossom clipped from www.dailymail.co.ukthe couple’s daughters Poppy Honey Daisy Boo
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Friday, April 3, 2009
Coffee Drinks shown
Espresso Macchiato Espresso con Panna Caffé Latte
Cafe Breve Cappuccino Caffé Mocha Americano Espresso macchiato in Italy can be caldo o freddo cappuccino. The classic is in thirds: espresso, steamed milk, milk foam. No spooning the foam! That’s the resort of charlatans. Measured and drawn well the milk will pour naturally into its respective components the steamed milk pouring in first and the microfoam last. Personally, I like my cappuccino’s classically made like this in either single shot or double shot measures. The edge of the foam should be tinged with espresso crema, so you’re not slurping through milk foam to get to flavor.
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Exercises That Protect Against Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
have practiced the stretches and, after a few days, they could "really tell the difference." Judging from the YouTube comments attached to the video, a lot of other folks attached to their mouse and keyboard for most of the day are finding the exercises new and useful.
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A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis
to add that this is superbly explained in ‘The Giant Pool of Money’ with Ira Glass from NPR.
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Inflation - explained visually
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Take Huge Panoramic Pictures
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ADELAIDE v ST KILDA dreamteam analysis
Bernie VInce was gold in the first match but he will no doubt hit half as many point with Thompson back...very gutsy call by Crows for so many new boys.. Otten, Dangerman, tippet,petrenko, mackay, walker
dare i say up against an oldish compared saints team who should have the brains to win!
dare i say up against an oldish compared saints team who should have the brains to win!
ADELAIDE v ST KILDA
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AFL dreamteam big points for round 1
* 1.Leigh Harding150
* 2.Travis Johnstone140
* 3.Luke Power133
* 4.Simon Wiggins131
* 5.Bernie Vince131
* 2.Travis Johnstone140
* 3.Luke Power133
* 4.Simon Wiggins131
* 5.Bernie Vince131
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Dream Team watch: ups and downs - AFL
Dream Team watch: ups and downs - AFL.com.au
Daniel Rich was the sixth most popular selection in Dream Team
TODAY'S HEADLINES
* Bumpy start set Cornes' road to 200
Thu, Apr 02, 09
* Hislop and King to add some hardness
Thu, Apr 02, 09
* Key inclusions as teams shape for round two
Thu, Apr 02, 09
TODAY'S VIDEOS
By Michael Rogers 7:21 AM Thu 02 April, 2009
IN THE cut-throat world of Toyota AFL Dream Team, you’re only as strong as the bottom five players in your squad.
And if the bottom five players in your squad this week included Hayden Skipworth, Daniel Rich, Shaun Higgins and Matthew Kreuzer, you were dead-set laughing.
None of that quartet cost more than $250,000 and all produced scores in excess of 100 points in round one – exactly what you want to see as a Dream Team mentor.
Kreuzer, at $241,200, was a key player with an even 100 points in his first outing.
But the season opener wasn’t so funny for coaches who selected Tigers flanker Andrew Raines – which was just about everyone. suffered a knee injury that required surgery.
Four weeks is a near eternity in Dream Team circles and there will be plenty of mentors wondering whether to offload their $188,100 recruit, who finished with 68 points.
The news was better for fans of Shaun Higgins, the Bulldogs’ small forward. After an injury-plagued 2008 he produced a 107-point effort against Fremantle to reward the faith of coaches who backed him.
Meanwhile, new Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss spent most of the summer making sure that young gun Rich didn’t say anything to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
It was clearly a self-serving strategy from the first-year coach to bump up his own chances of taking out the Dream Team crown by keeping Rich out of as many squads as possible.
But Vossy, we’re (almost) sorry to say it didn’t work.
The $126,600 Rich was the sixth most popular selection and he justified the hype by sticking it up the club he loved as a kid with an 83-point game against West Coast.
Out at Windy Hill, Skipworth is everybody’s favourite recycled Adelaide Crow after delivering on his pre-season form with Essendon.
A 124-point return for an outlay of less than $200,000 is a windfall that the late, great punter Kerry Packer wouldn’t have sneezed at.
Finally, a rousing golf clap for two of North Melbourne’s unexpected heroes against the Demons.
Hamish McIntosh delivered a best-on-ground effort in his first game after being unsuccessfully shopped around by coach Dean Laidley during trade week.
At a tick under $300,000, McIntosh’s 121-point game was a stellar return that had 21,630 Dream Team coaches celebrating and several club recruiters no doubt scratching their heads.
And at $292,800, teammate Leigh Harding defied just about everyone’s expectations – except maybe his own – by topping the Dream Team tally with 150 points.
But remember: Harding and his fellow bargain buys won’t be cheap for much longer, as all players will be revalued according to their performances after round three. Then, Dream Team coaches will really start getting what they pay for – and paying for what they get.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
photos of natural beauty
Solitude clipped from www.news.com.au"the smoke that thunders" clipped from www.news.com.auCreation clipped from www.news.com.auDivine Light clipped from www.news.com.auShelter clipped from www.news.com.auTapestry clipped from www.news.com.auOasis clipped from www.news.com.ausweeping views clipped from www.news.com.auPreserve clipped from www.news.com.auFirst Light clipped from www.news.com.aureflections clipped from www.news.com.aurainbow lights up the gloom clipped from www.news.com.auThe Promise
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Turn your photograph into a painting [Photoshop]
This is what you will achieve by the end
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