I got to the field early for the Sunday Night Football game on December 20th, 2008 and had a moment to quickly snap some pregame photos. I finally stitched them together and here’s the composite panoramic photo. Very symmetrical. This image was created from 14 separate photos (7×2) taken with my little point-and-shoot Kodak EasyShare [...]
A few days ago I updated my Picasa photo album software to version 3.5. Among several new features is face recognition technology, which in turn allows you to tag the people in your photos. This has been available on their online Picasa Web Albums for a while but it’s new for the desktop application. At [...]
Earlier this year I blogged about a free photo stitching application called Hugin, that combines multiple photos in to cool panoramas. It did a pretty good job but was not at all easy to use. Today I tried a brand new free photo stitcher called ICE that was just released by Microsoft last week as [...]
Today was full of Google tech news – exciting stuff for technophiles, but the rest of you can just stop reading now. First, Google announced and released a new web browser to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. It’s been rumored for years but today’s news was basically a surprise. I’ve already downloaded [...]
I was just fiddling with some new free software that creates panoramic shots from multiple standard photos by stitching them together. The freeware I’m using is called Hugin. It’s a bit complicated but Lifehacker wrote a nice tutorial for it. The truth is that I need to take better photos if I intend to stitch [...]
The newest version of Firefox, version 2.0, is being released today. Among it’s many improvements, it’s now even faster, features many tabbed browsing improvements (that I already had from the Tab Mix Plus extension), and protection against phishing scams. Microsoft released Internet Explorer version 7.0 last week. It was a truely monumental improvement over the [...]
I’m a big fan of Google. (Now may be the time to mention that I’m a technology geek.) They do things right. Of course there’s the search engine, Google Maps, and Gmail that everybody knows and loves. Then there’s useful desktop applications like Google Earth, Picasa, and Sketchup, all of which I use. Well they’ve [...]