Posted by Samer on September 28, 2011 in Graphics, Panoramas | Tagged Panorama |
There is something strangely satisfying about stitching pictures together to create a panoramic image. If you’ve been out snapping consecutive images and looking for a program that would merge them for you, take a look at the free Panorama Plus Starter Edition.
There are two kinds of panorama-stitching programs; ones that are user assisted, where the user has to set ‘control points’ (e.g. Hugin), and ones where the computer automatically does most of the work (e.g. Microsoft ICE); this program also belongs to the latter category.
Note, however, that this free version of the program is restricted to exporting JPG’s with a maximum width/height of 3000 pixels, which makes it unsuited for professional image stitching, but is quite adequate for internet publication or personal photo sharing. Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on September 27, 2011 in Android, Browser Extensions, Internet, Internet Utils, iPhone / iPad, PDF, PDF Readers, Web2.0 | Tagged Browser, convert, Easy, Mobile, Phone, Read, WAP |
Do you love reading the latest articles on the web? Do you have a phone or other mobile device that can access the web but only in limited ways? Tidyread.com is the answer to your dilemma!
Tidyread.com provides a very simple but very powerful service for free: It converts complex web pages that include flash animations, sounds, and other powerful features into basic text pages so you can read them from any mobile device that has basic web access. My phone, for example, can access the internet but can’t handle loading large pages that have all those complex additions that make the pages so pretty and flashy. Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on September 27, 2011 in Best of, Freewaregenius Picks, The Cloud, Web Apps, Web2.0 |
“Code Monkey learn how to program!”
Ever been secretly envious of your friends that understand how code works and know how to program? Code Academy is a free website that offers lessons in how to program. I’ve always wanted to know a bit more about how to write programs, or “code” as it’s commonly called. So, I headed over to Code Academy to find out. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on September 27, 2011 in Best of, File Management, Freewaregenius Picks, FTP, Internet, The Cloud, Utilities, Web2.0 |
FTP has been impressively resilient as a file storage protocol, but these are the days where files are literally everywhere, in cloud storage, Google docs, and the like.
Enter Cyberduck: a free, open source desktop client that can access your FTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage accounts from a single, nicely designed application. It can access multiple cloud storage accounts like Amazon S3, Google Storage, Rackspace Cloud Files, Windows Azure and Google Documents.
Cyberduck works on both Windows and Mac. Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on September 26, 2011 in Internet, Internet Utils, Torrent / P2P | Tagged Easy, EXE, How to, Sending, sharing, Torrent, Web |
Have you ever downloaded something from a torrent and wanted your friends who aren’t as tech-savvy as you to be able to do the same? I sure have. The solution: Torrent2Exe!
Torrent2Exe is a rather brilliant, simple (and free) way to send a torrent file to anyone who uses a computer. Whether they are familiar with torrents or not, this is a great way to share torrents in a simple, effective, pain-free way. For you, the sender, the process is as easy as copying and pasting a link into a web form. For the receiver it’s as easy as opening a .exe file.
[Note: this post was written by Freewaregenius contributor B.C. Tietjens.] Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on September 25, 2011 in Audio, Audio players, Audio Tagging, File Tagging & Organization, Video, Video/DVD players | Tagged Album, Audio, Database, Genre, Jukebox, Karaoke, Lyrics, Manage, MP3, music, Organize, Radio |
Do you have gigabytes worth of music files? Have trouble finding the one you want at a given moment? Want to get album covers and lyrics for the tracks you own? Jajuk Advanced Jukebox is free software that can help you with all this and more.
[Note: this post was written by Freewaregenius contributor B.C. Tietjens.] Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on September 23, 2011 in Facebook, News, Social Media, Software Updates, Web2.0 | Tagged Beta, change, developers, Facebook, iPad, Layout, News, old, Pre-Release, Taylor, Timeline, Zuckerberg |
Facebook has, in development, a new format for it’s users. We got a sneak peek at the new “Timeline” format that Facebook will take in the future. Gone will be the central column of posts from yourself and others that you like. Gone will be the list of your friends on the left. Even the profile page gets an overhaul to be plugged into the new format.
Facebook plans on revealing an update that will eliminate the “Wall” system and change the basic layout of your Facebook page to that of a giant timeline of your life, beginning with birth, and marked off with major events like school graduations and getting hired for jobs. Scattered on the timeline throughout are comments and posts from your friends list, no more stacked in the center of the page. Now they appear on either side of the timeline itself, in chronological order as they are published. Scheduled to go live on September 30th, the new timeline beta has gotten generally bad reviews thus far.
[Note: this post was written by Freewaregenius contributor B.C. Tietjens.] Continue reading ..
There is something strangely satisfying about stitching pictures together to create a panoramic image. If you’ve been out snapping consecutive images and looking for a program that would merge them for you, take a look at the free Panorama Plus Starter Edition.
