Enjoy Paris in All of Its 26-Gigapixel Glory
Mar/100
Having been to Paris, I can tell you that it’s a city you won’t be able to fully fathom in a week or a month – it takes a lifetime to see all the city has to offer. This was before, of course, this amazing 26-gigapixel panorama of Paris was created; it won’t replace actually visiting Paris, but with all of its amazing details, it gets pretty darn close.
Paris 26 Gigapixels is a stitching of 2346 photos, which add up to a high-resolution panoramic view of Paris. When we say high-resolution, we mean it; the end result is a 26-gigapixel (354159×75570 px) interactive photo. You can move around by clicking anywhere on the image and moving your mouse, and you can zoom with your mouse wheel (alternatively, you can use the arrows and +/- keys on the keyboard).
It’s easy to get lost in this huge panorama, so Paris 26 Gigapixels features quick tours of twenty of Paris’ most impressive monuments, together with some textual information about them. The entire project, created by Martin Loyer, Arnaud Frich and Kolor, is available in English and French; there’s also a special HD view (highly recommended), activated via an icon in the upper right portion of the page, which requires installation of an additional plugin. Oh, and one more thing; this is one of those times when you’d want to switch to full screen browser mode.
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Add TV Channel Logos to Windows 7 Media Center
Feb/100
Are you tired of those bland channel listings in Windows Media Center? Do you wish they had nice colorful logos like a commercial DVR? Here we look at adding a bit of color and flair to Media Center Channel listings with My Channel Logos.
Download, extract, and run the installer file.
When the install is finished, go to Start All Programs My Channel Logos to open the application. As you run My Channel Logos for the first time, it will proceed to download your regional logos to your PC.
After the Logo download is complete, the My Channel Logos windows will open. Click the Auto Populate Logos button to automatically assign logos to your channel listings.
When finished you will see a pop-up window indicating how many logos have been assigned. Click “OK.”
Under Merged Channel Listing, click to expand Channels without logos to see which, if any, of your channels are missing logos.
If you have some missing logos, you can choose to manually assign your own custom 96?42 pixel .png image. To assign a custom logo, click to highlight the channel, then click on the the dark blue box under logos.
This will pop up a browser window to allow you to browse your computer for a logo. When you’ve selected your .png image, click “Open.”
Your new logo will now been added to the channel listings.
Close out of My Channel Logos and open Windows Media Center to The TV listings guide and check out your new logos.
That’s it! Sit back and enjoy the new rich, colorful appearance of your channel listings.
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Analyst: Assassin’s Creed 2 to sell 8.5 million by April
Jan/100
Considering Assassin’s Creed 2 managed to stab 1.6 million wallets in its opening week alone, 8.5 million units sold by March isn’t that crazy of a forecast. Add star talent and some upcoming DLC to give the game a second wind, and that potential sales figure seems somewhat reasonable — even for a titlle that doesn’t feature machine guns, ‘nades and nukes.
When we saw Stern Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia call that very number over on Industry Gamers, we kinda shrugged and thought, “Sure, it’s possible.” Bhatia says Assassin’s Creed 2 was initially off to a slower-than-expected start (thanks Modern Warfare 2!), but for the December quarter, its sales expectations rose “from [roughly] 5.5 million units to 6.5 million units.” Thus, Stern Agee raised its sales forecast from 7.5 million to 8.5 million units by the end of March. Hey, we told you the game was good!
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Shutter is a State of Art Screenshot Tool for Ubuntu
Dec/090
Shutter is a state of art screen shot capture for Linux and it’s more than just a screen shot capturing tool. It comes with an editor and some basic scripts to edit and beautify the screen shots you take.
About Shutter
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
Installation
1. Open Software Sources by going to System Administration Software Sources
2. Go to the PPA page (Mentioned at the end of the post) and click the link that reads “Technical? details about this PPA” followed by choosing your Ubuntu version (In my case it’s Karmic (9.10). Now add the lines which appear there.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu karmic koala main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu karmic koala main
3. On the same PPA page (Mentioned at the end of the post), you’ll see a line that reads Signing Keys. Click the link 1024R/009ED615 and you’ll reach the public key server page.
Copy the code under “—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–” in your gedit and save the file as SHUTTER.
We’ll now import this PGP (SHUTTER) security key. On the Software Sources Window select the tab that reads “Authentication” and click “Import Key File…”. Locate the SHUTTER file which we saved on desktop and import it.
4. Now click the Close button to close Software Sources windows. You’ll be prompted with a message to reload.
5. Click reload to update the software sources.
6. Open a terminal window by hitting ALT+F2 and typing “gnome-terminal” (without quotes).
7. Copy and paste the following line in your terminal window to install Shutter.
sudo apt-get install shutter
8. Type “y” to install.
Launching Shutter
In order to launch shutter go to Applications Accessories Shutter – Screenshot Tool
Following is how the main window of Shutter looks like.
Once you take a screenshot, the drawing tool button will be active. Click on it to bring the drawing tool.
You can experiment to see all the features.
You can execute inbuilt plugins by going Screenshot Execute a plugin. Choose a plugin you wan to use from the drop down menu.
Following is the final result of the screenshot I took? followed by using drawing tools and executing a couple of plugins.
Features
Here is a complete list of the features available from Shutter that they list on their site.
- take a screenshot of your complete desktop, a rectangular area or capture a website
- take screenshot directly or with a specified delay time
- save the screenshots to a specified directory and name them in a convenient way
(using special wild-cards) - Shutter is fully integrated into the Gnome Desktop (TrayIcon etc.)
- generate thumbnails directly when you are taking a screenshot and set a size level in %
- Shutter session collection
- keep track of all screenshots during session
- copy screeners to clipboard
- print screenshots
- delete screenshots
- rename your file
- upload your files directly to Image-Hosters (e.g. http://ubuntu-pics.de), retrieve all the needed links and share them with others
- edit your screenshots directly using the embedded drawing tool
Conclusion
If you’re looking for a great screenshot tool for your Ubuntu machine, you might want to check out Shutter.
Links
https://launchpad.net/~shutter/+archive/ppa
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Virgin Galactic prepare for test flights
Dec/090
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic are preparing their sub-orbital space plane SpaceShipTwo for test flights in the hope that the company will be t…
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"Last Supper" gets digital makeover
Dec/090
Researchers have created a digital reconstruction of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” through a pain-staking process using hundreds of high-defin…
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Man loses job over search for aliens
Dec/090
A school district employee in Arizona lost his job after he accumulated a $1 million bill using the computers to run the SETI(at)home project soft…
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Mass Effect 2 sidequests to benefit from ‘handcrafted gameplay’
Dec/090
For such a dark adventure, BioWare’s first Mass Effect provided a surprisingly optimistic viewpoint on universal unity. Sure, an occasional crinkled forehead or an extra filongidler might visually separate the denizens of the galaxy, but it’s nice to know that in all the unrestrained hugeness of space, we all still come from completely identical, prefabricated installations. Well, we did until Mass Effect 2 decided to terraform its sidequest planets with some variety.
“Now when you find mission[s] out there in the uncharted worlds, there are always missions where something special happens, and you get really good handcrafted gameplay and art that you can’t see elsewhere in the game,” project director Casey Hudson told VideoGamer.com. “I think people will find them to be really rewarding, really rich, because there’s something different around every corner.”
Even the process of discovering planets has been made more interesting, Hudson explained, with space-faring explorers sending out probes and expending fuel to make new discoveries. It’s nice to know the shooter RPG still allows you to go boldly — and not just go badass.
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Is doomsday coming ?
Nov/090
With the release of Roland Emmerich’s “2012″ the topic of doomsday or the end of the world is on many people’s minds. How likely is it that the wo…
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GameStop suggests $40 price for Super Street Fighter IV
Oct/090
Look, Capcom, all we’re going to say is this: the price isn’t an issue, but in all of your tinkerin’ with this and that, you better not mess with our favorite character, Dan — or we will find you … and likely grovel at your feet, asking you to change him back.
[Via Destructoid]
GameStop suggests $40 price for Super Street Fighter IV originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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