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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« on: May 23, 2011, 06:17 PM »

I don't think you want to see my view. This IS Arizona!

If you think this panorama is BIG, you should see the picture from which it was reduced to fit in the size limit here. That picture is 17 megabytes in size(17068 x 3883).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Micro-mini Review of Lipsum text generator

« on: May 04, 2011, 06:56 PM »

I got into this recently when trying to get the LibreOffice extension to work(I couldn't). I found the original Latin text of  "De finibus bonorum et malorum " by Cicero" (all 5 sections). I prefer the Latin text to lipsum's gibberish. I found a few other things also. I know there is a Wikipedia article, but it is longer and this is a Quick Reply.

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Living Room / Re: DC T-Shirts idea.

« on: January 23, 2011, 11:19 PM »

2housetier
Hm, it looks like semacode is not very popular. There are many applications (online / desktop / mobile) which can read QR but I can't find anything valuable for semacode*. Two or three midlets but nothing for desktop. The only online reader is "facebook app". I don't have F. account so I don't even know what such term means

*) This might not be completely true. You can find generators at least.

-fenixproductions (January 08, 2009, 08:01 PM)

Really, I was able to find only 2(the one by P2 Labs described here is a 3rd one), which QR code readers for PCs have you found? The QuickMark one requires you to register with an ID and password and you have to give an email address for verification. They produce this QR code for DonationCoder:



These are the ones I found:

Free QR Code Reader & Generator Software for Windows

QuickMark Mobile Barcode - QuickMark for PC

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« on: January 05, 2011, 12:32 PM »

Cyberdiva:

I used Inpaint. There is a download link to get it in another thread. Look for it. I was able to get a better version of the apples by zooming in much more, shrinking the red brush to 5 and making multiple inpaint passes.  But, it still looks bad (see below), the beefsteak looks ok and the carrots might be acceptable. As in Renegade's example and my test using Inpaint, you can get good results removing objects from the main body of pictures(see pictures below). Kalo's pictures just don't give good results many times. Forget about the beer and other such pictures.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« on: January 04, 2011, 10:26 PM »

My test of using Inpaint on Kalo's images(second image below) was a disaster. I don't know what the problem was. Maybe there wasn't enough background.  I got the best results using Microsoft Paint and a background-colored brush. Given the previous example, Photoshop's content-aware fill might do better. But given the result below, I am doubtful. I did try using Inpaint to duplicate Renegade's results. (I got a screenshot of the first image) The results below aren't quite as good as Renegade's, but close in my opinion. So, I think that even Photoshop couldn't remove the items from those pictures.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« on: January 03, 2011, 04:22 PM »

Has anyone already found a way for Kalos to get the  pictures they want? If so, I won't try to produce them using Inpaint.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« on: November 23, 2010, 10:07 PM »

This is my best result from trying the free version of Instant Mask 1.4:

       

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« on: November 11, 2010, 09:06 PM »

If you don't need Photoshop CS5, you can get Photoshop & Adobe Elements 9 together from Adobe for $149 with $30 mail-in rebate. You can get just the Photoshop Elements 9 at eBay for $95 maybe less(see attached files). It seems that only one has content-aware fill, so be sure to consult the comparison before buying. Below are links to the sites, if you want to buy one of these.

ADOBE Photoshop Elements 9 here

Amazon.com photoshop elements 9 Software  here

NEW Photoshop Elements 9 Win Mac Adobe - eBay  here

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« on: November 06, 2010, 10:47 AM »

There are auctions on Ebay and you may be able to get it for much less here.
There are also "Buy it now" listings for around $200 I believe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« on: November 05, 2010, 12:12 AM »

Is the content-aware feature in the Adobe Photoshop CS5 video on Youtube (here) bogus?  If not, this would seem to be the ideal tool for that. Is it available yet?

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Living Room / Re: prevent my kids from downloading files from the Internet

« on: November 04, 2010, 10:20 PM »

Does anyone here have any experience with PowerShadow? I have it and have used it a few times on sites I deemed risky.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo panorama creation

« on: January 01, 2010, 06:59 PM »

I got 2 panoramas of the South Pole station made in 2008 before the Dome was dismantled. Both are 360 degree *.swf files, one is spherical. You scan them by moving the mouse's cursor in the picture. Here is a link to them:Panorama  Adventure Antarctica. Thank you Tomos for that help, I will edit that post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo panorama creation

« on: December 30, 2009, 11:46 PM »

Microsoft ICE was a minor part of some other, bigger project, and has not been updated for more than a year. Might never be.

I wanted to warn people about the problem so that they could avoid the time and effort of installing and uninstalling it.

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General Software Discussion / MS ICE vs. AutoStitch

« on: December 29, 2009, 06:48 PM »

I tried creating panoramas using Microsoft Image Composite Editor 1.2 recently. See below how it sliced objects:



When I tried the AutoStitch v2.2 demo, using the same set of pictures, I got this:



Does anyone else use the Microsoft program and have this happen to them also? I am going to use AutoStitch for any future panoramas. If you can't see the difference and can't download the attached panoramas, let me know and I will try to provide downloadable pictures.

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Living Room / Apollo conspiracy's doom

« on: July 19, 2009, 07:48 PM »

I read a news item   (   http://www.newscient...o-landing-sites.html) about the LRO images showing the Apollo landers. If later more high-resolution images show a recognizable lander and other equipment, will this mean the end of stories that we never really went to the moon?

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Living Room / Early Windows apps

« on: June 17, 2009, 07:06 PM »

While surfing the Web looking at Windows history I found  this page which talks about modifying the file headers of Windows 1 and 2 programs so that they will run in later versions. I have done this in my Win XP machine. I would like to know if they will run under Win Vista. I think it would be a real blast from the past and interesting backwards compatibility if some Windows 1 programs would run in Windows 7. I have attached the 2 zip archives of the programs to this entry.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Final Release: DecClock

« on: January 10, 2009, 11:54 PM »

Too bad, I would have liked to have a digital time only clock for my screen next to my DClock.   

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Living Room / Re: One answered question before you died

« on: October 08, 2008, 07:28 PM »

My question is:

"Is there other intelligent life in the universe and where is it?"

If only one part of this is permitted, then the question is:

"Where precisely is any other intelligent life in the universe?"

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Living Room / Re: How often do you reboot your primary workstation?

« on: December 09, 2007, 03:18 PM »

I rebooted Windows XP yesterday because the computer couldn't see that a disk was in the drive while burning files to a backup disk. I reload Windows Explorer more often because it keeps adding extra "Shared Documents" and "My Sharing Folders" to the folders structure.

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What's the Best? / Re: Malware protection (a-v, firewall) for Linux Ubuntu

« on: May 26, 2007, 06:53 PM »

I use Nod32 (http://www.nod32usa.com/). On their website, one of the products listed is an AV program for Linux file servers. You can try that.