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Autostich: Another Cool App

I've been using a program called Autostich for the past couple of years that allows you to stich a series of digital photos together.  I had almost forgotten how cool it was until I used to to stich together some digital photos I took up in Tahoe this weekend.  The way it works, is you take a series of overlapping digital photos, upload the images to a folder on your computer.  Next you open the Autostich program, specify how large (in pixels) you would like the stiched image to be.  Finally you point Autostich to a folder containing the images to be stiched.  Autostich automatically processes the images, stiches them together, adjusts exposure, brightness, etc.  The resulting panoramic images are awesome.  For more information and to download a demo version of Autostich visit http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html#autostitch.  For more advanced stiching features, there are a few commercial apps based on the Autostich program.  Links to these apps are listed on the Autostich website.

Here's a sample panoramic image I created from 7 digital pics using Autostich:

 

Happy stiching!

Use Your Android or Iphone as a Tethered Modem

We recently switched from Blackberries to Motorola Droids for our business cell phones.  One of the features that the Blackberry had was the ability to use it as a tethered modem on your laptop.  My friend Brandon came across a program called PDAnet which allows you to use your Droid (or other mobile device such as the Iphone or Blackberry) as a tethered modem.  If you have an unlimited data plan as we do with Verizon, there is no extra cost for data usage.  I have been using a Verizon mobile broadband card for Internet access on my laptop which is costing me about $60 per month.  Now that my Droid functions as a tethered modem, I plan on canceling the service on the Verizon mobile broadband card.  There are two versions of the PDAnet program.  The first one is free, but does not support HTTPS connections.  For $29 you can purchase the full version.  For more information visit http://www.junefabrics.com/index.php