HDR photography

If you shoot a picture of dark objects in bright sunlight, something is gonna get black or white. There is no way you can get a nice picture.

 

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. The idea is to take several photos with different exposure settings, and then stack them all together to get the lighting right.

 

Here is a link to MAKE with some nice tutorials.

Tools

This is just a list with links usefull utilities.

 

http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/lifehackers-2007-guide-to-free-software-and-webapps-334568.php

http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-windows-file-wranglers-330037.php

http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/take-launchy-beyond-application-launching-284127.php

http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/lh-top-10--free-windows-downloads-248303.php

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/power-replacements-for-built+in-windows-utilities-287966.php

 

Power Architect

Looks like a nice data modeling tool.

This is the site.

 

As usual, I cannot download it... could some poor soul mail it to me as a Christmas gift??

Google translation bots

Now you can talk to people in other languages. Just add to the conversation the right bot.

Read about it here.

 

As Google chat is the only IM i have at work, it is very nice!! :)

 

PS: you can talk to me in german, spanish, italian and french.

Time-lapse photography

Got to try this.

Continuous Integration Booklet

Cjlotz has compiled a very interesting set of posts with everything you want to know about continuous integration.

You can get here a very nice PDF compilation.

Guidance Explorer

Here is a very usefull patterns&pratices: Guidance Explorer

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer is a tool that enables discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance. Guidance Explorer installs with a connection to the patterns & practices guidance library including performance and security topics for .NET, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET applications. The guidance library contains a variety of guidance types including checklists and guidelines covering design, implementation and deployment topics.

I found it in this post, in J.D. Meier's blog .

PS: if you watch the videos, can you tell what browser is Jason Taylor using? ;-)

Google Analytics changes

If you have Google Analytics, you have about one year to change your code:

 

From:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-YOURNUMBER-1"; urchinTracker(); </script>

 

To:

<script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write("<script src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'></script>" ); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-YOURNUMBER-1"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); </script>

 

Read here.

iPod CPR

Is you iPod dead?
All you see is this:
Fear no more, there is a simple cure for this sad face: whack it.
Show your hardware who is the boss! Hammer it! Well, don't use a hammer, a simple bang is enough.

Thanks Bruno for the tip!

Me wants internet!!!

Can some generous soul send me a copy of winmerge? It looks like i'm
in a very restricted access policy, so i cannot access anything...
but I need winmerge! I work with it...
Guess i'll have to bring my 3G access to work...

Just to say i'm still alive

New job, new responsibilities, new email, new machine to install, a
LOT of restrictions...
I'll have to start blogging by email, because almost every site is
blocked. At least I still have gmail, slashdot and wikipedia. And
google reader! So, if you have a blog with a feed, you still exist