Photo Measures and Measured for iOS Review Your iPhone’s camera can do more than just take photos. It can also help you record measurements for do-it-yourself projects. I recently tested two apps—one that lets you record measurements on the photos you snap and another that also taps into your iPhone’s accelerometer to do the measuring for you. Here’s my look at how both these apps measure up. Photo Measures Big Blue Pixel’s Photo Measures is a handy productivity app that allows users to record measurements and dimensions directly onto their iOS device photos.
Blender Animation Exporter Update (June 2) 02Jun A new revision (2008-06-02) of the Animation Exporter is available. This revision is mostly UI changes to improve usability, especially for new users who have not mastered Blender’s UI yet. The new layout will also scale better to different screen sizes.[Update Dec 15: PLEASE NOTE: If you get an error about a missing pickle, you will need to install Python.]Here’s the revision log:Changed window layout to be grouped more logically.Panel headers are now at the top, as is standard in most UIs.Moved the button toolbar to the Tweaking screen (Ctrl-Right).Minor UI tweaks to the exporter script.Auto-key is enabled by default. [Edit: Apparently this setting doesn't save with the file, so you'll have to enable it yourself.]Removed mesh UV maps and materials to reduce file size.And a snapshot of the main view. Click to enlarge:
Seven Places to Find Free eBooks Every year schools around the world spend thousands of dollars on textbooks that are often outdated by the end of their first year in the classroom. Ebooks, many of them free, can represent huge savings for schools over purchasing textbooks. Here are seven places that you can find free ebooks. 1. Planet eBook is a free service where teachers and students can find classic literature titles available as free downloads.
Fix Before doing anything : BACKUP YOUR SUBSONIC FOLDER ! This is a custom version so if you don't know what your doing : Stop here. NOTA : I really mean it : DO A BACKUP FIRST ! You'll need it when you'll want to upgrade to the next official version. How to Install : - Upgrade your subsonic to at least 4.5beta2- Stop your subsonic server (sudo /etc/init.d/subsonic stop)replace the "jsp" and "classes" folders from /var/subsonic/jetty/<some mumbers>/webapp/WEB-INF/ with the ones provided in subsonic-gt.zip- Relaunch subsonic (sudo /etc/init.d/subsonic start) Blogsy: A Better Blogging App for iPad The lack of great blogging apps for the iPad always puzzled me as a strange inconsistency with a device — and overall, a platform — that in the past year has proved to be more than a simple ecosystem for games and utilities. The iPad — and to an extent, iOS — has become more than a lightweight piece of glass and aluminum for watching movies and playing some Angry Birds. Sure it’s great at those tasks, but then I look at OmniFocus, Simplenote, iFiles, or LogMeIn and I realize there’s so much to do on this device than just consuming content.
E-book conversion Often the book we want to read on our ebook reader is in a format that is incompatible or just doesn’t look good. When this happens we have four choices (1) forget the whole thing, (2) forget that ebook (file) and try to get free or, more likely, pay more money for, a new, compatible ebook file, (3) get another ebook reader, or (4) convert the file to something we can use. If you picked #4 then this section of the Wiki page is for you. If you can't find it here then you might have to resort to digitizing Paper Books to Ebooks For a handy quick reference see the Conversion matrix. You may also want to visit the article on the exact eBook format you are trying to create.
22 Incredible Photos of Faraway Places Thailand Chances are you already know Steve McCurry as the man who took one of the most iconic photos of our time. It was of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl who's piercing green eyes told us her harrowing story. The image itself was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine and her face became famous as the cover photograph on their June 1985 issue. Beyond just that one photo, McCurry has shot over a million images spanning 35 years. Shaarli You want to share the links you discover ? Shaarli is a minimalist delicious clone you can install on your own website. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy. Features Conceptboard - visual collaboration on ideas and documents I just found out about Conceptboard, a cool visual collaboration tool, from the company itself. Conceptboard is a cloud-based service that works on PCs, laptops, tablets, and more. It is basically on online whiteboard that allows you to create, review and discuss ideas and concepts and you can even upload a document (PDF, PPT, Doc, images) and share, comment, and work on also. You can also just draw and write on it.