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    <title>vsbabu.org : graphics</title>
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    <description>Gluing passing thoughts to foregone conclusions</description>
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    <dc:date>2005-07-21T12:48:33+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Wink</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2005/07/21/wink.html</link>
      <description>Absolutely great freeware tool for creating Flash screencasts.</description>
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<a href="http://www.debugmode.com/wink/">Wink</a> is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
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I used it once and I am hooked now.
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      <title>Button maker</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/05/23/button_maker.html</link>
      <description>Button. Maker. A web interface. Pretty good!</description>
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<a href="http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/">Kalsey's button maker interface</a> for <a href="http://www.minimalverbosity.com/2003/May/19/buttons.htm">Bill Zeller's brilliant button maker application</a> is pretty sweet. Here's my button!
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      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-05-23T11:24:31+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Century Project</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/05/05/the_century_project.html</link>
      <description>A series of nude photographs accompanied by highly personal and moving statements by women whose lives span 100 years. </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thecenturyproject.com/">Frank Cordelle</a>:</p>
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The words and pictures combine to form a powerful statement about body image, society's portrayal of women in the media, sexuality, pornography, and women's health issues.  For some, this is pretty controversial stuff...yet the simple fact that women have invited me (a man) to exhibit and speak in Churches (3 times!) and on the campuses of Colleges and Universities, by itself speaks volumes about the way in which Century has been received, and what it's value has been. </q></em></blockquote>]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-05-05T18:13:51+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Earth view</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/12/07/earth_view.html</link>
      <description>A neat GPL software to view data geographically.</description>
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<img alt="screenshot" src="http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/images/earthview.jpg" width="150" height="113" border="1" hspace="2" vspace="2" align="right" />
I came across a neat C program called <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/earthview/?topic_id=135">EarthView</a>:<blockquote>
Earthview produces a view or an image file output of an arbitrary region of the Earth, showing the elevation of lands and depth of oceans across the globe. It also supports other data sets such as the population density. The package only includes low-resolution samples, but earthview can make use of the GTOPO30 or ETOPO2 data sets, which have a resolution better than 1km on most land areas, and better than 4km in the oceans.
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      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-12-07T11:30:57+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>SMIL</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/12/04/smil.html</link>
      <description>Devshed has an article on SMIL. Good technology, needs broader coporate support.</description>
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Last year, I used SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language -
a little bit. It is fairly simple XML. At the time, I used RealPlayer to view the
documents. There could be many more viewers available now. <a href="http://www.devshed.com/Client_Side/Multimedia/SMILe/page1.html">Devshed
introductory article</a> is  a good starting point.
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      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-12-04T08:56:13+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Getting interested in SVG</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/12/03/getting_interested_in_svg.html</link>
      <description>I hadn&apos;t looked into SVG before, but it looks pretty useful.</description>
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I'm mildly getting interested in <a href="http://www.adobe.com/svg/">SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics</a>.  <a href="http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/DC44FAA6F9E47C2386256B60006DADC9?OpenDocument">IBM dW tutorial</a> - free registration required - is a great starting place.
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      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-12-03T09:11:44+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Astronomic Picture of the Day</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/10/28/astronomic_picture_of_the_day.html</link>
      <description>Great photographs</description>
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Nasa has an interesting site that shows a new <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/">astronomic picture, every day</a>. Stunning photographs. Should make for cool desktop backgrounds, though, some like shown below are just way too big.
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<p align="center"><a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020723.html"><img alt="everest_mackenzie_nasa.JPG" src="http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/images/everest_mackenzie_nasa.JPG" width="300" height="36" border="1" /></a><br/>
The view from Everest: Roddy Mackenzie
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      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-10-28T05:47:50+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Unsharp mask</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/09/21/unsharp_mask.html</link>
      <description>Make the photos look sharper using Unsharp Mask.</description>
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I neither the patience nor the "creative graphical sense" to touch up the photos I take to look good on the web.  Scanning these in is major nuisance. <a href="http://a.lifeuncommon.org/">Dawn</a> has put up a table of <a href="http://a.lifeuncommon.org/faqs/#UnsharpMasks">Unsharp Mask</a> settings she use to make her great photos look sharp. <em>I don't know why it is named <q>Unsharp Mask</q>, when the effect is to make it sharper!</em>
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<p>For folks like me who can't shell out $700 for Photoshop, Gimp or Imagemagick would do just as well. Let us see what we can do with this image - it is a traditional lamp from Kerala.</p>

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      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-09-21T22:11:15+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>About skins</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/03/02/about_skins.html</link>
      <description>UI expert Jef Raskin talks skins with osOpinion. &quot;We must choose which is better: the ability to customize an ideal...</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>UI expert Jef Raskin <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16564.html">talks skins</a> with osOpinion. <em>"We must choose which is better: the ability to customize an ideal desktop for a platform, or the use of a less-than-ideal desktop in order to achieve consistency."</em></p>

<p>I would vote for keeping consistency, but providing ability to customize. He thinks customization can hinder user's productivity. May be true, but IMO, each person knows what works for them the best - though majority of the people don't think about it like that.</p>]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-03-02T08:06:48+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Script to make thumbnails</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2001/10/15/script_to_make_thumbnails.html</link>
      <description>A Python script that uses PIL to generate thumbnail images. [link]...</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Python script that uses PIL to generate thumbnail images.<br />
[<a href="http://www.museweb.com/python/thumbnails.html">link</a>]</p>]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2001-10-15T08:00:00+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Copyright text added to photos</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2001/08/06/copyright_text_added_to_photos.html</link>
      <description>Thanks to a small batch script using ImageMagick on Win98. I had to convert tons of photos at work and...</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to a small batch script using ImageMagick on Win98. I had to convert tons of photos at work and discovered that ImageMagick is as stable on Windows as on Unix.<br />
[<a href="http://vsbabu.org/album/">link</a>]</p>]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2001-08-06T08:00:00+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Installing PIL for Zope on Windows</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2001/07/01/installing_pil_for_zope_on_windows.html</link>
      <description>Python Imaging Library (PIL) can be used to make cool products for Zope. Installing this was a tricky job for...</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Python Imaging Library (PIL) can be used to make cool products for Zope. Installing this was a tricky job for me.<br />
[<a href="http://vsbabu.org/webdev/zopedev/pil4win.html">link</a>]</p>]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2001-07-01T08:00:00+05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Image Robot</title>
      <link>http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2001/03/08/image_robot.html</link>
      <description>JASC Software has a software called Image Robot which I tried for some time. It is essentially like Image Magick...</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JASC Software  has a software called Image Robot which I tried for some time. It is essentially like Image Magick  packaged in a GUI. Perhaps I should try making some thing like this using Python Imaging Library and wxPython.<br />
[<a href="http://www.jasc.com/">link</a>]</p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2001-03-08T08:00:00+05:00</dc:date>
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