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Every colour has a reference number and there are often times when you need to check a colour. Perhaps you are working with HTML and need a hex number? Or in PowerPoint and want the RGB? There are lots of these programs available but I've recently come across a really nice one called ColorPix.

ColorPix is nice because it is small in all ways, on the screen (so it doesn't get in the way when you are sampling a colour) and the program itself is just one exe file of 605KB! You don't have to install it so you even could keep a copy on your USB flash drive.

It's easy to use too, just put the mouse pointer over something and the colour is shown in ColorPix - press a key and a lock symbol shows the colour is locked into ColorPix so you can take note of the RGB, hex, etc, numbers for that colour. The magnifier feature is very useful, where ever you put the pointer will be enlarged, you can change the zoom to whatever you want to see the most detail - see the example screen shot above.

Find out more and download it from here:
http://www.colorschemer.com/colorpix_info.php

Sometimes the simplest applications are the best, this is a classic example!
Recommended: 9/10

Introduction
Would you like to make dramatic photo panoramic pictures? To share and to allow the user to scroll through the photo as if moving their head to survey the landscape? There's an application called Photosynth that's free, easy and quick to use. It's been around since 2008 but oddly it hasn't had much attention.

http://photosynth.net/

You need a Microsoft Windows account to login. If you don't have one already just signup, it's free and has no strings attached. Plus you get free cloud storage with Skydrive and other goodies :-)

You can use the Windows Phone or iOS app (no Android or Blackberry apps unfortunately [6/12/2012]) to capture Photosynth images. Or you can use the Windows desktop app and any camera and some post processing - explained later.

Here's an example of a Photosynth I made with my Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows Phone 7.5:



This is the easiest method of making a Photosynth panorama because you do it immediately and upload it to the web straight from your phone.


Panoramas with a difference
You may notice that the above Photosynth is slightly different from a simple panorama. The difference is that you can pan more than just left and right. You can even zoom 'into' the picture. It's sort of 3D because in the above example I could've taken photos all around me and that would've made a completely 360 degree image! But I stopped short of that, it's still pretty good though, isn't it? After all, it was just five minutes work.


Panoramic photos from your camera
If you take a series of photos that overlap each other, you can stitch those pictures together to make panoramic photos to upload to Photosynth. To stitch photos together you should use a free Windows desktop app called Image Composite Editor - or ICE as it's more commonly known. Microsoft make both Photosync and ICE so they work together nicely. ICE allows you to stitch many photos together, it can even handle hundreds! Of course usually it's just three or four. Here's an example of a panorama picture I created and then changed into Photosynth:

In Flaine back in January 2011 I took the following photos with my Panasonic Lumix LX5 camera:


The above is just a resized sample to give you an idea. Each of the three original photos were high quality files around 3-4MB in size each. The LX5 has a 'panorama assist' feature that helped me line up each shot but it does not stitch the photos together in the camera. Using the PHOTOfunSTUDIO software that came with my LX5 I combined the above photos into the following very nice panoramic photo:


It looks great! But it is not easy to view, on Facebook for example, it looks rubbish because Facebook reduces the size. I've done the same thing here, I've reduced the size, the length of this graphic is 2806 pixels. The original panoramic image PHOTOfunSTUDIO made was 7643 pixels, you can image how wide a monitor you'd need to get the best out of such a photo.

Photosynth is the answer. I put the three source photos into ICE, it quickly made a 'synth' (sort of 3D panorama) and I uploaded it to Photosynth - here is the result:



Notice how you can see more detail, try zooming in on the people to the left. This really showcases your panoramic image.


Try it
It's free and it works so why not have some fun? Try Photosynth:
http://photosynth.net/

If you want to learn more about ICE specifically take a look here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/

Here's the Windows Phone app:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/photosynth/ef860a79-5f68-4ed6-aa21-c038d1a55517

[The above websites were last accessed 05/12/2012]


Conclusion
Photosynth is easy to use and fun. You can do more with your panoramic photos, you can display them easily on Facebook by posting a link. You can embed your Photosynth images in your own blog or website as I've done in this page. I think it breathes a bit of life into panoramic photos. I was not going to bother with them any more but I think now I'll do some because being able to move around the image in almost 3D is fun.

If you want something fun then try Photosynth.

Recommended: 8/10

Have you ever had data and wished you could display it in a more interesting way than the usual pie or bar chart? If the data isn't numbers but words or text then it's not easy either! There's a simple website called Wordle (www.wordle.net) where you can copy/paste words and it'll make a word image with them. The word that appears most in your list will be biggest. The word that appears less will be smaller. Instantly you can see which is more popular from a list of words. OK, enough words here and let's see an example:

I went to CNET and found the smartphone market share figures for the 3rd quarter of 2012:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57544131-94/android-beats-ios-5-to-1-in-q3-smartphone-market-share/ [accessed 28/11/2012]

I added the figures into Worlde's Advanced page like this:


As you can see above, you can write text, a colon, followed with percentages or any comparative numbers. The above are percentage of market share by smartphone operating system. Here's what Wordle made of these figures:


Maybe it wasn't the best example because Android has a huge 75% of the market and poor Windows Phone at the other end of the scale has only 2% so you can hardly see it (it's above the "o" in Android).

But can you see the potential? Of course the more data you put in the more dense the resulting graphic will be. You can also change the layout and direction of the text in the final image. The colour and font can also be changed. It gives you the possibility of expressing textual data in an interesting way. In the above example it's so obvious that Android has the biggest market share, you don't need to know any numbers, you can tell by the size of the word Android. Extremely visual!

Try it for yourself at www.wordle.net

                                                                     

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