Ward Ralston on Windows Server 2008 R2 RC

Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 R2 RC. Features that excite me include Hyper-V’s ability to do live migrations, Server Manager’s new ability to connect to remote servers, and improvements in Backups — now able to do more than just entire volumes. What really restored my interest in this R2 RC was this video of …

Windows Live Photo Gallery stitches too

My “In Stitches about AutoStitch” post explored three free panorama stitching programs that are capable of taking multiple photographs and seamlessly stitching them together into a single image. Of the three I played with, AutoStitch was the easiest to use and produced great results. When Greg read my story, he noted that I should give …

In Stitches about AutoStitch

This weekend I played with a few free panorama photo stitching programs. In particular, I tested out freeware AutoStitch, freeware GigaPan Stitcher, and open source Hugin (with plugins Panorama Tools, Enblend, and Autopano-SIFT). In short, AutoStitch was the easiest tool to use and produced panorama/stitched photographs equally as well or better than GigaPan or Hugin. …

Mobile uploads to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook

Capturing photos and videos via a mobile phone is easy. Posting those files online from a mobile phone, however, is often tedious. In most cases you would email or MMS photos individually to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook. I was looking for a way to upload multiple images and videos from my mobile phone in a …

Lazy Sitemap Generator

Stephen Turbek’s 2006 article entitled “The Lazy IA’s Guide to Making Sitemaps” and Michael Angeles’ “Automating Diagrams with Visio” inspired me to adopt the strategy of first developing a website’s navigation and information architecture in Microsoft Excel and then use Microsoft Visio to provide the automatic formatting. I love Visio and often find myself spending …