I was playing with Windows Live Photo Gallery & Microsoft Image Composite Editor when I came across Microsoft’s HD View. This new technology allows you to view High Resolution Pictures & Panoramas with fluid ease. In fact, I found it so cool that after looking at examples, I decided to try my own hands on it. So, I dug few panoramic images in my archive that I had taken back in 2007 during my Sarpass trek of YHAI. And here is the result. Tell me what you think of it.

The total size is around 3.5 Megabytes so don’t worry about it. The updated version has more depth as  the stitch is created from ~20 original images of 2048px X 1536px. The total dimension of final image was 7458px X 1974px @ 14.04 MP which was then cropped down to 7298px X 1075px @ 7.48 MP giving a total size of ~11MB. Now that’s something to worry about if you have limited bandwidth.

Click here to visit the full view page.

You will need HD View installed on your system. Also, this feature is currently available only on windows.

Recently, I wanted to use Google Talk plugin(comes along with installation of Google Talk) for Windows Media Player that sets the currently playing song as your status message(Wow! Why Yahoo! couldn’t think of something like that????). Now as long as I used to use MS Windows XP, it wasn’t an issue et all. But the problem started when I tried to used in WMP 11 on Windows Vista Home Premium that came bundled with my Dell Studio 15 laptop. As soon as I tried to enable the plugin, WMP would crash and I couldn’t understand why!!!

After a wee bit of Googling, I came accross this thread which actually explained the cause behind it. While you can obviously visit the thread for info, I’m including the steps, here, for your ease.

Basically, the problem is caused as Google Talk fails to properly register gtalkwmp1.dll. So what we need to do is register it manually.

• Goto Start > Run.
• type cmd and press Enter.
• type cd\ and press Enter in the newly opened Command Console Window.

cd "Program Files"
cd Google
cd "Google Talk"
regsvr32 gtalkwmp1.dll

• As soon as you hit enter on line 4, a window will show that the file has been registered successfully.
• Now re-enable the plugin from Windows Media Player and it should work smoothly (atleast it worked for me :) )

Links

http://groups.google.com/group/Finding-Solutions/browse_thread/thread/b07627597f49979e
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46532

Since today morning, BSNL Broadband has been acting weird whereby few of the sites that I regularly visit or manage suddenly stopped working. The first time I noticed about this problem was around 10 AM today morning when I was trying to access my site hosted at byethost.com. Initially I thought this had to do something with bad DNS servers which BSNL is prone to and therefore, I switched to UltraDNS’s free DNS servers for this purpose. While the cause of the same is not found yet, below is the list of sites that I tried to access and found it to be not working

1. http://www.khagol.net (hosted on http://www.byethost.com)
2. http://www.8051electronicprojects.co.cc/ (hosted on http://www.byethost.com)
3. http://www.ultradns.com
4. http://www.cocomments.com

Will update as list grows….

Also, it seems the sites are blocked by BSNL itself..have a look at this tracert…

This one is for khagol.net

Tracing route to khagol.net [209.190.24.3]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    39 ms    40 ms    41 ms  117.198.160.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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Trace complete.

Hope they do something about it.

Update (May 18)

The sites have become accessible but the quality seems little bit of degraded. The usual pings to a nearest server, I’ve known, have increased by 100 ms and varies heavily. Let’s hope everything will clear out ASAP.

Due to some issues on my hosting server, my site went down for almost 12 hrs. After talking with my reseller, the issue has been resolved and the site is now running smoothly.

I’m currently experimenting on Google Friend Connect’s Social Bar and also trying to create an extension for the same. So, you might get a glimpse of it here and there on the site. Not to worry about that

I’ll be available on Internet during day time now……as BB limit has been reset now…..SUL

As I’ve already consumed my 2.5 GB free limit of my ISP, I won’t be able to come online before 2 AM:(. So everyone is requested to take note of that.

After accidently deleting my blog folder, while porting it to my main domain, without any backup of the posts, it’s now up and running.

While going through Codeplex site, I saw that the final release of 1.5 was available and I used this uninvited opportunity to upgrade(read freshly install) to 1.5. From, my post history, the only relevant post was regarding my AddThis extension. So, I’ll just post it ASAP.

Meanwhile, if you tried to reach my site and felt any inconvenience, I really apologize for it.