Archive for the ‘Multimedia’ Category

6 Portable iPod Managers – iTunes Alternatives

Posted by rajivvishwa On March - 29 - 2010

This post talks about few portable ipod managers which can directly run from USB devices and sync with your iPods. If you don’t want to install the heavyweight iTunes in your PC, choose any of the apps discussed here.

Various apps discussed in this post are

  1. Floola
  2. iDump
  3. YamiPod
  4. SharePod
  5. SongBird
  6. MediaMonkey

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Amazing Simplistic Online Sketch Pad

Posted by rajivvishwa On September - 21 - 2009

Odosketch is an online sketchpad and does not have too many things which clutters your work area. But you have enough to create a mindblowing work of art.

Odosketch a4apphack Sample

Using Odosketch cant be easier. Just select the crayon type and color you want and start sketching. Once done, it can be saved and shared with other odosketch artists. The saved sketch can be retrieved from our profile later on for further enhancement.

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Who’s on First? Typography

Posted by rajivvishwa On May - 15 - 2009

Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First?” routine using typography only.

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Fight Club – Chemical Burn – Kinetic Typography

Posted by rajivvishwa On May - 15 - 2009

A typography experiment animated and designed by graphic artist Sebastian Jaramillo based on the movie Fight Club on the scene “Chemical Burn”.

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Author website : http://www.sebastianjt.com

Typolution – Animation Made Only of Letters

Posted by rajivvishwa On May - 15 - 2009

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This text animation was created by French designer Oliver Beaudoin.
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Amazing Shadow Show @ Pilobolus

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 16 - 2009

Dont miss this amazing shadow dance

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Seam Carving – Intelligent Image Resizing Algorithm

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 13 - 2009

SeamCarve Technique

Seam carving is an image resizing algorithm developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. This algorithm alters the dimensions of an image not by scaling or cropping, but rather by intelligently removing pixels from (or adding pixels to) the image that carry little importance.

The importance of a pixel is generally measured by its contrast when compared with its neighbor pixels, but other measures may be used. Additionally, it’s possible to define (or autodetect) areas of high importance (faces, buildings, etc.) in which pixels may not be deleted, and conversely, areas of zero importance which should be removed first. From this information, the algorithm detects seams (continuous lines of pixels joining opposite edges of the image) which have the lowest importance, and deletes those. This shrinks the image by one horizontal or vertical line, depending on which direction the seam ran.

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Seam carving can also be run in reverse by adding interpolated pixels along the lowest energy seam.

With this technique, it’s now possible to reduce or enlarge pictures by a wide range, while still retaining details. In normal image scaling, it’s often not possible to scale about factor greater than 2 or less than 0.5, without losing much of the images quality.

More Info : SeamCarving

Check out SeamCarving plugin for GIMP (Examples here)

Stream Mp3 Online with Mixtape

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 8 - 2009

MixTape is an amazing online mp3 player which allows us to search and play our favorite music. The dark interface and sleek controls are very much attractive. Streaming is pretty fast and plays music with excellent quality. We do have options to create and save playlists easily.

MixTape Player

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Create and Publish 3D Movies Online for Free

Posted by rajivvishwa On March - 29 - 2009

Ideally, for creating 3d animated videos one would need an expensive 3d modelling tool and of course knowledge on writing scripts. This might be a laborius process which requires skill and practice which stops from a normal man to create one. But times change, and we have an online 3d animation creator which can be used to create and publish our movies in matter of seconds.

Xtranormal is an online application which turns your imagination to life. Creating animations with Xtranormal is very easy and can be accompolished in four simple steps.

  1. Pick your scene (Backgrounds, Music, Actor Skin etc)
  2. Type the script (Not the ‘scripts’ in programming terms, here we mean dialogues)
  3. Add actions and sounds (Just drag-n-drop)
  4. Publish & Share ( In video sharing sites like YouTube or in Xtranormal catalog)

Xtranormal Editor

Xtranormal Editor

Sample Video

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[Alternate Link : High Quality Version]

Check out more videos at Xtranormal YouTube Channel & Video Catlog

Publishing Video to Youtube

Once you create your animations, it can be easily published in YouTube easily.

Check these videos to understand more…

Xtranormal Version

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Video Version

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Tell Me Why – Declan Galbraith

Posted by rajivvishwa On March - 24 - 2009

“Tell Me Why” – Truely inspiring song from Declan Galbraith
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