Create Quicktime panoramas and embed them in your website requiring only Flash on the user's PC

Here's how to make panoramas in the Quicktime format to be embedded in your website. Using this method the only plugin required on the user's computer is Flash:

1. First take your photos, getting all 360 degrees – I think it will help if you use a tripod, as on my test run some objects had blurred edges because I moved around as I took them.
2. Download and open up AutoStitch (Click on "Download (Windows demo)" at the top).
3. Go to the edit menu, then options and set scale % to 25 in the top left corner and select the scale radio button. If set too high it will give out of memory errors, if you want a higher resolution try increasing it until it gives errors. The best setting for you will depend on the resolution of your camera.
4. Go to the file menu and click open then find all of the photos you took, select them all and click open.The photos will be stitched together, and if you don’t get any out of memory errors, the finished picture will eventually appear. If you get an out of memory error, go to step 3 and decrease the scale.
5. Next download and start PanoSphereConv (scroll down).
6. Click on open in the top left, and find your pano.jpg file which will have been placed in the same folder as the original photos by Autostitch.
7. The image will appear, click save at the top, then go down to single image, then use the highest resolution.
8. A save box will appear, save this new file e.g. as pano2.jpg.
9. Close PanoSphere.
10. Download and open Pano2QTVR Gui.
11. Click on create new project, and choose somewhere to save it.
12. Select Equirectangular.
13. Click on the "…" button indicated in the diagram, and locate the file you just created with PanoSphere.
14. Click the create button.A .MOV file will be placed in the location you saved the project and a preview will be shown.

If you want to embed your panorama in a webpage only requiring users to have Flash installed on their system, check out CuTy. See a preview here.

To set up CuTy on your website:

1. Find your .MOV file, and put it in the CuTy folder you've placed in your website directory.
2. You can either rename CuTy.swf to the same name as the MOV file (with .swf at the end) or rename the .MOV file CuTy.mov.
3. Upload the entire CuTy folder to the website (you can rename it as the name of the panorama shot). Create HTML to embed the swf (this can be generated using Dreamweaver – Insert>Media>Flash) - you will need to make the path to the swf relative so it will work online – e.g. "/panorama1/CuTy.swf" rather than "file://c:\documents etc".

The accuracy and effectiveness of these instructions is not guaranteed, as I wrote them some time ago!

Shy Boy - Katie Melua Guitar Chords

INTRO (on bass)
am
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-0--------0-----------------------------------------------
---0-0-3----0-3-3-0---------------------------------------


----c
I'm sittin' in the window of a street cafe
-am
Watchin' you walking by each day
-c
It seems that you always wanna look my way
em-f-------dm--------------b#--g#
Hey, you can't deny, boy
----------------am
You're such a shy boy

So good looking you seem to be
But you're too tongue-tied to say hi to me
You could make it happen so easily
Woah, I'll tell you why boy
cos i'm looking for a shy boy

f-------em----g---am
Most guys advertise
--dm--------am--------dm--am-
By making eyes and telling lies
-f--em----g---am
If you only knew
dm-------------------------------------e
You could make your dreams come true
--dm-----------------e
All you gotta do is ask me to

If this was a quiz on a tv show
And the prize was a guy who would love me so
Whatever they ask, the answer i know
Hey, my reply boy
Is gimme a shy boy

Most guys advertise
By making eyes and telling lies
If you only knew
You could make your dreams come true
All you gotta do is ask me to

Some guys act a bit too sure
And maybe you're thinkin' that less is more
But honey, you still gotta knock on my door
Hey, just try boy
And you could be my boy

------------dm--------------b#--g#
I'll tell you why boy
am
Cuz I'm looking for a shy boy

Just try boy
You're such a shy boy

Tous Les Animaux Sont Tristes - Ralph McTell Guitar Chords

INTRO--D--C/D--B/D--A/D-
G--------D---C----------D
Tous les animaux sont tristes
C-------------D------G
Apres avoir faire l'amour
G-------------D----------C--------D
Wondering if there was more than this
C-------------------D--------G---[--------F#/G---Em-
Wishing that there could be more-[just a little more. ]
--Asus-Am---D--C/D--B/D--A/D-]

G----------------D-----C---D
Harry bought a little boat
G---------------------D----------C---D
And with his boat he made some money
G---------------------D---------------C---D
His wife bore him a daughter and two sons
G---------------------D---------------C---D
The sun shone and they were never hungry
G-----------------D---------------C---D
He bought more boats, a bigger house
G-----------------D-------C---D
And more ships were his goal
G----------D-----C-----D
But even after making love
G---------------------D------C---D
There was a darkness in his soul.

Chorus

His fortune and his children grew strong
His wife slept sweet contented
He paced the floor till dawn sometimes
Until the night relented
One morning he heard a song bird sing
A song to take his darkness away
And he put a roof over his garden
So that forever it would stay.

Chorus

But the songbird was small and plain
With its heartache healing song
And he tired of the repetition
And wished that it was gone
So he tore the roof from off his garden
But he'd fed the bird and it remained
Till he shot a silver arrow through her heart
And his darkness came again.

Chorus

In time the children forgot
The loss of their singing bird
And the light came back to their garden
As his emptiness returned
So he sailed away in one of his ships
Married a rich widow in America
In photographs they were always smiling
He needed her but did he really love her?

Chorus

Sand in Your Shoes - Ralph McTell Guitar Chords

D-------------------------
Bm----------------------D
You don't so much feel dirty
------Em--------F#/Em---G
You just feel like a fool
G-------------A------D
You were way past thirty
--------------Bm-------------------A
She was hardly out of school
-------Bm------------A
I can understand the way you feel
-------D------------F#/G-----G
Your pride's been somewhat bruised
------G-------Em-------F#/G------G
You cried the dust from out of your eyes
-------------A------------------G
But you've still got sand in your shoes,
A-------------------------D
Got a little sand in your shoes.

The Power of the Babe (Labrynth) by David Bowie - Chords

Couldn't find this one anywhere on the internet :D This is the version in the film not the song version.

G--D (X6)

F----------------------------------------Dm
I saw my baby, crying hard as babe could cry
What could I do
-----------F-----------
My baby's love had gone
------------------Dm
And left my baby blue
Nobody knew

C-------------F-----C-------F
What kind of magic spell to use
C------------F
Slime and snails
-----C-----------F
Or puppy dogs' tails
C--------------F
Thunder or lightning

Then baby said
A----------------------------------D
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
-----------------------------------
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
F#--------------E-----------D
Put that baby spell on me
A-------------------------------D
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
--------------------------------
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
F#---------------E-------
Put that magic jump on me
D----------------------------
Slap that baby, make him free


G--D (X3)
Repeat chorus without singing
G--D (x4)


F----------------------------------------Dm
I saw my baby, crying hard as babe could cry
What could I do
-----------F-----------
My baby's love had gone
------------------Dm
And left my baby blue
Nobody knew

C-------------F-----C-------F
What kind of magic spell to use
C------------F
Slime and snails
-----C-----------F
Or puppy dogs' tails
C--------------F
Thunder or lightning

Then baby said
A----------------------------------D
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
-----------------------------------
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
F#--------------E-----------D
Put that baby spell on me
A-------------------------------D
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
--------------------------------
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
F#---------------E-------
Put that magic jump on me
D----------------------------
Slap that baby, make him free

Bell melody

E--5-3-2-------2-3-5----------------------------
B------5-3-5-------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------

Here's the extract from the film

Sluggish Windows Media Player in Windows Vista with Sigmatel Sound Card

If you are experiencing Windows Media Player loading times slower than your last computer in Windows Vista, you may have a Sigmatel sound card; here's how to fix it.
1. Right click on your sound icon in the corner, and click on playback devices.
2. Underneath the Speakers/Headphones item, it should say "SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC" if it doesn't then you have a different sound card, this tip may not work for you.
3. Double click on Speakers/Headphones.
4. Place a tick in "Disable All Enhancements" even if none of the enhancements below have a tick next to them. If they do, untick them.
5. OK your way out, Windows Media Player should be much faster with no stuttering.

NOTE: If you have surround sound music may not play out of all your speakers at once with enhancements disabled.

GrabBee X+ trouble - how to get it working with XP SP2 (and maybe SP3)

If you are having problems with your grabbee appearing as a 2801 device or something similiar, this is what worked for me..

First, unplug your grabbee and uninstall all software related to it (jukebox, usb audio/video driver, etc)
Click here to go to the VideoHome website with the latest driver, download it (this will take some time as they seem to have slow servers) Install this driver and reboot. Now plug your Grabbee back in. This is strange but it worked for me: go to Device Manager (start, run, type "devmgmt.msc" and hit enter) under Sound, video and game controllers find 2801 USB device (or something similiar) and right click on it. Choose properties and click on the Driver tab. Next click on update driver, then choose advanced on the wizard. Next click "I will choose the driver to install" at this point you may have a choice of a USB 2801 device or a GrabbeeX+, choose GrabbeeX+ then click "have disk". Browse to where you downloaded the updated drivers and drill down to "Manual driver" then "32 bit" (or 64 if you're on 64 bit windows I would guess!) and click OK. Click next and the new driver should now install. When this is finished close device manager and insert the CD that came with you grabbee and browse to the "AP Software" folder and run Setup.exe, to install the video jukebox program. There is an updated version of this on the videohome website but it did not work at all for me. Once that is installed run the jukebox software and it should now be working!

Leave a comment if this helped you or if you have any suggestions to improve this method!