Felice Beato in 1866 made a complete Panorama of Yedo, Edo (now Tokyo) Japan comprising five albumen prints, which actually comprises seven photographs joined together almost seamlessly for a total length of more than 2 metres (6 1/2 ft) see picture below. His mastery was flawless over photography, however now people have gained the power of computing and graphics.

1865 or 1866 Panorama of Yedo from Atagoyama: a panorama (comprising five albumen prints) of Edo (now Tokyo), showing daimyo residences
Picture Credt – Wikipedia –

If you’re trying to capture that amazing view, but one picture doesn’t do it justice, one can create a panorama with multiple images in Windows 7 using Windows Live Photo Gallery. Under create tab menu, select multiple images and and with just one click of Panorama button stitch mutiple photos.

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Check the video below to understand the usage of this feature.

Use below steps to use ‘Snaps’ feature:

1. Drag the title bar of a window to the left or right side of the screen until an outline of the expanded window appears.
2. Release the mouse to expand the window.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 with another window to arrange the windows side by side.

Even more simple, one can even make it happen throught short-cut keys (windows logo key + right arrow or windows logo key + left arrow)

Via – WindowsTeamBlog

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While browsing the web whenever you visit any site and if you liked the person or the site and wish to follow them on twitter then we are redirected on the twitter where we could easily hit the follow button. There is an easier alternative in this regard which is brought up by a recently launched web-app. The idea on which this web-app is based on is awesome and revolutionary.

Twiup.com is a web-app that lets you find and discover relevant people who have similar interests as of yours by just browsing a directory at Twiup.com. You can easily discover people you really want to follow.

To get started with Twiup, all you need to do is just login in your twitter account using Oauth method and allow access to the application. Moreover, to find people of your likes you just need enter few tags or keywords that suits to your interest the best and rest is done by twiup, it will perform the time consuming search for you and then allow you to take actions and select people you would like to follow. This web-app also allows you to find the most influential people in the respective field you are looking for on the basis of what people have voted.

As everything has its pros and cons so this web-app also has. I have already pointed out the pros. The cons are that, this web-service is not free and according to me $8 per month is bit high for this service. The directory it filters out as per your tags is not up to the mark as it doesn’t shows the most influential people, at least for now, obviously it may show up when the all the people will join it.

However, the idea behind the service is good and can do better in future, if implemented in a planned way.

What do you think about this web-app? Try discovering relevant people on your topic with this app and check whether you end it right or not?

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Sculptris is a nice ‘Free’ Nifty tool for 3-D modeling and sculpturing over the computer. Moreover, the tool is freely downloadable, doesn’t occupy much space comparing to other 3D modeling software tools such as Google’s Sketchup or 3DPlus and less complicated when it comes to handling and using it.

As per the creator of the tool Tomas Pettersson for whom Sculptris is just unpaid hobby project will stay small and focused at the main task of sculpting and painting models with minimal features comparing to other big brand apps already available such as ZBrush, Blender, Maya etc.

The tool is really focused at sculpting & modeling with ease, to see how to play with this nifty tool and how to really use it watch the video below;

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Google is also giving personalized Laptop Stickers free for a limited time if you are already using Google Apps or even if you are planning to join.

If you are already a Google App user you may put yourself or your organization over the Google map here

Also, more interesting part is that Google has also announced Google Apps migration tool that helps people or organization who are using Microsoft Exchange to migrate to Google Apps in easy steps. Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company’s email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The similar migration is also available for Lotus notes users.

One can see use this small Google Apps calculator utility tool so as to see how much you can save for a given number of employees while using Google Apps premier edition in place of Microsoft Exchange 2007, you might see a huge difference.

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Apparently, called itself as Dashboard, the app has all CRM and Lead management capabilities such as automatic to-do creation, document management, agenda, notes, simple user management, keep track of appointments, phone calls & all of your other to-do’s with a simple calendar and sales management traits such as sales process, to-do lists, lead sources, lead template etc.

The app has fantastic UI and some of the pretty good user experience elements that compel the users to indulge more in the app and they use it, also wider functionalities that a web based CRM or Lead management system should have.

At moment a free beta account has a 5 user per account limit.

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In India Agriya Infoway a chennai based web solution company provide ready made social network software called Kootali with a price tag of $247 and contains all the features you would expect in a professional social network package, friends, albums, sending messages, groups, events and more. Interestingly the company also provides other scripts as well such as social bookmarking script, video sharing software.

In a similar fashion another chennai based company i-netsolution provide commercial PHP based Orkut Clone with similar layout/ look-n-feel as Orkut is having along with admin interface so any amateur HTML developer can run it likewise to blogging software, watch the user view of same here.

iScripts.com is providing an another PHP based open source online community portal script called iScripts SocialWare with all social networking portal features with mulitple theme/ layouts along with Gift store that can support real gifts or virtual gifts. This open source script will cost you as low as $99.

Free Open Source Scripts

Inspite of all these commercially available scripts there are more free open source scripts available than commerical ones to host install them on your own servers and play with and monetize it for you own good such as PHPFox, Elgg, Dolphin etc.

MakeUseOf has published last year 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Softwares and Mashable’s 10 of the Best Open Source Social Platforms have listed some of the chosen one among them.

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Planzone provide many of innovative features and collaborative ways to manage project completion plan. With its Planzone community it provide more of the community feature using project templates and public and private database to opt and at the same time advertise, publicize and promote your company.

Planzone has also been certified and been granted sponsorship by “OSEO-Innovation”, a French public institution (under the authority of the French Ministry of Economy). Moreover, the business tool is available in Dutch, English, French, German, and Russian languages and will soon be available in more languages in future.

The business tool is continuously making efforts and improvisation in application and receiving feedback and help/ support through Planzone Forum.

The free trial option when chosen provide at most 2 projects to be managed in application along with 25MB of document and file storage space with maximum of 5 users.

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Entities currently rated on the site include Google, HP, Intel, Infosys and currenttly infamous Satyam Computers and other companies, schools and colleges from India along with US, Japan, Germany, UK etc.The site also allows users to sign-in through open-ID or Google/Yahoo/Facebook/ AOL login IDs

Users can contribute the parameters being rated. The parameters are rated on a 0 to 10 scale. Semantic analytics can be easily done in a single click. No text based review is allowed, thus helping readers a quick understanding on the reputation of any entity.

It’s a way of looking at ratings in a social networking set-up. By becoming a member, user can invite his community to rate anything, look at their connected members ratings, filter data based on demographically similar people, re-compute score based on parameters that are important to each user. Therefore the rating is now customized and very relevant for every user.

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Taroby can be used online through internet browser for private and professional use, serving Clients, individuals, SME businesses, international companies and other global teams & work-groups. One can take a Test Drive of demo web app.

In company’s own words – “In traditional email clients, the inbox is a mere interface to read and write emails. Taroby however is something different: Through its innovative functions, it makes the inbox much more powerful than ever before, providing new strategies and a competitive edge to the user for working more efficiently and productively. It empowers normal inboxes with a complete work flow, task management and ticket system and thus helps organizations to holistically improve their internal and external communications. It is ideally suited for SMEs or work groups of any kind.”

Other than sharing of email accounts with others and assigning of messages to members in the team the other interesting features of Taroby to note are:

• Access & restriction rights management (e.g. read / write / delete)
• Attaching of comments per message (e.g. working instructions etc)
• A complete overview of all incoming message streams (Unified Messaging: Faxes, SMS,
  E-Mail, Postal…)
• Usage of predefined filters and rules for automatic message delivery
• Sharing of folders, text- and design templates
• Complete transparency and tracking of any message (who received, read, forwarded,
  answered, deleted, assigned, comments left, moved etc)
• Free definable automations (e.g. Follow-up, email and sms reminders, send at a
  particular time/date, send after authorization and so on)
• No installations on the client necessary.
• Automatic updates on central server (SaaS, no need to install any upgrades on local computers in the future).

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