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A very long time ago my aunt gave us a comic poster about our national airport, Schiphol. We all love it and it has had its times while it it was hanging on the wall. Our kids used pens and pencils on it, tore it accidentally off the wall, etc. when they were little. Now it was so damaged, we could not show it to visitors anymore so we tore it down and to preserve it, I digitized it in pieces and stitched them together with Photoshop. Amazing how good and smart Photoshop is with this stitching!! After that I also removed, as much as I could, all our children's pen and pencil drawings but I left the damaged, taped corners and all the creases, which add some life to it.



The big one, ideal as a desktop background, is contained in this ZIP-file: schiphol-poster (17.2 MB)

This time I felt like implementing PTViewer inside a blog-post just to see the effect. The photo is a panorama of Baldeneysee, which was also on Panoramio (Panoramio is shut down by Google).

Update 2018: PTviewer.jar doesn't run anymore in webbrowsers, due to security restrictions.
So here's the photo in it's full:



Click to enlarge

A new version of HandbrakePM, the batch video conversion tool based on the famous HandBrake video converter, is now available:

v1.5 (8-sep-2012)
- Found a way to reactivate the app after processing so it responds to mouse clicks again. Hopefully this solves the problem where the app would not come forward.

v1.4 (7-sep-2012)
- Replaced the 'Done'-window with a text below the list-window, since the sheet-window-state did not react to mouse clicks when the app was in the background and ready with a conversion.
- Changed the Growl-scripts so now they should work on newer MacOS and Growl installations.
- Made Growl-notifications sticky, like Handbrake does.

A new version of SetEXIFData, my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey, is now available:

v3.3 (8-sep-2012)
Fix:
- Found a way to reactivate the app after processing so it responds to mouse clicks again. Hopefully this solves the problem where the app would not come forward.

v3.2 (07-sep-2012)
New:
- Added support for a sticky Growl message when processing has finished, which lists all processed images.

Changes:
- Replaced the 'Done'-window with a text below the list-window, since the sheet-window-state did not react to mouse clicks when the app was in the background and ready with a conversion.
- Changed the sheet-window into a movable modal.

For every one interested, I have some MP3Fiesta.com invites. You can use them to be able to register there and buy digitized music cheap.

Note: each link can be used only once to sign up. If you do not sign up, the link remains available to others.

 https://www.mp3fiesta.com/?r#invite:8c75893b6a253e6cf762

 https://www.mp3fiesta.com/?r#invite:63e1ff34fbf4dcd15e54

 https://www.mp3fiesta.com/?r#invite:9a518802b20f5e4865ae

 https://www.mp3fiesta.com/?r#invite:8e9ecd61ffd0944086ff

 https://www.mp3fiesta.com/?r#invite:db949f3a4ec10a93766e

Have fun!
 

Trees through Tree

Zuid-Hollandse Molen at sunrise

Ik heb onlangs een erg leuk boek gelezen: Nederlandse Wereldreizigers door Johan van Hulzen uit 1947, met daarin verhalen over 12 wereldreizen, gemaakt door Nederlanders:

01 - De eeuwige reis (De Vliegende Hollander)
02 - Naar het hart van Azië (Willem van Rubroeck)
03 - In Portugese dienst (Jan Huygen van Linschoten)
04 - Om de noord (Willem Barents en Jacob van Heemskerck)
05 - De eerste schipvaart naar Indië (Cornelis de Houtman)
06 - De wereld om (Olivier van Noort)
07 - Schipper, Koopman en Ondernemer (David de Vries)
08 - Op zoek naar het Zuidland (Abel Tasman)
09 - Een verkenning van de Stille Oceaan (Mr. Jacob Roggeveen)
10 - De eerste Nederlandse luchtreis naar Indië (A.N.J. Thomassen à Thuessink van der Hoop, H. van Weerden Poelman, P.A. van den Broeke)
11 - De tocht van de K XVIII (D.C.M. Hetterschij)
12 - De Melbourne-Race (Koene Dirk Parmentier)

Ter illustratie van de betreffende reis begint elk verhaal met een erg leuke pentekening. Deze tekeningen heb ik gescand en zijn op deze pagina te zien en te downloaden, mocht je dat willen. Veel kijkplezier!

Ik vond deze uitgave over misleiding in de journalistiek d.m.v. foto's in de boekenkast tijdens het opruimen en omdat het zo leuk is en zeldzaam, heb ik deze gedigitaliseerd. De PDF is hier te downloaden: Lens om Lens, Krant om Krant: een kroningsweek misleiding met dagbladfoto's.