Stefan Martin Riesel

Convert Photo into 3D JPS 2D animated GIF for Picasa and Facebook


LG has integrated 3D Youtube in the first smartphone with 3D camera. But what about the photos, unless you, your friends and family have a way to view these photos in 3D, these are pointless in the computer or the Internet.
The Picasaweb, Flickr and Facebook has no role in 3D in your albums.
The only app for Android and I found this site that the unknown function is Phera :

In the "wiggle" it shows an animated GIF by changing the view from the right eye and left eye, so of course it is not always automatically good.
Working in Photoshop it is possible to make this transition more harmonica. But from what I have to be tested in Photoshop and the Gimp does not, although I love the Gimp.
For the GIF format supports only 256 colors, and the Gimp was very bad with the colors, the better able to optimize Photoshop.

Convert JPG to JPS

When you copy pictures 3D LG P920 (Optimus 3D) computer for this comes in JPS format. The problem is that the viewer of Windows shows up one of these images, but when you click on to see the next he's going to ignore the photos in JPG JPS.
The viewer Picasa and Photoshop also the last Disem who do not know the format, even though he is a simple JPG with a photo next to each other.
The Gimp opens correctly, but before I edit the photos to see them and classify them, either directly in Windows or Lightroom.
My solution was to make a copy of the JPS files to a new folder, enter via MS-DOS, but the old command window and then find the folder you want to just give the command:
ren *.jps *.jpg
That is to rename all jpg jps. Of course it is possible to do this manually one by one directly on windows.
Ready now the programs and Windows itself already understand what it is these files.

Convert to animated GIF with Photoshop

3D to 2D with Photoshop
So I set to begin an action in Photoshop to crop the jpg now in the middle and put each half in a layer. This action can be downloaded here:
www.riesel.com.br / JPS to GIF.atn
Not always the most important point of the photo with the overlay is correct, turn on and off to see the top layer.
If you want to improve the overlay change the layer opacity to 30% and more try positioning album object that is standing out in the center of the photo in the same position that this is in the lower layer.
Now to save an animated GIF of this in "File> Save for Web & Devices" (Schift + Alt + Ctrl + S)
Change the output resolution to a width of 800px if you send them to Picasaweb 500px or if you want to post on Facebook.
And since this file is a copy of the original JPS take this opportunity to actually save it as JPG. Check which of the layers is better and save it with only one image to JPG 2D normal.

Finally publish on the Web

To Picasaweb is not possible to send these GIF files for the program Picasa, you have to mount an album and add pictures on the Web site.
Apparently the animation is not seen in all browsers.
Facebook tried to send in all forms, aa one who has worked with the application http://apps.facebook.com/animated-picture and yet it often fails. This application will only publish the photo on the Wall, the images that are in their albums are all converted by Facebook and lose the animation.

Next Version of Android: F to Froyo

Following the line put the name of a dessert for each version of Mr. Andro Erick Tseng - Senior Product Manager of Android - said the next version will be the Froyo or frozen yogurt. The staff was betting on Flan for dessert with F.

Only it was not clear if this will be the version 2.x or 3.x

The current versions are Cupcake (1.5), Donut (1.6) and Eclair (2.0). I'm waiting for version 2.0 for the G1, I hope they can make it run with 192 MB of RAM. This sure Eclair already pledged to the Magic that has versions with 192 and 288 MB of RAM.

I am currently using version 1.6 of Android ROM with Cyanogen Mod 4.2.13 and more Theme MarksTheme, which leaves appeared and functions very similar to what I have seen in 2.0, but some failures and some plugins are still making me missing .

Source: phandroid.com

Google Maps Navigation outside the U.S.

The Google Navigation is a free browser that can do something that neither Tomtom or Garmin managed to do so soon, to show the path using the photos of the path itself. This has a browser that uses Street View, the idea is so good that a few hours after the announcement, the shares of both have had absurd drops of 16% (Garmin) and 21% (TomTom).

But Google has locked using the Navigation function in Google Maps on Android for anyone outside the U.S., nothing that the people at XDA can not solve. They put two versions available for those who want to try this super system, one for those who have root access and another for those without such access.

maps3.3.1-directions-by-the-root-2.apk (2.27 MB) or maps3.3.1-by-directions-root-2.apk (2.27 MB) ( the android-Tip hilfe.de )

To install the root is more complicated because you must uninstall and then install the Maps that changed with the commands:

adb remount

adb shell find / system / data-name \ * google \ * maps.apk \ *-o-name-delete Maps.apk

adb uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps

adb install-r-directions maps3.3.1-by-root-2.apk

adb reboot

Since the version-root installs in one second but this Maps folder (com.google.android.apps.m4ps) or they changed the maps by m4ps. I installed it this way so often keep updating the Maps and the first time I called the Navigation function he asked me to decide what I would use, then store and use marked for always m4ps.

Nav Launcher

Ready after we have released Navigation Nav Launcher install which is available in Market, is a simple screen with options to find a destination. Contacts appear only in your Google contacts that have registered address.

Another way to use it directly within the Navigation Maps, where it was now possible to set up a route can also ask to use the Navigation Route.

But not all flowers, in my tests it did not work in Portuguese, but it worked in English and German. Another problem is that Street View is not yet available either here or in Germany and in Brazil, so you can use it only on the map with satellite photos.

Still want to test it some more because without Street View he seems weaker than CoPilot Live, which despite being expensive has the maps offline.

PS

People! get the latest version 4.0 of the navigation maps for Brazil. Just install:

For those who have root, http://ul.to/cle2zs/maps4.0.0-1.6-brut3.apk

For those who do not have root access, http://ul.to/al55qq/maps4.0.0-1.6-brut3-nonroot.apk (4.0.0)

It's better than the version previously available ... 3.3.0.1. Now you can do the "pinch and zoom" (zoom with multi touch) and also save as a favorite!