Remote image annotation and some background stories
Low bandwidth issue again...
Images are big for playing ping-pong with them through GPRS, even if I resize them to 640x480, so it's a serious logistic problem for me how to publish, annotate and present them.
Image manipulation information is a fraction of photo image sizes. If we try to take advantage of this fact, we face another problem: most image manipulation softwares are even larger than images... or... constrained to certain platforms like the samurai sword like, ever green and magnificient IrfanView which runs on windows only...
Of course it's a one time pain to acquire some image manipulation utils, you would think. Well, for most of the people it's true, but for a traveller, like me, it's far from obvious again. I need several computers to make sure I have enough battery on the go and I have fallback machines if anything happens to the main ones, plus I also have some fixed computers and on top of that if I want to access broadband in an internet caffe it might be a problem or at least a hassle to connect my laptops to their network, so I have to deal with foreign systems too. It means my solutions should be cross platform if I don't want to be limited by time and place, which I just really don't want ;) Also it becomes a non-one-time task to obtain the required softwares.
Scenario 1
I've been at the cambodian barcamp at Phnom Penh and successfully left my bag unattended with my ASUS 1000HE in it on the seat of a motorbike taxi around 10pm for 2minutes at a small food market on the pavements of a dim-lit road crossing... Well, Cambodia is a cool country now with awesome people, but public security is not that extreme as the Singaporean one yet; it's more like Hungary...
I bought an ASUS 1101HA as a replacement because I thought how cool is it to have HD ready screen resolution. 10" was an okay display size but the 600 pixels vertically was inconvenient sometimes. I must warn
I have a picture uploaded already and I want to show something on it but textual description doesn't help.
has been stolen used it with Windows for ~2 month because it turned out to be not obvious to install a working video driver of the
I'm on Linux but it's freshly installed because I bought the machine ~3month ago.
rebview -v --do "view layout [image http://sa.sse.hu/~onetom/TH/xbananatree.jpg effect [ draw [pen red box 450x150 480x200] ]] q"