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Viewing 3D Stereoscopic Images with your Bare Eyes OR Free 3D for Dummies

2011-12-09T00:24:00.003+05:00

First of all remember this and whenever you think about giving up, or, that you can't do it etc. Just say this to yourself

"I CAN DO THIS, I JUST HAVE TO NOT GIVE UP!!!"

(sorry for caps (but that was necessary) )

I assure you the results are WORTH it, definitely WORTHIT and I also agree that this will require lots of patience and training your eye muscles to do something that they never thought they could. Please follow this guide, if you skip steps, there is a huge chance you will mess it up and make it more harder for you.

LETS DIVE IN!

Make sure this image is roughly in center of your screen, you are viewing it from a normal reading distance and the screen is directly facing you. Done? Great now follow these steps.

Place middle finger between these two eyes just at the bottom of image so it won't block your view of image.
Focus on the TIP of your finger.
Slowly bring your finger towards your nose, staying focused on your finger, but paying attention to the background image in your peripheral vision. You will notice that instead of two images, there are four (or three) images floating about.
Continue bringing your finger closer to your nose until you see 3 images.
After some failures, cursing yourself and thinking about giving up, YOU WILL see three images in the background. The middle one contains the left/right images overlapped.
The middle image is your prize. It will be hard to keep it focused at first, it will get blurry or vanish completely, but you should keep on trying by adjusting your finger until you succeed on getting a stable sharp middle image.
Now Slowly try to remove your finger from your field of vision, while keeping the middle image focused and sharp. If you fail try again from previous step.
Gradually force your focus out to the combined left/right image in the middle.
If you have problems keeping a lock on the middle image, try leaving your finger in the image for a while, but still focusing on the center image. Use your finger to regain left/right fusion.
If at first you fail, don't worry. It took me a while. Relax, go away and rest your eyes, and try it again later.

NOTE: This won't be visually interesting but is a must do.

Once you have mastered the technique on the dots above, try the more complicated image below. While still having only two depth planes, it should be visually more interesting.

NOTE: Practice should be done on this simple image before moving on to more complicated scenes.

If you get this Image right, you would literally be in a WOW state. If you still fail try from simple (first) image again.

Congratulation! You have graduated. Now you can go on and try awesome stuff.

Once you are done with that, reap the fruits (links below), and believe me above practice is really worth your 30 mins (you will spend much less time actually).

PROTIPS:

The larger the image the farther from screen you have to focus OR you have to make your eyes more "Crossed"
For Best results make sure image is in center of screen both vertically and horizontally with less clutter around it.

The reward is awesome right? Do let me know in comments how do you feel, or what problems you are having.

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http://www.digital-photography-school.com/9-crazy-cross-eye-3d-photography-images-and-how-to-make-them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilcreek/2032302267/
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6641565
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/2712820867_e7769dfc2d.jpg
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2VXP2OLV9hc0NDPpVxDk5A
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melonman/6425689589/in/pool-655209@N24/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/montekristum/6395292705/in/pool-655209@N24/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/montekristum/6395286461/in/pool-655209@N24/lightbox/

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The Me you have always known, the Me that's a stranger still!

2011-09-18T06:08:00.000+05:00

The Me, you have always known,
The Me, that's a stranger still

One and I, made two, then one
Only that far, can you run?

Time's like a sea
eternal it may be

One point alone
but next, to thee
however far, that might be

Shadowed beneath sun, open was the sky
falling was the rain, But He stood dry

Incomplete, as it may seem
once in a while, a hollowed dream

I was about to forget the lest
and memory played it's cruel jest

Her thoughts he always, tried to shun
But her memory, that he could not kill

The Me he had always known,
The Me, that's a stranger still!

On Society....

2011-09-08T02:27:00.000+05:00

It's a mystery to me

we have a greed
with which we have agreed

You think you have to want
more than you need
until you have it all you won't be free

society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me

When you want more than you have
you think you need
and when you think more than you want
your thoughts begin to bleed

I think I need to find a bigger place
'cos when you have more than you think
you need more space

society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

there's those thinking more or less less is more
but if less is more how you're keeping score?
Means for every point you make
your level drops
kinda like its starting from the top
you can't do that...

society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

society, have mercy on me
I hope you're not angry if I disagree
society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

Xession - An alternate Session library for Codeigniter

2011-08-26T04:52:00.003+05:00

I became pretty frustrated with the broken nature of Codeigniter's default session library. The worst thing is, it's working on one computer and breaks on another, works on this browser sometimes and not on that one, etc...

So I wrote my own library, "Xession".

It solves all of the above mentioned problems by using PHP's native sessions, which are tested and trialed thoroughly. Below is the link for code, I hope it helps some one else.

http://github.com/munirehmad/CodeIgniter-Xession

** I will expand this post as I get free time...

Quickly Selecting all Contacts while Inviting Friends on Dropbox

2011-08-02T16:54:00.001+05:00

If you ever try to invite all your friends to dropbox to get extra free space you know what you have to do. A lot of donkey work, checking all the hundreds of check-boxes.

Well now you can automatically be select all your friends.

Copy this line:
javascript: el = document.getElementById('contact-list').children; for(var i in el) { el[i].children[0].children[0].checked=true; }

And paste into browsers URL while the Invite Friends dialog is open and Hit enter.

If you want to know what's happening here's JS in easy to read format. Just figuring out the DOM a bit will give you a clue.

el = document.getElementById('contact-list').children;
for(var i in el)
{
    el[i].children[0].children[0].checked=true;
}

On Ego

2011-07-28T17:48:00.003+05:00

Imagine a scenario,

"What will happen if my average friend abruptly abuses me in front of hundreds of people?"

Should I burst out, react and counter-attack his ego because mine was hurt so badly? for most of us yes. But, what if I don't react? what if I calmly walk away from the scene? won't I be more at ease? than barking back and messing myself up mentally and further adding to the stupidity and negativity of the situation? Won't I feel better?