How to make a panorama picture using only cellphone camera

It’s been long time since my last post. I’m quite busy lately with my college work. But finally I have sometime off, now I want to share some knowledge. Being poor college student and can’t afford $1000 camera doesn’t mean you can’t make a good panorama picture. I will show you how to make one with just cellphone camera (any camera will do) and two software (Windows Live Photo Gallery and Photoshop CS5). Photoshop CS5 is optional, but if you want to fix the picture with relative ease, there’s new feature in Photoshop CS5 called Content Aware Fill.

Okay, first you need

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Linux Tips : Setting Java programming environment in Ubuntu Linux

I do a lot of programming in Ubuntu Linux. A couple months ago I started to learn JAVA, previously I have used to program in C/C++ which fortunately Ubuntu is already built in GCC (GNU C Compiler) so everything works out of the box. Unfortunately the case is not the same as JAVA, Ubuntu is not shipped with Java JDK/JRE. So, you must install everything by yourself.

I found out one of my favourite IDE in Windows that support JAVA programming is also available on Linux, it is NetBeans. Netbeans is free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports a lot of languages,

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Linux Tips : Automatically find Fastest Repository Server in Ubuntu

I used to have problem when updating security update on my Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), the connection was extremely slow even when I’m connected to fast network and occasionally the download was dropped without any reason which could lead a disastrous results. So I’ve been researching and I figured it out the problem is with my poor choice of repository server. The Repository Server I’ve had been using is apparently have some problem with their connection. Problem found and this lead to another problem, how do I look for the fastest Repository Server since there’re so many out there.

The answer is

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