Mohamed Salem Korayem's Blog

A few hours ago i received an email from BlogRush about there latest, highly anticipated, update. Quite frankly, I was starting to loose hope as it took so much time.

But for a company making this idea a reality, and it's a new startup, it was fine with me to share some their bumps.

Their new video talks about the new interface and how to use it. Just viewed it and it seems awesome! I checked by my stats and I was surprised that the referal traffic BlogRush created for my blog was 14K + 11K Bonus!! Compared to my 745 traffic, that's HUGE!

What the hell is BlogRush!?!

Do you Like what you see? Then join us....

Remember, BlogRush makes use of Referrals. The more people you referrer, the more traffic you'll get in return! So in order to join, kindly use this referral link:

http://www.blogrush.com/i14312642

The folks at mashable have compiled a comprehensive  list of good .net resource websites. Sadl, they didnt include great websites like dotnetkicks and dotnetslackers.

Quote:

"Microsoft is going to be letting developers take a look at the source code for .NET, but for those of you still in the trenches, coding away, we’ve gathered 25+ tools to help you with your daily tasks."

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Let's first start with this video in case you didnt see it before.

Jaws dropped!? Sat down in a lonely corner thinking how will this change the world!? is the Matrix really inevitable? why the hell didn't you think of this simple DSP idea and implemented it in MATlab and be famous and rich!!??

Happened to me too and everyone who watched that video. Rumors has it that the guy behind this one-of-a-kind-yet-simple idea was hired in Adobe. I wonder why!?

And what about forging!? If your kids in the future will be able to remove their unwanted friends from group photos that easy, how easy will it be to fraud papers!!?? Will it be illegal in Egypt...sure will. It happend to the GPS, and Content-Aware Image Resizing is no exception.

BountyFisshing claimed in their blog that they know how to find cheaters who photoshop their fish to win some serious money. I wonder how their technique will change to catch forgers?

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So far so good. Now the geniuses behind this idea launched their own website showing the above video. AND A FULL ACADEMIC PAPER DESCRIBING HOW THE ALGORITHM WORKS!! Now you have no execuse to implement it in your next project, even if it's not part of the requirements...adding this feature will make customers happy all the way.

Wait, it doesnt stop there!! A whole breed of implementations are being spread right now:

• Rsizr: Online flash application. (psst, download this image to play around with it)
  
• Picutel Smart Resize: Photoshop plugin (95$)
• Liquid Resize: GIMP (open-source) plugin
• Flash Action Script Implementation: Source code and Tutorial
• Seam CAIR: an open-source implmentation written with .NET by my Egyptian muslim brother, Haytham.