Hi All,

Going very slow on the development of PhotoResizer, here is a very small release. Actually it has no new features. But now onwards, you don’t need to install PhotoResizer. Its now freely distributable as an standalone EXE. :) – a request that has been pending since long time. The EXE is around 350 KB in size and requires .NET Framework 2.0 to run.

Hope to hear more comments/feedback/feature requests in near future.

Links:
PhotoResizer homepage

Regards,
Bhavik Vora.

Hi all,

I have released PhotoResizer 0.5. Its a new release, hope it is useful for you.

Its the first release to meet the deadline :P

Check its new home at - http://photoresizer.bhavikvora.com

Please send me your comments/feedback on it :) Awaiting eagerly !

Thanks,

Bhavik.

Hi,

For the last week, I have been tweaking the (old) release of PhotoResizer to include more features and remove bugs. I have released the version to few of my close friends, and based on their feedback, will release it here on the website. (Well if you are genuinely interested in beta testing the app before I release here, please send me an email :)).

Some of the features in the yet-to-be-released version are:

- Drag and Drop image fieles for selection
- Improved performance (multithreaded to give you better response)
- Bug Fixed: File resizing by pixels
- Setup for PhotoResizer

Haven't included many features, but the features included here were essential.

Hope this version is much stable and proves useful. Keep watching this space for more info.

PS. Previous release are here: http://blog.bhavikvora.com/page/PhotoResizer-Release.aspx
Its pretty old release and I'll recommend you wait till this weekend for the upcoming release.

Thanks,

Bhavik Vora

Hi,

In accordance with my BE Project, I found out few of the Resources listed on the webpage - http://www.matlab.nitech.ac.jp/~khpoo/research/ns2.html

Network Simulator (NS-2) Resource Page

• Network Simulator 2 (NS-2)
• Running Ns and Nam Under Windows 9x/2000/XP Using Cygwin

Tutorial & Documentation for NS2

• How to install Cygwin & NS-2 2.27 (Video Tutorial)
• Installation of NS-2 on Ubuntu Linux
• Introducing NS2 by Lloyd Wood
• Marc Greis' Tutorial
• Network Simulator Cross Reference
• NS-2 (in Japanese) by College of Engineering, Nihon University
• NS-2 Manual
• NS-2 Manual in Japanese
• NS-2 and Tcl
• NS by Example
• NS Simulator Course for Beginners
• Network Simulator (ns) Tutorial 2002
• Sandeep Gupta - A brief guide to NS-2 (pdf)
• The Network Simulator ns-2: Documentation
• NS-2 Blog (for tutorials, guides, and comments)

Forum & FAQ

• Bryan’s NS-2 DSR FAQ
• Dazhi's answers on simulating wireless networks via NS2 (updated every week)
• Jlsnet.co.uk - NS-2 Guide
• NS-2 FAQ for Dummies
• NS-2 User Mailing List
• Pedro Vale Estrela – FAQ / Assorted NS2 Tips
• To search the ns-users mailing list

TCL/TK

• MIT - OTcl
• OTcl Objects
• OTcl Tutorial
• Tcl/Tk Cookbook
• Tcl/Tk Tutorial

Technical Resources & Books

• MIT Opencourseware
• Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
• UNIX/Linux Bourne/Bash Shell Scripting Tutorial

Trace

• Trace converter - Network Simulator NS-2 trace files converter
• Trace graph
• NS-2 Trace Formats

Awk

• How to get things done with awk ?
• The GAWK Manual
• The precise syntax of Awk

Topology Generator

• BRITE Topology Generator
• Georgia Tech Internetwork Topology Models
• Inet Topology Generator
• The Network Simulator ns-2: Topology Generation
• Tiers Topology Generator

Traffic Generator

• A modular framework for generating synthetic traffic for network simulations
• HTTP/1.0 traffic generator for ns-2
• Kostas - Poisson Traffic Generator for NS-2
• Poisson traffic generator

GNUPlot

• GnuPlot
• GnuPlot Central
• GnuPlot - Not so FAQ

Queue Simulation for NS-2

• M/M/1 Queue Simulation
• Weighted Fair Queueing (WFQ)
  

QoS for NS-2

• Diffserv additions to ns-2
• QoS Routing for ns-2
• QoS Simulation and Monitoring in a DiffServ network
• QoS of Voice over 802.11 using NS2
• RSVP/ns: An Implementation of RSVP for the Network Simulator ns-2
• Sergio Andreozzi - NS2 DiffServ Patched Module
• An Implementation of RSVP for the Network Simulator 2

Multimedia

• Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Multicasting

• PBM - Position-Based Multicast for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
• Source Specific Multicast Extension to NS-2

Wireless Simulation

• 802.11 and Bounded Slowdown (BSD) PSM Model for ns-2
• 802.11 MAC code in NS-2 (version 2.28)
• 802.11 module for NS-2
• 802.11b WLAN Channel Simulation in NS2
• Achieving Higher Throughput and QoS in 802.11 Wireless LANs
• Ad-Hoc TCP
• Ad hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) Routing
• ASAP (Adaptive Reservation and Preallocation) QoS Framewok
• An evaluation framework to study the "Impact of Mobility Patterns On RouTing in Ad-hoc NeTworks"
• Basic 802.11 Statistics
• Coordinated Power Management under Sensing and Communication Constraints in Sensor Networks
• Cross-layer Interaction of TCP and Dynamic Routing in Multi-hop 802.11 Networks
• Enhanced Network Simulator modeling of IEEE 802.11 MAC layer protocol
• Extension of Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol For NS2 Simulator
• How to Get Neighbors of a Mobile Node in Wireless Simulation
• Hyacinth: An IEEE 802.11-based Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Network
• IEEE 802.11e HCCA simulation using the Network Simulator 2
• Implementing a New Manet Unicast Routing Protocol in NS2 (Source Code)
• Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs)
• Making NS-2 simulate an 802.11b link
• NO Ad-Hoc Routing Agent (NOAH)
• NS-2 Code for Random Trip Mobility Model
• QoS of Voice over 802.11 using NS2
• Transmit Power Control in Ad hoc Networks
• Wireless and Mobility Extensions to ns-2
• Zone Routing Protocol(ZRP) for Ad Hoc Networks

Mobiwan

• Installation steps of ns-allinone 2.1b6 and mobiwan
• Mobiwan for NS-2.26

Peer-to-Peer Simulation

• Packet-level Peer-to-Peer Simulation Framework and GnutellaSim
• Peer-to-Peer Simplified (P2PS) Protocol

TCP/UDP Enhancements for NS-2

• BIC TCP - a TCP Variant for High-Speed Long Distance Networks
• BI-TCP Implementation for NS 2
• Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks
• NS2 Simulation for Reliable Blast UDP (RBUDP)
• Simulations for Stateful TCP Congestion Control
• Simulation Study of Proposed HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows
• TCP-J - Enhanced TCP Westwood (Higher Throughput In Wireless Networks)
• TCP WESTWOOD - Modules for NS-2

Routing

• Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing

Ant Routing

• Ant-like Mobile Agents - NS2 Patch
• Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Ad-hoc Networks

Video Traces

• Flower (cif)
• Football (cif)
• MPEG-4 and H.263 Video Traces for Network Performance Evalution
• Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation

Add-ons & Extensions

• Extend NS's Capability with MFC
• Fast ns-2 simulator
• NANS - Network Analyzer for Network Simulator ns2
• Trace graph

Source Code

• Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Ad-hoc Networks
• End Buffer Management and Congestion for Video
• How to evaluate MPEG video transmission using the NS2 simulator
• Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents in Wireless Internet
• The Network Simulator: Contributed Code
• The source codes for Implementing a New Manet Unicast Routing Protocol in NS2 (Protoname)

* If you have any soucecode to share, please send to me

Etc

• AutoPart - automatically partition a large network simulation into smaller simulation instances
• Cygwin User's Guide
• DCCP Module for NS-2
• Eifel for NS2
• How to Use Matlab in NS
• Implementing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in ns-2
• NS-2 Emulation Extensions
• NS-2 for grid
• Pedro Vale Estrela - NS2 Debugging Page
• Tools for NS-2
• YUVviewer
  

Also there are few resources available on NS2 over here - http://ns-2.blogspot.com/

I hope it will help others too :)

NOTE: Comments have been disabled.

Thanks and Regards,

Bhavik Vora

Hi,

I am releasing PhotoResizer. The application is a small utility that helps in (batch) resizing of Photos (Jpeg images).

Latest Version: 0.2.0.1 (dont mind the numbers :P)

Change since Last Revision: Click Here

Pre - Requisites:
.NET Framework 2.0

Features:
Select Bulk Images to resize
Resize Image by Pixels or %age
Control Quality of resized Images
Zip the resized Images
Conversion and resizing of bmp and png resizing to jpg
Save and review Log

Known Issues
The Application hangs when it has more than 50 photos (for 512MB RAM). Please make sure you batch the photos. I am working around this issue. If any1 can help me with this, contact me asap. :)

Procedure:
1) If you have any previous versions of PhotoResizer, please uninstall it first with help of Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
2) Download the Setup Archive (.zip) from here - PhotoResizer 0.2.0.1.zip (333.10 kb).
3) Extract the files using utility such as WinRar or WinZip.
4) Run the Setup.exe from the folder
5) Start the application from Start-> Programs-> PhotoResizer->PhotoResizer

Terms of Use:
This software is not to be resold. Use the software at your own risk. Please make backup of the images the application will process. I am not responsible for any loss of work or time or pics ;) Please don't use the software in a business environment which has risks of losing critical data.

Screenshot:

For feature requests or reporting bugs, you can mail me at - contactme@bhavikvora.com

Also I need your comments and feedback to understand your needs. I have given just over 5 hours of my time in between the exams (I just love to do it ;)). I hope the software comes into good use as it did for me. There are few kinks in the software, and I am trying to put things in place.

I'll be developing a project page soon for PhotoResizer on CodeBox :).

Regards,

Bhavik

Hi,

This is a post dedicated to keep a tab on the versions/releases. I just hope my CodeBox comes alive ! Its getting difficult to maintain my project :(

Latest PhotoResizer ver: 0.2.0.1
Release Date: 31 January 2008.
Downoad Information: Click Here to go to the respective post.

Revision History: 

Version 0.2.0.1
Release Date: 31 January 2008

Resize Photos by selecting photos, not folder-wise - Thanks SaM for the feature request.
Zip the resized Images - Thanks Karthik for the feature request :)
Conversion and resizing of bmp and png resizing to jpg

Version 0.1.0.4
Release Date: 12 January 2008

There have been issues with the Application trying to open each file as a jpg image and trying to resize it. I overlooked a piece of code, while formatting it. And now i have corrected it. 

Ver 0.1.0.3
Release Date: 10 January 2008

First Release to public download.

Regards,

Bhavik

Hi,

Okay, I just start new Projects and halfway leave them. But here's a project which i just thought of a few hours (2 hrs) ago and got it working, ofcourse from some helf from Coding4Fun.

We'd been to Tithal (Valsad), Gujarat last week to celebrate the New Years' eve and we'd a cuppa of pics which were each 3MB big. We'd thought of manualy resize each pic thru Paint/Photoshop but would have been time consuming. (We did have a lot of time, who wud study SE :P). So i just made up a working App of the PhotoResizer. Here is the screen shot:

Features:

• Seperate input and output folders
• only Jpg file support
• Save Logs
• Resize by Pixels

Still lot of things to put on before release:

• Resize by %age
• more file supports
• Progress Bar
• JPEG compression

I'll release the app soon for test after i add these minor features ;)

Well dats all from me, I've gotta start SE or else i am screwed on 8th Jan !

Regards,

Bhavik Vora

Hi,

I am running late in the project, just cant devote some good time. Well this is all I am done with:

• Membership and Database Design 
• Project management
• Release/Download Management
• User management

Few things(major, time consuming) remaining are:

• Issue/Task Management
• License Management
• and more of which i cant reveal more :P

I already have a wish list readied for the next release of CodeBOX. ;)
I hope the hype surrounding CodeBOX is somewhat relative to Vista, but believe me the release will just be as fantastic.

So seeking in more of time, whilst preparing for 2 damn Univ Exams and a holiday at Tithal, Gujarat with my friends for 31st, Signing off.

UPDATE: Will start work after my Sem Xams ie. 12/01/08

Regards,

Bhavik Vora

Well, I am quite Impressed by the way CodePlex works (Microsoft's OpenSource .NET project hosting, where BlogEngine.NET is also hosted). Also a friend's site inspired - AXIS Proton. Also off late I spent 'lil time in understanding the concepts of Membership, Roles and Profiles in ASP.NET 2.0. So I wanted to leverage the skills i just learnt into a project.

Project: CodeBOX, nevermind Projects are never without Codes ! (name change required !
Technologies: ASP.NET 2.0 (C#), SQL Server 2000(on server), SQL Server 2005(offsite), ASP.NET AJAX (after completion of project)
Time Frame: Analysis of the project is done, Implementation needed. Time should not be more than 4 working days (3-5 hours/day)
Release: Tentatively scheduled it for 23rd December, 2007 (if i dont go in for a vacn :P) 01/01/08.. da reason is that there is actually no1 tracking me and pressurising me to do da work :( and also GATE and Sem VII taking a big deal of time :(
Team: Finalising a team :P , anytakers? :P  Me alone.

Regards,

Bhavik Vora

Hi,

This is to formally announce the "secret" project that i wished to do for last couple of weeks. i had thought of this way back when i was trying to develop my CMS, but due to technical website constraints, had to shelve it out. Now that i have enough minimal requirements (except for time constraints ), following is the announcement of my new project.

"Welcome to the SocioDev Networking. This is a project under development where I aim to create a social network for the developers. Developers are the heart of the IT industry and they have their own ways of working. This place will try to bring in various developers together where in they can share, keep a track of their work, interact with different communities, keep abreast of the latest happenings."

The initial phase of development will yield results bearing close resemblance to a website CMS and will help into my development of my Final Year project. Now you know who will be the 1st testers of my project . I havent asked any1 to assist me, but i feel working alone will restrict the approach and the imagination.

I am not gonna reveal any of further details, which will just add to the hype surrounding my project. Still you all are free to add/request for features in the project.

Regards,

Bhavik Vora.