3D Pictures

A slight departure from the usual ramblings here.

You know those pictures that look 3D when you view them through glasses with different coloured lenses? They're called "anaglyphs"

Well yesterday I worked out how to make them with Paintshop Pro. I couldn't believe how easy it is as long as you have two pictures of the same object taken from slightly different viewpoints.

I was so surprised that I'm going to write an ebook about it and put it on my forthcoming ebook store.

I even made some 3D anaglyphs from completely computer-generated pictures (generated using Povray). This is going to open up a whole new world for me. My neighbour who runs a portable planetarium/science dome often uses anaglyphs in his shows, so this will be very useful to him.

Autoresponders

I just acquired the resale rights to a server-based autoresponder. Initially I'll be setting it up as my own autoresponder. Until now I've been using a free one, which work really well, but is limited to just one campaign. With this new one, I can set up unlimited autoresponders across unlimited domains.

It's very easy to install, but I do have the advantage of being a computer professional. I'll probably write an idiot's guide to installing it and bundle it in with the complete package, which will go up for sale on my website.

I'll log it here as soon as it's available.

Alexa Glitch

Last night I checked the Alexa rank for the various sites that I'm monitoring and was pleased to see that all 7 of them had risen quite significantly.

When I looked again this morning, they had all reverted back to the positions they held two days ago.

I can only assume there was a bit of a glitch in the Alexa database when I looked last night.