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Photosynth creates an amazing new experience with nothing more than a bunch of photos. Creating a synth allows you to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. 

In simple terms, Photosynth allows you to take a bunch of photos of the same scene or object and automagically stitch them all together into one big interactive 3D viewing experience that you can share with anyone on the web.

Check out the Pyramid du Louvre:

More info at: http://photosynth.net/

So, all of my machines, both virtual and physical, are now up to date w/ the latest versions of their respective OS. But, these days, I have become very attached to my Ubuntu 9.04 laptop which provides everything I have demanded thus far.... So, here is what it looks like:

A few tweaks, applications installed, and voila... And w/ VirtualBox running, I can now try out the latest Windows 7 RC directly here:

The objective of this framework was mainly to firmly integrate dashboards in Pentaho's solution repository structure. The advantages were:

• No need to create additional JSP pages to deliver new dashboards
• Add dashboards by adding folders and files to the solution repository
• The ability to auto generate a navigation bar that
• Picks up new dashboards
• Enforces security via Pentaho's  security model

The community dashboard project, initiated by Pedro Alves and Ingo Klose, builds on Ingo's framework and adds some new features while keeping a backward compatibility to the initial framework. Among others this project adds the following features:

• Dashboard creation with no or very limited java script programming needed
• Components - Definition of dashboard objects and variables in a simplified syntax
• Auto loading of dashboard objects on load of the dashboard
• Auto refresh of dashboard objects after variable values have changed, if a object is bound to the variable
• Auto generation of form objects such as textboxes and date pickers
• Separation of the html design and component definition
• OpenStreetMaps integration
• Portlet integration

Available on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/pentaho-cdf/

Video presentation: http://www.webdetails.pt/pentaho

My own dashboard built using the on-line demo:

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