Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Easiest way to download images from picasa website [Other user accounts]

Hi,
 
Many times, our friends will upload the pics to picasa and send us the links.
 
But, how can we download all of them to our desktop?
Picasa doesn’t provide any such options. And we cannot waste all our time right click on each image and downloading.
 
We can use DownThemAll but with a slight twist.
If you directly use it to download all images, you will only download the thumbnail size images.
To download the actual full size images, open the RSS and use the tool from there.
 
  1. Install the DownThemAll extension
  2. Go to the picasa album url.
  3. Click on the “RSS” on the right side bar and you’ll get album’s feed.
  4. Right-click on the page, select DownThemAll/DownThemAll in the contextual menu, expand the Filters section and check "Images". Don't forget to enter the folder where you want to save the photos.
 
Cheers,
Santhosh
 
 

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

[Some time pass] Observations on Population & Population Density stats :-)

Today, I am getting damn bored in the office and hence wasted time doing R&D on Population and Population Density.
And here is some of the gyan I gained: (Thanks to Wikipedia J )
 
Total world population as of now: ~685 crores
  • (2nd) India’s contribution: 17.26%
  • (1st) China’s contribution: 19.52%
  • (3rd) USAs contribution: 4.52 %        [See the huge difference from here J]
  • (4th) Indonesia’s contribution: 3.41%
  • First 10 countries among the 223 countries in the list contribute to 58.65 % of the population
(China, India, US, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russia and Japan)
  • The 80-20 rule(Pareto principle) applies here also:
  • 80% of world’s population live in less than 20% of the world’s countries(33 countries out of 223 countries)
 
 
Population Density:
  • Among the top ten populous countries, again India is the second densely populous country after Bangladesh J
  • (9th rank in population density ) Bangladesh: 1126 humans/km2
  • (9) Bangladesh: 1126
  • (32) India: 360
  • (36) Japan: 337
  • (58) Pakistan: 211
  • (72) Nigeria: 167
  • (78) China: 139
  • (91) Indonesia: 121
  • (178) US: 32
  • (192) Brazil: 22
  • (221) Russia: 8
 
  • This to some extent explains poverty in our countries and wealth in US and Russia,,
 
References:
 
Cheers,
Santhosh