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JPEGsnoop 1.7.3 - JPEG File Decoding Utility

by Calvin Hass © 2014

JPEGsnoop is a free Windows application that examines and decodes the inner details of JPEG and MotionJPEG AVI files. It can also be used to analyze the source of an image to test its authenticity.

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Latest Version: 1.7.3

Every digital photo contains a wealth of hidden information -- JPEGsnoop was written to expose these details to those who are curious.

Not only can one determine the various settings that were used in the digital camera in taking the photo (EXIF metadata, IPTC), but one can also extract information that indicates the quality and nature of the JPEG image compression used by the camera in saving the file. Each digical cameras specifies a compression quality levels, many of them wildly different, leading to the fact that some cameras produce far better JPEG images than others.

What can I do?

Check out a few of the many possible uses for JPEGsnoop!

One of the latest features in JPEGsnoop is an internal database that compares an image against a large number of compression signatures. JPEGsnoop reports what digital camera or software was likely used to generate the image. This is extremely useful in determining whether or not a photo has been edited / tampered in any way. If the compression signature matches Photoshop, then you can be pretty sure that the photo is no longer an original! This type of analysis is sometimes referred to as Digital Image Ballistics / Forensics.

JPEGsnoop reports a huge amount of information, including: quantization table matrix (chrominance and luminance), chroma subsampling, estimates JPEG Quality setting, JPEG resolution settings, Huffman tables, EXIF metadata, Makernotes, RGB histograms, etc. Most of the JPEG JFIF markers are reported. In addition, you can enable a full huffman VLC decode, which will help those who are learning about JPEG compression and those who are writing a JPEG decoder.

Other potential uses: determine quality setting used in Photoshop Save As or Save for Web settings, increasing your scanner quality, locating recoverable images / videos, decoding AVI files, examining .THM files, JPEG EXIF thumbnails, extract embedded images in Adobe PDF documents, etc.

Trying to Undelete or Unformat your Photos?

If you're interested in trying to recover your deleted / corrupted photos, check out my new page on recovering deleted photos.

File Types Supported

JPEGsnoop will open and attempt to decode any file that contains an embedded JPEG image, such as:

  • .JPG - JPEG Still Photo
  • .THM - Thumbnail for RAW Photo / Movie Files
  • .AVI* - AVI Movies
  • .DNG - Digital Negative RAW Photo
  • .PSD - Adobe Photoshop files
  • .CRW, .CR2, .NEF, .ORF, .PEF - RAW Photo
  • .MOV* - QuickTime Movies, QTVR (Virtual Reality / 360 Panoramic)
  • .PDF - Adobe PDF Documents

* Note that video file formats (such as .AVI and .MOV) are containers, which can include video streams encoded in one of a wide variety of codecs. JPEGsnoop can only interpret this video footage if the codec used is based on Motion JPEG (MJPG).

Download the Latest Version of JPEGsnoop!

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Version: 1.7.3
Version History

Released: 09/28/2014
Downloads: 409202

JPEGsnoop by Calvin Hass

Help Support JPEGsnoop Development

If you have found JPEGsnoop useful and would like to support its continued development, consider making a small contribution. Donations will help encourage me to add new and interesting features. Found an interesting use for the tool? Let me know!

Source Code: JPEGsnoop is now Open Source!

System Requirements

This application has been designed and tested to run on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. As of version v1.7, Windows XP SP1 is a minimum requirement. JPEGsnoop is fully portable, so it does not require any installation!

LINUX users: JPEGsnoop apparently works on LINUX under wine

Mac users: JPEGsnoop works within CrossOver Mac

Terms of Use

JPEGsnoop is free for personal and commerial use. Commercial users are encouraged to leave me a brief private message so that I can understand your needs and make future versions more useful.

No installation required. JPEGsnoop is very portable. Simply unzip the download and run!

Version History

For information about features added in previous versions of JPEGsnoop, please check out the version history page.

Feature Requests / Bug Reports

Please feel free to add your own feature requests or bug reports by submitting to the links on the JPEGsnoop Source page

Awards and Recognition for JPEGsnoop

  • PC Magazine - Utility Guide 2009 - July 2009
  • Win Magazine - May 2009
  • Magazine - Program of the Month - April 2009 Magaine - Chip Pick - November 2012
  • Computer Bild Magazine - Issue 10/2009

Main Window
Channel Histograms
MCU Grid & Positioning

Please see the options page for information on how to use JPEGsnoop and other interesting uses for the tool

Recent Features

  • Photoshop PSD decoding
  • Batch file processing
  • XMP APP1 & ICC Header display
  • IPTC and Photoshop IRB / 8BIM parsing
  • GPS EXIF metadata display
  • Full detailed Huffman VLC decoding output for those interested in writing a decoder or learning JPEG compression
  • Automatic display of YCC DC block values (16-bit)
  • MCU Grid overlay and automatic display of mouse MCU position and file offset in image display window.
  • Test overlay function enhanced to allow quick apply and binary code readout.
  • Image zoom level from 12.5% - 800%.
  • Extract embedded JPEGs -- can be used to extract thumbnails, hidden JPEG files, as well as frames from Motion JPEG AVI files.
  • Compression detection enhanced to detect rotated signatures, comment field.
  • Full AVI file parsing (to identify MotionJPEG)
  • DQT table searches in Executables (for "hackers")
  • Detect edited images or identify original digital camera that took a photo!
  • Integrated database of thousands of compression signatures (image fingerprint) for digital cameras and editing software
  • File overlay test function
  • Multi-channel preview: RGB, YCC, R/G/B, Y/Cb/Cr
  • Pixel position lookup into file offset
  • Examine Motion JPEG .AVI or .MOV (Quicktime) files (MJPG or MJPEG) and play through!
  • Examine any file fragments that may contain a JPEG image
  • YCC to RGB Color correction / clipping statistics reports
  • Command-line execution
  • Huffman variable-length code statistics
  • Expansion of DHT (Huffman Table Expansion into bitstrings)
  • Determine IJG JPEG Quality factor

Background Material

If you want to understand some of the technical details reported by JPEGsnoop, I suggest that you read through my articles on JPEG compression:

As this is a work in progress, I would be very interested in hearing from you, particularly for feature requests, suggestions, comments, bug reports, etc. If you currently use JPEGsnoop and find it useful, let me know!

Reader's Comments:

Please leave your comments or suggestions below!
2015-08-22John Anderson
 Hi Calvin,

Many thanks for a most useful analytical tool. I'm happy to make a donation to further development. How much do you suggest?

I have one question about JPEGsnoop. I tested the software with an image captured using a friend's Apple iPod. EXIF metadata confirms this. However, the compression signature is for a Konica Minolta camera.. Is it probable that both the iPod and the Minolta both use the same compression algorithm?

Look forward to hearing from you.
 Thanks for the kind feedback, John! Any help is always appreciated :) But I am also more than happy just hearing that the tool has been helpful for others.

What you have noted with the compression signature is exactly as you figured... for the particular image content and camera settings, both used the same compression table.

It is quite common to see a given table appear in multiple camera manufacturers... it could be that they reuse the same hardware image encoder or use the same library / reference tables. The notion of the compression signature being a "fingerprint" is a bit of a misnomer in that regard since there is considerable reuse.

If you don't see the Apple iPod in the list of matching signatures, then it would be best to add it (the result would be that you'll see both cameras listed as possible matches).

Hope that helps,

I'm trying to detect if a PDF has been photoshopped.
I have a base PDF to compare it to.

What parameters should I be looking at?
 Are you trying to determine if a PDF file has been modified? Or if an image within a PDF has been altered (ie. "photoshopped")?

In this particular situation, could you clarify what you meant by the "base PDF" -- is it another PDF that should be identical to the second PDF (but you didn't notice any differences?) Sorry if I misunderstood the question.

If the PDF file was edited according to "spec", then it may leave some traces of edits (in a ModDate or generation numbers in the objects), but this isn't guaranteed.

If you are wondering about whether an embedded JPEG within a PDF file has been altered (since originally captured), then you can use the image search function in JPEGsnoop to find the image and then process it as normally (ie. compare compression signatures, etc.).

i would test the version 1.7.4

add parameter to save the file when use
through cmd

also some pictures not ext_all through nogui only when i open it normally
 Hi there ebrahim! I have a given you a link to beta test version 1.7.5. It has a number of new features, in addition to a rewritten command-line interface that should operate better.

PNG files don't work with this tool right?
 Hi David -- at this time, JPEGsnoop doesn't analyze PNG files but I could potentially add such a feature if there were enough interest.
 I couldn't view on my PC an image saved with Photoshop CS6 Mac. With some hex-editing I could manually extract only 2 previews from this file (one in PNG, the other in JPG) but they were low-res. So I opened my image with JPEGSnooper, then I used "Tools -> Image search fwd", finally I did a "Tools -> Export JPEG -> Extract All JPEGs" and voilà, I had 3 images: one of them was the hi-res JPEG. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
 Excellent! Glad to hear it!
 I downloaded version 1.7.3 and appears during startup crash - Win XP SP3 CPU support SSE - I suspect that it is a CPU with SSE2 instructions - last acting in my version is 1.6.1
 Hi Peter -- Thanks for letting me know about it. I will followup via email to help resolve it if I can.
 Just came by to confirm URL so I can point someone here :)

I have a microscope-camera gadget called an "EyeClops" (I think it came from Toys R Us) that's not in your ID database -- do you want an image to check out?
 Hey thanks Rez! Sure, if you can email me a copy that would be great.
I am having a hard time understanding all the codes. If I sent you a photo would you be able to decipher? All I want to know is if the photo is an original? And possibly the region it was taken.
Thank you.

I am trying to use your program to recover some corrupted jpeg. Everytime I try to open the jpeg i get this error "The Parameter is in correct"

can you please help. Thank you
 Hi Mike -- if you can contact me again and provide your email address I could take a look at the file to determine what might be happening. Thanks!
 Thanks!! I used the search forward option and it finds the largest JPG now however it always stops part way through the process and only displays partial. I can get the full thumb and full smaller JPG (only 55 KB) but process always stops suddenly when I search forward to the hi res JPG. Any thoughts or setting suggestions?

A couple sample images I am trying to recover can be found on my dropbox link at

Great program! Just need to figure out how to get it to fully recover the hi-res versions.

Thanks in advance

Curious why when I export as JPEG it outputs a much smaller version of what the original image was. The original images are about 8MB in size while the output of snoop is only about 50 KB??

The reason for that is that most JPEG images (from a digicam) contain several versions of the same image. Generally you'll find a full-resolution image, a small thumbnail and sometimes a large thumbnail/preview. What you have encountered is probably a case where JPEGsnoop found the small thumbnail first (and extracted that). If you press "Search Forward" you might find that it could locate one of the larger images, thereby enabling you to extract that as well.
 Hi Chris --

Were the 3 files you posted from the output of a recovery program or were they direct from your hard drive / memory card? These files all exhibit a case of the file being a merge of multiple photos.

Long story short, the original images have been "spliced" causing only a small amount of data to be extracted. More advanced techniques are needed to get at the remainder of the data (dealing with fragmentation). But even then. you would not be able to fully recover the hi-res version -- your original images do not exist within these files.

More detail: JPEGsnoop's image decode only starts when it finds a proper header. When you perform "Search Forward", JPEGsnoop will seek the next valid JPEG header. In doing so, it is skipping over a very large amount of data that is in the file. This extra data is actually the remainder of another image data from your drive/card. It is possible to see this additional image data if one messes around with the headers.

Let's say that the original image was 8.6MB in size. In example "_SCN0336.JPG" we actually skip almost 7MB before we find the start of a valid image. That only leaves us with 1.6MB of image data before we get cut off. If we try to extract the image, we are only left with a small fraction of the original file. The extra 7MB is coming from a completely different hi-res file that happened to be on the card/drive.
 Curious why when I export as JPEG it outputs a much smaller version of what the original image was. The original images are about 8MB in size while the output of snoop is only about 50 KB??
 The reason for that is that most JPEG images (from a digicam) contain several versions of the same image. Generally you'll find a full-resolution image, a small thumbnail and sometimes a large thumbnail/preview. What you have encountered is probably a case where JPEGsnoop found the small thumbnail first (and extracted that). If you press "Search Forward" you might find that it could locate one of the larger images, thereby enabling you to extract that as well.
 Please see as the 'list of cameras detected by the software? If I go to Tools / Manage local DB the list is empty.
The DB is C:\Users\alfredo\AppData\Roaming\JPEGsnoop\JPEGsnoop_db.dat dimension 1 KByte.
 The list of cameras detected does not appear in the "user / local database". It is internal to the tool. What appears in the local DB are only the signatures that the user has captured.
 I have an SD card with some RAW images (.CR2) and JPEG's that show the correct size but won't open (invalid image). Hex editor shows all zeros in these files. JPEGsnoop says "File did not start with JPEG marker" and [Tools->Img Search Fwd] did not find anything.

Is there ANY way to recover these files?
 Unfortunately, if the file content (as viewed in a hex editor) shows all zeros then there is no way to recover the image from the file itself. The best bet is to attempt a recovery from the source media (eg. hard drive or memory card) with a more sophisticated recovery program that is able to look beyond the "logical directory structure".
 Greetings. I need to determine if the date/time value in the exif metadata of an iPhone picture has Ben modified. I understand that it's a simple value to change, eg importing pics into iPhoto then gives user option to adjust the date/time a picture was captured. I'd like to be able to tell if this field has been edited before file dissemination. Is this something your program is capable of?
Thank you in advance.
 Generally, one cannot determine that an EXIF field has been edited since there is no redundancy or checksums to confirm that the current field content (such as date/time) matches what it was at the time the image was first created. However, some cameras (and phones such as iPhone) store date/time info in several places within the JPEG image metadata. Some software programs may alter one or more fields but not all. Therefore, if you examine all date/time related fields within the metadata, there is a chance that you may find one that maintains its original setting.

For example, in an iPhone 5 JPEG image, one often finds date/time info in the following sections reported by JPEGsnoop:

  • EXIF IFD0: DateTime
  • EXIF SubIFD: DateTimeOriginal
  • EXIF SubIFD: DateTimeDigitized
  • APP1 XMP: MicrosoftPhoto:DateAcquired

In addition, some recent iPhones (typically iOS 7 or later) include Apple MakerNotes fields that (after decoding) may show further date/time info. The advantage of checking MakerNotes is that it is often harder for software to alter these fields -- instead they tend to remove them all if anything is modified. As a result, if you find a date/time in the MakerNote field, there is a reasonable chance that it is reflective of the actual date/time of capture.
 hello .. i have few images that we modified, changed and resized from the original and then emailed to me .. Is there a way i can convert these manipulated images back to the original using your software or any other method .. so far no success .. is it possible .. will appreciate your help ..
thanks ..
 Sorry, but it is highly unlikely that you could retrieve an original version of an image once it has been edited/resaved. In most cases the new file only contains the new version of the image.
 Hi There. Thanks for your reply. I have managed to get the program to export jpeg's. I had to use the EOI boxes otherwise It said ERROR. But when I click the repaired jpes's I am still getting "drawing failed" Do you have any idea what to do now??
 When you export an image, there is no guarantee that the resulting image will be valid (or readable with Windows). In many cases the file will still be corrupted. For some digital cameras, there is a second embedded (large) thumbnail which may also be worth extracting. Press Ctrl+2 for "Image Search Forward" and then try the export again.
 Hi There.
I might be stupid but I am having a problem with this program.
I click on file, It says, Open Image. which I click on. I go to my damaged pictures and click on one. I can then see a small thumbnail of the picture (no bigger than a stamp) Then open tools and click on Export jpeg. Send to my desktop. But then on my desktop there is no picture?? I have tried sending the pics to various locations with the same results. I have also tried different pictures all with the same result.
Please tell me where I am going wrong or what I am doing wrong.
Many Thanks.
 Once you click on Tools->Export JPEG... and press OK, you should see the log window say *** Exporting JPEG ***.

Below that, it should give you the full path to your file after Exporting to:. Do you see this path? Copying this full path into a windows explorer window, it should find and load the image for you.

I just wanna ask if you know a software that can restore cropped photos
Into its original form that has been put into collage?
What I mean is, knowing and extracting and getting it to its original form.
I have sent a collage pics to a friend, all pics used were all cropped
and to my surprised she identified the people I'm with from that cropped
image in the collage. She said she restored it using the embedded details
in every picture.
I'm wondering how she do that.

Help pls.

Please find posters about the Canon Raw (CR2) file format

Laurent Clévy
 Excellent! Thank you very much Laurent for this wonderfully detailed summary. I will take a look to see how much work it might be to introduce additional decoding for JPEGsnoop.
I wonder if jpeg-snoop is able to detect which jpeg image is corrupted. I have got about 10.000 jpegs and I cannot see each of them with my eyes... I'd like to have a list of what damaged, if any. Is it possible?
 Hi Adler - With the current version of JPEGsnoop, it may be possible to use the Batch Process feature to work through the 10,000 files and generate the associated log files. You could then use a free utility to search for ERROR in the *.log files. In future versions of JPEGsnoop I may add a feature (if there's enough interest) that compiles a summary report of all the results of the Batch Processing task, which could be a good way to achieve what you're after.
 Tried to post this in SourceForge... but couldn't figure out how to submit a new bug report. The new version always seems to say "files larger than 2GB not supported in this version of JPEGsnoop" even if the files are smaller than 2GB. (Have one that's 1.85GB and gives that error).
 Thanks JL! Yes, you're right. Unfortunately I had missed testing the recent version with multi-GB files and see now that the file size threshold was set too low.

I have now extended JPEGsnoop v1.7.2 to support files up to 4GB in size! I am just completing testing and will release it shortly. Thanks for your patience.
 This is funny -- I'd just got done telling someone on a forum about JPEGsnoop, and literally 5 seconds later, here in my mailbox is your notice of an update. Good karma or what? :)
 Could you please update sourceforge project? It is stuck at v. 1.5.2
 Definitely! I have just completed significant rewrites of the source code (for v1.7.x) and have updated the repository now.
 Hi Calvin

The following image

gives following error with JPEGsnoop 1.7.0:

ERROR: SetDhtTables(comp=4, TblDC = 0 TblAC = 0) out of indexed range

It worked faultlessly with JPEGsnoop 1.6.1.

Thank you!
 Hi Guido!

Thanks for providing the example file. The handling of table indices with CMYK files has been fixed in version v1.7.1, along with many other corrections. Version v1.7.1 will be posted very shortly.
2014-09-09Crash with 444 image
 The following image crashed JPEGSnoop in the latest iteration.
 Thanks for the example file to test.
This issue has been fixed in JPEGsnoop version v1.7.1
 I have about 430 JPEG wedding images that looked fine when I took them with my Nikon and can be copied off the micro SD card - the file sizes even seem correct, but only the first few are viewable and have any extended data. The last good one seems to have a corruption (plain brown on the bottom half of the image) and all of them after that are not viewable. Using your program, it looks like it's missing the SOI and cannot even find the SOS marker - could it still be recoverable? When I used CardRecovery software it didn't find any of the corrupt images except that first one, and saved it as a 54Gb file - making me think that a bad sector killed the EOF data and all of the images are combined in there somehow.
 Sorry to hear about the corruption. If you are lucky, you might find that the recovery file does indeed contain a number of intact images. Typically recovery programs will generate these massive files if the file system directory gets damaged. Although many images may still be fully intact, others will be corrupted because of file system fragmentation.

I would recommend that you split the 54GB file into 1GB chunks (keep the original) and then use JPEGsnoop with the "Image Search Forward" command to see if any images can be extracted.

There are many free utilities that will split large files. A quick search of google for "windows utility split file free" shows a few.

Good luck!
2014-06-15Puji Winasti
 thank for your page,
 Hey, I love the program, but just one quick question: My JPEG, which has been altered, leaves a red and white stripe on the bottom of the image. What is this?
 If you are referring to the area of the image outside of the dashed lines (on the right and bottom sides) then this is a region that is not normally displayed by viewers. From a simplistic perspective, JPEG images are compressed in chunks (often 8x8 pixels) so if your image doesn't quite make up a full 8 pixel tile, some "garbage" data is left outside of the real image boundary and the file instructs the viewer to trim it down to the proper size. JPEGsnoop is able to show you this "throw-away" region (aka partial MCUs).
 Fantastic program, very impressive functionality!

It's the only one to successfully fix my image. However, there doesn't appear to be a way to export the image from the program other than screenshoting it... I'd like to look at the fixed file's hex though. Is there anyway to export the fixed image, or to manually fix the image based off the data JPEGsnoop gives?
I'm not sure exactly what the program does in response to the error.
It's this type of error:

*** ERROR: @ [offset here], num_coeffs>64 [68]
*** ERROR: Bad scan data in MCU(2,10): Lum DC CSS(0,1) @ Offset 0x00002DC3.1
MCU located at pixel=(32,168)

I'm understand that there's an extra AC coefficient at the given location in the specified MCU, how do I do what the program does and remove it (w/ hex editor I'm guessing...)?

Thanks for your help, and this fantastic program!
 If JPEGsnoop is able to display your image, then you may be able to save it out using Tools -> Export TIFF.... Good luck!
 FFMPEG full scale JPEG YUV 422, 444 cannnot be decoded successful but 420 works. You can generate the JPEG file in:

ffmpeg -i my.avi -ss 00:00:10.000 -f image2 -vframes 1 -pix_fmt yuvj422 out.jpg

You can also try this:
 Thanks Allen! I have reproduced the issue and think I see what code needs to be adjusted. I filed this in the SourceForge bugtracker as (SF-bug-018).
 Hi Calvin

I think you have the knowledge and skills to point me in the right direction.

I have a custom Highlights Warning jpg target built in Photoshop that I would like to upload to my Nikon DSLR. Once uploaded this can be used to determine the exact tonal level at which the Highlights Warning starts to flash thereby indicating clipping.

The problem I am having is putting the CS jpg in the right format for the Nikon DSLR to accept it. I have tried copying, cutting, pasting and editing EXIF data, headers, thumbnails and previews from an original Nikon jpg (using tools like exiftool) but can't find the right approach. I was wondering if it would be possible to take an existing Nikon jpg and using the hex editor remove the Nikon jpg and replace it with the CS target jpg, leaving the original Nikon exif intact?

Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated as I am running out of ideas and "skill sets".
 Hi Shane -- sounds like an interesting problem! It is quite likely that the issue is with the characteristics of the embedded JPEG thumbnail. In general you cannot simply substitute the image (scan data) with a hex editor as the quantization and huffman tables won't match up. If you send me a copy of an image direct from the Nikon and your highlight test image, I can take a look.
 I found 01D7D42C1C869993B7E598D7C109534B
posted on a blog from 2011 ...
Signature: 01191863A92FA362537A80411114BBC3
Signature (Rotated): 01D7D42C1C869993B7E598D7C109534B
File Offset: 0 bytes
Chroma subsampling: 2x2
EXIF Make/Model: NONE
EXIF Makernotes: NONE
EXIF Software: OK [Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh]

I have run a photo gotten same ...
Signature: 01191863A92FA362537A80411114BBC3
Signature (Rotated): 01D7D42C1C869993B7E598D7C109534B
File Offset: 0 bytes
Chroma subsampling: 2x2
EXIF Make/Model: NONE
EXIF Makernotes: NONE
EXIF Software: NONE
**(slightly different ID on rotated)
ASSESSMENT: Class 1 - Image is processed/edited

1. Since my signature line 1 matches the old posting from 2011, is mine also from same software..
2. Is there a database update available? or a way to combine or share user databases?
3. Does the rotated signature indicate it is different from the 2011 blog posting?
(blog url )
 Hi -- that signature matches one that often appears in Photoshop files. I haven't been releasing database updates in a while, however you can load other people's databases (or share one) by selecting a new file location under Options->Configuration->Directory for User Database. The filename is "JPEGsnoop_db.dat".
 A friend had their JPEGS encrypted by Cryptorbit I used Anti-Cryptorbit v2 to unencrypt the jpegs but noticed that they had all been resized to 160x120 which is thumbnail size.

I found that running the pictures through JPEGSnoop clicking Tools IMG Search FWD, then click Export JPEG then tick Missing EOI, then I save the JPG and the image size/resolution is restored, which is great but I have several thousand files to restore, as I am having to do each one individually it will take me a long time, I know JPEGSnoop has a batch process function but I cannot seem to find out how to get this to automate what I am trying to do, does anyone know how to use the batch process function so that I can restore the photos automatically without going through them one at a time.

Below is a video on what I am doing to restore the size of each photo
 Hi -- that's great to hear that the export worked to recover the full-res images. Unfortunately the batch process or command-line parameters don't currently support the automation that you're trying to achieve. I could add it to the list of options to consider in future versions if there is enough interest.

In the meantime, you might be able to workaround it in the following way:

  • Open windows command prompt
  • Change to the directory containing your images
  • copy /b *.JPG > all_images.bin
  • Open all_images.bin in JPEGsnoop
  • Tools -> Export JPEG..., click on "Extract All JPEGs" (and "Force EOI" if that is found to help in your case), then
  • Select an output directory and filename, click Save
  • Now you should see many of your images (full-res and thumbnails) extracted to your directory

Good luck!
Great tool. I have been experimenting with Google+/Picasaweb and trying to check that when I download files back to my PC, they haven't been compromised. I noticed that they are slightly smaller, and using your software I have been able to show that one of the thumbnails is missing from the file recovered from Google. That's fine, but it doesn't account for all the kb lost. If I export as a TIF, the resulting files are exactly the same size. Does this prove that my original has not been re-compressed? The 2 signatures are the same. The metadata seems to be the same, but I really just want to make sure it is the same image data in there.
 Exporting to TIFF and comparing file size will not give you any indication of whether edits or recompression has occurred to the image. TIFF is often uncompressed which means that file size will largely be directly related to the image dimensions and not the content. The best bet is to compare the rest of the metadata in JPEGsnoop. If the compression signature is the same, then it is very likely that the image has not been recompressed. Instead, what you are probably seeing is the removal of metadata (such as makernotes) which can also include a larger thumbnail/preview image.
I have used a number of EXIF utilities for my Android to find the date some pics were taken, but I cannot find this info on images that were texted to me or that I download. They all work on pictures taken on my own phone, but not those downloaded via text or the net. Any hints on that? Does yours manage to do this? If so, I will download but I have to find a PC to do so, since I am on a Mac, unless there is a version directly for Android that you have?
Thanks, John
 Generally photos uploaded to the web or that are sent via text message are recompressed and often have their metadata stripped. Therefore you lose some of the identifying information (such as the EXIF DateTime fields). It is possible that there are still other metadata fields that were left intact that don't show up on the PC/Mac file properties. Running JPEGsnoop on the files will show you nearly all possible metadata fields. Some people have had luck running JPEGsnoop on the Mac under wine.

This is a fantastic little tool, and you don't even charge people for it - brilliant! Unfortunately, this dumped out some sort of protection fault here on Linux. I hope you have some of your friends around with a Linux box. It appears to trigger much likely if you SCROLL quickly up and down in the GUI.

I hope this will make any sense to you.
To reduce the clutter: first part is output from console, then after ' ... ' there is the second part copypasted from the error message window.
 Hi Andy -- glad to hear the tool has been useful! Unfortunately, I don't have access to debugging facilities in LINUX to see where the bug may be cropping up in the wine "emulation", so it may be difficult for me to help diagnose this. It is possible that it is a wine DLL issue as noted in the following text from the winehq FAQ, so you might want to give this a try:
"You may have run into a bug in Wine's RICHED20.DLL. You can try using Microsoft's RICHED20.DLL by running winetricks and selecting riched20. This may let you work around the problem until the Wine developers fix the bug."
 Hello - I am trying to put together a slideshow from pics that are about 10 years old. Unfortunately they must have been on an external hard drive at one point that had issues because now almost all my images look something like this: (I found that one from Google Images but its the same idea). When I open the jpg in jpegsnoop, the preview at the bottom looks perfect and I can export it but it exports it at a much smaller size - instead of 1600x1200 it gives me an image of 160 x 120! Is there anyway to export it out at the same full size resolution that I imported it?

Thank you!
 Unfortunately your images have become corrupted. Your JPEG files actually contain two parts, the main image and the thumbnail image. When a file becomes corrupt, there is a greater chance of the corruption impacting the main image while leaving the thumbnail image intact. So, when you exported from within JPEGsnoop, you were probably just exporting the thumbnail image (160x120). If the main image content was corrupted (likely in your case), the JPEGsnoop export wouldn't be able to recover the original 1600x1200 image. Recovering the 1600x1200 image would require advanced image repair techniques that are not generally possible with automated software.
 Alright! This is a fabulous little utility!! I had some pix I value greatly saved on my HDD and suddenly they got corrupted somehow. They were showing data there w/ a file size and everything but the dimensions were reading 0 x 0 and I wasn't seeing the pic, plus they wouldn't open w/ Paint and MS Office Picture Manager wouldn't process them either.

I was able save the first two I tried. Maybe I should fork out a few bucks for this handy little program...
 Just wanted to follow up on my earlier comment ... you might want to post this since it could be of use to other users.

I never could get windows7 to open a jpeg with separate scan data sections for each image component (Alex posted an example image in a comment here from may 2011).

My solution was to used jpegtran, available for free nearly unrestricted use, to "optimize" the jpeg without re-encoding and in the process it combines the 3 scan data sections to 1 which makes windows happy.

Thanks again for the great site, i never would have looked for a lossless jpeg optimizer if I hadn't realized that such a thing was possible from reading over your site.

A bonus is the optimized images are combing back about 10% smaller in file size!
 Excellent news that you found jpegtran can reformulate the multiple scans into one. Thanks for sharing this workaround!
 Really enjoy your site and tool ... hows the baby?

Was hoping you could tell me something about images with 3 scan data sections, each with one component of a 3 component image (one Y scan data section and another for each of CR and CB).

I have some images like that that the windows imaging components in windows 7 don't like (so cant open in image viewer, internet explorer, .net programs).

In my case if I isolate any of the 3 sections, (deleting the other 2 with a hex editor) that component will show fine ... but with the 3 together, or some combinations of 2, windows thinks the file is corrupt.

I appreciate that you can't help everyone fix their corrupt jpegs but any insights in the 3 scan images might help me out, thanks a lot
 As you've noticed, some JPEG decoders are not fully compatible with the separate-scans arrangement. This arrangement is permitted in the T.81 JPEG standard, but I seldom see it being used. I imagine that many developers have not tested with this sequencing. I see in your later post that you discovered jpegtran can help combine the scans, which is great news!
 I am writing an application for processing a set of photos and I need two function in C++, one for decoding the DC coefficient of any 8x8 compressed matrix and another function in C++ for coding the DC coefficient.
Please, let me know if you can send me these two functions and how much you will charge to do that.
Thank you for your help. Mauro Pacelli
 The best place to start would be to look at the source for IJG libjpeg. From there, check out the functions in cjpeg and djpeg.
 I have a photo that I've been going crazy trying to get an origin for, mainly the date it was taken. I have tried quite a few programs and the only thing I get is a file date. There is nothing under properties except under comments it says LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01. Your program has given me the most information but I don't understand most of it. At least I know what camera was used! lol Please email me if you can help me with this mystery. Thanks
I have recovered thousands of pictures from my hard drive and they are all not working, JPEGsnoop has saved my life but is there an option to export many JPEG's at one time? I can process the batch but just don't know how to export them all at once. Could you help please?
Thanks, Matt
 Hi Matt -- That's great to hear that you managed to recover a number of photos with JPEGsnoop's export function. At the moment, the Batch processing feature doesn't support the "Extract all JPEGs" function. I have added this to the list of requested features (#3603202). Thanks!
How can I tell WHERE a photo was taken? I understood that the GPS in many cameras will give the location.
 Greetings - will this utility locate images that have been renamed to other extensions? Example: I renamed a .jpg to .xls and moved it and forgot what it is called. Will this scan a folder or drive and locate such mis-named images? Thanks!
 Hi -- JPEGsnoop cannot currently do this type of search directly. However, there are a couple ways you could potentially achieve this: assuming you had a folder with possible misnamed files, make a duplicate of the folder, use a batch rename utility to change the extension of all files to ".jpg". Now, you have two options: with Windows Explorer you can enable "view by Icons" and it will attempt to rebuild the image thumbnails of each file it can decode. If you see an image thumbnail appear for some of the files, then you're done. Alternately, you could use JPEGsnoop to do a "batch process" (on subfolders). It will save a ".txt" file next to each file in your directories with what it found during an attempted decode. Files that are larger than about 1KB usually indicate that an image was found.
 A portable (stealth) Version would be great.

Thanks for this great tool!
 While the current version doesn't require installation, it does create a couple registry entries to save the settings. To make it truly portable, I had created a sourceforge feature request (ID:3104043). Shouldn't be that hard to implement.
2012-10-12Tom O
 The new Samsung phones have a "cartoon" option that alters the picture to look something like a pastel painting. Do you happen to know if pictures taken in style can be converted back to normal?
 Hi Tom -- No, it is very likely that when the phone's camera is set in that mode, it only saves a "post-processed" JPEG image. The original capture would have been discarded (unless it saves both the original and the cartoon version to the memory card, which is unlikely).

I have a question about the EXIF decodng in JPEGSnoop. Specifically, I'm trying to figure out why it says the file in question has an "EXIF IFD2" IFD. (2K)

As far as I can tell, it doesn't. I've parsed it with our EXIF parser, ImgSource ( . And I've walked through the bytes manually. But I don't see why JPEGsnoop finding that IFD. I can see the data that it _thinks_ is the IFD, but I don't know how or why JPEGsnoop is getting there.

We use JPEGsnoop as a sanity check for our own EXIF processing as well as for JPEG structural analysis, so if there's a bug in our stuff, I'd like to know. And if there's a bug in JPEGsnoop, I assume you'd like to know.

Can you shine any light on this?

[JPEGsnoop output trimmed]
Start Offset: 0x00000000
*** Marker: SOI (xFFD8) ***
  OFFSET: 0x00000000
*** Marker: APP0 (xFFE0) ***
  OFFSET: 0x00000002
... trim ...
*** Marker: APP1 (xFFE1) ***
  OFFSET: 0x00000014
... trim ...

  EXIF IFD0 @ Absolute 0x00000026
    Dir Length = 0x0009
... trim ...
    Offset to Next IFD = 0x000002C3

  EXIF IFD1 @ Absolute 0x000002E1
    Dir Length = 0x0006
... trim ...
    Offset to Next IFD = 0x00000048

  EXIF IFD2 @ Absolute 0x00000066
    Dir Length = 0x0003
    Offset to Next IFD = 0x00020131

  EXIF SubIFD @ Absolute 0x000000F6
    Dir Length = 0x001B
... trim ...
 Hi there!

I had a quick look (thanks to baby!) at the file and it appears that the "Offset to Next IFD" at the end of the IFD1 is non-zero (0x48). This is prompting us to advance on to parse another IFD (which auto-increments to IFD2). Is it possible that the "Offset to Next IFD" might be set incorrectly?

I also double-checked this with exiftool. It seems that the exiftool parser also reports that we start processing IFD2.

Hope that helps! Let me know if you want me to debug it further, Cal.
 Hello!! Thank you for quite detailed description for JPEG format. I am a Cardiology doctor. Thus, it is very difficult to understand. However, I will do my best to understand, since this document looks best in the world for JPEG teaching. In the Cardiology field, we use DICOM-XA format frequently. It is a motion picture for the heart. Is is compresed using JPEG Lossless DC. I spent several years in order to write a C++ program to decode it, although I failed every time. Finally, I met this page. Thank you again from Japan!
 Thanks! It's good to hear that it was useful!

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TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced its participation at the Mentor Forum Israel on January 15, 2013 at the Hilton Tel-Aviv hotel. TowerJazz is utilizing several Mentor tool sets, both for design and mask generation, and will be exhibiting at the event. TowerJazz will also provide two presentations; Mr. Amir Oren, Senior Program Manager, Mask Technology Group, will discuss automated Design Rule Checking (DRC) waiver technology and Mr. Ronen Hasnes, Design Enablement Manager will present on TowerJazz's reference flow and its use of Mentor's Calibre® PERC product.

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"We are pleased to collaborate with Mentor and develop these unique usages for their tool sets. The development by the TowerJazz design center and mask groups with the Mentor support team will provide better design-rule coverage for our customers increasing their confidence in the design and getting to market faster," said Ori Galzur, Vice President of the TowerJazz VLSI Design Center. "Enabling a clean DRC run will ease the tapeout procedure for our customers and allow them to develop products with a higher confidence level in their design."

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Downstream Resort Casino Makes $1 Billion Economic Impact

The Quapaw Tribe welcomed visitors to its expanded Downstream Casino Resort in Oklahoma on Friday soon after the release of a study that estimated the facility's economic impact on the region where Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas intersect over the past five years at more than $1 billion.

According to the independent study by KlasRobinson Q.E.D. of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the casino has pumped more than $225 million into the economy annually since its July 2008 opening. In the past half-decade, it has created more than 1,640 permanent jobs with total annual workers’ earnings of over $58 million.

“Five and a half years ago we stood out here in the woods and announced what we hoped to achieve: To create something that would benefit all the communities by providing good jobs, a foundation for sustainable economic development, and to serve as a good citizen and community partner,” said Downstream Chairman John Berrey at a news conference Friday to share the study’s results.

The announcement came the same week the tribe debuted its renovations including a $150 million 152-room Kappa Tower, which includes the elegant Neé Spa and other new upscale amenities. The expanded property has also created some 1,300 construction jobs to date.

Matthew Robinson, principal of KlasRobinson Q.E.D., who researched and wrote the economic report, said, “The results of our study reveal an impressive achievement. It indicates that Downstream could serve as a model for Indian Gaming's potential in creating regional economic development."

The resort's future annual economic impact is projected at over $300 million. “We still have a long way to go, but I think these results show that we are doing pretty well so far,” said Berrey, The Miami News-Record reported.

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Look and Feel

I’m told that, the head honcho of a newspaper house – which has re-launched their flagship paper with a brand-new design - has gone on record to say that, “it (the new design) is as best as it can get”. I have no intention of taking him on that point - not b'coz he is known to take serious umbrage at even mildly critical comments in inconsequential bolgs such as this one, but because I - for one - genuinely like the new design ( tho’ I have heard mischievous critics quip, “it is “DNA four years too late”). But for me what’s more interesting to debate – is that eternal question of form (design) vs. content.

Surely look matters. Especially on first appearance. And, beauty is certainly not necessarily only skin deep when it comes to a ‘thought product’ like a newspaper. Great content can be made to look even more attractive by intelligent packaging and ease of navigation is sure to please even an old school die-hard reader.

I believe research indicates that, in a digital age – a newspaper even in its printed form must have a digital look and feel – especially if it wishes to attract new (and obviously) younger readers. And, Garcia is a master of 'digital' design. So far, so good. But, how does an older paper go about re-inventing itself for a younger audience.

The challenge to my mind is not about ‘turning off’ older readers by replacing a layout which they had gotten used to over the years with a new snazzy layout that can appear to be too much of a discontinuous change. The fears on this score – I think – are grossly overstated. But, for a ‘digital design’ to really work – one has to also re-engineer and completely over-haul the content – almost to the point of changing its DNA (no pun intended). It is here many publications fall-flat – because the risks of alienating the traditional readers are too high. And without doing much to the content, changes in design remain largely ‘cosmetic’.

New publications have a clear advantage here. They have the luxury, as it were, to marry content with design – to have a total offering that also reflects the personality of the paper. And, if the 2 (content and design can match up to each other – you do have a winning proposition. In the near past, MINT did this masterfully and DNA too was very successful in its attempt to differentiate with existing products. The Telegraph and Asian Age had done it in their own times. More recently, Forbes India has worked hard at doing the same in the Business Magazines genre and, in it's own modest way, OPEN can be another good example (tho’ I am yet unsure about its chances of commercial success).

MINT went a step further. It was planned truly as a multi-media offering for the future and its design and content delivery seamlessly transitioned across platforms – print, web, phone and even video-steaming.

But, only too often – do we have a new offering in the market – which looks smart but fail to deliver on its content.

The job is decidedly tougher for an existing newspaper – especially the larger and more established ones. Here, I liked the ToI formula – which follows, I suspect, the more classical (and, perhaps, conservative) route. Both for ToI and ET – they first went about incrementally and imperceptibly changing the content (which – detractors popularly called “dumbing down”) and then tinkered with the design. So, when DNA and HT were launched in Mumbai – ToI’s response was not to the drawing board and a new designer – but, instead, they invested heavily on content to make it – arguably – the best newspaper in the country. The same was, I believe, the brief of The Hindu to Garcia when he came to work on it a few years ago. But, then there are also wagging tongues – who say that these are also the 2 terribly designed newspapers in the country.

Even the staid Deccan Herald and the New Indian Express (down South) have also tried a change of wardrobe – but I’m not sure what it has done to their circulation and readership numbers.

Change with continuity seems to be the name of the game. It is surprising how many publications tend to clone their print format even in the digital (web) rendition. There must be some logic to that as well.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

News as Utility

Somewhat simplistically put the problem of newspapers in western countries (especially the US) has been that, fearing mass migration of readers to the web – they have actually accelerated the process without being able to monetise the readership of the net editions.

Finally American Print Media Industry are coming to terms with the fact that, their old model of high dependence on advertising doesn’t work and, therefore, they are now desperately seeking ways to charge for content – turning to Television and other media for inspiration. But, none of it seems to work for newspapers and magazines.

The paradox – however - is that, it isn’t as if the market is not growing. But, the revenue is going in different directions.

Just a few days back, the National Press Club in Washington held a symposium to debate the issue with top industry leaders (like Tom Curley of AP, Jon Klein of CNN, Alberto Ibarguen of Knight Foundation, Vivian Schiller of NPR). All of them – doyens of the industry – were unanimous on the fact that, the old Business model of newspapers is obsolete. But they were not clear about the answers and felt they have to experiment a lot before a new business model emerges. (To read full report click here).

Paradigm Shift or Psychological Shift

The problem they thought was a psychological shift of readers from being “consumers” of news to becoming “users” of news – who interact with the information across media platforms. There may be a way to charge for news – if it becomes “utility” – just as a light and a cable bill. But, all this is fuzzy thinking at the moment.

One thing was clear though’ – costs have to be kept under a tight leash and media must learn effectively the tools of target advertising. But, the forum ended on an optimistic note. The panelists felt that, the next couple of years will be tough but once they get thru’ the valley – there would be enormous growth ahead. Wishful thinking some may say.

Apocalypse Postponed (for now)

In India ( and Asia) we might see things very differently. With internet penetration – despite the exponential growth – still lagging miles behind newspaper readership, that is poised to increase further with an exploding rising middle-class and rising literacy rates – the apocalypse would seem someway off.

But increasing print circulation could lead us to the same cost trap that devoured the big papers in the US. However, the bigger problem – to my mind – could be that, while in the West readers actually migrated from print to web – in India the per-capita “consumption” of news (even as an utility) could actually fall. This is already apparent in the falling readership amongst the youth. Much of this fall could actually be for good and irretrievable even in the long run, as they might be lost permanently to TV and other media such as cell-phones (and not necessarily the ‘web editions’ of newspapers and magazines).

Flight or Migration, Consumers or Users

Following the international trend, most Indian newspapers and magazines have launched their e-paper or e-magazine editions in addition to the internet editions. And, almost all of it is free content as on date. That was inevitable and unavoidable – I agree. But, do we have a clear fix on how many unique readers it has added in the domestic market. My guess is that most of the traffic is generated from overseas readers – and the migration from print to web would still be quite nominal and is likely to remain so for a long time to come. Those youth who turn to the web for news – get it from Yahoo, Google and other services and not as much from electronic editions of newspapers.

Thus, the challenge – unlike in the West, where it is to monetise readership – would be how to get readers back or increase the “consumer” ( or “user” – any which way you like to put it) base to grow the market.

So going forward, the Western model – even if they were to find one – may not work for India.

I am not sure if these issues are finding attention, as we begin to rejoice on the fall of newsprint prices and the imminent return of the good times.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Back to Business (Class) Again ??

It’s party time in Goa.

The country’s Ad and Media fraternity have flocked there – braving the scorching April heat – for the GoaFest, which is finally showing signs of living up to its promise of becoming the Indian Cannes since the 2 reigning ‘Gods’ of Indian Advertising smoked their peace cigars some 2 years ago.

But while the Ad Guys have at least the Creative achievements to celebrate even in a depressing business year, what are the media folks cheering over ?

Print being our area of interest – talked to a friend in the industry. According to him, even though ‘bad news’ keeps coming from the western world (especially the US), in India – perhaps - the worst is over. After a year of ‘blood-bath’ one is beginning to see rays of revival.

So, this being also the time of presenting the AOPs (Annual Operating Plans), there is a new cautious optimism in the meeting rooms. This is probably based on 2 premises. The first, of course, is the collapse of newsprint prices. Second – tho’ some may be reluctant to admit it – with the ‘right-sizing’ exercise carried out by many the cost structures seem to be in better shape. And, with all this if the economy does pick-up by coming Diwali as many are predicting – one could well be back on track this year.

“Time to buy newspaper stocks ol’ chap !! ” – he said tapping my shoulder before rushing off to catch his flight to Goa. Then turned round for a bit to add with a smile – “hope the company restores the travel policy and I am allowed to travel Business Class, once again”.

But, it left me wondering if the Indian Print-Media industry has indeed cracked the code - which has been eluding the chaps in Obama-land or are we simply lulling ourselves into believing that surgery was the cure and we will be back to good health once the nourishing juices of ad-revenue begin to kick-in again.

The question is if we have missed a lesson or 2 in this crisis. I intend to turn to a few of those thoughts in the coming posts.


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What constitutes a moderate Muslim?

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Jihadwatch has a good article referencing the Rand Corporation and their definition of a moderate Muslim.

  • Does the group (or individual) support or condone violence? If it does not support or condone violence now, has it supported or condoned it in the past?
  • Does it support democracy? And if so, does it define democracy broadly in terms of individual rights?
  • Does it support internationally recognized human rights?
  • Does it make any exceptions (e.g., regarding freedom of religion)?
  • Does it believe that changing religions is an individual right?
  • Does it believe the state should enforce the criminal-law component of shari’a?
  • Does it believe the state should enforce the civil-law component of shari’a? Or does it believe there should be non-shari’a options for those who prefer civil-law matters to be adjudicated under a secular legal system?
  • Does it believe that members of religious minorities should be entitled to the same rights as Muslims?
  • Does it believe that a member of a religious minority could hold high political office in a Muslim majority country?
  • Does it believe that members of religious minorities are entitled to build and run institutions of their faith (churches and synagogues) in Muslim majority countries?
  • Does it accept a legal system based on nonsectarian legal principles?

Great, now will the real moderate Muslims speak up and affirm this?  The problem is many of these questions completely contrast the belief of many so-called moderate Muslims not to mention the Koran, Surra and Hadith. I think it’s safe to say that Islam has no place in a democratic society and “moderate Muslims” should stop pretending they are pro democracy, pro-free speech and pro-freedom of religion.

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  1. 5 Questions every "Moderate Muslim" in America should answer
  2. Another Discussion With A Moderate Muslim
  3. Moderate Muslim Banned from Mosque for Criticizing Extremism
  4. Turkish Prime Minister: "There is no moderate Islam"
  5. Muslim mapping plan in LA halted
  • Banjo

    Example of oxymoron: Moderate Moslem.

  • http://www,traveLightgame.com carolyne

    Banjo, you are playing it right! I hear you! There are no Moderate Muslims!
    I don’t want to ever know one, or have anything to do with a Muslim period! Why we don’t trust them? REALLY? There is no earthly reason to trust them ever. We in America do not need a Muslim to even be in our country. Muslims offer nothing but hate.
    Wipe them off the face of the earth! Muslims are just garbage!


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A shimmering design for a mixed-use tower in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is hoping to achieve LEED certification by utilizing an intriguing glazing system that provides both shade and light. Designed by Danish Henning Larsen Architects, the Villas in the Sky will be a 29 story tower situated as one of the last buildings in the green thoroughfare, the Wadi.

Energy efficiency plays a strong role in the building with the help of an angled glazing system. Panels angled down towards the street are transparent, letting light in and allowing people inside to see out, while panels angled up are a light-colored cladding and shade the interior form the hot desert sun.

The mixed use tower is a basic square shape with a zig-zag facade at the top to differentiate it from the other towers in the area. Retail and commercial space will occupy the bottom three floors with office space programmed for the next 14 and then 22 residential units on the last 12 floors. The Villas are expected to be complete sometime in 2013.

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  1. Laura Beth MacDonald August 27, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    This is a truly beautiful tower, and it is such a unique glazing system. A great place to go if you want more information on this kind of construction project is McGraw Hill’s Sweet directory. They offer a lot of valuable information, including CAD details that you can download, and listings of the products and manufacturers currently available. Though I work for them, I can honestly say that they offer the most useful and complete directory available. I would recommend checking them out.

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01 February 2012

Toronto's Ontario Place, Including World's First Permanent IMAX Theater, Being Shuttered by Ontario Government

Photos courtesy Ontario Place Corporation
Editor's Note: Cinesphere, in Toronto's waterside Ontario Place park, became the world's first permanent IMAX theater in 1971, when it took possession of the 1570 projector that had been used at Osaka, Japan's Expo 70.  In early 2011, as part of Ontario Place's 40th anniversary, the theater was upgraded to IMAX 3D with a new projector and a Proslide Topsy-Turvy was added to the Soak City waterpark.  In addition to Cinesphere and Soak City, Ontario Place is home to a number of other rides and attractions, all of which are included in the closure.  -- JK

See commentary from Ian McLennan following the announcement, below.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (February 1, 2012) -- The following statement was issued by Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Michael Chan:

"Today, we are taking a new step forward in the revitalization of Ontario Place to make it a 'must visit' destination and landmark for Ontario families and tourists from around the world. I've asked John Tory, Chair of CivicAction, to lead a panel that will advise the government on the redevelopment of the site.

"With the revitalization moving forward, we are also making the decision not to invest additional money into Ontario Place as it exists today. The waterpark, amusement rides and the Cinesphere will be closed. This will save the government from having to invest up to $20 million annually in operating and capital funding. The Molson Amphitheatre, Atlantis, marina and parking will remain open until construction begins.

"Ontario Place will be available for use for the 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games and the rebuilding will be completed in time to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017."

COMMENTARY from Ian C. McLennan, Vancouver, B.C.
First full-time general director of Ontario Place, 1971 - 74

"A new Ontario Place is part of our government's plan to grow tourism through investments that will stimulate Ontario's economy, create jobs, and develop exciting new opportunities and experiences.

Ian McLennan
"I have mixed feelings about the Ontario Place closure. For years, I have been disappointed at the tepid level of commitment by successive governments to the routine maintenance, let alone rejuvenation possibilities associated with Ontario Place. On several occasions, I thought, "better to shut it down than let it die this slow, agonizing death.

"Governments everywhere (except, notably, Asia) are abandoning the visionary and catalyst role of designing, building and operating educational facilities and attractions like Ontario Place - which, it is useful to be reminded, was once an extremely innovative operation. Given that reality, it probably makes sense to have the attraction privatized. Heaven knows, it is a valuable piece of property.

"I would like to think that beyond the immediate real estate value, there is sufficient community memory to foster and encourage intelligent redevelopment of and re-investment into the site - and that such development would be encouraged with several 'strings attached.'  Not least of these would be the need for a solid commitment on the part of any private developer(s) that the original spirit of Ontario Place be respected and brought into the new century. The old Ontario Place is gone - along with the 1970s, 80s and 90s. That cannot be recreated. What can and should be created is a site that embodies the same planning ideals, principles and goals that informed the design and operation of the original Ontario Place - but in a way that resonates with today's youth, changing society demographics and modern technology.

"I would also like to think that Canadian designers, planners and perhaps even investors should be up to this challenge, but just as it is heartwarming to see Canadian architects and producers doing wonderful things overseas, we should not be prejudiced against foreign designers or developers who might have a better idea for this splendid site. In other words, open it up to the world to compete for workable, financially competent and brilliant concepts and proposals. Nothing short of a major, well-funded international competition should be staged - to match the one-time opportunity to breathe new life into what was a grand experiment, and for a good, respectable run, a great community asset."

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2014 Pro Cycling iCal Calendar

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Pro cycling’s off season fast approaching arriving but if the racing stops, the planning doesn’t. Whether you’re plotting a victorious classics campaign or a trip to Europe you need to know when the pro races are.

Here’s the 2014 pro cycling calendar with the final races of 2013 added so you can use it straight away. You’ll soon find the races appear. In addition you can subscribe or download an iCal file to import the same calendar into your organiser, phone and computer diary.

All of the major UCI men’s and women’s pro races around the world are included. Races have been vanishing in recent years and inevitably more will drop off in the new year and these will be deleted from the calendar.

There is a permanent link to the calendar at the top of the inrng.com home page if you just want to visit from time to time. If you want the full calendar to keep then you can download the iCal file.

iCal tech support
An iCal is a calendar file that you can store on your phone or electronic diary like Outlook. There are several ways to get this on to your computer or phone.

Subscribe and get automatic updates: The recommended option is to subscribe by copying the iCal URL:

  • If you use MacOS/iOS copy the URL to the iCal file then Calendar.app hit cmd+alt+S (or File>New Calendar Subscription…) whilst in Calendar.app, paste in the link and it will update across all your devices and updates will be processed
  • If you use Outlook, copy the URL and then go to Tools > Account Settings > Internet Calendars and paste the URL to subscribe. In each case when the calendar is updated with a date change or an event is cancelled your software will upload the new data.

Direct download: You can download the iCal file for your organiser, phone, computer and other devices from here

Right-click to save the ics / iCal / iCalendar file and you can import it into your electronic diary. If you have trouble with the subscription then this is an easier option but it means you might want to download a new version a few times a year to get the latest version.

Google Calendar: If you use Google Calendar then click on the icon on the bottom-right of the calendar up above. Note this method can work with Android phones when the iCal file might not although you might need the Google Sync calendar app.

The Calendar Explained
Each race is listed along with its location and UCI status eg World Tour, 1.1 or 2.HC.

  • WT means World Tour and includes all the prime races on the calendar, from the three grand tours (Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana) to the one day classics like Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders and Il Lombardia, as well as others like the Tour of Poland or the Tour Down Under and can be anywhere in the world. All 18 UCI Pro Teams must ride plus organisers may invite UCI Pro Continental Teams.

After this come races in different races that are grouped by region, with the UCI Asia Tour, UCI America Tour, UCI Africa Tour and UCI Oceania Tour and UCI Europe Tour. The bulk of races on the calendar above are in Europe with races like the Het Nieuwsblad, the Criterium International or the Tour of Denmark but we also find races like the Tour of California and the Tour de Langkawi.

  • HC is the next level down and up to 70% of the teams may come from the UCI Pro Teams but UCI Pro Continental and UCI Continental teams can be invited
  • .1 is another step down where up to 50% of the teams can be UCI Pro Team with the rest from Pro Continental, Continental and also national teams
  • There is also .2 but I’ve excluded these races to keep the calendar concise and focus on the top pro races around the world
  • Note 1.HC and 1.1 denotes a one day race and 2.HC or 2.1 means a stage race
  • Women’s races are W1.1 etc and the biggest races are the Women’s World Cup with the W.WC label
Tommy B October 3, 2013 at 2:04 pm

Thanks as always for providing this…it’s so useful.

SloKenny October 3, 2013 at 2:32 pm

Thanks for putting this together.

the dude October 3, 2013 at 2:54 pm

Thanks so much, saves me a lot of time!

Phil October 3, 2013 at 3:07 pm

As the other comments note, many thanks for this latest edition of an invaluable calendar.

cdmackay October 3, 2013 at 4:32 pm

nice to see that char accents now work, whereas I got “splodges” with the 2013 cal.

one quibble: Tour of Beijing only shows as a single day (Fri 11th) with the 2014 cal, but I see all 5 days in the 2013 cal.

Using Google Calendar, via Firefox browser.

thanks again…

The Inner Ring October 3, 2013 at 4:46 pm

Got it for Beijing, it should be fixed now and subscribers will get the update in due course.

cdmackay October 3, 2013 at 5:35 pm

thanks! :)

Nick R October 3, 2013 at 4:44 pm

Very useful- thanks!

Splavid Datrick October 3, 2013 at 4:56 pm

Should the subscription method work with an iphone on ios 6? Can’t seem to find a way of adding a calendar subscription.

Martin October 3, 2013 at 5:17 pm

Go to settings/mail,contacts,calendars. At the top is a list of accounts. Go to add account/other/add subscribed calendar then paste the link https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bhmdlgm70iog6io7notfcjnkeo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

cdmackay October 3, 2013 at 5:34 pm

yup, thanks, that’s how I added it in the first place.

I neglected to say, but I noticed that the same problem was shown in the calendar at the top of *this* page, as well, when I reported it.

The latter has now been corrected, and the link in my calendar is also working now, so it seems that someone has fixed it. thanks!

cdmackay October 3, 2013 at 5:35 pm

ah sorry, ignore that, update in wrong place :(

Splavid Datrick October 4, 2013 at 2:10 pm

Awesome! Thank you very much Martin.

Anonymous October 3, 2013 at 10:50 pm

TheDude October 4, 2013 at 4:07 am

Off topic but significant in the world racing community

A moment of respect and remembrance for Amy Dombroski of the Fidea Professional Cyclocross Team, who was fatally injured in a collision with a truck today while conducting a training ride in Belgium. Condolences to her loved ones, teammates and friends.

Rosie October 4, 2013 at 8:12 am

Fantastic – the first time I get to see the dates for the Tour of Oman, which was a bit of a mystery due to the arrival of the Dubai Tour this year.

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