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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 4th, 2008
  • Comments: 7

Image Optimization With Smush It

One important task of being a webmaster is optimizing the elements of a website to provide visitors with a fast loading page. Unoptimized images can increase the page loading time tremendously. It was not uncommon ten years ago to see site headers with 100 Kilobytes and more. This has thankfully changed and it is only [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Online Services, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 23rd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Microsoft Image Composite Editor

Combining several images into one bigger image seems to be a center of research in the last years. Microsoft Research released multiple applications that combined several images of the same object. The latest release from Microsoft Research is called Image Composite Editor which can create a panoramic image from multiple images of the same object.
The [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Picture Tourist Remover

It is virtually impossible to get a clean shoot of a tourist attraction in most parts of the world. Since that is rarely the case most pictures that are taken while on holiday show a few or even many tourists on the pictures that block part of the object from sight.
Several image editing technologies have [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 4th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Pictomio Photo Software

Pictomio is a beautiful picture and video organizer that comes with a wide variety of features and an impressive looking interface. The photo software uses a library like system to catalog images that the user adds to the application. Those images can be sorted and grouped in numerous ways, for example by rating, file size, [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Fleace Flickr Wallpaper Changer

Fleace, which stands for Flickr-Enabled Automatic Changer for Everyone, is an interesting wallpaper changer that uses Flickr as the main source for wallpapers. The system works straightforward. The user enters a few tags into the application or keeps the default tags (beach and puppy), changes a few options like the size of the source that [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 25th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Drag And Display Photos On Your Desktop

Software Programs that combine an existing background wallpaper with additional information or files seem to be the latest trend. Desktop Takeover (via Shellcity) is one of the latest variants. It introduces a feature that makes it possible to drag photos in the application which are then displayed on the desktop. The program provides the visuals [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Aug 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Impressive Photo Editor

It’s getting pretty hard to get excited about online image and photo editors seeing as they’re a dime a dozen. However just today I discovered one which I particularly liked and thought I would share with you:
Pixlr – The online image editor
Pixlr had been developed by a Swedish guy who launched the service with this [...]

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Categories: Online Services

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