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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Online Services

If you live and breath Flickr you might find the following tools to integrate Flickr into Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Writer useful. The tools (via Genbeta) are currently limited to those three versions, previous Microsoft Office editions are unfortunately not supported (yet). All three tools function as plugins, or add-ins, [...]

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I was very impressed by the Fast Picture Viewer application that I reviewed earlier today. It was the fastest image viewer that I tested so far and has replaced my favorite Xnview which I have been using for a long time. The author Axel was so nice to send me registration keys for his software [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Fast Picture Viewer is the fastest picture viewer that I come across. It will replace my current viewer XnView. I have a few tests that every new image viewer has to master so that I can judge its speed and functionality. The first is a directory with thousands of images and the second a directory [...]

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Yes that is no type there in the title of this article. The website FaceSaerch offers a face search interface and search engine that displays pictures of people that it found while looking for the phrase that the user has entered. It is a bit surprising that the search box accepts not only names but [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

Gallery Mage is a cross plattform application for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux that provides an easy way to manipulate images and create galleries that can be published locally or online. The software is Open Source and requires Java to run. A new gallery is created by simply pointing the software to a folder on [...]

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I cannot really think of the right place for so called ascii art other then sending it to friends or posting it on forums / websites for others to see. Even a good friend of mine who could be classified as the classical social user, those that hang out on social networks mainly, has discovered [...]

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