A deal between Life and Google makes more than 10 million photographic images available on the Internet. The collection spans from the 1750s to today. Google provides a special search engine for the collection that makes use of the Google Image Search engine.
The collection centers around five areas called People (Kennedy, Picasso), Places (Times Square, [...]
Life Photo Archive Online
XnView Add-ons and Format Plugins
XnView is a popular image viewer that is pretty fast and lightweight which are two of the most important traits that an image viewer should posses. What most XnView users do not know is that the developer’s website contains additional files that can be installed to extend the image viewer’s functionality.
Format plugins will add support [...]
Pixolu Semantic Image Search
Pixolu is an academic reasearch project on semantic image search. It does increase the quality of the search results by asking the user to refine the first batch of results and using the selected pictures to discover images that are closely related to them. The process is made up of three steps. The user enters [...]
Flickr Tools Tag Galaxy
Tag Galaxy is one of the Flickr Tools that visualizes Flickr image browsing utilizing tags and planetary constellations to show their related tags. A search for night for instance displays the related tags light, sky, dark and city rotating around the central tag. The interesting aspect of this display is that a click on any [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Photosynth released
You might remember that the news of the first Microsoft Photosynth prototype created a craze around the Internet. That was about a year ago. Microsoft has finally released a client version of Photosynth which combines browser plugins and a Photosynth software to create your own Synths.
Surprisingly enough the browser plugin works not only in Internet [...]
