Hundreds of different solutions exist to reduce the resolution of photos. These solutions are available as software programs but also online services. Quality is usually not an issue when reducing the resolution of a photo. It does becomes problematic on the other hand to find a solid computer program to enlarge photos. Enlarging photos meaning [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Chance is you have already stumbled upon a few websites that are posting images as links or thumbnails. The only way to view the full images would be to click on the links to be taken to another page or website where the images are then displayed in their normal resolution. The majority of users [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many people who like to travel are taking photos of the locations they visit. The photos are then usually added to photo albums along with stuff that was bought or taken on the trip (maps, bills, tickets). The software 93 Photo Street offers another possibility as it can be used to create photo maps on [...]

Categories: Mac, Software, Windows

SmugMug is a popular photo hosting and sharing website. The main difference between SmugMug and other photo hosting websites like Flickr is the fact that users have to pay for a SmugMug account after an initial 14 day trial period. We do not want to go into more details as to why it might make [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Google has recently raised the attachment limit of emails that can be send and received via their email service Gmail to 25 Megabytes. The storage that is offered to all Gmail users exceed 7000 Megabytes which makes Gmail an ideal service for a variety of applications. We have already seen that it is possible to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

Image tuner is a free photo editing software for the Windows operating system. It can be used to perform a basic set of operations that include batch resizing, converting, watermarking and renaming digital photos and images. The photo editing software has been specifically designed to assist webmasters and users in publishing optimized photos on the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

So you went ahead and purchased that System 76 laptop or you decided to finally install Linux on your laptop. You now have a Linux based laptop with a webcam. But how do you take advantage of this hardware? You want to be able to use that web cam to upload photos to facebook (or [...]

Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Notebooks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

FlickrSync is an Open Source file synchronization software that synchronizes photos with the popular photo hosting site Flickr. It has to be authorized for communication with Flickr on first run on the Flickr homepage but runs independently from the photo hosting site afterwards. The interface consists of a basic folder browser which can be used [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

You need to click several times on the photo hosting website Flickr if you want to open a full sized photo from a page that is only displaying the thumbnail image of it. The same is true for websites where Flickr thumbnails or images are embedded on. Users who like to open full sized versions [...]

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