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Topic: Photos
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Let Picasa Tell You Who's In Your Photos
A few months ago I discovered a feature in one of my favorite graphics applications. The application is Picasa and the new feature is their facial recognition functions.
The Picasa application isn’t really a photo editing tool in my opinion, although it’s got some tools that are nice for the entry-level … More »
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Who Knows How to Resize Images
I’ve been working with a few new clients lately that have had questions about resizing images and formatting them for use on the web. Other friends have also asked me about resizing images for use in their profile pictures on sites like Facebook and twitter.
Obviously the picture above wouldn’t make … More »
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Comic-Con 2009: Around the Exhibits
404 days ago by Robin Parrish | 1 CommentBooths, displays, celebrities, and oddities! Here are literally tons of photos from the Exhibit Hall of the infinite wonders at Comic-Con 2009…
Be aware that if you click through the “more” link, the page you will get is HUGE with almost 200 photos!Instead of a booth, this year Syfy (formerly Scifi … More »
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AutoCollage Application from Microsoft Research
I came across an interesting graphics application recently from Microsoft Research. It’s called AutoCollage 2008. It meshes a variety of your photos together to create an interesting and custom collage from those photos.
AutoCollage is a fairly light (7MB) download and installs easily on your machine. Once installed, you simply … More » -
Are You Sharing More Than Just Photos
I’ve really started taking more and more pictures lately. Instead of just keeping them stored locally on my personal computers I’ve started uploading them to a variety of websites. I hadn’t thought much about it but recently read the article "Beware of GPS danger in your photos" by Kim Komando.
The … More »
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Attention People: Resize... Then E-mail
512 days ago by Jason | 2 CommentsOne of the things that continually frustrates me is when people decide they want to share the photos from their recent vacation with you. They send an email to everyone in their address book (in the To:) field and attach as many photos as they can in their e-mail program … More »
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Storage Has Come a Long Way Baby
I couldn’t guarantee it, but there’s one thing that seems to be getting developed much more rapidly than anything else. Sure Intel and AMD are in a huge race with each other to keep developing faster processors. Game consoles like Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii are always competing … More »
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Connecting Shared Drive on Home Network
One of the challenges experienced today was to move all the photos around on my family’s PC and aggregate them on a single partitioned drive located on the secondary hard drive in the system. For some reason I could never really get the access to the photos I wanted. I … More »
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Is Windows Live Photo Gallery This Easy
574 days ago by Jason | 2 CommentsI just saw this commercial while watching TV tonight. Do you think it’s really this easy? Or, do kids just pick up things related to technology much easier and faster than us older people realize?
Who’s using Windows Live Photo Gallery. What do you think? Is it this easy?
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Kinoma Mobile Media Browser
Awhile back I blogged about hearing of the Kinoma mobile browser for media. In that time I’ve used the application to take advantage of finding some YouTube videos and browsing flickr for some images to share with friends and family while on the go.
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Live Mesh Advertisement Features Mac User
679 days ago by Jason | 2 CommentsImage: Screen grab from video on Microsoft Software + Services site
So I’m watching some of the videos that are available on the Microsoft Strategy Software + Services website and I thought I saw something very cool. In the video I noticed the guy was sitting in the airport using … More » -
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Zune
There’s no need to reproduce a great post, so Engadget has an amazing, detailed spread on the Microsoft Zune. Tons o’ pictures. Check it out.
Engadget’s relaunch giveaways: another Zune, and last week’s design contest entries!
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Microsoft Word Image Editing Functionality
1470 days ago by Jason | 2 CommentsWhy is it I can’t select one of my full-featured image editing applications as the default image editor for images in Microsoft Word? Microsoft Paint or Image Editor is useless compared to other applications that most people have installed. Why can’t I easily add those editors to the ones called … More »
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Windows Media Photo
What do you think? Is this really needed? Here are some opinions, then I’ll share my own:
“While the half the size of a JPG is interesting, it’s largely irrelevant in my opinion,” blogged Thomas Hawk, a San Francisco-based digital media enthusiast and author of the “Digital Media” blog. “Flash memory … More »
