Microsoft Live Labs Launch Photosynth
Recently Microsoft Live labs introduced cool app called Photosynth. Microsoft says that this app brings in new technology which will forever change the way people think about digital photos. Photosynth is currently supported as an addon for Mozilla Firefox and Internet explorer.Another requirement is a good graphic subsystem installed for all the graphic shine. So if you have an older graphic card on your pc like the Intel’s 8xx series then Photosynth will not work.The application is free to boot and has an inbuilt image gallery to view some cool... Read The Rest →
1001 – A Flickr Client
Every other day we see an app being built that takes advantage of the versatile Flickr API. An App that caught my eye today was 1001 that bills itself as the desktop version of Flickr. Though 1001 carries a weird name, it performs just about everything the online version of Flickr does, be it upload photos, tagging, browsing streams, or just about anything else you can do with Flickr. 1001 is a powerhouse, I just installed it on my Hackintosh PC (OSX Running on PC) and it works like a... Read The Rest →
Smugmug Private Photos are for Anyone to See
Apparently the popular photo sharing site Smugmug has a huge security hole that could allow anyone with a bit of common sense to access private photos on Smugmug. The basic problem here is that Smugmug uses URL’s for public and private galleries in a way that can be easily guessed. And whats even more shameful is that the people behind the site are aware of this issue, but they seem to be too keen to say that this is intended behavior. If seeing private photos via publicly accessible URL’s is... Read The Rest →
Get a Flickr Pro Account Free For 3 Months
If you are planning to purchase yourself a Flickr Pro Account, then this is the right time to do so. Well if you are wondering how, Flickr has a deal running for the month of January wherein if you purchase a Gift Account, 3 Extra free months are credited to your Flickr Account. Which means you get 15months of Flickr Pro Account for just 24.95$, not a bad deal isn’t it? Well here is how it works.. Go to the Flickr gift site. Purchase a 12 month gift subscription which... Read The Rest →
Flickr Adds Photo Editing
The Flickr team has launched photo editing tools via the previously announced partnership with Picnik. Picnik is one of the best online photo editors out there, and its partnership with Flickr means uber cool photo editing for Flickr Users. I am not going tell you about how the Photo editing is done, because details are already on the Flickr blog. All you need to do is Click the “edit photo” button above any of your stored photos, and Flickr launches the Picnik editor without leaving the Flickr site. When you... Read The Rest →
Flickr to map the world's latest photo hotspots
My favorite online photo service Flickr seems to get better with every other passing day. Its nice to see Yahoo continuing with development of Flickr. Flickr yesterday announced a new feature dubbed Places that aims to help you in Finding photos taken at a particular place. This new feature will allow you to use Flickr Places to explore places you’ve never been to. Flickr has handpicked over 10,000 places worldwide to showcase photos that were shot over there. Flickr will also provide other information like Maps, Weather and Time at... Read The Rest →
De – Pixelize your Photos easily with VectorMagic
Do you have old photographs that you took long time back when you were on a vacation. Have a look at them now, don’t they look Pixelated and I guess they are at low resolutions. try resizing them, and you will see that they look even more horrible than they were before. Well worry no more because Folks from Stanford university have the solution. A free website called VectorMagic takes your raster images and turns them into smooth vector drawings. If you are wondering what the difference between the two... Read The Rest →
Super Sexy Ways to Search eBay, Flickr, Amazon etc..
I am sure you have all heard of Flickr, Amazon, eBay etc. These sites are extremely famous in their own niche but they do have limitations. What if you wanted to search the vast repository of data stored on these services. If you are a Flickr Addict like me then look no further than FlickrStorm. FlickrStorm is an enhanced version of the Flickr Search engine that allows us to do more with the search results than the standard Flickr Search Engine. FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr! It works... Read The Rest →
Photoshop Express – Coming Very Soon
Adobe the maker of the image manipulation software of professionals will very soon be launching Photoshop Express that will mimic the functionality of the Desktop version of Photoshop. While the Express version will not be extremely powerful, it would have some basic to intermediate effects that should be enough for an average guy who wants to edit his photos without having to install the bulky Photoshop software on your desktop. While not much is known about Photoshop Express right now John Nack from Adobe has posted a screenshot of the... Read The Rest →
Colorize Black and White Photos using Recolored
How Many times did you wish that you could recolor your old collection of black and white photos? But thought that, it was not possible. Well not anymore, with Recolored you can recolor black and white photos to shiny new color photos. Sounds interesting then read on, Now you might be wondering how on earth is that thing possible. Traditionally recoloring was done by hand and it involved a lot of hardwork and time. But not anymore.. Recolored uses sophisticated algorithms to process digital images, but it needs some help... Read The Rest →
