13 Firefox Addons for Power Users

July 30, 2007  |  , , , ,  |  View Comments

Firefox is one of the most popular browsers today. One of the chief reasons for its popularity has been the presence of many addons that enhance your browsing experience. But when it comes to the power users there are addons that are a must have for many of you. Here they are in no particular order :

  • Greasemonkey

    • Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of poular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org.

  • Addblock Plus

    • Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

  • Del.icio.us

    • This extension seamlessly integrates your browser with del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the Web.

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Colorize Black and White Photos using Recolored

July 29, 2007  |  , , , ,  |  View Comments

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 to complete the process. Using brush strokes the user indicates which colors different objects in the image should have. The graphical user interface sports several tools and functions that helps the user draw strokes and select fitting colors in an efficient manner. When the user is done the software takes over and propagates the colors from the brush strokes into the rest of the image. Recolored uses the grayscale intensities from the original to accurately blend in colors, and it takes care to mix colors appropriately near object boundaries.

Recolored supports all the popular image formats like jpeg, png, bmp etc.. Here are some screenshots for you to ponder over..
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