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Resize and Convert Images in an Instant

Sometimes, when working with image files, you need to change their size or format. For these simple tasks, you can use Image Tool, an application that also brings a useful feature in the form of clipboard image copy. Whether you're a web designer or a home user, you've surely had to convert image files at ...

10 February 2012
12:51 GMT

Batch Watermark Your Photos

Nowadays, images can easily be transferred via Internet, so, in order to protect your work, you can place a personal mark on them. In order to do this, one can use Star Watermark, a tool that lets its users batch watermark images and preview results with ease.Watermarking is a process which enables you to insert gra...

22 September 2011
04:31 GMT

View and Edit Your Pictures with Ease

How many times did you need a tool for editing your photos? A small, simple tool that will help you get the job done quickly and easily? ImageJA is such an application, a tool that lets you view and edit images, without having to spend a dime.Sometimes you need to edit your images, in order to get rid of unwanted de...

21 September 2011
06:41 GMT

Fast Image Conversion

Working with a lot of image files at once can become a hassle, especially if they have different formats. In order to solve this problem, one can convert all of them to a single format using ImgCvrt. ImgCvrt is a free tool specialized in fast image conversion with support for batch processing that will allow its us...

23 July 2011
10:41 GMT

Add Original Effects to Your Images

Sooner or later, we all get accustomed with the limitations of our camera: certain effects can only be the result of post-processing adjustments. Flare intends to make the entire process a lot easier that one might think. Everybody can take a picture, and thanks to the right effects, almost any image can look absolut...

18 June 2011
04:21 GMT

Picture Format Conversion in High Gear

Changing the original file format for dozens, even hundreds of photos, can be a tiresome activity if the proper tools are not at hand. With this Image Converter, you will save lots of time and still keep the quality at high standards. Most users want to spend as little time as possible on less important tasks that...

31 May 2011
13:51 GMT

Transform Photos in a Snap

Creating online albums and sending images as e-mail attachments or via social network services often entail transforming the pictures. For resizing and changing the original file format, Smith Image Converter can fit the bill.Sharing treasured moments captured on a digital camera may need, sometimes, more than a simp...

17 April 2011
10:11 GMT

Capture PSD Layered Images

Traditional screenshot capturing applications don’t allow you to go further than taking images of your entire desktop, a certain area or window. Layers is able to do all and some more: each screenshot becomes an Adobe PSD document, allowing you to quickly process it in order to get the best results. As many ot...

7 December 2010
12:31 GMT

Janet Jackson Talks Hollywood’s Obsession with Weight: We’re Only Human

Not a stranger to weight struggles, singer and actress Janet Jackson is now speaking out about Hollywood’s obsession with celebrities’ weight, saying the public needs to understand celebrities are “only human” too. The star, who has often made headlines for either gaining or losing a lot of we...

15 November 2010
14:21 GMT

Google Pushes New WebP Image Format for a Faster Web

Google's quest for speed knows no bounds and it is one of the very few companies out there that can set its sights on just about anything and have decent shot at achieving it. Its latest bold move is a new image format for the web, dubbed WebP and pronounced 'weppy,' which, it says, should drastically ...

1 October 2010
04:58 GMT

Wally - And Your Desktop Will Never Get Old

Customizing your computer's appearance is never easy, but not many users can resist it. For people that stay in front of a desktop up to 12 hours a day, a fancy wallpaper, funny icons or original themes are meant to take some of the pressure off, while others just enjoy themselves trying to transfer some of thei...

30 September 2010
13:41 GMT

Photo Collages In A Few Clicks

Photo collections aren’t good just to be stored and browsing them for a certain picture (to add to a new social network account) every once in a while, or slideshow them in times of melancholy. They can be put to good use by making collages out of them. What are these good for? Well, presents mostly for the dea...

29 July 2010
08:44 GMT

The Best Way to Frame Your Pictures

People like to customize almost everything. The reason is simple. Why accept something standard when you can mold it to your requirements? This is how the need of photo editing software came to life. But this wasn't enough, because some people also wanted custom frames for their paintings and images. It was just...

2 July 2010
13:41 GMT

The Wizard of Scale

This article is also available in Spanish: El mago de las escalasOur pride and joy, the pictures we take with our digital cameras, are sometimes difficult to display and share because of their high quality and generous size. Rarely fitted to be uploaded on a website or sent as attachments, a bit more work may be requ...

25 May 2010
09:01 GMT

Quick Picture Processing

This article is also available in Spanish: Procesamiento rápido de imágenesRetouching and customizing photos can be a fun activity but just as well, it is sometimes necessary in order to make pictures fit in an online album or suitable for emailing. If you need to reduce the size on disk for an image, ...

1 May 2010
08:31 GMT

Take Screenshots Fast and Easy

 This article is also available in Spanish: Toma capturas de la pantalla al instanteAll computer enthusiasts have their fair share of working with images. Whether we're talking about a new wallpaper that we want to adjust to fit our desktops or to enhance the photos we took during our last vacation, we all ...

26 April 2010
07:01 GMT

Fast and Easy Screen Captures

We want to make snapshots of our own desktop very often. Even if we are browsing through a web page, playing a game, or simply watching a movie, it just happens that we need a certain still picture for that event. While there are a lot of screen grabbing tools, many of them have different advantages, but also lots o...

23 April 2010
12:51 GMT

Facebook Gets Larger Album Photos, Smaller Profile Pics

You wouldn't realize it on first thought, but Facebook has been for quite a while the largest photo site in the world and by a significant margin. Thanks to its 350 million users all uploading important and many times interesting photos of themselves, the social network can be considered a photo hosting site as...

20 January 2010
10:49 GMT

Quick and Easy Photo Enhancement

It is a known fact that people like taking photos of almost everything they encounter. They take pleasure in taking photos of places, other individuals, or unusual events in their lives. Since it appeared, photography has become more than a tool, it has become the means to remember nice memories from the past days, a...

18 January 2010
12:41 GMT

‘Fat’ Gerard Butler Marks the End of Beauty Double Standard

Celebrities are supposed to look not just good, but utterly stunning, at all times: that’s a given, at least as far as mainstream media is concerned. Because of this, female stars are constantly under the spotlight, where every inch of their body is analyzed, and then pitted against absurd, but attainable, stan...

9 January 2010
07:15 GMT

Adam Lambert Taking Over: I Play Pretend, I Entertain

Fuse’s interview show brings a fresh dose of Adam Lambert this Monday, when it will air a new interview with the American Idol alum. In it, the singer talks anything and everything from his image, his coming out of the closet in Rolling Stone magazine, his musical influences and, of course, his debut album, the...

9 January 2010
06:55 GMT

One Day I Decided I Was Beautiful, Gabourey Sidibe Says

She’s Precious in the critically acclaimed movie “Precious.” Gabourey Sidibe is also far from what the industry would conceive of a superstar, yet her talent and extreme confidence have already gotten her noticed with the biggest publications and outlets, not only home in the US, but internationally...

9 January 2010
05:15 GMT

Alleged Photo of HTC Dragon's Screen Emerges

Verizon Wireless has just launched on its airwaves its first two mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system, the Motorola DROID and HTC DROID ERIS, and now the rumor is that it is getting ready for the releases of a third such handset. The said Android device might be none other than the previous...

11 November 2009
07:10 GMT

Adam Lambert Talks Glitzy, Disco Image

Adam Lambert, the guy who almost became last season’s American Idol, is definitely a good entertainer. Not only does he have good stage presence and impressive vocals, but he’s also not afraid to go the extra mile in terms of selling his music. It’s all part of his strategy of reaching out to as man...

10 November 2009
10:26 GMT

Create Your Own Amazing Panorama

Since the invention of photography, people wanted to take as many photos as they could, and that is because photos are a nice way to remember the places you’ve visited or people you’ve met and maybe you will never meet again. But soon after, another technology appeared, namely image stitching, which allow...

20 October 2009
11:01 GMT

Geophoto - Geotag Your Images with Drag and Drop

If you are the kind of person that travels a lot and you own a camera I am sure that organizing the photos taken on each trip takes a lot of your valuable time. Not to mention that each time you want to share your fabulous experiences you find yourself in the position of thoroughly explaining details that cannot be c...

12 October 2009
03:01 GMT

IBM to Test Search Engine Market with Bold New Project

Teaming up with different partners from Europe, IBM has launched for the public a new search engine that uses brand new image and video searching techniques. The algorithm scans every image uploaded on the web for color schemes, color structure, color layout, shape edges, patterns and texture, besides the classic tag...

12 September 2009
04:22 GMT

I’m Not Stupid, Paris Hilton Defends Herself

Paris Hilton is, as the entire world must know by now, famous for her squeaky voice, blonde hair, blue contacts and a certain airheaded quality that often makes her utter the most absurd things. Still, she insists in her new documentary, “Paris, Not France,” and quoted by E! Online, the real Paris Hilton ...

25 July 2009
04:58 GMT

Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.6

Apple has released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility 2.6, an update that extends RAW image compatibility for Aperture 2, iPhoto 08 and iPhoto 09 for three Canon cameras, the Nikon D5000 and the Olympus E-30. As usual, Apple's used the Support section of its web site to detail the contents of the latest Digital C...

5 June 2009
04:18 GMT

Download New Voila 2.0.1 Capture Tool

Voila is a professional / creativity tool for the Mac that allows users to capture any shape, region, menu, web page, DOM elements, and even iSight video, adding annotations like arrow, text, lines, shapes, brush, paint, callouts, stamps, and cool effects such as filters, edges, and skew. The people at Global Delight...

28 May 2009
04:48 GMT

Free Solution to Convert DMG, CDR, ISO Images on Your Mac

DMGConverter is a highly intuitive Disk Image (.dmg, .cdr, .iso) create-and-convert tool. Best used for the collective processing of more than one file and every folder, the program can deal with all the fundamental processing, offering the drag & drop functionality and quick results. Besides DMG, DMGConverter includ...

22 May 2009
09:50 GMT

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery - Easily Restore Lost Media Files

Although modern devices are basically proofed for every situation that may occur while an intensive usage, I am sure that at least once, sitting in front of a storing device, you didn't understand why was your data gone or you regretted erasing a file that you actually needed. That is why Stellar Phoenix Photo R...

15 May 2009
12:11 GMT

Download Free X-Men Origins: Wolverine iPhone App for Exclusive Content

Haven Interactive has released a free application for iPhone users, allowing them to use the software's built-in photo-recognition technology to take photos of icons that can be found in the real world (or on the Internet). For easy unlock of the exclusive content, the developers have set up a page where the ico...

12 May 2009
06:28 GMT

iPhone App Lets You Draw and Find Similar Images on the Web

Hitachi, Ltd. has released what is probably the most useful free app for people who use the web to look up imagery on a regular basis. GazoPa for iPhone allows users to search for similar images on the web by uploading their own photos. They can even try and get pictures they have seen in the past by actually drawing...

16 April 2009
06:55 GMT

Share Your Images with Style

Sharing images over the Internet has become a common practice nowadays, and everyone seems to have unleashed their artistic spirit. As a result, simple solutions that will make your pictures look amazing in a matter of minutes are highly regarded. This is where JAlbum comes in. The fact is that this solution brings t...

19 January 2009
12:11 GMT

iMagePhone Out of Beta

Developer Polo Planet Software recently released a stripped down version of its Phone Wallpaper X application, calling it ImagePhone. An update to the app has added the ability to send wallpapers by e-mail, some backup functionality, and a 14.95 USD price tag. A demo is still available. The program lets you make and...

4 December 2008
09:19 GMT

New Device Shows Still Pictures with Moving Shadows

A team of researchers led by Martin Fuchs from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, in collaboration with Ramesh Raskar from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have managed to take photography one step further. They have done so by developing a novel device for...

20 November 2008
10:30 GMT

Protect Your Images by Adding Your Own Watermarks

One of the greatest things about the century we live in is the fact that everyone in the world is interconnected. In a matter of seconds, you can exchange information with someone on the other side of the planet, which makes it so that speed has become one of the most appreciated features in this respect. This is bec...

12 November 2008
04:11 GMT

Five Items for a Mars No-Return Trip

In light of the recent article describing Buzz Aldrin's idea of no-return trips to Mars as being more logical and profitable, try to imagine the following situation: you are chosen to represent the pioneering mission that would help establish the first base on the red planet. Money and space are not a problem, ...

28 October 2008
05:23 GMT

GeoEye-1, Google's Satellite Sends First Image

Since its launch, on September 6th this year, Google's top-notch satellite has constantly been fine-tuned in order to get even more accurate results. The ultra-high definition images that it is able to provide make GeoEye-1 the world's best commercial satellite.The state-of-the-art device's first publi...

9 October 2008
08:00 GMT

Tailor Your Digital Pictures

Digital photography has been a part of our lives for quite some time now and many people take pictures almost on a daily basis. This may be the result of their job requirements or it can be a simple habit with fun being its main objective. Of course, pictures are taken in order to be seen by more than the author, sha...

7 October 2008
11:11 GMT

Let the Badger Convert Your Images

Every now and then you might have to change the file format of your pictures – whether you need to post them on your personal blog or include them in a school assignment, sometimes the original format gets in the way. So, the only solution is to convert them to other formats that are more suitable for the requi...

22 September 2008
03:11 GMT

Bring out the Best from Your Pictures

Last week I came back from a fabulous vacation, where I took hundreds of beautiful pictures, which I immediately shared with my friends. I was especially proud of the artistic side of some of them so, along with the preview, I opened iTunes for suiting music. The first picture was great. I started telling its story, ...

20 September 2008
07:38 GMT

Gimp, Free Image Manipulation Software, Updated to V. 2.4.7

The self contained application bundle part of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for Mac known as GIMP has been updated to version 2.4.7. The popular open source image editor now includes over a dozen code fixes. Gimp is free to download and use, and requires X11 to run.With the release of Gimp 2.4, the development t...

27 August 2008
20:31 GMT

Image Cropping and Framing Made Easy

Probably all of us associate summertime with vacation and the time when we all get the chance to go on relaxing holidays, away from the stress or monotony of everyday life. And, usually, people choose to spend their vacation with friends (the more the merrier, right?), the result of that being that we all come back h...

31 July 2008
13:29 GMT

Design a Flash Photo Gallery in Minutes

When it comes to web design, we think that it is something we should leave to professionals. We can't know everything about HTML tags or action scripts when we barely use custom made templates or other tools to design our personal webpage or gallery. If you're tired of turning to others to help you design a...

31 July 2008
11:56 GMT

Comic Life - Create Your Own Comic Strip

Every single day, each one of us has at least one of those hilarious moments that deserve to be shared with the rest of the world - but almost every time that happens, words are just not enough to describe it. Since we're living in the technological era, at a time when any cell phone comes with an incorporated c...

30 July 2008
13:23 GMT

A Professional Look for Your Vacation Photos

When you spend your vacation in an exotic place, it is only natural to want to show off your pictures and share your experiences. But if your holiday destination didn't turn out to be as glamorous as you had expected (or as you bragged to your friends) or the weather suddenly became your worst enemy, you can sti...

30 June 2008
12:36 GMT

Easy Watermarker - Protect Your Digital Image Files

The long-awaited summer is here and I'm sure everyone has an idea about the places where they want to spend their vacation. But regardless of your destination, don't forget to take your digital camera with you so you can take tens or even hundreds of photos to remind you of those beautiful days. Whether or...

27 June 2008
10:34 GMT


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