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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

Imagination Is the Only Limit

If you give a picture to a group of people and you ask them to adjust its appearance, you will never get the same results from all of them, not even the same effects. Have you ever wondered why that comes to happen? One reason for this situation would be that every person would surely use a different tool - after all...

6 June 2008
03:06 GMT

Phoenix Lands on Mars - First Images

On Sunday 16:53 PDT, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander assisted by a series of spacecrafts in the orbit of the Red Planet successfully touched down on the surface and has since transmitted a series of pictures of the north polar plains, which it will be investigating in the months to come. Initial measurements show tha...

26 May 2008
02:54 GMT

Watermark Creator - The Easiest Way to Protect Your Photo Collection

Photography is nowadays an important part of our lives, a way of preserving the past. We all love to take photos that remind us of our most cherished moments, the places we have visited, the people we hold most dearly, and the list can go on. Some of us have the ability of achieving true masterpieces from what might ...

21 May 2008
07:25 GMT

Photo Batch Watermark - Sign Your Digital Image Collection

We all love to take photos that immortalize our precious moments, reminding us of important events in our life, or people dear to us, or just for fun and the list can go on. For some of us, photography is more than just a hobby; it's a way of life. Moreover, it's well known that the Internet provides us wi...

30 April 2008
06:58 GMT

Take Snapshots of Your Computer Screen with 3 Mouse Clicks

When nobody takes your word for granted, what's left for you to do is rely on the strongest piece of evidence you can find. In the vast majority of cases, bringing pictures is a good way to sustain the truth of your sayings, as no reasonable person can deny what's clearly depicted in front of his/her eyes.W...

31 March 2008
08:03 GMT

Google SafeSearch Showing XXX Picture

The all-knowing and all-algorithm writing Google has failed utterly in what it has been bragging to do so well: keeping children from having access to pornographic material. Their SafeSearch option missed a very explicit photo of a woman's vagina, and, as beautiful as it might be or not, there was no reason for ...

20 March 2008
15:26 GMT

Mind Reading Machine Tells What You Are Thinking

It is well known that MRI scanners can be currently used to probe inside the human brain, and other living beings for that matter, in order to determine the pattern of brain activity and correlate what will actions the respective being is performing at a given moment. However, scientists want more than the identifica...

6 March 2008
08:46 GMT

How Can Your Brain Be Fooled to See What You Believe

We already know, at least from the movies, that human witnesses are not always reliable. This new research made by a team at the UCL (University College London) and published in the journal "PLoS Computational Biology" has encountered a connection between what we expect to see and what our brain actually records, whe...

20 February 2008
02:49 GMT

Wikipedia Given Grief over Muhammad Pictures

Religion has dragged behind it many bloody wars for as long as history can count and it's most definitely not going to stop now. With time, though, man has increasingly become more rational and has begun to value life over everything else. The wars fought today don't involve capes and medieval swords, but a...

7 February 2008
06:08 GMT

Photos Deserve to Look 'Pretty' Too, Not Just the People They Show

Everyone likes pictures, right? They like taking them, they like watching them, but most of all, they like showing them off. And since it is quite common to simply place them in an 'artistic' frame and put them on the fireplace, maybe you should consider adjusting your photos a little bit - not much, just t...

31 January 2008
12:05 GMT

See Mercury in Colors Now!

How many of us have actually seen Mercury the way it really looks like? Most of the images available are black and white pictures. I don't really understand why this is, color photography wasn't invented yesterday, but I'm pretty sure there is a good reason for this. Last week, NASA's MESSENGER sp...

23 January 2008
10:10 GMT

Maria Sharapova Becomes Sony Ericsson's Brand Ambassador

Sony Ericsson announced that it has signed an exclusive sponsorship agreement with Maria Sharapova, the famous 20 years old female tennis player, to become the first global brand ambassador for the company. The four years agreement will permit the young Russian star and Sony Ericsson to work together on a series...

14 January 2008
05:21 GMT

How Are Animated Cartoons Made?

The original animation was a kid toy, a book whose leaves could be scrolled rapidly. On each page there were figures slightly different from the previous ones, and through the rapid scrolling they merged one with the other. It was an optic illusion. Modern technology is much more evolved, but it works on the same pri...

12 January 2008
05:26 GMT

New Torrent Site Benefiting from the YouTube Flavor

Google's video sharing service has found the elements that made the brand as famous and successful as it is today copied and transformed into the image of a torrent site that is said to also be a huge success. Or, at least that's what the team behind it claims it to be, with over 150,000 searches a day, in ...

9 January 2008
08:09 GMT

Image Search from Google with Some New Additions

Blogger is one of the biggest blogging sites there is, as you well know. And also as you well know, it was Google's toy that it gave us, the children on the internet, to play with. Be it witty approach to old subjects or discovering new ones, a snappy quarrel with your friends, maybe unknown readers or just sob...

10 December 2007
15:31 GMT

Google Needs You!...

The second video blog post of the Webmaster Central Blog is basically about what a user can do for his peers to have a better experience while using Google's Image Search. It's very important, Google's web spam team's head, Matt Cutts, says, that you accurately describe a picture in the best possi...

7 December 2007
10:09 GMT

Create Photo Galleries, Batch Resize/Rename/Edit - Everything You May Need

Considering the ever-increasing number of cameras and more and more cell phones that take high-quality photos, it is only fair to assume that you can easily end up collecting huge numbers of photos that you forget about. When you decide to finally put them in order, e.g. assign the same name format, or create a grand...

30 November 2007
16:45 GMT

Add Artistic Frames to Your Photos, Make Them Unique

How many times did you come back from a magnificent holiday and wished you could display all your photos in an original, fun way? To create an album that could convey all the joy and happiness you felt while being on vacation and taking those pictures… I know, you lacked the corresponding artistic frames that would r...

30 November 2007
16:23 GMT

Google Image Search Surely Doesn't Change Much

I'm sure it happened to you at one point in your life or another when you wanted to happily look for an image using Google's specialized search and came across something totally different and dare I say unexpected.The example at hand, the one used a couple of years ago to instrument the very same problem, i...

21 November 2007
03:16 GMT

Nokia N82 Leaks Images All Over the Place

The most recent rumors on a possible Nokia N82 unveiling have proved to be false. The device was said to turn official on November 2, but nothing changed in what concerns the phone that day.Until having the real thing, leaked images of the phone keep surfacing, teasing those who await its release. What makes it worth...

8 November 2007
06:32 GMT

Feast Your Eyes On the First gPhone Mock-Up

As a result of some deductions, the first supposed leaked image of the gPhone has surfaced. In fact, it's a Chinese handset coming from a producer that Google chose to partner with in order to work on mobile phone hardware development.Latests rumors state that Google will work with Chinese company e28 in order t...

1 November 2007
07:09 GMT

Easy Screen Capturing

When just words are not enough, you need to rely on all the necessary means to prove the accuracy of what you are saying. In the vast majority of cases, pictures are indubitable proof that comes to sustain your theory. Now speaking of computer images, they can prove quite useful as the very core of the user interface...

31 October 2007
15:09 GMT

Great Live Pics of Motorola U9

Some new live images of the Motorola U9 mobile phone have recently appeared, although an official release would have probably been better. The phone still looks great, showing off some great light effects on the external display.Some other real pics of the phone appeared some time ago, although they only emphasized i...

10 October 2007
03:12 GMT

Now You Can - Search For Wallpapers with Google!

Earlier this day, I wrote an article about Google's new image search function which gives you the possibility to search for extra large pictures straight from Google's technology. Until now, Google Image Search allowed you to search only for small images, medium or large which according to the Mountain View...

9 October 2007
05:10 GMT

Extra Large Photos on Google

In case you're wondering what's with that 'extra large' inside the title, well this is exactly how the new Google Image Search function is named. Until now, you were able to search only for small images, medium images and large images. But, from now on, you can find impressive photos using the ext...

9 October 2007
04:18 GMT

Official Images Show a Shiny Samsung G800

The real live images of Samsung G800 looked great. The phone is coming close to a future release, which also explains for the new official images that have appeared, showing a stylish, cleanly edited face.The phone's design greatly resembles LG's Shine handset, especially due to its metal case with a highly...

2 October 2007
04:58 GMT

How to Draw in 3D

You may know that an illustration is bidimensional, but with a virtual reality mask, a stylus in one hand and a tracking device in the other, now drawing as a process has entered the 3D era. The technology is called "Drawing on Air," and helps artists create images of complicated artistic, scientific, and medical sub...

20 September 2007
06:27 GMT

PanImages, All-In-One Image Search

PanImages is probably the best idea when it comes to a cross-lingual image search technology, because it bundles a great project with well-developed features. Let me describe it for you. The cross-lingual image search concept is actually a product that allows you to browse the Internet in almost all the official lang...

14 September 2007
15:31 GMT

Google Image Search - A Real Image Encyclopedia

Google Image Search is one of the top technologies at Googleplex because it provides a considerable amount of photos using the power of the famous Google Search. Obviously, it is used by millions of users from all around the world who are looking to find certain images. The technology even has some protection featur...

11 September 2007
13:06 GMT

Fujitsu Launches a High Speed Scanner

Fujitsu Computer Products of America announced the launch of a new imaging device, the Fujitsu fi-5530C2 scanner, which comes with a small footprint and fast image capturing capabilities, being perfect for the role of a departmental scanner. The new fi-5530C2 scanner comes with software enhancements as well as improv...

6 September 2007
06:54 GMT

The Sharpest Space Images Ever Taken!

A great obstacle has been overcome: for the first time, astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge have obtained detailed space pictures from Earth, using a new camera that delivers more accurate images of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope.Pictures tak...

5 September 2007
04:11 GMT

From a Far Away Galaxy Here Comes... 3D Spam!

You know spam, it's been your "friend" for years, everyday, just clogging your Inbox and sometimes getting you annoyed. And you already know, it's been through a lot of changes - at first there was just text spam, then the spam filter came and spam got better, inserting images, then there was a better filte...

4 September 2007
02:53 GMT

New Printers and Related Tools from HP

HP announced the launch of a new line of products aimed at promoting the company's Print 2.0 strategy which is the key to a modern printing experience and which allows users to easily print, create and share their digital content in new and innovative ways.The manufacturing company introduced several imaging and...

1 September 2007
07:50 GMT

Attention! Your Kids Might Be Exposed to Art!

Drawing is an activity we perform almost involuntarily as children and while reading, playing instruments, filming and taking photos are passively substituted to computer-based activities, drawing seems to be the next to become so. Children today have their first mouse click and scroll experiences before holding cra...

31 July 2007
16:27 GMT

Is Your Portrait Professional Enough?

The world is going digital and no one can deny this. Our identities seem to adopt a new interface and we are keen on accepting that cosmetics and beauty products really have the power to transform us into high quality printed posters. You all know that these are lies and that all the beautiful and perfectly shaped co...

31 July 2007
01:56 GMT

Merging Planes Optical Illusion

What is this? An image of a big airplane with a smaller one painted on its side? Or is it some weird project designed to confuse the enemy and maybe even birds? Actually, it's none of the above. This is just an optical illusion, one of the many tricks the brain plays on us.The brain's complexity is exactly...

24 July 2007
11:07 GMT

Mind Machine

A new week-end is about to start so let me bring to your attention a new game. This time it is not a puzzle, a quest, a shooter or stuff like that, but it's a mind game. Basically, the mind games that go around this business are never so entertaining or funny. But most of them have a really bad graphic.This game...

20 July 2007
08:42 GMT

Imagine a Building Made of Water

Buildings made of water are an interesting idea and the first step in this direction has been already made, with the introduction of new technology that will incorporate liquid curtains into walls that can be programmed to display various messages and images.As reported in an MIT article by Patti Richards, the insti...

12 July 2007
10:15 GMT

Security Verification for Google Search

Sometimes, searching Google might return some unusual results that require you to enter a visual captcha in order to verify that you're a human person and not a computer program. However, some of the users might find this security verification very unpleasant and might decide to abandon the search technology and...

10 July 2007
03:13 GMT

Get Your 'Pics' on Route 66

Tired of waiting for images to load while photo sharing with someone over the internet? Need to quickly show to your friends the latest pictures taken on holiday or at the graduation party? Or maybe you just want to update your messenger avatar and need to crop your smiling face from a high sized group photo? If time...

30 June 2007
02:11 GMT

Image Version of Google News Rolled Out

A new version of the well-known news service Google News is now available to some of the users but there is no official announcement yet. The new version is entirely based on images and shows a thumbnail of a headline while an introductory text is displayed in the right part of the screen. Once you move your mouse cu...

26 June 2007
08:40 GMT

Image Search Receives a Sweet Candy from Its Father Google

The image search technology owned by the Mountain View company Google is surely one of the most popular search engines on the Internet. However, numerous users were complaining that Image Search shows only up to 2 images from a certain website while the other photos published on the page are included into a separate ...

20 June 2007
06:20 GMT

World's Biggest Holographic Screen Follows Your Eyes

The word hologram comes from Greek, with holos meaning whole and graphe meaning writing. A hologram is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions, in fact a recording of an interference pattern made by the interaction of two beams of light.A company in Dresden, Germany, ca...

16 June 2007
06:54 GMT

Search Google for Certain Paris Hilton Body Parts

The Image Search function included in the best search engine on the Internet is now even more powerful as it contains some innovative features able to provide more relevant results. Basically, the search technology can now return photos that are displaying certain parts of the subject's body. As Ionut Alex, Goog...

28 May 2007
06:10 GMT

Google Will Identify Your Sex Soon...

The Mountain View-based company is now working on an innovative technology that will be able to identify the sex of the persons displayed in a certain picture. Because some of the most searched pictures are the ones concerning the celebrities, Google aims to develop a technology able to identify the sex and label all...

18 May 2007
16:31 GMT

Spectacular View of Two Supermassive Black Holes Crashing

Astronomers have just received infrared images that showed the exact location of a tremendous space collision between two supermassive black holes at the centers of two galaxies merging, 300 million light-years away.New images were taken by Hawaii's Keck II telescope and show the two black holes at the center o...

18 May 2007
12:36 GMT

Google Not Guilty for Free Porn Pictures, the Judge Said

The adult magazine Perfect 10 sued Google in 2001, accusing the Mountain View company for displaying adult thumbnails that linked to illegal websites that republished their content. A US appeals court sustained that the case must be reconsidered by a lower court and reverted the ruling ordered by the first judge who ...

17 May 2007
16:31 GMT


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