Tiny bytes of tech
Have a bunch of photos on your Facebook account? Or maybe you use Picasa or Flickr? Whichever service you use, Pixable can import all your photos from any of these online accounts and automatically create great looking photo books. It’s pretty cheap and the results are nice. So if you want to send a nice gift to family and friends, check out Pixable to create photobooks!
Google and Microsoft are on a spree lately in terms of search engine news and features. In answer to cool and interesting new features in Bing, Google is showing that they will not be out-done!
Google Swirl is new labs feature that groups similar images into a fun-looking swirl of images. So if you search for Washington, you’ll get images of the white house, the Washington Monument, etc. Click on one of those and a swirl of related images will pop into view!
Do you have pictures on your local computer, on Picasa, Flickr and other photo sharing sites? If so, you might find it hard to search through all your pictures at once. That’s where Ginipic can help. It’s an awesome image search app that lets you search for images from your local picture collection, from photo sharing sites, and even from image search engines like Bing, Google, and Yahoo!
I love stock photography sites because I usually need professional looking images for my various websites. However, it’s always a pain to search 10 different sites just to find one picture.
Cyclo.ps is a new website that lets you search many stock photo sites at once and see the results in one view! The list includes Shutterstock, stock.xchng, Fotolia, stockvalut and more!
If you’re like me, you might have thousands and thousands of digital pictures. Creating collages and slideshows is cool, but what if you could create a video movie of your pictures!?
PhotoFilmStrip is a free program that takes images and quickly create a stylish video with zoom-in and zoom-out effects. You can also add subtitles, a soundtrack and add effects to your images like black/white and sepia.
If you have a lot of high-resolution photos, but you want to quickly resize them to a smaller size so you can share them more easily or upload them to a webpage, check out DropResize.
DropResize runs in the system tray and basically monitors a folder that you specify for new images and then automatically resizes them to whatever you height and width you prefer. It does keep the aspect ratio. As of right now, it only supports JPEG images, but the next release will support more.
If you have a SLR camera, it’s probably way over 10 megapixels. Some of the really fancy SLR cameras are more than 20 megapixels! One picture can be a massive size, 10 to 20 megabytes. If you want to share a really high-resolution picture with friends, you can’t unless you upload it somewhere and they download it to their PC.
Seadragon is a cool service from Microsoft that lets you upload really large pictures and lets you view it using their picture viewer. It’s way cool because you can make it full screen and zoom in and out by clicking.
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Ever heard of a reverse image search? Basically, you upload a picture to the search engine and it will search billions of images online and tell you where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there are higher resolutions. Pretty neat!
