Professional art critics endlessly debate the merits of various photographs — heck, that’s the entire premise of a photography contest! — but what if a computer could reliably do the same thing? Researchers at Penn State put together a photo ranking algorithm that you can now test for yourself on the web. It’s called Acquine, [...]
With all the hoopla over Apple’s approval process for iPhone apps, it’s nice to see them make a sensible decision about a feature they could have nitpicked. Cooliris, a slick image-viewing app we’ve covered before, recently added an option to adjust SafeSearch settings for Google images. That means you can view NSFW image search results [...]
There are many ways to share your content online with family and friends. From Flickr to Facebook to MySpace, YouTube and Twitter, there’s no shortage of ways, or platforms, to express yourself via words, pictures and videos. Several months ago I was introduced to another of these type of sites called Posterous.
At Posterous, much like [...]
Windows 7 testers already have wallpaper slideshows at their disposal. Users of previous versions have plenty of freeware options to add automatic wallpaper changing to their desktops - like extremely flexible ThetaWall.
Apart from changing the all-important basics like the interval between changes and auto-scaling, Thetawall can also generate collages from your images. It also plays [...]
For a while now I’ve been using ZScreen to handle my screen capturing chores on Windows. Brad touched on Greenshot back in December, and after being urged by one of my Twitter followers the other day I decided to give it a try.
Since Brad’s post, the author has responded to calls for the creation of [...]
Sequential started life as an image browser, and it’s still a nice way to view batches of images, but it’s also turned into the best Mac comics reader out there. I’ve tried other apps like Jomic and Comical, and found that they don’t measure up to sequential in terms of speed, stability, and Mac-like feel. [...]
Each Wednesday Download Squad takes a look at the weirdest software out there. From future tech being cooked up in the lab to bizarre shareware, we’ll cover the offbeat and off-the-wall. If you have a suggestion for a strange application, leave it in the comments.
Scientists are working on ways to read your mind using [...]
Looking for a way to print images from your iPod Touch or iPhone without having to transfer them to your computer first? Air Photo is just what you need.
There are two components to Air Photo: the server (a free download and runs on both Windows and Mac) and the client app, which you’ll find on [...]
Iris is an OS X app that offers up some cool ways to use your iSight. Of course, it takes still photos and videos. That’s useful, but Apple’s built-in Photo Booth already offers those features. Iris goes a few steps further, offering a time lapse mode, a security mode (using motion-detection), and a webcam mode [...]
Online photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket and Picasa Web Albums provide a great way to share a set of images with friends, family, or the whole world. But what happens when you only want a select group of people to be able to see your photos?
Many sites allow you to hide or block [...]
