Downloadr is an awesome bulk downloading tool for Flickr

Whether you’re looking for backgrounds for your desktop, Creative Commons licensed photos, or just scanning eyecandy, Flickr is an excellent place to find beautiful digital images. Need a simple way to download multiple images? Check out Downloadr (screencast after the break!), a free program with loads of options which makes short work of bulk downloading [...]
The Vatican shows off Sistine Chapel via Flash

This may not be big news for some of our more religious readers, but it’s certainly a nice surprise for me. I just found out that the Vatican has a very detailed, three dimensional, Flash tour of the Sistine Chapel. There’s nothing new about the technology itself, but the implementation is very good. In fact, [...]
Grab your 3D glasses and take a look at the SUN!

In what must surely be the worst (and best) case of reverse, shoehorned acronym (or ‘backronym’), NASA has just released the first 3D images of the sun taken by its STEREO (no I’m not making this up) spacecraft. The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories — there are two of them, of course! — work together to [...]
Adobe demos awesome new masking technology for Photoshop

Adobe’s working on some new selection and masking tools for the next version of Photoshop. Ever since the Extract filter was removed in Photoshop CS4, Adobe has had plans to bring its various parts back as built-in tools. The first part of that is a new selection tool that’s already being demoed over at John [...]
Happy 20th birthday, Photoshop!

It’s hard to picture life before Photoshop, but yes, some 20 years ago, Photoshop did not exist and photo manipulation was a matter of darkroom editing techniques and using complex sequences such as burn, dodge, fade, mask, which when used in Photoshop is a snap. Tomorrow is the 20th Anniversary of Photoshop, but the celebration [...]
PhotoBook for Mac is a must-download Facebook photo browser

Facebook is the biggest photo sharing site in the world, so it’s pretty likely your friends have some photos posted there. The thing is, nobody’s pretending that browsing photos on Facebook is fast or user-friendly. In fact, the whole experience totally, in the parlance of our times, sucks. That’s why you should get PhotoBook, a [...]



