Tag: HIGH-RESOLUTION

If you shoot high-res photos, and you're looking for a way to show them off that doesn't take up as much space as the full-size image, but doesn't hide all the details like a thumbnail, you might want to give Closr a look. Closr lets you upload a photo, and transforms it into a widget that viewers can zoom in and out of. That way, they can either see a thumbnail, or zoom way in and drag to look at ...

Adobe has launched a much anticipated update to its Flash video player. Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 includes support for the H.264 codec. The upshot is that web publishers can easily embed HD videos on their site. One of the first web sites to do that is Hulu, NBC and News Corp's new online video site. Right now there's not much in Hulu's HD gallery. But if watching Alivin & The Chimpunks ...

YouTube may be the most popular video sharing site on the web. But it's often panned for having some of the lowest-quality videos on the web as well. And when we say quality, we're not making value judgments about the videos of teenagers singing karaoke. What we mean is that YouTube tends to encode videos at low bitrates and low resolutions. But YouTube co-founder Steven Chen says that will change ...