Tag: PICTURES

Have you seen those fancy avatars with the rounded edges, and wondered "why don't my avatars look that cool?" Well, RoundPic.com hopes to help by letting you round off the corners of any image in just a few seconds. No messing with Photoshop! All you have to do is upload your favorite image (in either JPG, GIF, BMP or PNG file type) and RoundPic.com will round off those pesky edges. You can select ...

An innovative an dinteresting venture by the University of Southern California called Viewfinder seeks to spatially locate 2D pictures within a 3D environment like Google Earth. The end result places the pictures within Google Earth so that they seamlessly integrate within their environment. Can't picture it? Just check out the video after the jump, and check out the site for more information on ...

Yesterday evening we told you about a program called Squash, which offers a simple way to batch resize images on Windows, Linux, or OS X. While we still think it's a handy little utility, a reader pointed us to another application that makes us rethink our claim that image resizing doesn't get much easier. Picture Resizer could be one of the simplest, yet most useful image utilities we've ...

Xoopit is a new Firefox plugin that adds dynamic image previews to Gmail. It scans your email messages or images, videos, and links to media sites like YouTube, Flickr, Shutterfly and Picasaweb. The results are displayed above your Gmail window as a series of thumbnails. The basic concept is that your email inbox is a more useful social networking tool than Facebook, MySpace, or other services, ...

Have you ever wanted to see what your face looks like on Borat's body? Curious to see if you would have been a good subject for the Mona Lisa? FACEinHOLE lets you put your face in a variety of "scenarios" either with a webcam or a .jpg. Select a scene, choose "Webcam" to enable the Flash webcam application (you may then have to right click in the application, choose "settings" and choose the ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Flickr_gets_Picnik_photo_editing_power'; Sure, Flickr is a great place to find and share images. But wouldn't it be nice if you could also edit those images online? Now you can. OK, you've been able to for a long time, using online photo editing sites like Picnik and SnipShot. But now Flickr and Picnik have added an "edit photo" button to that makes ...

While we're still waiting for Digg to roll out a dedicated image section, many of the top 'stories" submitted to social news sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Del.icio.us are funny, interesting, or beautiful images. Picurls collects the all and makes it easy to find some of the most viewed pictures of the day from popular websites. Picurls pulls images from all of the sites we ...

AOL has announced the launch of BlueString, an online personal media management service that allows users to upload and store up to 5 GB of pictures, music, and videos all in one place. BlueString users can also create and manage content right on the Web site and even collaborate with others to make movies and multimedia shows. Move over iLife (Oh, and Flickr. And you too, YouTube). There's a ...

Mosaickr is an online tool that allows you to create your own mosaic using photos from Flickr. You can create your mosaic from your own photos or search by tag through others photos (with a creative commons attribution license) and add those. To create your mosaic you have to first select a main photo, and then whether you want to make a small, medium, or large sized mosaic. Your mosaic size ...

People like pictures. Nothing new there. But people are also the backbone of social news sites like Digg and Reddit. And it's becoming increasingly clear that neither site is very visual. The front pages of both sites are filled with text links -- even if those links point to pictures. Users have resorted to writing (PIC) next to headlines to let you know what lies beneath the link. Yesterday ...

Cats might not be able to sign up for Facebook or Myspace accounts, but they can sure get onto MyCatSpace. Think of this as a place for extreme cat addicts who just don't know what else to do with their time. MyCatSpace is a special online community set up for cats. This MySpace for cats, accepts them all, from purebreds, to fat, skinny, or small cats. Cat users can set up a photo album, kitty ...

It's becoming harder and harder these days to exist at just one social media site or another. Some of your friends are sharing pictures at Flickr and Zooomr, while others are uploading videos to ImageStation and Vox. Making sure you keep all these communities updated with the pictures and videos from your adventures can be exhausting, but PictureSync from Holocore can make mince meat out of all ...

In the spirit of the amazing Better Gmail Firefox extension released by Gina Trapani comes the latest Lifehacker code: Better Flickr. Gina is a self-professed Flickr nut, so it was probably only a matter of time before she put something like this together. There are an amazing number of Greasemonkey hacks and existing extensions to extend and improve on Flickr's built-in functionality. Gina's ...

Look out Flickr, Picasa Web Albums just dropped a fancy new feature that makes it all too easy - and sexy - to share photo albums. Google's web-based photo sharing service has introduced an Embed Slideshow feature that offers a snippet of code one can easily use to display an album on their website or blog. It's pretty flexible too: five size options are available, ranging from Small 144px wide ...

2view is a site that gives you the ability to leave Flickr-type notes on any web based photo that can then be read later by friends or co-workers. To use the service all you have to have is the URL for your photo. Once your image of choice is in the system 2view allows you to place notes anywhere you want on the photo and then give your comment-filled photo a new URL that can be sent to others ...