Tag: SCALE

Cell Size and Scale is a neat little Flash learning aid from the University of Utah. It gives the viewer a good sense of the relative size of things, starting with a sheet of paper with a line printed in 12-point font, and shrinking all the way down to a single carbon atom. Along the way you will find an HIV virus (130 nm -- the same size as an influenza virus), E. coli bacterium (3 x ...

One type of program I often forget to load on a fresh Windows install is a good photo resizing tool. Sometimes -- like when I want to create a screenshot tour of an app -- it would make things simpler to just dump a pile of full-size screenshots into a folder and let some little app churn out images resized to the dimensions I need. Photo Magician is an excellent option. It weighs in at ...

Automattic, the owner of the popular blogging platform WordPress, has announced they have purchased Gravator, a popular avator system used mainly in blog commenting. Matt Mullenweg, Automattic's founder, announced the details of the deal on the Gravatar blog (now built on WordPress of course), saying that the decision to acquire the company stemmed from scalability issues they were dealing with. ...