Compress GIF files with free Trout’s GIF optimizer
GIF files or the Graphics Interchange Format files are the image files that support animation and are popular for logos and graphics with animation. However, the GIF format does not have an efficient compression technique unlike, say, PNG format. Due to this reason, a GIF image file can be quite big in size. It is [...]
Picasa – free software to edit, manage and share your photos
With the invent of digital cameras, more so as an inbuilt part of an increasing number of mobile phones, it is common for people to have a large collection of photos. Even though you may not be a professional photographer, the number of your photos may easily run into thousands. So, you need to [...]
Chrome Extension for Slideshow of Images at Flickr, Picasa, Google Images & Facebook
Google has added a new Slideshow extension to the Chrome browser, that can automatically display a slideshow of photos at several image sites such as Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and Google Images. It is a useful and convenient way of viewing images on these sites. In future, this extension is likely to support more image sites.
Microsoft Research AutoCollage for creating Photo Collages
Microsoft Research makes available AutoCollage 2008 software for creating Photo Collages in simple steps. It is an advanced computer vision and image processing software that can automatically create collages of your pictures. A photo collage is basically a composite photograph created by combing / joining several photograph into one. A photo collage can represent [...]
Reducing or Shrinking Size of Picture / Photo on computer
These days, with increasing resolutions in the available digital cameras, such as 10MP or 14MP, the pictures or photos that you get from such cameras are generally of larger sizes, such as 2048 x 1536 or 2592 x 1944 or even more. Depending upon the camera and the resolution, the file size of such [...]
WordPress 2.9 version available now for download
WordPress.org has released a major update to the popular blogging platform WordPress that powers millions of blogs around the world. WordPress 2.9 version is now available for download and installation. If you sign in to your WordPress dashboard, you’ll be prompted to directly upgrade to the new version from there. This new version has [...]
Setup Windows Live Writer to auto-upload your blog images to FTP server
Windows Live Writer from Microsoft is an excellent free tool for blogging. It supports many blogging platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, etc. Its biggest advantage is that you can create and format your blog posts while you’re offline and then directly publish your posts online to your server on your [...]
Large collection of social networking buttons for your website
MySocialButtons is a website that contains a large collection of Social Networking buttons that you can use on your website. It includes different types and sizes of buttons for social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg, Flickr, Technorati, Reddit, Feedburner, LinkedIn, MySpace, FriendFeed. Use the buttons of your choice on your [...]
Enlarge your pictures online without losing quality with Reshade
Recently, I had written about SmilaEnlarger that is a free and open-source software to enlarge your images and photos without losing the picture quality. You’ve to install that software on your computer. In this article, I’m writing about a free online service available at Reshade that can enlarge or resize your pictures without losing [...]
How to use a slide show of pictures as desktop background in Windows 7
Got sick of seeing the same picture as desktop background on your Microsoft Windows computer? Of course, you can change the background picture in your Windows and set a different picture as desktop background. But, if you’ve Windows 7 on your laptop / computer, then you’ve a much better solution. You can use a [...]