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Vista fires warning shot at JPEG images
There are few file formats ubiquitous as JPEG (ASCII text comes to mind). It's almost universally compatible, available in every image handling application you could possibly want to use and, it works swimmingly well. Who could possibly want to ...
JPEG 'XR': courtesy of Microsoft.
Earlier in the year, on the Windows Media HD photo format. According to Computer Buyer UK, the JPEG group is now working on a successor to the venerable JPEG image format - and making extensive use of Microsoft's HD Photo standard within the format. ...
Microsoft HD Photo to become JPEG XR format
Image compression technology has come a long way since the JPEG standard was set in the 90s. But JPEG is still the standard used by most digital cameras. Microsoft has been lobbying hard to make its HD Photo format (also known as Windows Media Photo) ...
JPEG image enhancer - Today's Imaging Tip
If you've ever spent much time manipulating JPEG images, you know that although the JPEG image compression algorithm is very effective at spitting out relatively tiny file sizes, that effectiveness comes at a cost. JPEG is what is known as a lossy ...
Windows Media Photo: Microsoft's JPEG-killer?
I just love making those "XYZ-killer" titles, though I suspect you readers tire of it. Anyhow, at Microsoft's WinHEC conference on Wednesday it showed off Windows Media Photo, a new file format intended to displace JPEG. Though the CNet article isn't ...
Help for JPEG missing from Save As dialog - Today's Imaging Tip
Is JPEG missing from your Save As dialog in CS2? PhotoshopNews came across a Photoshop Support Knowledgebase article
detailing a few of Photoshop's boundaries for saving to the JPEG
format. Aside from staying away from a couple color modes such ...
Speed up browsing on low-speed connections with Toonel.net
If you frequently find yourself browsing on a low-bandwidth connection, you can potentially speed up your browsing experience by using the compressing proxy server at Toonel.net. The concept is simple: install their application on your computer ...
WinDirStat: Today's Free File
Want to see what's eating up all that space on your hard drive? Try WinDirStat,
which creates an interactive graphical map of the data on your drive,
includes cleanup tools and can run reports on disk usage. Of course, it
won't make you delete ...
Three tools to resize images online
Here's a trio of online image resize apps for you. I happened to be away from a machine that would resize an image for me (go figure), and didn't have any portable apps on my USB drive available. So when you're in that situation, try one of these ...
Virtual High Five - Freaky Friday Find
In need of a little
reassurance? Give yourself a confidence boost with a Virtual High
Five, from The Platypus Society. Just slap the screen. Breakthrough in friendless technology of pointless use of a
jpeg file? I'll let you be the judge. Don't go ...
Imaging Tip of the Day: Inkscape Open Source SVG editor
Looking for a powerful, open source scalable vector graphics editor? Today's Imaging Tip, Inkscape 0.42, is just the answer. This fully W3C-compliant, cross-platform SVG powerhouse is packing serious heat with support for basic shapes, paths, text, ...
First Mac OS X trojan in the wild
It was nothing if not inevitable: Mac Rumors
is reporting that the first virus targeting Mac OS X has been spotted in the wild. The site is
careful to classify the virus as a trojan because it doesn't exploit any hole in the OS but instead tricks the ...
Capture arbitrary parts of the screen with ScreenJot
A crafty AOL developer has created a
little app called ScreenJot, which pretty successfully
imitates the behavior for taking screenshots in OS X. I know there are lots of screen cap tools out there (feel free to
suggest your faves in the comments), ...
WebShot: Full-page web site screenshots from the command line
In the past I've featured a couple of Firefox extensionsal (Page Saver, ScreenGrab) that you can use to grab a screenshot of an entire web page, top to bottom. In case those aren't your cup of tea, or if you just don't use Firefox, here's another ...
ASCII-O-Matic: ASCIIfy your photos
ASCII-O-Matic is a fun web toy from Typorganism that will turn any photo you upload into fab ASCII art. There are many other such web sites and programs, but ASCII-O-Matic wraps it in a nice Flash interface and gives you a few extra options. You can ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
