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CoolFlick: It's like Cooliris without the plugin

CoolFlick
Cooliris is an awesome web browser plugin that lets you search and browse for images and videos from Flickr, YouTube, and a handful of other sites from a central hub. But what if youw ant a Cooliris-like wall of pictures without installing yet another add-on for your browser?

CoolFlick
is a web page that provides some of the functionality of Cooliris. But there's nothing to install. Just visit CoolFlick, type in a search term, and browse through the photos of cats, computers, or landscapes, or celebrities to your hearts content. You can click anywhere on the screen and drag the wall of pictures, or you can click on an image to make it larger. If you want to visit the original page, just click the box and arrow icon that shows up when you select an image.

If you want to browse videos, Google Images, Amazon listings, or other sites, you'll still be better of with Cooliris. But if you just need a quick fix of some pretty pictures in a pretty interface, CoolFlick might do the trick.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Filed under: Photo, Apple, Commercial, Freeware, iPhone, Mobile

Print pics directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch with Air Photo

Looking for a way to print images from your iPod Touch or iPhone without having to transfer them to your computer first? Air Photo is just what you need.

There are two components to Air Photo: the server (a free download and runs on both Windows and Mac) and the client app, which you'll find on the App Store (just search for air photo).

In a single-server setup, the app will automatically connect via Bonjour - otherwise you can use the connect button to specify the server you'd like to use for printing. Press the print button, and your server's Air Photo window will activate. It automatically selects landscape or portrait orientation and allows you to scale images or leave white space.

At $1.99, the app is a great buy - especially if you print a lot of images that you've saved on your iPhone or Touch.

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Google Chrome in pictures

Here's a gallery of the highlights: basic pages, Options, menus, and a few Google services all running smoothly. The key: speed. We haven't seen speeds like these... ever! Be sure to check out Jason's full review in the post below this one.

Filed under: Internet, Photo, Productivity, Social Software

Memeo makes it easy to send photos to grandma

Memeo's new Share application is designed to make the process of sending high-resolution photos a little easier, by sending them directly to another users desktop or putting them in an RSS feed they can look at in iPhoto.

The application, which is currently in beta, isn't meant to be a substitute for any photo sharing application you might currently be using, although photos shared using Memeo Share can also automatically upload photos to your Facebook account. Share is instead designed for sharing high-resolution photos and video with small groups or family and friends without having to send individual emails containing each item due to their size. Those who receive your photos can then decide what photos they want, and print out pictures they like at a quality resolution.

Memeo Share is offering a free lifetime use for the first 1,000 people to sign up for the beta with the public preview limited to 10,000 total sign ups. Get yours here.

Filed under: Design, Photo, Web services, web 2.0

RoundPic makes rectangles jealous

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 which corners to round, the quality of the rounded image, the round size, background color for rounded corners, and even if you want it exported as a transparent PNG image. We should note, however, that RoundPic.com doesn't actually host the image file, you will be required to download the saved image when you finish.

So, there is only one question remaining that we should all ask ourselves: in a world with rounded corners, will other shapes get jealous?

[via Mashable!]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services, Google, Yahoo!, Social Software, web 2.0

New project aims to combine Flickr, Google Earth, and "spatial location"


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 how it works.

The goal is to eventually create a service that basically mixes something like Flickr with Google Earth, enabling users to view and post photos within their virtual environment. Flickr currently allows for geotagging, but viewing the pictures within their environment adds tons of more fun to the idea.

Perhaps Flickr should consider expanding its photo services instead of adding video, which it is trying to do right now, since Flickr users seem to hate the presence of moving pics on the Yahoo owned site. It seems a partnership with Viewfinder and Google Earth would be a better move, and -- since Yahoo's busy intermingling with all sorts of companies right now -- why not?

[via boing boing]

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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Picture Resizer: It looks like batch image resizing DOES get easier


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 run across in a while. It's Windows only, but it's free and powerful.

All you have to do is download the Windows-only executable file to any directory. Then drag an image over the program icon. That's it. The image will automatically be resized. By default, all images will be resized so that they are 400 pixels wide. But wait, you say, I want to make my images 200 pixels wide, or 1600 pixels wide. No problem. Just change the program name from PhotoResize400.exe to PhotoResize200.exe or PhotoResize1600.exe.

If you want to resize a group of images, just highlight them and drag them all to the icon. Picture Resizer will convert the images and spit out new images (with the pixel width appended to the image names) in the same directory.

[Thanks JDeV!]

Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Google, Beta

Xoopit adds pretty picture previews to Gmail

Xoopit
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, but web-based email clients generally don't present the same kind of tools for sorting through your rich media content that you can find on the other sites.

The Xoopit plugin is currently available for Firefox 1.5 and newer, and works with Gmail only. In the future, Xoopit plans to add support for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail and other services. Xoopit is in private beta, but you can add your name to the waiting list for invitations.

Update: The first 250 Download Squad readers to sign up with the code dsquad can get in on the beta today!

Filed under: Fun, Photo, Web services

FACEinHOLE: see your face in a whole new light

FACEinHOLEHave 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 proper webcam) or "Image File" to upload a picture.

Situate yourself or your picture file, and then click "Save this Image." Enter a title for your creation, and you'll be given a handy URL to your finished image and code for embedding the picture on your website or blog.

[Thanks Carlos!]

Filed under: Design, Developer, Fun, Internet, Productivity, Web services

Flickr gets Picnik photo editing power


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 the process pretty darn easy.

We first heard that Flickr was partnering with Picnik back in October. At the time, we half suspected that all you'd see is an "edit with Picnik" button on each photo that would let you load up an image on Picnik's site. But the service that launched today is far cooler than that. You can access Picnik's powerful photo imaging interface without leaving Flickr at all.

That means you can crop, resize, adjust exposure, contract, color saturation and other aspects of your images with just a few clicks. You can also apply effects like converting color images to black and white. if you have a Picnik Premium account, you can access some additional effects like Infrared, Night Vision, Tint, and Invert.

In order to edit a photo, you'll need to login to your account and select an image you've uploaded. You'll should see an "edit photo" button in the toolbar above your picture. For now it doesn't look like there's any way to edit images uploaded by other users.

Filed under: Internet, Photo, Web services, Social Software

Discover what people are looking at with picurls

picurls
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 mentioned, plus Flickr, Simpy, Furl, Boing Boing, and Wired.

You can also subscribe to RSS feeds for images from each website, or all websites. There are discussion links next to each image, but Picurls doesn't seem to have a very active community. There's not a single comment next to any image on the front page today.

While Picurls does provide a handy service fro finding popular images, it's a bit troubling that the site links only to the original image source, and not to the Digg, Reddit, or Del.icio.us submission page. If this site picks up steam, we suspect the big wigs at those social news/bookmarking sites might have a few complaints.

[via makeuseof]

Filed under: Fun, Photo, Podcasting, Productivity, Web services, Social Software, AOL, Beta, web 2.0

AOL launches BlueString personal media management service

BlueString
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 new kid on the block.

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Filed under: Design, Fun, Internet, Photo

Create your own Flickr Mosaic with Mosaickr

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 choice determines how many additional photos you need to select. A small mosaic requires between 1 and 3 hundred while a large mosaic requires somewhere between 3 and 5 hundred.

If you're really particular with your mosaic you can select all 500 tiles individually, the rest of us can import photos random by tag 50 or 100 at a time. You final masterpiece take a bit of time to make, but can be emailed to you. A low-res version is free, and a high resolution image will run you 1.49 Euros. If your mosaic truly is a masterpiece there's also a poster option available if you're in one of the supported countries.

Filed under: Internet, Social Software

Digg to launch image section in October

Digg
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 we told you about a developer that got tired of waiting for Reddit to launch an image section. He launched his own site that grabs headlines from Reddit and places thumbnails next to them.

It looks like Digg has taken the cue and plans to roll out an image section in October. First Digg will add an "All" section next to the News, Videos, and Podcasts sections. That addition is due out "soon," which will pave the way for the image section.

[via Russell Heimlich]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Photo, Social Software

Soft, cuddly and catnip all get stroked into MyCatSpace

Soft, cuddly and catnip all get stroked into MyCatSpaceCats 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 blog, and comment on other spaces. Has the social network age gone too far with this one? Oh yes!

Oh, and for the dog lovers, check out MyDogSpace.

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