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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 blog, and comment on other spaces. Has the social network age gone too far with this one? Oh yes!
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 that uploading. As a Mac utility for now with a Windows version coming soon, PictureSync allows you to select or drag and drop pictures and videos from the Finder, iPhoto, Aperture and more, and upload them to one or every media sharing community that PictureSync supports. As you add services to your one-click-upload toolbelt, the amount of time PictureSync can save you becomes exponentially immeasurable. Even better, PictureSync can handle metadata associated with your files such as iPhoto keywords, captions and ratings, and send them along to any compatible services. Still trying to keep track of how much time you won't waste using PictureSync?
As if all that wasn't enough, a new v1.8 update just released brings support for Microsoft Expression Media (which was once iView MediaPro) and Adobe's Lightroom. Along with support for more pro apps, however, comes a pro license: in addition to the $15 standard license, a new $30 license is being introduced for those who want to use PictureSync with the likes of Aperture, Expression Media and (possibly) Lightroom. On the bright side of this new license is the fact that you'll be seeing two: a $30 PictureSync purchase will include a second license for those who can't be bound to just one computer.
Be sure to check out the rest of PictureSync's features - like a full-screen annotation mode and upload memory - to see everything it has to offer. A demo is of course available for test drive.
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 done a great job of honing on on the best ones, and including only those in her new extension.
For example, Better Gmail includes extra features that enable EXIF image information to show overlaid on an image if you leave the mouse pointer hovering on the image. There is a feature that adds more user links, and one that adds some rich editing capabilities to the text forms on Flickr. A couple more of the features include an instant magnifier, and one that turns the All Sizes link into a menu, so you can jump right to the size that interests you most.
Better Gmail requires Firefox on any operating system that will run it.
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 all the way up to Extra-extra Large at a whopping 800px wide. Captions can also be toggled on and off, and it's all wrapped up in a pretty Flash slideshow movie with controls that only pop up when you mouse over it.
This is a great feature that should definitely turn some heads towards Picasa (including Mac users, now that they offer a free iPhoto plugin), though their 1GB (and growing!) free storage limit is still a little too constricting. Sure, the service offers commercial upgrades with more yearly space, but those prices are a bit on the 'spensive side considering how far and fast storage costs are dropping as of late.
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. 
Have you seen those fancy avatars with the rounded edges, and wondered "why don't my avatars look that cool?" Well, 
Mosaickr
In the spirit of the amazing Better Gmail Firefox extension released by Gina Trapani comes the latest Lifehacker code: 
