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The best camera is the one you have with you, they say. What they don’t tell you is that if that camera is your phone, it also doubles as the worst camera because of all the stupid pictures you have saved and forgot about in your camera roll.

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This article was written on August 06, 2007 by CyberNet.

Microsoft’s Photosynth application is something that could change the way we look at pictures, literally. The technology is similar to how you stitch together multiple images to make one large panoramic view, except Photosynth puts them together to create a 3D view of objects.

It was great the day they made Photosynth available, and it got better when they put together a Firefox extension, and then they began working with BBC for 6-months to assemble galleries of popular areas in Britain. Now the Photosynth team is at it again having created 4 new galleries that give you a look at what it’s like inside and outside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, as well as a 3D view of the actual launch pad.

I have created a video demonstration for those of you who don’t want to install Photosynth in your browser. The video takes you through each of the galleries that are available, and gives you a good look at what Photosynth is all about:

The space shuttle in the photos is Endeavour, which is planned for another mission on August 8th, 2007 at 5:36:18PM CDT. This particular shuttle has been around for over 15-years, and in 2010 it is going to be decommissioned. It has spent a wonderful 206 days in space according to Wikipedia.

Congratulations to Microsoft and NASA for creating what is quite possibly my favorite Photosynth gallery yet! Hello, my name is Ryan and I’m a space addict. 🙂

View the NASA Photosynth Galleries
Source: Slashdot & PC World

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This article was written on August 24, 2011 by CyberNet.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could see a larger preview of an image without having to actually open the photo? That’s exactly what FastPreview does, and it does a pretty awesome job of it. All you have to do is right-click on the image file and a larger preview will be shown right there in the context menu.

That’s not all it does either. Here are some of the features the developer highlights:

• Fast Viewer – Showing the image including different scaling types and JPEG rotations
  • Images are scaled to fit the screen when opened
  • Lots of supported file types
• Shell integration – Integrates into File Context Menus
  • Configurable dimensions of the preview
• Shell integration – Integrates into File Properties Pages showing:
  • Adobe eXtensible Metadata Language (XMP) information
  • Exif Camera/Image information
  • IPTC Media information

It’s nice being able to adjust the preview size, but using a significantly larger preview will mean that the menu is a little harder to navigate. The good news is that this preview only shows up for image files so you won’t always lose that valuable space.

FastPreview Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)
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Some say that a picture is worth 1,000 words, but regardless of how you do the math, it’s fair to say that a good photo can say a lot more than 140 characters. With that in mind, Twitter is giving greater emphasis to photos within tweets by placing them front and center in the post, with the actual tweet serving as a simple caption below. Looking at it now, the decision seems an obvious one, but all photos were previously smaller and subservient to the short text. The visual redesign applies to both landscape and portrait photos, so regardless of how you frame your image, you can now let your shooting skills do the talking for you.

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This article was written on March 22, 2012 by CyberNet.

I don’t know very many people anymore that use screensavers on their computers, but displaying a nice photo collage might be worthwhile if you still enjoy having something flashy on the screen when your computer is sitting idle. I came across a pretty nice one that was started a few months ago, and I’d say offers the right amount of options without being overkill.

Photo Collage Screensaver is free, and after being installed you’ll find it tucked in the screensaver properties for Windows. Don’t go looking for anything in the Start Menu because you won’t find it there. There are some options you’ll be able to configure after it is selected as your default screensaver:

• Directory on your PC where your photos are located.
• Number of photos on the screen at a time, which can be between 5 and 30. Once that maximum number has been hit the oldest photos will start fading off the screen. This is a much nicer solution than just wiping out all of the photos on the screen once the limit is hit.
• Speed at which new photos should appear.
• Whether you want the photos randomized.

The only thing I think this is missing is an option to set how large you want the images to appear, but the size it uses seems to work pretty well.

Photo Collage Screensaver (Windows only; Freeware)

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