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Google Offering Life Photos

When I was a kid, we subscribed to Life magazine. According to Wikipedia, Life offered its last issue on April 20, 2007. I must say I hadn’t noticed. I guess many of us have moved on to other media.
The Life collection of images has historical value and now Google is providing all of us access. [...]

Posted 18 November 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Pixolu - Image Search

Friday afternoon. Time to read a couple of journal articles. Nah, time for some online exploration.
LifeHacker describes an interesting image search tool - Pixolu. It works like this.
1) You enter a term and locate images related to that search term.
2) Based on the image collection returned, you then select a prototype image you like and [...]

Posted 31 October 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Digital Goddess on Taking Pictures in Public

My “sources” are quite varied. Here is a link to a column from the technology talk show host Kim Komando (the digital goddess). The topic concerned legal issues in photographing the public. I have wondered about some of these issues and I thought maybe you have too. 

Posted 12 April 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe has brought its expertise in digital image editing to “the cloud”. It now offers a browser-based application - Photoshop Express. The service not only provides powerful image editing capabilities, but also the opportunity to store up to 2 GB worth of images. This screen shot may give you some feel for the tools - [...]

Posted 31 March 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

FlickrFan

After listening to an interview with Dave Winer on a TWiT (this week in tech #134) podcast, I became interested in a “service” Winer was hacking together called FlickrFan. You may not recognize the name, but Winer was involved in the development of RSS. Anyway, Winer was describing FlickrFan and it was my impression he [...]

Posted 19 March 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Taking A Closer Look - Proscope HR

It is amazing how those of us working with educational technology issues get so caught up with online tools and topics. I am no different. However, there are interesting tools and opportunities enabled by these tools that we may be starting to forget. My career began with a biology major and interest in teaching high [...]

Posted 22 February 2008 † grabe § Ed Practice ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

TiltViewer

Here is another Cindy suggestion. If you do Flickr projects, you might want to experiment with TiltViewer (from Airtight Interactive). The viewer allows you to browse and manipulate flickr images within a type of 3-D environment.
You can create a URL that allows others to view public images within this environment.
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/tiltviewer/app/?user_id=86785198@N00 - the resources to [...]

Posted 10 February 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: