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Image Abstractions and Implementations in Content Management
I'm just wrapping up a bigger-than-average, commercial content management install. One of the things this system promotes -- as do many -- is image management. Sure enough, the system has a library in which the users can store images. They can browse the library to insert images using the WYSIWYG ...
Published: January 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Single Image CSS Rollovers
Fast Rollovers Without Preload: Here's a devious little trick for CSS-based image rollovers. Use one image that's bigger than the area in which you want to display it. The image has three different "areas" and you use CSS to "move" the image up and down (or side to side) to ...
Published: September 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 993
Google Image Search Costume
Ricky as a Google image search: This guy deressed up as a "Google Image Search" for Halloween. God help us all. Via Kottke.
Published: October 31, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 977
ASCII to Image
ASCII diagrams to image: This is so cool it makes my teeth hurt. "Draw" something with ASCII text, and this script will make it an image. Ouch.
Published: June 28, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 966
Preventing Image Leeching
Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention: Here's a great antidote for hotlinkers people who embed images from YOUR Web site in their page (so they get the image at your bandwidth expense). This system will prevent images from loading in pages not on your site. These fixes aren't uncommon, but this ...
Published: July 21, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 943
Content-Aware Image Resizing
Content-Aware Image Sizing: This is a crazy four-minute video about a technique of image resizing whereby the program knows what to remove from the image and what to leave alone. The effect is eerie images are cut in half but not. They look just as natural as they did when ...
Published: August 23, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 942
ImageMagick
ImageMagick - Convert, Edit, and Compose Images: I just want to give a little recognition to ImageMagick, which is a free image manipulation library that's been around for years. I downloaded a new version the other day, and I'm so impressed at what it can do. ImageMagickTM 6.0.2 is a ...
Published: June 18, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 937
Image Genius
Batch Image Processing - Image Genius: Thirty bucks buys you this batch image processor. What's so special about that, you ask? This one includes (1) an FTP upload, and (2) a folder monitor. This means you can find an image, drag it to a specified folder, and it will be ...
Published: June 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 935
Zan Image Printer
Zan Image Printer: This is an awfully handy little app. It's like a PDF printer driver, but it prints to BMP, JPG, or TIFF. Great for when you need to extract images from odd document formats (CAD in particular) to include in other media. To us, it's well worth the ...
Published: May 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 931
My Corbis Nightmare
Yesterday, I wanted to buy a stock image from Corbis to use in a Web site I'm developing. It was a standard hi-res image of a man standing in front of a building reading a newspaper. This should have been simple... For those that don't know, Corbis is the largest ...
Published: June 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 923
Google Image Labeler
Google Image Labeler: Google is somewhat brilliant. Finally giving into the fact that they can't determine the meaning of everything, they've created a game to help them identify what's in images. You and a faceless, anonymous partner start. An image comes up, and you start typing labels for it. Your ...
Published: September 2, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 913
Turning Off the IE Image Toolbar
Internet Explorer: Customize the Image Toolbar: You know that little toolbar that appears in Internet Explorer when you hover over an image it lets you save the image or email it or whatever. Did you know you can turn this off in HTML? Or ...
Published: July 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 908
Web-based Image Cropping
Cropping Images using DHTML (Prototype) and symfony: Here's a slick little DHTML script (backed with PHP) that lets Web users crop photos. Flashback to today, for my company... we want users with avatars... but nothing too large. Maybe a nice 80x80 picture. Well the coolest UI I've seen was Apple's ...
Published: September 18, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 903
Resizable Images
If you've ever tried to make an image resize using stylesheets, you'll know that you wind up with lousy results. The browser uses the same routines to resize the image that it does when you hard-set a smaller height and with on an IMG tag (a tactic that's bad on ...
Published: May 12, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 891
Discovering Altered Images
photofakery: This is a very log and dense article, but it provides some good, basic advice for figuring out if a digital image has been altered in some way. A common inconsistency found when the image content is altered is the mismatch of radiometric or illumination conditions between the altered ...
Published: August 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 890
MT Image Verification Spam Blocking
Solution for comments spams: Excellent solution. To cut the story short, I wrote a plugin to [Movable Type] that will verify if it is a human before it allows comments to be posted. The idea is pretty simple: Display an image with a Security Code and demand the user to ...
Published: November 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 881
Image-Caching Projector
Here's an idea I came up with while on a walk tonight. There's a 50-percent chance it's already been invented if it has, tell me where to find it. The world needs a PC projector that will cache the displayed image. Say I'm tooling through my presentation in front ...
Published: July 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 880
Satellite Image Gallery
Space Imaging :: Image Gallery: This a great satellite imaging site with a "best Of" gallery full of satellite images related to current events. It's dominated right now with Tsunami photos, but there are some other gems in there too: Stage 13 of the Tour de France, a good archive ...
Published: January 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 878
The Basics: Image Rollovers Revisited
I'm going to kick off a new weekly series this week I'm calling "The Basics"; Here's the idea: Every time I need to write some JavaScript for feature X on a new site I'm building, I always just go back to the last site I remember writing feature X for, ...
Published: January 25, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 869
Image Replacement Roundup
I considered myself to be a pretty avant-garde web designer using Stopdesign's image replacement technique to replace certain text elements on the page with snazzy images, while still allowing the text to be read by search engines and screen readers. Well, it turns out I'm behind the times. Apparently, the ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 856
Wikipedia Images
As if Wikipedia wasn't useful enough already, it also happens to be a great archive of public domain and Creative Commons-licensed images. I wrote up a post on my personal blog about the future of "downtown." I needed a few pictures to illustrate it with, so, in a stroke of ...
Published: October 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 855
EXIF Plugin for MT
MT Plugin Directory: ImageInfo: Movable Type plugins just keep getting better and better. Camera geeks rejoice (and by "camera geeks," I mean "Rob"). Display image EXIF data along with image on weblog page. Especially useful with digital camera pictures, which often store a lot of EXIF data (time stamp, f/stop, ...
Published: April 21, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 849
ALTer
ALTer: Adam Kalsey whipped up a quick script to add ALT attributes to all IMG tags in a site. Sometimes, the simple solutions are the best. "The program walks through a directory and opens every file ending with .html or .htm. Then it looks for image tags without alt attributes ...
Published: September 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 843
Fuel Up The X-Wings
The Cassini Space Probe has photographed a frightening visitor lurking in orbit of Saturn. NASA is trying to play it off as the moon Mimas. Soon after orbital insertion, Cassini returned its best look yet at the heavily cratered moon Mimas (398 kilometers, 247 miles across). The enormous crater at ...
Published: July 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 833
Blog from Email
pop2blog: Speaking of Movable Type plugins, here's a great one. pop2blog, when executed, checks a given pop3 email account for email from a particular list of allowed senders. When email is found, pop2blog parses the email for text and embedded jpegs, and performs one of three tasks, depending on the ...
Published: December 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 823
ImageWell
ImageWell: Neat idea for a little utility. It's lightweight image editor designed specifically to modify images then post them to a server. Via Reinvented who call it a "bloggers best friend." ImageWell is the easy way to edit, rotate, crop and resize your image and upload it to your iDisk ...
Published: May 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 812
Speaking of Image Formats
The lame UNISYS LZW patent has kept GIF support out of free software for some time. The patent has now expired worldwide, so the popular GD Graphics Library now has GIF support again, after a very long absence. gd 2.0.28 has been released. gd 2.0.28 restores support for reading and ...
Published: July 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 808
mod_rewrite Revisited
A few weeks ago, I posted about how to use some Apache directives to protect your content editors from themselves. In that post, I said: ...there is a way to configure mod_rewrite to check two roots for a file. If it doesn't find a file in the actual Web root, ...
Published: October 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 807
Linking to Printer-Friendly Pages: Bandwidth Theft?
Is linking to a printer friendly page as impolite as hot-linking to an image? When you link directly to an image on someone else's site, you use their content without exposing anyone to their advertising model or any navigation so that the person you sent there can explore the site. ...
Published: February 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 795
Making Your Fields Do Their Own Dirty Work
At one point or another, all content management systems (CMS) come down to some kind of datatype. You have to be able to set a field to a string, or an integer, or whatever, and then enforce and manage that piece of data. The idea is that you take these ...
Published: August 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 786
File and Image Handling in Content Management
Here s something that frustrates me in a lot of content management systems: file handling. Specifically, the inability to tightly bind a file to one or more content objects, and ensure that it lives and dies solely within the scope of those objects. Most systems will put files in a common ...
Published: June 21, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 785
LZW Patent Expiration
Remember the big uproar back in the early days of the Web when Unisys started enforcing its patent of the LZW algorithm? This is the mathematical basis for the GIF image format. Unisys owned the patent since 1985, but only started enforcing it in 1996 when the Web took off. ...
Published: June 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 783
A Bird's-Eye View of the Blackout
Update: Upon further review, this is probably a fake. See below. Update of the Update: It almost certainly IS a fake, but NOAA News has the real thing. (Thanks Keith!) Very cool. You can see how Toronto, Ottawa, Cleveland and Detroit basically disappear. After taking a closer look at this ...
Published: August 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 775
Windows XP ISO Burning Tool
ISO Recorder Power Toy: Here's a great little Windows tool if you burn ISOs to CDs a lot. Install it, and then right-click on any ISO file and select "Copy image to CD..." Pop in a CD, click finish, and the image is burned using the standard XP CD-burning utility.
Published: July 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 770
Cool Power Toys
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP: I know that Power Toys are old hat, but there are some real winners on this page. Clear Type Tuner: This PowerToy lets you use ClearType technology to make it easier to read text on your screen, and installs in the Control Panel for easy ...
Published: March 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 770
The Gigapixel Camera
Ok, so it is basically a large-format film camera, the image only gets to gigapixel size after the film is developed and scanned, and the thing will probably never see mass production, but Clifford Ross' R1 camera is getting plenty of attention in spite of it's decidedly low-tech construction. And ...
Published: December 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 769
It's ALA Survey Time
Get it done, people. Click the image above.
Published: July 29, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 762
More JPG Compression
Improved image-shrinking technology claimed: This is interesting. I've never been able to get JPGs to compress much at all. I figured they were as compressed as they were gonna get. Allume Systems, based in California, US, says the new version of its StuffIt compression technology can reduce JPEG files by ...
Published: January 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 760
Photoshop in a Browser?
Ektron Web Image FX: Ektron, the company behind a pretty good browser-based WYSIWYG editor, has released image editing capability: "Ektron WebImageFX is an imaging application that allows users to edit images directly online. Images can be copied and pasted from a local or network drive as well as a peripheral ...
Published: August 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 760
The Most Requested URL on the Net
I got to thinking about this -- what is the most requested URL on the Net? My vote: the Google logo image. Yours? (I originally called this "The Most Requested File on the Net." But then I thought that the Google image probably resides on hundreds of caching servers, so ...
Published: March 28, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 757
No More Shut-eye In Digital Pics
Rob should appreciate this one: Digital images featuring someone in mid-blink could be banished forever using an image-analysis system for cameras developed in Japan. The system developed by Kaneko's team gets around the problem by snapping 15 frames in 0.5 seconds after the shutter button is clicked. A computer then ...
Published: May 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 755
Thumbnail Linking Ruled Legal
Court backs thumbnail image linking: I didn't even know this was an issue. "The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is a partial win for defendant Arriba Soft an image search engine now known as Ditto.com in its case against photographer Leslie Kelly. Kelly sued Arriba Soft ...
Published: July 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 755
Height and Width Arguments in IMG Tags
Height and Width challenged: Adam Kalsey has some interesting thoughts about height and width arguments in images. >Could someone tell me why height and width attributes are needed for images? Non-graphic browsers don’t use them, and graphic browsers should be smart enough to figure out the size on their own. ...
Published: August 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 754
Firefox, ALT Tags, and Tooltips
Extension Room :: Popup ALT Attributes: Interesting little flamewar going on over at the Mozilla Extension Room. First, here's something I didn't know: The ALT tag for images is NOT supposed to produce a little tooltip when you mouseover an image, according to the HTML spec. This is supposed to ...
Published: November 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 753
The World's First Web Cam
Trojan Room Coffee Pot Biography: The first Web cam in history was invented so that everyone in the Computer Lab at Cambridge would know if there was coffee without having to go looking. It ran from 1991 to 2001. The last image is here, which shows the pot be turned ...
Published: February 14, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 751
Reprinting Our Content, Again
Similar to a situation of a couple years ago, I ve found another Web site that s reproducing selected Gadgetopia articles in full, and surrounding them with ads. In no case does this site discuss my posts or write any original posts of their own, they just take some Gadgetopia posts from ...
Published: June 25, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 749
The Basics on JPEG2000
JPEG2000: the Killer Image File Format for Lossless Storage: I'd seen this format floating around, but didn't know anything about it. This article looks promising for you digital camera buffs. Though JPEG2000 is a new format that is not yet widely supported by image-editing and web-browsing applications, it can already ...
Published: November 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 749
How Many Can You Name?
The more you use CSS, the harder this is, because you find that CSS really scales down the number of HTML tags you use. I forgot very few really easy ones about half of the tags I missed I had never heard of before. 49 (In case the image ...
Published: November 28, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 749
Thanks
Independence Day has got me all patriotic, so I just want to thank our buddy Keith and all the other soldiers on duty wherever they might be. It's a tough, often thankless job. Thanks for doing it. Just so you don't feel left out of Keith's fun, he sent the ...
Published: July 4, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 744
The Well-Appointed Web Page
Web developers want one thing: control. HTML is such an imprecise language that building Web pages has continually been a struggle between what we want to do and what the language is capable of. As a result, the short history of the Web has been an exercise in perverting HTML ...
Published: August 19, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 740
Adobe Systems Incorporated Terms of Use
Adobe Systems Incorporated Terms of Use: When I was writing about the photographer who photoshopped his way out of a job, I remembered something about using Photoshop as a verb. I went back to Adobe s site, got sidetracked by Encore for a second, then found this: The Photoshop trademark must ...
Published: April 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 738
Quickbooks in Your iPhone
We use Quickbooks Online for Blend s accounting. We re relatively happy with it, but when I logged in today, I saw the above image, which is pretty cool: As a QuickBooks Online subscriber, you can now view key company data anywhere you can use your iPhone. Check your: Accounts receivable and ...
Published: March 30, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 737
Plasma Burn-in Oops
WHO image rattles plasma TV owner: Not what you want out of an expensive TV. [Bryant] Ayala of Bondurant [Iowa] said he noticed Monday night that the blue frame used by WHO-TV to warn viewers about winter weather closings appeared to have been burned into his recently purchased plasma screen. ...
Published: January 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 733
Adobe GoLive: Evil Incarnate
I just have to get something off my chest: Adobe GoLive generates the most wretched HTML I have ever seen. Joe and I are working on cleaning a site up that was done in GoLive. Joe was so irritated by the wee hours of the morning that he threatened to ...
Published: May 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 731
Big Medium 2.0
Big Medium Features (Global Moxie): Josh Clark has finally released Big Medium 2.0. I subscribe to his blog, and I kept seeing release notifications going up and I was wondering what he was doing, but it turns out that Josh wants to deliver something odd in the world of commercial ...
Published: December 26, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 724
The First Digital Camera
If only Kodak had phased out celluloid sooner ...: This is a great article on the very first digital camera, built by Kodak in 1975. Steven Sasson knew right away in December 1975 that his 8-pound, toaster-size contraption, which captured a black-and-white image on a digital cassette tape at a ...
Published: September 11, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 724
This Old Blog, Part I
I've been looking for a small project to test out the Rails framework, so I've decided to combine that with exploring ways to reduce the time and complexity involved in creating a blog entry. This will be an ongoing series of articles, but this is a low-priority project, so each ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 721
Amazon's Virtual Data Center
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services: My understanding of how this works is that you can upload a disk image of a machine, and it will live at Amazon on some virtual, uber-server, and run there. Cost is $0.10 per hour (or $2.40 a day, ...
Published: August 24, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 717
Jakob Nielsen: Video on the Web Sucks
Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online : Jakob Nielsen has published a bit about how bad video apparently is for the Web. What's interesting is his eye-tracking study, where he shows you what someone looks at while they're watching video. He has an image which show where the viewer's eyes rested, ...
Published: January 1, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 716
Mapping Software and City Government
Mapping Software Jolts City Governments: Neat article on the use of mapping software and GIS in city governments. Specialized mapping software helped New York plot the addresses of people who had called to complain about having lost their heat during a recent cold snap. That helped determine precisely where the ...
Published: February 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 716
You can put away your cardboard 3D glasses now
A couple of really cool new images from JPL today on their photojournal site. One is a screenshot of a portion of the ground near the rover rendered in a rather stunning image that converts the binocular vision on the rover into a 3D model. This looks like it was ...
Published: January 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 711
Essentials
Essentials : Mark Pilgrim has listed his "essential" software tools for doing his job. I always like to see these the absolute, "can't live without" tools of people who do the same work as me. As the risk of being self-indulgent, here's mine: Email: Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail via ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 711
Detecting Photoshop Hacks
Technology > Circuits > What's Next: For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/technology/circuits/22next.html">For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum: A group of folks out at Dartmouth College are breaking new ground in the art of detecting if images have been altered or ...
Published: July 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 708
Dear Forbes: Your Slide Shows Suck
Forbes has some great content on business, and they do a list article better than anyone. But, for some reason, they ve chosen to cripple their slide shows with stupidity. Consider this one about the most expensive homes in the world. First of all, why a slide show? Why not just ...
Published: October 16, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 706
I Can't Even Think of a Title That Fits...
FirstClass ® 7.1: The feature comparison chart on this page is implemented as a single, 713 x 3615 pixel, 380KB image. Why, exactly?
Published: June 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 705
Color Picker
I love IrfanView. It's a fast, lightweight little image viewer that's extremely capable for basic tasks, (that is, anything I don't want to bother starting up Photoshop for). But the one feature it doesn't have is the ability to click a spot on an image and get the HTML color ...
Published: July 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 705
The Fake Detective
There's a guy named Ed Lake that apparently spends all his time proving that pornographic images of celebrities are not real, and were in fact created in Photoshop. He takes an image, examines it pixel by pixel, proves it's a fake, and often finds the "body" in another picture. It's ...
Published: October 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 705
The Content Tree
A while back, I mentioned the concept of a "content tree" in regards to content management. I cited this as a "functional pattern" and promised to talk about it more, but I never did. So, here goes -- With every content management system (CMS) I've written, I always get back ...
Published: August 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 704
Ektron WebImageFX
Ektron.com :: Web Image Editor : Ektron WebImageFX: I haven't seen an embedded, Web-based image editor before. Have I just not been looking hard enough? Are there others I'm not aware of? If not for the IE-only problem, this seems like a good one. There are some Flash demos here. ...
Published: March 15, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Cross-Site Request Forgeries
Cross-Site Request Forgeries: An interesting article about a vulnerability that's probably present in a lot of apps. [...] cross-site request forgeries, a style of attack that lets an attacker send arbitrary HTTP requests from a victim user. That's worth reading a couple of times, and it will likely not be ...
Published: October 22, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 693
Funniest Bug Report. Ever.
Download Manager is Giving You the Finger "When the download manager is on screen, the background image of that window (folder with arrow pointing down) looks like distractingly like a hand with middle finger up."
Published: April 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 691
Captioned Pictures in CSS
Photo Cards: Here's a good, simple, obvious solution to an annoying problem. Whenever a picture needed a caption, I surrounded the entire thing in a DIV and floated it left or right. However, I had to set the width of the DIV so it would float correctly, and to do ...
Published: August 18, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 689
Breaking Pages on the Web
User experience f*ck-up: the New Yorker is splitting up their longer pieces into multiple pages: Kottke is profanely upset that the New York Times is now splitting its stories up into multiple pages (though I think they're been doing this for some time now). I know, everyone else does it ...
Published: October 10, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 688
QuickTime VR
4th of July in New York - Fireworks from Empire State Building: I'm so impressed with this technology's ability to put you somewhere listening to the sound and rotating around the image seems even more effective that traditional video would be.
Published: July 7, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 682
Microsoft Goes After Product Placement
Geeky Microsoft wants a TV makeover: Apple has always been very strong with product placement, and now Microsoft wants the same thing. "Microsoft is promoting its Windows products on popular TV shows like Fox's '24' and HBO's 'The Wire,' airing this fall, as part of the software company's push to ...
Published: October 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 682
Animated Captchas
Another CAPTCHA project: It seems to me that this would be brutally effective. It raises the bar in terms of the difficulty that it imposes to robots, as the actual text is never completely displayed in each of the animated image frames.
Published: December 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 679
Is Wikipedia Pornographic?
Parents For The Online Safety of Children: This site is very much against Wikipedia, calling it a pornographic Web site. They have a press release that points to many Wikipedia articles that display images that may or may not be pornographic, but are related to the topics being discussed. The ...
Published: January 11, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
Getting Around IE's PNG Issues
PNG is an awesome image format, primarily useful for its ability to support 8-bit transparency (that is, an alpha channel where there's a continuum from opaque to transparent, instead of the simple on/off transparency of GIF). So what's been holding you back from using it? IE for Windows, mostly, which ...
Published: July 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 675
Follow the Blue Ball
Blue Ball Machine: This is amazing. I watched a single ball for two or three minutes as it ran through the various machines. It's a repeating 500 x 500px background image -- a big animated GIF. The music is perfect. I want that playing in my office all day. Via ...
Published: February 17, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 669
Virtual CD-ROM
Mount an .ISO file without burning a disk: This would come in handy. I find myself extracting ISOs to disk a lot. A small Windows utility called the Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel can mount an .ISO disk image and access the files on it as if it were burned to ...
Published: June 12, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 666
A Tivo for Reality
Microsoft Research is working on a couple of interesting projects. First, there's the SenseCam, a little doodad that's sort of a digital camera and sensor package. You wear it, and it records, well, everything. SenseCam is a badge-sized wearable camera that captures up to 2000 VGA images per day into ...
Published: November 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 666
FavIcon fom Pics
I posted a link to FavIcon from Pics at another site today and thought it might prove useful to someone here as well. Its a free online .ico generator that I've used from time to time. You upload an image and it spits out a zip archive containing an .ico ...
Published: September 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Seriously About VR
Hello world! VRMAG - ISSUE 22 in FullScreen QuickTime VR: This is a magazine about VR media. Their home page is a big VR image, with article teasers and links overlaid on top of a 360-degree picture of a mountain summit. Isn't this what we envisioned the Web would be ...
Published: October 14, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
Best Satellite Images of 2003
Top Ten IKONOS Satellite Images for 2004: There's something innately powerful about a satellite image. Here are the best of 2003 with a neat little Java viewer. Space Imaging, the world's leading provider of Earth imagery and related services to commercial and government markets introduces its top 10 images from ...
Published: March 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 662
The Utility of Consultants
A friend of mine sent me this joke today. Pretty funny. A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL ...
Published: June 18, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 662
Hillary's Photoshop Warriors
Hillary s ad: debate footage doctored to make Obama blacker: A bunch of bloggers are claiming that Hillary s camp took an image of Obama, darkened it, and squished it vertically, in an attempt to make Obama look..blacker. They present a bunch of Photoshop-ish evidence on this page, which is interesting. And ...
Published: March 6, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 662
Picasa 2
Entrepreneur lets Google fly with his creation: It gets better, and it's apparently still gonna be free. On Tuesday, Google unveils a major upgrade that could chip away market share from leaders Adobe and Microsoft. Picasa 2 is almost as full-featured as their Photoshop Elements and Digital Image Suite photo-editing-software ...
Published: January 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
No Screen Caps with Windows Media Player
Did you know that Windows Media Player won't let you screen cap? I tried it today with a high-definition AVI playing, I screen-capped the window. However, when I pasted it into Irfanview there was nothing but black where the image was supposed to be. I tried screen-capping the entire ...
Published: July 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Link Destination Confirmation
I was on that site about Web typography, and I clicked an Amazon link. The image above is what happened, which is pretty neat. It was unobtrusive, and it set a cookie so it didn't bother me again. (I had to clear the cookie, in fact, to get the screencap.) ...
Published: December 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
CNN Story Highlights
CNN is doing something that I thought was pointless, but have discovered that I really like it. They're putting the highlights of a story at the top. I find myself skimming this quite a bit, then skipping the actual story. Here's a link to the story in the image for ...
Published: December 29, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 660
Slimming via Digital Camera
Slimming photos with HP digital cameras : There's a Flash animation that shows how it works -- surprise, it just narrows the image. They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is a ...
Published: September 18, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 660
Fingerprint Hard Drive
Lock Box: Fingerprint Access Hard Drive: I have no need for this, but how wickedly cool. Active Imaging Sensor authenticates enrolled fingerprints and is unaffected by changes in skin condition and moisture content [...] A composite image of multiple fingerprints is stored during enrollment which makes the sensor tolerant to ...
Published: July 27, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 660
Wikipedia Page on the London Bombings
7 July 2005 London bombings: The Wikipedia article on today's bombings in London is already huge. The bit at the top with the hotline numbers is just evidence of how much of a fantastic resource Wikipedia has become. The image above shows just how past the page is updating (times ...
Published: July 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 659
Weather and Time-Based Site Design
Blog | 1976design.com: This is so cool that it makes my teeth hurt. This guy pulls an XML feed from Weather.com and swaps out his header graphic to reflect the actual weather and time of day at his location. The graphic is based on an actual panoramic image of his ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Repeat After Me: "I am not a dork..."
Internet 'Geek' Image Shattered by New Study: I just knew I wasn't a dork. Awesome. ...the typical Internet user is an avid reader of books and spends more time engaged in social activities than the non-user, it says. And, television viewing is down among some Internet users by as much ...
Published: January 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 656
We Suck
I have deleted Joe's post, but the image above will forever remind us both of how much we suck. The posts are identical down to the attributation, the category, the quote, the posting of the score, etc. Joe's post was first, but mine stays because I got the first comment, ...
Published: March 15, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 656
You can change your password, but not your finger
We didn't post anything about the fingerprint deal? Seriously? We're getting slow. Japanese cryptographer Tsutomu Matsumoto has figured out a way to defeat a fingerprint reader about 80% of the time. "Using his crazy super-cryptographer skills!", you say. No, not really. It's all about the Gummi Bears: First Tsutomu Matsumoto ...
Published: May 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 655
Knoppix: CD-Based Linux
I'm writing this entry from a Linux machine...but I never installed Linux. I've booted my PC off a Knoppix disc, which is a bootable Linux CD. I'm in Linux now, but I just need to pop the CD and reboot, and I'm back to Windows. You can get the CD ...
Published: July 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 653
Booting From a Flash Memory Device
Flash drive maker adds boot feature: It won't be long until you simply carry an image of your machine around with you. No need for a laptop, just plug your device in, reboot, and you have your computer in front of you. "In a move that may speed the death ...
Published: August 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
Inline Data
Here's a crazy little tidbit that you should probably never use on a normal web page: Thanks to RFC 2397, some browsers include the 'data:' url type, which lets you embed data resources right in your page. For instance, the image attached to this post looks like this: Mozilla folks ...
Published: June 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
Video Ads in Google Search Results?
Google Plans to Put Video Ads Into Search Results: Your next search in Google could deliver a TV commercial. At CitiGroup s Technology Summit in New York this week, Google s Business Product Manager for Ads Quality Nicholas Fox said the company will be moving ahead with integration of video and image ...
Published: September 10, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
John McCain's People Leech, Get Caught
Hacking John McCain: This is pretty funny. If you visit John McCain's MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him. He's apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians. Why would a presidential candidate ...
Published: March 27, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
What Makes a Content Management System?
I got to thinking the other day: exactly when do you have a content management system? We ve all built apps that manage content, but when do you graduate from a relational database with an admin section (RDBWAAS) to the lofty and deserved title of content management system? (Incidentally, I ...
Published: June 30, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
Blackle
Blackle - Energy Saving Search: Every little bit helps. Right? Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. Image displayed is primarily a function of ...
Published: July 25, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
The Future of Adobe
Adobe Tries to Create Image of a Moneymaker: A good look at where Adobe is now, and the challenges it's going to face from things like Microsoft's InfoPath: "Mr. Chizen plays down the threats Adobe faces from competitors like Microsoft. He points to Acrobat's ability to create documents that can ...
Published: July 7, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 649
The New Gateway
Readying Gateway's post-PC future: Man, I gotta buy some Gateway stock: "Eighteen years after co-founding what would become of one most recognized PC companies in the history of the computer industry, Waitt is working as quickly as he can to shed Gateway's image as a PC builder. ... 'We're taking ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
Mouseover Pop Up Ads: Neutral or Evil?
What do you all think of ads like in the image above? On the one hand they're less intrusive than standard ads, since they don't show up unless you mouseover. On the other than, they're right in the text you're trying to read, so you can't not run your eye ...
Published: December 15, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 644
Share Magazine: We're Famous
Me and Joe are featured in eZ publish s Share Magazine for April. They did an interview, and there s a snazzy picture of us. What comes out of the box with eZ Publish is just a starting point. Don’t be afraid to extend the platform, through custom classes, extensions, template operators, ...
Published: April 10, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 644
Eva from Space
Maxim, U.S.A. on MAXIM ONLINE: Maxim Magazine took their cover of Eva Longoria, blew it up to about 100 ft., and laid it on the ground just outside Las Vegas. Then they photographed it from space in a promotion with Google Earth. If you don't have Google Earth, there's a ...
Published: April 6, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
Video Game in a Favicon
DEFENDER of the Favicon: Ah geez, this is the stupidest, coolest thing I ve ever seen. DEFENDER of the favicon was done in 3 nights, from start to finish. Each frame of the game is generated on the fly in JavaScript into a 16?16 canvas element, then converted to a 32bits ...
Published: July 15, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
New Hybrid From Google
Hybrid map that is. Maybe this isn't such a new thing, but I just noticed today that Google Maps has a new Hybrid mode. In Hybrid mode, all of the labeled items from the map view are superimposed over the satellite image. Slashdot has a post on it from two ...
Published: July 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
Amtrak and the Economics of the Sunset Limited
Some good news -- it looks like Amtrak isn't going to die anymore, given that Congress just gave them $626 million. But are we just shoring up an industry that, sadly, hasn't been self-sufficient in this country in maybe 20 years (total speculation there)? I love trains, and I wish ...
Published: June 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Netflix Roku
Netflix Roku Is Here, And The Set-Top Boxes Keep On Coming : Good job to Netflix for getting this out ahead of Blockbuster. This is one step closer to the Holy Grail of media the ability to watch anything, on-demand. [ ] Netflix seems to be the winner in terms of ...
Published: May 21, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
"My Name is Earl" Easter Egg
"My name is Earl" in HD ROCKSt: My Name is Earl (which is a very funny show, BTW), had an special treat last night for viewers using High Def televisions. During the episode Earl's brother Randy holds up the sign [...] reading "High Def Rocks!!!" which couldn't be viewed by ...
Published: October 5, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Polaroid: Enough Shaking, Already
Rob and CNN let me know about this support entry at Polaroid's web site: Ever since the song "Hey Ya" by Andre 3000 of Outkast came out, everyone is shaking their Polaroid pictures. I have always been told that you should not shake a Polaroid picture, but I'm having a ...
Published: February 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
More Windows Security Holes
More holes in Windows revealed: Three new "critical" security holes in Windows, even on machines patched with SP2. Keep patchin', folks. Symantec has also warned about a second vulnerability in a Windows component called "LoadImage" that is used to load desktop icons, cursors, or bitmap images. A flaw in the ...
Published: December 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
MSDN's Crazy Crumbtrail
I don t know if this is new or not, but MSDN has some crazy crumbtrail action going on. See the image mousing over any step in the crumbtrail will pop open a window listing all the siblings children of that step. If there s a lot, the little pop-up scrolls. ...
Published: September 3, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
"Pay Me Or The Mac Gets It!"
Some guy, supposedly a poor college student, is holding an old Mac SE for ransom. He's set up a website where you can PayPal him money to save the thing or burn it. So far, the balance is in the Mac's favor, but there's not much money there yet, so ...
Published: June 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
Book Scanning at Stanford
The Book & The Computer: Another great article about digitizing books in a library at Stanford. I have to stifle the goosebumps when I read about this stuff. When you're turning pages by hand, you can do maybe 150 to 200 pages per hour. It's slow. But the robot can ...
Published: January 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Icon Nirvana
300 Images From 1800 Sites: This guy went icon shopping at major sites. If you want to know what people are using for a "printer friendly" icon, here's your site. I roughly estimate that for every six web sites I scoured, I was able to acquire one graphic image. I ...
Published: June 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Headings as Images...Or Not
Dynamic Text Replacement: Look at this page. It looks like someone did all their headings as images, which hides the text from search engines and has huge usability problems...but then look at the source. It's all good 'ol HTML. I haven't read the article that explains how to do it, ...
Published: June 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
How to Make Fake Software Boxes
Box Art: You know all those pictures of boxed software from companies that don't sell anything but downloads? No surprise -- the boxes never existed. Sometimes you need to create a 3D software box, hardcover book, or other box-like object in a pinch. It could be done the long way ...
Published: January 2, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
3D Printers
BBC NEWS | Technology | Printers produce copies in 3D: They "print" things. Not pictures of things, but actually, three-dimensional things. "The machines work by placing layers of a powdery material on top of each other to create a real-life model of a digital image. 'With hundreds and sometimes thousands ...
Published: August 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Dell's Snazzy System Inspection System
Dell Home Systems Dimension 3000: Dell has a snazzy new Flash-based system to "look" at their machines. You can zoom in on the front and back of the case, the internals, and do a 360 rotation. When you zoom in, click and drag the image to look around. It actually ...
Published: May 12, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Lightbox your large-format graphics
Lokesh Dhakar has put together a marvelous little hack called Lightbox to display large-format ("click to enlarge") images on a web page. The graphic loads up over the existing page in an effect similar to OS X's Dashboard. Places images above your current page, not within. This frees you from ...
Published: January 10, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Mystery Note
Karla, our creative director, bought a new leather coat. Yesterday, she pulled a slip of paper out of the pocket it s scanned and re-produced above (click here for a larger version). It looked like it was ripped from a notebook, and the letter was hand-written in ballpoint pen. In ...
Published: November 13, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 635
Render Ring Tones with PHP
PHP Composer: I nominate this as the most uselessly cool programming tool I've ever seen. This class is meant to render images of the musical score of ring tones notes used in cellular phones, defined in the RTTL format. It parses the RTTL ring tones string to extract the information ...
Published: May 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 635
SubTropolis
SubTropolis: I wish there were more Web resources on this, but you'll have to live with a single page on the commercial broker's site. I saw this on the Travel Channel this morning. SubTropolis, the world's largest underground business complex, is a subterranean industrial park with nearly 5 million square ...
Published: June 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 634
FireSomething
Firesomething: Look, I know this is a stupid extension, but it just cracks me up. I have four browser windows open right now: Mozilla Weblizard, Superphoenix, Powerlemur, and Spaceoyster. It's tough to find a laugh like that at 7:31 a.m. [This plugin] modifies the product name in the browser titlebar, ...
Published: July 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 634
GalleryPlayer
GalleryPlayer: Don't want to get stuck with the same old art hanging on the walls? This service will "deliver" images to your plasma television (or many, depending on how rich you are), and rotate the image at set intervals. It's based upon something Bill Gates himself has in his home. ...
Published: October 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 634
Track and Field Tech
Can We Trust Track & Field Records? - How accurate are they?: Interesting anaylsis of the technology used to time track and field events. This is in the news lately because a Jamaican just broke the 100 meter record by .01 seconds. Not a big margin. The best systems use ...
Published: June 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 633
Centering Elements via CSS
Here's a CSS technique that I didn't know about, and perhaps you didn't either. To center an element on the page like the image above just set the margins to "auto." This only works on block elements, so you'll need to modify the "display" value for images. ...
Published: September 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 633
Natural Process
Natural Process : Process Flow: An art exhibition (I couldn't figure out where) called "Natural Process" has Google's home page printed at a gigantic size, hung on the wall, then projected on the Web. The NP system is constructed so that a webcam captures the painting in the museum and ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 632
Wal-mart Turns to Bloggers
Wal-Mart turns to bloggers to gild its image: Wal-mart is sending "excusive" information emails to hand-picked bloggers to try and inject their side of stories into the blogosphere. [...] Wal- Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting ...
Published: March 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 632
The Eye of Sauron Discovered
Hubble spies lord of the stellar rings: The picture with this news article is eerie. (There's a scientific discovery buried in there somewhere as well, but that's not nearly as interesting the Eye of Sauron....) A recent image captured with the Hubble Space Telescope which makes the system look ...
Published: June 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 632
The Euro Symbol in HTML
The euro sign in HTML (and in some other contexts): I had to use that weird euro sign in the last post. I copped out and just wrote "euro." Here's a page full of different ways to handle the Euro in HTML. Interesting. In HTML documents, it is best to ...
Published: May 5, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 631
Maunsell Sea Forts
I'd never heard of the Maunsell Sea Forts until tonight. When I first saw this picture, I thought it was an image from Myst or Riven: The Thames Estuary Army Forts were constructed in 1942 to a design by Guy Maunsell, following the successful construction and deployment of the Naval ...
Published: November 5, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 631
Maunsell Sea Forts
I'd never heard of the Maunsell Sea Forts until tonight. When I first saw this picture, I thought it was an image from Myst or Riven: The Thames Estuary Army Forts were constructed in 1942 to a design by Guy Maunsell, following the successful construction and deployment of the Naval ...
Published: November 5, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 631
Photos 4.0
Alex King just released Photos 4.0 (formerly known as Gallery). It's a web-based photo database for storing, cataloging, and retrieving photos, but NOT for publishing web galleries. It can import photos by the folder or one at a time, and stores a thumbnail of each image. It's designed for "Anyone ...
Published: August 12, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 631
DabbleDB Video
Dabble DB: 7 Minute Video: Holy cats, this app looks good. Think Access on the Web. I shut off the video halfway through, because it was just too much to handle. My head is spinning. Good Lord, man -- someone get me some water. This comes via has_many :though, which ...
Published: March 31, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
Porsche Design
Gizmodo : Porsche drives: I've written about the Porsche-computer connection before, but I didn't know Porsche Design is behind the VPR Matrix computers that Best Buy sells. Nor that they're coming out with a line of external hard drives. For the record, Porsche Design has the same genesis as the ...
Published: July 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
WS_FTP v8
WS_FTP Pro - Whats New: The latest version of the venerable WS_FTP is out. It has auto-thumbnailing for image files (on both local and remote sides), the ability to edit files on the remote server in the editor of your choice (based on file extension), and a HotDrop folder to ...
Published: June 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure - Never-Ending Story Engine: I knew someone on the Web would do something like this sooner or later. The Web itself is a big Choose Your Own Adventure, when you think about it. This site is an interactive fiction writing engine that allows you to read ...
Published: January 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
iPod Cat Out Of The Bag
Apple has been hinting about a new iPod, and Monday's Newsweek cover has been leaked, and guess what's on it? Steve Jobs and the newer, smaller, higher capacity (why?!) iPod. Much like Time and the new iMac back in 2002, Newsweek has leaked an image with Steve Jobs and the ...
Published: July 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 629
iBiblio
Where Sharing Isn't a Dirty Word: Great little article about the magic of iBiblio, where I admit to finding more than one Sherlock Holmes novel. Ibiblio's staff and contributors rescue documents, videos, audio and image files from dusty archives or attics where few could view them and put them on ...
Published: November 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 629
Your First Web Site?
Wayback challenge: When was your first site?: Great idea. I'm putting some thought into what my first one was...and drawing a blank. I'd like to challenge anyone who has designed a web page to find the oldest site in the archive that they authored and post the Wayback Machine link ...
Published: January 3, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 629
News Spam
Here's something that may be a new trend in spam: including semi-newsworthy information in an attempt to add some value to the spam. I got an email the other day entitled "Medal Count." It appeared, for all intents and purposes, to be an accurate medal count for each country from ...
Published: August 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 628
Hard Drive Lawsuit
Computer Makers Sued Over Hard-Drive Size Claims: The hard drive you're buying may be smaller than you think. "According to the lawsuit, computer hard drive capacities are described in promotional material in decimal notation, but the computer reads and writes data to the drives in a binary system. The result ...
Published: September 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 628
Radio Userland: Am I Missing Out?
Radio UserLand : What is Radio UserLand?: I always feel like I'm missing out on a party when I read about Radio Userland. I flirted with it for a few weeks once, but I shied away because (1) it wasn't designed to have titles for entries (perhaps a stupid excuse), ...
Published: June 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 628
The Phenomenon of the GoogleNack
Google Spam Filtering Gone Bad: Funny things going on with Google. Seth Finkelstein has identified what he calls a "GoogleNack" when a Google results page trips over a spam site and removes a big chunk of the results. "The suppressed sites should be quietly removed from the items returned. ...
Published: October 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 627
Project Video on...Nothing
Making a video screen out of thin air: I've been waiting for someone to invent this for 20 years. "...in Hermosa Beach, California, a graduate student passes his hand through an image of a DNA strand produced apparently out of thin air by a modified video projector. 'This ...
Published: September 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 627
Talk Like A Pirate Day
Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day, so quick, ye scurvy bilge rats, before the day be gone, steer yerself over to TalkLikeAPirate.com and educate yourselves on the finer points of talking like a pirate. Do I hear ye asking, "Why?" What, you're wondering, is the point? We're going to ...
Published: September 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 626
The Falkirk Wheel
The Falkirk Wheel and Millennium Link: I saw this on the Discovery Channel the other day. It's a boat lift in Ireland Scotland (sorry) used to connect two canals that are 110 feet apart vertically. You float your boat into the cradle, and the wheel spins like a big merry-go-round. ...
Published: May 24, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 626
Styling RSS Feeds
I've subscribed to a new RSS feed that's injecting styles into posts each post is surrounded by a FONT tag that makes the text Arial, instead of the default Times New Roman that Outlook (I use NewsGator) would render in if not for the tag. I always felt that ...
Published: July 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 626
You Can't Bite It Anymore, You Need a Hacksaw
Apple has put a new spin on their logo as part of the upcoming 'Panther' release of OSX. "It is not clear whether Apple will adopt the new silver logo for product design, marketing and packaging, or simply restrict it to the new software. Whatever Apple decides to do, the ...
Published: September 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 625
What will $90,000,000 get you?
A dandy 40 acre estate in The Hamptons (click here for a Google Maps satellite image of the property.) The price tag on this estate sets an new record for residential real estate (wouldn't you love to be the sales guy on that deal!) A New York Post article ...
Published: June 21, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 625
Terrafly
TerraFly: This is kinda interesting. It's an aerial map that you can move interactively. I found my house then followed my drive to work. Sioux Falls is not a teeming metropolis, so if I can find my house and office, odds are you can too. TerraFly ® changes the way ...
Published: December 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 625
elgooG
It's apparently been around for a while, but I just ran across elgooG today. 1.1. Why is this backwards? [...] It's a Google mirror. A common practice for busy websites is to create a mirror site, which is an exact replica of the original site but on a different server. ...