Underexposed - by Stephen Shankland
Yahoo hopes users will help pinpoint photos
BURLINGAME, Calif.--Think of it as crowdsourced cartography.In about three weeks, Yahoo plans to launch a project called Corrections in which users of the Flickr photo-sharing site can help with a thorny computing problem: providing the name of the place where a photo was taken.
Flickr's geo
2008-05-14 21:33:00 source: CNET News.com
Linux video project evades DMCA, back on Google Code
An open-source project called CoreAVC-for-Linux is back up and running at Google Code after a copyright tangle with a company called CoreCodec.Google removed the CoreAVC-for-Linux project after CoreCodec said the software violated its copyright in a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) "takedown" letter dated April 30. "We have directly ...
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Google: Unicode conquers ASCII on the Web
I picture it happening this way. The Roman alphabet is on the run, pursued by a much larger army of Arabic characters with long scimitar-like ligatures, Chinese characters that look like throwing stars, and European peasant letters bristling with umlauts, cedillas, and tildes.
Unicode now is the most common character ...
2008-05-05 22:35:00 source: CNET News.com
Microsoft hopes new photo tool will boost Windows
Microsoft likes digital photography enthusiasts as customers, and on Thursday plans to release a free new utility designed to keep them wedded to Windows.Pro Photo Tools is geared for photography professionals and enthusiasts, and its first notable feature is the ability to geotag photos, or add geographic information showing where the picture was taken. ...
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Adobe guru to improve Windows interface
It looks like Mark Hamburg, an Adobe Systems Photoshop and Lightroom programming guru, will be leading work to give Microsoft Windows a better user interface.And given the dramatic user interface differences between earlier and later Adobe projects that Hamburg worked on, that raises some very intriguing possibilities.
Adobe Photoshop
2008-04-30 20:58:00 source: CNET News.com
Photobucket shares interface, matches Flickr
Photobucket, is making a significant change aimed to weave the widely used photo-sharing site more tightly into the Web 2.0 fabric.The company is releasing an application programming interface (API) for its site, said Chief Executive Alex Welch. That means that ordinary developers will be able to build more ...
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Adobe releases debugged Lightroom 1.4.1
Even as it released Lightroom 1.4.1, Adobe also is working on a more significant upgrade to its raw-image editing software. The most interesting new capability in a Lightroom 2 beta is localized corrections. This image from an Adobe demonstration shows the control for a brush that can adjust
2008-04-11 02:18:00 source: CNET News.com
Flickr purists gripe about video expansion
Members of the No Video on Flickr group have posted hundreds of images protesting the photo-sharing site's inclusion of video.
(Credit: Flickr)Shortly after Flickr added videos to its photo-sharing site, a number of users are up in arms.
The No Video on Flickr group amassed more than ...
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Adobe drops unpopular online Photoshop terms
Responding to criticism, Adobe Systems has modified the legal terms for using its online Photoshop Express service, a move the company promised would happen.
"Adobe has retained only those limited rights that allow us to operate the service and to enable you to do all the things the service offers," ...
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iStock reveals revenue, photographer payouts
