From the look, Firefox 4 will slightly copied the look of Google Chrome that is much simpler. Some sections will be simplified as the show settings and pop-up.
Online photo sharing has been around since the advent of the digital age. Polaroids stored in hard-cover albums have been replaced by digital pictures stored in photo sharing websites, blogs, and social networks. It can be hard to keep up with all the new features web applications such as Flickr, Photobucket, and PicsOrLinks provide. Here are 5 NEW things you can do with your uploaded pictures. Some of these features are advanced feats of development and others are clever uses of existing concepts. Some are well known, others are not. Photosynth – Synth: Photosynth is a well loved new tool from Microsoft used to map a 3D environment with a group of pictures from several different sources. Photosynth uses your pictures to construct the actual object in a 3D render. You can click your way through every corner of the Eiffel Tower and contribute your own pictures to the “synth” for the world to see. Photosynth has even been showcased on some television shows and used to solve fake crimes. It’s an incredible way to bring a sense of life to your pictures.
PicsOrLinks – Embed Multiple Pics (EMP): This a practical but powerful feature for heavy forum users. It allows you to forgo the tedious work of individually embedding a group of your pictures on your favorite forums/message boards. EMP also gives you the option to add a caption above each picture to tell a tale or provide descriptions. PicsOrLinks makes it really simple to share multiple pics from an event with your favorite communities. All the code is generated for you with the click of a button and you’re ready to share.
Flickr – Geotagging: Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to pictures and other media. Several new digital cameras on the market come with geotagging functionality. It is a well known feature but its applications have improved greatly in the past year. Flickr now uses this technology to make maps from a user’s set of geotagged pictures. This allows users to browse through pics based on location instead of just album groupings. Users can also make intuitive displays of their journeys and view their pictures in a geographical context.
Photobucket & PicsOrLinks – Group/Event Albums: How many times have you been at a special event or gathering with several people taking pictures? It’s usually a pain to gather all the pictures in one place. Photobucket and PicsOrLinks make it simple with Group/Event Albums. They are basically albums with shared access for invited friends and family. Everyone can contribute pics to one huge pool for everyone to delight in. It’s a fantastic way to capture everything that happens at huge events like birthday parties and weddings.
Apple iPhoto – Faces: iPhoto is an endlessly useful tool every Mac user should try. iPhoto ‘09 was released recently with a new feature called Faces. Faces questions you to assign names to the people in your pics and uses facial recognition technology to detect and categorize those people for simple viewing. Faces and the rest of iPhoto ‘09 is seamlessly integrated with Facebook to make organization and sharing even simpler. Brilliant.
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Once you sign yourself up for a Twitter account and following people, you start to notice that wide array of customized Twitter pages out there. The largest part of Twitter customizing is the backgrounds for the pages. Soon you will be ready to venture out into the world of having your very own customized background. The follow steps can be taken to secure your very own customized Twitter background to express yourself on the hottest social media website.
First of all, if you are not signed up with Twitter yet, do so! The only way to customize your Twitter background is by having an account in the fist place. After you have your very own Twitter page, you are going to have to choose on what type of background you want. If you do not already have a picture to use, a quick Google search will open up a plethora of sites that offer free backgrounds for you. Once you have chose on a background, save it to your hard drive where you will easily find it again when the time comes to use it.
Next you will need to log into your Twitter home page. Once this is done you will see a link on the top of the page near the right hand side that reads “Settings”, this is where all of the settings are that will help turn your Twitter page from generic to a reflection of yourself.
After you load the settings page, you’ll see tabs with various options on them. The tab you want is the “design” tab. This is where the makeover on your Twitter page will start. Any time you want to revamp the look of your page you will need to use this tab to change your background and other theme settings within your profile.
The first thing you’re going to see when you load up the design tab are preloaded for you to use if you do not have the time to make a theme of your own. Choosing one of these generic themes will change the background on your page as well, but if you want to customize it further by using a picture that you like, just scroll down further and find the link that says “change background image.” Clicking on this will bring up a box with a browse button where you will then be able to load the picture you chose on using earlier.
The final option you will need to choose is if you want to tile the background. If you’re unfamiliar with what this is, it is exactly how it sounds: it repeats your picture throughout the entire page over and over again. If you’d rather just have a single image, make sure this box is not checked off.
Finally, save your changes and you should immediately see your groundbreaking new, customized Twitter background.
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