Google Image Search is used by most of us when we want to find an image for our blogs our websites – or even our desktop wallpapers. I’d like to introduce to you a new type of image search (currently in Google Labs) called Image Swirl. It’s a new way of displaying search results and it make the whole process much easier and more…fun!
When you first search for a term, the results are divided up into categories and are all stacked together as shown below.
When you click on one of these stacks the results are shown in a swirl format like below. At first, only one circle is displayed but then you click on an image that circle is moved further down the swirl and a new circle appears. This process repeats itself until your left with a huge swirl of results and the main circle has only one image left in it. When you click on that you’re brought to that image’s page.
A cool new way of searching for images. Check it out here.
GazoPa is an image search engine that allows you to scour the web for images not by entering a word – but by entering another image.
Its main function is to find similar images around the web to that of the one you entered. It’s like the service currently offered by Google Labs.
You can also draw a quick sketch of what you want your picture to look like and submit it so you get back photographs or artwork. You can then filter your results by colour, shape and size. The search engine will also bring back video content that is related to the images – it. If a picture is used as a thumbnail for a video on YouTube then GazoPa will retrieve the video as well.
This bird’s-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
The 4,300-pound satellite collected the image at noon EDT on Oct. 7 while moving from the north pole to the south pole in a 423-mile-high orbit at 17,000 miles per hour, or 4.5 miles per second. The spacecraft can take photos at a resolution of up to 41 cm – close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond, according to Mark Brender, GeoEye’s vice president of communications and marketing.
Even though the GeoEye-1 satellite sports a colorful Google sticker, its key customer is actually not Google but rather the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a U.S. government agency that analyzes imagery in support of national security. The NGA is paying for half of the development of the $502 million satellite and has committed to purchasing imagery from it. Google is GeoEye’s second major partner.
“This is the opposite of a spy satellite,” Brender said in a phone interview. “Spies don’t put info on the internet and sell imagery. We’re an Earth-imaging satellite, and we can sell our imagery to customers around the world who have a need to map and measure and monitor things on the ground.”
There’s one catch for Google: While the GeoEye-1 will provide imagery to the NGA at the maximum resolution of 43 cm, Google will only receive images at a 50-cm resolution because of a government restriction, Brender explained. However, Google’s partnership with GeoEye is exclusive, meaning the search-engine giant will be the only online mapping site using the satellite’s photos.
A second satellite, GeoEye-2, slated to launch in 2011 or 2012, will have a resolution of 25 cm, company representatives promised. However, Google’s satellite imagery will not likely get more detailed because of the 50-cm regulation.
Im pretty much your typical Australian guy in the fact that I love girls, sports, and everything blokish. I thought I would put together a cool list of some of the best blokish blogs on the net today. So if you are keen to see girls in practically nothing, top gadgets, world sports coverage and more, then check these sites out!
Manofest – Manofest is a top blog that showcases top 10 lists, girls, videos, galleries and more. The site itself has a great design and is very simple to read and use. They tend to post at least a couple of articles per day and include some of the biggest celebrities from all over the world.
Inappropriate Bunny – Inappropriate Bunny is a very new site and they are trying to bring together a great list of girls, gadgets, music, sport and more. The site has a very basic design and they update the site daily. Inappropriate Bunny seems currently very focused on profile some of the best looking girls in the world, so make sure you check them out!
Saltymilk – Saltymilk is all about the girls. Saltymilk has recently been purchased by Break Media and they have continued posting a different girls profile everyday. If you are looking for girls in pretty much nothing and trying to get some exposure, then Saltymilk is the place for you.
Uncoached – Uncoached profiles some of the best looking models around, but also tries to mix it in with as much sport as possible. Uncoached is also part of the growing Break Media group in which keeps finding new and fresh content. Uncoached currently releases over five top quality articles per day and one tends to be about girls.
Holytaco – Holytaco has to be one of the best bloke sites out there at the moment. Holytaco features a lot of girls, links, photos and videos. Out of all the sites Holytaco probably has the most user friendly design and their content is always fresh.
(Disclosure: I am CEO of InsomniaMG who owns Inappropriate Bunny)
Have you been looking for some great design inspiration for your next project? Well look no further than The Design Inspiration. The Design Inspiration has been created by a group of designers who have been looking for quality design ideas from all over the internet. The Design Inspiration features some of the best logo designs, illustration art, website and more. The site is updated every day and only seems to have the premium quality ideas on the site.
Picapp is a new product that allows bloggers and website owners to use some of the worlds best stock images on their sites for free. Simply use their search tool to find the images that you are looking for, then select the image and click embed, then you will be able to embed the images straight into your blog. Very simple yet very effective.
Picapp has only been in the marketplace for the last few months and every month it seems to be really rising in traffic according to compete. Picapp is a free service that is definitely worth a try!
A month or so ago Crenk.com got a complete redesign and branding and since then I have never really thought about adding it to design galleries, mainly because I think our site is quite ugly. That being said we did get inclusion into WeloveWP.com and since then they have been driving some good traffic to Crenk. Therefore, I thought I would, head to whole lead of CSS galleries and submit our new design. I also then thought I might as well make a list of all design CSS galleries so our readers could also submit their designs. Thus, here is the definitive CSS gallery list:
Yesterday I got pulled up for hot-linking to an image that someone else was hosting. I have a vague idea on what hot-linking is, but im still not really understanding why people get upset about it.
As far as I know hot-linking is when you link to am image on someone elses site that they are hosting. There are both pro’s and con’s for doing this. I understand totally that some smaller sites get upset about this style of linking, because they lose some of their bandwidth and also dont get a link at the same time. However, that being said how much bandwidth can be used from an image that is only about 64kb? Additionally, it would only take me about 10 seconds to find the image somewhere else, download it to my computer and then upload it using Wordpress. Thus, I really dont see the fuss.
Finally, at the end of the day the images that everyone is hosting are images owns and copyrighted by other companies, so in reality we probably shouldnt be hosting those images without the direct acceptance from the copyright holder.
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