When hours, minutes and seconds are separated
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-04-15
By Dario Serio 2008, its called three-faces wall clock. The elements of time are now separated into three black disks with numbers to indicate hours, minutes, and seconds and can be positioned on the wall as you like. You might find more difficult to look at the time, however, its more like a cool designer product. Available on momastore.
Pictomio: free and powerful image viewer with cool features
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-04-14
Pictomio is a free and powerful image viewer with modern interface. automatic grouping of images, tagging, image rating, EXIF and metadata editing, as well as image rotation and zooming. Pictomio can also view and manage video and media files and requires a ShaderModel 2.0 graphics card to run. if your machine has the resources you will probably love this program. Here are details of some features:
- User interface: looks very nice. Navigation is intuitive and everything is accessible through a combination of tabs on top or the side of the screen.
- Media Management: if you are looking for a tool that can organize a complicated image library this maybe the best one. Pictomio scans a user selected folder initially and immediately sets to work indexing your library and organizing it across different categories and elements. For example, it allows you to classify images into user-defined categories, flag them as favorites, rate them, tag them using multiple arbitrary tags, browse by medium or "color mark", browse by EXIF data, create albums, It even keeps a history of performed search queries.
- Image browsing: it supports single image browsing, thumbnail browsing, film-strip browsing and iTunes-style browsing.
- Slideshows: you can grab a bunch of images and run the slideshow, or you can choose to specify exactly the display duration for each image, the type of transition, and the duration of each transition. If you create the perfect slideshow you can save and re-use or re-view it later on.
- Keyboard shortcuts: Pictomio supports a keyboard shortcut for most everything you can do with it.
- Metadata: it offers a comprehensive metadata editor. it also allows you to enter annotations and to view/edit EXIF data.
- Other functions: a color dropper and a ruler to measure image elements.
Tags: image viewer interface slideshow
Musical teacup concept - teacup plays music
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-04-12
By designer Jongmin Kim. We have already got used to digital downloads music instead of buying CD. But this Drip with Song concept is probably the only concept that actually buy that uses CDs just because it looks too precious. The saucer is actually a CD player with built-in speakers. The cup, when docked controls volume by turning it on the saucer. And just for kicks, it’s white with touch controls.
XnView Shell Extension: edits and views images from the context menu of explorer
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-04-09
XnView Shell Extension is a free shell extension that adds several image-related tools to Windows explorer's right-click context menu, with these tools you can preview, resize, edit, convert and upload images in just a couple of clicks. this program comes to you form the same people who brought you the XnView image viewer, but you do not need to have XnView installed to run it.
Here are some key features of this program:
- Thumbnail preview: a thumbnail preview displayed in the main context menu shows image.
- Customizability: if you do not want any of the functions in the custom menu, you can pick and choose and simply switch it off. You can make the image preview thumbnail bigger or smaller.
- Image conversion/resizing: you can either convert to another image type or convert and resize. The supported image formats to convert to includes JPG, PNG, PSD, TIFF and more that you may have never heard of.
- Editing IPTC metadata: International Press Telecommunications Council. The range of IPTC metadata information is exceptionally broad.
- Uploading to ImageShack: ImageShack, one of the biggest image hosting services on the net, allows you to upload images without registering and provides you with a URL for use from any site or project. XnView Shell Extension makes uploading to this service just a single right-click.
