TECH SERVICE: PicMarker watermarks

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9842728-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

Hands-on
PicMarker watermarks, keeps your photos safe from evildoers
By Josh Lowensohn – January 7, 2008, 5:03 AM PST

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The correct attribution for online photos is a touchy subject.

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Maybe one of the simpler ways to keep your photos and videos moderately safe from incorrect attribution is watermarking. I’m sure you’ve all seen it before, but if not, it’s basically layering on a semi-transparent line of text, or image over a spot in a photo. Some folks put it in a corner, and if they’re really worried, will place it all over the photo. A new service called PicMarker has set up shop to help people accomplish such a task, although instead of having to rely on a desktop software application, anyone can watermark up to ten shots at a time right in their browser.

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Interesting?!?

Now what can I use this thing for that it wasn’t intended to accomplish?

Social networking?

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TECHNOLOGY: Cars that drive themselves

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U0M82O0&show_article=1

GM Researching Driverless Cars
Jan 6 06:25 PM US/Eastern
By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer

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DETROIT (AP) – Cars that drive themselves—even parking at their destination—could be ready for sale within a decade, General Motors Corp. executives say.

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Well, I’d welcome that.

Having driven in Florida and had elderly relatives that can’t drive, or shouldn’t be driving, yet still need to get around, a driverless car would be a boon.

How about a driverless taxi?

Imagine the commute to work where you weren’t driving, but reading. Like an exec in limo?

An idea who time has come. Let’s roll it out now!

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RONPAUL: Excluded from FoxNews, he does his own thing~

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Ron Paul Town Hall, pt. 1

FoxNews excludes, bit you decide. Ron Paul had his own event. It’s two half hour YouTubes of a Jeffersonian liberal. Remember that the tradition of a liberal is that the individual is sovereign. Not the King; not the gooferment; not the collective. I haven’t heard anyone express these ideas in a long time. We need to get back to the roots of the republic.

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FUN: whether you are a gazelle or a lion

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

“Every morning in Africa a gazelle awakens knowing it must today run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning a lion awakens knowing it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It matters not whether you are a gazelle or a lion, when the sun rises you had better be running.” – African Proverb

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