Software

One of the oldest tricks in the photography book revisited

Brian Auer

A double exposure is a relatively simple photography trick that can be used to achieve all sorts of fun effects - ghosts, fake twins, mirror images or something as simple as superimposing a backdrop of trees into a romantic scene.Read More

Powerful new spectral software economically converts your photos to mesmerizing sound [Amazing video after jump]
Software turns images and photos into sound

Photosounder is a new image and sound analysis program that is absolutely amazing in its operation, and might one day change the way we interpret our visual and audio senses. It is unique in that it synthesizes both images and sounds. Sounds, once turned into images, can be powerfully modified to achieve effects and results that couldn't be obtained in any other way.Read More

Insurgents Hack Predator Video Feed With $26 Software

The use of drone aircraft for surveillance and bombing has transformed how the US wages war -- a fact not lost on our cunning adversaries. Rather than just sit around, waiting for the next Predator missile strike, insurgents in Iraq have devised a way to intercept the video feed from drone sensors, giving them the same view as the drone's operator. And they did it with a $26 piece of off-the-shelf software.Read More

New service allows you to upload a photo of your room, then virtually paint it before you pick up a brush.

You want to re-paint a room, but you're not sure if the color will look right — holding up a little color swatch only goes so far. Using the Colorjive website allows you to upload an image of your room and apply desired colors to the walls to see exactly how the room looks with that color.Read More

Watching ice cubes melt is much more fun when you watch it quickly on an iPhone

Time-lapse photos can be a complicated affair, and quite often involve either a lot of special equipment, and/or post-processing skills. For just a buck though, you can use the recently released Timelapser app to turn your iPhone into a tool that can do this time-bending filming technique using nothing more than the onboard camera.Read More

Scanner 911 features an aggregated list of police radio stations, organized by state and city. For when the crime gets really juicy, there’s an option to record the audio, which you can then play back within the app.Read More

Based on Google Maps data, Google Navigation is pretty much exactly the kind of turn-by-turn navigation solution that you’d expect Google to develop. In addition to existing Google Maps features like traffic information and satellite views, Google Navigation also mixes in plain English searching, searching by voice, and Street View integration that actually allows you to see what your turns will look like.Read More

Gizmodo summarizes 27 reviews for the new Windows 7 OS.

Gizmodo

You can’t call most of the new features in Windows 7 revolutionary, but they’re well thought out, they work properly and prove that Microsoft has finally talked to some real users. Call them ‘nifty.’

Digital Journal Review

The man who created the world wide web says the two strokes in front of every website address were a mistake.

Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with creating the World Wide Web, recently said that his only real regret about his development is forcing people to type the (essentially unnecessary) double slash after the 'http:' in URLs.Read More