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Image Sharing Hosting Services

July 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in General

With more and more users of the internet wanting to share there images and photos there are many sites which charge a small fee in order to make this happen. However there are many website which allow you to utilise without paying a fee. This is done via websites which offer free hosting services allowing people to host signatures and pictures. Uploading images is simple – you need to go to the website offering the service, find the image you want to upload and click the button, as soon as you’ve done this the hosting website will generate a URL where you can view, access or share your images online.

Image Copyright Law

July 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in General

The Copyright Law is set up to protect owners of images and photographs which means to copy the work or use it for individual purposes or for educational material is prohibited. In this case you would need to obtain approval from the the copyright holder unless you yourself are the copyright holder, or you already have permission to use the images or if the data is out of copyright. For website, images including photographs are protected even after the owner or author has ceased – this is currently 70 years. In terms of media, computer generated works the copyright is until 50 years after the end of the year they were first released.

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Google Earth During World War II

July 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in General

Google earth has provided users to remotely view images of different cities from their laptop. Now Google have produced a series of images such as Aerial photographs of the cities in Europe during the World War II which gives people a chance to view exactly how much destruction was caused to the landscape and to the cities during this period. The shots have been taken between 1935 and 1945 and paint a chilling picture. The RAF ad the US Air Force took the photographs to enable people to understand the bomb damage allowing officials to make post world war assessments. Today historians can clearly identify the changes in 39 cities with the current pictures and images provided by Google earth.

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Google Image Search

July 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in General

Google as well as being a Search Engine for text etc it is also doing extremely well as Google Images Search. Although deciphering text content within the actual image is proving a little more difficult to translate directly into the ranking algorithm, the previous major update had been back in 2001 and it has since has a new revamped look. The aim of this is to reduce the number of clicks it takes a user to find the specific image that is being searched for. It also gives the user the chance to get more information about a particular image. The vice president of search products & user experience has talked about how Google now returns up to 1000 images on a single page.

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Carnegie Mellon University Develope AquaLux 3D

July 13th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in General

A new type of technology called AquaLux 3D has been developed at Carnegie Mellon University in there Robotics Institute. This is aimed at targeting light through water droplets which creates a remarkable picture on multiple layers of falling water. This creates a three dimensional image and can be used for 3D effects in theme parks, exhibitions and interactive games. The advantage of this is that it doesn’t require the special 3D glasses which are now becoming familiar when watching films. The actual idea came from a attempt to develop a LED automobile headlight to aid drivers when driving in the night time in wet and rainy conditions.

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