Download Squad http://www.downloadsquad.com Download Squad http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/%SiteURL%/media/feedlogo.gif Download Squad http://www.downloadsquad.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[3 photo sharing sites for your new shutterbug - Holiday Gift Guide]]>http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/29/3-photo-sharing-sites-for-your-new-shutterbug-holiday-gift-gui/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/29/3-photo-sharing-sites-for-your-new-shutterbug-holiday-gift-gui/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/29/3-photo-sharing-sites-for-your-new-shutterbug-holiday-gift-gui/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,



If you know someone on your gift list is getting a camera or is a new shutterbug, you might want to consider getting them a "pro" photo sharing account where they can upload all their new photos. This is a nice gift for several reasons: 1. A pro account is a must have since most free accounts have a storage limit that the average photographer will easily exceed. 2. Pro accounts are ad free. 3. Pro accounts have more features and allow the upload of larger file sizes. 4. As the giver of the account, it stands to reason you might be given access to your shutterbug's photostream, although, it's equally possible you might not.

Here are my top picks for investing in a pro account. (Many thanks to our readers for enthusiastically recommending Smugmug).

Continue reading 3 photo sharing sites for your new shutterbug - Holiday Gift Guide

3 photo sharing sites for your new shutterbug - Holiday Gift Guide originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>flickrhggphoto sharingphotobucketPhotoSharingpro account features flickrpro account features photobucketpro account features smugbugProAccountFeaturesFlickrProAccountFeaturesPhotobucketProAccountFeaturesSmugbugsmugbugsmugmugSat, 29 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST<![CDATA[ZunaVision lets you place images and videos inside your videos]]>http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/29/zunavision-lets-you-place-images-and-videos-inside-your-videos/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/29/zunavision-lets-you-place-images-and-videos-inside-your-videos/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/29/zunavision-lets-you-place-images-and-videos-inside-your-videos/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

ZunaVision is a video technology that movie studios have had for years, brought to the average user by the computer science department at Stanford University. It lets you place images and videos within existing videos. Want to put a poster or an advertisement on a building in the background of your footage? ZunaVision's got you covered. How about changing the painting in a picture frame? It can do that, too.

ZunaVision isn't very hard to use. You can just select a surface, and it does a capable job of making your image look like it could plausibly be hanging there. It's not just pasted haphazardly on top of your video. It's cool enough that I'm already worried it won't stay free for long. The last Stanford web toy I fell in love with, Vector Magic, turned into a pay service after a while. Zunavision looks like it could be worth selling, too, but maybe the creators can just turn a profit by sneaking ads into other videos.

UPDATED: The URL for Zunavision changed, so the links in this post were broken. They should be working now. Thanks to all the readers who pointed that out!

ZunaVision lets you place images and videos inside your videos originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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On my list of 14 extremely useful Firefox addons I included ScreenGrab for capturing web pages to PNG or JPG images.

Today, I replaced it with Screen Grab to Wordpress. As you probably guessed, it's got the same core functionality with one major addition: the ability to send images directly to your Wordpress-powered blog.

Configure the URL, username, and password to all your Wordpress blogs an you're ready to go (just make sure you have XML-RPC remote publishing enabled).

Click the icon in your Firefox status bar to display SGW's menu and choose what to capture and where to send it. You can save locally, copy to the clipboard, or post directly to Wordpress.

If you're blogging a capture, you can enter a title, tags, body text, and even set your new post to publish - if you don't check the box, the post defaults to draft status. After successfully uploading, you're taken directly to the Wordpress edit page to put the finishing touches on your new post.

With less than 600 downloads to date, this one is a bit of a diamond in the rough. It's a tremendous timesaver for anyone blogging about items discovered while browsing with Firefox.

Post screenshots to Wordpress blogs with a Firefox add-on originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Although the presidential election is over, Obama-inspired design seems to have made a lasting imprint on American culture. If you loved those Shepard-Fairey-designed HOPE posters that the whole Internet seemed to be making parodies of, you can have the effect for yourself in Apple's Photo Booth. Here's how to do it, using the Obamafy plugin.

Once you've downloaded the .qtz file, move it to Compositions in your Library folder. Once you've done that, open up Photo Booth and click effects. You might have to cycle through to the last page of your effects to find Obamafy, but it should be there. It took a little bit of experimenting for me to find the right lighting to get a result that looks like the posters, so don't give up without playing around a little bit.

Get the "Obama effect" in Photo Booth with the Obamafy plugin originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Photosynth, the much-anticipated three-dimensional photo experience from Microsoft Live Labs, has finally launched. "Synths," as they're called, are series of photos stitched together by a fancy algorithm that compares them to one another to create an immersive 360-degree viewing experience. You can start exploring Photosynth on most Windows PCs (and some Macs running virtual machines) now.

Photosynth is integrated with Live Maps, as well, so you can view other people's synths of various locations, right from the map. That's what's causing people to compare Photosynth to Google Street View, which is the closest product out there right now. But Google Street View doesn't let you create anything on your own, with a regular digital camera. Keep an eye on Photosynth as -- I know this is clichéd, but it may be true -- a game-changing technology.

Photosynth: Microsoft's answer to Google Street View, with a twist originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Obama family on election night
First the Obama campaign was sending out text messages to the masses and that whole thing came up about John McCain not using email. Obama was campaigning for those of us who are into the web. He appealed to our technology.

It appears he is going to keep it up. There are Presidential baby photos on the web. And, the President-elect is on flickr. He has released an entire set of election night photos of his family awaiting results in their hotel room. I wonder what will be next.

The Obamas certainly seem willing to let us have glimpses of their world. And they understand how to reach out on the web. No wonder someone took the time to make a flash game for Obama. Let's hope it continues. Maybe there will be a presidential blog.

[Via Lifehacker]

Barack Obama - President 2.0? originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There are plenty of online image editors out there, but it can be tough to find the right one. If you're looking for a few filters, a bit of layer support, and a decent range of tools, Pixlr might be the one you want. You'll be familiar with its tools from using desktop apps like Photoshop and The Gimp, but it's rare to see so many advances options in a web app.

Some of the Pixlr perks that surprised me: opacity sliders! Layers and transparency! The collection of filters includes halftones, scanlines and pixelation. Common (but useful) features like hue/saturation, resizing, and brightness/contrast are also intact. Next time you find yourself on a computer without Photoshop, you might also find you don't need it.

Pixlr: slick new online image editor originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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someone is sad Bush is leaving?
Looking for some good photos of McCain, Palin, Obama and Biden on this Election Day 2008? Thanks to PhotoFunia I was able to create something a little more interesting than what you will be seeing on CNN.

I have yet to master the skills in Photoshop to be able to make convincing fake photos. I usually fix colors, crop and reduce red eye but I rarely change any photos. PhotoFunia gave me the opportunity to make some pretty cool stuff today in just a few simple clicks. If you have a good head shot of anyone, you can make convincing photos.

Check out the gallery to see the variety of candidate photos I have assembled.

Gallery: PhotoFunia



[Via Lifehacker]

PhotoFunia makes it easy to create funny photos originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Polaroid photos are a lot of fun, and they're a big part of the history of photography. When Polaroid film was discontinued, I thought I would never have as much making photos again. Maybe I won't, but Poladroid lets me get close. Drag and drop a photo, and Poladroid will spit out a Polaroid, complete with sound-effects and the experience of watching the image slowly develop.

Poladroid preferences include adding stripes to the image or the frame and changing the amount of rotation on the pics Poladroid creates. You can save Poladroid images either right-side-up or rotated. The only request I have to make Poladroid better is a plugin for Photo Booth, to let you shoot Polaroids with a webcam. Although this app is only available for Mac right now, a PC version is supposed to be coming in November.

Missing Polaroid pictures? Poladroid is the next-best thing. originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Multicolr
Back in July, Jay linked to the rather awesome Multicolr service that lets you select up to 10 colours using the colour-picker on the page [selecting a colour more than once to add some bias should you wish] and the Multicolr app goes away and does its thing. 'Its thing' was, back in July, a search of the Interesting photos that make it into Flickr's Explore pages.

How times have changed. Just three months later, the colour search has a 10 million strong database of Creative-Commons photos the Idée Inc. folks have indexed from Flickr using their own 'visual similarity technology' and Multicolr now presents you with a grid of 50 matching CC-licenced photos. And yes, you read it right: that's 10 million Creative Commons-licenced photos indexed.

After playing with this new version of the mashup I'm still astounded - both by how the mashup works now [with a far larger image pool that previously], and by potential further uses. Multicolr, with perhaps tag-refinement for helping you find just the right photo subject, would be image-search nirvana - no doubt Idée [and I daresay Flickr] must be aware of this.

Idée's super Multicolr gets Creative Commons awesomeness originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Facebook Exporter for iPhotoIf you've ever wondered what the easiest way is to send photos from iPhoto to Facebook, the answer is Facebook Exporter for iPhoto.

Since Facebook is the largest photo website on the web in terms of images served, it makes sense that people would want to streamline the process of uploading photos to it as much as possible. Using Facebook Exporter for iPhoto, the process couldn't be more simple. just choose the pictures that you want to upload, optionally add an album and picture descriptions (and you can even tag people!), then press Export. You'll have to approve the photos on Facebook, but the plugin pops up a dialog with the option to go straight to your new album and do so.

You need to log the Facebook Exporter plugin in to your Facebook account before using it, and I had a little trouble logging in the first time, but once I was logged in everything was smooth sailing. I suspect I was experiencing a PEBCAK error.

Facebook Exporter for iPhoto originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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My wife takes a lot of photos of the jewelry she creates, and she uses Flickr to store and share them. Recently, however, she was shooting out of town and ran out of room on her SD card. Her solution: plug in to a friend's PC and upload them to her photostream.

When she got home, she wanted a quick way to download all 300+ images for editing. That would have been a pretty tedious chore, were it not for FlickrDown.

You can search by username, e-mail address, tags, or groups. Results display quickly, and downloading is as simple as checking a few boxes, browsing for your destination folder, and clicking download. Authorization is supported - and necessary if you're going to download private photos.

FlickrDown will automatically create a new folder inside your destination to make sure your selected photos are stored neatly. Folders are named based on your search text or the group name. You also don't have to worry about it overwriting existing files - it will automatically append -fd to the new ones.

My only minor gripe is that the download progress shows in a separate window (and adds another button to the taskbar). It's easy to overlook since FlickrDown so good at what it does.

FlickrDown is freeware for Windows only, and the .Net 2.0 runtimes are required.

FlickrDown: bulk photostream downloader originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Looking for an easy way to share photos with your GMail contacts? Adding the GPhotoSpace extension to your Firefox install provides you with a solution that's just as easy as using "send to: email recipient" in Windows.

Once you've installed the addon, you can open it by clicking the status bar icon. If you're like me and your status bar is hidden, you can also customize your main toolbar and dropping the included button (which is a little lo-fi) or bookmark chrome://gps/content/gpsMain.xul to access it.

The interface is extremely simple. Create a new album, describe it, add photos, and save it. The only adjustment you can make is the size of photos to share: 320/640/1024/1536 pixels. Make sure you change this setting if you want to upload full-size digital images, as it defaults to 640 pixels.

Remember that this is a GMail hack, so "sharing" an album actually just fires off an email to your recipient that contains your photos. Still, it's a much simpler way to send multiple images than using GMail's attachment button.

If you're simply in need of a good, free way to back up your photos, sign up for a new GMail account - the 7 gigs they provide will give you room for several thousand images.

Be aware that GPS currently only supports jpeg images. That shouldn't pose a problem for most users, but I'd like to see it at least support a couple other formats like png and psd.

GPhotoSpace is free, and currently only available for Windows - a Mac version is in the works.

[ via Life Rocks 2.0 ]

GPhotoSpace for Firefox: use GMail to store, send your pics originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cooliris is a fantastic browser plugin that displays image galleries on sites like Facebook and Flickr as a wall of photos that you can manipulate by dragging. It's an attractive visual effect, and it's actually a fast and efficient way to get an overview of a gallery and find a specific image. Unfortunately, the Cooliris iPhone app isn't as useful as its browser-based counterpart.

The upside is that Cooliris for iPhone looks just as cool as the web version, and it's more fun to play with. The drag and pinch interface of the iPhone is designed for something like this. Unfortunately, the mobile version of Safari isn't. Because a browser plugin would present some seriously problems for an iPhone developer, Cooliris is a standalone app. Instead of activating it within Facebook or Flickr -- photos you might really care about -- you're limited to its search function. It's a cool toy, but it doesn't feel nearly as essential as the desktop version.

Cooliris still cool on the iPhone, not quite as useful originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bookmash
Bookmash is an online media browser and viewer based on Adobe AIR. It lets you browse or search to find for photos, music, and videos from sites including Flickr, SeeqPod, YouTube, and DailyMotion. When you find what you're looking for, you can play your media using the built in BookMash media playing feature, or you can click the icons below the media to download, share, or bookmark the file.

The media browser looks a lot like the interface for browser plugin Cooliris. But Bookmash is a standalone program that can be run without launching a web browser first. And Cooliris lacks the media download button.

Bookmash also shows top news stories from Digg and has social networking tools that let you do things like enter a person's name to find their profiles on social networking pages. The results are opened in a web browser, not in Bookmash.

[via Go2Web20]

Watch videos, find music, find photos, and download them with Bookmash originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When the iPhone launched almost all possible web services, whether officially or via a third-party, gained an iPhone-specific portal. However Yahoo!-owned Flickr only recently (October 1st) gained a well-designed web version. With the iPhone SDK on the block however, a number of iPhone-native Flickr clients are available for both Flickr browsing and uploading.

AirMe does a plethora of tricks when uploading to Flickr (as well as other services including Facebook) by using the iPhone's location-awareness to name, tag and geo-tag the image with your location. For browsing Flickr, however, Exposure from Connected Flow is perhaps the best. Available in both free (ad-supported) and paid-for ($9.99) versions, Exposure allows you to view photos from your own photostream, your contacts, today's Flickr 'Explore' pages, and the handy 'Near Me' feature which will find photos taken near your current location.

At least for now there's no Flickr uploading - but if, like me, you want to be able to show off Flickr photos using your iPhone, enjoy a slick way to view your contacts' photos on the go, or simply see what others are taking near you, Exposure is just the ticket.

Nik's Favourite iPhone Apps: Exposure originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SkitchAs a blogger and IT professional I often need to make screenshots for things like showing a program window, instructing where to find an obscure setting, or making a witty LOLcat. Thankfully, Skitch is available to fill this need and make my screenshot tasks quick and painless.

I didn't know about Skitch until it was released in public beta early this year. I downloaded the Mac-only client, installed it, and got myself a skitch.com account for easy uploading of my screenshots. Within seconds I was able to capture the entire screen (or a selection) and mark it up with arrows, text, boxes, and circles.

The key feature for me though is the ease with which I'm able to upload the screenshots and share them with others. Using the Skitch web account, I'm able to store my screenshots (for free) and get links to the direct picture file, forum/embed HTML, and a dedicated page that allows commenting on the screenshot. The screenshots can also be uploaded to a WebDAV server, Flickr, or FTP.

Continue reading Todd's Favorite Mac Apps: Skitch

Todd's Favorite Mac Apps: Skitch originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Development toward the 2.6 release of GIMP continues, and devoted users can now head over to the FTP server and grab a copy of the new (and unstable) 2.5.4 release.

Several UI annoyances have been fixed. Docks and toolboxes can now be easily recovered from an accidental close via the window menu. You can also lock your tabs to a dock to keep yourself from dragging them out by mistake, and presets can be saved in all GIMP's color tools.

A blank, placeholder window has been added (pictured), which allows files to be dragged-and-dropped for editing.

The help system has been improved, and now supports online browsing. If you don't have the entire set of docs installed, GIMP will simply open the requested page in your web browser.

Full release notes are available here.

GIMP 2.5.4 Ready for Download originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Alana Taylor is probably best known for writing a song about Twitter, but maybe not for long. She's also just released a Facebook app that you might find handy. If you go to a lot of tech-savvy social events, like Alana, or if you just have friends who like to play Facebook paparazzi, you've probably wished you could grab all the tagged pictures of you in one fell swoop.

That's what this new app, the accurately-named Get My Tagged Pics, can do for you. It displays all your tagged pics in rows of 10, and lets you download each row as a zip. This is good, because it's halfway between the one-at-a-time method and the other extreme of grabbing hundreds (or maybe thousands!) of pics in one huge file. Sure, it could let you select 10 at a time, but clicking to select wouldn't be any faster than clicking to download. One click is all you need, here.

Download all your tagged Facebook pics with a new app originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Postcard.fm is a brilliantly simple idea: choose a photo, choose a song, and send them to a friend as a "postcard." The interface is totally free of frills and junk, making it incredibly easy to use. There's no way anybody could confuse this with the totally obnoxious animated postcards your mom or grandma email you. Plus, it's all hosted at Postcard.fm, so you won't be filling up your friend's inbox with files.

A few obvious uses for postcard.fm spring to mind: it's more thoughtful than a Facebook wall message for a friend's birthday, and it might even go over well as a surprise for a significant other. In a pinch, you can use it to share a song with a friend, if you don't have somewhere else to upload. There are some limitations, but they're not a big deal: it's mp3-only and just streaming, no downloads. The best part is that postcard.fm isn't at all ugly or tacky, so it's as considerate a way as we've seen to quickly show someone you're thinking of them via the Internet.

Postcard.fm: photo + song + friend = postcard! originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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