Imagine being able to turn any real world product, advert, logo or physical landmark into an interactive experience simply by pointing a phone at it. Blippar touts itself as “the first universal augmented reality platform aimed at advertisers.” To make it work you wave your smartphone’s or tablet’s camera over a branded image, and it magically comes to life on the screen in front of you. It’s like a 3D website that jumps out at your from a static label or poster. Both Android and iOS apps will be available to download for free very soon.
Blippar™ is the
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There can be a need where you want to display images dynamically like display images in post title, display image in background, etc. Of course we can do it with PHP GD functions but what if you don’t have to write all that function and you get ready images.
#1 Dummy Image has many predefined sizes for popular uses (like banner) and works by sending the parameters in the URL Like: http://dummyimage.com/500×200/333333/fff&text=wiredCPU. It let’s you spit out a filler image at any size you want. All you have to do is construct a URL like the one above.
With
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Before we go ahead lets try to understand what bitmap images and vector images are.
What Are Bitmap Images?
Bitmap images are images that are described by pixels - squares of color arranged in a grid. Bitmap images are also known as raster images.
What Are Vector Images?
Vector images are images described by shapes such as circles and squares, as opposed to bitmap images which are described by pixels - squares of color arranged in a grid. The shapes are precise mathematical descriptions of the image and can be scaled without becoming blurry or "pixelated" (that blocky look that bitmap/raster images so often
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Google envisaging our computing future through a browser on its Chromebook machines, San Diego-based startup SweetLabs (OpenCandy earlier) looks to bring rich mobile app experiences to the desktop with the release of Pokki. Pokki is an application store and platform for the desktop, inspired by mobile with Apple-esque design appeal. Pokki is PC-only at launch, but a Mac and Linux release is slated for later this year.
Pokki is a small piece of desktop client itself, which installs itself into the Windows taskbar as a small acorn icon. Clicking on it opens up a windowed web app store of pokkies, a
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Lets confess it video is a great medium to learn anything, and if its cooking, cooking technique or specific dish it can be grasped without much hassles. Cookblast a search engine for recipe videos and cooking how to guides, currently with over 80,000 videos "the web's biggest aggregator of recipe videos," conveniently gathers cooking videos from around the web and organizes them by ingredients, dishes, and cuisine. Cookblast features recipes, techniques, tips and tricks from around the web. Videos are organized by ingredients, techniques, dishes and cuisines, enabling you to browse, filter and explore using our powerful navigation. These
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How much do you take care of the phone which carry everyday as much as you protect your laptop or desktop. As mobile gaming, mobile commerce and mobile computing in general explode, so do the opportunities for mobile exploits. Mobile security firm Lookout has done some research on mobile phishing attacks and compiled the data into this infographic.
Swidget is a free browser plugin that (Firefox, Chrome, IE ) replaces banner and box ads for useful widgets, like the weather, news headlines, Facebook feed. Swidget works on Windows or Mac OS, but only supports Firefox on the Mac. On Windows, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox are all supported. Once installed, the add-on places a button at the top of banner and block ads to click that replaces them with a widget that you choose.
The gallery of widgets is broad: you can choose weather, stocks, clocks, headlines, and more. The only downside is that Swidget doesn't work automatically: you
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At 3D and Virtual Reality Expo in Tokyo, Japanese company Global Wave demoed its Pic3D sheet, which converts your Windows-based desktop laptop, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch into a 3D display. The sheet uses a lenticular lens system instead of a parallax barrier for a smoother, more consistent image, yielding a reported 90-percent transmission level and 120-degree field of view. The company's Windows and iOS apps output video in a side-by-side format, simulating a 3D image. The software also allows you to view side-by-side content from the web, submitting the YouTube URL of a compatible video. Prices range from ¥2,000 (about
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