If you care about and enjoy the wallpaper images that you use on your computer, you might find this program quite useful. Wallmagician is a simple program that keeps track of all of your favorite wallpaper images in a single place, irrespective of where they may actually be found on your hard drive. It can →
Paint like a professional with Psykopaint
Psykopaint is a web service that lets you paint like a pro without all the training, is loaded with tons of options, and lets you send your finished work as a photo-ecard to any email address for free. Alternatively, you can use your favorite screenshot method to save your masterpiece to your computer for later →
Add TinEye reverse image search to Windows’ right click context menu with TinEye client
If you frequently work with images and use the TinEye reverse image search engine, TinEye client is for you. This tiny free Windows extension can integrate TinEye with Windows, enabling users to upload images to TinEye right from their desktops by the use of a TinEye context menu entry. For those who are unfamiliar with →
Rhine II, record setting image sold at $4.3 Mil, makes an OK desktop wallpaper
You may have heard of this photograph taken in 1999 by Andreas Gursky, which sold at Christie’s in New York at auction for a record setting $4.3 Million on Nov 8 2011. The buyer was not disclosed, and there is lots of speculation in the media as to why the three meter chromogenic color print →
Annotate your images and screenshots and add visual elements with iPhotoDraw
Do you ever need to annotate images or screenshots (i.e. add text, text callouts, arrows, circles, or other illustrative visual elements?). Whether your screenshot taking program offers basic annotation or image editing functionality or none at all, you might find this tool quite useful. iPhotoDraw is a free, simple, and easy to use image editor →
Simply Slideshow: view images in style, with nice animated transitions
Viewing pictures on you PC? Then check out Simply Slideshow, a small free program which displays folders of images back-to-back with beautiful animated transitions. It’s easy, simple, no frills, but offers a great viewing experience. This program is especially well suited for, say, creating image slideshows in conference booths, parties, restaurants, and the like (or, →
GearMage helps organize your mail and photos
GearMage offers two separate programs to make your e-life a bit easier and more organized; Mail Attachment Downloader and Photo Event Organizer. Mail Attachment Downloader downloads attachments from your mailbox according to your defined criteria. Photo Event Organizer categorizes photos based on their date and offers user the option to label events by name. First →
View 360° photographs from across the world in your browser or iPhone/iPad with TourWrist
Do you enjoy looking at 360° panoramic photography? If so, then check out TourWrist, a web site that offers geo-tagged panoramic images for your perusal, similar to previously mentioned Panoye. Unlike Panoye, however, TourWrist also offers a free iPhone app that makes consuming/viewing panoramas easy and spontaneous, by putting in the palm of your hand (and your →
Auto-combine images into panoramas with Panorama Plus Starter Edition
There is something strangely satisfying about stitching pictures together to create a panoramic image. If you’ve been out snapping consecutive images and looking for a program that would merge them for you, take a look at the free Panorama Plus Starter Edition. There are two kinds of panorama-stitching programs; ones that are user assisted, where →
Two art games by Jason Nelson: Scrape Scraperteeth and Six Sided Strange
Some think computer games are an art form; while others use them as a medium; that, at least, is what Jason Nelson does with his “net-artworks/art-games” such as Six Sided Strange (a hyper-interactive twist on the well known Rubkick’s cube) and Scrape Scraperteeth (an art/poetry-game commissioned by the San Francisco Gallery of Modern Art). As with his other creations →
OdoPlus and IOGraph – Create Art By Tracking Your Mouse and Clicks
OdoPlus and MousePath are two free applications that run in the background and can tell you a bit more about your mousing activity during your session. What good does that information do for you exactly? Not a whole lot. However, it can be informative if you’re testing out an interface or create some pretty art →
Automatically download and shuffle Flickr wallpaper images with Flickr Wallpaper Rotator
What if I told you that you could install an app that gave you unlimited, beautiful, images downloaded and shuffled on your desktop automatically, and that all you had to do was enjoy and, on occasion, skip an image that perhaps didn’t quite strike your fancy? That program in question is free and it is →
