September 26, 2011
When it comes to using the mouse, the right-click context menu is a powerhouse of productivity. If tweaked right, it is definitely a shortcut to saving time. Quickly previewing your images with a right click is a good move if want to save a click or two. Previewing images is a time-saver from within dialog boxes too like the File Open box. Here are three image tools for your right-click context menu.
July 19, 2011
Have you ever attempted to take a screenshot of a video? If you’ve ever wanted to show someone the quality of a video (without actually sending them the entire video) or create an Internet meme from a still image in a movie, screenshots can be useful. However, they can be quite difficult to take at times, as traditional methods tend to not always work.
May 13, 2011
Featured Images were introduced into Wordpress in version 2.9, and it enables you to easily display an image that’s associated with your blog post in various parts of your theme. Today I’d like to show you how to make use of featured images in your blog. I’ll show you how to add and assign the image to your post as well as the code you’ll need.
April 25, 2011
Browsing image search engines has been the major source of inspiration to me. It is amazing how much creative work is stored and searched online.This post will hopefully make your web image searching and browsing even more fun: the three addons listed will let you easily zoom the image thumbnails in to quicker choose one from search results.
May 27, 2010
When you work on or with the web, you often have to take screenshots or videos of what you’re doing. You may need to make a copy of a website for your documents, capture a process for a presentation, or simply prepare images for an article you’re writing. Rather than installing yet another nifty tool, [...]
April 6, 2010
Human beings are very visual creatures by nature. If you had to choose between a pile of plain text or some text and images, it goes without saying that you would choose the latter option anytime. The same applies to the links on your website. Here at MakeUseOf, we use an online service called ShrinkTheWeb. [...]
July 10, 2009
Text is boring. A thumbnail standing in for a line of text helps to visualize what the information is all about. In the age of visual search engines and visual computing, thumbnails (or thumbshots) are all over the place. Thumbnails as “˜Tom Thumbs’ of the real thing allow us to pack in more within the [...]
February 19, 2009
Have you ever opened one too many tabs in your Firefox browser before? I’ll be the first to say that I do this all the time. So if you’re anything like me you’re probably tired of having to shuffle through your tabs like a deck of cards trying to find the right one you’re searching [...]
December 10, 2008
Image hosting sites such as Flickr or Photobucket are still far and away a couple of the most popular of their kind on the web. However, as much traffic as they receive, the most popular way of searching the web quickly for a particular photo or graphic, is Google Image Search. However, Google’s implementation of [...]
November 26, 2008
I was helping a buddy of mine create his artist portfolio on the inter-webs. His digital pictures of his work were very large and would all need to be resized to thumbnails and medium sized images. So today’s article is going to be a two for one. For this article we are working with Windows [...]
