Users of WordPress.com can rejoice especially for those who have the new retina screens. WordPress.com has seen a dashboard upgrade to support the new retina screens. Users will also be able to take advantage of this feature when they upload high-resolution images. WordPress.com will automatically serve all users with the HiDPI (retina) screens with the higher-resolution image. No more blurry pictures! If you’re using the self-hosted version of WordPress, you can also make your blog retina ready. And, v3.5 is likely to have good support for retina / HiDPI screens.

Apple’s new Macbook Pro with Retina display has started to catch on. And many people (like me) are using the new iPad with the retina screens. These retina screens have four times as many pixels as normal screens. Which means that your visitors may end up seeing slightly blurry images on these displays. Why not enhance your visitor’s experience by serving retina screen visitors images which are of a higher resolution. At the same time you wouldn’t want to penalise regular visitors with higher file size images. It is a pain to create double size (both width and height) images…

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I have been writing about many useful Image editors and other excellent services that may come in handy for everyday life routine. Recently I have stumbled upon Change Images, a free web service that does almost everything you need to do. When I say “almost everything” I mean you can easily resize, crop, convert, add effects and photoframes and all that on one simple easy to use platform. Now I think resizing can’t be done this easily anywhere else. Say you have a picture and you want to resize it. All you will need to do is visit Change Images…

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First, a short disclaimer: This post merely shows you a method. You alone are entirely responsible for what you use it for. There are times when we need to grab media like images, audio and sometimes even embedded video files from various sites. Rather than right-clicking on each element, here’s a quick an easy way to grab all the media you want using Firefox’s native functionality – no additional plugins like DownThemAll needed. We’re gonna use the Page Info feature of Firefox to help us in our efforts. On the page that you wish to grab the images from, click…

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The web is definitely evolving and at the core of it all is social networking. It never fails to surprise how many different ideas people can come up with. Watchitoo.com is one of them. The website looks like a combination of Flickr and Youtube when you first look at it but you might be fooled into thinking that its nothing more than that until you notice the service’s motto! Watchitoo main focus is not that you just upload your photos and videos and leave it for others to find, far from it! Watchitoo’s point is that as soon as you…

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Flickorama provides a cool Flickr 3D viewer that allows you to search and view pictures from Flickr as a 3D photostream. You can view these images in horizontal and vertical angles. You can even manipulate the photostream back and forth, left or right with your mouse, hence creating the 3D effect. To get started log on to Flickorama and as soon as you do that a “Flickr Search” box will appear at the center of the page. Enter your “Keyword” and click search After processing your query it will come up with the search result page and from there you…

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The best way to protect your images on the internet is by adding watermarks to them. I personally feel  that it is almost impossible to visit every webmaster and ask them to remove copyright images that  originally belongs to you. Recently, I have discovered a new website that plays an important role by adding watermarks to your  images and protect it from others. WaterMark.ws is an easy to use web application that allows anyone to  add watermarks to photos online in a few simple steps. To protect your images you can either use text or image watermarks. What makes it…

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I earlier reviewed a few web services that allows you to add funny effects to your pictures online within a matter of seconds. The process on each website is almost the same. You simply have to upload your picture and choose an effect. That’s it, once you’re done with that you can easily download or embed your image on blogs or forums. Recently I’ve confronted another helpful yet different tool that allows you to split your large images into smaller segments. While doing that it makes sure that the image doesn’t lose its quality. It can come in handy by…

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Just confronted a very cool web service that allows you to convert scanned documents to text. OCRTerminal is an online Optical Character Recognition scan to text converter which basically tried to preserve the original formatting of the documents. Currently this service allows you to scan up to 30 scanned images per day and allows you to convert from JPG, GIF, BMP, TIF image formats into TXT, DOC, RTF text documents. The service is free and you can sign up for a free account here. Once you’re registered with the website do the following Upload an image file and click Yes…

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So, you have a huge collection of photos and other images. You can either view them in Microsoft Picture Viewer or you get better full fledged image viewers. Or you can get hold of IrfanView. I have no qualms in admitting that IrfanView is my favorite image viewer. In fact, this is among the first software I install on any system that I work on.   IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. The power of IrfanView is simply because of its support for several different file formats, both…

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