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Tineye, you’ve probably never heard of it. And, technically, the public in general won’t hear of it for a little while longer. Tineye is a search engine that is currently in beta testing with over 500 users who are hacking away at it to see how this fascinating little search engine will hold up to real-world tests.

What is Tineye? Well let me put it this way. Instead of searching for an image using the already well-known google method of typing in words and finding photos that have those same words in their file name or comments section, Tineye will actually compare the an image you furnish it with other actual images based on pixels similarity and configuration. Read the rest of this entry »

These days there are more and more options for displaying your digital photographic work. There will always be the die-hard film enthusiasts who want to make their own prints. And you know, they do amazing work. But for those of us who have left the world of film for the ease and beauty of digital, we are faced with a few more options than dropping off our film at the developer, or doing it ourselves.

For digital photographers there are basically two options for displaying our work; print mediums, or screens. More and more people have been turning to a variety of LCD displays, all the way from high-definition big-screen displays, down to the $100 8-inch displays that fit in a nice little frame on our desks. These LCD’s are getting sharper and sharper, and their biggest advantage is in their versatility; they can display hundreds of images in one thing. No purchasing of mattes, frames, or printing costs. Just great colors, and a slide-show capability. They even have a much higher resolution capability than other print mediums.

So what’s the down-side to LCD displays? Well, the biggest one is that you’re probably only going to buy one, maybe two. That really cuts down the number of photos you can put around your house at any given Read the rest of this entry »