Google Maps Street View is a famous service which provides high-resolution photos straight from the street, allowing users to enjoy amazing panoramas from several locations in the world. Although there are only a few similar services on the market, there’s one which may represent a real alternative for Google’s service. Codenamed MapJack, the street imagery service only provides photos of San Francisco, Sausalito (United States) and Chiang Mai (Thailand), but the quality of the pictures is quite outstanding. And just like Ionut Alex Chitu, the one who blogged about the service, noted, “they look so good that you almost think you’re there.”
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With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.
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Google Street View added imagery for 13 more US cities and for the Yosemite National Park. The new cities are: Albuquerque, Anchorage, Austin, Cleveland, Fairbanks, Little Rock, Madison, Nashville, Rockford, Richmond, Spokane, St. Petersburg, Tampa. The total number of places where Street View is available has increased to 48 and it’s likely that Google will add imagery from outside of the US in the near future.
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Here goes a list of mobile phone handsets which everybody is eagerly waiting to get their hands on…
Nokia 888 Communicator
Nokia definitely has the most interesting concept phones. Nokia 888 Communicator is a striking futuristic concept phone. The phone, which uses liquid batteries, speech recognition, flexible touchscreen and touch-sensitive body cover,is designed by Tamer Nakisci and won the Nokia Design Award.
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The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop on Thursday launched a basic version available for free online.
San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe Systems Inc. says it hopes to boost its name recognition among a new generation of consumers who edit, store and share photos online.While Photoshop is designed for trained professionals, Adobe says Photoshop Express, which it launched in a “beta” test version, is easier to learn. User comments will be taken into account for future upgrades.
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