Tech at the speed of Warp

In the spirit of online applications here is one that I find extremely useful when needed and it is nice to know that such service exists.
VectorMagic is a simple service that provides a way of getting your bitmap or raster images to vector file format used in publishing. To say it is simple service is an understatement as after uploading your image you are presented with full blown application, which is also available for desktop, build with Adobe Air/Flex platform.

When needed, there is no substitute for free solution.

Unlike Photosynth, OpenPhotoVR is a open source version of it. But unlike Photosynth that does the processing by computer here only the interface is copied and humans need to create links between pictures.
Making it nothing more than a "pseudo-3D photo browser in Flash, a free analog to Microsoft Photosynth."

A collaboration between Microsoft and University of Washington produced a interesting concept of how a photo collection could be explored in 3D. This is one amazing piece of programing achievement.
Now, lets just hope it will make it to the mainstream sooner rather than latter.

Content aware resize hase been shown on siggraph 2007 and has touched a nerve with design comunity. It offers simles resizing with minimal detail loss, eather when stretching or scaling down a image.
Almost immediately after release of the paper detailing the process and algorithm did the open source versions and even a plugin for GIMP and in the future versions (slated for CS4) of PhotoShop.

The video demonstrates the amazing abilitys of this new approach to resizing and is welll worth the watch.

For more information visit:
Original Document
Attempt at open source version
Another Open Source Version
Untested Photoshop Plugin

There has been a significant pause in my postings which was due to some preoccupations of my that took much of my time.
I will restart my posting and will see where it lead to.