7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life Although Google has been playing with some fun image search toys in its lab and the official Google Image Search has recently significantly upped its game, some of its most hyped features — color search, instant scrolling, hover preview — are but mere shadows of sleeker, better versions that geekier, more sophisticated image search tools offer. Here are seven of our favorites. oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse images and products from popular sites like Amazon, eBay, YouTube and Flickr in a highly intuitive way. You can skim thumbnails related to your search keywords and save search results from different services to a visual bookmark bar at the bottom of your browser screen. Thanks, Amrit!
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Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Week 9 is a conference week, focusing on Net Pedagogy. This will be a great opportunity to reflect on how social networks and networked technology impact how we teach and learn. We’ve lined up five excellent speakers for the week: Image retrieval The first microcomputer-based image database retrieval system was developed at MIT, in the 1990s, by Banireddy Prasaad, Amar Gupta, Hoo-min Toong, and Stuart Madnick.[1] A 2008 survey article documented progresses after 2007.[2] Search methods[edit] Image search is a specialized data search used to find images. To search for images, a user may provide query terms such as keyword, image file/link, or click on some image, and the system will return images "similar" to the query. The similarity used for search criteria could be meta tags, color distribution in images, region/shape attributes, etc.
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Copyleft Images... Evening Bloggerati, It seems that 2012 is the year that big companies try and flex their corporate muscles and try and stop the free-wheeling fun of the internet. So what are your options for not falling foul of the copyright laws when searching for images? Google Advance Image Search allows you to search under a number of different 'Usage Rights' options:- Flicker - Lots of kind people on Flickr offer their work under a Creative Commons license and the site allows you to browse or search through content under each type of license:-
About “Yellow Jug” is a painting by Pablo Picasso , which originally inspired the name of this website. I created these pages in 2003 to host the true type font I designed . Eventually I included some flash animations and pictures, and set up a free e-cards service: it had been running for some years, however I recently discontinued it due to lack of time. Finally I set up a simple blog and I’m going to post some commentaries about various issues I’m interested in, writing either in English (I apologize in advance for inaccuracies you may find) or in Italian (my native language!). “Yellow Jug” (ovvero “Brocca Gialla”) è un quadro di Pablo Picasso , che ha ispirato originariamente il nome di questo sito.
Top 10 Websites to Back Up Your Tweets As a matter of fact, all your tweets will be stored on Twitter.com, but only those posted in about 10 days are available for search, and it is hard to track the old tweets, so that to back up your tweets will be useful, especially when you are going to review your old tweets. To back up your tweets, you can check out below 10 websites, all of which will let you do that for free. 1. Google Reader Just subscribe to your Twitter RSS Feed with your Google Reader, then you can back up your tweets automatically and you can also search them easily. Google Glass helps kids with autism read facial expressions Typically developing children learn to recognize emotions by engaging with people around them. For children with autism, it’s different. “They don’t pick those things up without focused treatment,” Wall said. In the study, 14 families tested the Superpower Glass setup at home for an average of 10 weeks each. Each family had a child between the ages of 3 and 17 with a clinically confirmed autism diagnosis. The families used the therapy for at least three 20-minute sessions per week.
Klein’s dessins d'enfant and buckyball We saw that the icosahedron can be constructed from the alternating group A_5 by considering the elements of a conjugacy class of order 5 elements as the vertices and edges between two vertices if their product is still in the conjugacy class. This description is so nice that one would like to have a similar construction for the buckyball. But, the buckyball has 60 vertices, so they surely cannot correspond to the elements of a conjugacy class of A_5 .
List of academic databases and search engines Wikipedia list article This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities.[1] Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses.[2] As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see: the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposesthe article about bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles. Operating services[edit]
Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Buttons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements. They could be the end point of a Web form or a call to action1. Designers have many reasons to style buttons, including to make them more attractive and to enhance usability. One of the most important reasons, though, is that standard buttons can easily be missed by users because they often look similar to elements in their operating system. Here, we present you several techniques and tutorials to help you learn how to style buttons using CSS.