At right is a truly incredible image. What makes it incredible isn’t from a whole swath of favicon.ico files from web sites, but the fact that they are in order. NMAP performed a huge scan of the top million web sites, and the image you see to the right was the result. The bigger the icon seen, the more the site was visited out of the million. You can see...

There was a time when Hotmail and Y! Mail allowed the use of inline images when composing an e-mail, but then took away that functionality for whatever reasons. Gmail to the best of my knowledge has never had a native way of using inline images when composing a new message. Using a little copy/paste magic, you can insert inline images when composing a new mail...

The last time I did a video on this subject, I thought it would work for everybody who used the Windows Live Mail client, however a few said that even with the instructions they still encountered the infamous “red X” box where the signature image should go. Well, I was having none o’ that. I was bound and determined to find a way to get a...

Something that should be simple but unfortunately is quite difficult is getting an image to appear in an email signature when using the Windows Live Mail email client. After combing through the client and researching how to do this, I finally found a way that works. This supersedes my last document on this subject. See video below for...

Note that this is for the web-based version of Hotmail. If you are using Hotmail with the Windows Live mail client, see this instead. Hotmail does allow for the use of limited HTML in email signatures, and this does include the use of images as long as they are hosted in a public place. All that’s required for you to do this is the following:Use a free...

This document is old. See this for a better way, with video! In Windows Live Mail (as in the e-mail client and not the web site) the default method for an e-mail signature is nothing but plain text, like this:   You can however create advanced e-mail signatures using the freely available Nvu web page editor. Here’s how it’s done. 1. Download and...

Using background images for web pages is something most people do not know how to do correctly. Typically most will use an image that is not suitable for the text on the web page, as some parts of the image will be light and others dark. In addition, the image looks terrible tiled. A small tiled image is by far the best thing to use if you want a background...

With most digital cameras there is the ability to store photos in "RAW" format instead of the standard JPG/JPEG. When you take shots to be stored in RAW, the first thing you notice is that it takes a really long time for the cam to finish storing the photo after taking the shot. The second thing you notice is that it’s not the easiest thing in...

Whenever you take a photo with a digital camera the resulting JPEG file is obviously quite large both in dimensions and file size. Many people like to send photos as file attachments in e-mail. While it’s true most e-mail services will auto-resize photos for you (like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail), the rest do not. The Online Image Resizer at...

Here is a really cool “proof of concept” (as the author puts it) program: jpeg2css. The program literally does exactly as you would expect: It takes a black and white jpeg and returns an html copy of the image created with text and CSS Unfortunately, it only works with black and white images, but the idea and execution is really cool. There is a...

[hidepost=1] Here is a default view of some photos in Picasa:If I double-click any image I see it in full view:When in full view I have image editing options to the left. By default you will be on the “Basic Fixes” tab. Let’s say I want to crop the image to a certain point in the photo. I click “Crop”, then “4 x 6”, then click and drag...

You do not need any paid software to edit photos and/or post them on the internet. Most paid software (if you decided to go that route) will have professional features that you will never use.[hidepost=1] When most people think of image editing software, they think of a software title such as Adobe Photoshop. This software costs hundreds of dollars, takes a...

Concerning a digital camera, ISO denotes how sensitive the image sensor is to the amount of light present. [hidepost=1] General rule of thumb: The lower the light, the higher the ISO should be. You can consider ISO the “eye” of the camera. To let in more light, move the ISO number setting up. For less light, have the number setting down. For example, if...

For the most part, all graphics you deal with are traditional 2D raster (bitmap style) graphics. While many programs such as GIMP, Photoshop, Paint.NET, etc. are able to combine layers to produce a single image, the result is always a “flat” object. If you want to deal with 3D-esque graphics and manipulation power you get from them, vector graphics...