Tag: FLICKR

Ever wonder how easy it would be for someone to track your every move? You can now find out with a new app called 'Creepy.' Created by 26-year-old Yiannis Kakavas, 'Creepy' is a software package that allows users to pinpoint anyone's location, using geographic data embedded within shared photos. All you have to do is type in a person's Twitter or Flickr username, and hit the 'Geolocate ...

A Zurich-based photoblogger named Mirco Wilhelm is really, really upset today, because Flickr accidentally deleted his account, along with some 4,000 of his online photographs. The mishap occurred a few days ago, after Wilhelm sent in a support ticket to complain about a user who was posting photos that appeared to be stolen. The Flickr staff member who received the complaint mixed up the two ...

iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphones have made it remarkably easy for us to share photos on sites like Facebook and Flickr. But they've made it a lot easier for cyberstalkers to track us, as well. That's because many digital photos contain a kind of encoded data known as Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF). This type of data is often used by professional photographers, since it reveals ...

Everyone enjoys flipping through old photos on Facebook, but there are always a few, particularly memorable albums that deserve to be tucked away on your hard drive for posterity's sake. Doing so, of course, isn't that difficult. You could spend a few minutes going through every single photo in your album and saving it to your hard drive. Or, you could just download one of several helpful tools, ...

When Freddy Johansen posted photos from a whale watching cruise on his Flickr account, he probably imagined that only a handful of close friends or family would find them interesting. As it turns out, though, the Norwegian's seemingly nonchalant photo of a humpback whale inadvertently resulted in a record-breaking biological discovery. As the Boston Globe reports, scientists first spotted ...

As good as we are at wrangling Google's Image Search to locate what we want, we've always found the selection of NASA photos lacking. Earlier today, photo-sharing site Flickr announced NASA's new photo contributions to the Commons project, ensuring that we'll be spending our afternoons crawling through snapshots, like that of the amazing delta-shaped HL-10 above. ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... As part of an ongoing (and often ridiculous) modernization movement, the British Monarchy has created an impressive Flickr account featuring both current and historic snapshots. [From: Reuters and Flickr] The Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) is attacking San Francisco's "overzealous" cell phone radiation labels ...

With Facebook now the most popular photo-sharing site on the Web, and with Picasa steadily gaining ground, Flickr found itself in desperate need of a shot in the arm. In response, then, Yahoo! decided to renovate its site in the hopes of making Flickr "more wonderful." According to the New York Times, the new and improved Flickr "displays photos gorgeously," with shots that are now 35-percent ...

With mid-term election season fast approaching, members of Congress are scrambling to reach out to their constituencies, plaster their campaign slogans across TV sets, and hug as many babies as possible before November. And, as you'd expect, social networking is playing a central role in many a campaign -- even those run by the eldest of lawmakers. Missouri Democratic Representative Ike ...

Today, Yahoo! gave its Profiles a major facelift and new name -- Pulse. Yahoo! Pulse adds significant social networking features to what have, until now, been more or less static profile pages for Yahoo! users. The biggest change comes in the form of a deep integration with Facebook that pulls a user's news feed right into Pulse. The overhaul is an attempt to keep the attention of customers who ...

As growing numbers of people upload photos of nearly everything they eat, broadcasting breakfast and documenting dinner has become the trend du jour across social networks and blogs. As the New York Times reports, it's not just foodies or gourmands that flood Flickr with photos of their flambés. Neuroscientist Javier Garcia, for example, decided to begin documenting his diet after ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Oooh, pretty colors! Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg at the IBM Visual Communication Lab in Cambridge developed an algorithm that analyzed and plotted a ...

Phineas Gage is legendary for two reasons: surviving a tamping iron through the head before the age of modern medicine (There wasn't even anesthetic in 1848 when he suffered the accident while laying train track.); and sustaining a drastic change in personality as a result of the brain injury. Despite all the medical and psychological studies inspired by this marvel, Gage, himself, has remained an ...

Apple gadgets have definitely been racking up the awards and accolades as the Aughts tick down. The company has been producing devices for over 30 years, though, and not every design has experienced the raging success of the iPod. One of those poorly-received items has unquestionably been the Apple mouse. Even though Apple may have helped introduce the mouse to the personal computer, its ...

Chances are you've given up traditional e-mail clients in favor of something like Gmail or Hotmail by now, but did you ever think about what happens when those services go away? Sure, Google's great, but there's no guarantee that it's going to keep Gmail (and all your messages) online forever. If it up and disappears one day, you're done for -- unless you use Backupify (or other backup services). ...