"With the rise of Retina displays people are looking for resolution independent alternatives to PNG icons. Some fell in love with font-icons, some are shouting “SVG”. But I’m sorry, if you’re looking for a silver bullet, I’m afraid it doesn’t exist. Let’s take a closer look at our options: "

"Imag­ing you'd sim­ply hold your smart­phone be­sides your PC's mon­i­tor a NFC (near field com­mu­ni­ca­tion) sys­tem in phone and mon­i­tor de­tects the rel­a­tive po­si­tion, and flick the email ed­i­tor over to the PC al­low­ing you to con­tin­ue your ed­it there. Now imag­ine that this hap­pens ab­so­lute­ly trans­par­ent to the pro­grams in­volved, that this is some­thing man­aged by the op­er­at­ing sys­tem. This is where I want to go. Not that cheap ef­fects lol­lipop desk­tops Ubun­tu/Canon­i­cal, In­tel, Red­Hat/Fe­do­ra and Gnome(3) aim for."

"We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements."

"The trick is to figure out which details help users identify the UI element, and which details distract from its intended meaning. Some details help users figure out what they’re looking at and how they can interact with it; other details distract from the idea you’re trying to convey. They turn your interface element from a concept into a specific thing. Thus, if an interface element is too distinct from its real-life counterpart, it becomes too hard to recognize. On the other hand, if it is too realistic, people are unable to figure out that you’re trying to communicate an idea, and what idea that might be."

"Since September 11, photographers have been stopped, harassed, and intimidated into handing over their personal property simply because they were photographing subjects that made other people uncomfortable, such as ship locks, trains, buildings, bridges, and bus stations. ... In the event you’re stopped by overzealous law enforcement or security officials attempting to enforce fictitious laws, I’ve designed these fictitious and official-looking Photographer’s Licenses."

"The Plenoptic camera is a novel single-lens camera that captures 3-D scene information. A plenoptic image is captured with a single lens and a lenticular lens array at the imaging plane. This image, like an insect's compound eye, consists of multiple sub-images each imaging the scene in front of it, in the plenoptic camera, the main lens aperture is imaged behind each lenticular element. ... [photos] Photographs digitally refocused at different depths, computed after a single exposure of our light field camera. The fourth image shows what a conventional camera would have produced."

"ILoveSketch, a 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing them to iterate directly on concept 3D curve models."

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"The Analysis & Resynthesis Sound Spectrograph (formerly known as the Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine), or ARSS, is a program that analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image,

Where energy comes from and goes to in the USA.

"Optimus Tactus does not have physical keys, which means there are no restrictions on their shape and size. Any part of the keyboard surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images."

"Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition system."

"Printable world map in this page is free of charge. You can use free map for Web site, Publication, TV, Education, Work, and as you like."

Google in the style of the OS X dock. "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you."

"100 sources where you can find free stock images: and don’t worry — they’re all legal!"

"The team at Intel estimates that within 2 years or so, the hardware will exist that will allow "game quality" ray tracing on a desktop machine.\

Nifty depth of field flash thingy.

"Russian artists from Moscow presented in London the totally useless but somehow cool device - goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie or like somebody else from “the cyberspace”. See the video below."

Now you can try out this resizing technique yourself with a new “Seam Carving” online application.

"First Electronic Graffiti system using Video Tracking and a Laser Pointer, that's able to generate RGB images."

"A near pixel-perfect copy of Microsoft Paint in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, using the

Some nifty free fonts.

The current best of b3ta.

A cute advert site for a book.

"A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam, according to Doug Bowers of Symantec. Today, up to 40 percent are. Meanwhile, image spam is the reason spam traffic overall doubled in 2006, according to antispam company Borderware."

An interesting example of what can be done with the power of Photoshop.

"Tallulah's is a unique combination of art and vintage images, with an extensive focus on interests for artists including classical art techniques and pose images taken from the La Belle Epoch period."

"So why is it important to make specular maps?"

"The wallpapers listed below are sorted by the number of people who have added each one to their favorites list. Most popular desktops are on top."

New template banners for Wikipedia.

Free fonts with dynamic web preview.

How to make stuff look like Lichtenstein's comic style pop art.

Make your own Dispair style 'motivational' posters.

A list of handy graph and network drawing Java apps.

A visualization of Wikipedia article page histories.

"Where art meets science."

A selection of nifty freeware apps.

Make your own virtual concert tickets.

A good description of different forms of video signals and connectors.

Create your own motivational posters!

ExtremeTech has rounded up their 10 favorite free plug-ins for tweaking digital images in Photoshop.

In this article, we speculate about the potential of an already amazing technology. Procedural synthesis is known to awe with its ability to produce brilliant visuals in tiny file sizes, like the game .kkrieger, which is only 96 Kilobytes big. But what if

Details of many Web 2.0 logos.

That imfamous Web 2.0 logo montage.

Software that grabs OpenGL data from programs that can then be reused in other apps or even fabricated using a 3d printer.