Thursday, February 17, 2005

Micro Persuasion: Google Gets Away With What Microsoft Couldn't: "Google today launched a new version of its toolbar that employs a new feature called Autolink that turns non-linked content on Web sites into hotlinks back to Google properties and other sites. Gary Price writes... For example, say your browsing a web page with numerous addresses on it. AutoLink will turn each of those addresses into direct links to the Google Maps database." (Via Micro Persuasion.) 7:17:29 AM

Stealing Contrast with Photoshop Curves: "There's only a limited amount of contrast to go around. If we haven't set the black point or white point yet, some of this contrast may be lying unused, available for the taking, but once the brightness range of an image spans from 0 to 255 we have to be more creative to solve contrast problems. We need to look for ways to redistribute the wealth of contrast we have to where it is needed the most...." (Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.) 7:13:11 AM

John Battelle's Searchblog: Firefox, MSFT: "Firefox hitting 25 million downloads is getting lots of notice, but this is my favorite, from Scoble, Microsoft's leading blogger, who posted something of a pained congratulations note: "In just a few months your app has become one of the most used Windows applications in the world. My hat's off to you!"" (Via John Battelle's Searchblog .) 7:11:38 AM

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