Nova 1 was a group of people putting up a camera on a ballon, and getting near orbital Pictures of earth. The cost wasn’t huge for the pictures that where taken. And the gallery shows they should of used a better camera. But still cool picts.
Nova 1 photo selection
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Color Photos from World War I
World War I…. who would have thought there were original color photos of WWI? This site contains hundreds of photos taken by the French in the last two years of World War One. Consolidated from private collections from numerous places, This truelly a great look into “the War to [...]
Top 10 Cameras Used On Flickr
When you are shopping for a camera it is often hard to decide which one is the best. You may resort to asking your friends to find out their experiences or maybe you go online and read some reviews. Oh yeah, and I’m sure you have gone to [...]
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Popular Science Blog - Flickr, Blogmobs, and a Seriously Fascinating Lesson on Content Licensing
This weekend, I received an interesting email from someone I had never met before regarding some photos I’d posted to my Flickr pool:
“…some slimeball was stealing pics from Flickr and representing them as his own professional work on his website (which has [...]
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Digital Foci’s Picture Porter Elite photo viewer / PMP
Hot on the heels of MediaGear’s HD2GO is yet another photo viewer / PMP, but with 40GB or 80GB hard drive options, the Picture Porter Elite is more akin to Epson’s P-4000 line of capcious convergence devices. Manufactured by Digital Foci, the USB 2.0-enabled PPE-360 features [...]
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Damn Interesting » Color Photos From the World War I Era
Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had [...]
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USB Web Cam With Telescopek
Tradtional web cameras always have a weakness that can only focus near object, however, this problem can be overcome with the USB Web Cam With Telescope. With this, you can easily zoom to focus the distant objects clearly and make a high quality photograph.
I want it…
I currently have/use two old IBM [...]
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Scanning USENET for Steganography
After scanning two million images from eBay without finding any hidden messages, we extended the scope of our analysis. A detailed description of the detection framework can be found in Detecting Steganographic Content on the Internet.
This page provides details about the analysis of one million images from the Internet Archive’s USENET archive.
Processing [...]
Don’t take too good of pictures with your digital camera… Target may not develope the pictures for you.
When I get pictures developed at Walmart or Costco I have never had the issue this lady did. She went through her Yahoo Photo Hosting service to get some pictures developed through a partner third party (Target). Target [...]
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Shii’s Rocky Middle Path » Showdown at Google Gulch
Let’s do some browsing around the city of Baghdad, on Google Maps:
US Army Satellite Internet Provider - TS2 Technologie Satelitarne SAT services in COB / FOB Speicher / Tikrit Airbase / FOB Summerall, Camp Habbaniyah, LSA Adder / Tallil Air Base, Camp Victory South, [...]
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