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Photograpy: 360° Panoramas as small planets

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The Flickr 360° photo pool has hundreds of images that look like small planets.

If you want to try this out yourself, there is a “great tutorial online” by Dirk Paessler that shows you how to turn any panorama or landscape photograph into a full-fledged planet….

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Gadgets: ZINK portable Printer

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Update 03-Feb-2007: Just added image of Zink 7MP camera with built-in printer. — If you have a mobile phone with a camera you want one of those printers. “Zink Imaging” has launched their new pocket size photo printer at DEMO in Palm Springs this week. It uses special paper with embedded dye crystals that are activated by heat from the printer. The outputs are wallet sized, water resistant 2×3-inch prints in photo quality. The printer tray can hold up to ten papers internally and images are transfers via Bluetooth from mobile phones…

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Photograpy: Jorn Olsen’s cloud pictures

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As a short continuation from our “cloud spotting” story we wanted to point you to Jorn Olsen’s impressive photos of so called “Mammatus clouds”…

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Virtual Reality: Fullscreen Panoramas

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Hans Nyberg from “panoramas.dk” and Marco Trezzini of “VRMAG.org” have teamed up to create the web site “Fullscreenqtvr.com”. Together they have collected and created ten thousands of QuickTime Virtual Reality and Java panoramas…

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Best News Picture Galleries on the Web

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You can read your daily news online or via RSS but there is another way to get informed (and get your daily dose of news pictures). Major media agencies and news papers also provide daily or weekly updated news in pictures. Quite a few of them have even added spoken comments to the pictures so you get some background information together with the images. And often you get multiple images for a news story where otherwise only one of these pictures is included with a longer text. The services we included in the list below are the largest providers and often the source for other news and media sites. They cover news on a global level but some have also regional information. We have broken the list down into the following four sections (Daily picture sources, Weekly picture sources, Yearly picture awards and reviews, Historic and all time famous pictures)…

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Manufactured Landscapes

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Last month Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary “Manufactured Landscapes”, a portrait of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky won the Toronto-City Award for the Best Canadian Feature Film. The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country…

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