In the first part of my GearsZipper tutorial I showed you how to create zip archives with in Gears with the help of JSZip. This already worked fine, but our only possible content were Javascript strings. What if we want to add “real”, external files to our zip? If we take the use case [...]
Imagine that you just coded a HTML/CSS Editor in Javascript that leaves nothing to be desired. Your app knows about the most arcane CSS properties, offers instant preview and has a GUI that simply rocks. But there is one weak point: when the user wants to save his creation, he has to copy/paste the code [...]
Last week, I was blogging about exiftool’s newest tag discovery, the CameraTemperature. I assumed that the CameraTemperature roughly equals the environment temperature and sketched some really exciting applications based on this idea (e.g.
Phil Harvey recently published Exiftool 7.97, which comes with a well hidden, but exciting feature: it can decode the camera temperature for Canon PowerShot Models. All Canon Powershots built 2005 or later store this information in their EXIF header
So you are about to buy a used DSLR cam from eBay. The model isn’t top-notch, but still solid quality and was released 2 years ago. The pictures on the auction page of the cam look good, but was the camera really rarely used as stated in the auction text? Or are you making your [...]
Finally you escaped from your dusty appartment and spent a wonderful day shooting photos in the wild with your brand-new SLR. To capture all the magnificient details of nature, you decided to shoot in Camera RAW, and not in crumpy-old JPEG format. While waiting for the train home, you quickly want to upload the best [...]
The picurl team is pround to announce the release of picurl 0.0.1, which is available from our Downloads page.
picurl 0.0.1 is available for *NIX systems, a Windows version is in the works.
Our development wiki tells you what picurl is and why you might want to use it.
The QuickStart-Tutorial helps you with setting up and using [...]
What a nice occasion to say hello to all folks interested in the software development of picurl - tagging reinvented. Ok, so you found out it’s all about adding and organizing tags for digital images. Correct, but not too exciting at first sight, you might think. Here are some aspects of motivation for us:
We do [...]