One of the single most useful applications on my PC is the Image Resizer powertoy, this allows me to quickly resize a photo to send by mail or use in a presentation.
The Powertoy is now available for Vista and Windows 7 (32bit and 64bit) and once installed will give you right click access to a whole range of options for shrinking those giant hi-res images that your hard drive is full of.
Download the Image Resizer Powertoy directly from here. (Full info at : Aviraj’s Blog) Oh yes, did I mention it’s free?
Cool commercial for the new Windows Phones… loving the Chelsea Dagger!
See the little fella over there? That’s me! Well, it is sort of me, as seen from the Xbox, which has just been updated with something cool called NXE (New Xbox Experience).
I booted up last night and was prompted to update my system, 10 minutes and a reboot later I was presented with a completely new look Xbox, with cool swooshing menus (instead of the hated blades).
The most fun I had was building my avatar – which looks suspiciously like a mii – but obviously has a body…
Do you think it looks like me?
By the way – I’’m ‘here’ on Xbox Live – hook me up if you want to be thrashed at Guitar Hero or Gears of War 2.
Update – if you want to download your own avatar (as above) – you can do it via this link:
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/YOURGAMERTAGHERE/avatar-body.png
The might GirlTalk joins our happy band of campers…
Like Steve Clayton, I picked up a copy of this months Wired (before I jumped on the plane from Seattle) and was really impressed with the double page spread advertising for the lifewithoutwalls campaign from Microsoft.
Here’s another one from the series:
At last – some decent advertising – stuff we can be proud to show off. Some of the new advertising is getting some interesting reviews as well.
This one is MSN vs Google (but your results say ‘search wikipedia’) – but there is also Google vs Yahoo and MSN vs Yahoo!
Via here – where you can also vote for the winner! (I don’t think T-pain has anything to worry about though)
Just before I left for Rome, Microsoft Live Labs officially launched the Photosynth tool which allows you to arrange and share your photographs in a completely unique way and explore those photos as if you were looking at the detail of the real world.
It is kind of hard to explain – so explore my first synth of the Arch of Titus in Rome either by clicking the embedded version above, or the full size version over at Photosynth. It is really easy to explore, just click away and watch how you can zoom into details of the arch.
Live Search is doing some amazing things with its home page in the US – adding changing background to the search homepage is really generating some bizz around the net. This is todays superb image:
Showing Weber-Gale and the ubiquitous Phelps after the 4 x 100m freestyle relay Gold Medal victory. Check it out for your self at the US Live Search site – or on the Chinese Live Search site (where they have their own imagery).
I can’t wait until they roll this out in the UK and beyond, this kind of work could make Live Search a destination URL.
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