Google improves image search

A few months ago when we announced theSearch Options panel, we promised that you would soon see similar functionality across our other search properties. Today we are rolling out Search Options forGoogle Images. This new feature offers quick access to existing tools, including search bycolor andimage type. Color search will find images that are only […]

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Integrate. Annotate. Federate.

Following on toyesterday’s post, where I wrote about the four functions that traditional publishers claim as their space (registration, certification, dissemination, preservation), I want to revisit an argument I made last week at the British Library. Inmy slides, I argued that the web brings us at least three additional functions: integration, annotation, and federation. I […]

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Collaboration and Process Modelling in Engineering and Business

Use of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 techniques could enable domain experts such as engineers to be involved in the modelling of a problem such as product design, and so understand, assess, and develop possible solutions. The article also examines how modelling, ontologies and Semantic Web/Web 2.0 technology can aid in collaborative management of complex […]

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Gartner survey claims software spending to rise in 2010

Analyst firm, Gartner has released the results of a survey showing that 25% of respondents in the EMEA region expect their 2010 IT budget to increase. As part of the research, Gartner surveyed approximately 1,000 IT professionals worldwide in April and May. When asked whether they expected their 2010 budgets to be below, the same […]

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Lightroom 2 Streamlining your Digital Photography Process

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the primary software-of-choice for today’s digital photographer. As a new tool, using Lightroom requires mastering new skills—not always an easy task. Compounding the challenge, many photographers don’t have fundamental knowledge of digital image processing.Lightroom 2: Streamlining your Digital Photography Process offers you the digital imaging fundamentals and the Lightroom-specific skills you […]

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After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #8

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Earlier this year we released After Effects Apprentice (2nd Edition). The DVD-ROM that comes with the book includes an hour and a half of video tutorials that provide gentle introductions to major features inside After Effects. We are releasing these videos one per month here on PVC; they are also being made available on Focal […]

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