Stanford University research project on converting bitmap images to vector art, aka “auto tracing” or “automatic vectorization”. Similar to Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace and CorelDRAW’s PowerTRACE but works better in many cases. Upload image and get a converted result (EPS/SVG) in a few moments.
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October 30, 2007
Singing probably the most over done, badly done, “omg please tell me they’re done” song ever mutilated in front of a live audience, a 12 year old South Korean girl enters stage center and stuns a television audience with the first five words of the song. I thought they were dubbing her voice at first..You’ll find yourself wondering too.
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October 28, 2007
http://live.pirillo.com - Don’t adjust your monitor. That really is me in this video, and I look this way on purpose. You, too, can stream yourself live using ASCII characters… if you have OS X.
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October 28, 2007
Just in time for Halloween, a virus that lobotomizes your AV and leaves your machine at the mercy of it’s master. New technique leaves anti-virus running but brain-dead; expert says we haven’t come close to witnessing Storm’s true power.
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October 27, 2007
Chris Pirillo shows us how to upgrade any version of Windows XP to Vista for the great price of free! The thing that is great about this is that Vista seems more stable when it is installed this way, why? I dunno but it is just awesome watch the video!
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October 25, 2007
Some months ago Symantec reported on a cross site scripting vulnerability relating to PDF files and browser handling of them. As it turned out, the vulnerability was not used in the wild much at all….
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October 24, 2007
Sony’s new camcorder lets you directly post your home videos to youtube
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October 12, 2007
If a DNS server is exploited, any Web site you visit may be fake. This includes search engines, Web mail, banks, online stores, etc. By redirecting Web mail, a user’s email account can be stolen. By redirecting forums or message boards, a user’s password can be stolen. A smart attacker can make these completely invisible to the user.
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October 12, 2007
In the ever-expanding world of misleading applications, you might wonder how each new application can stand out from the crowd and get itself noticed. Browsing the Web sites of some of these applications shows that…
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October 10, 2007
How can you substantiate someone’s claim that they are the worst, the best, the most user-friendly, or simply the only system that your company will ever need. Some people blindly put their trust into companies without authenticating their claims.
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October 9, 2007