Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 9:49PM 
"Making Every Pixel Count"
IN real estate, a picture can be worth more than a thousand words. Much, much more. When selling properties online, agents and Web designers say that the pictures buyers see of houses and apartments for sale are often the first — and sometimes the only — chance for a seller to make a good impression. Less-than-flattering pictures can turn buyers off and lead to lonely open houses.
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 12:11AM PFRE's Real Estate Blog
I’ve done posts in the past on Vicaso. The last one, in March of this year was one of the most popular posts on the blog this year. It’s easy to understand why. Vicaso images are some of the best examples of interior HDR images that I’ve seen. To my eye, they have the right amount of brightness, saturation, clarity and sharpness but none of the artifacts usually associated with HDR. They are lovely images!
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 12:08AM Google, with the cooperation of prestigious libraries, has been digitizing books to make them findable. The practice excites futurists but angers some publishers. Of necessity, digitization creates virtual copies. The publishers claim that such duplication violates copyright, even if the book’s content is hidden from the public. The New York Public Library, one of Google’s partners in the project, recently hosted a public debate on the subject.