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At the 2007 SIGGRAPH conference, an annual convention for computer graphics specialists to discuss new computer graphics techniques and applications, Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories demonstrated an innovative new method for resizing the dimensions of images. The new method, called content-aware image resizing, preserves the size and visual quality of the more important regions of the image by sacrificing accuracy in the less important areas. It’s difficult to describe in words alone, so here is a video from the creators illustrating the impressive results:

Web applications have been all the buzz lately. Traditional desktop applications for e-mail, calendars, and basic word processing have begun losing favor to the online versions you can use in a web browser. Google has so far lead the pack in web application development, and they have recently released a tool which will help take web applications to the next level.

Feed-based website syndication has become popular in recent years, but there is still a lot of people who haven’t learned about it and the benefits it brings.

Website syndication is a way to read about all of the recent news articles, blog posts, and website updates that interest you all in one place. In a single view, you can read headlines and summaries of articles on all of your favorite news sites and keep up-to-date without having to browse through all of those sites one-by-one every day. It streamlines your reading experience.

Most of us probably have lots of user accounts on various websites, complete with their own specific usernames, passwords, and other information. Over time, all of these different user accounts can become difficult to keep track of.

This is where OpenID steps in. OpenID is a system designed to give you just one username and password that you can use on any website (once enough websites support it). It can also make registering for new user accounts faster and easier.