http://blog.cccnext.net Technology news and articles Tue, 13 May 2008 15:08:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/08/25/content-aware-image-resizing/ 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 ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/06/03/google-introduces-tool-for-offline-web-apps/ 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 ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/03/22/website-syndication-with-rss-and-atom/ 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 ... http://blog.cccnext.net/2007/03/18/openid-a-new-standard-for-website-logins/