Category: Technology

Using Skype? – Watch out

Skype hit by an ad-based attack. Probably removed asap, but anyway…

Snapseed updates

*Double exposure

*Face Pose

*Expand

Looks like interesting stuff..

Originally shared by Snapseed

What a release! Snapseed 2.17 starts rolling out today and it brings you three new awesome tools: Double Exposure allows you to blend two photos and choose from blending modes that are inspired by analog film techniques as well as digital image processing. Face Pose lets you correct the pose of portraits based on three dimensional models. Expand allows you to increase the size of your canvas and fill up the new space in smart ways with content from your image.

In addition, local looks and QR looks now support the Brush tool and Stacks Brushing.

Photo by Sven Tiffe

Sweet – Snapseed updates!

Originally shared by Snapseed

Snapseed 2.16 starts rolling out today and it brings you many new features and improvements: Sharable Looks; Structure in Selective Adjust; and on Android Insights and Auto Perspective.

By very popular demand, Snapseed now lets you to save your edits as reusable looks, then apply them to your photos with just a couple of taps! A look can consist of almost any combination of filters and tools. Just build up a library of your favorite combinations, then apply them to your photo—optionally adding them to your current edits. Want to stylize your photo with a combination of one particular Grainy Film preset, Vignette and Frame? One tap! Add a custom text watermark on top of your edited photo? Easy!

Also, you now can easily share these looks with your friends and followers. Snapseed will generate a QR code that embeds your look. Scan this QR code in Snapseed to apply the look to the current photo. You can easily share it through social media, on your web site, or by email and instant messaging! (QR look featured in this post with kind permission of Jacob Dix.)

On Android, Snapseed now also includes the Insights view that has been available on iOS. Insights brings you tutorials, looks, videos and other inspirational and instructional articles right into Snapseed.

Also on Android, the Perspective tool now features the ability to automatically correct the perspective of your photos. Just tap the Auto button and then optionally fine tune the results.

Last but not least, Selective now allows you to apply “Structure” selectively. Many of you may know Structure from the Details tool. Using Selective, you can place a Control Point on a particular area of the photo and Snapseed will apply all changes, like Structure, in a smart way on just the selected area.

Fu@k

If anyone is wondering… -this is the aftermath of a cryptolocker virus.

If you think I’m reposting I’m not, this is strike two…, I’m now disabling e-mail for my co-workers 😉

I need more coffee btw…

Originally shared by Google+

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Running WordPress? – Did you update yet!?

WordPress 4.7.2 was released last Thursday, Jan. 26th.

If you haven’t done it already -update now!

Snapseed

New update rolling out.

In addition to usual improvements we now get a brand new toy: Curves -That’s kinda awesome.

Originally shared by Snapseed

Snapseed’s first update in 2017 started rolling out today. It includes many improvements and a brand new tool: Curves!

Curves gives you precise control over brightness levels and colors to shape the look of your photos. If you are familiar with Curves from desktop applications, you should be able to get started right away. If you are new to Curves, take a look at the many presets that come with the tool to help you stylize your photo.

We’ve also improved the face detection in our Face filter. When Snapseed fails to detect faces, you can now ask it to try harder. In the Text tool, all multiline styles now allow you to choose where to wrap lines. We’ve also improved the grain quality in Black & White.

Are you using 2-Factor authentication (2FA) ? -you should!

If you’re not sure about the ifs and hows, take a look here https://twofactorauth.org/ and find your service.

Originally shared by Artem Russakovskii

Fascinating phishing attack, especially with what it does to the url bar, but I’d like to point out it’s not new.

One of the linked posts is from 6 months ago. However, it may be spreading wider right now, which is why there’s more attention on it. And the fact that it was at the top of HN yesterday.