Tag: images
Draw Abstract Wallpaper Using the Flame Drawing Tool
by neetika on Mar.06, 2010, under Graphic Design
If you’re a huge fan of abstract wallpaper but you don’t have the software or the know-how to make one you’ll definitely want to try Flame, a web-based drawing tool that makes creating abstract doodles easy and fun.
Using Flame you can create a variety of shapes and patterns and the user interface is simple. You have a palette which is black by default, white is the only other option. You have an adjustable brush, customizable in size, softness, and other variables, and you can select your colors and the level of opacity and saturation.
One of the best ways to create really soft and flowing lines is to move the mouse quickly. The faster you move the mouse the “wider” the brush stretches and the softer and more diffuse the lines are. If you move the mouse slowly you get a laser-focused beam of intense color, move it quickly and you get a wide swath of gossamer-like color.
You can save your pictures to your computer, the default size is 1680px × 1050px with no ability to select other sizes—a feature we’d love to see implemented for creating crazy triple-screen wallpaper and other sizes. If you make a particularly awesome wallpaper, share it in the comments below. Have a neat tool for making your own wallpaper? We want to hear about that too.
Recover Recently Deleted Web Content via Your Browser’s Cache
by neetika on Feb.23, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies
Ever seen a picture online that you’re kicking yourself for not saving, especially now that it’s been removed? There’s a good chance it may still be saved on your computer; all you need to do is familiarize yourself with your browser’s cache.
Front page photo by Jeffrey Beall
Covering resurrecting images from your browser cache and highlighting how to recover images in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari, but the browser landscape has changed a little. Luckily, recovering images from Firefox hasn’t really changed, and popular alternatives like Chrome and Opera all have similar recovery methods. In Firefox, it works the same
- Type
about:cachein the address bar. - Under “Disk Cache Device,” copy the folder path to where Firefox stores your cache entries.
- Navigate to that folder in Windows Explorer or Finder. The files there will have strange names and no extension, so it can take some time, but you just have to open each one to see if it’s the photo in question.
Did your friend recently delete a picture on Facebook? Maybe something you really liked but she didn’t? OR maybe something really embarrassing that you weren’t able to see?
Well, if your friend deleted it within the past 7 days and it was viewed by you or another friend, chances are you should be able to see it, still. And It’s still on Facebook’s servers.
What you can do is open your browser’s cache and look for it there. If you have Google Chrome, you can go to about:cache and search for it there. Of course there are a zillion files in there; you can narrow it down by using find. Facebook’s pictures usually end in _n.jpg, so search for those and go through them manually. Once you find it, you can copy the link and open it in your browser. TADA! You can now see that “deleted” picture.
Of course, those pictures aren’t there forever. But you still have time to pass it around or use it as blackmail (not that you actually will, right?).
So yeah, you can probably do that at other sites, so go try it yourself.
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