Fast Batch Resize Crop and Watermark

Here’s a solution looking for a problem. Let’s suppose you have a quantity of images that you want to crop and resize in a hurry, and at the same time, convert them from one image file format to another (jpeg, png, gif or tiff), and while you are at it, you also want to add a time/date stamp and a copyright watermark.

We’ve all been there and usually the only way to do it is one at a time, using an image editing program, well not any more! All you need is iKnow Batch Crop, and that’s really all you need to know. It’s incredibly easy; there are just three simple steps. Step One asks you to create a folder to store your modified pix in. In Step Two you select the picture you want to process and in Step Three you decide the shape, picture format, time/date and watermark, click OK and it’s done!

Google Bubbling Under

Google has mapped the Earth and the skies, now, according to CNET News it is turning it attention to the briny deep. Provisionally dubbed Google Ocean, it’s a work in progress, now being developed by a team of eminent oceanographers. The idea is to create a 3D map of the sea floor and if the early indications and speculation proves correct users will be able to ‘dive’ below the surface of the seas and using images based on a mixture of sonar maps and satellite data and navigate their way through the watery environment, visiting shipwrecks and coral reefs.

Watching the Weather

Billed as the world’s first ‘Weather Watch’ this widget from Oregon Scientifictells you what the weather is going to be over the next 24 hours, oh yes, and it also tells the time. Quite how it performs this semi miraculous task wasn’t’ fully explained in the advance publicity blurb but it’s a fair guess that it measures barometric pressure, and by plotting a trend, can give an indication of what direction the weather is heading. In other words it is probably just a wrist barometer, though it’s just possible it picks up some form of weather data transmissions, though with a retail price of under £40 that seems a bit unlikely. Either way, in addition to the time and date it also has alarm and stopwatch functions, and just in case it fails to warn you that it’s about to rain, it’s waterproof too. Read more

The Rinspeed sQuba Car

Well I was about to go apeshit on the Rinspeed sQuba car until I read they admitted to it being inspired by James Bond’s Lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me. So after I calmed down a bit and drank my weight in cough syrup I passed out in the driveway on the way to the mailbox. When a passing street-sweeper finally woke me I pissed myself and fell back asleep. Read more

14 Reasons Why You Should Drink More Water

Over 70 % of the adult body is made of water. Our body cannot function without water: a human will die faster of thirst than of hunger. A 68 kg person has about 40 liters of water in the body. 23-26% is found inside the cells, 7,5 % in the space between the cells and up to 4 liters in the blood. This volume must be kept constant. Food does not deliver enough moisture; doctors say we should drink two liters of water daily, since our body eliminates water through urine, sweat (we sweat even when temperature is under 0), feces and breath.

Water is never enough: you will compensate for the body’s ability to eliminate water (a state called hyperhydration) only by drinking over 7.5 liters of water in 24 hours. Here are 14 reasons why you should drink a sufficient amount of water daily: Read more