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Online Tool Crops your Images “Intelligently”

 

 

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Online Tool Crops your Images “Intelligently”

via Digital Inspiration Technology Blog by Amit on 11/06/12

The interesting parts of an image are preserved in the cropped version

Cropp is new online tool that will intelligently crop and/or resize your images in the browser without requiring any software. You can use the tool to crop a single picture or upload multiple images (max 5) and it will crop /resize them all to the desired sizes in a batch.

This is obviously a crowded field – search for "crop resize images" in Google and you'll find dozens of similar web apps that do cropping and much more –  but there are few unique features in Cropp that you'll probably like.

Many-to-Many Cropping

One, Cropp is probably the only online app that does many-to-many cropping – you can upload multiple pictures, select multiple outputs sizes and it will provide you all the cropped versions in a downloadable zip file.

The other advantage is that Cropp algorithms will automatically try to preserve the most interesting parts of a picture in the cropped version (handy when you are trying to create small thumbnails). And if you aren't happy with the final output, you can always adjust the crop marquee manually to get the desired result.

See some more useful websites.

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This story, Online Tool Crops your Images "Intelligently", was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 11/06/2012 under Image Editing, Websites, Internet.

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A Master List of 500 Free Courses From Great Universities

 

 

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A Master List of 500 Free Courses From Great Universities

via Open Culture by Dan Colman on 11/06/12

During the past two days, our list of Free Online Movies has been getting some good exposure. And we've got no complaints. But while assembling the movie list, we were also busy putting together a list of 500 Free Online Courses from top universities. Here's the lowdown: This master list lets you download free courses from schools like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and UC Berkeley. Generally, the courses can be accessed via YouTube, iTunes or university web sites. Right now you'll find 55 courses in Philosophy, 50 in History, 50 in Computer Science, 35 in Physics, and that's just beginning to scratch the surface. Most of the courses were recently produced. But, in some cases, we've layered in lecture series by famous intellectuals recorded years ago. Here are some highlights from the complete list.

• African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – YouTube– iTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford
• Financial Markets 2011 - YouTube - iTunes - Web Site – Robert Shiller, Yale
• Growing Up in the Universe – YouTube – Richard Dawkins, Oxford
• Human Behavioral Biology – iTunes Video – YouTube – Robert Sapolsky, Stanford
• Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) – Download Course – Christine Hayes, Yale.
• Heidegger's Being & Time – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Intensive Introduction to Computer Science Using C, PHP, and JavaScript – Multiple Formats – iTunes – David Malan, Harvard
• Introduction to Cosmology and Particle Physics – YouTube – Sean Carroll, Caltech
• Invitation to World Literature – Web Site - David Damrosch, Harvard
• iPhone Application Development in iOS5 - HD Video iTunes - Standard-Def Video iTunes - Paul Hegarty, Stanford
• Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? – YouTube - Web Site- Michael Sandel, Harvard
• Philosophy of Language – iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
• Physics for Future Presidents – YouTube – Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
• Quantum Electrodynamics – Web Site - Richard Feynman, Presented at University of Auckland
• Science, Magic and Religion - iTunes - YouTube – Courtenay Raiai, UCLA
• The American Novel Since 1945 – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – Amy Hungerford, Yale
• The Art of Living – Web Site – Team taught, Stanford

Visit this list of Free Courses for many more hours of free enrichment. Separately, you might also want to check out our collection of Free Language Lessons. It offers free lessons in over 40 languages.

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