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Customization and photos

• To start with the most important news of the past months: you can now order M&M's customized with a photo. The photo, presumably a face, is printed in black food-grade ink on a centimeter of space.
• After the release of Picasa for the Mac, Apple has made the next move by releasing iLife 09 with a variety of spanking new features, like face recognition, geo-tagging and Facebook integration.
• Fotonauts aims at building the largest collection of photos linked together by topics, context, geography and affinities. With this site's service, you'll be able to bring all your albums into one place. For example, you'll be able to take your Facebook and Flickr albums and bring them together in order to share them with your friends.
• Pho.to is an online photo enhancement and presentation platform.
• Homemade 3D printer appears – good and cheap.
• Nota is a new collaboration tool from the same company that brought youPhotoPeach, an easy-to-use photo slideshow service and C-Shirt, a tool for making remixable clothing. The best way to describe what Nota offers is "casual collaboration." Unlike more complex whiteboarding or web design applications, Nota isn't designed for business use, but rather for anyone who wants to quickly and easily gather web content and combine it on a single page.
• Hankering to read the next Ultimate Spiderman issue on your iPhone? Motion comics, those semi-animated slide shows of conventional comic books, will be hitting Apple's iTunes store soon.
• As you can see in a Youtube movie, it's possible to construct a 3-d model of a human face from a single photograph, by combining two learning systems that look for facial features.
• According to CrunchGear, Photochaining is the latest fad to sweep the nation - and other nations - and it's really easy and fun. You buy a cheap memory card, put it in your camera, take some pictures with it, and then name the card and leave a note telling someone else to take a picture and leave it somewhere else. The results are then posted to Photochaining.com and world peace ensues.
• If you're an art or photography fan, then you may want to take a look at the newly redesigned Picli.
• Both ClosR and Zoomorama enable you to upload images and transform them into zoomable widgets, which comes in handy when you need to embed or share very large, high-resolution images.
• It's not that I don't love Albumprinter, but apparently if you work at LEGO, you get a miniaturized LEGO person of yourself with your contact info on the back. Tempting!
• Somewhere out in the wide world of weirdos, someone will probably buy one of these Sony crocodile notebooks.
• Kodak Gallery (Ofoto) is an online photo sharing site where anyone can upload pictures for free just like Flickr. The bad news is: Kodak has just revised their Terms of Service and the new policy states that Kodak Gallery members must make an annual purchase else their photos will be deleted from the photo gallery.
• The Facebook photos application is booming. There are now more than fifteen billion photos on Facebook, making it the largest collection of pictures in human history. More than 850 million new photos are uploaded a month with no signs of slowing down, and Facebook's servers display twenty billion photos every month. How many photos of you are there on Facebook that you're completely unaware of? Photo-Finder will go through all the albums in Facebook that your account has access to, and using their fast, powerful and accurate facial recognition technology, scan Facebook to find untagged photos and let you browse through the results.
• HotPrints has recently launched to change that. It's a Facebook application that lets you create a HotBook - a printed photo album out of your Facebook photos - and send it to your friends for 2.99 dollars per book. HotBooks have 16 pages; captions and names are automatically added under each photos, and they come in three languages: English, French and Italian.
• Windows only: The Image Resizer Powertoy Clone adds an option to the Windows explorer context menu for quickly resizing pictures without opening an image editor.

Slightly, but only slightly, technical stuff

• The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by iA Inc. It maps the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map. We are not on it, damn.
• While it's not the grand opening of the Kindle app store or anything, a developer decided to write an app forKindle 2 that converts .pdf and .epub docs to Kindle's beloved .mobi format.
• Adobe announced that LiveCycle will be powered by AWS. Cool!
• Adobe has announced that they've recorded 100 million successful installations of Adobe AIR, the company's cross-platform runtime environment for RIAs, at the same time boasting that the newest version of Adobe Flash Player (10) was installed on over half of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release.
• Adobe Systems re-launched its directory of AIR applications, calling it a "marketplace." There are, however, no premium applications that cost money--at least not yet.
• Adobe AIR is proving more and more useful all of the time. A slew of tools are targeted towards designers and developers, but AIR apps can also be used for photo and video enthusiasts.
• Google is on fire lately, releasing new features almost daily. The last one we've seen is a new Gmail Labs option which lets you add your location to the signature.
• Dodgeball may be dead, but Google is back with a new service, Latitude, that lets smartphone users share their whereabouts with their friends.
• Google has finally added an "Insert Image" button in Gmail meaning you can embed images in email messages directly without having to use file attachments or complex copy-paste.
• Google has added a seemingly small but quite important option to its image search interface: color filter.
• Last week, Google added a new feature in Google Apps that allowed educational institutes and organizations to track how people are interacting with Gmail messages, using Google Analytics.

Finally, the cool stuff

• For people suffering from advanced macular degeneration, this lens implant magnifies light at 2.2x to 3x and projects it onto the healthy part of the retina, avoiding the damaged blind spot.
• Some anonymous vandals changed ads into Photoshop screens in Berlin. Brilliant.
• How Many Hamsters Does It Take To Power a Device?
• Hacking The Grid In Austin: "Zombies Ahead"
• Velociraptors Now Hunting Drivers On Indiana Roads