Happy New Year! For those brave enough to venture out into the streets, hope you found your way home safe and sound.

Thanks for all comments and interaction throughout 2008. Let’s go all the way live in 2009 in everything we do in every single moment of every single day!

Thanks again!

The Blogvaria Team

A while back I wrote about Photosynth, a new image technology created by Microsoft. Now Adobe has come up with something similar, yet quite different and unique. Infinite Images is created by the Israeli scientist Shai Avidan, hired by Adobe last year.

This new image technology enables you to create a three dimensional, virtual place from any set of photos where the photos themselves not necessarily are from the same place or using the same motif/composition.

The video below illustrates what I’m trying to tell:

This could be very cool if it actually works for anyone…

As most of you already know WordPress version 2.7, codenamed Coltrane, was released on Thursday. I installed it yesterday spending approximately 15 minutes doing my usual upgrade routine. In short that’s deactivating plugins, complete DB backup, delete old files, upload new files and reactivating the plugins.

Besides the giant improvement on the admin section I was also happy to see that all plugins were working fine. So for those of you that haven’t updated yet – do it!

The WordPress theme has also released a visual introduction to what 2.7 is:

As always I would really appreciate feedback should you notice anything out of the ordinary on this blog or in 2.7 in general. Thanks

Last, but certainly not least, this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. The WP theme have heard how tired you were of doing upgrades for yourself and your friends, so now WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you’re ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click. How great is that!!!

Google announced yesterday that with their 15th release they’re taking off the “beta” label! So after just 100 days of beta testing you can now download the first official release.

If you’re wondering whether or not Chrome is the right browser for you then take a look at the video’s showing off the features and possibilities. I’m sticking with FF for now but I’d love to hear what you all think…

Anyway – happy surfing! A little competition has never been a bad thing

Pirates with “clever” Firefox add-on.

Amazon,com is the biggest online Internet shop and not without a reason. It has the biggest collection of books, music, movies, games and anything else you might consider buying.

Redirects you to Pirate Bay
Some bright heads have recently started Pirates Of the Amazon (if it’s slow/down you can get a copy of the xpi-file you need here) – a Firefox add-on that let you “shop” non-physical merchandises on Amazon without paying a dime.

The add-on will instead redirect you to Pirate Bay where you can grab the merchandise totally free and off course totally illegal.

Works with most
The system works for games, e-books, music and movies and anything else sold in a digital format that can (will) be published online and made available for download both legally and illegally.

Amazon and the rest of the industry will probably not be too happy about this, but there’s probably not much they can do other than complaining as neither lawyers nor The White House have gotten anywhere trying to shut the Pirate Bay down.

Source: Torrentfreak.com