ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- Pixel
- (PIX [picture] ELement) Generally, the smallest addressable unit on a display screen or bitmapped image. Screens are rated by their number of horizontal and vertical pixels; for example,...
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ZDNet Resources
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Avoid accidental copies in Windows
- Ever use Ctrl+click to select files, make one wrong click and end up with a load of duplicate files on your screen? For power users like you and me, it happens all the time. Today's batch of guidance aims to fix that. The problem,...
- Tags: Pixel, File, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Wixler Image Resizer
- With the Wixler Image Resizer you can easily resize an image to an exact number of pixels or kilobytes. The resizer supports the following file types: jpg, png or gif files. It's also possible to convert files from one file type to another. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Pixel, PNG, Feltron, Resizer
- Software downloads 2008-04-03
- Netzwelt Webtools (exe)
- The Netzwelt Webtools are three small programs built into one. The Ruler measures pixel on the screen horizontal as well as vertical. The integrated Color Picker works like a pipette, telling the user which color value is used for a chosen pixel. The Screen Magnifier enlarges a selected section. Moreover,...
- Tags: Pixel, H2 Media Factory, Netzwelt Webtools, Screen Magnifier
- Software downloads 2008-03-31
- Icon Editor (Java) (zip)
- IconEdit is a Java 1.4 graphical GUI application to edit icon files (*.ICO) for Windows. An icon file can contain more than one image, in more than one size. Supported sizes are from 8x8 to 255x255 pixels, with standard sizes of 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, and 64x64 pixels. All icons...
- Tags: Java, Color, Pixel, Palette, IconEdit, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-01
- Weird ATi Catalyst 8.1 bug
- I've just upgraded a few systems to the latest ATi Catalyst suite version 8.1 and I'm noticing a strange bug. Here's the deal - I updated the driver and rebooted. Next I noticed a small white square a few pixels across in the upper left hand corner...
- Tags: Pixel, Driver, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- BMP Edge Detector (exe)
- In effect draws a pencil outline on top of a picture. You can choose how much colour to preserve from the original, and how heavy a pencil to use. The critical routine is written in x86 Assembly Language. It's too slow in pure Basic. In fact, it looks for a...
- Tags: Pixel
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- Pmeter (exe)
- PMeter is a easy to use desktops ruler allowing to switch easily between 3 user configurations. For each configuration you can set width and colors individually, choose to add a desktop magnifier to your ruler, and more. PMeter also includes a color picker in case you need to know or...
- Tags: Desktop, Mouse, Pixel, PMeter, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-12-14
- When this new technology arrives, cellphone cameras are not gonna suck
- There's a difference between snapshots and photographs. Cellphone and PDA cameras are good for snapshots, but most of these devices kind of suck at taking certain types of photos. Admit it. Whether iPhone, BlackBerry, or just your garden variety Samsung, your cellphone camera...
- Tags: Pixel, Sensor, Cell Phone, Camera, Cellphone Camera, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- A 10000 Fps CMOS Sensor With Massively Parallel Image Processing
- A high speed analog VLSI image acquisition and pre-processing system has been designed and fabricated in a 0.35 µm standard CMOS process. The chip features a massively parallel architecture enabling the computation of programmable low-level image processing in each pixel. Extraction of spatial gradients and convolutions such as Sobel or...
- Tags: Gradient, Pixel, CMOS, Sensor, IEEE, Image Processing, Retina, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-12-01
- pixel Screensaver (zip)
- With Pixel Screensaver application you will be able to use the image files that you want to display on your desktop screen. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Screensaver, Pixel, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-29
- Amazing Seattle Fractals 2003 (exe)
- All the images from this screensaver have been chosen to demonstrate the diversity of this art form. This screensaver has the following user configurable options: 40+ transition effects; Screen Saver Control tray icon; Microsoft Plus style screensaver features; Desktop Quickstart icon; image display timing; and resampling of images for different...
- Tags: Screensaver, Fractal, Pixel, Image
- Software downloads 2007-11-28
- Amazing Fractal Visions Screensaver (exe)
- Fractals are a unique digital art form using mathematical formulas to create art with an infinite diversity of form, detail, color and light. In simple terms, a fractal is a graphical image that represents the behavior of a mathematical equation. The formula used determines how each pixel in an image...
- Tags: Fractal, Pixel, Image
- Software downloads 2007-11-28
- gbOfficeTimer (exe)
- gbOfficeTimer is divided into the Main Window top half and the Panel bottom half. The Main Window contains the time display and an optional logo image. The panel primarily contains images or text, but may also display slideshows, screensavers, or games. The Main Window can be set to one of...
- Tags: Pixel, gbOfficeTimer, Main Window, Panel
- Software downloads 2007-11-13
- KonStat (widget)
- A tiny Widget - minimum of 28x20 pixels - that monitors a URL you choose, and simply tells you whether the URL is working or not in an unobtrusive fashion. (Read on below for info on how to use KonStat.) This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Pixel, Fashion, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2007-11-09
- Transparency returns with a vengeance in Mac OS X Leopard
- Longtimers with Mac OS X remember that transparency came early with the first version of the Aqua interface and the Quartz 2D compositing engine. Soon, transparency went away and many users were glad. But Steve Jobs must want to see below the surface of his virtual desktop and transparency is...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Window, Pixel, Quartz Extreme, Leopard, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Construction, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Car Icon Library (zip)
- The SibCode Car Icon set covers a broad range to automobile-related topics: from a car credit to a car, from a jeep to a police car, from car business to traffic lights - all you can think of in a single set. All icons in the Car Icon set have...
- Tags: Pixel
- Software downloads 2007-10-19
- Clever Ruler (exe)
- Clever Ruler is a powerful measuring tool for Windows. It's simple and easy to use. It can be transparent and rotatable. The features are: transparent, can slant and rotate. It contains pixels, cm, inch, custom unit. You can also make the ruler not show any unit. It allows you adjust...
- Tags: Pixel, Clever Ruler, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-10-15
- Image Spy (msi)
- Embed your sensitive data into images. Use JPEG or BMP images from anywhere and save text into the image data. E-mail them to anybody and use the program to decode the data on the other end. Use header encoding or pixel shading. This version is the first release on CNET...
- Tags: JPEG, Pixel, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-10-11
- Writer Recognition System (zip)
- Research in automatic writer identification has mainly focused on the statistical approach. This has led to the specification and extraction of statistical features such as run-length distributions, slant distribution, entropy, and edge-hinge distribution. The edge-hinge distribution feature outperforms all other statistical features. Edge-hinge distribution is a feature that characterizes the...
- Tags: Distribution, Pixel, Probability Distribution
- Software downloads 2007-10-11
- LCD panels and dead/stuck pixels
- LCD panels and dead/stuck pixelsre: LCD panels and dead/stuck pixelsre:I just took delivery of a Samsung 2232BW Pebble sounds weird when you say it like that. Thankfully I've had no dead pixels on it, and the performance is astounding, especially considering I was upgrading from a CTX VL700 17" CRT...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, pixel, LCD panel, dead pixel, LCD
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
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