Find Who Is Using Your Images

BetterValue on June 25th, 2008

idee The guys over at Idee have launched a very handy product for photographers, or anyone for that matter, interested in knowing how and where a certain image is being used. Simply upload or identify an image you want to search and the tool finds other sites that are using the same image and provides you with the url to the image.

If you are an advertiser and you want to make sure the image you choose for your campaign is unique, simply upload the image and get instant results. For photographers, find out who is using your image without permission.

The search tool is in Beta and you have to apply for an account. I was approved within a day and have had lots of time to play with the tool. One of my companies images was used quite extensively on various websites.

Here is a demo they provide from their blog. They cycle through just 150 sites that use the same image of the Mona Lisa. You can visit any of the sites, kind of interesting the different alterations.

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Publish Your Own Magazine

BetterValue on June 23rd, 2008

Do you have the next great magazine idea but no one to fund your idea? Do you have great writing skills, but no magazine to publish your work? No worries, now you can start your own. MagCloud is a new company that helps you publish your own magazine. They print, mail, [...]

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A new look with some new content!

BetterValue on June 23rd, 2008

I have decided to change the look of the blog to something a bit easier to navigate through.  Thanks to Vladimir for the theme.  It has a bunch of nice features and from what I can tell, it is fast loading.
In addition to the new look, I am adding some visual elements to the blog.  I [...]

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Verizon Centro Now Available!

BetterValue on June 13th, 2008

The Centro is on the Verizon website.  They list the price as $269 plus a $100 discount and a $70 mail in rebate.  Net cost $100.  Not a bad deal.
Here are the features per Verizon’s web site:
Features

Palm Operating System (5.4.9)
All Digital, 1xRTT/1xEV–DO (Rev.0)
BroadbandAccess Connect Capable
Fast mobile web browser (Palm Blazer 4.5)
Built–in organizer (Calendar, Contacts, Tasks [...]

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Considering a new SUV, Think Again!

BetterValue on June 12th, 2008

 (photo from Chevrolet.com)
So you want to buy an SUV.  Now is not the time.  I pulled some data from KBB.Com and Edmunds.com to show just how crazy the numbers are.  The chart below shows three cars, a Jeep Cherokee, Chevy Tahoe, and Honda Accord (for the non-suv comparison).  For each car you can see the [...]

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