Let's Get Visual

August 21, 2006

Dressing up browsers

Browster is a free add on for IE and Firefox that provides an instant preview window and speeds up surfing.

Firefox extensions like Colorful Tabs 1.4 and CuteMenus 2 created by Shivanand Sharma AKA Varun spice up your browser and speed up work.

Fun with photos and videos

Eyespot's slogan is "Movie Making for All of Us" and it tries to deliver on this promise by offering a suite of easy to use online video editing tools that lets you combine your own videos, photos and music as well as mashing up others' videos.

fd's Flickr Toys - create a librarian trading card and add it to the group on Flickr, a motivation poster, slideshow, magazine cover, ...

(cc) Automatt, mashup by moi.

Getting serious about visuals ... something for statisticians, information designers, and data librarians

Gapminder - free software and stunning interactive charts for visualizing world development. Think about mixing traditional charts with interactive colors and lava flows to represent changes over time to explain population, health, wealth and other distributions around the globe. Hans Rosling challenges some of our assumptions about the developed and underdeveloped world by presenting UN data in new ways. Hans is professor of international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. Watch the video to view the interactive displays.

Appreciate outstanding biomedical images from the 2006 Biomedical Image Awards gallery.