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Want to see giga-pixel images on your iPhone? Now you can--with Seadragon Mobile. Seadragon Mobile brings the same smooth image browsing you get on the PC to the mobile platform. Get super-close in on a map or photo, with just a few pinches or taps of your finger. Browse an entire collection of photos from a single screen. You can browse Deep Zoom Images that you can create from your own pictures or...

Many of the projects we try at Live Labs are designed to last just long enough for us to confirm or disprove our assumptions—interactive experimentation helps us prove things that are hard to research any other way. Political Streams was one of those. The American election season provided a great opportunity for us to try it out, since people’s interest in political news and blogs was stronger...

People have always had a need to make sense of the world around them. We want to identify, classify and clarify things. Lately that need has become even greater, since we’re being bombarded with information wherever we look. Now there’s a new tool to help you organize all that information: Thumbtack . Thumbtack is an easy way to save links, photos, and anything else you find on the Web...

Seadragon Ajax brings Deep Zoom technology right to your own web page or blog, even if you're not a software developer. You may already be familiar with Deep Zoom technology--it's used in Photosynth and in Silverlight . It enables you to smoothly zoom into extreme close-ups of your images, regardless of the size of the screen or bandwidth of the network you're on. Seadragon Ajax makes it easy for you...

Maybe your Web site includes maps, visit counters, affiliate programs that run scripts on your page, gadgets, or scripts from other sites. What happens if one of those elements tries running malicious code, redirecting users, installing rogue ActiveX controls or even reading users information? IFrames might help, but do they really protect the user or their machine? The Web Sandbox addresses this problem...

We're pleased to announce that Photosynth has won a Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics magazine. The award honors the 'brightest innovators and innovations' of the year. The magazine's editors contact the nation's leading research institutions and labs, choose 30 to 40 likely candidates, then narrow them down to the ten winners. We're honored to be recognized among such a distinguished group...

Keeping up to date on the presidental election means keeping track of lots of information from lots of different sources. Things can change in a matter of minutes.

Many different programs use RGB color hex codes. While some programs have color management, sometimes you’ll need to use a palette across many programs like Expression Blend, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML/CSS, and Flash. This handy sidebar gadget keeps your palettes at your fingertips, letting you quickly sample each hex code to your clipboard, so you can easily use your colors across all applications...

Live Labs' experimental developer toolset, codename "Volta" (previously available at http://livelabs.com/volta/), is currently unavailable while we make a few changes.  We have removed the download and documentation from our site.  Your existing copies of the software will continue to function as before, this only affects new downloads.  We assure you, the technology will be...