DirecTV and EchoStar Get New CEOs; Michael Dugan to come out of retirement to run EchoStar, while Michael White is leaving Pepsi to head up DirecTV. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Spot Runner Intros a Web Platform; company says the Malibu Media Platform helps to algorithmically match ad buyers and sellers. (MediaWeek)

Report: Vivendi Wants More Cash from GE; company wants a bigger portion in cash for its 20 percent stake in NBC in regards to the Comcast deal. (Bloomberg)

Lawyers Launch Class-Action Redbox Site; RedboxLateFees.com let’s people figure out if they are eligible to join the lawsuit. (Video Business)

GlideTV Intros On-Screen Keyboard App for Macs; the GlideTV OSK links the living room to popular application and web sites when used with the GlideTV Navigator. (GlideTV)

CoolIris Now on TV.com; TV portal now using the 3-D visual interface in its “Shows” section. (TechCrunch)

Which HD TV is Right for You? HDGuru provides a walk-through when picking a new set. (HDGuru)

The new Google Swirl is nerd-cool. So is Cooliris, which I learned about at the the AAF Western Region Conference.  MUST. ORGANIZE. PHOTOS in rad ways. But I suppose the first step should be organizing photos at all.

Ich möchte Ich mal meine Lieblingserweiterungen (neben dem Standartkram wie den Add Block Plus) vorstellen.

Meine Lieblingserweiterung im Moment ist Cooliris Ein kleiner Button mit dem sich eine Bilderwand öffnet. Man kann diverse Bilderdatenbanken oder auch den eigenen PC nach bestimmten Bildern durchsuchen und bekommt diese grafisch schön angelegt präsentiert.

Auch Videos lassen sich auf die Weiße finden und schnell überblicken. Man geht auf You-Tube, gibt den Suchbegriff ein und klickt den Coolirisbutton und bekommt die Vorschaubilder mit den wichtigsten Infos präsentiert. (Oder man öffnet Cooliris und durchsucht von dort You-Tube.

Meine Lieblingsfunktion sind die Bilder des Tages.

Ein Add-On was sich für jeden, der Interesse an Bilder und Video hat bestimmt lohnt.

I HEART COOLIRIS, COS IT’S SO MEGA COOL AND FUN!

The last few months have been very busy with development at Cooliris, and we’re starting to see our new stuff roll out the virtual door.  In the last week we’ve released Cooliris 1.11.5 (yes, this is the craziest numbering scheme ever) which is focused on improved performance, particularly on Windows machines, and on IE.  On some older Windows machines our performance hasn’t been where we’d like it, so with a lot of focused effort from our engineers we were able to improve Wall scrolling performance by 30%.  If you haven’t tried Cooliris in a while, give it a shot.
We’re also proud to announce support for Bing image search. We’ve had a lot of requests for Bing support from our user base, so with the use of Bing’s api’s we were able to add it into our image search offerings.  You can launch Bing search either directly from Bing through the Cooliris mouseover icon, from the Cooliris launch button in your toolbar or directly from the search box in Cooliris.  Because Bing search offers almost endless results, the looking for images from Bing in Cooliris is a great experience.

We have a lot more things coming soon.  In the meantime, check out some spooky fun that we put together for Halloween, including some great old episodes of “Twilight Zone”.

Join Cooliris for Halloween

Wczoraj pokazały się aktualizacje VMware Fusion i NeoOffice, obie przede wszystkim za względu na Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard.

W przeciwieństwie do wersji 2.0, uaktualnienie do Fusion 3.0 jest płatne; 39$ to niemal tyle, za ile można było kupić poprzednią wersję w licznych promocjach. Co wnosi? Przede wszystkim nowy Fusion jest w pełni 64-bitowy. Dotyczy to nie tylko aplikacji, ale i rozszerzeń instalowanych w systemie, co ma znaczenie przy korzystaniu z 64-bitowego jądra. Większość pozostałych ulepszeń jest związana z obsługą najnowszego systemu Microsoft, Windows 7. Ja w chwili obecnej wstrzymam się z zakupem – “stary” Fusion 2.0.6 sprawuje się bez zarzutu, a posiadając białego MacBook’a nie skorzystam ani z 64-bitowego jądra, ani z interfejsu Aero w nowych Windows (za słaba karta graficzna).

Bardzo mnie za to cieszy druga z wczorajszych aktualizacji: NeoOffice 3.0.1. Jeszcze przed przesiadką na 10.6 opisywałem powody, dla których wolę NeoOffice od “oryginalnego” OpenOffice by Sun. Po przesiadce okazało się, że wersja 3.0 nie jest zgodna z najnowszym systemem Apple, ale ponieważ codzienne potrzeby załatwia mi iWork nie było to dużym problemem i spokojnie czekałem na zapowiedzianą wersję 3.0.1. Wczoraj się doczekałem i teraz pod 10.6 mam już wszystko z wyjątkiem trzech mniej ważnych wtyczek do Safari: Cooliris, SafariDockStatus i SafariSource wciąż nie mają wersji 64-bitowych.

One of the best ways to see my images is to head on over to my flicker pages ESEA Click and use really cool a browser plug-in called Cooliris
If you have not enabled Cooliris for your browser you can get it here:

With the recent success of Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 I thought it was only fitting to connect one of the tracks to my personal situation.

How does it apply? Well, this week marks the start of a new journey for me professionally – I have joined the Cooliris team, after spending a very enjoyable 4 months with Mozilla. I definitely learned a lot and am grateful to everyone there who helped me succeed.

Back to the music – “On to the Next One ft. Swizz Beatz” is fire. Definitely one of the best tracks on the album. As for me, well the title says it all. On to the Next One I go…where I’ll stop, man I don’t know, so let’s go…

Digital Hollywood, a must for content licensing professionals, lands at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel M 10/19-Th 10/22 and producer Victor Harwood didn’t miss a thing.  Action packed with the Variety/Content/CodeSpace/EPPS Summits, International Academy of Web Television meetup, WGA comedy writers boot camp, filmmaker screening, pitchfest, poolside cocktails, a social mobile gaming connected device multiplatform hackathon, prizes, and DJ afterparties.  1500+ will be mixing it up with blockbuster producers, showrunners, festival programmers, publicists, A-list press, web-celebs, network executives, brands, agencies, Emmy winners and VCs.  Companies including HBO, Bravo, Starz, Scripps, Fox, NBCU, CBS, Disney-ABC, MTV, FX, G4, Sony Pictures, Paramount, Miramax, MGM, Mandalay, Lionsgate, Marvel, Merv Griffin, Dick Clark, CinemaNow, Redbox, Fremantle, Reveille, Endemol, blip.tv, Evil Global Corp, EQAL, Rooftop Comedy, Demand Media, YouTube, Y!, MySpace, Mattel, Activision, Guthy-Renke and more.  From Carson Daly to Public Enemy to Justine Bateman – everyone is heading down.  With sub-$100 pricing for unemployed media execs, this is going to be the most interesting DH yet.  But if you can’t make it, you can follow along #DH09.  The guide below is just a mere sampling of the offerings, for more details visit www.digitalhollywood.com:

M 10/19

10-11
Variety Summit/Orly Adelsen, Dick Clark Productions

11-1 Palisades Ballroom 5FL
IAWTV/International Academy of Web Television Inaugural Meeting, members include Alex Albrecht, Diggnation, Justine Bateman, Easy to Assemble, Miles Beckett, EQAL, Veronica Belmont, Tekzilla, Hayden Black, Evil Global Corp., Felicia Day, The Guild/Dr. Horrible, Greg Goodfried, EQAL, Brian Seth Hurst, ATAS,  Dina Kaplan, blip.tv, Jim Louderback, Revision3, Sam Reich, DutchWestTV, Scott Roesch, Atom.com, George Ruiz, ICM,  Tim Street, French Maid TV…

12-9
CodeSpace Hollywood:  SDKs galore, check out the platforms, join a team , build an app, win prizes, dance the night away

12:15-1:30
Variety Summit/Keynote Lunch/Carson Daly, Peter Guber, Mandalay, Richard Rosenblatt, Demand Media…

1-2:15
DHI/Mike McCurry, Arts + Labs, Fremantle, Reveille, Activision…
DHII/DH Upfronts/Genius Rocket, MTVN Tribes, Technorati, Google, IBM, Microsoft Advertising…
DHIII/Ted Cohen, TAG Strategic…

1:30-2:45
Content Summit/Withoutabox, Bunnygraph, The Station, Veoh…

1:45-2:45
Variety Summit/TV Ecosystem/NBCU, Fox, FX, Reveille…

2:30-3:30
DHI/Shashi Seth, Cooliris, MTV, Discovery, YouTube, Cisco…
DHII/Story Worldwide, USA, AOL, Comcast Spotlight, Ed Moran, Deloitte…
DHIII/LBS Apps/5th Finger, Nokia, Handango, Starcom, Mobiclip…

3-4:15 Room 631
Content Summit/Comedy Writers John Hamburg, Larry Amoros, Glasgow Phillips, FOD, Break.com…

3:45-5
DHI/ICM, Starz…
DHIII/TimChang, NVP, TwitVid…

4:15-5:15
Variety Summit/Brett Ratner, X-Men, David Zucker, Scary Movie, Sony Pictures..

4:30-5-6 Room 631
Content Summit/Pitch Camp/MTV, Lionsgate, KCET, IndieGoGo, Break.com, Omelet, Aniboom…

5-6
Poolside Cocktails

6:30-9
Content Summit/DH Excellence Tribute to Sundance Doc:  We Live In Public/Ondi Timoner, Jason Calacanis..

Tu 10/20

7:30-8:45, Venice Room
Breakfast Briefing, Monkey Media SeamlessTV Telescopic Video Patent Licensing Program, RSVP vip@monkey.com

8:30-9:15, Room 631
Content Summit/Writers Boot Camp for Screenwriters, TV, Webisode producers with Jeffrey Gordon

9-10:15
DHII/Social Apps and Mini-Apps/Permuto, Slide, Gigya, Verve, Rocketfuel…
DHIII/ZillionTV, Origin Digital, Priority Digital, HD Cloud, Zoran, BitGravity
DHIV/Craig Alexander, Turbine, Allen DeBevoise, Machinima, Microsoft, Stormfront, IGA…

9-5
CodeSpace Hollywood/Developer Camp

9:30-10:45, Arcadia C
Content Summit/Transmedia Storytelling w Helen Ross, Mad Men on Twitter, Adam Armus, Heroes…

10:45-12
DHI/Kevin Yen, YouTube, Patrick Barry, Y! ConnectedTV, Reveille, MySpaceTV, MTV, NBCU…
DHII/MTV, msnbc.com, Wunderman, Enfatico, McCann…
DHIII/Braxton Woodham, Zannel, Gracenote, Sony Pictures, Motorola, ClipBlast!…
DHIV/Mattel, Vivendi Games, Microsoft, Vector, Tarver, ASAP Games, g-NET…
3D/Angela Gyetvan, 3ality, Andrew Fear, NVIDIA, IMAX, RealD, SMPTE…

11-12:15, Arcadia C
Content Summit/Storyteller + Producer = Creator/Writers Lie to Me, West Wing…

12:30-12:55, Arcadia C
Content Summit/Lunch/Snagfilms

12:30-1:45
DHII/Neal Tiles, G4, Eric Berger, Sony Pictures, Sab Kanaujia, NBCU, Greg Goodfried, EQAL, Shawn Gold, MySpace…
DHI/Interpublic, Guthy-Renke, Google….
DHIII/Lionsgate, Cisco, Adobe, Microsoft, Verizon, THR…
Demos/MONKEYmedia, Qtv, PeopleBrowsr, Edgecast…

1-1:20
Content Summit/Indie Go Go…

1:30-2:45
Content Summit/Doc Filmmakers – Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired, Anvil, Who Killed the Electric Car…

2:15-3:30
DHI/Lionsgate…
DHII/Disney ABC, Oxygen, Fox, Filmaka, TVGuide.com, TheWrap, Microsoft Advertising…
DHIII/Reality/Reveille, Endemol, Merv Griffin, LATimes.com/The Envelope, AllThingsD…
DHIV/Fox, Motorola, mSpot, FLO TV, GoTV, Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment, Fun Little Movies, Kit Carson…
DRM/James Burger, Dow Lohnes, Alan Bell, Paramount, Jack Lacy, Intertrust, Rajan Samtani, Digimarc…
VW/Electric Sheep, IMVU, Gaia, RocketOn, GMG, Sulake, Raptr…

3-4:15
Content Summit/PGA/Bollywood Hero, Level26, MTV, FilmNation…

3:50-5
DHI/Enhanced Advertising/RockYou, Starcom, Google, Bunchball…
DHII/Best Buy, RallyPoint, Rovi, OpenTV Labs…
DHIII/Google, Canoe…
DHIV/Justine Bateman, Easy to Assemble & fm78.tv, George Ruiz, ICM, Dina Kaplan, blip.tv, Babelgum…

5-6
Content Summit/Starz Animation, Aniboom, ka-chew!, ASIFA…

5-6/6:30-8
Poolside Cocktails

W 10/21

9-10:15
DHI/Alloy, Jivox, TubeMogul…
DHII/Andrew Kippen, Boxee, OpenTV, Digeo, ZeeVee, SyncTV, Motorola…
DHIII/James Burger, Dow Lohnes…
DHIV/Michael Scherotter, Microsoft, JWT, Ooyala, Gotuit…

9-5
Code Space Hollywood/Developer Camp, Awards

9:15
EPPS/B/Breaking Talent/Dancing with the Stars, People Magazine, EMI, USA Today…
EPPS/A/Chuck D, Public Enemy, Lionsgate, All Things D, Orange-FT, Ning…

10:45-12
EPPS/Small Stories/PR Writing at the Moment
DHII/Scripps, Fox Sports, MONKEYMedia, Comcast Spotlight, MGM, Rovi…
DHIII/GCs/Grant Michaelson, ABC, IFTA, WGA-West, GoTV…
DHIV/Napster, Y!Music, MemBrain, WB Records, MySpace Music, Topspin…
DHI/Roku, Zoran, Clearleap…

12

EPPS/Keynote with Marc Graboff, NBCU with Julia Boorstin, CNBC

12:30-1:45, Room 731
Content Summit/Interactive Emmys/Bravo, Hoodlum, NBCU, HBO, ABC, ATAS
DHI/Avi Savar, Big Fuel, Story Worldwide…
DHII/MTV.com, VH1.com, TV Guide Online, Sezmi, Oxygen, IFC…
DHIV/Ali Partovi, iLike, UMG, Sony Music, Gracenote, LA Times…

2-3:30, Room 731
Content Summit/Brand Integration/Break.com, Omelet, Mad Men, LadderUp, Transpond, ATAS

2:15-3:30
DHI/Metacafe…
DHII/Intel Capital, Granite Ventures, Scale Ventures…
DHIII/Mark Ely, CinemaNow, Jason Rubenstein, Redbox…
DHIV/Kevin Arnold, IODA…

3:30
EPPS/B/Getting Air Time on TV & Radio/NPR, Clear Channel, ShowBizExpress, E!, Extra, AP, BET, CBS
EPPS/A/E!, Magic Johnson, ET, Parade Magazine

3:50-5
DHI/Fox, MTV, msnbc.com, Y!…
DHIII/Marvel, Motorola, Parade…
DHIV/Flixster, HSN, Fandango…

4:30
EPPS/Landmark Theaters, Sundance Institute, Variety, LAFF

5
Poolside Cocktails

6-9, Arcadia A
Adobe Cocktails, Appetizers, Workshop, sneak peek at 2010 feature film/workflow

8:30-2
Code Space Hollywood/Afterparty with Mystery DJ

Th 10/22

9:30-10:45
DHII/Gaia…

11:05-12:20
DHIV/Marketing Hollywood/MGM, RockYou, Miramax, myYearbook
DHII/SodaHead.com, GOOM Radio…
DHIII/MTV, TurnHere, Vantrix…

12:50-2
DHI/ClipSync…
DHII/Nabbr…
DHIII/MomTV…
DHIV/MapMyFitness, Sapient Interactive…

2:15-3:30
DHIII/Rooftop Comedy, Demand Media, Fine Brothers Film, The Alchemist, BettyConfidential, Mom Life

Antecedentes

Hace tiempo que usaba la extensión Piclens para Mozilla Firefox (hoy llamada Cooliris). Es una extensión que da una visión tridimensional a tus imágenes dentro del navegador. Desde hace medio año esta extensión también está disponible para Linux y sobre todo para equipos con cierta memoria RAM, ya que en equipos con escasez de este recurso no se la recomiendo (a mi me ha tomado unos 200MB. que sumados a otros procesos puede darnos una cifra importante). El peso del archivo de esta extensión es de 10.8 MB., más que incluso el propio navegador. Pero si quieres no te son un inconveniente los anteriores puntos, te agradará utilizarla.

Enlace de descarga e instalación.

Una vez que instalemos Cooliris nos aparecerá un icono azul, blanco y verde con una estrella en la barra de herramientas del navegador, desde el que activaremos o desactivaremos la extensión.

El cajetín de búsqueda se encuentra en el costado derecho, el cual se puede usar al igual que el de nuestro navegador, ofrece servicios de fotos como Google Images, Flickr, Picasa, DeviantArt, o bien de vídeos desde YouTube, Holu, o Blics.

Cooliris

En el costado izquierdo nos encontramos los menús:

· Channels el cual nos da acceso a canales especializados en determinada témática con fotos y un pie de foto descriptivo.

· Shopping que nos da acceso desde las imágenes al canal de compra Amazon.

· Favorites. Crea un registro de los sitios que más nos gusta y preferimos si previamente estamos registrados en Cooliris.

· My Computer. Permite visualizar no solamente las imágenes de internet, sino también de nuestro sistema.

En la parte inferior tenemos un seleccionador de imagnes por bloques y con dos flechas para movernos en dos sentidos dentro de la galería, aunque el recurso del puntero del ratón sea otra alternativa a tener en cuenta. A la derecha de este unos iconos de acceso a las preferencias de la extensión.

El puntero del ratón toma un protagonismo a importante a la hora de seleccionar y reproducir vídeos.

Además del visionado en sí podemos acceder a un clic a servicios de compra como Amazon una vez seleccionada la imagen. “

The great AOL (s twx) pre-spinout makeover continues! The New York-based company today announced that it is tapping Shashi Seth, formerly head of monetization for YouTube, as its senior vice president of Global Advertising Products, just weeks after it hired former Yahoo (s yhoo) executive Brad Garlinghouse to head its West Coast operations. After leaving YouTube, Seth joined Cooliris as its chief revenue officer. He is going back to work for Tim Armstrong, the former Google (s goog) sales honcho who has been tasked with turning around AOL. When I spoke to Seth this morning, he said that he’s going to be based in Mountain View, Calif., and will report to Jeff Levick, president of Global Advertising and Strategy at AOL.

Seth is going to work on AOL’s advertising platform business and will be responsible for the company’s monetization as it tries to become a major force in display advertising. Seth is a well-regarded and well-connected ad-industry insider, and from that perspective, this is a solid, smart move by AOL. His departure is bad news for Cooliris, one of my favorite startups (thanks to its awesome plug-in). While it’s unlikely that Seth’s exit is going to mortally wound Cooliris, which has been adding many senior executives to its roster and building up its bench, I am quite certain the fledgling company is going to experience some hiccups and miss his advertising industry connections.

As the web develops more and more social sites, it is necessary to cross-link these sites so that they can work together. Many such sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Digg use their icons on other sites so that users can tweet a direct link to a news story or share a video on Facebook, for example.

Through a built-in search bar, Cooliris lets users search databases such as Amazon, YouTube, Hulu, and Google Images. It then projects the search results from these other sites onto its “Wall.” Users can then scroll side to side and zoom in and out to see all results matching their search. Cooliris doesn’t serve as a container just for these purposes, though. You can also get news, watch music videos, or even play games.

For advertisers, Cooliris is a way to integrate their ad within the Wall. Two ways to do this are:

1. Cooliris can project a “sponsor ad” which serves as the Wall’s background, or projection screen that the Wall of media thumbnails rests on.
   

   Axe advertisement as the Wall's background.

2. Cooliris can embed a column of ads into the media thumbnails projected on the Wall.
   

   Column of three advertisements embedded into the Wall.

The second way allows for user interactivity. Most video ads on the Web are required to play before something else does. Although these are usually short, the user is forced to watch an ad they probably don’t want to watch. Things like this only justify an annoyance with advertising. However, if the user was able to choose which ads he or she wants to view, then floodgates of interactivity are wide open, thus enhancing user experience as well.

No longer are users forced to watch things, but rather they are given a choice. When a user takes advantage of this choice and picks an ad to view, they are more susceptible to actually viewing it.

I know what you’re thinking. Why would a user want to watch an ad if they’re annoying?

1. Because ads are only annoying when people don’t want to see them. Nobody truly hates advertising. They just hate ads that interrupt.
2. Because of the opportunity for choice. People love choices, even if there are too many.
3. Because on Cooliris, ads don’t have the “annoyance” stigma built into them. It’s not like ads on Cooliris are hard to detect, either. They are clearly labeled “Advertisement.”
4. Because curiosity will strike when the user sees a thumbnail snapshot of an ad. They will wonder what bigger thing that snapshot is a part of. Think about how many videos or photos you’ve viewed on the Web because you were curious about the snapshot of it you saw.

Quite often the reason for an unsuccessful ad is that it doesn’t respect its audience. How much more respect can Cooliris give to its users than allowing them to choose when they want to view an ad? Two words: mutual trust. These guys may be on to something big…

The Cooliris plugin for Firefox is a fun media browser for sites such as flickr and google images.  I have been curious if there might be a more effective use of this tool for architects specifically.  My first thought was this might be an attractive powerpoint substitute to browse around the content live in a  presentation, but this might end up being more confusing than useful.  Then, it recently occured to me to try using this tool as a clean and simple viewer for zooming around a lengthy set of working drawings.  It appears to work quite well.  Here are more instructions.  Give it a try and let me know what you think in the comments.

Step 1: Download and Install Firefox.

Step 2: Download and Install the Cooliris plugin for Firefox.

Step 3: Create JPEG files of your drawing set.

We’re using Autodesk Revit 2010 for drawing production, which makes exporting each sheet to JPEG pretty easy.  Exporting at 2000 horizontal pixels seems to work well for medium detail viewing.  If you’re using another process,  check for built in image exporting utilities.  If that’s not available, print a PDF set of drawings and then save the PDF as JPG from within Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Step 4: Create a photo gallery of your drawing set.

Either create a local folder with all your JPG files, or create an online photo gallery at one of the Cooliris supported photo sites: Picasa, Flickr, etc.  Unless you’re legally okay with posting your drawings to an image hosting site, it’s probably best to stick with the local drive viewer available in the upper left of Cooliris.  Name the files numerically as they should appear in your drawing set.  Add enough zero’s to keep the whole set in order. For example, name files A-001, not A-1.  Remember the cooliris button (shown below) activates a page in the 3D viewer.  Here is a sample drawing uploaded to view using Cooliris.

Step 5: Present or Review your drawing set

Activate fullscreen viewing in Cooliris and now you’ve got a clear drawing viewing tool that may have it’s place amongst certain presentations or internal document reviews.  I’m interested in trying this out with our office’s Smartboard touch screen.  We should be able to then use the smartboard built in mark up tools in combination with Snagit to seamlessly grab markup screenshots of notes made while reviewing drawings.

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Cảm giác như bước vào thế giới web 3D thật là thú vị, add-on này mang cho bạn rất nhiều tiện ích hay như, xem ảnh, xem movie trainer, shopping, kết nối với youtube, xem tin tức thời sự (các đoạn thời sự ngắn) và đặc biệt xem được cả ảnh và clip trên máy tính của chính bạn.

trước hết để có được Add on này , hãy vào địa chỉ sau để load:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=cooliris

sau khi Install xong, chương trình sẽ nằm ở góc phải của firefox

click vào và bắt đầu chiêm ngưỡng web 3D nào ^^:

phải công nhận là Cooliris có giao diện bắt mắt, bóng bẩy không thua kém j Iphone cả:

mình khoái nhất là xem movie trainer vừa có giới thiệu về phim mà xem lại nhanh nữa chứ:

có thể phóng to thu nhỏ cửa sổ xem phim, và  xem giới thiệu phim nữa

If you are a photo buff and you don’t have the Cooliris add-on for your firefox web browser you are really missing out on something great.  What is cooliris?  It’s an easy to use free add-on for Firefox that lets you display image search results from google, yahoo, and many other sources as a super cool easy to navigate wall of photos.  Below is a screen grab showing what the wall of photos looks like.  This screen shot is actually a pretty poor representation.  Cooliris is way awesomer to use than I can display on my blog.

I have a couple favorite uses for Cooliris.  If ever I come across a photographer that interests me I put his/her name into a google image search.  Using Cooliris to view the results I’m greeted with a free wall of photos from a famous photographer.  The above example is showing the results of an image search for the photographer Sabastiao Salgado (Thank you to regular reader razzbuffnik for the tip)

I also use Cooliris to entertain my 22 month old daughter.  We look up all sorts of animals together.  Now, whenever she sees me with my computer she say’s, “Up Dadda.  See Animal.  Look Goat.”  The flickr image search seems to yield the best animal pictures.

Give it a try.  It’s easy to install.

Cooliris rolled out an updated version of its free iPhone application today that lets you sift through images on Microsoft’s (s msft) Bing search engine and supports Twitter, two capabilities that aren’t offered on the web-based version of the startup’s 3-D user interface. The app’s Twitter capability lets you thumb through other people’s Twitter time lines, pick new people to follow, and use the retweet (or “RT”) function. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Cooliris says the upgraded app is five times faster than its previous version, which was released last year. To preview the application, watch this video.

Cooliris har kommet i en ny versjon og det er et program eller plugin til utforskere jeg er meget fornøyd med. Skal man bla igjennom bilder på Flickr er det lynkjapt i stedet for å se bildene i den vanlige visninga der.

Ultimamente mi sono ritrovato a usare Firefox su un portatile non mio. È un paio di anni che uso Epiphany e tornare a Firefox mi sarebbe sembrato strano.

Eppure l’ho fatto.

Epiphany o Firefox? Per ora io sto col panda...

Piccola introduzione

Firefox nasce come spinoff di Mozilla Suite (discendente di Netscape). È completamente basato su gecko. Anche i menu e l’interfaccia sono renderizzati da XULrunner.

Epiphany è l’evoluzione naturale di Galeon. Galeon è stato un altro programma derivato dalla Mozilla Suite, ma con interfaccia GTK1. Nel momento in cui sono uscite le GTK2 Galeon è risultato un po’ difficile da riadattare, per cui è stata fatta una riscrittura in GTK2, che poi ha assorbito Galeon. Epiphany.
Il motore di rendering delle pagine è ancora gecko (infatti è basato su XULrunner) solo che l’interfaccia grafica è in GTK2. Ne consegue che in ambiente Gnome ci sia un consumo minore di memoria, visto che le librerie probabilmente sono già usate da altri applicativi; in altri ambienti risulta un po’ più efficiente rispetto a Firefox, visto che le librerie compilate sono leggermente più efficienti di un menu in XUL.

Questi due sono stati i motivi principali del mio passaggio da Firefox a Epiphany.

Cosa c’è di migliore in Firefox

In una sola parola: estensioni.

Una delle varie proposte per il logo di Firefox

Ce ne sono di ogni tipo. Alcune in puro XUL, altre corredate di eseguibili. Faccio un piccolo elenco di quelle che ho installato io:

• Adblock Plus, un classico. Rimuove la pubblicità e vari elementi multimediali che si vogliono eliminare.
• Add to Search bar, estensione che aggiunge qualsiasi barra di ricerca di un sito nella Search Bar (comodo se i siti non sono già predisposti)
• AutoPager, carica in automatico alla fine di una pagina la pagina successiva (se rileva un sito compatibile). È un po’ uno spreco di banda, ma mi sembra che il tempo guadagnato valga la banda sprecata.
• Better GReader, raccolta di Tweak per Google Reader.
• Boost for Facebook, simile al precedente. Per Facebook.
• Classic Compact Options, sarebbe da usare solo con il tema “Classic Compact”, ma io lo uso con quello base di Firefox. Permette di comprimere un po’ il menu per avere una zona di navigazione più espansa.
• Cooliris, segnalato sul blog di Ulisse “Che ne so?” Perusin, un metodo alternativo per navigare in gruppi di immagini e video sul web.
  Un piano 3D dove sono appoggiate le anteprime, che scorre trascinandolo sul mouse. Io lo trovo terribilmente comodo, tanto che i video i Youtube e le immagini di Deviantart li cerco solo con quello, ormai…
• Customize Google, un estensione che migliora la visualizzazione dei risultati di ricerca con Google e aggiunge un po’ di tweak alle varie applicazioni di Google.
• Google Gears, un’estensione che permette di usare in offline alcuni contenuti online (io lo uso per velocizzare il caricamento di wordpress ).
• Google Icon, aggiunge la favicon dei siti trovati nella ricerca di Google.
• Googlepedia, affianca alle ricerche di Google l’articolo di wikipedia che c’azzecca ( ) di più. A volte funziona, altre consuma solo la banda di wikipedia. Adesso che l’ho descritto mi sembra una cosa molto stupida…
• GooglePreview, affianca una schermata del sito che si sta cercando nelle ricerche di google e di yahoo.
• iGoogle Tab Remover, rimuove la fastidiosissima colonna laterale che è stata aggiunta ultimamente su iGoogle.
• Remove New Tab Button, come dice il nome rimuove il tastino “+” che aggiunge un nuovo tab. Preferisco il tasto centrale o la scorciatoia CONTROL+T.
• TargetKiller, evita che i target impostati nei link facciano aprire i link in nuovi tab o finestre. Io odio i target! (cit. puffo Brontolone)
• TinEye Image Search, per usare il motore di ricerca di immagini simili TinEye con immagini dei siti che si sta visitando.
• Toolbar Buttons, permette di aggiungere alcuni bottoni (da una lista abbastanza ricca) nella barra degli strumenti.

Scusate la lista prolissa… Ma sono le estensioni che attualmente uso.

I vantaggi di Epiphany

Ovvero perché avevo fatto il passaggio da Firefox a Epiphany.

È il browser predefinito di Gnome. Più integrato nel sistema, uso maggiore di librerie GTK2 ed estensioni in python (oltre che in XUL). Insomma è un browser leggero e rende i caratteri a schermo in modo più nitido rispetto a Firefox.

Il correttore ortografico non funziona, purtroppo, e non ha la quantità abnorme di estensioni tipica di Firefox. Questi sono i motivi per cui sono tornato a Mozilla “Macigno” Firefox. Consiglio Epiphany a:

• chi non usa le estensioni
• chi ha un pc un po’ datato ma ci usa Gnome lo stesso (si può usare Epiphany anche su fluxbox o xfce, comunque…)
• chi comunque voglia risparmiare un po’ di memoria in ambiente Gnome

Non che non ci siano le estensioni in Epiphany. Anzi è più facile crearle, visto che si possono fare anche in python. Solo che sono poche… Probabilmente perché è l’utenza di Epiphany è scarsa.

Poi adesso c’è pure un utente in meno…

Fonte: Wikipedia per la storia dei due browser.

Per chi volesse il sorgente SVG della prima immagine la può trovare nel mio box.net a destra. O per far prima a questo collegamento.

A few months ago i realized that I had too many bookmarks and that I had bookmarks on several computers, which led me to FoxMarks addon for Firefox (now Xmarks).

It worked actually quite well with synchronizing my bookmarks on my stationary and laptop and later i even added my bookmarks on my computer in the US. The only problem I had was that it suddenly ceized to exist on my stationary and wouldn’t reinstall, but that was soon fixed after a lot of googling.

Although i am quite agitated over the recurring crashes. However as the tabs are almost always saved it hasn’t been much of a hassle, except when running webradio in the background.

As far as Themes go, AeroFox have been my companion, sadly it does not work yet with 3.5 that I am trying out right now. So far 3.5 has been much like the older versions, i’m going to start exploring the new features, such as secret browsing. Although I don’t see how it helps me except keep that vicious Google from accumulating more and more data on my internet habits.

Other addons for tabbing; foxtabs and colortabs. Foxtabs essentially gives you the ability to scroll through tabs like you would in vista (start button plus tab). Foxtabs however goodlooking is mostly good when you have a large number of diffrent tabs that you want to swiftly access. Colorfultabs is good addon, but doesn’t do much more than give you a more colorful browser and a free trial to Luminosity braingames.

Shareaholic on the otherhand is great and used constantly, especially for posting anything and everything onto facebook to your friends distraught. However i’ve also added hotmail so I can easily share links via mail, and also find other websites for social sharing and bookmarking. I tried digg it today and there is alot more sites that also are interesting.

Cooliris is also highly recommended. This great looking addon, makes finding pictures on the web very easily and viewing the pictures you have yourself a joy and will impress friends and your senses guaranteed. I use it to view pictures in my folder and when I am searching for media on the web, from videos to art. Sadly the shooping part is only useful for residents of the US.

Hope you like these little addons as well and happy continuing browsing!