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The Stanford Daily Adopts PicLens

January 31, 2008

Stanford’s campus newspaper, The Stanford Daily, has added mediaRSS feeds for photos published with news articles on their site. PicLens autodetects these mediaRSS feeds and displays those same photos in full-screen mode.
What’s more, the Stanford Daily’s mediaRSS is also paginated - notice the images load on demand to the left in PicLens.  They’ve set up their […]

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Ken Henderson: 1967 - 2008

January 31, 2008

Ken Henderson, SQL expert and author of numerous SQL and Delphi books, passed away this past Sunday.
From NewsOK.com online edition of The Oklahoman newspaper:
HENDERSON, Kenneth W., 41, died Sunday. Services 1 p.m. Wednesday (Walker, Shawnee).
I presume the latter refers to Walker Funeral Services in Shawnee, OK.
Thanks to Allen Bauer for sending me a link to […]

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PicLens 1.6.1 Adds Search

January 29, 2008

We’ve just pushed out a PicLens 1.6 update that adds web search to the immersive 3D PicLens media experience.  This release runs in Firefox Mac and Firefox Windows.

While zooming around in images on the 3D wall, hit Tab to select the Search box in the top right corner of the screen (or mouse click on it).  […]

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Turning Heat into Power

January 26, 2008

The Discovery Channel reports on a new form of power generation that can convert heat into electricity, apparently at scale.
The inventor of this new system is Lonnie Johnson, who also happens to be the inventor of the “Super Soaker” squirt gun.  Johnson’s new focus on electromechanical systems appears to be underwritten by the success of […]

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PicLens 1.6 Released!

January 15, 2008

After many weeks and months of frenzied labor by the CoolIris crew, I’m pleased to announce the release of PicLens 1.6 Beta for Firefox Mac and Firefox Windows!
The headline feature for the 1.6 release is “The Wall” - a 3D scrolling infinite wall of images for viewing your favorite photo sites and image search results.  Take […]

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