So I got a new laptop for home the other day. It had Vista Home edition preinstalled. I really need remote desktop, which is only available in Vista Ultimate (and Vista Business) edition, so I picked up a Vista Ultimate Upgrade box. The Vista Upgrade box is a little cheaper than full the full-on Vista Ultimate box. This simple [...]
Mar 212008
Mar 192008
The Gallery project, perhaps the most widely used open-source photo gallery web server subsystem in the world, is updating their RSS feed generator module to support mediaRSS. That means you will soon be able to view your Gallery-managed web photos in PicLens! In this message thread on the Gallery discussion forums, user ‘valiant’ mentions that the new mediaRSS (PicLens!) support [...]
Mar 182008
Looks like WordPress is prepping for a major rennovation of their administrative UI in an upcoming 2.5 release. The screenshots look great. I just hope this doesn’t break the API level stuff used by tens of thousands of blog templates. Share/Bookmark
Mar 162008
A couple of website authors out there have had a little difficulty figuring out how to get their web sites set up with mediaRSS feeds to support PicLens browsing. You can follow our instructions for how to construct a mediaRSS feed and link it into your HTML pages and still get no joy from PicLens [...]
Mar 122008
Mr Alex puts in his two cents about PicLens over at Gizmos for Geeks. Opening: “PicLens Firefox extension is a photo library revolution”. Closing: “Go download it already.” Check it out. Share/Bookmark
Mar 112008
PicLens is the featured add-on for IE on Windows Marketplace this week! Right there on the front page. Woohoo! Share/Bookmark
Mar 082008
PicLens is featured in the Business section of the New York Times! In “Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine” John Markoff writes about the emerging trend in the technology field to rethink the way we interact with technology, and cites PicLens as an example of such a rethink. Share/Bookmark
Mar 082008
Hey, Cooliris has a blog! When did that happen? ;> I just noticed the new blog link in the footer of piclens.com. Look to the Cooliris blog for official company news, events, and happenings. News like hooking up with freewebs.com to provide PicLens and PicLensLite photo gallery viewing for the 20 million user web sites [...]
Mar 082008
Photo sharing site Fotki.com has implemented mediaRSS feeds in their photo albums and image search results, which means you can surf millions of Fotki photos in PicLens! A Fotki search for “butterfly” returns this Fotki page, which looks even better in PicLens: You can also view Fotki photo albums in PicLens. Here’s an album carefully [...]
Mar 062008
I found myself in a lull between storms a few days ago, so I decided to do some housecleaning in our makefile before the next code rush hit. And therein lies a story… We use one makefile to build all versions of PicLens for all browsers on all platforms. It’s loosely patterned after the Google Gears project [...]
Mar 032008
My Cooliris cubemate Kevin is a chronic runner. He has mentioned on more than one occasion about going out for a 6am “refresher” run. 6am! The only way you’ll catch me running at 6am is if my bed is on fire. Actually, a bed on fire would be nice and warm, and hardly an incentive to dash [...]