I’ve stopped visiting websites. No, really. There’s only one website I visit these days. Google Reader. Google Reader is a feed reader. If you want to just catch up on the new stuff on a site, you can add the site to Google Reader. Anything new that is published on the site appears in Google Reader. Right now, I’ve subscribed to over 50 feeds. There’s no way I can remember to visit 50 sites – so I’m actually able to read more and miss less. ...
You can play a video backwards and still recognise the scenes quite well. Can you do that with sound? I tried it on this Bryan Adams clip of Summer of ‘69 (mp3). When played backwards (mp3), it almost sounds like Arabic! Instruments sound weird backwards too, like the guitar played backwards and drums played backwards. It’s seems obvious once you see the wave file. The picture below shows the guitar. The sounds are clearly not symmetric left to right. ...
Top 10 cameras on Flickr. Topping the list is Nikon (D50 and D70), followed by Canon.
New in Picasa’s beta: geotagging (place photos on the map) search by colour (find photos with red and yellow) hide pictures: that’s useful, sometimes… upload to Google video and to Picasa Web FTP your photos Comments Anand 15 Jun 2006 11:39 am: I got an invitation from Google to try Picasa Web Albums. How does one selectively share some photos and not all in an album ? I do not want to mail these photos instead would like to make only some public. Could you highlight the major differences between this service and that from Flickr ? S Anand 15 Jun 2006 8:51 pm: You can select photos from your Picasa album to upload – you don’t need to upload all of them. When compared with Flickr, PWA is more for sharing with friends and family than for photo discovery. So no tagging, no groups, no top-10 photos now browsing for other users. Anand 16 Jun 2006 1:52 pm: I know I can selectively upload photos from Picasa to web albums. I may want to recover space on my PC by uploading all the photos from my hard disk to web albums. from that collection of photos online i may want to share only some publicly. I suppose then I have to create a pair of albums online for every album in Picasa so that one album online can have the private pictures and the other can have the public pictures S Anand 17 Jun 2006 10:25 am: Yes - you can’t mark individual photos as private. Actually, PicasaWeb doesn’t have any such thing as private. Even if you mark an album as unlisted, if a person knows its URL, they can always access it. Anand Srini 17 Jun 2006 4:33 pm: If a user has not chosent to make any album public then knowing the URL does not reveal those pictures. try it out. make all your albums unlisted and see for yourself what you can see using your URL.I have tested it. the only solution to my problem is to move private pictures from one album to another album and make it unlisted S Anand 25 Jun 2006 8:54 am: Oh, OK. But looks like privacy problems will continue to plague Picasa Web Albums for a while. Just do a google search for site:picasaweb.google.com
Google has released Picasa Web Albums and I managed to sign up. See my web albums. The bad part about Picasa Web is that it’s a long way from Flickr in terms of tagging and sharing. But it probably wasn’t built for that. The good part is that it’s integrated with Picasa (integration with Flickr was my top wishlist item for Picasa) and best of all, with Google Earth. You can geotag photos on the new Beta version of Picasa. ...
Taglines. A timeline of Flickr tags. I can’t describe this one. Just see it.
Retrievr. You sketch out what you want to see and it tries to make a match on Flickr.
Flickr has introduced a set of new exploration features. You can view interesting photos, tag clusters, and Flickr’s favourite sets / groups.
Sparkler art. Long exposure photos on Flickr with a sparkler. via Dhar
Flickr enhancements include 20 MB/month of uploads, 200 photos, and cheaper Flickr Pro accounts.
Pictures from the Mumbai Blogger’s meet with Aadisht, Altaf, Amit, Anand, Arnab, Nandan, Ravikiran, Saket, Sameer, Yazad, Zainab, and myself. Comments S Anand 15 Apr 2005 5:33 am: More photos from Sameer
lickr: Flickr, without the Flash. Flickr is a popular photo hosting service that uses embedded Flash files as part of their interface. On every page, there will be a little delay while a new Flash file loads. Lickr removes the need for Flash. It runs within the web browser Firefox, stripping the Flash before the user can even see it, and replacing it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript. ...
Google sightseeing. See the US through Google Maps satellite images. Comments S Anand 8 Apr 2005 11:00 am: Also check out the Googlemaps tag on Flickr S Anand 8 Apr 2005 11:12 am: and the Memory maps
How to beat the free account limits in Flickr. Comments Dhar 4 Apr 2005 10:46 am: Read the article with great interest. This was an unfortunate title as it does not tell you anything about Dhar 4 Apr 2005 10:47 am: beating the limit, all it does it tell you how to maximize the number of photos you can upload. Pity… :( S Anand 4 Apr 2005 11:35 am: Actually, using sets, you can upload as many photos as you want and view them. So that’s really beating the limit, in a way. Dhar 5 Apr 2005 1:24 pm: Ahhh, will check the funda of sets when I get back to Mumbai after my trip to Jammu!
A Flickr related tag browser.
Transparent laptop screens. Quite clever, actually. via Dhar Comments S Anand 30 Mar 2005 6:15 am: More transparent screens at Flickr