I know, I’m a total sucker for glittery user interfaces, but isn’t this 3-D flyby of my Flickr Photostream just a really cool way to browse through the pictures? The tool that is producing the interface is called PicLens and comes in flavours for Mac and Windows, and supports the major browsers on both platforms.… Continue Reading
You may have come across the announcement today that FriendFeed, a so called lifestreaming utility has come out of private beta and is open to the general public. The general idea is somewhat similar to the News Feed or Mini Feed concept in Facebook. Within Facebook the two feeds collect together news stories about people… Continue Reading
Apologies to anybody on my Facebook friends list if you turn up in any pictures I have on Flickr – I’ve come across a new Facebook/Flickr application called Flickr Loves You that provides much better Facebook integration than my previous choice zuPort: Flickr, specifically it provides the people tagging feature that regular Facebook pictures support.… Continue Reading
We’re in the middle of the busiest time at St James. Last night was the traditional Nine Lessons and Carols service, that had a record breaking 302 people attend – with people stood packed into the vestry, and stood in the North Aisle – apparently it got so hot in the building that the organ… Continue Reading
Flickr have recently added a neat new variation onto their explore pages called Flickr Places. The idea is relatively simple in that it is wrapping the place search that gets used when placing your pictures onto a map into a much simpler interface. Given a place name, it then goes away and builds a page… Continue Reading