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« on: August 22, 2008, 07:37:54 pm »

This is one of the coolest photo tools to come out in years - perhaps not very useful, but certainly a glimpse into the future. Reminds me of Blade Runner's photoviewer, but cooler:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UItGPsN1M

official site (haven't read their copyright policy yet):
http://photosynth.net/

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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2008, 06:59:03 am »

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This is one of the coolest photo tools to come out in years - perhaps not very useful, but certainly a glimpse into the future. Reminds me of Blade Runner's photoviewer, but cooler:

demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UItGPsN1M

official site (haven't read their copyright policy yet):
http://photosynth.net/
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As the company quotes on their website , they are not cool enough to run it cross platform ... so unfortunately for us cool mac users this technology is not available and can be viewed .
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2008, 07:48:47 am »

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As the company quotes on their website , they are not cool enough to run it cross platform ... so unfortunately for us cool mac users this technology is not available and can be viewed .
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It is Microsoft, so I'm not entirely surprised...

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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2008, 10:17:02 am »

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So is Microsoft Office but that runs fine on the Mac...
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2008, 02:33:49 pm »

FWIW Office 2008 for Mac is developed by a separate division at Microsoft, the Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU). Good guys in a bad guy world ;-).

Microsoft only offers one other cross-platform app that I can recall, Microsoft Expression Media, purchased from the makers of iView and named after another acquisition (Creature House's Expression). So it was already running on the Mac; by some miracle MS left it that way.

Or you might add the original cross-platform Expression illustration app (acquired from Creature House, updated once and released for free, then integrated into the Windows-only MS "Let's be like Adobe" Expression graphics suite. (Does anybody use the suite?)
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« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2008, 06:11:59 pm »

The amazing thing is that Photosynth doesn't require Internet Exploder.  I can view the synth's nicely in Firefox.
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« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2009, 04:50:00 pm »

Photosynth now does run on Mac and has been developed considerably since this topic was first posted.  Worth taking a look.  I have to admit that I find this technology much more exciting and interesting than the prospect of being able to shoot HD video on my still camera  

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« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2009, 10:02:25 pm »

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So is Microsoft Office but that runs fine on the Mac...
Office for Mac is simply awful compared to the PC version. I still use Office on Windows as a result.
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« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2009, 10:55:59 pm »

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FWIW Office 2008 for Mac is developed by a separate division at Microsoft, the Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU). Good guys in a bad guy world ;-).

Microsoft only offers one other cross-platform app that I can recall, Microsoft Expression Media, purchased from the makers of iView and named after another acquisition (Creature House's Expression). So it was already running on the Mac; by some miracle MS left it that way.
To offer a slightly different view    - Apple bought Logic and simply ditched their long term Windows users. The programme that became Final Cut was originally cross platform, though not released, Apple bought it as as protection, but then did some great things with it . Apple I'd say are the far nastier and more controlling of the two, it's just that Apple weren't as good at computers for business as MS and generally lost the plot in the 90s, so are seen as the sympathetic underdog. Though now with the iPod, iTunes and iPhone, they are are anything but now.
And Apple offers just iTunes, Quicktime and Safari for the PC all inferior to other software available on the PC, so MS actually do far more software of substance for the Mac than Apple do for the PC, with both an Office and a graphic design suite. Though Filemaker's owners are owned by Apple and is cross platform, but interestingly it was DOS in it's origins, despite it's Mac start. And if Office for the Mac hadn't been kept up by MS, it may have finished Apple off when Apple were strugging. MS also gave Apple cash to keep going when Jobs returned to Apple.

And at end of the day Gates is spending his ill gotten gains on the poor and desperately sick people, not just buying more high tech shares and black polonecks! So MS is certainly the 'nicer' of the two. Anyway all businesses are more like psychopaths in their behaviour than fluffy, grass munching sheep.
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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2009, 12:51:44 am »

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And at end of the day Gates is spending his ill gotten gains on the poor and desperately sick people, not just buying more high tech shares and black polonecks!
I got stoned once for suggesting Gates may have done more for humanity than Mother Teresa.

Those who think Apple is still on the Good Side of The Force just haven't been paying attention.  And too bad they can no longer tell the difference between Style and Design.
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« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2009, 02:48:03 am »

I remember when this was demo'd by microsoft, maybe 2 years back at a conference. Never thought it would ever happen.
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« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2009, 01:14:40 pm »

Couriously the videos been pulled by youtube, maybe it showed a MS product that actually worked?
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« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2009, 03:15:57 pm »

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I got stoned once for suggesting Gates may have done more for humanity than Mother Teresa.

You're probably right on the money on that point. It is possible, if not likely, that Bill Gates's money will be mostly to thank for (possibly) eradicating malaria in our lifetime - this because malaria cure doesn't grow hair or fix erectile dysfunction of rich westerners so there's no political or financial interest in such cure. He also donates more money to AIDS research than almost every nation out there.

Further, he has pledged almost his entire fortune to charity when he dies, along with Warren Buffet, (and I think) Charlie Munger.
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