While examining iLife '08 this afternoon, one of our Twitter buddies posted this link to a live .Mac web gallery. It's very slick indeed.Drag your cursor over a gallery to "flip" through its photos, and click anyone to view. Once you've entered a gallery (Apple is still rather reflection crazy), you've got several options. Choose a grid, carousel or mosaic layout (the carousel is impressive), or simply start a slideshow. You may also change the background's color and resize any photo. Finally, you can subscribe to an album's RSS feed, send to a friend or add photos (if you've got permission to do so).
Play any movie with a click, and select desired size. From there, you can easily send it to a friend of download for safe keeping.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
8-07-2007 @ 3:30PM
required said...
at first glance I was impressed, on second I noticed it was done using flash and was no longer as impressed
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 3:35PM
brian said...
And visiting with Safari in 10.3.9 gives this message:
-----
This browser is incompatible with .Mac Web Gallery.
We support the following browsers:
Mac OS X
Firefox 1.5 or later
-----
No mention of Safari.
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 3:35PM
required said...
carousel that is
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 3:40PM
brian said...
HA! I created a page AGES ago that used the same "slide the cursor" mouseover effect to show a series of pics--I used mine to do something like Apple's QTVR.
http://brian.brianashe.com/qtvr/
Just take a couple dozen lines of PHP, point it to a folder full of images, and it generates all the HTML and javascript to make that happen.
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 3:46PM
Matt G said...
WOW, go to that link on your iphone! It will give you an optimized iPhone layout! Looks amazing!
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 3:57PM
weston deboer said...
on the iphone it looks amazing.
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 4:05PM
Todd said...
Amazing stuff. Setting aside the community aspects, flickr just got pwned today.
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 4:08PM
Stefan said...
Interesting that they call it Carousel. Will this be the new name of CoverFlow in Leopard? After all the name "CoverFlow" wouldn't make much sense inside the Finder.
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 4:31PM
iJyrki said...
It's pretty amazing. Are they using Rails for the gallery?
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 4:35PM
Jeremy said...
So I guess the galleries have to go on .Mac, which is a shame. I'd be a whole lot more interested if you could put them on your own server.
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 5:13PM
Mohit Goyal said...
few questions about features about Apple's new .mac Web Gallery:
1. does it allow for sub-albums?
2. does it allow for visitors to leave comments?
3. can it tell you how many people have visited an album or photo?
looks great...thinking of switching to this from my Gallery install.
thanks!
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 5:57PM
MUTE MATT said...
I noticed that the color profiles in carousel view are much different from the other views. Very dull and de-saturated.
Reply
8-07-2007 @ 6:42PM
Mike T said...
As if we all dont spend enough. Now we need to spend $79 for iLife 08 in order to use the new features on my iPhone 07 that cost $599.
Wow. Un-F(#$*)in real.
Reply
8-08-2007 @ 2:45AM
Alberto said...
This is Web Gallery is waaay better: http://gallery.mac.com/brian_crawford#
:P
Reply
8-08-2007 @ 4:41AM
SuperFly said...
Seems as slow as HELL, just like the .mac of old. Yes, it is an example gallery and yes there are loads viewing it at the moment. Even more reason to make it fast in my opinion.
Reply
8-08-2007 @ 6:53AM
scott said...
10,000 lines of javascript in gallery.js alone! BLOAT!
Reply
8-08-2007 @ 9:44AM
LeslieT said...
My major disappointment is no support for text comments. I like to have little bits of information along with my photos. You don't even get a title except in grid view. I have the same complaint about the photo support in the iPod.
Reply
8-08-2007 @ 12:55PM
Joe said...
Do they ever have pics that arent perfect... does anyone know what camera they use for these shots?
Reply
8-09-2007 @ 3:16AM
dr.xnlb said...
From what I can tell, you won't need .Mac to host these... They have a similar thing in iWeb too which should be able to be uploaded to any web server. I'll have to play with it when my copy gets in.
Reply
8-09-2007 @ 3:59AM
pagod said...
doesn't work in my firefox 2.0.0.6 on win2k... i can see the layout, but no pictures :-(
Reply