Filed under: iLife, Internet Tools
Check out a .Mac web gallery
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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
required said 3:30PM on 8-07-2007
at first glance I was impressed, on second I noticed it was done using flash and was no longer as impressed
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brian said 3:35PM on 8-07-2007
And visiting with Safari in 10.3.9 gives this message:
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This browser is incompatible with .Mac Web Gallery.
We support the following browsers:
Mac OS X
Firefox 1.5 or later
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No mention of Safari.
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required said 3:35PM on 8-07-2007
carousel that is
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brian said 3:40PM on 8-07-2007
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.
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Matt G said 3:46PM on 8-07-2007
WOW, go to that link on your iphone! It will give you an optimized iPhone layout! Looks amazing!
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weston deboer said 3:57PM on 8-07-2007
on the iphone it looks amazing.
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Todd said 4:05PM on 8-07-2007
Amazing stuff. Setting aside the community aspects, flickr just got pwned today.
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Stefan said 4:08PM on 8-07-2007
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.
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iJyrki said 4:31PM on 8-07-2007
It's pretty amazing. Are they using Rails for the gallery?
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Jeremy said 4:35PM on 8-07-2007
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.
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Mohit Goyal said 5:13PM on 8-07-2007
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!
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MUTE MATT said 5:57PM on 8-07-2007
I noticed that the color profiles in carousel view are much different from the other views. Very dull and de-saturated.
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Mike T said 6:42PM on 8-07-2007
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.
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Alberto said 2:45AM on 8-08-2007
This is Web Gallery is waaay better: http://gallery.mac.com/brian_crawford#
:P
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SuperFly said 4:41AM on 8-08-2007
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.
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scott said 6:53AM on 8-08-2007
10,000 lines of javascript in gallery.js alone! BLOAT!
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LeslieT said 9:44AM on 8-08-2007
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.
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Joe said 12:55PM on 8-08-2007
Do they ever have pics that arent perfect... does anyone know what camera they use for these shots?
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dr.xnlb said 3:16AM on 8-09-2007
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.
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pagod said 3:59AM on 8-09-2007
doesn't work in my firefox 2.0.0.6 on win2k... i can see the layout, but no pictures :-(
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