Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Freeware, Graphic Design
Google releases Visigami, open source image browser
It's a pretty neat little application -- not exactly the kind of thing that anyone has probably been hoping for (it seems more fun than utilitarian), but if you find yourself often browsing photos online, this definitely seems like a more fun way to do it. And it's one more reason to praise all the great developers working on our platform -- it's little apps like this that make the Mac user experience so much better.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David Hildreth said 9:36PM on 5-02-2008
I'd be a great way of getting CC and non-copyrighted images...
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Dan said 10:36PM on 5-02-2008
It would be if one could download the picture from Visigami or at least select a picture and go to the page it's on (maybe I'm missing something?) If they add that to the application, then I would definitely use it to find photos to use in designs.
John from Buffalo said 12:27PM on 5-03-2008
Ya, because all us photographers love going out in the extreme weather and conditions and wasting our time so other people can profit off our efforts.
Ya, I sure hope they can offer that up.
Martijn Engler said 4:56PM on 5-03-2008
John, if you don't want other people to use your photographs for profit you should license them properly.
David said "cc and non copyrighted", and he did not mention anything about profits.
If a web designer wants to use the pictures for profits, and you don't like that, you should use the non-commercial CC license (or not even CC, for that sake ;-)). It's all up to you.
Blaktornado said 10:06PM on 5-02-2008
"it's little apps like this that make the Mac user experience so much better."
I must agree completely.
You don't get fun little apps like this on Windows and that's one of the reasons why it's nowhere near as good in terms of user experience.
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crazypenguin said 10:30PM on 5-02-2008
sadly, it does not work with tiger, i might upgrade soon, seeing as my birthday is like a week away.
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robogobo said 7:27PM on 5-03-2008
happy birthday!
Dary said 12:18AM on 5-03-2008
is it same the PicLens's Add-ons?
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Griffin Stewart said 9:32AM on 5-03-2008
I like piclens better. By far the best web image browsing experience available. Check it out here:
http://www.piclens.com/site/firefox/mac/
www.jgriffinstewart.com
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Paul said 11:35AM on 5-03-2008
Piclens if great! I will have to check this out too.
Michael said 11:02AM on 5-03-2008
First, thanks again for keeping all us jacked-in to your blog-- well-informed of new, useful, and entertaining information.
Second, I'm going to side with the recommendation. The PicLens recommendation.
PicLens is by far, for any computing category, a best-in-show (hmm, not a bad pun) enhancement to the computing, let alone, browser/image surfing experience.
It's form matches its function. To the Nth degree.
It's definitely a "WOW, look at that app", one of the top twenty I've seen since beginning my computer experience on the Mac, in 1984. Yes, that's right, since the runner threw the hammer.
Thanks again for worthwhile daily reads.
Michael
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