Evening everyone, it’s been one hell of a long week this week. I have been working on a major project which is going live in the UK Legal sector tomorrow morning at 6am, my part is ready but everyone else’s isn’t! So having only just eaten my tea, I really can’t be bothered to do any work or continue with the PHP oAuth Twitter scripts that I am working on!
So I am listening to This Week in Google (TWiG), and taking a look at @Google ‘s latest offering in the maps department. Google Maps has now integrated Google Earth into the web browser interface. Meaning that you get all the great Google Earth items via your browser with out the need to install and run Google Earth. I will point out however that there is a plugin that is required, it works in @Firefox / Google Chrome and IE on Windows, and Firefox / Safari on mac.
The reason that I post about this is because I was amazed how many 3D buildings have been sketched up in Bristol (UK).
Google Earth via the Browser, 3d buildings in Bristol
For those that do not know, that is the centre of Bristol. Not only is a building that is only a few months old there, but even the little pillars down the middle of the parade are there! Who ever sketched these up, thank you!!
The only down point of this, is now I can easily use Google Earth when I am meant to be doing something else!
Signing Off another pointless post!
jamesakadamingo
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Picasa's Logo. It makes me wonder if Picasa are infact a hippy department of Aperture Science!
It’s taken me a while to find a WordPress plugin that does what I want it to do, but I think that I have finally found one.
I have started to play with a few of Google’s applications, after listening to the T.W.i.G (This week in Google) Podcast by Leo Laporte. One of the first PC apps (rather than web app) that I chose to test was Picasa. For those that do not know about Picasa, it is a photo editing and organising program for both the PC and Mac. The software provides some great features to allow you to organise your pictures, and also provides you with the ability to upload them to your own Picasa web album for all your friends and family to see.
The feature which really impressed me with Picasa is its facial recognition system. Shortly after it loaded all my pictures (only a few minutes for over 30GB of photos), I was informed that it had found some faces and would I like to identify them! After tagging a few people into photos (akin to Facebook), I was surprised to see an little notification asking me to validate its guesses! It had taken the pictures I had manually tagged, and found other pictures with those people in them.
Along with the upload and facial recognition features, Picasa also provides some touch up and alteration features, from the tipical Red Eye tools to a “straighten” feature which allows you to sort out those slightly wonkey pictures!
The Photos page of my site is now pulled from my Picasa web albums, by a WordPress plugin known as kPicasa. There are others out there, but I found kPicasa to be an easy to use yet fully featured plugin.
Feel free to take a look at my photos, and leave any comments if you wish!
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