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- jeromeerome, on 10/10/2007, -4/+83This is really cool. It incorporates all the numerous viewing features available in iPhoto and sticks them in a web browser. All with slick animations just like it was a desktop app. How long until Flickr and other photo sites start taking these ideas?
- OneManArmy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+62Direct link to the gallery http://gallery.mac.com/emily_parker
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+49So Steve Jobs' real name is Emily Parker eh? I wonder who they hire to take all these professional looking photos they use in their promo materials of "real people, doing real things"
On a more serious note, hopefully Apple's upgrades to .Mac will push the free sites like flickr and YouTube to be even better and give them even more competition. - fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+32It's cool but the blog post is irrelevant:
http://gallery.mac.com/emily_parker
Feels a little bit chuggy but I'm guesing they'll optimise it further. - tinoproductions, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27no way!
its hosted by apple! - ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27Think we can take it down?
- Alwar, on 10/10/2007, -11/+33Wow!
- kaynesan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21I have to admit... this looks good.
Especially the cover flow feature and its speed is comparable to a desktop app. - kungfumaniac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20Flickr's a pain in the ass to use with iPhoto, Picasa web albums are no fun to use (and a pain to link to), myspace is teh ghey and facebook downgrades resolution.
If the export from iPhoto is as easy as it seems, it looks like we have a winner. - easyone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15A digger links us to a blog which links us to a twitter which links us to some actual content?
O_o - tbr0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Why are there never any ugly or fat people in Apple's photos?
- idntunknwn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Eh? Bad UI? My only complaint is that the option bars makes it look very cluttered. But if you hide the options bar, the interface becomes very clean. I don't see how it's a bad UI at all
- thickdrummer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Maybe thats just the Digg Effect taking its toll?
- Radan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11You can actually see the meta data by clicking the info button while viewing a picture. To me it actually looks like a kind of mid price average lens with f4.6, 80 mm and taken with iso 200. It's not the camera that makes the picture, its the guy behind the camera. ;)
- ScrumFritter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11So, does Apple pick a family every year to go on a really cool holiday so they can use the photos in their next Keynote? I think they should use Steve's real photo/movie library for these things, that would be interesting to see, :p. I bet he doesn't have anywhere near as many photos as some of those libraries.
- jeriqo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Flash better than quicktime!?
You mean.... you prefer youtube movies than quicktime trailers?
No ***** Way. - EBFoxbat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9It's also slow because it's being pounded right now. Be happy if your webgallery ever gets the hits that Emily Parker is getting right now.
However, where's the "Order Prints" button? - Kelmon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Why would you want videos in Flash format? It is convenient but the movie quality isn't usually very good and the objective for this to to provide image quality better than DVD. QuickTime works well for me.
- tizz66, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Apple is in California. I don't think fat people live in California (I could be wrong :p)
- zephc, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Except that they wouldn't run on the iPhone. Notice that despite all the effects used, there is no Flash.
That mousing over the gallery images is a seriously cool way of quickly thumbing thru the pics. Color me impressed. - Powerdrift, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Actually, the carousel is Flash. I was wondering how they would pull that off while I was watching the event.
- HautePie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8fat ugly bastards don't use macs they use alienware pcs and play games with ogres in all day *runs away... slowly*
- jgreene777, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Loads just fine for me. Are you on dial-up or something?
- Grogtron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Doesn't matter. Just about any decent camera (point and shoot/SLR/DSLR etc) could take those pictures. Lights and experience will do the rest.
- Kelmon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'm going to assume that you don't take photographs much. For people who do take pictures and want to share them this sort of thing is interesting and useful.
- markwilcox, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9flickr isn't very free, you need to pay a fee to even have 3 different albums, and they limit your number of photos. The only appealing thing about flickr is it's amazing community.
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8It only runs slowly the first time you view a gallery, presumably while it downloads the javascript etc.
Then it's faster. - r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Only the carousel uses Flash, and that is not static.
- rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I like the interface, but wow those are some really great pictures would be nice to see what camera/lens is being used.
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+61. Google's options aren't anywhere near as seamless.
2. They do not offer the integrated keychain (password) sync.
3. They don't offer IMAP mail, which has become a must have feature (can't remember how many times I've had email unrecoverable locally)
4. .Mac isn't full of advertising. - gmprunner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I've always wondered where the heck Steve got all those pictures and videos from. He seems to have one master library that he always uses, filled with pictures of hundreds of different people doing random stuff (all perfectly exposed and color-balanced, of course).
- mlostracco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6It's an Apple demo gallery.
- geoken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6How can you compare you tube movies to quicktime trailers? Quickitme trailers can be downloaded at 1080p, you tube videos are compressed down to 320x200. Quicktime trailers can also be over 100 megs, save a you tube video to your HD and tell me how much space it takes up.
Check out this high quality you tube video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YJZ1tYUytY -this video was uploaded back when there was a loophole in youtube which would allow you to directly upload a video if it was already sized to the correct resolution and converted to the flash video format. Back then youtube would push these videos straight through without re-encoding them. They've since changed this and now all videos (including flash videos with all the correct settings) are re-encoded. - skoles, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9"When you do things right, people won't think you've done anything at all."
- gordonf238, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Except that Flash is a major memory/CPU hog and was never designed to handle full-motion video playback. Quicktime is far superior.
- superkendall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Scrolling through thumbnails for a subgallery just by drifting the mouse across the gallery thumbnail is not new? That was the most impressive part to me... Where has that been done before?
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6For my $99.99, I get 10Gb of storage for anything (not just pictures). I get IMAP email (which is worth it alone, cos my webmail and local mail have identical messages on them), my contacts/keychain (passwords)/calender/mail account setting, rules and signatures and smart mailbox are all synchronised between all my Macs.
That's way worth $99.99. Flickr isn't worth it's price, and I no longer pay for it. - andrewgw, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9I can't help but wonder where these photos actually come from; I read once that Steve Jobs disliked using stock images for his keynotes, and instead gathered the best looking photos that Apple's staff could cough-up. If anybody knows for sure, I'd love to hear it!
I find the .Mac page a little slow, and I wish the images were bigger... I don't find the interface that viewing-friendly to be honest. - speg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Apple often takes photo's from an internal contest, get employees to submit their libraries and give an ipod or two away.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Did your mom have to tie a pork chop around your neck to get the dog to play with you too? By saying stupid crap like, "here comes the comments slagging me off from the fanboys", you're really crying out for attention. Here, I'll make it easy for you. Copy and paste this into your next post, "OH PLEASE TALK TO ME! My inflatable girlfriend just doesn't do it for me anymore! SOB!"
Only trying to help. - r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Yes, I get 10Gb of storage (for more than just pictures), a nice "IMAP" mail account, and synchronised contacts/bookmarks/keychain (passwords) between my Macs. Worth way more than a few comments on Flickr.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Nothing new is correct. but the point of things like this is to make it easy for Mac users to upload their photos or movies and send a link for anyone to view them. Nothing new, just simplified for Mac users.
- Kelmon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'm thinking something similar but I do like the community on Flickr and the comments that you can get. Photo Gallery is a good way to share pictures but not to receive feedback. I think I'm going to stick with Flickr but will likely use Photo Gallery for just general sharing due to the convenience.
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Works fine in Firefox too.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I actually agree with you that there isn't anything new here. Apple just made it easy for those that don't know how to do this with other programs and put it all in one place with a .mac membership.
I did however digg you down because you asked so nicely. - avatarpalin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Fong Light Sphere. It's the $40 secret to great photography.. but in daylight they would of been reflecting light to counter the shadow, high zoom for the aperture effect... It's your standard stock photography stuff...
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Wouldn't the overall speed of a web app have more to do with your access speed than with the app itself?
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Is saying "Wow! Who cares!?" about anything Apple related in an Apple post really the only way you can get people to talk to you? That is just so sad and you have my sympathy.
- mikev, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Actually if you view one of those galleries on an iPhone, it is displayed exactly like the Photos app on the phone, with the next/previous button as well as play.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6According to daringfireball, the javascript weighs in at 10 000 lines
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