Tag: SLIDESHOW

Flickr has announced that visitors who browse the site using an iPad can now view photos using a lightbox-style viewer. On any photo page, simply tap the picture you'd like to view and the background will darken and the higher-resolution image will load in the foreground. It's a subtle change, but one which definitely makes browsing Flickr on an iPad a more enjoyable (and efficient) ...

Android's built-in image browser, 'Gallery', isn't fantastic. By default it displays a load of tiny, unwieldy and laggy thumbnails. While you can strongarm it into behaving better, why bother when excellent alternatives like JustPictures are available? From the outset, JustPictures replicates the built-in Android app -- but it's faster, prettier, and less fiddly. You are presented with a simple ...

Among the other improvements, tweaks, and retoolings headed to Ubuntu 10.04, the Ubiquity installer slideshow appears set for an update. Ubuntu contributor Dylan McCall has posted preview images of the new screens which could be coming soon to the OS's Ubiquity installer. Interestingly enough they're cast in the soft browns of Lucid's first alpha releases -- and not the Mac-esque color schemes ...

In a move that is surely reminiscent of Microsoft and Bing's emphasis on VISUAL RESULTS (did you see Pivot?!), Google has just launched a new feature for its Reader. It's called Reader Play, and it lets you click through all of the goodies that the Internet has to offer (or at least the bits of the Internet that Google has deemed 'cool') in a sharp, fast, and minimalist black interface. Yes, this ...

Facebook is the biggest photo sharing site in the world, so it's pretty likely your friends have some photos posted there. The thing is, nobody's pretending that browsing photos on Facebook is fast or user-friendly. In fact, the whole experience totally, in the parlance of our times, sucks. That's why you should get PhotoBook, a zippy, great-looking Facebook photo browser for Mac. PhotoBook ...

PowerPoint slideshows can be a good way to get ideas across -- when used correctly. Sometimes, they can be boring and confusing, even doing more harm than good. Here are a few tools and techniques you can use to create engaging and effective presentations. 1. Use the Lessig Method All too often, PowerPoint presentations become bogged down in graphs, long quotes and giant chunks of text. My ...

One Bing feature some users enjoy are the ever-changing, interactive background images it displays on the main search page. If you count yourself among them, check out Bing4Free, a desktop application which pulls those images down to your Windows PC and uses them for a wallpaper slideshow. On the downside, the images which Bing4Free downloads are fairly low-resolution (958x512). On a ...

2Pad is a new and interesting photo importing service. The process is compatible with GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo! and AOL Mail, Mobile Me, and any mail server with IMAP support. Provide your credentials, and 2pad will begin culling your stored messages for picture and video attachments. You'll receive an email notification when the process starts and again when it's complete. Files 2pad finds will ...

Image sharing site Flickr has allowed users to view attractive slideshows of search results or image sets for a while now. But for some reason, up until now you had to rely on a third party service if you wanted to embed that slideshow on your own web page. Or you could create an iFrame and figure out how to create the code yourself. But who wants to go through the trouble? This week, Flickr ...

Tiltviewer is a very slick way to present your photos online. Generally photos are presented in a slide show presentation where photos are displayed one after the other. But unlike a typical slide show Tiltviewer presents your photos in an almost 3D like grid allowing people the freedom to glide around your photos. In order to use Tiltviewer you will have to download the code and place it on your ...

Barack Obama's design team has garnered a lot of praise for their work on his campaign materials, including the official website. Heck, there have been entire articles devoted to praising their choice of typefaces. One of the cooler elements the Obama team has cooked up for their website is a slideshow-like animated list for front page navigation. If you're a fan of this slideshow, and you ...

Yahoo! has added the ability to view photos in email messages as slideshows without downloading them first. Honestly, we're not entirely certain when this feature was added, but it was brought to our attention by a reader comment. When we looked into it, we found that at least five months ago, there was no photo slideshow feature. And now there is. So we're going to call it a new feature. In ...

We're big fans of Piclens, a web browser plugin that lets you create photo slideshows out of search results from sites like Flickr, Google Images, Photobucket, Facebook, and about a dozen other services. PicLens has come a long way since we first covered it back in 2006. At the time, Piclens was only available for Safari. A few months ago, Piclens released browser plugins for Firefox and ...

Last year we introduced PicLens as a plug-in for Safari that allowed you to view full screen slideshows of photo galleries and images in a slick interface that nicely integrated with the browsing experience. Since then, support for both Firefox and IE browsers on both Windows and Mac have been added allowing the rest of the world to give this plug-in a try. For those who haven't heard of it, ...

Everybody loves a good slideshow, right? Sure, you can go to Flickr, type in a search term and watch the results scroll by. But after a while you might just wind up seeing the same images over and over. Blogger Play guarantees you'll almost never see the same photos twice. That's because this photo slideshow shows only images that have been recently uploaded to Google's Blogger. And when we say ...