Today I received an email from the Cooliris team about another thing they are working on. The ability to add a Cooliris Wall to any web page or blog post. Below is a Wall of my Flickr account. You can also use a Picasa account or any rss feed. I just tried to embed a wall from one of my galleries with a rss feed, but my shared server will not let the Wall cross link with the Cooliris server as a crossdomain.xml file is needed. I have a ticket in with support of my server to see what can be done with it.
Update
Got it all working on my own with a little effort and not being afraid of bringing down the sever. Created a file and called it crossdomain.xml, pasted the code supplied by Cooliris into it and placed in the public_html folder on my server and away it went. Will not add that wall to this post though.
I just found out about this on my friend in Argentina site ilovecolors. He keeps abreast of a lot of things on the web. Wow, Google is doing it again, and keeping it open source too. Look out Microsoft, open source will win. Google Wave is about to roll the internet in to one big ball. Something that I think will be one giant step forward. They have been working on it for 2 years and have a ways to go yet. They are so excited about it they had to tell us what they are doing in advance. It also being open source they wanted to let the developers know so they could start playing with things too. This is cool and will be lots of fun and informative.
I got my official Photo Mark’s Boo Zoo site up and running on May 1st 2009! It is a WordPress Mu (multi user) site with the new BuddyPress V 1.0 plug-in installed. BuddyPress also allows for plug-in to be installed into it. This setup creates a social network much like Facebook, but more personal and without all the junk. Developers are already creating plug-ins and am using from some BuddyPress DEV The most noticeable of these to users will be the Flickr and YouTube additions.
So go ahead and sign up to Photo Mark’s Boo Zoo and create a blog, which you can upload pictures, video, and music and start being sociable. Have fun.
Yesterday I discovered version 1 of BuddyPress, a WordPress MU (multi user) plugin that takes WordPress another step forward. It produces a social network which, with other plugins that are already being developed something close to Facebook, My Space, etc. Your friends are already on Facebook so this will not replace it, but could be fun and more personal. Join up and lets see how much fun we can have. You can create your own blog, wire posts, groups and I will be adding Flicker, You Tube, and other plugins. Check it out http://photomark.ca/boozoo
Mozilla Firefox 3 for Mac and Windows, which was released at 10AM Pacific today, is the latest web browser to support the colour managed display of photos with embedded ICC profiles. That’s the good news. The bad news is it’s turned off by default. Here’s how to turn it on.
Firefox’s Preferences dialog doesn’t include a switch you can flip to enable or disable colour management, so you’ll have to work a bit harder than ought to be necessary to bring this capability to life.
The steps are:
1. Type about:config in Firefox 3’s address bar and press Return. The configuration settings will appear.
2. In the Filter field, type gfx. The list of settings will shorten to show just those related to graphics, ie gfx
3. If the Value for gfx.color_management.enabled is False double-click anywhere on that line to toggle the setting to True.
Quit and relaunch Firefox 3 and you’re in business. You can confirm that colour management is working by viewing the photos on this page. If all four quadrants of the first photo are a seamless match, then colour management in your copy of Firefox is up and running.
On Macs running OS X 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 here, that’s all that’s required to switch on colour managed photo display. Firefox 3 also gives the option of selecting a display profile, but the program should – and does here on the Mac – automatically honour the display profile selected in the system, so it isn’t necessary in this case to set or change gfx.color_management.display_profile.
As of right now, Firefox 3 isn’t showing up in the Software Update feature of a release candidate of the program, while the various Mozilla web domains appear to be overloaded with traffic, so it may be some time yet before the new release can be pulled down from the web. But I downloaded successfully at 9:00 PM today.
I have been the owner of an Acer laptop that came with Vista installed on it for about a year now. The machine itself has been good but Vista has pissed me off. The main problem I had was some of my programs would connect to the internet and some not. Most would, about 85%, and the rest would not. Adobe Photoshop, Deamweaver, Premiere Elements would connect, but Adobe Lightroom would not. Qimage would not connect so I would install updates manually. FileZilla would not connect so I used a FTP plugin for Firefox. Woopra client for their web analytics would not connect. Phase One Capture V4 would not connect. I also have a homemade PC running XP so I lived OK with all programs working on my PC. Thankfully.
I tried turning Windows Firewall off, made sure the programs were allowed through the firewall in the firewall options. I checked the settings in my router. I tried things on and off over time to find the problem but I am no computer guru and lived by workarounds. Then today I had the inspiration to check the Windows Services Panel. I looked through the list trying to figure what they all are. Turning services on and off, I came across One Care Firewall. What was this? There is also Windows Firewall there. Where did this come from?
When I first got the laptop Vista came with a free 30 day trial of One Care Live computer care, to keep your computer in tip top shape. After the trial period I uninstalled it. By the way One Care Live is a Windows pay for service where all the products are free from Microsoft if you look around a little bit. I disabled One Care Live Firewall and all my programs now connect to the internet!
If you have this problem check this out. Go to Control Panel>Administration Tools>Services and look for One Care Firewall, double click, or right click and select Properties. Click Stop this service and select Disable from the drop down menu. Check to see if your programs now connect. I have been running with Windows Firewall turned off, relying on my router, which is fine, and I turned it back on. All programs still connect.
Why is this hidden? And have I not heard of this before. I knew I lived under a rock.
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