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Flock 1.0 Released

Arpit Jacob — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:14:28 +0000

Flock 1.0 has been officially released. For those of you who don’t know what Flock is, it is basically a Firefox based web browser. However, it has some amazing features that Firefox don’t have. Much of what makes Flock so special is it’s social networking tools. Some of the features of Flock are:

Instantly publish blog posts
Connect with your friends across multiple networks
Easily share your photos, videos and favourite links
Create your own world so you are also informed
Inbuilt RSS feed reader
Instantly find media form Youtube, Flickr, Photobucket and Facebook
Grab your favourite photos, text and links
Instantly upload photos Flickr, Photobucket, Piczo and Facebook

To download Flock, click HERE

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Catergories: Open Source, Software Tags: FireFox, Photos, Social-Networks, Software

15 Crazy And Cool Photo and Video WebSites

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:01:53 +0000

I came across a bunch of funny and cool sites. I been collecting these kind of sites for the past two months.

Cameroid Take pictures from your computer webcam and special effects like morphs world famous monkey suits.

fake photo Enter your text and choose from a large number of fake picture.

Not Celebrity Type in a name to see it in lights.

http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ You can use the Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer to change the age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of yourself!

blabberize Funny site just upload your picture and make your picture talk.

Make Over Studio Make Over Studio Upload your picture and give yourself a virtual make over.

bubblesnaps Add Talk bubbles to your pictures.

circavie Create a cool looking time line of your photos and videos.

polaroize A service to convert any photos to Polaroid like images.

viscosity viscosity is a modern art generator.

phozi is a fun way to take photobooth pictures by yourself or with friends! You can send photos to your friends or post them anywhere on the web using a widget.

photo2text Convert any Photo to ASCII Art.

notes.mastervb.net Create Different type of Sticky notes.

blingee Create cool pictures! Add Glitter, Graphics, and Comments to personalize your images, then share the Blingees with your friends.

mixbook build a book with your friends or make your own masterpiece.

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Catergories: General, Internet Tags: Photos, Videos

Tutorial To Create A Realistic Cigarette In Photoshop

Arpit Jacob — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:18:52 +0000

vikiworks has an Excellent step-by-step Photoshop tutorial on how to create a realistic Cigarette in Photoshop.

I am a hobbyist Web designer tutorial like these help me improve my skill. By the way I am working on my Wordpress Theme for the Wordpress theme competition, If you would like to be a beta tester let me know. Currently its being developed in stealth mode.

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Catergories: Design, Tutorial Tags: Photos, Photoshop

DFGallery An Awesome Free Flash Gallery

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:52:20 +0000

Naveen has released an awesome looking free Flash Gallery called DFGallery.

Flash Gallery to support both Flickr , Picasa and Custom Images.
Enable / Disable “Print Screen” ( requested by Photographers )
Easily Customizable
Full Screen mode. ( on the Right Click – Flash Player 9)
Supports both RSS and Custom Images.
Liquid Layout – Fits to any size you specify.
Notifies if a new update is available.
And its FREE

Looks like they are going to give Slideshowpro.net (a paid version of a similar Flash Gallery) a run for their money. The only thing that struck me as odd is the link to dezinerfolio on top they could make it blend in a bit more or maybe replace it with a Favicon.

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Catergories: Design, Software Tags: Download, Flash, Photos

Ultimate List of The Best Flickr Tools And Services

Arpit Jacob — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:51:32 +0000

Today my brain as was buzzing with ideas, while Exploring the Flickr API (I have a few ideas for a new Wordpress plugin), I decided to search the web too see the various ways in which people have or are using the Flickr API. I landed on the Flickr Services page that lists some of the best tools and services developed by the community members.

If you are a Flickr Fan you might want to go through this site “Flickr Services“. I didn’t have the patience to explore everything its just too vast.

Another site that you might like is flickrbits.com which looks like an up-to-date list of all Flickr tools and services.

The Yahoo Developer’s Network also lists a large number of services built on the Flickr API.

Happy Hunting hope you find something which you like. Let me know about it.

Flock The Web 2.0 Social Browser To Be Forever In Beta?

Arpit Jacob — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:00:45 +0000

I decided to take a look at the Browser called Flock again after a year.

Flock is a browser based on the Firefox / Mozilla Code base that was launched with a lot of Hype and internet Buzz around this time last year. I was particularly intrigued since I loved the look and feel and it felt like a refreshed Firefox running on Steroids it was labeled as a Web 2.0 The Social browser. Though even after the release of Firefox 2.0 they have not yet update the code base.

It is being developed by some Ex-Firefox Promoters.
Based on the Mozilla code base hence it is Multi platform and Open Source.
Great Eye-Candy Interface.
Inbuilt tools and support for Web 2.0 Services and blogging Platforms

Interestingly when Flock was released the Founder decrem said (He left Flock a while back).

Flock is not interested in forking the Mozilla code-base”.”Further, we don’t want to break anyone’s Firefox experience, or have our browser break, due to updates either way that have not been fully tested propagated. In the short term, that means that fewer people will play with our stuff, but over the long term we believe it’s the right way to go for us.

To the question “Why not an extensions?” He goes on to say

We want to be able to offer our users a complete end-to-end user experience, including a single browser download, an update service, technical support. the works.

So how does a open source product such as Flock profit. For one they have tied up with Yahoo with their search engine as the default for Flock also the Flock Start up page features a custom search Page using Yahoo. Similarly Photobucket has tied up Flock to release a special version of Flock where Photobucket users can upload and browser through their photos and pictures.

The initial releases for flock suffered from major memory leaks and bugs. Though the current versions are pretty stable. Flock has a lot of potential but it looks like the enthusiasm with which it was launched has slowed down or run dry, since its release I have hardly seen any new, major features. Most of their releases till this point have been only bug fixes. The features from Flock that I found most appealing were the Blog Editor which was similar to ScribeFire(previously called performancing extension) and the nifty Flickr top bar, though now I prefer ScribeFire to flock’s Blog Editor since it doesn’t load in a external window.

The Rss feed reader in flock needs a lot of work since I found it extremely slow and a huge memory hogger. The Rss feed Reader is fine for People with a few feed in the range of 20-50 but anything more than that can ruin your browsing experience I have more that 300 plus feeds .

I checked up the traffic to Flock’s website using Alexa and results are not very positive. The traffic seems to be steadily declining over the past few months, when it should be increasing considering that its a open source product.

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Catergories: Blogging, Open Source, Software, Technology Tags: Blogging, FireFox, Internet, Open Source, Photos, Web 2.0

Instant Polaroid Effect on Images without Photoshop

Arpit Jacob — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:00:38 +0000

Polaroid-o-nizer Converts your picture/Photos into a polaroid form without using Photoshop. Though I had an annoying time trying to save it. Since it was saving only as a Html File. Firefox as usual came to my rescue Go to Tools –> Page Info–Click on the Media Tab and search for the picture.

It even lets you put in a Remark or Comment, you can also adjust the angle of the tilt and change the background color.Pretty nifty tool that you can use to impress your Friends.