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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: marko on May 10, 2008, 04:59:36 am
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This is really gonna hurt...
http://www.hello.com/
I use this software to share and discuss photos with my family...
"Hello" is/was a wonderfully simple and easy way to do this.
Web albums are all well and good, but there's no substitute for instant discussion regarding one photo or another, and the ability to have that sessions photos build up in a film strip, with a little window that let you follow which pictures your friend was currently viewing etc. etc.
what are we going to do now?
There's no way my Mum is going to use MSN :(
I might be able to persaude her to install MC if it offered p2p picture sharing, with an IM discussion window to go with it!!!
-marko.
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never heard of it
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https://secure.hello.com/what_is_hello.php
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Seems nifty if you don't want to use anything else to IM.
But if you do, what does 'Hello' give that you don't already have ?
Wonder why it's closing down.
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Why not just use picasaweb?
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Why not just use picasaweb?
The real beauty of Hello was that you could drop an image onto the chat window and it was there, almost instantly, a nice big preview of the image on the left of the chat pane, and you could discuss the finer points about the image in real time. During conversation, you'd be like, oh heck, I almost forgot about this one too, check this out...
and you'd drop another picture and immediately begin talking about it. As you dropped more pictures during the conversation, a nice little filmstrip of thumbs would build up along the bottom allowing you to flick back and forth amongst the pictures shared during the session, and if you began talking about a different picture, a little P.I.P. allowed you to see what picture your chat partner was currently looking at, and vice-versa.
While all that was going on, the original, full sized files, with all metadata would be transferred between the two parties in the background, saved to a specified location, thus allowing the auto-import feature of your chosen image handler to automatically detect these new images and import them, tags and all.
Simplicity itself.
picasaweb, if I understand correctly, involves signing up, then uploading anything you want to chat about, then, after waiting for the uploads to complete, sending the links to the person you're chatting with, have them load up their browser and view the pictures, then flit between the two applications to chat/view about the pictures. If your chat partner wants copies, they need to do the old, right click, save picture as... on each file they want, and that's only after browsing to the full size copy of each desired image.
Seems like a no-brainer to me. Sadly, I think that google would rather that we used picasaweb too, and uploaded all our images to their servers rather than quick and simple P2P transfers :(
-marko.
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:o
Oh my gosh! No way!
Is it gd bye to googe + hello Yahoo now?
For may b but does no 1 give a darn? No boolean operators!
*Hmmmp!
On the bright side perhaps Yahoo is to still b bought by MS in the future.
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nice first post.
babelfish failed to translate, so I've no idea what you're trying to say