Showing posts with label web apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web apps. Show all posts

2008-09-06

基于TinEye搜索引擎创建的widget


This is a fun embeddable widget that demonstrates the image identification technology behind TinEye: The image search engine!

2008-07-10

3D Video with Flash - 可以旋转的视频

Check out this very cool streaming 360 degree video by Immervise Media.

Once you play the video click and move your mouse to change the viewing angle. Then go ahead and pause the video and move the zoom bar up or down. Its pretty impressive.




视频播放的过程中,尝试将鼠标放到视频上然后按住鼠标四处移动,即可变换视频的视角,同时调整播放器左上角的缩放条还可以缩放视频内容,你可以到Immervise Media了解这项技术和查看更多这样的视频。

2008-06-30

Share big songs with tiny links using TinySong

If you're a frequent Webware, reader like me you might remember Grooveshark, and Grooveshark Lite--two different but equally awesome music-sharing and listening tools. From those same folks comes TinySong, a bit of a play on large link sharing services like TinyURL. However, instead of sharing Web sites with your friends, you're linking them straight to the track.

The service uses the same built-in song search found in Grooveshark Lite, and will simply jump whoever opens the link right to the Web based jukebox. What's nice is whoever is searching will have the short link copied to their clipboard automatically. For popular songs there's also a fairly good diversity of variations and remixes.

One thing missing from TinySong is a way to make multi-song playlists, but you can simply use Grooveshark Lite and share the playlist link with a friend. See also services like MuxTape and Mixwit for such a task.

In addition you can find the similar serveice on ilike which gains the webware 100 winner 2008 at audio gategory.and ilike is also one of my favor that is providing an amazing music service but really easy to use and suitable for everyone.

iLike is a music recommendation service that gives you 30-second clips of music tracks(some offer the full song) as well as links to buy them. It uses Google's Video search to pull up related videos of whatever song you're listening to, in case you want to listen to the whole song. While you could achieve similar search results just by using Google, it's an easier way listen and explore.

The service may be best known for its skyrocketing growth as a part of Facebook's apps platform launch. In just two weeks, the service garnered over 2 million users and now maintains more than 3 percent of the activity on the site and a whopping 370,000-plus daily users.

One of our favorite features is that you can download a small application that links to iTunes and monitors your music listening and collection. It will take this information and compare it to your friends, giving both of you recommendations based on tastes. That information can be used to help match you with others people, or to connect artists to their biggest fans.

credit:webware

2008-06-28

BP-通过缩略图管理浏览器书签


之前写过一篇文章介绍AT&T的浏览器Pogo查看该文章),你可能对Pogo管理书签采用的绚丽3D效果印象深刻,不过除此之外Pogo这款名副其实的heavy browser并没有带给我更多惊喜,所以如果仅仅因为对它绚丽的3D界面情有独钟而安装这个大家伙可能并不怎么理智,不过如果你使用的是firefox浏览器的话,现在将可以获得一个双赢的解决办法,让你既可以一如既往的使用优秀的firefox同时享受到3D效果可视书签管理的便捷和乐趣。

Bookmarks Preview是一款firefox插件,已支持到firefox 3版本,初次安装将被询问是否愿意为当前已存在书签创建缩略图,如果选是BP会在后台运行执行,完成后弹出提示信息,此后你存储的书签都将自动创建缩略图。同时可以设置BP是否为加密网页创建缩略图,考虑到安全该选项默认关闭。
运行BP按操作 工具-管理书签即可,三种显示模式任你选择,书签管理变得更加便捷并充满乐趣。
你可以到这里下载Bookmarks Preview或者到这里下载firefox 3

2008-06-26

Wix 2分钟创建一个网站

如果你希望亲自动手创建一个自己的网站又苦于不会这门技术,尤其是不会编写代码的话,Wix可以轻松帮你解决,Wix是一款基于flash创建的web app,已经在早些时候就像公众开放,现在用户只需注册一个帐号即可使用Wix提供的服务。



Wix实现了真正意义上的可见即所得的建站方式,用户仅仅需要将Wix提供的page,widget,photo,slideshow,animation等等众多丰富的元素以拖动的方式拖到页面上,摆好位置即可,且完全不需要懂得任何编码技术,整个操作过程很像在powerpoint里面创建幻灯片。两分钟创建一个网站,这是Wix宣传的速度,有些夸张不过足可见Wix使用是多么容易。

Wix提供很多不错的模板,适合于艺术家,音乐爱好者,或者普通用户创建个性的网站,你可以在Wix网站上找到这些信息,同时可以在 Jimdo, Synthsite, 和 Weebly上找到类似的技术,他们也正在提供很优秀的提供傻瓜式建站的服务。
同时Wix可以为myspace,facebook等社区网站以及blogger等设计模板和widget,制作完成以后获取代码,将代码贴到上述站点即可。

不过在Wix中有个很明显的缺点即是当你修改或删除一个内容以后应用程序并没有提供取消(后退)的功能(gmail的undo功能),如果你删除了一个页面那就意味着已经彻底删除掉了,想恢复就必须从头再来,所以做的时候一定要格外小心。

2008-06-25

PicLens,3D图片浏览工具

之前写过一篇文介绍AT&T的web浏览器Pogo,不过Pogo处于测试阶段,我已经注册加入该项目邮件队列有一段时间了,但现在还没有收到他们的邀请号,看来多半是没戏了-_-#,Pogo超炫的3D可视化书签和历史浏览界面算是Pogo招引用户芳心的重磅武器,本人也急切期待着能早日体验Pogo browser的魅力。而事实上到目前位置为了测试的需要,我的电脑上已经安装了firefox,Opera,Internet Explorer,safari,NN(NN已成为历史...)。
3D界面大大提高了应用程序的吸引力,同时使真个操作过程变成一种享受并能不断给用户带来震撼的惊喜。Piclens就是这样一款让你爱不释手的web应用程序。

Cooliris开发的Piclens是一款浏览器插件,安装完成后在任何Piclens支持的站点上将鼠标移到任何图片上,点击左下角出现的启动按钮即可启动Piclens,她会自动获取该页面上的图片并以震撼的3D效果展现在你面前,你可以执行放大,缩小,左右移动等操作浏览任何图片,同时点击右下角地球形状小图标即可在浏览器打开该图片。平滑的移动,完美的3D效果,整个操作过程充满了惊喜。当前支持的浏览器包括 Internet Explorer, Firefox, Flock和 Safari(有一点点限制),到写这边文章时支持的站点包括myspace,facebook,flickr,youtube(new),google,yahoo,picasa......等20个站点并在不断增加。
同时启动程序后Piclens提供搜索功能,可以在程序内执行google图片搜索,flickr搜索等,Piclens刚刚完成更新升级,如果你还没有安装Piclens,Now's the time!