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Photosynth is Live - Take it for a Spin

cbowen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:34:02 GMT

The Microsoft Live Labs project Photosynth has just gone live, letting you create your own synths.

What's a synth? Consider taking a whole bunch of your pictures of a certain place, dropping them in Photosynth, and getting a 3D representation of the spatial relationships between those pictures that you can then navigate around.

Or... just think of using tape to join your pictures together. In 3D.

Well, I suppose it's easier to just look at one than to describe it!

Some related stores:

ZDNet - Mary-Jo Foley relates some interesting insights from the team
CrunchGear - Featuring a nice video showing it in action
SiliconValley
PCMag

Enjoy!

-Chris

Free SkyDrive Online Storage now 5 Gigs!

cbowen — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:52:42 GMT

[via Channel 10 (Sarah) via the SkyDrive team blog]

If you follow my blog, you know I've been using Windows Live SkyDrive to host my files and presentations for public download. It used to be cool that it gave you 1GB of free space for you stuff, but now it's flat out great that you get 5GB!

There are now 38 supported countries/regions. Check the team post for details.

It's free to use, and you can create private, friend-shared, and public directories, so I'd definitely recommend you take a look.

-Chris

SkyDrive Doubles to 1GB Free Space

cbowen — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:53:43 GMT

If you read my blog, you've seen that I've recently been trying the beta of Windows Live SkyDrive internet-based storage service for hosting my session materials.

Cool news - the 500MB free space has now doubled to 1GB. They've also added some other nice features such as RSS updates to watch for file changes and easier ways to add your friends by email address for file/folder access.

There's a SkyDrive team blog if you're interested in keeping an eye on related news.

-Chris

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