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Wednesday 27 August 2008, 4:07 PM

Photosynth

Posted by ator1940

Yesterday I downloaded photosynth to check it out. Today I took 4 photos of a hot banana pepper plant, from 4 different angles, as they suggest you use at least 3 different angles. It would only show 2 of the photos, while the other 2 were shown as a regular slide show. I also discovered that I had to use IE to view the results, as Firefox 3 would keep looping back to the download page. Not quite sure if there is a plugin for FF to view this or not. You have to use Active-X, which I consider a security concern. Their demo was impressive, so I'm sure I might have not completed all the required steps, or did something wrong. This may appeal to photographers, but considering all the extra photos you have to take to make it work I would rather use a regular slide show program. I am going to continue playing with this for a few days and see what happens.

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roger andre

Hi Ator1940.
I saw a news clip about this software also. I think google are collecting at the moment to incorporate this in to google earth, so then you will be able to take a walk down the street.

I know its a pain, but the active x control could be manually enabled, and then disabled again, or even got rid of when you leave the site.

Posted by roger andre on Aug 27, 2008 5:37 PM

ator1940

Ran into a brick wall looking for an active-X plug-in for Firefox. Mozilla said there isn't one, and won't be one because of security concerns.

Updated by ator1940 on Aug 28, 2008 9:22 AM

roger andre

Ah.....that means you would need IE8, which is more secure than ever.

Or how about opera, maybe they would have an active x plug in.

I know what you mean about the security concern, so for me they are on when in use, then I boot them off the system. I just don't like them hanging around!!

Updated by roger andre on Aug 28, 2008 3:15 PM

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