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Picasa 3.5 available with face recognition / easy geotagging

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Published on Sunday, 27 September 2009 00:00

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  Picasa is starting to be really the best free picture viewer (beside XnView for converting pictures)

This version bring 2 new highly desirable features

Add name tags - Picasa 3.5 scans all the photos in your collection, identifies the ones with faces, and groups photos with similar faces together. It's easy to add name tags to dozens of photos at once by clicking "Add a name" below a photo and typing the person's name. Once you've tagged some pictures, you can make a face collage with one click, easily find all your pictures with the same two people in them, or upload your name tags to Picasa Web Albums

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Announcing Joomla! photowidget for Smugmug, Picasa, Flickr RSS

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Published on Wednesday, 08 July 2009 00:00

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I did integrate the Flickr widget from RoyTanck.com as a Joomla module. This version do not depend on Roy’s site, and run offline if needed as i rewrite the RSS parsing code myself. For now you can see it live running on the right side of Roy’s site

• Your Smugmug/ Picasa or Flickr RSS feed. To get feed URL one for your Flickr photo stream, simply go to your photo stream's page and right-click the little orange RSS icon at the bottom. Select ‘Copy link location’ or ‘Copy shortcut’ and paste it into the form below. For Picasa, there’s a link called ‘RSS’ at the bottom right of the ‘My Photos’ page, and a small icon on the sidebar on other pages. For Smugmug the icon is located at the bottom of the page.
• The dimensions for the widget. This depends almost entirely from the layout of your website. Square aspect rations work best (equal width and height). At very large sizes (400px and up) the thumbnails might have bigger pixels than usual.
• The background color for the widget. You can use Colorpicker.com to get the right value for your website. The selected color serves only as a backup if ‘Use background transparency’ is selected.
• RSS feed is also optional photowidget also support up to 10 images on your server.

Before releasing I need to clean the code a bit, test the installer, write a small documentation, submit module to Joomla! extension.. maybe tomorrow, but before the week end for sure!

PhotoWidget 1.6.0 for Joomla! 1.6 avalaible

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Published on Tuesday, 28 December 2010 14:00

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This is a small module for Joomla! 1.5/1.6 that allow you to display a set of images from your favorite online gallery: Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa or any RSS feed.

I did integrate the Flickr widget from RoyTanck.com as a Joomla! module. This version do not depend on Roy’s site, and run offline if needed as i rewrite the RSS parsing code myself.

• Your Smugmug/ Picasa/Gallery 2 or Flickr RSS feed. To get feed URL one for your Flickr photo stream, simply go to your photo stream's page and right-click the little orange RSS icon at the bottom. Select ‘Copy link location’ or ‘Copy shortcut’ and paste it into the form below. For Picasa, there’s a link called ‘RSS’ at the bottom right of the ‘My Photos’ page, and a small icon on the sidebar on other pages. For Smugmug the icon is located at the bottom of the page.
• The dimensions for the widget. This depends almost entirely from the layout of your website. Square aspect rations work best (equal width and height). At very large sizes (400px and up) the thumbnails might have bigger pixels than usual.
• The background color for the widget. You can use Colorpicker.com to get the right value for your website. The selected color serves only as a backup if ‘Use background transparency’ is selected.
• RSS feed is also optional Photowidget also support up to 10 images on your server.

What’s new

NEW: version 1.6.0 is only for Joomla! 1.6
NEW: This version use the Joomla! build in update manager, just browse to the page Extension Manager: Update (at yoursite/administrator/index.php?option=com_installer&view=update) to fetch and update this extension with one click
NEW: Use Joomla! templating best practices
NEW: Embeded documentation windows to live wiki page for always up to date documentation

Features

• Native Joomla! 1.5/1.6 module,
• It can fetch photos from Smugmug/Flickr/Picasaor any other RSS feed
• if you don’t like the flash output, you can now output pictures from an RSS feed in a full HTML badge manner.
• It supports RSS caching (lifetime can be choosen in admin panel)
• It can also let you define fix url to images on your site
• Flickr/Picasa thumbnail pictures size can be selected
• You can copy this module many times and use it at different places in your layout (before only one instances was able to run for each Joomla!) at the condition to use an unique id for each.
• Code produced is XHTML 1.0 Strict,
• Tested in the following browser Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE 8
• Approved at Joomla Extension JED,
• GPL v3.0,
• Non commercial.

The wiki page is here http://wiki.waltercedric.com/index.php?title=Photowidget

Demo site

• Joomla! 1.5 http://demo-joomla-1.5.waltercedric.com/
• Joomla! 1.6 http://demo-joomla-1.6.waltercedric.com/

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Google's Picasa to Linux.

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Published on Tuesday, 30 May 2006 13:09

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The biggest news of the week is the port of Google's Picasa to Linux.with WINE!

Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org
Several months ago we reported that CodeWeavers was contracted to port some Google apps to Linux. 

"Picasa incorporates nearly all the features of the current Windows version of Picasa, providing you with the tools you need to easily find, edit, and share the photos on your computer," explained Google's Open Source Programs Manager Chris DiBona. "And because it runs on a carefully tested version of Wine, Picasa avoids the slowing effects of an OS emulation or a virtual machine."

I am using it, and very satisfied by its speed and ease of use: It looks like and react like the windows Picasa version. Do not wait any longer and give it a try, it is the perfect tool  to administer our growing library of pictures.
Google/CodeWeavers have also committed all patches for WIne to make this happen into the main development tree, it may also allow more windows apps to run under linux, and that's great for the whole community!
You do not have to install WINE, the total size is only 17Mb compressed, not bad for such a software and all its function wrapped to Linux API.

• Picasa for Linux
• Picasa for windows
• Picasa for windows in French, German
• Read more details on project milestones

The only functionalities missing would be a neural network to automatically recognize and query pictures by their statistical content...but I am asking too much :-)

PhotoWidget 1.1.0 avalaible

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Category: Joomla 1.5

Published on Monday, 14 September 2009 00:00

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The module PhotoWidget has been totally rewritten using simplepie.org, a famous open source RSS parser, by the way Joomla!, Drupal, and a lot of open source projects use it natively.

SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the 'simple' back into 'really simple syndication'. Flexible enough to suit beginners and veterans alike, SimplePie is focused on speed, ease of use, compatibility and standards compliance.

Code is now:

• Smaller,
• Object oriented: it is funny how you always start to hack small project in php in a non object oriented way at the beginning :-)
• More robust toward multiple RSS feeds.

But it also contains some new interesting features! Below is an example of Photowidget ouput with a Smugmug RSS feed. Photowidget support: Picasa, Flickr, G2, and a lot of other RSS feeds.

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PhotoWidget for Joomla approved at JED

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Category: Joomla 1.5

Published on Saturday, 01 August 2009 00:00

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Photowidget has been approved at Joomla Extension directory
This is a small module for Joomla! 1.5 that allow you to display a set of images from your favorite online gallery: Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa, Gallery 2 or any RSS feed.

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• Stay up to date using the version manager and the RSS Feed
• Documentation in the WIKI

This extension is now available at Joomla extensions in the Category Photo Channels

 

 

Photowidget 1.0 release

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Category: Joomla 1.5

Published on Saturday, 11 July 2009 00:00

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I am really happy to deliver this new Joomla! module. It also now support RSS of

• Gallery2,
• Smugmug,
• Flickr,
• Picasa.

I did document everything in the WIKI. I still respond to private emails but try now to always create new entries in the WIKI as it help more users.

Enjoy!

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• Stay up to date using the version manager and the RSS Feed
• Documentation in the WIKI

 

This extension will also be available at Joomla extensions in the Category Photo Channels

Photofeed version 1.1

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Category: Joomla 1.5

Published on Tuesday, 07 July 2009 00:00

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Photofeed is a small content plugin for Joomla! 1.5 that allow you to inline a set of images from your favorite online gallery: Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa or any RSS feed in any article.

Ed Henderson (http://www.henderland.net/) has submitted me a patch today that correct and improve Photofeed by a huge margin. It has done such a great job that I deliver this version now. I plan to add in the next version Photofeed 1.2 full support for gallery2 (aka G2), don’t forget to request new features in the Smugmug forum support board

July 7, 2009 - List of fixes and enhancements from Ed Henderson

Bug fixes

1. Fixed malformed image URL (had double-quote at the end and not at the start so didn't display properly in lightbox)
2. Fixed problem with "@" and single-quote in captions (this broke the php code)
3. Fixed $library not being passed thru to rss_parse function (this caused the image to not be viewed via lightbox)

Enhancements:

1. Specify the thumbnail size in pixels
2. Specify if square thumbnail or maintain aspect ratio (if not square then thumbnail size just specifies the height)
3. Now recognize multiple {rss...} tags in a single article.
4. Specify thumbnail size and square thumbnail in {rss... size=90 square=yes|no} tag to override system-wide defaults. Or if tag element left blank i.e. "ulimit=" then defaults to system default.
5. Specify thumbnail border width in pixels
6. Added special section in the code for Picasa so that viewing largest image (800px) could be possible.
7. Added more verbiage to photofeed.xml to help with plugin usage.

Future enhancements to do

1. Recognize single and/or double quotes in {rss..} tag
2. No order to tag elements - i.e. size=75 could come first in the {rss...} tag
3. If tag element missing then just take default - at this time all tag elements must be in the tag to work
4. Ability to choose size of image to view - now defaults to largest for Picasa.

Testing: Note that I have tested these changes on Picasa only.  I believe it will work with the other photo sites as I made changes to their code for any enhancements I added.

Download / documentation / keep up to date by adding the download photofeed RSS

I love Smugmug, Joomla! and You?

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Category: Joomla 1.5

Published on Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:00

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This is a small content plugin for Joomla! 1.5 that allow you to inline a set of images from your favorite online gallery: Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa or any RSS feed in any article.

If you put the following in your article

the gallery content will be displayed as a result

 

FEATURES:

• It can fetch photos from Smugmug
• It can fetch photos from Flickr
• It can fetch photos from Picasa & any other RSS feed
• It supports RSS caching (lifetime can be choosen in admin panel)
• It supports following library top open up images
• lightbox
• lightbox2 slideshow with navigation button Prev & Next
• shadowbox http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-&-design/popups-&-iframes/4577/details
• Image Caption is fetched and shown in lightbox2 show

The photoFEED plugin uses the lastRSS class to grab images from a Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa or any RSS feed to display in any Joomla! hosted website.

It provides access to the Images title, description and content

USAGE: you can do it from any of your post or page. you can set any RSS feed like Smugmug, Picasa, Flickr etc with a limit of how many photos you want in your post/page. You need to keep in mind that you need to assign to things there:

   1. rss uri = feed location
   2. limit = number of photos to be shown

the plugin will replace only the text within the post/page which is encoded with a curly brace {} with resulted photos. The remaindered text will be same. Add your RSS Feed in the body of your post or page in the following format

{rss uri=FeedURL limit=5}

Alternatively you can leave the limit blank like this to get all the photos {rss uri=flickr/picasa/smugmugrssfeed_location limit=}

Note:

This Joomla! plugin is based on fdsPhotoFEED v1.0.0 and all credits should be given to the original author: Nurul Ferdous, I did just wrap his hard work in a Joomla! content plugin to solve my needs.

Code is GPL v2.0

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