Friday, August 10, 2007

Skimming on .Mac Web Gallery

Apple announced a few things last week. You can watch El Jobso's whole presentation here (1 hour and 12 min)
  • New iMac (20" and 24" in aluminum and glass), watch a very short commercial.
  • New thin keyboad for the iMac & a wireless keyboard w/o numpad.
  • New iLife '08.
  • New iWork '08, including Numbers (Apple's spreadsheet application)
  • .Mac for $99/year (same as before) for 10G storage (use to be 1G only)
I'm sure you can find all kinds of reviews, pictures & videos about these products, try Google? :) So I'll spare you of reviews here, instead I'll just show you one thing that I thought was pretty cool.

Skimming.

It's an Apple patented method of presenting pictures inside an album (a.k.a set, collection, group, whatever-you-want-to-call-a-bunch-of-pictures). You skim your mouse over a single picture and it'll show you all the pictures in that album so you can decide if you want to open it up or not.

Best to just show you an example on my own .Mac Web Gallery. You'll see 4 albums in my gallery, move your cursor over each one and you'll see skimming.
.Mac Web Gallery also got very "2.0 (AJAX-y)" per Jobs, and feels very desktop-like with lots of cool new features. Go into one of the albums above and try out these controls on the bottom left and right of the page.


1 comments:

Brian said...

YooHoo!! I'm famous!!