SeaDragon on iPhone

 

Back in July’08 I had written a post about Deep Zoom as part of the Silverlight 2 cool features that originated from SeaDragon which is a Live labs project which provide users a new way for people to interact with content.  It allows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery, from a 2 or 3 megapixel shot from a digital camera to gigapixel scans of museum pieces, all without waiting for huge file downloads.

The Seadragon capabilities is already made its way into TouchWall, Microsoft Surface and also available in Silverlight as can be seen at the Hardrock site.

Today Livelab brings “Seadragon Mobile” to iPhone for viewing giga-pixel images. You can browse Deep Zoom Images that you can create from your own pictures or your Photosynth collection or anybody else’s.

There is a excellent video by developer Ben Vanik about this new experience that SeaDragon Mobile can provide on mobile devices.

Seadragon Mobile is available for free at the iTunes App Store.

is really cool !

Yahoo! Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators

I had written blog post in Aug’08 about the new Internet Explorer 8 and its features, it will be good go back and get a refresh.  One of the powerful innovations in IE 8 is the Accelerators (in Beta 1 they were called Activities).

Accelerators give you ready access to the online services you use everyday — from any page you visit. Now you can simply select some text and then click on the blue Accelerators icon .

Yahoo! recently built and deployed to the IE 8 Gallery two very useful Accelerators!  Now with the Yahoo! Map accelerator you can at any web page while browsing plot an address or location using interactive Yahoo Maps and with Yahoo! Search accelerator you can get text search suggestions.

These accelerator features are only available in Internet Explorer 8 and can be downloaded at following locations:

· Yahoo! Map Accelerator: http://ieaddons.com/en/details/Map/Yahoo_Local_Maps/

· Yahoo! Search Accelerator: http://ieaddons.com/en/details/other/Yahoo_Search_Suggestions/

Need additional help with IE 8 Accelerators ? Check out the “how-to” video