HD Photo Plugin For Photoshop Released For Mac OS

Microsoft has released a new version of the HD Photo plugin for Photoshop, one that runs on Mac OS X. If you want to save your photos in the high quality HD Photo (or eventually, JPEG-XR) format, you can now use the plugin in both Windows and the Mac.

The Mac plugin is new, and the Windows XP/Vista plugin has been updated, with a redesigned encoder options dialog that gives you seperate basic or advanced controls, as well as a completely redesigned codec that significantly improves performance on larger images, a fixed tiling option, other bug fixes, and a new setup program. The Mac version is identical to the newer Windows version, and it adds support for HD Photo to Finder, including image thumbnails.

Get the Windows version of the plugin here and the plugin for PPC and Intel Macs here.

apple safari-not going too good

Apple released Safari for Windows a few months ago, and it looks like they maybe should have waited a little longer.

Let us count the ways:

• Compiler benchmarked Safari against Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox2, and the results didn’t look great for the Apple browser. Safari wound up in last place opening a message in Gmail, last place logging into Gmail, and two seconds slower than Firefox in Google Calendar.
• If you didn’t like Safari’s blurry fonts, you’ll hate when it spits out gobbledygook because you have different language settings than English. Take a look at the messed up screenshot Amit Agarwal took, and fixing the damn thing isn’t fun or sometimes easy.
• Apple released the first patch for Safari, upping it to version 3.0.1, fixing security vulnerabilities that have already popped up in the browser.
• Apple put out a press release, proclaiming 1 million downloads in the first two days. Considering the millions following the WWDC, the AP coverage, the blog posts, news articles in every publication on the planet, one million could be a little low. I’m shocked Apple would brag about downloads so soon, when there may not be a lot of pickup in the weeks and months to come. Typically, these sort of things get a ton of downloads in the first day or two, then taper off unless they are a hit. Nothing we’ve heard indicates Safari is taking off with users, so maybe Apple should have curbed its enthusiasm. Claim 1 million in two days, and if you can’t claim 8 million in a month, you’ve wasted everyone’s time. Does anything indicate that will actually happen?

It’s not all bad. Scott Hanselman’s speed test was on video, and Safari took or tied five out of six tests:

Windows Media Player Finally Supports Firefox

Yeah, it may seem even silly, but until this week, there was no official, sanctioned means of playing Windows Media Player files in Firefox. As a result, if a webpage embedded WMV or another supported format, you’d have to install a third-party plugin (which is never fun, or all that safe). Finally, Microsoft has released an official plugin, as part of their initiative to be a company that plays better. Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab created the plugin, and you can download it here.

Microsoft has launched a new website, Tafiti.com, that delivers Windows Live Search in a Silverlight interface. Tafiti, swahili for “do research” or “to search”, is more of an expirement, showing the cool applications and UI that are possible with Silverlight, but it is fully functional, with Live Search, including web search, books search, blog search, news search, and image search. It appears that you have to uninstall the Silverlight 1.1 alpha and re-install the 1.0 Release Candidate to make it run (that’s not getting annoying).

You can drag searches over to the areas on the right side, then, share them with others or your other PCs (or Macs). Each search stacks on a card above the last one. Tafiti uses some pretty cool animation, only possible with Silverlight. There’s a really cool carousel that rotates among search types. The news search uses a very cool newspaper style view.

There’s also this cool tree view, that shows items from the search on a rotating tree. It’s good for a screensaver, and can be clicked to run full screen.

On10 has a video demo of the website.

Check out Tafiti, it’s pretty cool, and it goes to show you what Silverlight is capable of. Five guys built this, so the possibilities are more than there for small teams to do cool things.

windows vista theme for firefox

take a look at this new windows vista inspired theme for firefox,i use it and i simply love it..........

BSB'S new album

its so cool to know that bsb is releasing their new album named unbreakable
wow,i just cant wait for the album
i guess it contains songs like helpless when she smiles,inconsolable,any other way,happily never after etc,
anyway,lets wait and see........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_%28Backstreet_Boys_album%29

thats it for now
this is what wikipedia says:

In a recent INROCK interview, Brian Littrell said the Backstreet Boys newest album will include various music styles, combining their earlier late-90's sound with their most recent guitar driven pop/rock sound.^{[citation needed]} The only confirmed producers are Dan Muckula who produced their 2005 hit single "Incomplete," and producer Rob Weiss.^{[citation needed]}

According to mtv.com: The Backstreet Boys have set an October 31st release date for their as-yet-untitled sixth album, according to a spokesperson.^{[citation needed]} The group's follow-up to 2005's Never Gone will be the first effort since the departure of longtime member Kevin Richardson last summer.

JoJo from 102.7 KIIS-FM in Los Angeles posted a new ballad called "Happily Never After" on www.jojoontheradio.com on May 8th, 2007.^{[citation needed]} It's available for streaming on that website.^{[citation needed]} It had been hand-delivered to him by Backstreet Boys' manager, Johnny Wright, the day before.^{[citation needed]} It is now expected that the song will be on an album by another artist. The chances that it will remain on this one are very slim.^{[citation needed]}

"Helpless When She Smiles", a cover of Bastiaan Ragas' rock ballad, was also leaked online on May 9th.^{[citation needed]} It was to be the first single (said by Brian) but when found that it was sung by another artist, was withheld.^{[citation needed]}

"Any Other Way", an uptempo pop/rock song from the Backstreet Boys upcoming record was leaked to music rating sites at the end of May.^{[citation needed]} The song was produced by Dan Muckula, who wrote and produced their 2005 hit single "Incomplete."^{[citation needed]} It was written by Dan Muckala, Jess Cates, and Lindy Robbins. On July 25th, the first single was confirmed as "Inconsolable".^[1]

In a recent article and video with A.J., it was said the Kevin would come back to work on the next album.^[2] This is not to be confused with this album which Kevin has no part in.

According to Billboard, the first BSB single from the new album will be Inconsolable which will hit the U.S radio stations on 27th August, 2007.
The first single is a piano-heavy rock ballad, piece produced by Emanuel Kiriakou, and co-written by Lindy Robbins and Jess Cates.^{[citation needed]} It debuted on August 6th, 2007 on New York Music Station Z100.^{[citation needed]}

On August 13th, Brian and AJ had confirmed that the album title is "Unbreakable".^[3] Before this announcement, rumored titles were "End To Beginning," "Motivation," and "Picking Up The Pieces".^{[citation needed]}

On a recent interview Nick told that JC Chasez - former NSYNC - wrote an uptempo song with AJ for the 'Backstreet Boys' 'new album'. The title is 'Treat Me Right'. It's not confirmed this song will make the album though.

its been a long time.........

its indeed been a long time since i last blogged
i had been a bit too busy with all my work.........
studies,practice and stuff
we had our assembly programme on friday and it was damn cool.
back to studies as for now,sad.