gHacks technology news » mashup http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Goollery Collection Of Google Related projects http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/01/goollery-collection-of-google-related-projects/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/01/goollery-collection-of-google-related-projects/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:40:18 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=15905 goolleryMany Google services come with an api (application programming interface) that allows web developers to create new web services. Google Maps is probably the most popular example. The Google Maps api is used by many web developers to create new web services that include realtime flight tracking or racing games. All of these web applications are independent from each other which makes it difficulty to track new ones and get an overview of existing web applications that use Google apis.

Goollery, which is a combination of the words Google and Gallery, is a collection of Google related projects on the web. Or, as the developers put it: “Goollery is an online gallery dedicated to collect, archive and showcase the most creative, fun and innovative Google-related projects from around the world.”

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The Google projects that are displayed on the website are divided into various categories including Google Search, Google Earth or Youtube. The second tier navigation menu contains the Google related projects that have been added to the selected category while the majority of screen space has been reserved for a picture (or pictures) and short description of the Google related service.

A project link is available on every page that will load the web service in a new web browser tab or window. Users and web developers can submit new Google related projects which will be reviewed by the webmasters and added to the service if they meet the quality guidelines.

Goollery offers links to interesting Google related projects. It would be nice if the developer’s would add a date for each Google project that they have added to the website so that the age of the project becomes clearer to the visitor.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/01/goollery-collection-of-google-related-projects/feed/ 2 Ubiquity to be built into Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/05/ubiquity-to-be-built-into-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/05/ubiquity-to-be-built-into-firefox/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 02:14:08 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/05/ubiquity-to-be-built-into-firefox/ ubiquityIf you’re into browsers, browser tech and mashups, chances are you know what Uniquity is. In a nutshell it’s a mashup service which lets you navigate and manipulate the web in more natural ways. It’s quite hard to describe if you haven’t seen it, think of the awesome bar in Firefox and multiply it by 10, but apart from searching and gathering data it allows you to manage task lists, edit webpages locally and so on, tons of cool features.

A version of ubiquity called taskfox, although slightly toned down, will be built right into Firefox (hopefully soon) and will allow for a lot of the power which Ubiquity gives you. There are some awesome things in there, like searching for and starting a youtube video from the awesomebar, in the awesomebar. The path you need to take from inputting something to finding what you want is greatly reduced as a result, especially since everything can be completely controlled by the keyboard too.

Take a look at the video on the site, it looks interesting, I can’t wait for it to get into the Firefox main build. Until then, if you are restless, take a look at Ubiquity, which offers much the same, and then some.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/05/ubiquity-to-be-built-into-firefox/feed/ 2 Feel the image, become the image http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/feel-the-image-become-the-image/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/feel-the-image-become-the-image/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:04:50 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/feel-the-image-become-the-image/ I’m writing this article rather excited because of what I have just seen. Panoramic photos recently started to be very popular when the first algorithms and applications for creating such images appeared and digital cameras were given support for this specific kind of shooting. Publishing such shots on Flickr or any other similar site sure is fine but I’ve just hit a service that serves panoramic photos in a breath-taking way.

The site I’m talking about is called ViewAt and it doesn’t appear to be special by any means until you choose a photo to be transformed and viewed in 3D by their service. A flash-based strip will then appear showing you the panoramic photo as a 3D animation.

You can watch the panorama as a whole or click in the picture to start moving around it and see all the details. You can also zoom in or out but the picture is only smooth when not moving. Here comes the best part – try switching to full-screen by hitting the button in the lower right corner and watch what happens.

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To make the first impression best, I recommend you to view THIS particular image in full-screen with a suitable background music (which is quite important for the resulting effect), exactly as I did when I first hit this website. Watch the sky, the sea… Can you see the beauty?

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