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GrabPhotos

Chris — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:42:46 +0000

GrabPhotos is a Mac OS X (10.4+) automator workflow which will allow you to download all the images displayed on a Safari page, or all the images linked from a Safari page, directly to your desktop.

The .dmg for the program is available by clicking the icon below:

Download GrabPhotos

Any questions or greviances can be directed to chris@chris-miller.org. Enjoy,
- Chris

PhotoArchive

Chris — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:25:59 +0000

PhotoArchive is a Mac OS X (10.4+) automator workflow which will allow you to select a group of photos and have them archived to your desktop as photos.zip

The .dmg for the program is available by clicking the icon below:

Download PhotoArchive

Any questions or greviances can be directed to chris@chris-miller.org. Enjoy,
- Chris

I am #1, everyone else is #2 or less!

Chris — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:56:20 +0000

I arrived home last night to find my camera which I was waiting for had been delivered. After eating I set about the task of opening the box which the camera was held in. This took me hardly any time at all, the box was, after all just cardboard.

The insides of the box were far more interesting than the outside. It contained the box which in turn contained my camera. After opening the box I played with the camera for a while then went off to the pub for a game of dominos.

A few pictures are below:

I’ll be posting some more photos which I have been taking today soon! I’m sure you can’t wait.
- Chris

New camera, enroute

Chris — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:44:43 +0000

Last night I was aching to spend some of the hard earned money which I have been working for. This resulted in a trip to dabs.com in search of a camera.

I had a search through the various cameras that were available and eventually settled on a FujiiFilm FinePix S5500 (5100) which is shown below.

It should arrive, hopefully, sometime tomorrow and I can have a play with it, I’ll post about it when I have had time to try out some funky stuff!
- Chris

Working 9 to 5

Chris — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:08:04 +0000

Today marks the first day of my new job (for 10 weeks anyway), some will be thinking that Friday is a strange day to start working and indeed it is. I assume that I was asked to start today because it was the first of the month.

The project is as mentioned before about tagging photos with smells, something that has had little practical research done on it. The main idea is to use RFID tagged smell cubes to allow users to flag photos as being connected with any one or more smells. The tag (and smell cube) is waved across the RFID reader and this is used to tag the photos. The reverse is done to search through photos with the smell cube being used to identify the smells to isolate and the reader picking up the ID of the smells.

The first day went really well (apart from the extreeme tierdness from being up at 5:45 AM for my commute – something I will get used to I hope), with me looking into various photo browsing software and trying to isolate the appeal and faults of each for a task such as this and playing around with the Phidgets which I will be using for the RFID tags. The first four applications to come to mind (the first through Steve Brewster) are:

Both Elements and Flickr seem to be the lead runners as the other two don’t seem to have any publicly available APIs (at least none that I can find). This could lead to either an Adobe Elements plugin or an application which uses Flickr as a back end to store and organise the photos. Time will tell which will prevail.
- Chris