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evil jimi - Sep 03, 2008 1:20:47 am PDT #7571 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

It...it...it...ah fug it, it's too much to talk about. You just have to check it out. It's a new way of viewing graphics and videos from google, amazon, flickr and a few other sites. It really is amazing to look at.

The CoolIris (formerly PicLens) site: [link]

The CoolPreviews (formerly CoolIris Previews) extension page: [link]

SCREW IT! Bloody thing (CoolIris) is Windows/Mac only. No linux support! *hmmph* CoolIris Previews is different and that does work under Linux.

moonlit - Sep 03, 2008 2:15:53 am PDT #7572 of 25501
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell

hi ita et al,

the CoolIris stuff is pretty cool. It has kept me entertained for a night or two and I just discovered the powerpoint plugin which enables you to mutate your ppts into a PicLens gallery and display it on the 3D graphics wall. It certainly jazzes up a plain old ppt and will look pretty impressive projected on a big screen I would think. There is also a WordPress plugin which enables it to be used within blogs too.

tommyrot - Sep 03, 2008 7:40:11 am PDT #7573 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Does anyone know of a handy-dandy list of all the differences between the way IE handles XML/Javascript and other browsers?

Kevin - Sep 03, 2008 7:59:52 am PDT #7574 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Used Chrome at work today. It's very fast on my laptop (an oldish one).

Rob - Sep 03, 2008 6:15:02 pm PDT #7575 of 25501

I'm not sure there's a quick list, as the differences are great, but QuirksMode looks comprehensive.

DCJensen - Sep 04, 2008 4:55:18 am PDT #7576 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I have yet to get Chrome to install on two different XP machines.

the installers won't launch, or they appear to and then disappear.

I even downloaded the standalone installer on one machine.

Kevin - Sep 04, 2008 1:46:59 pm PDT #7577 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Daniel, I had to run the installer, then search my profile path for 'chrome' and manually run the installer it extracts.

DCJensen - Sep 04, 2008 4:33:34 pm PDT #7578 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I found a Chrome installer log.

[0904/194848:ERROR:main.cc(129)] error during uncompression: 1

dcp - Sep 04, 2008 5:51:05 pm PDT #7579 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Here is a review comparing the current Chrome beta to Firefox 3 and the current IE8 beta: [link]

Liese S. - Sep 04, 2008 7:54:02 pm PDT #7580 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

The annoying thing about Firefox 3 is the autofillin thinger in the address bar, but fortunately the SO figured me out a way to nix it.

Haven't tried Chrome yet.

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