Photo Array Question

I have a bit of a silly question about the photo array Apple uses in many of their publications, including the idea behind "CoverFlow". Check this link to see what I mean: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/2. (Bottom photo)
Is there a way to achieve this? What software accomplishes this? I am a webmaster using iWeb.
I have something similar on the page I have created, but the difference is my photos are straight as they descend, whereas Apple's are straight, yet not square, they seem to be turned, like in this top image of Ubuntu: http://www.taimila.com/?q=node/3. The photos are not rotated, but turned.
Any software ideas?
Any ideas at all?

Resizing is a different issue altogether from format.
It's safe to scale the image in ID regardless of the format. If you look in the info panel with the image selected you'll see two resolution numbers listed, actual and effective. Actual is just the resolution at the dimensions the image was saved and is essentially irrelevant. Effective resolution is what you have at the dimensions you are currently using, and that's the number that counts. If that number is in the range that is acceptable for the type of output you are using, there is no need to resize the image in Photoshop at all.
If you MUST resize the image, then yes, convert to something besides jpeg if that's what it is to start. And keep in mind that up-sampling won't improve image quality in general, and downsampling more than 20% or so can cause you to lose fine details (but so will scaling down).
Peter

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That's the wrong way to approach this. You're talking about adding complexity to your code and fuglifying it because you think it might improve performance. But you don't know if it will, or by how much, or even if it needs to be improved.
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Hi Miguel,
It looks like you are embarking on a very interesting project. Although you probably have seen many of the following documents, I've linked a few to get you started.
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Knowledgebase article about imitations of speed with database toolset
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National Instruments

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I'm writing a lab program which counts the number of occurances of English letters in a line of English text.
The program has the following requirements
Assume that we input only lowercase English text
The program should be able to count the number of occurances of English letters in a text and print out both the number of occurances and the letters. Don't print out letters that don't exist in the text.
I write my code as following:
import java.util.*;
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Have the input[i] elements really stored any character (I tried to convert the input string into char array) after I typed char[] input = text.toCharArray();'s problem. ?
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I figure out now that the problem is caused by the last for loop. I modify it as following:
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thanks to mr. Booth's tutorial I was able to implement a nice Spry gallery into our website. Now I want to change one simple thing: the pictures that make up the galleries are to be moved to our ftp server (as opposed to our webserver). The logical thing to to seemed to edit the base parameter in the relevant photo.xml file to something like this: base=ftp://user:[email protected]/directory/ but no dice. So the question is: how do I point the xml file to an external ftp location for the actual photos?
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You can still insert Google maps into your site - you just need to do it as you did before the Google maps widget arrived.
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Take a look at RapidWeaver, Sandvox, Freeway Pro/Express and Flux 4. You can download free trials of all of these and most are available for purcahse from the Mac App Store.

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Hello,
I am a photographer interested in designing a photo gallery
website.My question is how are the special effects created in Flash
for when a thumbnail is clicked and the photo downloads into the
picture viewer? (such as the photo fading in , the photo is
assembled from small blocks, the photo downloads from left to
right, the photo downloads after a flash of light) Is there a name
for these effects? Thank you so much, Wendy

Wonderwendy wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a photographer interested in designing a photo
gallery website.My
> question is how are the special effects created in Flash
for when a thumbnail
> is clicked and the photo downloads into the picture
viewer? (such as the photo
> fading in , the photo is assembled from small blocks,
the photo downloads from
> left to right, the photo downloads after a flash of
light) Is there a name for
> these effects? Thank you so much, Jim
These are some complex components/files you can get free off
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http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=139
ImageGallery 3
http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=135
Photo Album
http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=124
Image Fader
This particular sample is the closets to what you are looking
for. It is XML
driven so all the files information can be edited w/o
changing the Flash movie.
You can define 9 transitions along the image name and the
rest happens automatically.
There are many more samples online, search for stuff like
"flash photo gallery"
or "flash gallery", some free some shareware but definitely
plenty.
Best Regards
Urami
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Photo Frame Question

I know that this is not an Apple Question but I haven't found a forum for this and I was curios if anyone else had run into this issue:
I have a Sylvania 10" Digital photo frame (I do not recommend this frame to anyone. Support on it is lousy to non-existant and I am still waiting for a replacement remote control for it which I ordered in March. I am using my harmony remote to control it right now.) which displays photos pretty well. It's resolution is 1024 x 600. The issue that I am seeing that I wonder if anyone else has seen on their digital photo frame, is that when I transfer photos from the mac to the photo frame and then view them with the quick view progam, the images are corrupted. Even Disk Verify shows that the jpg images are corrupted yet the photo frame has no problem displaying them. They look normal with no corruption at all. The files on my hard drive are fine with no corruption at all. Since I won't be using the frame as a backup for my photos anyway, its not an end of the world issue but I am curious if this happens with other digital photo frames. Interestingly enough, the disk utility sees the frame as having an unknown or unspecified partition with an MS-DOS Fat 32 format on it.
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Patrick

Hello tweetybird53,
Thanks very much for purchasing the HP Digital Photo Frame. I regret that you are having some product and support challenges. Please email me with your HP case number or your product number, serial number and contact information so that we can get your issue resolved quickly.
The answer to the question, "Is there an HP service depot near where you live that you can take it there?" is no. Currently, customers can not drop off products at an HP service center. There is a process to follow that entails mailing in the product if it is coded for repair. In some cases, the defective product is simply replaced.
I look forward to assisting tweetybird53.
Regards,

Photo streaming question

I'm not sure where this question ought to be posted, so I apologize if its the wrong section.
In anycase, I wish to know how to erase a photo on photo streaming.
Thanks!

To get the photos on another devices you either have to share them or both have to be using the same iCloud account.
What do you think share means?

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