Apple had always been very reserved when it came to the word PC. Until very recently, it seemed Apple was very confident it can get the world into its proprietary Computer platform, "The Mac" from the Open PC world. But then I really think it all changed because one fine morning, Steve Jobs wakes up saying, "Hey Wait, if monopoly doesn't work, lets try having Synergy" and then there was Safari available for everyone!
Steve Jobs jokingly said, "Hell Freezes Over" in the key-note. It made real sense, didn't it?
Microsoft Launches Sea Dragon for iPhone
Its Microsoft's turn to say, "Indeed, hell froze over". Microsoft Live Labs has launched its first App for iPhone in the form of Sea Dragon. The main feature of Sea Dragon is Deep Zoom where a huge picture, say a Giga Pixel image can be easily viewed in a HandHeld or a PC.
Deep Zoom gives us the effect of Infinite Zoom where we can zoom into a simple-looking image to a very high level.
Example : Let us take the example of "Running the number" art by Chris Jordan. Here Chris creates an art using 106000 Aluminum Beverage cans. According to statistics these are the number of cans consumed by Americans in 30 Sec. I have tried to capture the snapshot of Deep Zoom using Sony Ericsson W810i.
I know, its AWESOME. If you want to try the similar effect in you can visit the HardRock Website. Note that you need to have Silverlight installed to view it.
Get the App in iTunes Click on the AppStore icon -->
The Sea Dragon App also supports Photosynth where Custom created PhotoSynths can be viewed in iPhone.
I have experienced 2 small problems
- Browsing the Photosynth photos had failures
- When I turn the iPod Touch upside down, the controls invert. That is, when I try to pull the photo down, it goes up and so is the case with left n right.
One thing is sure, the big players have realized the importance of co-existance!!
1 comments:
Even I ran into issues when started browsing photosynth. You can't rotate the pic in 3D like on desktop photosynth.
But overall its a good app.
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