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Con­tinu­ing my theme of ‘syn­thing the Sydney Har­bour Bridge: on Tues­day I took a series of 24 pho­tos on my Palm Treo Pro cam­era of the bridge. Includ­ing a seagull:

I live only 5 minutes away from the most awe­some vista in the world: the Sydney Harbour.

Now you can exper­i­ence the Har­bour on a not-so-sunny day (that is, this morn­ing) thanks to Microsoft Pho­to­synth (note: Mac users: we’re work­ing on it. In the cur­rent term, you will need to Boot­camp to see Pho­to­synths. The VMWare Fusion guys say that their Beta 2 of Fusion 2.0 works OK with Pho­to­synth)

Pho­to­synth is avail­able for pub­lic cre­ation of synths. Grabs some pho­tos of an object or place, and synth them.

For fun, I also added a synth of “Rambo”, The Big Merino from Goul­burn, NSW.

The on10.net Shut­ter­speed epis­ode has an inter­view with the Pho­to­synth team.

As Larry men­tions in his post, the latest beta of Win­dows Live Photo Gal­lery is out.

After installing it, the first fea­ture I tried out is the new “upload to Flickr”. I am a Flickr Pro user: the abil­ity to see and com­ment on my friend’s pho­tos is like attend­ing slide-show even­ings from the com­fort of your own computer.

The internal buzz in the leadup to announce even got Jeff Sandquist hyped! And Long Zheng, an excel­lent pho­to­grapher also loves it.

Win­dows Vista added sup­port for tag­ging pho­tos as another mech­an­ism for organ­ising your digital memor­ies. Win­dows Live Photo Gal­lery reflects these tags when upload into Flickr. Now as a Flickr user, this was a wow! moment.

Watch and listen to my (first) screen­cast.

All tagged Flickr pho­tos here: http://flickr.com/search/?q=stub+twitter&m=text

Thanks to http://twitter.com/cathye for organ­ising us twitter-erz to actu­ally get off our keypads/keyboards and have a meat­space meetup. Sub­scribe to http://twitter.com/stub for more info.

So, http://twitter.com/jjprojects http://twitter.com/funkycoda and myself now have the respons­ib­il­ity to organ­ise the next meetup. 3 blokes doing it is dangerous.

Also, thanks to our spon­sors for sponsoring.

Hmm, meat­space meet­ing for Sydney Blog­gers. Sounds cool. See you there. Want to find out more about this pig called Babe.