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Started by dohtem Sep 13, 2005 at 5:53 PM 11 replies 1.3k views

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Sep 13, 2005 at 5:53 PM

Anyone tried Microsoft's new picture managing software? (I am not sure what to call it) http://www.microsoft.com/max/ It is built on WinFX and the GUI looks nifty (though I usually prefer the classic windows look) The first thing I thought when I saw it was picasa! edit: screenshots one two three [Edited by - dohtem on September 13, 2005 6:24:17 PM]

Ravuya

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Ravuya

Sep 13, 2005 at 6:15 PM

Neat, it is like Picasa.

It has a bit too much of the recent Microsoft "two frames" look but I think it's a decent answer to iPhoto for sure.

kSquared

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kSquared

Sep 13, 2005 at 6:25 PM

Quote:
Original post by Ravuya
Neat, it is like Picasa.

It has a bit too much of the recent Microsoft "two frames" look...

Do you mean the way they border each picture and then border the selected one as well? If so, yes, I agree, that's kind of annoying.

CpMan

Sep 14, 2005 at 12:23 AM

The coolest part about it is supposed to be the sharing functionality, which a friend who messed around with it for a while said was fatastically elegant.

lethalhamster

Sep 14, 2005 at 12:47 AM

It looks pretty nice. I don't have any pictures though so I really have no use for it.

matt_j

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matt_j

Sep 14, 2005 at 12:54 AM

EDIT: OMG 1337! (Check the screenshot)

CpMan

Sep 14, 2005 at 1:21 AM

Wow it's really cool. Very polished and simple. The sharing stuff is awesome too, my roomates and I tried it out. Kinda like an email box, but not really..just..simple...

Matt

CpMan

Sep 14, 2005 at 1:23 AM

Someone share me some photos, cppman@ufl.edu is my passport account.

lethalhamster

Sep 14, 2005 at 1:43 AM

Share some with me too! nickgaragliano@msn.com

CpMan

Sep 14, 2005 at 1:55 AM

Sent you the sample pictures folder:) It's pretty sleek. You do have to have your computer on with max running for others to download the pictures, since there is no central server, but that's expected. Crazy simple. Send me some more. We can have a new gdnet picture list! 56k=who cares!

Oh, and I got yours, easy as pie. I just wonder whether this could be the new way to spread the gman.

I love the non modal-ness of it...how the slide show will run in the little windows and the big windows at the same time.

RipTorn

Sep 14, 2005 at 2:08 AM

I can't get it to install. I get an error telling me to uninstall 'Windows Workflow Foundation', so I uninstalled all of WinFX beta 1 but no luck. Can't for the like of me find any info on the web about it. :(

CpMan

Sep 14, 2005 at 2:17 AM

:(

The cool thing is that the UI stuff might be almost all markup, and it might have only minimal backend stuff for the transferring/login stuff. All the fancy effect like when you resize your view pictures will rearrange themselves to fit on the screen, that's all part of the document tree stuff.

RipTorn

Sep 14, 2005 at 4:29 AM

If anyone else gets the error installing, telling you to uninstall 'windows workflow framework', I managed to get around the problem. It's a lengthy process though so if anyone else gets the error, yell out and I'll answer.

Now I've actually used it, damn impressive program I'd have to say. I expect this may become something of a tech demo demonstrating the various .net foundation systems microsoft are working. The whole integration of everything is absolutly superb. Personally this makes me very, very excited as what winFX will have to offer programmers. [smile] [smile] [smile]

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