Tech: new...Java based image browser-wow!

Subject: new...Java based image browser-wow!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 02 - 10:38 AM

for those who are fascinated by new applications of technology, this merits a look... http://java.sun.com/features/2001/08/photomesa.html it is a project of the computer lab at the Univ. of Maryland (USA), and has a number of interesting features in its various menus... It is NOT as fast to load as things like Irfanview, but it does what it says and is reasonably fast after loading, and some may prefer the Java zooming...etc. I found it thru the page about Java Web Start..(it requires a recent version of Java, noted on the download page){this is NOT 'hard to do'...just 'different'}...

http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/index.html

the Washington Post has an article about the computer lab and the people who do the designs, with a mention of how useful Photomesa is.

Post Article

(this will be online for a number of days......worth reading....)

Subject: RE: BS: new...Java based image browser-wow!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 02 - 10:43 AM

note...this is not a picture editor, just a picture looker/browser ...you no doubt already have something to look at pictures you have downloaded, or scanned....this is just a new concept in looking for/at them.