It was a very strange experience standing up close to a sculpture that looked almost as if it was a living person, it was almost like invading someone’s personal space getting so close to it to take a photograph. I bet the artist never feels alone when he’s at his workshop.
I decided to start a conversation on Buzz about the features that people needed, here’s a few crowd sourced feature requests out of a conversation on which over 50 hard-core Buzz users were involved.
Threaded comments
Once a Buzz post becomes popular it’s impossible to keep the conversation in a linear fashion. The conversational nature of Buzz begs for threaded replies. Comments need to be collapsible
Buzz Stream Pause.
Real time updates are not cool when you can’t read a single one of them. When you follow over 500 people, it’s almost impossible to even read what they’re posting, you need to scroll down as the stream keeps coming in, a pause/play feature to stop messages from coming in would not also be handy for Buzz users but it’d also save Google a lot of HTTP requests that won’t really matter.
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Here some pictures of Kimber Fiebiger’s Bronze Humpty Dumpties. When you see these you can’t help to smile.
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Sometimes you need to create graphics, or compose images and have them saved as regular PNGs, JPEGs or GIFs.
Here’s a quick and dirty reference of how to do it with BufferedImages, Graphics2D and javax.imageio.*.
Very straightforward.
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
...
//1. Create a BufferedImage, in this case a simple 1024x768 using only RGB colors (you could use alpha for example)
BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(1024, 768, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
//2. Get a hold of a Graphics2D object to do all the painting and compositing on the BufferedImage
Graphics2D graphics = bufferedImage.createGraphics();
//3. Do the painting... in this case, I just filled with yellow
graphics.setColor(new Color(255,255,0));
graphics.fillRect(0, 0, bufferedImage.getWidth(), bufferedImage.getHeight());
//4. Write the image
try {
ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "png",new File("test.png"));
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
1. Go to Pandora.com and open a station called “Samba Mix” , “Samba” or “Sambada” [if you can recommend good Samba artists please leave a comment]
2. Enjoy the following Flickr Slideshow full screen
3. Raise the volume and dance
For a better experience, you can do the same on your Living Room using Boxee, it has Flickr and Pandora apps in it.
I’ve yet to shoot a girl that I like more than “Feather Girl” in Miami Beach. She must have been one of the many models that live in Miami Beach.
