COLOURLovers has a webpage which shows what color-blind people (like me) see. Most people ask me stupid questions (does this "red" look like that "green" - Duh. Nope.) My sister really enjoyed it. I'm "green-weak", the most common form. The next-to-last pair of pictures (Deuteranomaly) look almost identical to me unless I concentrate REALLY hard. The art work pictures look very similar to me (Sis tells me how weird that is). Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet
wow! you're color blind? For such a visually oriented person (who posts all those amazing pictures) I find that really fascinating. - Lindsay Donaghe
My color-blindness seems to be getting worse I age. When I was younger, I cheated on the color blindness tests by looking for the 2nd number in each diagram. Now sometimes I can't even see the 2nd number. Am I just too lazy to cheat now, or are my eyes getting worse? - Mitchell Tsai
I would say the colorblind see the world in a much more pleasing color scheme. - Akiva Moskovitz
Lindsay: Isn't it strange that a color-blind person is posting pictures? It's amazing how many web designers really are poor with layout, perspective, etc... I work a lot with designers. I'm actually good at pointing out things which don't have enough contrast for deuteranomalists like me. If you read the wikipedia page though, it's useful to take a color-blind person in your hunting group because they see different things than you do. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
learned a new word, thanks ... deuteranomalists - gregory lent
Akiva: One lady was color-blind in one eye, and could REALLY describe what color-blindness looked like. It's grayer and not as lively. I wish I had better color vision. Luckily I was blessed with an incredible ear. I'd say color-blindness is like being slightly tone-deaf. There's a tone-deaf guy who RUNS a major recording studio. He can't hear as well, but he has a really good knack for picking good musical artists. - Mitchell Tsai
My cousin is color blind.. it's weird, you don't really think about what a difference it makes until you look at something like this! - Tim Hoeck
This article http://4colorvision.com/files/... suggests than humans are actually "blocked" tetrachromats (e.g. If we had different lenses, we'd see partially into the UV. Could be scary...crazy if we replace our natural lenses with artificial ones to see UV). - Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell - Sometimes I've used a site called Visicheck to see how designs look to colorblind people. And I've also tried to make sure (when I have control of the graphic and UI design) that we use more than just color cues for status and other information that might seem more intuitive to just use color for. It requires a lot of attention to detail to keep all that stuff in mind! - Lindsay Donaghe
"Although it is frequently claimed that any color can be matched by a mixture of Blue, Green and Red. This is not true of the deep purple found near 410-420 nms. To match this color requires one of the matching lights to have a wavelength shorter than 410 nm." - Mitchell Tsai
Lindsay: As long as you have brightness & intensity contrasts, a green-red-brown hue problem won't cause problems. As my Dad keeps reminding me (age 70), use BIGGER fonts (problem is bigger fonts look less "professional" and SPAMmy, but maybe Spammers do better than old-fashioned websites). I'll try Vischeck http://vischeck.com Thanks for the pointer... Feel free to e-mail me any links you want to check (make sure I'm online that week...) - Mitchell Tsai
Tim: Does every pair look extremely different to you? Color-blindness is female-transmitted, so it follows some weird inheritance patterns. - Mitchell Tsai
I am biased against pictures with a lot of green-brown because they don't look that interesting to me (from a color hue point of view). My cousin Susan gave me a green-brown shirt that I got TONS of compliments for; however, I thought it looked incredibly boring. I'd love to find a website which distorts colors and shows me what that shirt looked like to others.... :-) - Mitchell Tsai
www.quillpill.com must really bore you, it is green-brown - gregory lent
Just when you thought Mitchell couldn't get any more interesting... :) - Shey
Gregory: http://quillpill.com looks very monochromatic to me (and flat), but it looks fine. Simple clean design. Doesn't look boring. Do any pages look bright to you? - Mitchell Tsai
I like claimid.com - it does what it's suppose to do - sdfx
Hi Chris, I asked that question a few weeks ago, too. The consensus seemed to be pointing towards MyOpenID.com, and I've been using them ever since. Very simple to use. The thread was here: http://friendfeed.com/e/623b4d... - Mark Trapp
started out with MyOpenID, now use ClaimID - Kevin Champion
read the agreements ... you might be surprised who matters most ... if openid fwiw check out the verisign labs version ... a wooden nickel - Scott Moskowitz
"Winner of the Extend Firefox 3 contest, Fire.fm is your direct access to the extensive music library on Last.fm. Listen to music related to your favorite artist, and discover new artists and music in the process. Listen to your friends' favorite music. Find Last.fm users with musical taste similar to your own. Quickly access your favorite stations by just typing a few letters into the location bar. This is the ultimate add-on for the music junkie." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
This looks good. I personally like scrobbling from my player, whether it be foobar or the last.fm app. And I use the FoxyTunes extension which I've come to love. - Michael W. May (Joffi)
I've used it a bit in the past week. I like it a lot. - EJ Flavors
sounds interesting but with what i can do with iscrobbler and foxytunes, i wonder if i need it. i'm still waiting for all music services on the web to scrobble to last.fm like hypem does and like muxtape was able to do. if that ultimate add on there could make that happen, it would win for me. - Lynne d Johnson
Started using this extension over the weekend and loving it. I rarely listened to last.fm stations before, because I use iscrobbler instead of the last.fm app, but with the extension I can browse and check out my recommended artists all at once. - Kyle Hebert
They were miles in front, Jamaica should be proud of the achievements of their athletics team! - Joe Dawson
37.10/4=9.27500 I am not totally sure how this comes to be -- I guess because the last three start already running? But they have to pass the baton as well. Seems pretty amazing - Brian Sullivan
I love the thing Bolt does with his arms, pointing them up. Lightning bolt? - Hutch Carpenter
it was simply amazing! I'm still getting goosebumbs just thinking about it! - Jasmin Smith
@Brian it is amazing. Keep in mind that only the starting runner has to run from a standstill. - Shey
Yes obviously the last three start their legs running they can do better times .But because the starter can go no faster then 9.69 ( ;-) ) and the baton has to be passed 3 times as well -- the others have to make up the difference. I guess the same is true of the 200 but there Bolt managed to average *only* 9.65 average per leg - Brian Sullivan
I wish I could do the windmill. Maybe I'll buy Alfonso's book. - Ayşe E.
so what kills me in this video is when he talks about all you get, "fold out breaking board, rap sheet, and instruction poster" and cops attitude like, "how could you not buy all this?!" Alphonso is gully. - Jason Toney
Yeah Brian, that's one of the things that I like about SmugMug, the thumbnails come across much better than Zooomr or Flickr on FriendFeed. Still need to get the hang of SmugMug though. Creating sets are pretty important to me. I hate manually creating sets though and prefer to use keywords which is why I like SmartSetr so much on Flickr and Zooomr's SmartSets. I've got over 500 sets on Flickr now that I've built with SmartSetr. - Thomas Hawk
Who/what controls the thumbnail presentation -- is that just the service feed. Not only are SmugMug thumbnails larger -- they actually show the complete image in the correct orientation. Makes Flickr and Zoomr look amateurish. - Brian Sullivan
Thomas, I moved to SmugMug as well and creating dynamic sets based on tags was one of the things I wanted. So far I've not found a way to do it easily although there are some code hacks to create a recent set and a one set based on tags in the highlighted galleries. But no simple way to create sets via tags that I've found, but definitely needs to be something they add. - Russ G
hmmmm... so all albums have to be manually created then? I was hoping it would be easier than that. I have to say that I like the way that albums look on screen though better than Flickr or Zooomr. I think this "last 10" album is automatically generated by SmugMug. I *love* how easy it is to flip through large sized photos. http://thomashawk.smugmug.com/... - Thomas Hawk
Brian, it's actually based on your individual settings, as I have mine set to show square thumbnails and that is what shows up in FriendFeed. You can also set thumbs to show as original image size, so guess that's what Thomas has set :) - Russ G
Yeah I'm finding SmugMug a lot more flexible in the way I want to display galleries etc, but not being able to create galleries on the fly with tags is a pain but here's the example I've created http://russg.smugmug.com/galle... under featured galleries I've got a favourites set, plus a slide show on my home page showing photo's based on a tag :) - Russ G
Is there a way to see recent activity like on Flickr or is that not something that SmugMug does? - Thomas Hawk
Thanks and yes you can do a recent gallery but again not simply, but is doable see here http://russg.smugmug.com/date/.... Don MacAskill is on FF one of the founders maybe he'll see these comments and let us know when this functionality will be there? - Russ G
SmugMug has a completely open API that would make a hack like this very possible. Just a matter of finding a programmer with the time and inclination to do it. - Jeremy Hall
Saying that I paid for a Pro account and can pretty much customize what I want including my own design and menu system :) - Russ G
Jeremy most of the hacks are already available on the forum, where do you think I got mine from :) - Russ G
I currently use Flickr and Smugmug and just upload to both. What I'm missing on Smugmug is Flickr's ability to have photos in multiple sets. On Smugmug, it creates a copy of the photo in order to do that. RSS will allow you to see recent photos, but beyond that, I don't know how to do it on the site. - Jordan Hofker
I love SmugMug, but I do feel that a class in how to make the most of it would be helpful. There is much less of a social aspect on SmugMug too. I think I've only ever had one comment on my pics...and yes....dynamic sets would be brilliant...as well as the ability for a photo to appear in more than one set. - Chris Nixon
Jordan, same issue here and not found a solution, but being able to create sets based on tags would resolve the issue for me. - Russ G
I like SmugMug, but where it falls short for me is in stats. I've not found a way to get something similar to what I can see with my Flickr pro account in "Your Stats" I'm nerdy enough that I really enjoy tracking which photos got how many views and where those view came from, etc. - Andy Roth
I use SmugMug differently from Flickr I see it more as a 'presentational view' of my photo's than having all the functionality of Flickr, but saying that I sometimes miss more detailed stats and the ability to have flexible galleries. - Russ G
Chris, I agree; I definitely miss the social aspect of Flickr on SmugMug. Andy, I'm the same way with stats (even though I get very little in terms of views). I just added Google Analytics to SmugMug to make up for the stats I'm missing. - Jordan Hofker
Oh no, sorry Russ. I just "thumbs-down"d one of your photos. The photo overlay showed me two thumbs up and I just picked one. I can't figure out how to undo the action, either. - Jordan Hofker
Jordan, Not to worry and I don't even know how you can see who's "Thumbs Up or Downed" a photo anyway! - Russ G
In terms of "smart sets" you can do queries based on keyword(s), so I am sure there would be a way to create links to those queries that are not actual galleries, but a compilation of queries. Photos would still exist in their uploaded galleries, but users could be presented with those smart sets created by hand or some third party service. - Jeremy Hall
This discussion should be added to the SmugMug room for visibility to their staff that are on FF. - Jeremy Hall
Good point Jeremy, never thought or can remember how to add it :) - Russ G
I reshared it, but I didn't know if there was a way to just "include" the discussion into that room. If TH can do that, I'll delete my reshare. - Jeremy Hall
Good point Russ, it would be great to see who has thumbed up your pics. - Chris Nixon
There's a hack to do it on Smugmug to create keyword based galleries - search for "virtual galleries" on the forum, or ask about how to do it and someone smarter than me should be able to help. It involves some CSS and javascript trickery, but it can be done. I do agree this is a weak spot with Smugmug though. - Eric
Eric, That's what I used but not what I would call simple or user friendly unless you know CSS and javascript. - Russ G
I got my "How was your trial" email today, so I responded and linked to this discussion in it. Thanks, Jeremy, I didn't know about the Smugmug room here! - Jordan Hofker
I can see this as a nice third party service, like SmartSetr that basically builds the CSS for you. The user would just need to include a line of javascript into their site design, which is easily done with a Pro account on SmugMug. - Jeremy Hall
Jeremy, surely it would be better being integrated as part of SmugMug rather than relying on users to paste scripts into their site design? Saying that I'll take either option right now :) - Russ G
I agree, but sometimes a third party option (like SmartSetr) comes around quicker than getting the feature within the main site. If Don were to jump in and say they are adding it, that would definitely be my preferred option though. - Jeremy Hall
I'd support anybody that came up with a third party option like SmartSetr for SmugMug - Russ G
Andy, agree with you on the Stats. Flickr's stats page is great. It would be cool if SmugMug had a page like that. - Thomas Hawk
I think maybe for now I'll start creating color themed uploads for my photos on SmugMug and then begin manually building color groups. Each day I could upload 20 or so images all of the same color. Red one day, green the next, etc. I think that this could be a good use for it for me now. Since the sets look so beautiful I think the colors would show well. Hopefully at some point there will be some SmartSet functionality and I will use it to build a more extensive collection of galleries/sets/albums. - Thomas Hawk
Some great feedback here I'm making sure the whole SmugMug team sees it. Thanks all! - Andy Williams
Thomas holler to me at our help desk if I can help you customize, trick out the site - be happy to assist in any way possible! - Andy Williams
Dynamic galleries / sets / etc is a request we see periodically, but not nearly as often as some of the other things we're asked to do. But I'll take another look at what it'd take to do this and see what I can whip up... :) - Don MacAskill
Thanks Don, I'm not sure how quickly you can 'whip' something up but I'm sure it would be well recieved by all as would give greater flexability in creating and designing photo galleries on SM :) - Russ G
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