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Archive for March, 2006

Panoramio in press

March 7th, 2006 by Eduardo Manchón

Panoramio has appeared in March edition of The Atlantic Monthly inside a long article about Google Earth: “Spy’s-eye View”

And also the last week in El País, the leading Spanish newspaper:

Alpha in PNG images

March 3rd, 2006 by Joaquín Cuenca Abela

Quick trivia:
Why do some PNG images show with weird backgrounds in Explorer ≤6?
(Remember I said Explorer. If you see these images with a white background you’re seeing them with an PNG alpha capable browser, aka “anything but explorer”.)
I hope we all know by now that Explorer doesn’t render correctly PNG images with an alpha channel […]

Tagging photos

March 2nd, 2006 by Joaquín Cuenca Abela

After yet one more excellent suggestion of Matthew & Thorsten, we decided to implement tags in the photos.
Actually, we had tags in the pipeline since almost the beginning of Panoramio, but there was always just-one-more-thing to do before. Not this time.
Oh, I know, everybody under the Sun implements tags nowadays. But they’re neverless useful, if […]