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Jonathan replied on January 14, 2009 21:11 to the problem "Windows 7 - no internet access after photosynth install" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hmm. Sounds strange to me. A few of us on the team are running Win 7 and have no issues with IE access with Photosynth installed. If you look at the connection settings for IE does anything look strange?

Does it work in Firefox for you?

Jonathan replied on January 13, 2009 16:48 to the question "small area problem" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Cycloner,
Unfortunately our embedded viewer doesn't handle being drawn so small. We have plans to make it more adaptable to size, but for now, it just doesn't look very good below approximately 250x200. As you can see, the controls and logo get all pushed together.

Jonathan replied on January 12, 2009 23:33 to the question "hiding photosynth menu" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Just add &slideShowPlaying=TRUE to the end of the URL string.

as in: http://photosynth.net/embed.aspx?cid=...

Jonathan replied on January 12, 2009 23:23 to the question "hiding photosynth menu" in Microsoft Live Labs:

our UI shows all the time unless you start the slideshow.

if you are embedding the viewer, you can set it to start in slideshow mode and the UI will be off until someone interacts with it.

Jonathan marked one of Drew Steedly's replies in Microsoft Live Labs as useful. Drew Steedly replied to the question "List of "Not Matching Pics"".

Jonathan replied on December 29, 2008 17:00 to the question "I've jumped thru the hoops, so why can't I 'explore' or use Photosynth!" in Microsoft Live Labs:

We don't full support for Parallels at this time, Lizin. It does work on a Mac with Bootcamp or VMWare Fusion Beta2.

Jonathan replied on December 19, 2008 16:51 to the question "How can I embed a Synth on my own webpage (other then using an iframe) ?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

unfortunately, Wim, right now the only embed option we have is via iframe.

Jonathan replied on December 16, 2008 18:46 to the problem "no synth button" in Microsoft Live Labs:

What's going on here is that our window is bigger than 600 pixels high, so when it draws initially, those buttons on the bottom don't even get added so it looks like the full window is there.

Here are 2 workarounds:
1. Make your screen bigger. 1024x768 works fine.
2. After you add photos and give it a name, just hit 'enter' with your cursor in the name field. That will start the synth.

Jonathan replied on December 16, 2008 16:59 to the problem "no synth button" in Microsoft Live Labs:

What size screen do you have? It almost looks like the window is being chopped off. Also, I'm assuming you're running XP?

Jonathan replied on December 02, 2008 17:01 to the question "Who is favoriting our synths? Likeminded souls, I'd think!" in Microsoft Live Labs:

That feature is on our roadmap! We hope to get it in soon.

Jonathan set one of Jonathan's replies as an official response to "How can i delete some of my favorites?" in Microsoft Live Labs

Jonathan replied on November 17, 2008 17:08 to the question "How can i delete some of my favorites?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

if you open the synth again you can click the favorite star again to unfavorite it.

Jonathan replied on November 05, 2008 16:58 to the question "updating a photosynth" in Microsoft Live Labs:

We'll release this ability in the future, but right now the only way to add pictues to a synth is to start over with the synther - select all the images it currently has and the new ones you want to add.

Because you've already uploaded some of the images, we won't upload them again, so you don't have to worry about the bandwidth needed to reupload those images.

Jonathan replied on October 30, 2008 17:08 to the question "Mac Release Date?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

we're working on this, but don't have a date yet. thanks for the interest.

Jonathan replied on October 28, 2008 20:44 to the idea "Synth both as picrures and already prepared photonth files?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

There's still a lot of processing that would be required in your scenario, but it's a interesting idea in how to handle larger sets.

Jonathan marked one of Nathanael Lawrence's replies in Microsoft Live Labs as useful. Nathanael Lawrence replied to the question "Exporting Photosynth Models?".

Jonathan posted an update in Microsoft Live Labs on October 22, 2008 06:14:

New feature: Favorites.

Our website update is finished.
With the latest release to Photosynth.com you can now mark your favorite synths, and we’ll let you see the synths that the most people have marked as a favorite in our new Explore page filter: http://photosynth.net/Explore.aspx?fi...

As an incentive, we’ll feature the 10 synths with the most favorites here on the blog next week, so call your friends and family and get them to Favorite your best synths!

Jonathan posted an update in Microsoft Live Labs on October 21, 2008 20:15:

Details of Photosynth Update, October 21

We’re excited to release an update to the Photosynth website tonight!

Due to the change, we’ll have a short downtime after 9pm Pacific time. Users may experience issues searching and viewing synths for a few hours. Additionally, we’ll be disabling uploads starting at 7pm Pacific time. Any in progress uploads will be allowed to complete.

In addition to some bug fixes, we are releasing the first new community feature: Favorites – you’ll now be able to mark synths as a favorite, and see other people’s favorite synths.

Jonathan replied on October 14, 2008 16:03 to the idea "Timelapse" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Thanks, Mike. You're right that this is on our list. We just need to find time (hehe) to get it in and design a reasonable UI for it.

Jonathan replied on October 08, 2008 22:57 to the idea "Ability to Edit Existing Synth Content - Add, Delete." in Microsoft Live Labs:

Thanks. We want this, too.