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gpuViewer puts your photos on the map

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Today is an important step forward in the life of gpuViewer with the addition of the “where” view.
Now, instead of having just a calendar in your main view, you also have a map. The user interface stays the same: you simply zoom using the mouse wheel…
To put your pictures on the map, nothing complicated: […]

announcing gpuViewer on Vista/64

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

In a very surprising session of just one day, I have both managed to integrate Intel’s Performance Primitives (to deal with JPEG both fast and in a cross-platform manner) and see a 64bits build run for the first time. One thing is obvious, here on a quadcore with 8GB RAM : we waste a […]

Photo Recognition documented

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

With the release of v0.2, a bit of tidying up of the documentation was in order. This is now done, you can access it here: gpuViewer user guide
The important part explains how to use the new SIFT related features, you can skip directly to that if you prefer: Photo Recognition
Please send as much feedback […]

gpuViewer Tech Preview 0.2.0.70

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

This has been a long update to come and I hope you will all realise the sort of step forward it represents.
First of all, let’s talk a little bit of the smaller updates.
- there has been quite a bit of improvement on previous/next navigation. Using the left or right arrow keys bring the […]

gpuViewer becomes useful, v0.0.1.6

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

This new version adds a long postponed feature: right-click now opens up the shell’s menu which enables you to do things with your files… At last
It also has a newer version of DCRaw and should support new cameras like Nikon D3, Nikon D300 or Canon 40D. I don’t have access to these […]

gpuViewer Tech preview v0.0.1.5

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

This release is really about fixing a problem with the installer that was carrying an out of date version of the D3DX runtime and missing the one actually needed.
See the post about v0.0.1.4 for the most recent changes applied.
Go to the dowload area and download your version now!
Keep the feedback coming. I’m particularly interested […]

Tech preview (0.0.1.4) just released

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

This addresses a few important issues:
- app stuck doing nothing at startup (failing to upload survey)
- recovery after ctrl-alt-del and other DirectX device lost situations
- Vista restarting the display when GPU use takes too long
- stats appearing as a black rectangle (when pressing TAB)
- many memory leaks
- some random bugs
A taste of the […]

gpuViewer tech-preview 2, update

Friday, October 19th, 2007

A new version is available that:
- fixes a crash bug when trying to parse some JPG files beyond their end (this is the cause of many startup crashes)
- fixes a second startup crash bug
- smoother wheel zoom
- wheel-zoom direction made to match the behaviour of apps like virtual earth
- […]

Zoom through your photos with gpuViewer

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

We’re proud to release this second tech preview of gpuViewer as it marks an important milestone for us: the proof of concept of the Zoom UI. The main feature in today’s release is the calendar view that lets you find your pictures by simply zooming on the calendar. Yes, just like that, using your […]

Hello world!

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Welcome to gpuViewer.
This site is still under construction, please refer to www.webphotomag.com/wpmViewer until we’re done. It shouldn’t take long