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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Microsoft has been working on a web photo enhancing tool called Photosynth for some time now. Pictures created with photosynth are called Synths and allow you manipulate and zoom in on them with 3d effects. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">See:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://livelabs.com/photosynth/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://livelabs.com/photosynth/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The problem is of course is not everyone has the Photosynth plugin(which requires IE7 and XP or Vista with an enhanced graphics card) and so you don’t get the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> full</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> effect of the images. Microsoft</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> recently</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> came up with SeaDragon-Ajax to fix this problem and it really is a much cooler solution because it uses javascript to enhance the image. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Libraries</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> could easily add this code to images by following the easy build steps at the below page:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://livelabs.com/seadragon-ajax/embed-viewer/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://livelabs.com/seadragon-ajax/embed-viewer/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">For more on Seadragon ajax see:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://livelabs.com/seadragon-ajax/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://livelabs.com/seadragon-ajax/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jim Kenzig</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
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