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Hi guys,
I’m Dima, and I joined Cooliris four months ago after working at Google for a year. I’ve always thought that Cooliris was a great program, but was disappointed that I couldn’t actually use it on my own Linux machine. This got me motivated to do a side project to enable Cooliris for Linux, even though I’m technically a backend engineer. 
Now, after a fun three months of wrangling with Linux and working hard to make Cooliris perform on as many distributions as possible, we now have a Linux version of Cooliris that is shipping with our 1.10 release! Try it here and let me know what you think. You can learn more about system requirements at the bottom of this post.
It was a fun challenge to make it work reliably on every possible distribution, with every video card, every window manager, and so on. Quite a few times, I’ve had to rely entirely on users’ feedback because I did not have the same hardware and could not reproduce the problems that users ran into. Working around Linux bugs was a challenge, too: even though they were not Cooliris bugs, I still had to find a way around since blaming Linux wouldn’t be very helpful, and we wanted everyone to have a great experience.
Here are some system requirements:
See the support page for more information about specifications and support.
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If you’re coming out with your 10th release, you gotta be sure to make it count. We’ve been putting in a lot of late nights around here making sure that Cooliris version 1.10 comes with great new features that will majorly impact your experience.
In the past, Cooliris has allowed you to browse and search popular websites like Google Images and Youtube, as well scan images from the latest news headlines. Now, check out these new additions:
View Photos from Your Computer
Up until now Cooliris has been an almost exclusively online experience. Now you can search through the My Computer icon and be able to access any of your image galleries in Cooliris, wherever they’re hiding “ your Hard Drive, Desktop, iPhoto, My Pictures, et cetera!
Get the Full Facebook Album Experience
We’ve completely rewritten how we interact with Facebook. Now when you’re browsing your friends’ photos on the streaming 3D Wall, they’ll be complete with title, tags, and more. When someone’s tagged in a photo, you can click through to visit all their tagged photos. Now your Facebook image navigation is every bit as versatile as the browser experience, with a more fluid interface.
Context Is Everything – Get the Whole Story
Cooliris now supplements your multimedia experience with rich metadata optimized to enhance the wall. View shutter, aperture and ISO of Picasa Photos, see image size and source of Google images, view ratings and related videos on YouTube, and view more product descriptions in Shopping.
More information, more versatility, more Cooliris. What are you waiting for? Download version 1.10 here, or you’re missing half the experience!
Additional Support
- Support for Linux platform
- Support for Flock- This version fixes a compatibility with Flock
- Blinkx Support – Search through 35 million hours of video from Blinkx.com directly within Cooliris
- Metacafe videos are now supported again
- RAW Camera Support for images on your computer
Bugs and Other Enhancements
- Embedded Color Support for Windows- embedded color profiles should now be honored when viewing images on PCs
- Fixed Bug with Graphical Corruption for certain Mac-Based ATI Cards
- We now respect EXIF tags in images and draw them with the correct orientation
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