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Hyves Photo Uploader 1.2: Do More

roop — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:12:01 +0000

Late last year, I blogged about the beta release of Hyves Desktop. In about half-a-year, the application has grown much more than just helping folks upload images to Hyves. It now has some very interesting features to help you spice up your photos. Here is a short video demo showing off some of them:

You can download the app for free from http://hyves.nl/hyvesdesktop/download (but you need to have joined Hyves (for free again) before you can download it).

A lot of work has gone into this 1.2 release from the Hyves Desktop team: Arend, Boud, Girish, Markus and self. We’ve also designed the application in a unique way – the main screen’s ui is in html/js, with each core functionality coded in C++ and integrated into the app as a Qt/Webkit plugin.

We can already see how popular the pimping and effects features are, by the sheer number of photos in Hyves tagged gepimpt. Keep em coming, folks.

The Hyves Photo Uploader

roop — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:36:00 +0000

A new desktop client for Hyves, the top social networker in The Netherlands, was out yesterday as beta (paid members only, for now). It’s a chat client, blog/media/event notifier and photo uploader all rolled into one. Girish and self have been working on the photo uploader part of it for over a month now (half of that time in a cold, wet and absolutely charming place called Amsterdam), with oodles of help from Arend and Boud, and it’s looking all neat and slick now. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux. Written using Qt/C++, Javascript and the public hyves api .

On the same topic: Boud’s blog , Official blog (in english)

(Are we anti-social or what? Hyves is the first social networking site I joined, and only when we started working on this (same case with Girish, I bet), and I have a grand total of 5 friends (one of them being myself with another username). Another case Boris in the making? )