Photo gallery relocation and Cooliris slideshow improvements

The number one complaint I got about the photo gallery for this blog is how bad it looks and how slow it is to browse between photos, compared to other hosted services like Flickr and Picasa Web. I’ve been using the very useful Gallery2 open-source PHP platform for years now and it can really do alot of neat stuff, but I’ve been way too lazy to dive in to spice it up a bit.

Gallery2 recently released their 2.3 version which, among other things, included a real boost to their slideshow option with something called Cooliris. This takes image browsing to a whole new level with 3D. Here’s a short demo on how I tested it out after the gallery upgrade.

I also took this opportunity to move the Fili’s World photo gallery to its own down – www.filigallery.com , long overdue. To the geeks among you I’ll just point out that to keep incoming links and blog embedded photos running this move involved some 301 redirects and blog DB string search-replace. With a few other tweaks, the general gallery experience should be a lot nice now.

Test out the slideshow feature (install the plugin for real 3D experience) and let me know what you think.