Photogalleries made with SwishPix

[maxie_online]

Hi,

Hope you had wonderful Easter holidays.

I have been playing about with trial versions of Swish software and created two simple flash pictureshows in SwishPix. SwishPix is so easy to use: Take some pictures, add some text, and some sound, and - voilá: Two Flash pictureshows - Das Museum für Kommunikation in Berlin-Mitte (size of the flash

Comments

[henningz]

it's looking really good. nice alternative to javascript when making a slide show. but the files are quite gigantic. is this a matter of file size of the used pictures or is it the type of sound file?

[rydel23]

Considering how many pictures are there and how much audio is embedded into the file, I think the size is actually pretty reasonable.

[maxie_online]

You are right, Flash files take a while for loading and require a very fast internet connection. (By the way this is why I hate those "intros" you get to see sometimes when entering certain websites.) - Indeed, especially 3.5 MB for the Köpenick file is big and a pain for those users who have a slow internet connection, therefore I offer also HTML files on that subdomain

[rydel23]

> Das Museum für Kommunikation in Berlin-Mitte (size of the flash file: 1.5 MB) and Köpenick (3.5 MB).

Super! :)) Is that your voice?

So does Köpenick really originate from "Kauf nicht" or it's just a myth?

[maxie_online]

Thank you, Uladzimir! :-)

- Yes, this is only me speaking there. *l* (The website www.diezeit.de offers audiofiles and hired professional speakers. I suggested their audiofiles to people who learn German as a foreign language, but then I realized that they are too long to keep one's attention. So I am just experimenting a bit ...)

And, of course, it is a myth only. :-) To tell you the truth :-), I have no idea where the name Köpenick is from, but I guess it shows the Slavonic origin - like many German towns and districts, which had been settled first by Slavonic nationalities and kept the Slavic name. Such towns and districts often end on "-nick", "-witz", "-ow" etc.

According to the website www.koepenick.net, the name Köpenick comes from COPNIC, which was translated as "place on an island". I do believe that this version is more reliable! *l* Also they say that the last Slavonic ruler in Köpenick was the prince Jaxa De Copnic, before the village was captured by the Germans (i.e., by Albrecht der Bär, 1157, who was also

[zelenskaya]

i need access to Berlin_de

[maxie_online]

OK - it should be possible now. Just try.
Have a fine week-end and see you there!