News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
When it comes to organizing, editing, and sharing photos, most Mac users know iPhoto. But what happens when you don’t feel like plunking down $79 for the latest iLife iteration just to get the snazzy Faces and Places features? Google offers an answer in Picasa, a free photo editing and sharing app that rivals iPhoto ‘09, excelling in areas, though it’s not without a few shortcomings.
Kris Fong | Nov 4, 2009
Scrolling and clicking on Next links through tons of Web pages is not how I want to hunt down an elusive video or photo. Thankfully, there’s Cooliris, a super-handy browser plug-in that lets you scope out images and video content in a unique way, displaying everything in a full-screen, horizontally expanded, interactive 3-D “wall” view. It effectively eliminates the repetitive click-and-scroll tedium so you can find what you’re looking for fast.
Kris Fong | Jun 29, 2009
You’ve probably made a few photo collages in your lifetime, whether you laid out photos with the perfect amount of messy randomness in a photo album or magnetised a grouping on your fridge. But in the digital world, there’s not a lot out there that lets Mac users do the deed easily. I’ve painstakingly used Photoshop, Pages, and even iWeb to create collages, but nothing compares to the quickness and ease of Shape Collage.
Kris Fong | Jun 24, 2009
Chances are you’ve probably heard about the Faces feature in iPhoto ‘09 that makes it quick and easy to find all photos of a particular someone in your iPhoto library. But if you don’t have iPhoto ‘09, iLovePhotos can give you a similar result for free, but with more manual effort.
Kris Fong | Jun 23, 2009
If you’re a photographer or just plain snapshot-happy, you’ve no doubt experienced the dread of sorting through tons of photos, deciding which to keep or trash. I get this feeling every time I return from a vacation or photo shoot, knowing that I’ll need to go through hundreds of images one ... at ... a ... time ... in Photoshop. But with ViewIt, I can simply drop my camera’s photos onto the ViewIt window, view and mark what’s good with just a key press, and copy only those images to my Mac. Beautiful.
Kris Fong | Jun 23, 2009
Ever have one of those moments where you download photos to your Mac and then delete the originals, only to find that some didn’t copy over? Rather than curse or cry, just use Klix. Whether you’ve deleted photos, reformatted your media card, or had a card go bad, Klix recovers photos and movie files despite the vacuous state your media card appears to be in.
Kris Fong | Jun 18, 2009
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
