Flickery Review: Flickr on Your Desktop
I assume most of you know about Flickr, the awesome, and free (unless you go pro) photo-sharing service. But it isn’t only for sharing your photos with your friends and family, it is also a great image search engine. Many photos on it are under Creative Commons, and the quality of image you get is much higher than on a place like Google. There have been many iPhone apps that let you access Flickr, but not so many Mac apps (surprisingly). One of the only Mac apps is Flickery.
TwitPic Review: Far From Picture Perfect
Twitter users around the world have learned to love the world of 140-character microblogging, but that doesn’t mean a picture’s not worth a thousand words. Over the past year a number of photo-hosting services aimed at Tweeters have begun to pop up. Services like yfrog, Posterous, and img.ly have been gaining traction at an alarming rate, but none have proven as popular as TwitPic. It was only a matter of time until one of these services developed an app for the iPhone, but is it really necessary?
LittleSnapper Touch Review: Image Uploading From Your iPod
Have you ever wanted to upload and share a picture right from your iPod? That’s exactly what LittleSnapper Touch does. LittleSnapper Touch is the iPhone/iPod Touch version of Realmac Software’s LittleSnapper. It uses the same QuickSnapper website so you can quickly share your images.
When you start up LittleSnapper Touch you will see a large wheel. Simply spin this wheel to select the different options. You can choose to upload images from your library, your camera, or you can take a websnap. Unlike LittleSnapper for Mac, however, the websnap will only be of what is currently showing on your iPhone’s screen. You can also add and delete accounts and visit the QuickSnapper website from the main menu.
EasyCrop Review: Trimming out the Fat
Huge photo suites like PhotoShop and Gimp may offer a completely comprehensive set of photo-editing tools, but it comes at a price. Actual cost asides (Gimp is open source freeware after all) these big programs are major memory hogs. And while it may not really that big of a nuisance when you’re working on a larger project, it’s beyond frustrating when you have to wait 2 minutes for the program to load when all you want to do is crop or resize a photo. Yellow Mug Software has heard your cry, and they’ve responded with EasyCrop.
Layers Review: Advanced Screen-Grabbing
Screen-capturing can be a very important part of our jobs or even life. In OS X, we have a built-in screen-grabbing tool called Grab. It works well for just grabbing windows, selections and the whole screen. But, it doesn’t give you many options–Or at least, not as many as it could. Well recently, wuonm released a tool called Layers that adds a lot of functionality to screen-grabbing.
Photomatix Pro: Total Control Over Your HDR Image
When asking about HDR applications, the one that most often gets recommended (in my experience) is Photomatix Pro. It has many features/options that allow you to ultimately get your HDR image looking the way you envisioned.
Many people think of an HDR image as more of an “artsy” type of photograph, but in reality HDR imaging has very practical uses. It allows you to reproduce the range of tones that our eyes can see, but no camera can capture in a single image. The process of creating an HDR image involves combining multiple images of the same scene at different EV settings; but enough of what HDR imaging is, and onto how Photomatix handles it.
Img2icns Review and Video: Making Icons Can’t Be Easier
The Mac platform is dominated by icons. There are icons on your dock, icons depicting your file types, even icons in your menubar. A long time ago there used to be an app called Pic2Icon from Sugar Cube Software. This app (now discontinued) allowed you to turn your images into icons that you could copy onto your folders and files. Ever since its long departure from the Mac app world, I have been searching for the perfect app that allows you to create icons from your images. I couldn’t be happier to say that I have found this app! Introducing Img2icns:
Deep Review: Super Image Searching
With the release of Leopard, Apple gave us an almost completely redone search engine. We had Spotlight before, but it just didn’t work very well. It gives you many options of what types of files to search for, but no matter what, you must know at least part of the name. Well, the people at Ironic Software have come up with a great new way to search and sort images on the Mac: through colors with Deep.
Button Builder Review: The Best Builder for Buttons
Designing and creating web pages is not as easy as it used to be. Standards are getting higher and higher when it comes to the design and layout of web pages. What if I told you there was a way to take at good amount of time and effort out of your construction process with a small, handy app from Realmac Software? Introducing Button Builder – a simple application made to create fantastic looking buttons with ease.
LittleSnapper Review: Skitch, Watch Out!
There are many applications to take screenshots with on your Mac, even the built-in screenshot tool. But sometimes this just isn’t enough. Maybe you want a way to take a snap of an entire web page, or you need a quick way to share your screenshots with a friend. LittleSnapper, from Realmac Software, does just that.
