Three interesting apps I came across today.
GarageSale is a mac interface for managing eBay auctions. It's got features like capturing images from an iSight or finding things in iPhoto and hosting the images on FTP or .mac to save eBay fees. Templates and other things make tracking your auctions easier.
MemoryMiner is another mac app thats like iPhoto plus. It looks a little like iPhoto, the plus is in adding metadata to your photos. It treats people and places as first class things so there are palettes that list people from your address book and a list of places you've established. it can convert addresses into latitude and longitude via web lookup and download maps as well. You associate people and places by dragging and dropping them on photos. You can also isolate sections of a photo and assign stuff to that section, like a person. It will do things like compute their age in the photo by associating birthdate from the address book with time the photo was taken. They take care to allow you add imprecise date info to older photos (like say those you scanned in). This demo video was pretty good. Update: MacWorld has a review and while they like the idea, they said version 1.04 is too buggy for real use.
Lastly, google bought the company SketchUp today. Their demo video shows how to use their 3D sketch tool. Pretty cool stuff.
No comments:
Post a Comment