![]() ![]() Or, if you’re thorough, you may set up photo albums that describe their contents (“Africa Trip,” for example). In each case, you’re using a text-dependent, non-visual approach to finding images. Now, think about how your mind locates images. In addition to knowing roughly when the photographs were taken (“March,” or “Spring,” or “Sometime in the last two years”), you no doubt associate a location such as “home,” “Los Angeles,” or “Africa.” Unless you had the foresight to set up albums or keywords with that specific information (and instead of “Los Angeles,” the location could have also been specific nearby areas such as “Glendale” or “Anaheim”), there’s no good way to use that information in your search. At least, not in iPhoto or most other photo-cataloging applications. Ovolab’s $20 Geophoto looks to add that visual element to finding your pictures, as well as images from around the world. Geophoto lets you place your photos on a map, so you can easily find the ones you’ve taken in Montana, Madrid, or Pretoria. It also lets you subscribe to photo feeds over the Internet, whether or not those images are tagged with geographic data. Google geophotos mac os x#Ī trial version of Geophoto 1.3 is a 42.5 MB download it’s a universal binary and requires Mac OS X 10.4 and a graphics card with at least 64 MB of VRAM. Get Out the Map - Geophoto opens with a slowly rotating satellite image of the Earth, which you can manipulate by clicking and dragging with the mouse. It feels very much like starting up Google Earth. Zoom in or out using the mouse’s scroll wheel, menu commands, or keyboard shortcuts. (An aside: The keyboard command for zooming in is Command-+, with the plus sign being a long-established common shorthand for “zoom in.” However, you actually must press Command-Shift-= because the plus sign is the shifted character on the equal sign’s key. I understand the literal context at work, that you’re not zooming in by pressing “Command-equals.” But since Command-= does nothing except produce a system beep indicating you pressed the wrong button, why not map that key to zoom in too? You can get around this by pressing Command and the plus sign on an extended keyboard’s number pad, but that doesn’t help laptop users. Geophoto is by no means the only culprit in this regard, but merely the program where I want to put my foot downĪnd beg developers to anticipate such minor user interface annoyances so users aren’t compelled to write lengthy parenthetical asides like this.) Google geophotos plus# Photo albums appear in a sidebar list to the left of the globe and the photos themselves run horizontally across a pane at the bottom of the window. ![]()
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