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Image Resizer on the Go

Sharing or uploading photos often implies changing their dimensions in order to meet size or proportion requirements. A simple and portable tool that is designed to do just that is PhotoResizer. Digital images are some of the most popular file formats currently circulating all over the Internet and among their ran...

28 October 2011
15:41 GMT

Send Us a Picture of How You See Steve Jobs

While some decided to post stickies on the glass of an Apple Retail Store to commemorate Steve Jobs, others simply used their blogs, or Twitter accounts to share the compassion. I'd like us, the regulars here on the Apple news section of Softpedia, to do something special too.You probably fully realized just how...

6 October 2011
13:31 GMT

Rename Photos Based on EXIF Data

Classifying and organizing digital pictures often involves sorting them by various criteria such as the date they when taken or their file name. With EXIF ReName you can combine these to obtain the optimal categorization.A task many of us have run into and found it simple at the beginning but it proved to be rather t...

2 October 2011
12:21 GMT

Quick Photo Conversion

Changing the dimensions, format and name of your digital pictures is a task that can be done very fast. Lightning Image Resizer is the tool that can complete the job without sacrificing anything in terms of quality.Working with holiday photos or any other type of graphical file often requires specialized software, de...

1 October 2011
09:21 GMT

Add Original Effects to Your Images

Sooner or later, we all get accustomed with the limitations of our camera: certain effects can only be the result of post-processing adjustments. Flare intends to make the entire process a lot easier that one might think. Everybody can take a picture, and thanks to the right effects, almost any image can look absolut...

18 June 2011
04:21 GMT

Picture Format Conversion in High Gear

Changing the original file format for dozens, even hundreds of photos, can be a tiresome activity if the proper tools are not at hand. With this Image Converter, you will save lots of time and still keep the quality at high standards. Most users want to spend as little time as possible on less important tasks that...

31 May 2011
13:51 GMT

Convert and Resize Photos in Style

Tinkering with digital images is always fun, especially if this activity is done with the right tools. When it comes to changing photo dimensions and formats, Caldera will make sure this job is efficient as well as attractive for every user.A pleasant pastime like taking pictures and sharing them with friends is usua...

4 May 2011
16:31 GMT

View Your Photos with Stylish Borders

Pictures can be enhanced with lots of effects, stamps or filters, but a classical frame may sometimes be just what you need when you only want to look at them. With Free Photo Frame that is exactly what you get.When it comes to finding means of embellishing digital images, a virtual frame is not always the first thin...

19 April 2011
12:01 GMT

Transform Photos in a Snap

Creating online albums and sending images as e-mail attachments or via social network services often entail transforming the pictures. For resizing and changing the original file format, Smith Image Converter can fit the bill.Sharing treasured moments captured on a digital camera may need, sometimes, more than a simp...

17 April 2011
10:11 GMT

Full-Throttle Image Copier and Resizer

When it comes to moving around loads of digital pictures at once everyone appreciates speed and quality. Those attributes become even more sought-after if converting and resizing are needed. With Copy N Size you get all of them in one package. Mixing photos and other documents in the same folder is something often...

16 January 2011
08:51 GMT

Scale Down Your Photos on the Go

Changing the dimensions of digital pictures is a straightforward task that shouldn't take more than a few clicks. Image Squeeze is here to make sure that's exactly how things will get done. Whenever someone needs to shrink some images to make them fit an e-mail attachment or be appropriate for posting on...

4 December 2010
11:51 GMT

Wally - And Your Desktop Will Never Get Old

Customizing your computer's appearance is never easy, but not many users can resist it. For people that stay in front of a desktop up to 12 hours a day, a fancy wallpaper, funny icons or original themes are meant to take some of the pressure off, while others just enjoy themselves trying to transfer some of thei...

30 September 2010
13:41 GMT

Redimension Your Photos

Fast and accurate processing of digital imagery is the main objective not only for professionals but also for regular home users who need to manage a significant number of pictures. The modifications that can be made to photos or other kinds of graphical files are many and some can be performed simultaneously for ent...

29 June 2010
04:21 GMT

The Wizard of Scale

This article is also available in Spanish: El mago de las escalasOur pride and joy, the pictures we take with our digital cameras, are sometimes difficult to display and share because of their high quality and generous size. Rarely fitted to be uploaded on a website or sent as attachments, a bit more work may be requ...

25 May 2010
09:01 GMT

Quick Picture Processing

This article is also available in Spanish: Procesamiento rápido de imágenesRetouching and customizing photos can be a fun activity but just as well, it is sometimes necessary in order to make pictures fit in an online album or suitable for emailing. If you need to reduce the size on disk for an image, ...

1 May 2010
08:31 GMT

Take Screenshots Fast and Easy

 This article is also available in Spanish: Toma capturas de la pantalla al instanteAll computer enthusiasts have their fair share of working with images. Whether we're talking about a new wallpaper that we want to adjust to fit our desktops or to enhance the photos we took during our last vacation, we all ...

26 April 2010
07:01 GMT

Quickly Create Photo Watermarks

Adding a personal touch to the things we own is something often done because it is a good manner to display a bit out of our style. Of course, this applies to images, especially to those taken with the digital cameras that most of us own. A little logo in a corner, some special words well placed somewhere in th...

19 March 2010
16:41 GMT

Digital Photo Scaler

No one is a complete stranger when it comes to working with images as we all took pictures with digital cameras, mobile phones or any similar device and then had to transfer them for viewing, printing or sharing. Sometimes when the stills are not quite what we expect of them, a bit of editing is indispensable and we ...

22 February 2010
11:41 GMT

Apple Uses Unlicensed Photo for iPad Wallpaper

An impressive landscape photograph called "Pyramid Lake (at Night)" was featured at Apple’s January 27 event in San Francisco, when the Mac maker unveiled the highly anticipated iPad to the world. Apple hadn’t gotten around to licensing the image when the people attending Steve Jobs’ keynote gazed a...

10 February 2010
10:59 GMT

First Real Photos of Apple's Tablet Emerge (Unconfirmed)

A post titled “Exclusive: Steve Jobs Holding the New Apple Tablet” on a blog caught our eye this morning, along with purported pictures of the “real” Apple tablet posted elsewhere on the internet. Neither of the two reports / posts surprises Softpedia, but we can’t not share with our rea...

26 January 2010
05:59 GMT

Quick and Easy Photo Enhancement

It is a known fact that people like taking photos of almost everything they encounter. They take pleasure in taking photos of places, other individuals, or unusual events in their lives. Since it appeared, photography has become more than a tool, it has become the means to remember nice memories from the past days, a...

18 January 2010
12:41 GMT

All Apple Tablet Rumors in One Picture

The Green Room blog has compiled a list of Apple tablet rumors, something that shouldn’t be too hard even for a PC fan today, given the overwhelming hype and speculation coming from every corner of the world. However, instead of posting a simple list with one rumor on top of another, the blog in question did so...

13 January 2010
08:53 GMT

Pic Edit On The Go

The fast-moving world we live in often compels us to find the most practical and quick solutions to our needs in order to save time and do more with less. However, this is not the way to always solve problems because haste and diminished focus cause flaws to appear where one wouldn't expect them. Instead, you sh...

22 December 2009
11:11 GMT

Quick Picture Downsizer

Sharing images over the Internet via e-mail services and keeping them in online photo albums often requires that your pictures come in a smaller size. This can be a requirement for previewing purposes, in the case of catalogs, or a condition imposed by the current limit of mail attachments. Usually, these occurrences...

17 November 2009
11:51 GMT

Fast and Easy Image Search

Images are a very important part of our life, whether we are talking about the photo of a cute actor that we want to use as a wallpaper or the image of a rose to employ as a postcard, the Internet is an enormous source of all sorts of pictures. But it’s quite difficult to locate the image that you want just by ...

15 November 2009
11:51 GMT

Blitz Picture Transformation

Digital images are now part of all our lives and we encounter them almost everywhere. Today, we have right at our fingertips both the technology and the ability to produce and edit pictures with insignificant effort. There are hundreds of applications that can help you change anything about a graphic file and all you...

29 October 2009
14:01 GMT

Batch-Convert Photo Colors

Taking pictures and editing them into personalized, unique creations or designing graphical art from digital images are currently two very popular hobbies, as well as steady jobs for many people. Today, graphic design is not only for artists and professionals, but also an activity that gains more and more disciples w...

22 September 2009
13:51 GMT

Flickr App Launches on iPhone, iPod touch

Originally created by former game designers Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Flickr is the world’s most popular online photo-sharing network. The service is now available to any owner of an iPhone or iPod touch through a free application that has just been granted a place in the App Store’s photogra...

8 September 2009
09:15 GMT

Downsize, Upsize or Convert Photos

The digital era we live in is mainly based on multimedia and communication, the two becoming so intertwined that it's difficult to say where one ends and the other one begins. In order to convey a certain message or a feeling, words are often not enough, which means novelties in terms of human interaction are bo...

22 August 2009
12:51 GMT

Download Fetch Art 2.5.0 for iTunes

Originally developed by Yoel Inbar and then handed over to Aric Freisen, Fetch Art is a Mac OS X application for adding cover art to your music in iTunes. The application is extremely useful for music fans, as well as for casual listeners. If you've ripped music from your own CDs and iTunes doesn’t have th...

18 August 2009
04:52 GMT

Bank Intros Deposit-Check Feature with iPhone App

USAA, a privately held bank and insurance company, has updated its iPhone application this week to introduce a check deposit feature. Using the app, customers can simply take a snapshot of both sides of a check. USAA claims that by using this method the process of depositing a check is done completely electronically....

11 August 2009
04:31 GMT

Mac OS X 10.5.8 'Includes Additional RAW Image Support'

With today’s digital cameras offering options to save pictures in digital camera RAW format, Apple provides system-level support for such formats in Mac OS X Leopard and adds new cameras with each incremental update to the operating system. Such is the case with Mac OS X 10.5.8, which adds camera support includ...

6 August 2009
04:09 GMT

Your Personal Sketch Artist

Playing with digital images can be a pleasant pastime that becomes even relaxing if you have the right tools for the job. Just like the painter or photographer seeking to renew the style or approach of an old work searches for the best brushes or lens you'll be on the lookout for the optimal application that can...

22 July 2009
11:11 GMT

‘Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Is Coming Very Soon’

Seemingly, very impatient to let the world in on the big news, Joe from Facebook reveals that iPhone owners will soon be able to download and install the latest version of Facebook on iPhone and iPod touch devices. Facebook 3.0 delivers numerous enhancements, like a new news feed, events (including the ability to RSV...

3 July 2009
09:30 GMT

A Piece of Snow Leopard Is Already Available

Even though Snow Leopard isn’t going to be available until September, the original Mac OS X 10.6 wallpaper is now available for free download. Admittedly, the wallpaper is not much, but it does make a good first step towards the transition to the new OS. Mac fans can grab the wallpaper immediately and use the S...

18 June 2009
08:29 GMT

EXIF-Based Image Organizer

Summer is well known as the season when most people take their vacation. And vacation generally means that plenty of photos are taken. There's nothing complicated about this, but the hard part comes when you have to sort them out. You can't just leave them with the default naming the camera gave them and so...

3 June 2009
10:40 GMT

iPhone OS 3.0 Improves Photo Quality and YouTube, Removes MMS

New iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 findings have emerged, relating to the software's photography capabilities, YouTube streaming and MMS. According to at least two sources, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta takes better pictures with the same 2-megapixel camera found on the device, while additional changes have been found in the YouTube...

8 May 2009
04:35 GMT

Fastest JPEG Exporter

There are many things you can do with digital photos, especially when it comes to storing and sharing them. From the basic editing that often implies adjusting the size of the pictures to the online publishing of your albums, you can do a whole lot of things with your images. For example, if you want to keep them all...

21 April 2009
12:01 GMT

iPhone App Lets You Draw and Find Similar Images on the Web

Hitachi, Ltd. has released what is probably the most useful free app for people who use the web to look up imagery on a regular basis. GazoPa for iPhone allows users to search for similar images on the web by uploading their own photos. They can even try and get pictures they have seen in the past by actually drawing...

16 April 2009
06:55 GMT

Aperture 2.1.3 Update Now Available [Updated]

Apple has released an update to its professional photography software application, Aperture. Version 2.1.3 is recommended to all Aperture 2 users, as it improves the stability of the software, while addressing several issues. On Apple's Support section, the Aperture 2.1.3 update is described as follows: About ...

15 April 2009
04:03 GMT

iLovePhotos Assigns Tagged People to Your iPhone Contacts

iLovePhotos, the Mac desktop application and website that uses face detection to help you tag, organize, and share your photos, now focuses on the ability to integrate with Address Book and to assign tagged people to your list of iPhone contacts. iLovePhotos (a Softpedia freeware pick) is free to download and use for...

20 March 2009
06:20 GMT

Explore, Select and Extract

Desktop customization can be a nice pastime and is even felt as a necessity when the old items displayed onto your computer's screen become boring. If new wallpapers and screensavers are easy to find and replace, the default icons for your files and folders are a bit more tricky to locate (online or offline), se...

3 March 2009
12:41 GMT

Freeware Pick - CocoViewX

Why another image viewer? Developer Sven Janssen too thought you'd ask that when he created this truly useful and feature-packed viewer that does an even better job than Apple's own Preview app. The program hasn't been updated in a long time, but it's as good today as it was in 2007.Mac users have...

24 February 2009
10:36 GMT

Free iPhone App Takes Picture, Gets the Fonts

Apple has approved a new free app for iPhone and iPod touch, placing it in the “Reference” category of apps, as it can identify any font by snapping a picture of it. WhatTheFont is the work of MyFonts studio (owned by Bitstream, Inc.).The official description of WhatTheFont goes (from the iTunes App Store...

19 February 2009
10:31 GMT

Air Photo Prints Your iPhone Photos via Wi-Fi

TUAW points out to a useful iPhone application currently available in the iTunes App Store called Air Photo. Developed by River Past Corporation, the program enables easy and fast wireless photo printing to any printer on a local Wi-Fi network.Basically, the folks at River Past Corporation wanted to create the easies...

23 January 2009
09:00 GMT

Why Apple Emphasized iPhoto at Macworld 2009

A post-keynote briefing with Rob Schoeben, Apple's vice president of applications product marketing, has revealed more details on Apple's reasons to beef up iPhoto. According to the report, Apple knew exactly what features it wanted to add, leaving other image editors in a trail of dust. “What we&rsq...

15 January 2009
09:18 GMT

Your Personal Photo Artist

Every once in a while, whether you’re a photography enthusiast or a novice with a digital camera, you manage to capture a breathtaking landscape or an original moment that you want to bring as close as possible to a work of art through clever editing and with fancy effects. Usually, this is the job of powerful ...

21 November 2008
12:01 GMT

Apple Approves iPhone MMS in Sweden

It has been revealed that Sweden residents will be the first to benefit from a Multimedia Messaging Service (also known as MMS) for iPhone. Meanwhile, developer Mobispine already has a native MMS app for iPhone users. The only gap left to fill is, of course, a spot in the App Store.According to Bengt Olsson, Corporat...

20 November 2008
15:16 GMT

Mobispine Has a Native MMS App for iPhone

Last week we reported that folks at iPhone Hellas had blown the whistle on the release date for iPhone OS 2.2. The news attracted both positive and negative feedback from readers. Some of our commenters expressed their lack of hope for MMS making its way onto the iPhone, with the arrival of the iPhone 2.2 software. ...

20 November 2008
06:20 GMT

Apple Releases iPhoto 7.1.5 – Download Here

Mac owners and users of Apple's iLife suite of applications have a new update to download and install. While iPhoto had been a very stable app since the release of iLife '08, Apple noticed that improvements needed to be made to the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered through the applicati...

28 October 2008
01:32 GMT


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