MemoryMiner 1.22 review
DownloadMemoryMiner is a brand new application that represents the first step towards a long term goal: the creation of the world’s most extensive network of first-person accounts of modern society and culture.
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MemoryMiner is a brand new application that represents the first step towards a long term goal: the creation of the world’s most extensive network of first-person accounts of modern society and culture.
Like all big ideas, it starts with a simple premise and a mass appeal for participation. MemoryMiner is an application used to organize and share digital media using a simple, yet powerful metaphor, namely “People, Places, and Time.”
At its core, are a simple set of tools for treating photos as individual frames in a type of endless story board.
The story elements are linked to each other by way of annotation layers identifying the people, places, dates and events captured in each frame. As links are made, it becomes easy and tremendously interesting to explore the threads which link people's lives across time, place and shared experience.
Over time, a set of network services will link individual MemoryMiner libraries, using the descriptive metadata to help people find these digital story elements securely and efficiently.
Limitations:
15 days trial.
What's New:
[New Feature] New "Media Browser" panel allows you to visually browse then drag and drop photos from your iPhoto library, without the iPhoto application running. Similarly, music in iTunes, Movies in your Movies folder or bookmarks from Safari can be dragged and dropped as attachments onto photos.
[New Feature] MemoryMiner libraries can now be loaded and saved as "documents", with the option of making the libraries "self-contained" so that they can be transferred between MemoryMiner users on the same or different computers.
[New Feature] GEDCOM import lets you import people from .ged files, the standard interchange format for genealogical programs. Any photos that are associated with a person are also imported, with the person in question being assigned to the photos. The import panel features instant search allowing you to import just the people you need
[New Feature] Google Earth KML import lets you batch import places from Google Earth. As with the Gedcom import, instant search lets you import just the places you care about.
[New Feature] IPTC support. IPTC is long existing standard for embedding information about a photo in the file itself, such as where it was taken, when, descriptive caption, etc. If you use traditional photo management applications such as iView Media and Adobe CS Bridge and have added such metadata to your photos, it will be used to automatically create and assign people, places, dates and captions upon import.
[New Feature] Automatic upload of exported XML/Flash export packages to FTP and .Mac servers. Make a one-time configuration, then automatically upload your exported stories to your .Mac account, or the FTP of your choice.
[Major Enhancement] The Flash "viewer" has been greatly improved. Attachments are now displayed in an appropriately-sized pop up window. A beautiful new Yahoo maps component plots photo locations against a pan and zoom-able satellite, street or hybrid map. The slideshow viewer has adjustable speed, can be paused and can step forward/back one slide at a time. The current photo is now remembered when switching between "interactive" and "viewer" modes.
[Enhancement] When fetching a map, if a latitude/longitude pair is obtained while the actual map files aren't found (i.e. one web service can locate the address, whereas Mapquest cannot), the map download is restarted automatically using the newly obtained latitude/longitude values.
[Enhancement] Added a tooltip with the file name for a given photos. Some people put useful information in the file names of scanned photos such as when it was taken and who's in the picture, so this feature can help as a reminder when annotating a photo.
[Enhancement] Added Portuguese translation: thanks Bruno!
[Bug Fix] A proper distinction is now made between files that have been moved from a location on a external drive, and the actual external drive not being mounted. In either case, the appropriate alert message is now shown to the user.
[Bug Fix] Photos files that are missing file extensions (i.e. named "My Photo" instead of "My Photo.jpg") were being opened in the Preview application instead of the MemoryMiner Photo Editor. This has been fixed
[Bug Fix] Photo that are relatively "low resolution" (e.g. having a pixel width or height of less than 1200) were incorrectly positioned on the screen in a slideshow. This has been corrected. It is still recommended that photos with a pixel size of ~ 2 by 2 pixels be used for best results.
[Bug Fix] The date range slider now properly appends a month (January) before the year when the first photo being displayed has an unknown month.
[Bug Fix] Clicking more than once on either the "Match Any" or "Match All" radio button no longer causes an unwanted toggling of the matching behavior
[Bug Fix] Photos that are in the trash can no longer be edited unless they are first restored.
[Bug Fix] During a slide show, if a photo's file is not readable (because it has been moved or deleted) a "missing photo" placeholder slide is used, thus alerting the user.
Requirements:
PowerPC G4 processor or higher / Intel
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended).
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