Your Digital Life

If you’re managing your digital video and image files using Windows Explorer and drag-and-drop, you’re missing out on a world of useful organizing tools. Nero has just introduced the 11th version of their digital media software and it’s worth a look. Nero 11 offers a new MediaBrowser function for accessing digital libraries (photos, ivdeo and [...]

Nottingham, UK-based imaging software developer Serif has released  PhotoPlus X5, the latest version of their photo editing software with some significant new features that will better help you organize, edit, enhance, share photos and even produce photo books, cards and collages. On the image organization front they’ve added a feature dubbed Image Stacks that intelligently [...]

Pixable, makers of the Photofeed Facebook application which organizes multiple image and video feeds for you, are adding Twitter to the mix. Twitter, for those keeping score at home, just supped up their photo-sharing services themselves, so Pixable’s addition of Twitter to its photo-aggregation tools makes a lot of sense. Once you connect to a [...]

If you’re sitting on thousands of images and need a software program that can help you manage them, the newest version of Media Pro has just been released by Phase One. This is a $200 program, so it’s obviously geared toward advanced enthusiasts and pros (if you need a basic organizer, try Picasa). Still, if [...]

Apple’s 2011 upgrades to both iPhoto and iMovie are worth checking out as both now feature some high-octane additions that take the memory sharing and creative elements to new heights. Trouble is, there isn’t a single page of instruction included with the two programs. You’re basically on your own. Well, the tech site O’Reilly.com has [...]

I know what you’re thinking: another photo sharing service? Don’t we have enough to choose from? Well, sure. But that’s not to say there isn’t room for something different. PhotoRocket is different – a bit, at least – from sites like Flickr and Facebook and others. It’s less a photo-sharing website than a tool for [...]

Shutterfly released version 1.1 of it’s iPad application into the iTunes store. It was designed to take advantage of the capabilities in iOS 4.2, and comes with a variety of new features. Some of those inlcude: · The ability to “select all” pictures in your iPad photo album to upload (rather than selecting pictures one [...]

If you’re looking for a piece of free software to organize your digital photos, check out Fotobounce. The software was just updated this month and offers a number of interesting features: it allows you to tag faces in photos and when you upload those photos to Facebook, those face tags carry over. The software also [...]

Now that Facebook has rolled out a new profile picture format you may be wondering how to take advantage of the new layout. Well a neat application called Pic Scatter lets you take a photo and optimize it for the new layout by creating nine individual images from your single image. Check out Pic Scatter [...]

Software company muvee has just released the latest version of its Reveal movie-making program. Reveal lets you create movies using your camcorder footage, still photos and digital music. (You can see a list of supported digital file formats here, but suffice it to say it supports almost everything your camera or camcorder could produce.) How [...]