March 14, 2006
New Tools And Services For Finding, Editing And Sharing Digital Images Online
If you are looking to find the most interesting, useful and (cost) accessible tools for communicating visually with your partners and stakeholders, I have what you need.

Photo credit: Carin Araujo
Extracted from the latest set of Sharewood Picnics (weekly showcase of some of the coolest new media tools and services appearing online) appearing on Master New Media, here is a selection of digital imaging and presentation related tools and services you should be aware of.
Geared to the presentation and communication professionals, many of these offer also useful benefits to the casual user those looking to enhance and share their presentations also when on the move.

Photo credit: Bethan Hazel
- ShoZu

http://www.shozu.com/portal/
ShoZu is a quick and simple way to share photos, videos and text using your mobile phone. ShoZu is a mobile phone service that helps you save photos and videos from your camera phone to an online sharing site with a one-click upload. ShoZu supports flickr, Buzznet, and Webshots. The ShoZu phone application allows you to: - add descriptions
- add tags
- email photos and videos to your friends directly from your phone
- view recent visitor comments on your sharing site directly on your phone
Free.
- Ask Pictures Search

http://pictures.ask.com/
Ask Pictures Search is a new image search engine component part of the news Ask.com search service. Ask Pictures Search enables you to find any image posted on the web ranging from animation, magazine covers, geographical maps, celebrity photos, and more. Free.
- Sharpcast

Sharpcast Photos allows your mobile phone to manage, organize, share and backup your entire photo collection from anywhere and with the rich, intuitive view you're used to on your computer desktop. Fast, easy to use and simple Sharpcast integrates a number of unique features including:
- View of your workspace across all platforms – desktop computers, mobile phones and the web
- Instantaneous online backup of media newly acquired on the desktop or mobile phone
- Full access to your entire workspace from remote computers, the web or a mobile phone (even when your computer is off)
- Complete real-time synchronization of all changes or additions made to your workspace
- Access your photos on your phone and the web
- Back up your precious memories from your mobile to the web
- See your whole photo collection right on your mobile phone
A web version and a mobile one are available for immediate download.
Coming soon.
http://www.sharpcast.com/
- Pxn8

Pxn8 is a free online image editor with a user interface developed with standard web technologies. No software needs to be downloaded or installed to use Pxn8. The image editing software allows you to upload any digital image and to zoom, resize, crop, rotate and adjust colors and image tones. Pxn8 has a red eye removal feature as well as one to whiten teeth. From Pxn8 your edited images can be saved on disk or can be even uploaded directly into your Flickr account. Pxn8 interface can also be fully customized via CSS and re-branded to reflect the look and feel of your site. The upload to Flickr feature can be for example replaced with an upload facility taking images submitted by users to your own custom gallery or photo showcase. The hosted version is completely free while a license for installing Pxn8 on your own private/corporate web server costs $749.
http://www.pxn8.com/
- Merktiys-Meaning

Merktiys-Meaning is a software tool which makes it possible for anyone to easily transfer digital images from a mobile phone into her online Flickr account while automatically tagging such images for easier access, sharing and categorization.
Merktiys-Meaning is capable of automatically adding to any digital image captured:
- Locational information including:
- GPS (with additional Bluetooth GPS device)
- GSM Cell info
- Country
- City
- The bluetooth environment
- Calendar events
- User defined tags
- User defined description
Merkitys–Meaning is free to use and it is dual-licensed under GPL v2 and MIT.
Merkitys–Meaning runs only on the latest Nokia’s Series 60 platform. Free.
http://meaning.3xi.org/
- Online image editor

The Online Image Editor is a free online image editor hosted by Easy2upload.net which allows you to do basic digital image editing from any computer without the need to install any commercial software. edit images. The online image editor is completely web-based and it allows you to upload, re-size or crop any digital image, and to save it in your preferred file format for personal use. Free.
http://easy2upload.net/editor/
- Audio Merge

Audio Merge is a web-based application that requires no downloads or installation and that allows anyone to associate the display of pre-selected visual or text-based content to the playback of any pre-recorded audio file. Through a simple process called 'Playback marking', Audio Merge allows you to listen to your audio recording and to mark the individual points at which specific content will need to be displayed for those listening to it. Not only. Audio Merge also allows in-depth tracking of views and page impressions of the content associated with your audio file or podcast. The content to be displayed in synch with your recording resides on Audio Merge servers and can be easily edited and changed by using one of the several predesigned templates made available. Audio Merge works for both PCs and Macs and it is free to use.
http://www.audiomerge.com/default.asp
posted by
Chiara Moriconi
on Tuesday, March 14 2006
Saturday, December 1 2007
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