Looks like its not that unusual that users do accidently delete their images or just got problems with the filesystems itself on memory-cards or similar.

Today i stumbled upon an application for all major platforms ( Windows, Linux, Mac OS X ….) called:

PhotoRec

Quote:

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its ‘Photo Recovery’ name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

PhotoRec is free, this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU Public License. PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of filesystems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. You can download them from this link.

For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory support you are about to recover lost data from. Important: As soon as a pic or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pics or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that even using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.

Links:

• PhotoRec Homepage

….called LiveQuartz. I just installed and and did a quick look into it….first impression is great. I guess it could be enough for many home-users.

About the application:

LiveQuartz is a simple and powerful free photo editor for Leopard. It is based on non-destructive layers and filters. The layers are at the left and the filters are at the right of the window.

LiveQuartz is offered by rhapsoft

Links:

• LiveQuartz Homepage
• LiveQuartz Screenshots
• LiveQuartz Videos

Another Free Image Editor for Mac Os X called Seashore

Quote:

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.

However, unlike the GIMP, Seashore only aims to serve the basic image editing needs of most computer users, not to provide a replacement for professional image editing products. Seashore was created by Mark Pazolli who, together with a handful of other developers and helpful users, still develops it to this day.

Links:

• Seashore Homepage
• Seashore Download
• GIMP Homepage
• Wikipedia about GIMP

Today was cleanup day for my mailbox and so i stumbled upon a mail from 20071211. Brain from box.net has noticed this blog entry about flickr offering picnik support.

His mail:

Hello,

My name is Brian, I’m an intern working at Box.net. I saw your post about editing photos online and I wanted to write to you in case you would be interested in knowing Box.net now lets users edit photos online as well.

Using our OpenBox platform, users can now right-click on any image and edit it instantly, for free. OpenBox is a platform which lets developers write software that can be installed directly on the Box.net website.

If you decide you would like to post something about this on your blog, please let me know if you or your readers have any suggestions for the service.

For some more information:
http://www.box.net/services/picnik

Sincerely,

Brian
Box.net

Sounds great i must admit. Unfortunaly i don’t use box.net till now, but guess its time to take a look on the project once again. Regarding his open call for feedback…..do it if you feel so. Great offer.

So Brain if you read this….i’ll test it

big thanks once again to Christine for the picture:

Full-size at her flickr page

I am still working on my small User-Interface for Exiftool on Mac OS X. guess i’ll be able to put a test version online in some days.

After having finished this app i should be able to write a small summary about my experiences with AppleScript.

Till now the UI is able to:

• Write a Comment into the EXIF-Data
• Write a new CreatorTool into the EXIF-Data
• Write a new Software into the EXIF-Data
• Delete all Photoshop informations

including Growl-Support.

Thanks to Christine. check more of her images at flickr

Read the review here.

quote:

It’s hard to believe that over two years have passed since Aperture’s launch. It seems like only yesterday that I was fielding e-mails from livid zealots and supportive professional photographers regarding my less-than-glowing review of the buggy, unfinished mess that was Aperture 1.0 (and see our follow-up look at Aperture 1.1). But much has changed in those two years, including a price drop from $500 to $200 to compete with Adobe’s Lightroom. By version 1.5, most of the problems, missing features, and RAW quality issues were addressed.

But there was still one area widely acknowledged to need improvement: speed. Users of Lightroom often cite its general responsiveness and background processing as the main reason for picking it over Aperture. It’s no secret that even after Apple’s many tweaks, this was still a big issue with Aperture 1.5.

This is where Aperture 2.0 steps in. Apple has also overhauled the RAW engine in 2.0, and, combined with the speed upgrade and Quick Preview, they probably felt that it was time to give Aperture a shiny new number without all the baggage of the old one……….

As i had some time over the weekend i started to play around with AppleScript (AS) and Exiftool to create s small AS-based Exif-Changer application.

This worked after some tries and errors but then i reached the limits of AppleScript and ScriptEditor as development environment….so i switched to XCode 3.

right now, after some hours of playing blind cow in xcode i have a working application which can change several exif-information fields in jpg-files .

Lets see how it develops…right now its just a fun project

Today was wordpress Patchday for me. This includes the upgrade to the latest wordpress release, updates of several plugins and some new plugins / widgets.

• New TagCloud (customize-able)
• Seo Plugin
• Today on Wikipedia

In addition i did some small configuration / preferences tweaking to pimp this blog a bit.

Finally some images ( www.tine.vido.info ) to pimp this post