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Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Software Utilities
Ever felt agrevated by the different naming conventions of photos, downloaded from digital cameras? Frustrated because a RAW file would show different date settings at a different location than the JPG and trying to sort by date would just not work? I’ve been just blown away by ExifRenamer. Within minutes it cleanly renamed ALL my collected files, roughly 5 gigabytes (RAW, JPG, MOV, TIF) into a correct sequence of dates, including the file extension. One has control over how one wants it named, I chose the convention of 2004-11-28_162215.jpg which is nothing else than year-month-day_hour-min-sec. extension. Sorts beautifully. And iView, my cataloging software did not get confused by the change of file names and kept all meta data intact and cleanly updated the file names. It’s Donationware. What a joy to use!
Another utility, a really cool time tracking tool, is TimeLog which ties perfectly in with iCal. This is Shareware. I like it so much, that I’ve even found mentioning of my name under ’special thanks’ in the about box. As a side: the creator of this cool utility is a Swiss. As a funny side: I worked together with him on a job for Pharmaton just before moving to the USA. Didn’t know it was him, we begun exchanging feedback / bug fixes on the utility and he remembered first.
Also from a Swiss company is this very neat email application, called PowerMail. This is not a freebee, but in my opinion still the nicest email client around. If anyone loved ClarisEmailer, this is the perfect succsessor. It is text heavy, not HTML and I’ve been an alpha/beta tester for several years now and it’s also one of those applications which mentions my name in their credits.
There is an other bunch of - which I think are - very basic have to have utilities: NotePadeDelux; SpamSieve; eMessageArchiver; Watson and SnapNDrag.
Some are Freeware and some are not. These tools I use a lot, your milage may vary.
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