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Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder -Search For Images By Content
by admin on Jul.07, 2009, under Uncategorized
Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder-Search For Images By Content
Find And Delete Duplicate Pictures and Photographs
In our digital era shooting and editing digital photos is part of our daily life. Unfortunately we rarely keep a well organized database. We copy images to temporary locations in different formats that we needed at certain points of our work and forget to delete them. Searching for a photograph by its content was an impossible task for a computer so soon we are going out of storage. In such situations what comes extremely handy is a product developed by MindGems Inc.
I am going to introduce you here – Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder. Though a bit long, the name of the product describes it perfectly well. The product will find similar images regardless of the file name, format, image size and bit depth. Image processing is a heavy task and the performance achieved by this application is incredible. It manages to scan thousands of images in few minutes. I got also some information from the company about a new feature that will be available in the upcoming version. A photo search option. It will let you search for images by a sample. You will no longer have to search for your wedding photos. Do you remember that photo you mailed to John? Just load it in Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder and it will find the rest of the images for you. A very nice feature that will let you find the rest of the images from the set by loading a single sample.
Many professionals and also advanced photographers take images in RAW format. The quality of the RAW images is much better compared to JPEG, but the drawback is the size and the fact that very small amount of products supports it. The good news here is that Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder will provide also a RAW support soon for all the popular camera brands available on the market.
I must admit also the vast variety of image formats that it supports. Here is a complete list:
- JPEG Bitmap (*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.jpe)
- Compuserve Bitmap (*.gif)
- Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
- TIFF Bitmap (*.tif;*.tiff;*.fax;*.g3n;*.g3f)
- JPEG2000 Files (*.jp2)
- JPEG2000 Code Stream (*.j2k;*.jpc;*.j2c)
- Targa (*.tga;*.targa;*.vda;*.icb;*.vst;*.pix)
- Paintbrush (*.pcx)
- Windows Bitmap (*.bmp;*.dib;*.rle)
- Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
- Enhanced Windows Metafile (*.emf)
- Windows Icon (*.ico)
- Windows Cursor (*.cur)
- Wireless Bitmap (*.wbmp)
- Portable Pixmap (*.pxm;*.ppm)
- Adobe Photoshop (*.psd)
You can download a fully functional demo at the company web site – Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder.
Also do not miss to check out the detailed Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder tutorial page
Free tool for creating thumbnail web video, image and picture galleries.
by admin on Jun.30, 2009, under Internet, Multimedia, Photography, Software, Technology, Uncategorized
Create Photo Gallery
Free tool for creating thumbnail web video, image and picture galleries.
MindGems Inc. Easy Web Gallery Builder creates high quality HTML image or video galleries for the web, CD or local viewing. One of its biggest powers is that it can create thumbnails from video files directly which cuts down the time needed to build video gallery to just few minutes.
You can freely redistribute and publish the galleries created with the demo version as long as you do not remove the small link at the bottom of the gallery that points to the product web site. The demo also limits the photos to thirty per gallery which is usually sufficient. Of course you can always order a license and get rid of that small limitations for as low as – Buy Easy Web Gallery Builde for $29.95. You also get free updates and you can suggest features to be included in future releases.
Create Video Gallery
Create Thumbnail Photo Gallery With Image Frames
In addition to the web video gallery generation the application can also build slideshow galleries and add image frames to photos. You can find some examples and tutorials below:
Gallery – how to create thumbnail pages from video galleries and embed a video player into your gallery pages.
Interactive Slideshow Gallery – Interactive slideshow gallery using random image transitions. Uses image names as descriptions.
Image Frames (Masks) Gallery – how to add stylish frames to thumbnails in a web gallery.
Download Easy Web Gallery Builder Buy Easy Web Gallery Builder for $29.95
How to find duplicate MP3 files comparing audio content?
by admin on Jun.21, 2009, under Multimedia, News, Software, Technology
Find Duplicate MP3
In our technological era most people store their audio collections on a digital media. Unfortunately duplicating data on a digital media is a very quick process and often we make copy of our audio files, download them several times in different formats and quality and then forget to remove them. Finding duplicate mp3 files or other audio formats in a vast collection is a tedious task as you have to first locate the duplicate files and then compare the quality and remove the one that is not needed. Having in mind that multimedia files are often quite large even terabyte sized storage can go out of space very quickly.
Audio Dedupe by MindGems Inc. is a tool that is very handy in such situations. Unlike the standard duplicate file finders on the market, the tool is designed specifically to find duplicate mp3 files and other audio file formats. What is even more interesting is that it does not need audio tags like ID3 in order to accomplish that. Audio Dedupe performs a real audio scan using complex algorithms in order to find audio files that sound alike. Due to that fact Audio Dedup can recognize a song even if it is stored in several different file formats – MP3, MP2, MP1, MPA, WAV, OGG and AIFF.
Once the scan process is complete Audio Dedupe will list all the duplicate audio files sorted by groups of two or more files. It provides a handy auto-mark feature that can mark files choosing files with lower quality, older date or smaller size for deletion. You can also listen to the files using the internal audio player and compare them. The embedded audio player has a continuous playback feature that lets you switch between the duplicates while they are playing. Once you are done with the review of the results you can choose weather to move the files to a certain folder (backup), delete them to the recycle bin or completely remove them from your hard drive. If your files are organized in folder Audio Dedupe will also maintain the folder structure of the moved files in the target location.
It is easy to keep your audio collection clean as Audio Dedupe will also remember the already scanned songs and every consequential scan will be even faster. Cleaning up duplicate audio files can save you gigabytes of valuable disk space and using a similar tool is a must.
You can download a FREE demo of Audio Dedupe here.
Audio Dedupe – How To Find Duplicate MP3 Files – Tutorial
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Free Boss Key – Hide your inappropriate computing.
by admin on Jun.09, 2009, under Internet, News, Software, Technology
Free Boss Key – Hide your inappropriate computing.
Free Boss Key
Free Boss Key is a version of Anti-Boss Key with some limited features.
Free Boss Key lets you hide and restore the windows (programs) from your screen with the press of a hot key or a mouse shortcut. It will cover all the tracks of the running programs by hiding them also from the task bar and the system tray. In addition to that Anti Boss Key will not close the applications but keep them hidden in the background thus preserving your data at the point of interruption. All you need to do when the threat has passed is to hit the bosskey shortcut again to restore your work at the point of interruption. In addition to all that the application can mute the sound, switch the display resolution (if you was playing a game), start (bring to top if running) an application (the one you are supposed to work with) and many more. Please take a look at the features list for more details.
By hiding windows you have the freedom to protect your privacy and hide sensitive information from praying eyes.
Developed by the best software engineers at MindGems Inc., Anti Boss Key perfectly fits in our collection of “MUST HAVE” software products. It is designed to work perfectly on a vast variety of operating systems and hardware configurations. Bosskey’s size is diminished to reduce memory usage without making compromises to the features in order to run without disturbing your usual work. It’s speed is brought to maximum to allow you react as quickly as possible to any threat that appears. You won’t feel even a slight difference in the performance of your home or office computer after installing it.
Anti Boss Key – Features
Instantly hide windows with a secret key combination
Set selected volume level or mute the sound
Restore all applications exactly to the same state
Anti-Boss Key will switch display resolution to the one that you usualy use (Useful when playing games or watching a movie)
Don’t cover chosen applications
Bosskey will Automatically start the application which you are supposed to work with ( For use at work )
Anti-Boss Key will work invisibly in the background for additional privacy
Easy to use ‘Drag and Drop’ interface
Customizable hot keys
Context sensitive help
Anti-Boss Key is extremely fast with low system resources consumption
Cover task bar
Hide desktop icons
Hide newly created windows while in hide mode
Close the window that was active before hiding
Anti-BossKey will hide tray icons in the tray notification area.
Hide wallpaper
Bosskey will keep the applications running to allow them perform the necessary tasks while they are hidden
Bosskey hotkey to lock workstation and start screen saver automatically
Password protected access to the bosskey application
You get all of the above features in a single bosskey application that will help you to quickly hide windows and protect your privacy!
Find Duplicate Images in RAW Format – More Than 300 Cameras Supported
by admin on May.17, 2009, under Internet, News, Photography, Software, Technology
Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder version 2.5.0.1 is available for download. Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder is the only product of this kind that supports almost all common RAW digital camera image formats – Camera RAW (*.crw; *.cr2; *.nef; *.raw; *.pef; *.raf; *.x3f; *.bay; *.orf; *.srf; *.mrw; *.dcr; *.sr2; *.dng; *.erf; *.mef; *.arw) (only in Pro and Corporate versions)
Buy for $34.95 $24.95 Free Download
The new version also provides a new Photo Search feature that will find similar images by a given sample.
Buy for $34.95 $24.95 Free Download
Here is a list of the supported digital cameras:
Supported Digital Cameras
RAW digital images are supported only in Pro and Corporate versions of the software.
You can always use the DEMO version if you want to try this feature.
Note: Digital cameras not on the list below might be supported too. Please download the demo version in order to test your images.
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Free Up Valuable Disk Space Using a Free Tool – “Fast Duplicate File Finder”
by admin on May.11, 2009, under News, Software, Technology, Uncategorized
Free Duplicate File Finder
Sometimes when you have a lot of different types of data on a hard drive, it’s easy for files to get mixed up and you forget which files contain which information. Hard drive space is valuable, but sometimes it’s very easy to get multiple files that contain the same information. Normally, your system won’t recognize this, nor will it do anything to cut down on the use of hard drive space. All the system really looks at is the filename, rather than the contents. This is done because sometimes people want to create backup files, but often it ends up just using more space than is needed. Fast Duplicate File Finder is a program that can help to find duplicate files on your hard drive.
Fast Duplicate File Finder works by looking at the binary code – all the 0s and 1s that make up your file and searching for similar code instances between files. It’s a simple matter of specifying file extensions and previewing the contents of the files. Fast Duplicate File Finder supports plenty of different file types – text, video, image and music files can all be previewed within the easy-to-use interface. After you scan for a particular file, the program will pull up a menu, informing you of other files that matched its own code and marking them to be deleted. You can specify which file types or subfolders should be excluded from this marking, which means you don’t have to worry about accidentally deleting files you wanted to keep. Mainly, this applies to system folders where most of your operating system files and drivers are kept. If these are accidentally deleted, the machine would malfunction and Fast Duplicate File Finder protects those files by default.
When duplicate files are found, you can move them to the Recycle Bin, move them to their own folder or simply delete them from the hard drive entirely. Not only can this software can find duplicate files on standard hard drives, it can work with network folders and removable storage devices such as CDs, DVDs or USB Flash drives.
This doesn’t have to interfere with your work either – the software is capable of scanning your computer during idle time by setting its process to the lowest priority. Fast Duplicate File Finder will run on all Windows operating systems. To install the program, you should have minimum 128 MB of RAM and 2 MB of hard drive space.
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