Shareware Report

Picture this: You’ve just taken pictures at your neighborhood’s annual block party. Now it’s time to post them the neighborhood Web site for those who purposely missed the gala celebration. “Who’s that with the ape mask on? Must be Andy, he’s always a jerk at these parties,” you think. As you move the cursor over his disguised visage, a tool tip reveals the truth: “Ah! It’s John. I should have known.”

Annotating pictures to make them more informative is just one of many photo features packed into FotoTagger, developed by Cogitum LC. FotoTagger lets you easily add movable notes to individual elements visualized on images. The notes can be hidden in a click of a button so the original view remains intact. Moreover, the notes always stay with the image wherever it is shared. You can identify people, places, and events on digital photos. Mark notable details and comment specific objects. To add comic relief to this boring block party, why not display your tags in a form of balloons?

Once you’re done creating exciting annotated pictures, you can publish the images to Blogger and LiveJournal, or how about uploading annotated pictures to Flickr and download them back to FotoTagger with Flickr notes preserved? You can easily create build photo slide shows of annotated images to create albums, presentations, tutorials, and galleries of annotated artworks. They can be published then on your site or burned on a CD. You’ll have picture-perfect memories to perhaps an otherwise forgettable occasion.

Where to get it: http://www.fototagger.com Price: Free System Requirements:PC with 300MHz Pentium processor; 128MB RAM; about 3MB of free hard disk space; 800×600 pixels, 16 bit color monitor; Windows 2000/XP.

Bill Dubie and Dave Sciuto are industry columnists. They recommend strongly that you read the end-user license agreement on any software you download, as the program could contain spyware or other utilities you don’t want on your computer.