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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
August 2009 Site Visitor Stats for Snapact
Hungary knocks off the United States to take the #1 spot in our top ten list for August 2009!
The United States has been consistently the top country referring traffic to Snapact.com since Tecagora launched Snapact in September 2008. So how did they get knocked off the #1 spot? Well, it looks like the website techline.hu in Hungary recommended Snapact Photo Manager as one of their top 5 Windows software programs. I guess being recommended as one of the top 5 Windows software programs combined with a great review of Snapact Photo Manager sparked interest from readers to download our product and give it a try.
Thanks techline.hu for the recommendation, product review, and referral traffic!
Here is the list of the top 10 countries that visited Snapact in August 2009: 1) Hungary 2) United States 3) Canada 4) Italy 5) Brazil 6) United Kingdom 7) Germany 8) Romania 9) Japan 10) France.
Welcome Hungary and Romania to the Snapact Top 10 Countries list!
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
The Rise of Netbooks
According to an article in ComputerWorld, it looks like netbook shipments this year could surpass 32.7 million units nearly doubling the number of units shipped in 2008. So why is this figure important to Tecagora and Snapact? The Snapact Photo Manager is a small download (just over 2 MB) and the install size is currently just under 6 MB! Most of the current netbooks in the market have 160 GB hard drives. Some are even available with solid state hard drives (up to 64 GB). Because Snapact Photo Manager has such a small footprint, when compared to other digital photo managers and viewers in the market, that’s a significant difference! All netbooks include USB ports and media card slots to upload photos from digital cameras (or media cards) to the netbook.
Netbooks are great because of their small size and portability with most weighing less than 3 lbs. Many netbooks are available with different screen sizes (ranging from 8” to 12.1” displays), come with webcams to stay connected via web/video chat, and are reasonably priced (ranging from $
If you’re looking for a simple and fast way to view, organize, and share your digital photos without having to give up too much hard drive space on your netbook, download Snapact Photo Manager and give it a try. The Snapact Social Networking Community is a great way to share your photos and stay connected with friends and family. If you don’t have a Snapact account yet, CLICK HERE to sign up for a free account.
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
July 2009 Site Visitor Stats for Snapact
Here is the list of the top 10 countries that visited Snapact in July 2009: 1) USA 2) Canada 3) Italy 4) China 5) Greece 6) Germany 7) South Korea 8) Brazil 9) United Kingdom 10) France.
Welcome China, Greece, and South Korea to the Snapact Top 10 Countries list.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Snapact and Touch PCs
The emergence of “Touch PCs” will certainly impact the way personal computers are being used today for entertainment. Computer manufacturers like Dell, HP, Asus, and MSI have already launched their “All-in-One” Touch PCs into the marketplace and have already received favourable reviews due in part to the large, rich display screens (20” display screens and larger), and the ability for users to simply tap their display screen to launch applications, listen to music, watch videos, or view photos. I have had the opportunity to briefly test the various Touch PCs manufactured by Dell, HP, Asus, and MSI at retail stores such as Staples and Costco.
As of now, my preference is the HP TouchSmart All-in-One PC but that’s not to say that Dell, Asus, and MSI don’t have a comparable product offering, because they certainly do. The first time I saw the HP TouchSmart PC was in Costco and I was amazed with the vibrant colors and crisp display on the 25.5 inch screen. As I was playing around with the features of the HP TouchSmart, I started to think about how Snapact Photo Manager would work really well with the HP TouchSmart, or any Touch PC for that matter.
Snapact Photo Manager was designed to incorporate “drag and drop” features and functionality. The design of the Touch PCs allows users to essentially replace the mouse with the user’s finger. With Snapact Photo Manager, users can now create their Snapact Albums by placing their finger on a photo and “dragging” the photo to the Album. Likewise, double-tapping on a photo will take the user to Viewer Mode that will display the Edit tools and the Thumbnail Filmstrip view at the bottom of the screen. To view photos, users can simply place their finger on the Thumbnail Filmstrip and drag their finger to the left or right to scroll through the photos. To select and view a photo, simply tap on the thumbnail image of the photo.
If you have already purchased a Touch PC or you are thinking about purchasing one in the near future, make sure you install Snapact Photo Manager. You won’t find an easier software solution out there to view, manage, and share all your digital photos.
CLICK HERE to download your copy of Snapact Photo Manager (2.02 MB download).
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Snapact Photo Manager Version 1.3.1 is Released!
We’re happy to announce that we’ve pushed out an update that addresses a number of outstanding issues and prepares existing and new users for the upcoming release of the Snapact photo sharing community. Get it here: http://www.snapact.com/getsnapact.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
New Snapact Website Progress Update
It’s been a while since I’ve given an update about our progress on the Snapact website overhaul, so… here we go:
- Basic layout changes are done. The view will be wider, focusing more on 1024-width displays compared to the current 800-width displays. This means more screen “real estate” to show off your photos.
- User feed notifications are reimplemented to be more flexible - you won’t notice a difference too much, in theory, but now…
- … Community feed notifications are done. This is new. You will now be able to see, on one page, what your friends/connections have been up to on Snapact.
- Increase in upload speeds from the Snapact Photo Manager to the Snapact Photo Sharing Community! This is a big one.
- A more visible use of photo tags (in a proper multi-sized ‘cloud’ format). Community pages will expose community-wide tags and profile pages will show user-specific photo tags (if any). This is a good way to get your photos noticed - if that’s your thing.
- Importing contacts. You will be able to add your contacts from popular online email services to Snapact. Once imported…
- … You can easily share your photos, albums and profile with your Snapact contacts (your friends and family) - even if they’re not Snapact users themselves. Of course, it might be nice if they started using Snapact too!
There are more details, but that should be enough to whet people’s appetites. We’re looking to start our formal (internal) testing by the end of February, so that means within a few weeks, it will be live for all to use!
Once released, you’ll be seeing many new additions over time that enable you to do what you want with your photos - most being suggested by users like you. Making it easy to add new functionality to the Snapact Photo Sharing Community is the biggest reason for the architecture switch.
Final note: you can follow Snapact on Twitter, don’t forget!
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Top Ten Snapact Countries
- United States
- Japan
- Canada
- France
- China
- United Kingdom
- South Korea
- India
- Brazil
- Italy
Due to the recent French review of Snapact, France has shot up in the rolling 1 month Top Ten listings of countries that are interested in and using the Snapact Photo Sharing Community (and by association, the Snapact Photo Manager). Merci, la monde française!
Interest and use from users in China is also growing rapidly. This has all gotten us very excited for the potential of worldwide opportunities!
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
First Snapact 1.1 Review: in French This Time
A Swiss software website by the name libellules.ch has, in record time, posted a French review of the Snapact Photo Manager 1.1 - this new version of Snapact was released mere HOURS before this review was posted. Here is a quick quote from the review (translated to English):
“[The Snapact Photo Manager 1.1] proposes to create albums, with a system of tags, descriptions, keywords and ratings (5 stars). The interface is very worked and the creation or manipulation of albums is quick and simple. Similarly, viewing the images is fast and well, taking advantage of the mouse wheel. A search engine is integrated (top right) to quickly find your lost pictures.”
Later, the following is mentioned:
“The developers have set up a community to share photos online. The program can synchronize the contents of albums with an online service (free but not compulsory to use [Snapact]), which allows private use: the user chooses who can see or not see his photos.” - Falkra from libellules.ch, English translation
It is important to note that Snapact as a whole, as a system, is not just the Snapact Photo Manager, although we appreciate if people wish to use only that aspect of the system. We would love people to see the value in sharing their photos - their memories - online with family and friends. Privacy options let you do just that with comfort. Sign up for your own free Snapact online photo sharing account today!
Oh, there’s even a comment from a user of how they decided to uninstall ACDSee in favour of the Snapact Photo Manager 1.1 - high praise!
Thank you for the kind words, Falkra from libellules.ch!
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Snapact Photo Manager 1.1 Changes
As promised in my previous announcement on the Snapact Photo Manager 1.1, here is a list of changes and additions to our software product:
- In the Browser mode, press ‘F10‘ to display the Preview window. You can use this for multiple monitor viewing of your photos.
- In the Viewer mode, press ‘F‘ to see the current photo full screen. (To get into the viewer mode from the Browser mode, double click or press ‘Enter’ on a thumbnail.)
- In the Viewer mode, press ‘S‘ to start (and the same key to stop) a slideshow in full screen viewing. You can use the contents of the mini-basket, a folder or an album.
- Normalized and added many other shortcut keys (see the Interactive Help for more details)
- Initial support for RAW files.
- GUI redesign:
- improved visibility of panes
- icons for albums (indicating published state, etc.)
- simplified layout of Browser toolbar
- made the Snapact Sync button stand out more
- album and mini-basket pane have a new drop down menu for ease of use
- added toolbar buttons to switch from Browser to Viewer and Viewer to Browser more easily
- Improved Help functionality (click the arrow beside the Browser toolbar’s Help button):
- updated the Interactive Help with shortcut keys and new features
- added a Contact Us menu entry to easily get to our feedback webpage
- added an About Snapact menu entry to list the version number of the Snapact Photo Browser
- Small improvements in uploading speed.
There are a number of improvements that are desired for upcoming releases as well. Most notably among them is improving the product’s editing functionality.
Spread the word about Snapact - our objectives are to continue to improve the product and sharing community, while keeping them simple and easy to use, for everyone. In fact, we would love for parents and grandparents to discover Snapact and how it can help them share memories with others!
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Snapact Photo Manager 1.1 is Released!
After a few weeks of gathering input and putting our noses to the grindstone, we are happy to announce the release of the Snapact Photo Manager 1.1. It includes a number of bug fixes, and a few select features as recommended by our feedback crew - you, the users!
Thank you so much for all of your input, positive and ‘constructive’. It has helped immensely. I will put together another posting in the morning with details of what’s new in this 1.1 release… for now, I must sleep.
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