Archive for the 'Photography' Category
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.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Photo Altering, Restoring and Touching Up Services Now Available
Tecagora (the company that created Snapact) is pleased to announce the launch and availability of our Digital Photo Services!
If you have old photos that need restoration or photos that need some people or objects removed, then fill out the form to see what we can do.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Introduction and Description of the Histogram
I’ll keep this short, as I couldn’t possibly do a better job than this article over at TWIPPHOTO does at explaining the ins and outs of the mysterious histogram.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Birds Stealing Ice Cream
Here’s a funny collection of photos that were found during some innocent internet surfing: birds stealing ice cream. Hilarious - yet somehow I believe that I would be saddened if it happened to me.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Photo Tricks: Your Own Bokeh
The team at Snapact likes to find neat little tricks that you can do with your camera - and I’d like to present the first on on this blog: Create your own “bokeh”. http://www.diyphotography.net/ has put together a nice little description of what a bokeh is, how it applies to your camera and lastly - examples! What a neat effect!
Bokeh defined:
“Bokeh is an adaptation from a a Japanese word meaning blur. In photography this term is used to describe the quality of the areas in the picture which are not in focus.”
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The Photojojo Store - An Online Store for Photo-enthusiasts
The Photojojo Store is somewhat unique in that it has a very photography-focused inventory for people to select through - it is sort of like Thinkgeek, but oriented to photographers only. Some very neat and handy stuff there - I, for one, would love to have a MonsterPod!
You can follow Photojojo on Twitter too.
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
TWIPPhoto: Great Source of Photography News
I stumbled across this photography news site called TWIPPhoto.com. It’s got some really neat articles and writeups - reviews of books and new equipments. The content is well written. Check it out. (I think TWIP means “This Week In Photography”.)
You can follow TWIPPhoto on Twitter too.
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Ten Steps to Advanced Photography Skills
The team at Snapact knows that not everyone wants to become a pro photographer. Many people just want to take decent pictures of their friends and family in order to share in various ways - taking the next National Geographic cover photo doesn’t even enter their minds. Nor should it!
That said, I couldn’t help but to post a link to an article on Smashing Magazine by Trey Ratcliff about improving your skills from intermediate to advanced. There is a lot of good information in there for photographers of all levels. I’d recommend going over to take a look at the photos at least - they are fantastic HDRs!
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Obama Inauguration: 1474 Megapixel Photo
Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a political piece - we believe strongly that each person is allowed to have their own beliefs in politics, religion, etc. It’s simply a statement of amazement regarding what David Bergman has achieved (photographically speaking) on Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day: a 1474 mega-pixel stitched photograph of the area during Obama’s speech.
Amazing work, David!
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