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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!
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, October 26th, 2008
A Snapact Review - This Time in Korean
It’s a shame that Google’s translation tool isn’t perfect. I’m not an expert when it comes to languages, but really, automated language translation must be a hard task to perfect, if perfection is even possible.
With that being said, I’m happy to say that Snapact has received a favorable review from the Korean technology website ChoboWeb. Google’s translation from Korean to English is a bit sketchy, so I will refrain from putting any quotations here for now. If you happen to be a bilingual Korean/English speaker, feel free to add a comment with some of the key points translated for us. It would be greatly appreciated.
ChoboWeb’s review translated to English
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Another Snapact Review - This Time, in English!
We’ve had some growth in English-speaking countries the last couple of days - particularly the United States. A new review of Snapact has been posted over at Freewaregenius covering both the photo manager and photo sharing parts of the free offering.
The review is quite positive and yet still manages to give us some great feedback for improvement - thank you to Samer, the review’s author, for digging into the photo management and sharing aspects of Snapact so well.
I’d like quote a couple of sections of the review:
“What also needs to be said about Snapact is that it is very much a desktop front-end to the free Snapact image sharing service; which is to say that it is designed for seamless integration with your online Snapact account.”
Towards the end of the review, Samer mentions the following point - which subjectively tells me that Snapact provided a good impression overall:
“I will confess that at first I did not intend to review this software, but the main draw for me was the good user experience that it provides. If you are looking for a stylish image viewer with good features that does not hog your system you should check out Snapact…” - Freewaregenius.com
Thank you again, Samer and Freewaregenius.com.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Snapact Product and Photo Sharing Review
As indicated in a previous blog posting on world-wide demographic interest in Snapact, a part of the rush of interest in Snapact is (thankfully!) due to a couple of product/website reviews. One is Japanese, the other Brazilian; as the Japanese review of Snapact (although positive in nature) had a bit of explicit content in it, I won’t be speaking of it here - although we’re grateful for the feedback and exposure!
The Brazilian review is fairly domestic in content, yet revealing in the user viewpoint. It demonstrates that we have done a great job in putting out a first version of the Snapact Photo Manager and the Photo Sharing website - even as it (almost) silently says that there are still refinements to be made. We take this type of feedback well - it means that we’re on the right path; that we have done some really good things and also that we have a good chunk of work ahead of us to improve the service. We’re on it! Now… for the review.
Here’s a (translated) excerpt from the Brazilian review of the Snapact Photo Manager:
“Snapact is without any doubt, a complete solution for organizing and managing images. With powerful tools and easy use, this program has advanced features that make life easier for anyone who has many photos on their computer. Snapact is lightweight, stable, and visually pleasing. It is an excellent program that is really worth having installed on your computer”
“… [One of the objectives of] Snapact is the sharing online. Anyone can register on the site [and] then share your images with other users. The site acts as a sort of social network, where you can add friends, edit your profile, create albums and publish your photos [through] the program directly… To send pictures from Snapact, click the “Sync images with your online albums.” - Team Baixaki (URL: http://baixaki.ig.com.br/download/Snapact.htm)
This was translated via Google Translate. View the English translation by clicking here.
Thanks Baixaki, for the kind words! The review correctly asserts that the Snapact Photo Sharing website is intended to be a community - a social network. We know that there are many features missing from the website in order for it to function as a full-on social network, but believe us, it’s coming. We want to enable - and be a part of - further photography-related social interaction!
We would really like to encourage feedback from our current and future users. You can do so in a non-hostile, generic feedback environment at GetSatisfaction.com, where we have “claimed” ownership of the Snapact product and server and will be listening attentively for your feedback.
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