Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gang, I just ran across a pretty useful photo app for the Phone/Touch called Photon (free from the app store). I like to keep photos on my Touch but I also keep albums online at Smugmug, Picasaweb, and on my laptop. Photon offers a way to integrate all these sources into albums that can be viewed on the Phone/Touch or on your home computer, and updated or rearranged when needed. It also offers a way to do limited edits (curves, cropping, flipping) either on the gadget or on your computer, and provides a way to email photos or albums, link albums to Facebook, etc. Once Photon does its integration it stores everything on your gadget for offline viewing. That's important because often when I want to show an image there's no wireless signal available. Photon also renders images quickly and produces auto-slideshows with music. To use Photon, load it onto the Phone/Touch and then go to their website using your real computer. Set up a free account, and then start linking albums. You can import from Picasaweb, Smugmug and other online albums you've already established. You can upload to an album via browse and click, and you can DL a plugin for Picasa that let's you UL directly from albums there. Within a few minutes I had integrated a lot of my existing albums into Photon albums for the gadget. And as I said, it's free. Go to the app store and search for Photon. The parent web site is here: http://www.phanfare.com/home/ -- Phil Swango 307 Aliso Dr SE Albuquerque, NM 87108 505-262-4085