If you’re allergic to Facebook, skip this post. No really, we have many others at your disposal. But if social networking is up your alley, this small app called PhotoBook, by Caffeinated Cocoa Software, could be of interest to you.
In the recent months, I’ve come to rely on my friends—yes, I do have some!—for photographing various events in my life. That’s because one, carrying a camera and taking pictures is a pain, and two, plenty of photos appear on Facebook. But right now, they stay on Facebook, which means by the time the next big social networking site comes along, I probably won’t have saved them anywhere else and I’ll be left empty-handed.
But wait! That’s where PhotoBook comes in. Lightweight and free, it’s basically a desktop Facebook photo browser. You can view albums and photos of you or of your friends in a very iPhoto-like interface. See photos full-size with a double-click, where tags and an “Open in browser” button appear. It’s all very clean, efficient, and relatively fast.
However, the real boon that resolves my little issue detailed above is the ability to quickly import selected photos to iPhoto, where they’ll (theoretically) live on forever. Granted, the quality isn’t great—604 by 453 pixels seems to be the standard—but it’s better than nothing.
PhotoBook is not particularly new, but it is to me, and I’m glad I found it. If it sounds like something you’d use, download it from here.
does such a thing exist for myspace? Because that would be cool too...
The max dimensions of photos on Facebook is 604 by 604 pixels.
This is a great find. PhotoBook will be very useful to me.