tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181274350001595912024-03-13T14:07:25.345-07:00Tagospheremartinalexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07558487534557903885noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618127435000159591.post-21721378613901466412008-01-11T14:45:00.001-08:002008-01-11T14:50:44.352-08:00tagoSearch Release<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN">With Tagosphere PC you can store photos and meta data from Flickr to the PC. The result looks like a web page. (It is an XML file which uses an XSL style sheet to display its content like HTML).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN">The data is saved, but how to find it?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN">The new program tagoSearch does it (Open Source, GPL). The program searches for the saved files and loads the names of tags, sets and groups into a database. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN">It is possible to </span><span lang="EN-GB">search and browse for tags. The number behind each tag shows how many photos you have on your PC for this tag. The tags are sorted by count for better display.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="EN-GB"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:formulas> <v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> <o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:414.75pt;"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\martin\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png" title=""> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:";font-size:85%;color:black;" lang="EN-GB" >Elements of the tagoSearch program:</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1) The toolbar.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">History buttons: next / prior list or photo.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Search for a tag</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Help</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Program end</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Monthly news</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2) Photo list</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A list of photos shown as Item Cards for the current selection. An Item Card shows a thumbnail with some additional information like: name, author and tags</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3) Selection tree</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Select photos using top 10 tags or some dates</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">4) Status bar</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Shows the number of photos currently found in the database.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The program is hosted on SourceForge. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The download page is here: <a href="http://www.tagosphere.org/download.htm">http://www.tagosphere.org/download.htm</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>martinalexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07558487534557903885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618127435000159591.post-84770608792437189782007-11-29T12:40:00.001-08:002007-11-29T12:48:44.205-08:00Tagosphere PC version 0.5 is on Sourceforge<span style="" lang="EN">One month ago I have released a first version of the Flickr photo copy program on Sourceforge, Version 0.5. This is the project page<o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tagosphere/"><span style="" lang="EN">http://sourceforge.net/projects/tagosphere/</span></a></span><span style="" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN">The home page is here </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.tagosphere.org/">http://www.tagosphere.org</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have named the program <i style="">Tagosphere</i>, because it’s a program with an emphasis on ‘tags’.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It’s</span><span lang="EN-GB"> a small program for win32 written in </span><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Delphi</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">. The compiled program with an installer und a sm</span><span lang="EN-GB">all help file is less than 1 MB. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When you browse on the web and the Tagosphere program is running at the same time, you see a small window. Copy is only possible from the Flickr detail page.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPoid2RuewdyK5-rqTzOwvS1OBcplalcRJKzXe73DQoTZjzlOSxWJJK0Za1KxkvOvpcs_7zlh-8qwiLMBgz__ylF-1c2gfLgRJu1XVzdc2y-BCzLAigfJjVFJT_aHXsbF96K2c41ddnL0/s1600-h/TG-other-page.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPoid2RuewdyK5-rqTzOwvS1OBcplalcRJKzXe73DQoTZjzlOSxWJJK0Za1KxkvOvpcs_7zlh-8qwiLMBgz__ylF-1c2gfLgRJu1XVzdc2y-BCzLAigfJjVFJT_aHXsbF96K2c41ddnL0/s320/TG-other-page.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138365367335275330" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">With the browser on a Flickr Photo page Tagosphere shows you a preview what it would </span><span lang="EN-GB">save to your PC: the photo and some of the metadata on the Flickr page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNIm1MwXp6fzsO6_3i6LRBlZtQF1lvqQLK2pMMyhxxTHobHaKiu7MuZo_hLT3pRdhyphenhyphenx_uLk1YFBCy9-hjYmEoKthrcRaGZim66kozXJbbORuKp2B7nZEOAMArbZrI750qbYUzLtWNzjRI/s1600-h/TG-flickr-page.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNIm1MwXp6fzsO6_3i6LRBlZtQF1lvqQLK2pMMyhxxTHobHaKiu7MuZo_hLT3pRdhyphenhyphenx_uLk1YFBCy9-hjYmEoKthrcRaGZim66kozXJbbORuKp2B7nZEOAMArbZrI750qbYUzLtWNzjRI/s320/TG-flickr-page.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138365887026318162" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:187.5pt;height:273.75pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOKUME~1\martin\LOKALE~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.png" title=""> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><br /><!--[endif]--></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">You could save the picture from the browser, but the default filename is e.g. 380173234_dd6a416343<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">You could save the whole web page from the browser, but then you have one large photo and dozens of icons and other small pictures and a bunch of html text. You can look at the web page, but searching for data is difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Tagosphere saves data as xml. The browser can show this data as a web page with a small template (an XSLT template). The browser shows the xml file e.g. like this. No additional program is required.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjspaIz2HJWMzxno0bvrEM6n-PV3JdcPnzggF-5UjzMHpLKJMNjuZZ8PFFPutxoI_4T_UnFmOseFCN6VBtSCRVlE0NUwSYK54Kh9Qkdw8uWhlSgUuUhsFCFWZQS3o-WNQ2at3YT3uCD1sg/s1600-h/TG-Dom.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjspaIz2HJWMzxno0bvrEM6n-PV3JdcPnzggF-5UjzMHpLKJMNjuZZ8PFFPutxoI_4T_UnFmOseFCN6VBtSCRVlE0NUwSYK54Kh9Qkdw8uWhlSgUuUhsFCFWZQS3o-WNQ2at3YT3uCD1sg/s320/TG-Dom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138366492616706914" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1027" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:414.75pt;height:342pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOKUME~1\martin\LOKALE~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image005.png" title=""> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>martinalexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07558487534557903885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618127435000159591.post-90098790523457640232007-10-19T14:51:00.000-07:002007-10-19T14:57:48.953-07:001 Click SaveI want a small program to save the current photo from Flickr which I see in the browser together with related data describing the photo.<br />I’m not interested in any kind of mass downloader, I have enough not yet seen pictures on my HD.<br /><br />Save should be as simple as possible – a <strong>one–click–save</strong>.<br />I don’t want to select a directory each time and I don’t want to enter a file name each time.<br /><p><br />The default Save stores the photo to some directory and uses the photo name as filename, at least as far as possible in Windows. There are a lot of characters which can’t be used for Windows filenames.<br /><br />The photo will be stored as Jpeg file<br />The extracted metadata will be stored as XML file.<br />From the XML file it is easy to generate a local HTML file with XSLT. How the local HTML file will look like is independent from the copy program and depends on the XSL and CSS files. The first layout will be similar to the Flickr page, but can be changed by someone with knowledge in HTML, XSLT and CSS.<br /><br />A copy will provide three files:<br />1) The photo as image file<br />2) The metadata as XML file and<br />3) The local HTML file which combines photo and data.</p><p> </p><p> </p>martinalexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07558487534557903885noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618127435000159591.post-92102789899014035152007-09-11T13:19:00.000-07:002007-10-19T14:59:18.928-07:00Oops!... I Can’t Find It Again<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">I use Flickr since a couple of months, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">http://www.flickr.com/</a>. It is fantastic how many beautiful and interesting photos are around there. Everyone can upload digital photos, registration is free. Standard users with a free account can upload pictures for 100 MB a month. Upload for Pro users is unlimited. <?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">There are now more than 1 billion photos on Flickr. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Photography is one of my hobbies – I have a </span><span lang="EN-GB">Canon EOS 300D - </span><span lang="EN">and I know that it’s often difficult and requires a lot of time and sometimes luck to make a good shot.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">So when I see a very good shot on Flickr I sometimes load it to my PC. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Easy:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">On the photo page: Mouse – right click – save picture as… click on Save – the photo is saved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">On the </span><span lang="EN-GB">Photo Download page: Click download link – Save – Save as – Save – Done </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Task fulfilled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Really?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">…No.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Partially at best</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have one </span><span lang="EN">photo </span><span lang="EN-GB">on my harddisc, that’s all. Everything else which makes Flickr so fascinating is lost.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">No description, no tags, no comments. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Who has taken this picture and where and when? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Which camera was used? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Is there a different size of this picture?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Can I used this </span><span lang="EN">photo for something else or does it have a copyright?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">And I can’t find out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Lost in Flickr space.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:+0;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Sometimes I can find a picture again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">If I can use concise words to describe the photo <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN">and</span></i><span lang="EN"> those words appear in photo description or tags <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN">and</span></i><span lang="EN"> not too many photos are found<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN">and</span></i><span lang="EN"> I have some time to browse through the results<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN">and</span></i><span lang="EN"> the web isn’t too slow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN">and</span></i><span lang="EN"> I’m on-line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">All in all it’s a rare event.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">What are the alternatives?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">a) I could save the whole web page from the browser with: File -> Save as:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The photo is then in a subdirectory to the local web page – together with dozens of other small images and icons. This is not useful; I have only very seldom saved web pages from the browser.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">If it does work at all. Sometimes I get a message ‘Error Saving Web Page’ with Internet Explorer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">b) I could set a bookmark to the page. I have a bookmark to the Flickr home page, but not to single photos. Large numbers of bookmarks are confusing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">c) I could copy the photo and some data from a Flickr </span><span lang="EN-GB">Photo Page selectively. There are hundreds of Flickr utilities. A great list is here</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:+0;"><a href="http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/03/great-flickr-tools-collection/"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/03/great-flickr-tools-collection/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have looked through this list and found some interesting utilities. A few programs copy photos to the PC, e.g. as mass downloader. But I have not found a program to copy one picture and the related meta data.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">No problem for me, I'm a software developer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I will write a little utility to copy one photo and meta data from Flickr to a PC</span></p>martinalexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07558487534557903885noreply@blogger.com0