Geeks

• Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to quickly upload an image or a video for a client or a friend? QuickShareIt is a really awesome application for Mac OS X that sits right in your dock and takes less than two seconds to start uploading files to their servers. To use QuickShareIt you don't need an account but you can create one to keep all your files organized in one place on their servers.

Using QuickShareIt is really simple and is a nice tool to have on your computer. First of all download the application then add it to your Applications folder and then drag the QuickShareIt icon into your dock. Once you've done that then all you have to do now to upload files from your Mac, is to simply drag and drop the file and it will begin uploading to QuickShareIt's servers.

Uploading files up to 100MB are allowed so that should be plenty of size for uploading images and videos because I doubt that there's many images out there that are over 100MB! Once you've dragged your file onto the QuickShareIt Dock Icon, the icon will change telling you the upload speed and the progress of the upload.

As well as images and video, QuickShareIt also allows you to instantly upload text clips dragged from any other application. Once your file has been uploaded QuickShareIt state that your file will be on their servers for at least 30 days so this should be plenty of times for your clients and friends to view and save the files that you have sent them.

Once your files have been uploaded a window called Recent Shares will show up and display the recent files that you have uploaded with the name of the file, the size of the file and the date and time that it was uploaded. By clicking the button to the right of the files you can either copy the file's URL on QuickShareIt's servers to your clipboard which you could then paste into an email or instant messaging client, open it in the browser, remove it from the list or delete the file entirely from QuickShareIt's servers. [via MakeUseOf]

• Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is a free application for the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP that provides functionality to edit the photo's metadata. Metadata are information that are automatically added to digital images, they include information like the time the photo was taken. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools were specifically designed to provide access to the metadata. One interesting feature is the ability to geotag the images.

Geotagging is a feature that is not supported by many digital cameras yet but it will surely be a very powerful feature in the coming years. The Microsoft utility provides easy access to that feature and the ability to add geographic information to each image including street address, city, country and even gps data. Pictures can be placed on a virtual map next to locations they have been taken.

Longitude and Latitude are automatically added to the picture when a town and country have been selected. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools do not offer any additional features besides editing metadata but Microsoft has plans to add new features and functions to their software. It is currently in consideration to give third party developers access so that they can provide plugins and add-ons for the software.

The software can be downloaded from Microsoft directly and requires that your computer passes a genuine advantage check before starting the download. [via gHacks]

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