Life is a Sandcastle: sharing

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Fotobounce & $20 PayPal Giveaway

Fotobounce thinks it is important that users be able to control who has access to their personal photos. This is why they created the Fotobounce Private Network feature. Fotobounce is a free software program and a private network for people, who are concerned about putting photos on public sites, and a great alternative to protect their valuable family photo archives. Share your photos using Fotobounce private network with friends and family. Fotobounce is a desktop application that currently runs on Windows 7, XP, Vista, and Apple OSX 10.5 or newer.

Built-in Face Recognition and Automated Tagging
Fotobounce utilizes advanced face detection and recognition technology to automatically detect faces when photos are found or imported. As faces are detected by Fotobounce and tagged by the user, this “trains” Fotobounce to learn who people are and helps automate the tagging process.

This saves the user valuable time by reducing the need to tag individual photos. Once photos are tagged, they can be shared within the Private Network, or uploaded to Facebook and Flickr. Either way, tags remain intact, saving the user and their friends and family the hassle of re-tagging.

Facebook & Flickr Friendly – Without Re-tagging
Sharing photos on Facebook and Flickr is effortless with Fotobounce. Photos are uploaded directly from Fotobounce – with tags and descriptions intact. There’s no need to spend additional time painstakingly re-tagging photos and no browser-based transfers or third-party software is required.

PC and MAC Compatible
PC and Mac users alike are able to enjoy the benefits and features offered by Fotobounce in organizing, sharing and managing their digital photos. There are also no compatibility issues when moving photos and metadata back and forth between PC and Mac users. In fact, a user’s entire Fotobounce photo library, with all related data, can easily be moved between environments effortlessly.

Photo Viewing & Sharing On the Go
Fotobounce Viewer is a separate product that runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The Viewer makes it easy to browse photos and share them on the go from any platform and practically any mobile device. A version will be available soon for the iPhone (iPad and iPod) and the BlackBerry Playbook. For devices not supported by the Fotobounce Viewer, users can use Fotobounce Mobile. This delivers private remote access to photo albums via any web browser.

Applied Recognition, Inc. Fhotobounce would like for you to try their user friendly photo sharing program, photo organization & share your photos with confidence. Fhotobounce will also give one of my readers $20 via pay pal!!

RULES: Contest closes 11:59pm Eastern August 5, 2011.
Open US or Canada winner has 2 days to respond to my email
Leave your email in to post or available in profile, I will not search for it
MUST complete Mandatory Entry. Winner will be chosen by random org. Entries that does not follow the rules will not win.

Mandatory Entry *Follow Life Is A SandCastle via Google Friend Connect & Visit Fhotobounce and tell me a fact you've learned not mentioned above.

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